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Political SloganBecomesVires From Bucharest comes word that Romania's best-known political slogan â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a call for President Ion Iliescu to resign â&#x20AC;&#x201D; has been transformed into a local computer virus.

"IIiescu, who has twice won deinocratic elections, is an unpopular figure among liberals and students who accuse the former conununist of hijacking the l989 revolution which toppleddictator Nicolae Ceausescu," Reuters comments. "Fading 'Jos Iliescu' graffiti remains a cominon sight in Bucharest."

In thewake of Germany's crackdown on pornography i n c y b erspace, Chinese government officials called for improved management of the Internet to prevent people seeing pornographic material on the network. The ReuterN ews Service reports from Beijing that a joint statement from the State Council (cabinet) and the office of the Coinmunist Party's Central Committee said there were increasing links between domestic

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and MS-DOS licenses expire on Dec. 31, and the company "hasbeen unable toreach any compromise with Microsott on the clause in the license agreement that would indemnify the latter against any possible i of Apple patents."

Said the statement, "Good use of the Internet is of great importance to increase global information exchanges, promote economicconstruction and develop science," but becauseof weak management and lack of control over what enters the Internet, some pornographic and other harmful materials have come onto the system. "We must takeeffective measures to deal with this," the statement said. Meanwhile, the Netherlands, an Internet providerhas shutoffa subscriber's accessafter the user allegedlyscanned hundreds of pornograp hic pictures of children onto the Net.

Reuters says the Amsterdam-based Internet service Xs4all said the incident, which occurredaround Christmas, marked the first time it had shut down a user for spreading child pornography on the network. The wire service notes in the Netherlands, pornographic materials involving persons under 16 are illegal. Disseminating them carries a maximum penalty of four years in prison. Amsterdam police spokesman Ktaas Wilting said the law applies to the Internet and that law enforcers have intensified their monitoring of the Internet for violations in recent years as more people go online. He said the latest violator was not arrestedsince he was disconnected before authorities could track him down, but an investigation is under way.

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+ Providers will streamline service through data compression, adding high-speed telephone lines and hooking up larger computers.

A $450 million charge was taken by Intel Corp, to account for the costs of replacing its flawed Pentium microprocessor.

Computer FindsShakespearePoem A computer program has confirmed that

a 383-year-old poem unearthed in a library a ppears to b e Shakespeare.

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Scholar Donald Foster found the 578line poem — "A Funeral l Elegye In Memory of the Late Vertuous Maister William Peeter," about the death of a young actor in 1612in the Oxford University library in 1981. From Chicago, the Associated Press reports Foster ran the poem through a program called SHAXICON, which he wrote to weed out poetry not really written by Shakespeare.

The sofbvare compares word usage and style with that of Shakespeare and 50 other Elizabethan writers. He said the new elegy fit

Shakespeare's usage in all 17 tests made by the SHAXICON program. No other author came closein more than five areas. Still, Foster acknowledges that, even if it is accepted as one of Shakespeare's works, the poem will never be counted as one of his

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knowing shame,' possibly scandal of a sexual nature."

He said Thomas Thorpe, publisher of Shakespeare's Sonnets, entered the 1612 elegy in London Stationers Register, a copyright depository, along with the initials "W.S." Shakespeare's last plays were written at about the same time; he died in 1616. The poem reads mpart: aBut whether doth the stream of my mischance "Drive me beyond myself, fast friend, soon lost, "Long may thy worthiness thy name advance "Amongst the virtuous and deserving most, who herein hast "Forever happy proved; "In life thou livest, in death, thou diedst beloved."

'Dl Internet'Haniover'Foreseen The International Data Corp. is predicting a shift in corporate leadership online in the new year. It foresees activity on the Internet and World Wide Web lurching from an "intoxication" to a "hangover" stage in 1996. The Framingham, Massachusetts, technology consultant also predicts many corporations that invested in online services

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Reporting from San Francisco, the Reuter News Service says that actually, though, Intel began shipping the new 150MHz and 166MHz versions in large volumes during the fourth quarter of 1995, adding that desktop PCs with the new chips will be available from retailers an d d i r ec t m a r keters beginning as soon as today. At Intel, Pentium marketing manager Frank Spindler said the chips will enable PCs to better manipulate images, multimedia and multitasking, and improve Internet communications capability. Reuterswriter Jeff Benkoe says t he 150MHz chip w il l s el l a t a wholesale price of$547 and the 166MHz chip at $749, The last Pentium version, released in June, sold for $900at wholesale. Benkoe quotes Intel officials as saying the firm expects retailers to sell the computer systems with the new chip at prices ranging from $2,500 to

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With operating systems becoming commodities, IDC sees atrend for one vendor to dominate as the key provider of a "platform" for a given portion of the system infrastructure, while other vendors are relegated to supporting roles and conformity with the emerging standard. Some examples include Oracle emerging as the platform for database activities, and Microsoft's Windows family of products becoming a "de facto standard"for the desktop. IDC notes that increased interest in the Internet's World Wide Web has led to a growing recognition that Netscape and comparable browsers represent the next wave ofclient/server soAware. New technologies,such as Java, will provide more robust functionality to the Internet and fuel the next revolution of client/server software.

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In the North American markets, revenue rose to $61.58 billion &om $46.11 billion, but market share fell to 39.8 percent &om 41.7 percent. Japan's sales increased to $61.13 billion &om $44.78 billion and market share declined to 39.5 percent &om 40.5 percent. Finally, the European market rose to $13.33 billion from $9.84 billion and saw market share edge down to 8.6 percent &om 8.9 percent.

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Before assuming the leadership of Delphi, Baratz held senior management positions with IBM in New York, culminating in being named IBM director of strategic development.

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pieces of hardware or else he needed other operators. In either case, more time is required to edit the motion picture

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a editing with tape sources whereas nonlinear is the technique of compressing and decompressing video and being able to edit directly from your hard drive. For the coinputer user, going nonlinear would be advisable. Video users who tend to prefer the linear aspect of video editing, being skeptical of computer technology, must realize the video industry is advancing towards digital video - therefore video users will have to advance along with this technology otherwise they will be leA far behind. Manufacturersof non-linear editing systems are varied. Avid, FAST, Matrox, Toaster, to name a few, are some that have non-linear broadcast

systems on the market today, These manufacturers are in the "professional" category. Some of the prosumer type systems are FAST with the Movie Line Products, Miro with the DC-l and the newly arrived DC-20 a nd Creative L ab s w i t h t h e i r VideoBlaster. The power of desktop computers for video editing is the ability of the computer to store images. The computer system is able to store, in video terms, a single frame, enabling desktop video editors to store, retrieve and

m anipulate hundreds of frames, therefore full motion, nearly lossless or full image fidelity, video can also be compressed (digitized) and stored. Where do you start looking for a desktop editing system? One, would be to check out your local newsstand forvideo magazines, like Videomaker, Desktop Video, AV Video etc... Then check out the manufacturers who will have a listing of their distributor/dealers, contact these dealers for a demonstration, catalogue, pricing and some lnay even have a Web site. You can also talk to people who are using desktop video systems and get their opinions. The basic computer I would suggest to start with would be a full blown multimedia computer station with top of the line audio and video boards. Then look for a consumer hardware/software combo editing package that fits your needs. I suggest starting with a prosumer type editing system till one becomes more familiar with desktop video and then upgrade. Video editing courses can be found in education facilities like Langara,Vancouver Film School and even the Vancouver School Board. Once you have the basics, it will not be difficult to be a master of non-line ar video editing. 0 About the author: Dlufta Sng is ypifh Commercial Electronics Ltd. She can

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Getting Started Access 95 makes it easy to get started. Click on File/New and you will be presented with a tabbed dialog box which allows you to start building your database from scratch by clicking on the Blank Database icon. If you click the DatabasesTab you can select from any of 22 pre-built database applications covering many of the most common database tasks. These pre-built applications include an Address Book, Contact Manager, Book, Music or Video Collection, Event Management, Membership Maintenance, Inventory Control, Order Entry, Ledger, Wine List, Asset Tracking, Resource Scheduling, Recipes, Donations, Household Inventoiy, Picture Library, Time and Billing, Students and Classes, Wine List, Workout and Service Call Management. When you make your selection Access Wizards start working away and in a few minutes, after answering a few questions, you will have a complete database application including properly normalized data tables, menus, reports and mailing labels. These Wizard-built applications can be studied as learning tools and freely customized to suit your needs.

Using Access with Visual Basic If you are a Visual Basic programmer you will find Access to be the ultimate VB utility. The Access .mdb file format is the native data file format for Visual Basic databases. We keep Access open in one window and Visual Basic in another. While programming we often switch from our VB session to the Access session so we can inspect the results of our latest SQL query or experiment. Access also has a wonderful query design grid that makes it almost trivial to create complex queries. While in query design mode you can select View/

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omorrow By Rick McLaughlin d like to start off the new year with a response to my last article. Although I eceived overwhelmingly good responses,there were a few people who felt that they had to voice their rude remarks. If you want to give your views or respond to an article then write or e-mail the Editor. In the mean time, I' ll carry on writing articles on companies that give lousyservice,have bad products, rip offconsumers and of course, try to help out the many people that need advice on products and service. I feel it' s my responsibility to expose the fraudulent and to inform the public. I would like to thank those who sent me the 52 e-mailmessages and the countless phone calls I received. It gives me a good feeling knowing that I have helped someone with a problem.

Our 1996resolution - Backingupmy data Well, the holidays are over and it' s time to start considering some of those New Year's resolutions that we all make and rarely keep. There is one resolution that I would like all of you to really try to keep as a good Canadian. It is, in plain and simple terms... "Backing up your computer files."

Over theyears,I have had to deal with many people who have lost their data due to a computer problem - most oftena hard drive crash.Needless to say, this kind of situation is extremely nerve racking and in some cases.. very expensive. It doesn't have to be that way. With all the methods available to us today for backing up data, there is No excuse to lose all your data other than personal laziness.

What is a Backups A backup is the storage of data (normally in a compressed format) that is taken from your hard drive(s) and storedon one of several types of media. All backup material has a restore capability, There are several different ways to do a backup. Lets go over them and try to find the one that' s best suited to your needs.

These are tips you can use to maximize your backup resources.Do full backups only over the weekend (starting Friday evening) and incremental backups Monday-Thursday. (Try to do a fullor new backup each week-this m akes bothbackups and restores faster. Consider the relative value of everyone's data, Some computers require nightly backups, while others require backups every other day. Establish groups with di fferent priorities by scheduling a different backup server scriptfor each group. Start backups as soon as possible in the evening. (Most people leave by 6 PM.) Use automated tape libraries (loaders/stackers/jukeboxes) to extend capacity backups. Back up onlydocuments and preferences. (However, I recommend backing up all f i les — it won't make the backup go faster,but it sure makes the restore go a lot faster.) Create and maintain a custom selector to ignore games, the trash folder, and other unwanted files. These types of files are not important data and if anything does happen to your hard drive, you can always reload the programs, Remember, these programs do not create useful data files. If possible, don't use encryption for either the backup media or link encryption for Remotes. Enciyption requires extra processing and slows the backup. Use hardware compression (if available), since software compression slows down the backup. Not only are files copied faster, but also more data can fit on a tape.

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Exabyte Smm Tape Drives:Like DAT drives, Exabyte 8mm tape drives are helical scan devices that can store large amounts of data on a single tape. Rather than digital audio tapes, 8mm drives use the data version of the tape used in 8mm video equipment. These drives and media are also popular on workstations and mainframe computers. DC6000 Tape Drives: Unlike the DAT and 8mm tape mechanisms borrowed from other industries, the DC6000 mechanism is a more traditional backup tape technology, DC6000 devices store data linearly on each tape. As a result, data is stored less densely than on DAT or 8mm drives. DC6000 devices range in capacity from 60MB to 5GB, with compression drives potentially doubling capacity up to 10GB.

Digital Linear Tape: (DLT) drives are among the fastest tape drives available. Their Quantum mechanisms offer exceptional performance and capacity when used under optimal conditions. DLT d rive models are available in f i v e capacities: 2.6GB, 6,0GB, 10.0GB, 15GB, and 20.0GB, with compression drives potentially doubling capacity up to 40GB. To achieve its high speed and largecapacity,a DLT drive requires a high performance environment. The most important performance factor is the speed ofthe backup source through the data pipe. If the source is too slow, the DLT drive must frequently stop to reposition the tape while waiting for additional data. If the drive repositions too often, performance decreases dramati-

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Individual Backup Hardware: Whereas network and server backup often requires extremely high-capacity, highperformance backup hardware, individual backup places more importance on the cost of the hardware solution, hence the popularity of floppy disks.

Multi-purpose Hardware: The following d rives are primarily u sed f o r archiving, data exchange, and long-term storage and are used only secondarily for backup,They usually are more expensive or require much more expensive media than dedicated backup devices such astape drives. However, if you need one ofthese drives for other purposes, they can do double duty as part of a backup systetn.

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Rental Income and Capital Gains Earned by Non-Resident Landlords Non-residents holding property in Canada aretaxable on the income from that property. This may be determined in one of two ways. The first is by a withholding tax of 25% of the gross amount of rent without the deduction of any expenses. This is somewhat onerous as the actual tax may well be less if expenses are deducted. There is an alternative method which allows for expenses. If a nonresident files an income tax return and reportshis or her rental income, he or she may deduct the expenses such as mortgage interest, property taxes, repairs and maintenance, capital cost allowance, etc. to arrive at the net income. While a non-resident taxpayer will not be allowed to use any of the normal personal tax credits that a resident taxpayer can, the tax will be calculated on the net income in the normal manner. The tax is then calculated and remitted to Revenue Canada on filing, taking account of any tax withheld &om payments to the non-residents. .

This method is optional and can only be used if a Tl personal income tax return is filed within two years &om the end of the year in which the rents were received. This filing does not change the requirement of the Canadian resident paying to the non-resident to withhold 25% of the rent and remitting it to Revenue Canada, The withholdingmay be avoided or reduced if a non-resident has an agent in Canada and the non-resident has filed an NR-6 indicating that he or she will file a Tl within six months of the end of the taxation year. The NR-6 must be filed on or before January 1st of the taxation year or before the first payment of non-resident tax is due. If there is an agent, then the agent may withhold based on the estimated net income as opposed to gross. However, a person acting as an agent should be cautious as he or she may be held liable for the amount not withheld if the tax return is not filed and the taxes not remitted. When the non-resident disposes of the property, he or she will be subject to

capital gains tax on the property. If capital cost allowance has been claimed and the property is sold for an amount in excess of the unclaimed capital cost allowance (depreciated value), then the recapture will be taxed as income. Revenue Canada has the concern that a non-resident may sell his property and receivethe funds and never fil ea return or pay the tax. Consequently any person who purchases real property &om a non-resident is required to withhold 331/3% of the purchase price and pay toRevenue Canada againstthe account of the non-resident vendor's tax liability. This may be avoided if the vendor hasreported the sale to Revenue Canada and haseither paid an amount equal to 33 I/3% of the estimated capital gain or has posted security for payment of the tax liability. If the sale is not reported in advance of the transaction, the non-resident vendor is required to report it within 10 days after the sale. This is done by way of a form T2062 which may be obtained &om a Revenue Canada office. Although the T2062 is filed and a tax payment is made, the vendor must still file a Canadian income tax return after the end of the year to report his or her taxable income and the tax thereon. The vendor will then receive a refund or will be required to pay the balance owing by April 30th. Some non-residents may be exempt under an International Tax Treaty. However, you should consult a Chartered Accountant to determine whether this applies to you and in any event, to determine the best way to plan the sale and legally minimize the taxes paid and the amount withheld.

You May Bea Canadian Resident and Not Know It Reviewing taxation of rental income for non-resident's leads me to raise the issue of Canadian residency. The tax rules often result in individuals being resident for tax purposes although they do not reside in Canada. These individuals who believe they are not resident may be "residents in fact" or "deemed residents". There is a distinction between the two. In either case, an individual would be subject to Canadian tax on his or her worldwide income. With respect to deemed residents I am not going to deal with individuals who are employed abroad in an official or quasi official capacity. Rather I draw your attention to the rules concerning sojourning in Canada. You are a so-

journer if you spend periods totalling 1$3 days or more in a year. As such, you are deemed tobe a resident of Canada. If you are a deemed resident, then you must file a Canadian tax return on which you will report your worldwide income for the year. In the case of an immigrant who arrives 200 days before the year end, the immigrant would not be deemed resident for the entire year. Rather, the immigrant would be resident from the date of arrival to the end of the year. Sojourners are those who would not otherwisebe resident in Canada except for thefactthey have spent 1$3 days ormore in the country, not necessarily on a continuous basis. "Residence in fact" may trap individuals who assume they will not be resident becausethey were here for less than 1$3 days. Although there is no specific law defining a "resident in fact" there are some guidelines: 1. You are a Canadian resident if you reside primarily in Canada. 2. You may be a resident in fact if you live elsewhere for most of the year but you maintain ties here such as:

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t has been observed by several pun dits that we don't see things as they are - we see things as we are. And so it is for our understanding of the evolution/transformation o f the business of desktop publishing (DTP). Here are some observations - with a dash of vinegar - you may find of interest, f'rom the viewpoint of one who began their career during the days when typesetting was done by casting molten lead in brass casts (1971!). Heaven forbid you should ask for text to be created in a size that was not available from a shop's existing casts.

The brief (secret) history of DTP The birth of desktop publishing was an accident that ended up changing not just publishing, but our world. Its history is about to repeat. In 1984, Apple Computer, in trying to find a marketing edge that would allow them to sell computers against IBM, brought to market a computer system which capitalized on a key, revolution-

ary, concept that the Xerox Corporation didn't realize that they had discovered. Xerox, severalyears earlier,had developed a product called the Xerox Star publishing system, it was large (filled an average office) and expensive ($125,000 in 1979 dollars). Essentially it simply integrated a computer, black and white video display, something called a mouse(!), and a laser printer to produce original documents. The systein used an interfacethat made use of a windowing, office environment analogy called a 'desktop' which any Apple Mac computer user today would instantly recognize. The concept that Xerox didn' t notice was that managers who depended on information needed to process and publish it themselves - preferably on their desktop. They needed to control the publishing of information. But because managers were not interested in learning arcane programming codesthat was the responsibility of MIS departments using huge mainframe (IBM) systems. Apple simply thought that a computer that was easy to use and that mimicked the familiar tools typically

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found in an office should be well received and thus provide a kind of Trojan horse with which they could sell into corporate America. Apple's implementation of Xerox's concept coupled with the PostScript language introduced in 1985 resulted not only in a revolution in corporate publishing„but the entire graphic arts industry. It even (some feel) resulted in a political revolution. The breakup of the Soviet Union a few years later. Why? Because the infrastructure of the Soviet system only worked if access to and the publishing of information could be controlled by a single central authority - the government - somewhat like the MIS departments of the old corporate world. With a DTP system and afax machine, any citizen could receive and publish information themselves. Now think, what government today exists on a foundation of strict, controlled, access and distribution of information? Hint: they serve over a billion too. And in 1995, you don'teven need fax paper, fax machine, or even a laser printer to (possibly) achieve the same result that occurred in the Soviet Union. A few milestoneevents of '95 - orthe future ain't what it used to be. First a brief story. On New Year' s Eve, December 31, 1999, many people around the world will celebrate the turn of the millennium - the change from the 20th to the 21st Century. Unfortunately their celebrations will occur one year too soon, since the event doesn't actually begin until January 1, 2001. On the other hand, you could say that the turn of millennium has already happenedbecause aclerical error made while revising our calendar during the Middle Ages effectively meant that Christ was born between four and seven B.C. (before Christ!). Strange, isn't it, how a seemingly simple event (like counting years, adding one after the other) can evolve, over time, in a very peculiar, even nonsensicalfashion, to produce the situation and effects that today, we so easily accept as normal. - We marked the 10th Anniversary of the invention of desktop publishing. In January, 1985, it was little more than an idea. Today almost all publishing of

printed documents - newspapers, magazines, advertising is done 'from the desktop.' It has become the prepress statidard. - Windows '95 was introduced - which some wags described as the one billion dollar introduction of a ten year old technology layered onto a fifteen year old platform. 'Those who do not know the past are condemned to repeat it.'

- In 1995 everyone learned the word 'paradigm' - then just as quickly tried to avoid using it. - FM/stochastic halftoning was still wobbling on the court - suffering from a severe lack of trade interest, technological support, and brutal overpricing. Along with other benefits, this potentially revolutionary technology allows low resolution imagesetters to outperform their higher resolution (read: higher priced and/or profit margined) in terms of image detail and quality. Low resolution imagesetters are both easier to manufacture and more affordable. It is interesting to note that it is actually a reintroduction of processes initially popularized by M.S. Bartlett of Cambridge University in 1955(!). It's also kind of interesting that some of the problems that I was faced with when I was using it in 1971 are still there today - it's just that the excuses I dealt with then were understandable given the state of technology at the time. P antone Inc . i n t roduced t h e Hexachrome six colour process. Judging by all the brochures that I' ve seen, by both Pantone and other companies who are using it - you can now finally achieve weirdcolour efTects on expensivepresses - if your prepress service provider wants to dump whatever proofing system they' re currently using and invests in the only one that is Pantone's approved. I think I' ll stay with the old fashioned 5 colour process that provides extended colour gamut for acloser match to colours not within the range of normal CMYK printing. It's been around for at least 20 years that I know of - and probably longer. An extra benefit of the old workhorse is that on a six colour press you still have an ink unit available for a varnish plate. - Printersbecame service bureaus, prepress shops became service bureaus, and with the '9 5 i ntroduction by Polaroid of their dry, processor-f'ree film technology aimed at the non-trade market - ad agencies will finally be able to become service bureaus. Service bureaus scratched their collective heads in wonder. - 1995 saw the real public introduction of the Internet, a technology/system which effectively does away with the

needforthe printed 'ink on paper'document when conveying information. As a result it was the only technology that managed togenerate more ink on paper than the launch of Windows '95. The Internet has inverted the paradigm (darn, I used that word) that the publishing industry has been f ollowing since

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older Chinese idea. The paradigm (darn, I used it again) of first you publish, then you distribute became instead: first you distribute (via the Internet) then you publish (at the receivers end on their system - video display or print). One possible result is that, in the future, fewer books will be printed (consuming valuable trees, paper, ink, landfill, etc.) that people aren't interested in buying (or keeping). - The Information Highway became the Information Hypeway and then if your were caught using any term that was sanctioned in the popular press you ran the risk of being 'flamed as a newbie.' - The Internet meant that a 12 year old boy in Atlanta Ga. could create a million dollar-plus business from his bedroom because on the Internet we all have potentially the same virtual presence. A twelve year old kid or General Motors is the same screen size on the 'Net. - The developers of Netscape - a World Wide Web browser program - accidently found computerdom's Holy Grail: a universal, cross platform interface that transparently allowed an Internaut to access fo r f ile upl o a ding or downloading, anywhere in the world, in any format-known or unknown - compatible or not. This is something that even peoplewho share the same computer can have a problem with. Of course most people didn't notice what had happened - but luckily the Netscape developers got rich anyway. - Canada Post became toast - for delivery of any document that can be digitally encoded. This is the fate that all postal systems will have to deal with as they lose carrying rights to documents that can be sent via the Internet. - Canada Post ever quick to respond to

customer needs immediately answered the Internet threat by publishing a brochure entitled 'Remote Desktop Publishing.' In it they promote the idea that 'having your newsletter produced, printed and mailed by Canada Post saves

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housesto meet your budget and deadline constraints is a struggle.' You might want to snail mail Government Services minister David Dingwall your appreciation for the opportunity to compete for the decreasing print market against your tax subsidized Federal Government. - Phone companies tried to understand how their carefully constructed EMail system was being lost to the anarchy of the Internet. In A lberta, the phone company quickly countered the threat g by delivering television programming in competition to the local cable company. - The first practical, targeted to the amateur market, digital camera: the Chinon ES 3000 shipped. Chinon figures that there are enough grannys and grandpas with computer systems and digital imaging technologies that want to see snaps of their y3ndchildren using those systems to make for a realistic, profitable market. - Of course Chinon isright - folks over the age of 50 are statistically, the second largest Internet (i.e. computer savvy) user group.The first, of course, being 16 year old boys with over active hormones. - Digital photography, at the professional end, has finally achieved the quality level potential associated with the hundred year old traditional analogue film method. No more environmental penalty because of wasted film and chemistry if photographers and clients reject a few images. - Digital presses were all the news a graphic arts trade shows. They allow 'on demand' colour printing for short run lengths, typically less than a thousand copies. Again the negative impact on the environment of traditional printing is lessened:no film, no processing chemistry, and reusable imaging plates. - The TopFont system formerly debuted in Vancouver. This cool software has two intriguing aspects. First it creates an Adobe Type One PostScript printer font - on the fl y - f o r C h inese desktop publishing application. Neat trick when you consider that t o d o C h i nese language DTP you have to deal with fonts that often contain between 3,000 and 13,000 characters per style! Also, typical (expensive) commercial fonts are often b u il t i n t o a d e d i cated imagesetter or printer serial code copyprotected so that they cannot be used on other printers. A second aspect is that mainland Chinese DTP artists can now finally use off the shelf (uncopy-protected) North American sofbvare rather than the chaos of dongle protected localized applications. We live in interesting times indeed. 0 About the author: Gordon Prt'tchurd is with the Laser s Edge Company, he can be reached at phone: (604) 6623774 or e-mail:gordo ®le.mnis.corn

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