From: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org (alloy-digest) To: alloy-digest@smoe.org Subject: alloy-digest V3 #133 Reply-To: alloy@smoe.org Sender: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "alloy-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. alloy-digest Wednesday, May 20 1998 Volume 03 : Number 133 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Alloy: Re: Beatnik and MS IE [Lem Bingley ] Alloy: "The Gate..." LD on sale ["Stephen M. Tilson" Subject: Alloy: Re: Beatnik and MS IE You have to use Netscape to get Beatnik to work properly, or at least you used to. Last time I looked Beatnik was using LiveConnect, which is a proprietary Netscape thingammy that Microsoft hasn't attempted to replicate in Internet Explorer. The basic elements of Beatnik seem to work in IE, but the interactive stuff won't work because the hooks that Beatnik tries to pull simply aren't there in IE. Lem ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 15:10:23 -0400 From: "Stephen M. Tilson" Subject: Alloy: "The Gate..." LD on sale Dear Alloyites, A few days ago I mentioned that "The Gate to the Mind's Eye" on LaserDisc is being offered at $10.00 by Image Entertainment, a distributor (not a retailer) here in the States. Following is more specific information. You can acquire this fine bit of multimedia yourself by visiting the following URL. http://www.image-entertainment.com and following the link to "Spring 1998 Consumer Sale." These discs are available by mail only, and only in North America. Image is also offering a fantastic deal on an entry-level Pioneer LaserDisc player --- only $125.00. If anyone *outside* the US/Canada would like to take advantage of this offer please contact me and I will make arrangements for you. Yours in AllThingsDolby(tm), /\/\iles ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 15:10:21 -0400 From: "Stephen M. Tilson" Subject: Alloy: Beatnik, MSIE, and God Dr. Lem held forth: > You have to use Netscape to get Beatnik to work properly, or at > least you used to. Last time I looked Beatnik was using > LiveConnect, which is a proprietary Netscape thingammy that > Microsoft hasn't attempted to replicate in Internet Explorer. The > basic elements of Beatnik seem to work in IE, but the interactive > stuff won't work because the hooks that Beatnik tries to pull > simply aren't there in IE. Ah! Thank you, Lem. I was hoping someone more knowledgable than myself would illuminate this situation for us. I knew MSIE was a loser in this situation, but not why. After all, it is the INTERACTIVE functionality of Beatnik that is most attractive over other `media players.' And by all means --- please use Netscape, people. Let's do our part to break the stranglehold of The Beast, or, The Evil One as Mary calls him. In illustration, I offer: ************************ BILL GATES MEETS GOD Bill Gates dies, and upon reaching the Pearly Gates is given a pass to go directly to God. God sits him down, and shaking his head says, "Bill, I don't know whether to send you to Heaven or Hell. You *were* almost single-handedly responsible for putting a computer in every home, and yet you were also responsible for that *awful* Windows95. So, I've decided to give you a choice: You are to visit both Heaven *and* Hell, and report back to me as to which place you would prefer to spend eternity. Bill, "used to making his own destiny", agrees and visits Hell first. Surprisingly, Hell is quite pleasant: tropical actually. Bill finds himself on a sandy beach with swaying palms, calypso music, and gorgeous naked girls who just won't leave him alone in the most delectable way, and NO Accordions . . . Clearly this is not what he expected! Eventually he tears himself away so he can complete his tour and report back to God. Heaven was pretty much what you might expect: puffy clouds, people with wings and harps, and it was, well, kinda boring . . . So, back upstairs Bill tells God that Hell is the place for him. God agrees and sends him there forthwith. A few eternal weeks later God decides to check in on Bill to see how he's doing. Arriving in Hell God finds Mr. Gates shackled to a wall in a hot stuffy chamber with flames licking his feet and minor devils poking him with pitchforks. Bill, amid moans and screams cries, "God! What happened to the tropical paradise I visited? God replies, "Oh that? That was a demo." ******************************* ---public domain `nuff said, /\/\iles the \/\/icked ------------------------------ End of alloy-digest V3 #133 ***************************