Are office hours obsolete?

Virtual Office Hours Using NetMeetingTM

The use of the Internet to enable communication between instructors and remote students in a format similar to that used for office hours is a typical feature of many Web-based distance education systems. Virtual office hours (VOH) using the Internet can be established using simple asynchronous tools such as e-mail or discussion lists. A much more effective approach uses synchronous, real-time,...

Are Virtual Fonts Obsolete?

Virtual fonts (VF) were created to address a shortcoming of TEX fonts: each slot address occupied exactly one byte, so there were no more than 256 different characters per font. Later, when PostScript fonts got popular, VF became the way of choice for integration of these fonts with TEX. Today new font formats can be directly read by the modern TEX engines, and, for example, X E TEX can directl...

Celerino Abad - Zapatero Are SAR tables obsolete ?

Perhaps it is because I am not a professional medicinal chemist, or possibly it is because I am a person that prefers the visual presentation of data as opposed to a long list of numbers in parallel vertical columns; either way, the fact is that the conventional structure–activity relation tables (SAR-tables), which have been and still are the essential item in most medicinal chemistry papers, ...

Are physician-derived joint counts obsolete?

W . Zimmerman Are Simple Gain Scores Obsolete ?