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Release 1.0
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Advantages of Greater Things on CD
Speed Load time is almost instantaneous when browsing through web site content from your own computer. Web files are usually very small to accomodate fast load time on the slow internet. But loading small files from your own computer is very fast. Half a second, compared to half a minute. Even graphics load almost instantly. The world wide wait is eliminated.
More Material Available Only about half of all Greater Things documents have been posted to the web site so far. The CD contains many files not currently available on the web site. Also, the original documents prior to conversion to HTML are available in their original WordPerfect format. RTF versions are available too for retrieval by other word processors like MS Word.
View any time While on-line, hyperlinks to the Internet are functional, with all its features, while maintaining the advantages of speed for the Greater Things web site.
Off-line Provides unlimited Greater Things web site access without Internet access.
Attention Span With the Internet, it is easy to go off on a tangent link and not follow a line of thought through to completion. It's quanitity but not quality. The CD creates a much better focus of attention.
A person on-line has a sense of a need to move on. They have a phone line connection established. To be polite to other users, they don't want to tie up the lines more than they have to. There is no such pressure with a CD sitting in your own CD ROM drive. You may take all the time you want.
No Downloading All supplemental files are included on the CD, for file copy or printout.
Include Supplemental Materials Many other supplemental materials are included on the CD which are too memory consuming for the web, such as memory-heavy music wav files. A CD can hold over 600 Megs of information. The Greater Things web site is 30 Megs. That leaves a lot of extra room for music!
Broken Links only incovenient, not unavailable altogether With the site being on CD, the inevitable broken link will no long be a dead end, for one need only go to the CD directory and click on the file directly.
 | Updates The web site is constantly being up-dated. However, by checking "what's new" at www.greaterthings.com, you can keep abreast on most new material. Also, the large amount of material available on CD that is not available on the web-site easily outweighs this disadvantage. |
| Not as inter-connected, on-line connection not required. |
| Advertising not activated unless on-line (and won't you miss it!) |
Greater Things on CD 1.0 Content
| Full Contents of Greater Things Web Site (public
domain portion)
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| Additional Files not yet up-loaded to web
site along the same lines as the above.
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| Music (click and play)
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Page created on 11/27/98
Updated on 09/15/07 07:38 PM
