My BBC Master - - - getting Beeped-off.

[Richard Gaskin]

Judy wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 11:15 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
>> Just to clarify, I'm not hearing anyone saying that it's definitely not
>> possible on Windows today.
> 
> --Really?  'Cause I could swear that I just heard Jacque say it maybe wasn't
> so easy... implying not so possible.

"Maybe" is different from "definitely".

I don't mean to belabor the point, but I do think it's helpful to put to 
rest any suggestion of willful dishonesty here.  The Win3.1+Win32s 
configuration may well explain Raney's claim, and Jacque qualified hers 
appropriately with "maybe".

We're all professionals here, just doing our best to realize the 
possibilities given what we have to work with.  I don't think anyone's 
going out of their way to make this any harder than it is.


Assuming we're now on the same page in recognizing that we're all moving 
in the same direction:

> --Not having modern audio handling capacity is likely costing the company
> users.

I don't have any hard data on that so I have no opinion one way or 
another, but I would suggest two things to address that:

1. Bill Marriott ran a series of excellent and thorough feature request 
surveys last year, truly the most comprehensive effort of that sort in 
the company's history.  Maybe he can chime in with what those surveys 
revealed about requests for enhanced audio handling.

2. To the degree that there is a need for this, there is a golden 
opportunity for a third-party solution which could capitalize on this 
right now with no need to wait for RunRev to finish their other 
priorities.  Who among us recognizes this opportunity and wants to make 
some money?

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  Richard Gaskin
  Fourth World
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