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...shining on the balcony of the Quarterdeck Club Seafood Restaurant and Grill, and luncheon diners have a terrific view of Hong Kong's Victoria Harbour, full of wooden sampans and junks, speeding ferries and lavish white yachts. It's the picture-perfect postcard image that Hong Kong promotes to potential visitors from abroad...
...Good luck scoring that view if you live in the territory. The Quarterdeck is one of the very few al fresco restaurants open to the public on the harbor, and visiting it on foot involves negotiating an obstacle course over highways and through office buildings. And?be warned?the view isn't entirely idyllic. As well as those sampans, patrons can also watch half a dozen barges dumping stone and dirt into the water, hence each day robbing Hong Kong of a little more of its most famous feature...
Technology stocks like Macromedia Inc., Quarterdeck Corp. and Verity Inc. have been pounded down 75%. Tempting. But tech stocks are highly volatile, no place to hide if you've got the jitters. Some overseas markets, including Japan, Thailand, France, Korea and India, offer values. But the soaring dollar means U.S. investors can lose more on the unavoidable currency exchange than they make in those markets. What to do if you want to sleep at night...
That isn't to say memory compression itself is a pipe dream. On the contrary, the technology is real, and Syncronys is not the only company to have cashed in on its appeal. But neither of SoftRAM 95's top competitors--Connectix's RAM Doubler and Quarterdeck's MagnaRAM2--can boast sales approaching SoftRAM 95's 650,000 copies. And while some have complained about the speed of the other products, neither has been targeted for the kind of virulent attacks mounted against SoftRAM...
...RESPOND TO STORIES WITH astonishing versatility of imagination. The three- year-old listening to his grandmother momentarily becomes Peter Rabbit; the geezer reading Patrick O'Brian's sea stories feels scared on the quarterdeck of a storm-blown frigate. But the distinction between what the reader imagines and what he actually experiences remains solid -- the geezer does not actually get seasick...