Re: Second Sight news??

[Smarter%than%Spam@vuse.vanderbilt.edu (Tilghman Lesher)]

In article <21MAR199704055938@vax2.concordia.ca>, 
Mitchell Spector (spec@vax2.concordia.ca) wrote:
: In article guenter@student.uni-kl.de (Marvin) writes...

: >Mitchell Spector (spec@vax2.concordia.ca) wrote:
: >:     Doubtful, the only thing it would boost are spirits of those
: >: existing Second Sight owners, at least for a short while (I would
: >: stress _short while_, since any games would have to be quite simple
: >: because the SS is fairly slow at moving graphics around. This is 
: >: on TOP OF the GS itself already being slow, a double negative which 
: >: at least could have been avoided with something like the TurboRez).
: > 
[[[[[snip]]]]]

: >It has a hardware blitter built on it, so speed should be a smaller 
: >problem. Of course, this card would cost more than the Second Sight, 
: >but gold is always more expensive than dirt.

:     It would have been fairly close in price to the Second Sight actually. 
: Futhermore, you did not have to invest hundreds of dollars on a new SVGA
: display, an almost requirement of the SS (while the TurboRez would have
: worked quite well with the stock AppleColor RGB). Yup, "dirt" and "gold"
: do well describe the Second Sight and TurboRez. :)

How about the terms "horse" and "unicorn"?  Yes, a unicorn is more
valuable/prized, but, unlike the horse, it doesn't exist.  The horse
may be slow, but it accomplishes a heckuva lot more work than a whole
team of unicorns.  The main difference between the two is that you
know the limitations of the horse, but since a unicorn doesn't exist,
you don't know the limitations of it.  Understand the metaphor?

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