I think you'll find Mac zealots are a lot better looking than PC zealots,
but they don't do as much work. I have a copy of iLoathe but it's nowhere
near as good as Microsoft Hatred.
There's one for next year's book.
: )
Darren Addy
Kearney, NE
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On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 12:26 PM, steve harley p...@paper-ape.com wrote:
On 2010-05-02 06:07 , Adam Maas wrote:
My HP Laptop takes about 2 minutes to boot fully, from sleep it's
30-45 seconds. My fastest booting Mac is slower (but is a G4).
all this talk of boot times -- i do that a couple
On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 12:45 PM, steve harley p...@paper-ape.com wrote:
On 2010-05-02 09:56 , Adam Maas wrote:
an easy way to
launch seldom-used apps along with access to configuration and the
file browser.
that sounds like QuickSilver on the Mac (there are similar tools for Win
Linux)
On 2010-05-04 16:10 , Adam Maas wrote:
On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 12:45 PM, steve harleyp...@paper-ape.com wrote:
On 2010-05-02 09:56 , Adam Maas wrote:
an easy way to
launch seldom-used apps along with access to configuration and the
file browser.
that sounds like QuickSilver on the Mac
Are there any more such deals where it came from?
Cheers
Ecke
2010/5/3 Rob Studdert distudio.p...@gmail.com:
On 02/05/2010, Jeffery Smith jsmith...@gmail.com wrote:
Vista. I looks like it is ready after about 45 seconds, but trying to
start an application will only get you a program not
On 03/05/2010, eckinator eckina...@gmail.com wrote:
Are there any more such deals where it came from?
I bought a couple, I would have bought more but of couse by the time I
had enquired after receipt of the fist couple the rest were gone (he
had more than 10 sets), I've since bought three more
I can see now why so many people have issues, following is a
vid of one of my systems starting up, I leave it in standby
(as there is a 1w differential between off and standby). I
just hit the on button and it's basically ready to go. I
bought this one a year back (ex Gov), it cost me a
On 03/05/2010, Bob W p...@web-options.com wrote:
I'm surprised the government let them go. Everyone's very touchy about data
loss these days - where I work they take out the hard disk and have it
destroyed before they let the box go.
They all have spanking new XP installs, I think destroying
I'm surprised the government let them go. Everyone's very
touchy about
data loss these days - where I work they take out the hard disk and
have it destroyed before they let the box go.
They all have spanking new XP installs, I think destroying
drives is a bit over the top, there are
2010/5/3 Bob W p...@web-options.com:
The Russian mafia has specially-trained dogs left over from the KGB days who
can smell the traces of the 'erased' bit patterns going back over 50 years,
then bark the binary to a team of data prep clerks punching furiously into
computers developed from the
Bob W, wrote:
The Russian mafia has specially-trained dogs left over from the KGB days who
can smell the traces of the 'erased' bit patterns going back over 50 years,
then bark the binary to a team of data prep clerks punching furiously into
computers developed from the debris of Gary Powers'
On 2010-05-02 01:40 , Joseph McAllister wrote:
I don't know if you can use other than iTunes to play songs on your
iPod.
yes, you can do that too, though it's harder than copying songs off an
iPod because it entails updating a database on the Pod; there are
supposedly tools which will also
On 2010-05-02 06:07 , Adam Maas wrote:
And vice-versa. I'm pretty much stuck with Windows on my main system
due to Multisim.
Windows runs very nicely within a virtual machine ...
My HP Laptop takes about 2 minutes to boot fully, from sleep it's
30-45 seconds. My fastest booting Mac is slower
On 2010-05-02 09:47 , Adam Maas wrote:
Note my biggest beef with the Dock is no launcher/switcher separation.
there is a separate switcher in Mac OS -- press cmd-tab
I want to know what windows/apps I have open at a glance
there is a tool called Exposé which gives at a glance view of
On 2010-05-02 07:58 , John Sessoms wrote:
If they've hidden it, it's NOT simple.
right, it's the experience of the non-hidden features which is simple;
this is how it works to simplify the use of complex devices; plenty of
other examples come to mind
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On 2010-05-02 07:55 , John Sessoms wrote:
Just a note here regarding line wrap. I understand the idea of not
setting a default line length and letting the line wrap to whatever size
the viewers window is.
Problem is, when someone quotes that text, the quoted text DOES NOT WRAP
in subsequent
On 2010-05-02 09:56 , Adam Maas wrote:
an easy way to
launch seldom-used apps along with access to configuration and the
file browser.
that sounds like QuickSilver on the Mac (there are similar tools for Win
Linux)
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On May 1, 2010, at 5:41, John Francis wrote:
The one thing I really, really dislike about the Mac is the
obnoxious attitude of Mac zealots who insist that their way
of doing things is *obviously* the one true way.
As a Mac user myself, I agree with you 100%. I don't much care for OS
The one thing I really, really dislike about the Mac is the
obnoxious
attitude of Mac zealots who insist that their way of doing
things is
*obviously* the one true way.
As a Mac user myself, I agree with you 100%. I don't much
care for OS zealots of any stripe.
I think
On May 1, 2010, at 17:46 , steve harley wrote:
On 2010-05-01 17:31 , Rob Studdert wrote:
That's not what I said. I simply said if the need arose (which it
has)
then you are forced into using iTunes, no other portable audio
players
require this.
each portable audio player has its
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Subject: Re: K-7 replacement?
On 2010-05-01 03:35 , John Coyle wrote:
I started with computers in 1982, when the hot
On May 1, 2010, at 20:33 , John Francis wrote:
Basically, a system of a mere 300 Mac Pros has never been
anywhere pushing the top of the performance charts in the
real world; any such claims must have come with so many
restrictions and qualifiers as to be meaningless.
In 2004 IBM retook the
And vice-versa. I'm pretty much stuck with Windows on my main system
due to Multisim.
My HP Laptop takes about 2 minutes to boot fully, from sleep it's
30-45 seconds. My fastest booting Mac is slower (but is a G4).
-Adam
On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 10:03 PM, Jeffery Smith jsmith...@gmail.com wrote:
2010/5/2 Adam Maas a...@mawz.ca:
My HP Laptop takes about 2 minutes to boot fully, from sleep it's
30-45 seconds. My fastest booting Mac is slower (but is a G4).
Sounds like XP, or worse Vista?
On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 10:03 PM, Jeffery Smith jsmith...@gmail.com wrote:
Mac [...] boots up and
Listpdml@pdml.net
Subject: Re: K-7 replacement?
2010/5/2 Adam Maas a...@mawz.ca:
My HP Laptop takes about 2 minutes to boot fully, from sleep it's
30-45 seconds. My fastest booting Mac is slower (but is a G4).
Sounds like XP, or worse Vista?
On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 10:03 PM, Jeffery Smith jsmith
Vista. I looks like it is ready after about 45 seconds, but trying to start
an application will only get you a program not responding or some similar
sort of error message along the top of the screen.
On May 2, 2010, at 7:19 AM, eckinator wrote:
2010/5/2 Adam Maas a...@mawz.ca:
My HP
- Original Message -
From: Adam Maas
Subject: Re: K-7 replacement?
And vice-versa. I'm pretty much stuck with Windows on my main system
due to Multisim.
My HP Laptop takes about 2 minutes to boot fully, from sleep it's
30-45 seconds. My fastest booting Mac is slower (but is a G4
On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 8:19 AM, eckinator eckina...@gmail.com wrote:
2010/5/2 Adam Maas a...@mawz.ca:
My HP Laptop takes about 2 minutes to boot fully, from sleep it's
30-45 seconds. My fastest booting Mac is slower (but is a G4).
Sounds like XP, or worse Vista?
Vista, which is a
On 2/5/10, Adam Maas, discombobulated, unleashed:
My HP Laptop takes about 2 minutes to boot fully, from sleep it's
30-45 seconds. My fastest booting Mac is slower (but is a G4).
MacBook Pro 2.4 Ghz 2 GB RAM 10.5.8
38 seconds from dead to login screen, then 3 seconds to full on.
From sleep,
From: Adam Maas
On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 7:44 PM, paul stenquist pnstenqu...@comcast.net wrote:
I've had a dozen macs. No failures other than hard drives. My daughter's
i-book failed when she tripped over the ethernet cord and broke the port off the
motherboard. I thought that was crappy
From: steve harley
On 2010-05-01 17:31 , Rob Studdert wrote:
That's not what I said. I simply said if the need arose (which it has)
then you are forced into using iTunes, no other portable audio players
require this.
each portable audio player has its strengths weaknesses -- you have a
From: Jeffery Smith
Mac has some software available for it that Windows cannot touch.
That is one of the reasons for my moving to Mac. And it boots up and
connects to drives, the web, etc. in about 45 seconds. My fast Dell
takes about 15 minutes to get past all of the not responding issues
On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 10:09 AM, John Sessoms jsessoms...@nc.rr.com wrote:
Sure. Easily enough done ...
BTW, I'd see about getting that Dell fixed. If you're getting 15 minutes of
not responding issues at boot up, you've got a broken machine.
That sounds like a classic example of 'Norton
From: Adam Maas
On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 8:19 AM, eckinator eckina...@gmail.com wrote:
2010/5/2 Adam Maas a...@mawz.ca:
My HP Laptop takes about 2 minutes to boot fully, from sleep it's
30-45 seconds. My fastest booting Mac is slower (but is a G4).
Sounds like XP, or worse Vista?
On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 10:39 AM, John Sessoms jsessoms...@nc.rr.com wrote:
From: Adam Maas
Vista, which is a significant upgrade over XP despite the popular
opinion to the contrary. Note I'm counting from power-on to 'all
background services started'. I can get a working UI much quicker than
On Sun, May 02, 2010 at 10:53:45AM -0400, Adam Maas scripsit:
[snip]
little caret), but it still fails due to the poor assumption that your
launcher and task switcher should be the same thing, a UI paradigm
which sucked on NeXTStep and still sucks today. And it forces you to
stack running
On May 2, 2010, at 10:53 AM, Adam Maas wrote:
On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 10:39 AM, John Sessoms
jsessoms...@nc.rr.com wrote:
From: Adam Maas
Vista, which is a significant upgrade over XP despite the popular
opinion to the contrary. Note I'm counting from power-on to 'all
background services
On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 11:28 AM, Graydon gray...@marost.ca wrote:
On Sun, May 02, 2010 at 10:53:45AM -0400, Adam Maas scripsit:
[snip]
little caret), but it still fails due to the poor assumption that your
launcher and task switcher should be the same thing, a UI paradigm
which sucked on
On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 11:40 AM, P N Stenquist pnstenqu...@comcast.net wrote:
On May 2, 2010, at 10:53 AM, Adam Maas wrote:
The sad part is there's really only two parts of the OS X UI that I
dislike. The Dock and Finder.
I didn't like them at first, since I was accustomed to OS9, but after
On May 1, 2010, at 1:13 PM, Joseph McAllister wrote:
By the way, just so you know what an idiot I am, this fanaticism
about computers beginning in 1973 with Atari, Sinclair, Epson, then
Apple and Mac, with parallel interests in Porsches, a powerful audio
video wall in the family room,
On 02/05/2010, Jeffery Smith jsmith...@gmail.com wrote:
Vista. I looks like it is ready after about 45 seconds, but trying to start
an application will only get you a program not responding or some similar
sort of error message along the top of the screen.
I can see now why so many people
On 2010-04-30 18:23 , Rob Studdert wrote:
On 01/05/2010, Joseph McAllisterpentax...@mac.com wrote:
[snip]
BTW your mailer seems to continuously break/confuse threads, your
reply to me appeared in a thread of the same name that was running
concurrently (as it was originally split due to
On 2010-04-30 17:29 , Rob Studdert wrote:
On 01/05/2010, Joseph McAllisterpentax...@mac.com wrote:
Most likely because you or your son captured much of the artwork using a
third party utility, or browsing Google and various bands websites. When you
re-synched, iTunes, which only uses Apples
On 01/05/2010, steve harley p...@paper-ape.com wrote:
it's a really bad example, since that feature is an option; it may be too
helpful in the default, but the default is for people who buy tracks from
Apple and rip their own CDs without tweaking the track names; not everything
about iTunes
On 30/4/10, John Francis, discombobulated, unleashed:
The one thing I really, really dislike about the Mac is the
obnoxious attitude of Mac zealots who insist that their way
of doing things is *obviously* the one true way.
But it *is*.
Amen.
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Cheers,
Cotty
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The one thing I really, really dislike about the Mac is the
obnoxious
attitude of Mac zealots who insist that their way of doing things is
*obviously* the one true way.
But it *is*.
Amen.
Anyone who thinks otherwise must explain themselves to the iNquisition. As
you might expect.
Of
Brian Walters
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Subject: Re: K-7 replacement?
On Fri, 30 Apr 2010 10:49 -0500, CheekyGeek cheekyg...@gmail.com
wrote:
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 10:32 AM, Larry Colen l...@red4est.com wrote:
Apple is very good at making it easy
I was filming a report on UK soldiers returning home to barracks from
Afghanistan the other day. We had to shoot and edit and then send from a
network news satellite truck. The reporter asked me if I had my [Mac]
edit kit along, and I always do. She asked if I wouldn't mind editing
the piece as
On 1/5/10, Bob W, discombobulated, unleashed:
Anyone who thinks otherwise must explain themselves to the iNquisition. As
you might expect.
You've not had the iCushion treatment?
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2010/5/1 Bob W p...@web-options.com:
Anyone who thinks otherwise must explain themselves to the iNquisition.
As conducted by Paul iNquist?
Cheers
Ecke
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[...]
I think it just has to be accepted that unless Microsoft and
Windows will dominate the commercial and home use markets for
many years to come because it's now much too hard for
companies and people to make the change: the costs in
re-training and replacing hardware and legacy
On 01/05/2010, Cotty cotty...@mac.com wrote:
It's less to do with how good the computers are and more to do with how
competent the user is at maintaining a healthy system and knowing how to
achieve the required result.
Thank dog someone has finally said it!
--
Rob Studdert (Digital Image
It's less to do with how good the computers are and more to do with
how competent the user is at maintaining a healthy system
and knowing
how to achieve the required result.
Thank dog someone has finally said it!
That's just a variant of blame the user for the programmers'
Subject: Re: K-7 replacement?
On Fri, 30 Apr 2010 10:49 -0500, CheekyGeek cheekyg...@gmail.com
wrote:
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 10:32 AM, Larry Colen l...@red4est.com wrote:
Apple is very good at making it easy to do the things that they think
you
should do. It can be very challenging however
On May 1, 2010, at 5:43 AM, eckinator wrote:
2010/5/1 Bob W p...@web-options.com:
Anyone who thinks otherwise must explain themselves to the iNquisition.
As conducted by Paul iNquist?
I am frequently asked to provide that service. I have a room in the basement
set up specifically for
On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 5:37 AM, Cotty cotty...@mac.com wrote:
I was filming a report on UK soldiers returning home to barracks from
Afghanistan the other day. We had to shoot and edit and then send from a
network news satellite truck. The reporter asked me if I had my [Mac]
edit kit along, and
On 01/05/2010, Cotty cotty...@mac.com wrote:
It's less to do with how good the computers are and more to do with how
competent the user is at maintaining a healthy system and knowing how to
achieve the required result.
On 1/5/10, Rob Studdert, discombobulated, unleashed:
Thank dog someone
Thank dog someone has finally said it!
As long as I've got Steve Jobs' skidmarks all over my nose, I'm happy.
Eeuughhh
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On 5/1/2010 11:24 AM, Bob W wrote:
Thank dog someone has finally said it!
As long as I've got Steve Jobs' skidmarks all over my nose, I'm happy.
Eeuughhh
MARK!
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On Apr 30, 2010, at 18:52 , paul stenquist wrote:
Mac's simply don't 'Just Work' in large network environments. In
reality they require far more support time and cost in large
deployments than PC's because Apple has nothing comparable to Active
Directory and Exchange.
No corporate IT
I've worked in ad agencies that had huge networks of Macs
-- more than
`1000 at BBDO Detroit. Problems were few and far between, non-
existent for most users. But you have to have Mac IT
people. You can't
leave it to PC guys.
Paul
Thanks Paul. Those PC folk have no idea what
On Apr 30, 2010, at 19:20 , Adam Maas wrote:
My experience is otherwise. Mac's are good machines, but not
best-in-class for reliability, middle of the pack is more like it.
Apple's reliability rep died with the PowerMac 4400. They only have a
reliability advantage over cheap white box or really
On May 1, 2010, at 01:56 , Rob Studdert wrote:
On 01/05/2010, steve harley p...@paper-ape.com wrote:
it's a really bad example, since that feature is an option; it may
be too
helpful in the default, but the default is for people who buy
tracks from
Apple and rip their own CDs without
On May 1, 2010, at 08:24 , Bob W wrote:
Thank dog someone has finally said it!
As long as I've got Steve Jobs' skidmarks all over my nose, I'm
happy.
Eeuughhh
Don't be such a wimp. Try it. It's sweet.. :-)
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On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 4:13 PM, Joseph McAllister pentax...@mac.com wrote:
I disagree with you on the reliability question.
I've never, ever, had a Mac (after they got away from the original design,
which suffered from heat) that failed electronically or physically, other
than hard drives,
On 02/05/2010, Joseph McAllister pentax...@mac.com wrote:
Who ever said iTunes was for use in radio stations? There's a big ol'stretch
trying to find fault with Apple.
That's not what I said. I simply said if the need arose (which it has)
then you are forced into using iTunes, no other
From: John Francis
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 07:19:16PM -0400, Matthew Hunt wrote:
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 7:01 PM, John Sessoms jsessoms...@nc.rr.com wrote:
Hell, I just figured out in the last month you don't have to CTRL+ALT+DEL to
get Task Manager any more, you just right click on the
On May 1, 2010, at 7:31 PM, Rob Studdert wrote:
On 02/05/2010, Joseph McAllister pentax...@mac.com wrote:
Who ever said iTunes was for use in radio stations? There's a big ol'stretch
trying to find fault with Apple.
That's not what I said. I simply said if the need arose (which it has)
On 02/05/2010, paul stenquist pnstenqu...@comcast.net wrote:
I've had a dozen macs. No failures other than hard drives. My daughter's
i-book failed when she tripped over the ethernet cord and broke the port off
the motherboard. I thought that was crappy design, but nothing else has ever
I have used both Apple and PC computers for many years. Yes, there
are problems with Apple software. Those problems are NOTHING compared
to the problems with MS software. Only one word in necessary: Vista.
XP itself was an incredibly unstable platform; I had to install 4
upgrades, or
On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 7:44 PM, paul stenquist pnstenqu...@comcast.net wrote:
I've had a dozen macs. No failures other than hard drives. My daughter's
i-book failed when she tripped over the ethernet cord and broke the port off
the motherboard. I thought that was crappy design, but nothing
On 2010-04-30 20:07 , Adam Maas wrote:
1000 stations is small compared to the Windows network I'm on, which
is well over 20,000 machines across North America on the same Active
Directory Domain.
big corpses are a minority of jobs and a tiny minority of the number of
business (for example, the
On 2010-05-01 17:31 , Rob Studdert wrote:
That's not what I said. I simply said if the need arose (which it has)
then you are forced into using iTunes, no other portable audio players
require this.
each portable audio player has its strengths weaknesses -- you have a
choice; but if you want
On 2010-05-01 17:56 , Rob Studdert wrote:
On 02/05/2010, paul stenquistpnstenqu...@comcast.net wrote:
Surprised you had to go back to the failure issue from the i Tunes discussion.
Too much Apple anger out there, guys. It's not healthy:-).
That sticks in my craw, had to sell the new
On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 8:40 PM, steve harley p...@paper-ape.com wrote:
On 2010-04-30 20:07 , Adam Maas wrote:
1000 stations is small compared to the Windows network I'm on, which
is well over 20,000 machines across North America on the same Active
Directory Domain.
big corpses are a
On May 1, 2010, at 7:56 PM, Rob Studdert wrote:
On 02/05/2010, paul stenquist pnstenqu...@comcast.net wrote:
I've had a dozen macs. No failures other than hard drives. My daughter's
i-book failed when she tripped over the ethernet cord and broke the port off
the motherboard. I thought
On 2010-04-30 15:40 , Bob W wrote:
In all the years of owning PCs running DOS/Windows I've never, repeat never,
had to log a support call with anyone. That's not to say I haven't had to
fix stuff myself sometimes, but not 25 cases in 2 years.
different people use their support options
On May 1, 2010, at 8:29 PM, Adam Maas wrote:
On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 7:44 PM, paul stenquist pnstenqu...@comcast.net
wrote:
I've had a dozen macs. No failures other than hard drives. My daughter's
i-book failed when she tripped over the ethernet cord and broke the port off
the
On 2010-05-01 03:35 , John Coyle wrote:
I started with computers in 1982, when the hot PC's were Commodore 64's and
Amiga's, with the TRS-80 the hobbyist machine.
Amiga was hot (i had one), but it came out in 1985
I think it just has to be accepted that unless Microsoft and Windows will
Mac has some software available for it that Windows cannot touch. That is one
of the reasons for my moving to Mac. And it boots up and connects to drives,
the web, etc. in about 45 seconds. My fast Dell takes about 15 minutes to get
past all of the not responding issues before it will actually
On 2010-04-30 17:10 , John Sessoms wrote:
From: steve harley
i haven't checked my numbers, but i'm of the impression most of the
business world runs on the web these days; and most of the web runs on
Linux
[...]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-L-0s-7-Z0
har har
google, youtube, flickr,
On 2010-05-01 19:04 , paul stenquist wrote:
I have a LaCie DVD burner that doesnt't seem to work any more. Haven't fooled
with it enough to be sure it's dead, since I don't really need it any more. But
I guess I should look into it.
DVD mechanisms are basically expendable; you pop open the
On May 1, 2010, at 10:55 PM, steve harley wrote:
On 2010-05-01 19:04 , paul stenquist wrote:
I have a LaCie DVD burner that doesnt't seem to work any more. Haven't
fooled with it enough to be sure it's dead, since I don't really need it any
more. But I guess I should look into it.
DVD
On 2010-05-01 20:03 , Jeffery Smith wrote:
P.S. - can we change the subject line to Mac versus Windows? That poor K-7 has
been out of the mix for several days, and it deserves better.;-)
once we're in this deep, there's no point
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On 2010-05-01 21:03 , paul stenquist wrote:
On May 1, 2010, at 10:55 PM, steve harley wrote:
On 2010-05-01 19:04 , paul stenquist wrote:
I have a LaCie DVD burner that doesnt't seem to work any more. Haven't fooled
with it enough to be sure it's dead, since I don't really need it any more.
On Sat, May 01, 2010 at 08:45:59PM +0100, Bob W wrote:
I've worked in ad agencies that had huge networks of Macs
-- more than
`1000 at BBDO Detroit. Problems were few and far between, non-
existent for most users. But you have to have Mac IT
people. You can't
leave it to PC
! Didn't
think it was relevant to the thread though.
John in Brisbane
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On May 1, 2010, at 5
On Apr 28, 2010, at 02:40 , eckinator wrote:
2010/4/27 CheekyGeek cheekyg...@gmail.com:
Another PDML'd Yogism:
I never blame myself when my images aren't in focus. I just blame
the
autofocus and if it keeps up, I change brands. After all, if I know
it
isn't my fault that my images aren't
2010/4/30 Graydon gray...@marost.ca:
As a camera company, the only thing Pentax has to sell is a particular
aesthetic. (The good small primes thing is a part of the aesthetic.
So are the specifics of the in-camera image rendering.)
Apple was at this point as a computer maker several times
On Apr 29, 2010, at 3:30 PM, Adam Maas wrote:
My experience is that pretty much all of the 1st party 50/1.4's are
weak wide open. The FA's probably the best of the lot, but it's weak
until f2, the Canon is very bad, the old Nikon 50/1.4 is mediocre, the
new version is somewhat better but still
On 29/4/10, Graydon, discombobulated, unleashed:
Pentax has missed that train, and
is now eight miles west of the tracks at a canoe launch in the
wilderness.
Mark!
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On 29/4/10, Jeffery Smith, discombobulated, unleashed:
Wooo! I like it here. And I don't disagree with anyone.
Mark!!
Bless the newbie.
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On Apr 30, 2010, at 4:30 AM, eckinator wrote:
2010/4/30 Graydon gray...@marost.ca:
As a camera company, the only thing Pentax has to sell is a particular
aesthetic. (The good small primes thing is a part of the aesthetic.
So are the specifics of the in-camera image rendering.)
Apple
2010/4/30 paul stenquist pnstenqu...@comcast.net:
Apple was at this point as a computer maker several times throughout
their company history after they'd run out of killer apps. They made a
monster comeback and have been responsible for some of the most
annoying trends in the world such as
Adam Maas wrote:
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 9:35 PM, Bruce Walker bruce.wal...@gmail.com wrote:
Rob Studdert wrote:
On 30/04/2010, Bruce Walker bruce.wal...@gmail.com wrote:
I concur. It's already been demonstrated that almost all the modern (ie
available to buy) Pentax glass vignettes on FF.
On 4/30/2010 8:40 AM, Bruce Walker wrote:
Adam Maas wrote:
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 9:35 PM, Bruce Walker
bruce.wal...@gmail.com wrote:
Rob Studdert wrote:
On 30/04/2010, Bruce Walker bruce.wal...@gmail.com wrote:
I concur. It's already been demonstrated that almost all the
modern (ie
- Original Message -
From: Cotty
Subject: Re: K-7 replacement?
On 29/4/10, Jeffery Smith, discombobulated, unleashed:
Wooo! I like it here. And I don't disagree with anyone.
Mark!!
Bless the newbie.
IIRC, the first thing I wrote to the PDML was What is wrong with you
people
- Original Message -
From: paul stenquist
Subject: Re: K-7 replacement?
Of course Apple did it with innovation as well. The first practical GUI
interface, a music player that actually worked and a library to go with
it, and a phone that was truly smarter than the herd. Exclusivity
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 4:59 AM, Larry Colen l...@red4est.com wrote:
On Apr 29, 2010, at 3:30 PM, Adam Maas wrote:
My experience is that pretty much all of the 1st party 50/1.4's are
weak wide open. The FA's probably the best of the lot, but it's weak
until f2, the Canon is very bad, the old
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 9:07 AM, William Robb war...@gmail.com wrote:
IIRC, the first thing I wrote to the PDML was What is wrong with you
people?. To this day, and it has been more than 10 years, that question
remains
unanswered.
I propose that the above text should introduce Doug's
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