Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/07/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> From: "Stuart Phillips" <Stuart.Phillips@umb.edu> > > Rei - I realize now English is probably your second language, so I > shouldn't have said you don't have a sense of humor. My first comment just goes to show how badly i type early in the morning. i was born in new york city, lived my whole life in the tri-state area, confess that i am an english-only speaker, and for my first two misdirected years at columbia was an english lit major. the only excuse i can offer is that i answer a lot of emails before work between 3:45am-5:30am and my brain and fingers are not always supple at those hours. > about Hasselblads and Nasa was a joke. I know that going to the moon > makes no difference in distance as far as infinity is concerned. It was > just a joke because Hasselblad is famous for going into space. i missed the irony. sorry. you were right, i didn't have a sense of humor. > As far as the web is concerned, I don't like a lot of flash sites and I > don't like the experience sites which teenagers like. There is no > content. Yes, web designers (and I work with some) try to get their > sites to work with different browsers, IE, Netscape, PC, Mac System 9 > and X, Linux, Unix, with Java and without, AOL. They really don't > bother to test out with much more than that. As far as connection speed, > you're right for the sites you mention. But we are photographers. Our > business is graphics. Get a connection speed that is right for graphics. > People are on the LUG talking about $2000 cameras and $1000 lenses but > they won't spend $600 a year for a real internet connection. Instead > they expect everone elso to post small graphics on PAW sites so that it > doesn't tax their connections. But I want to see glorious images that > fill my screen. agreed. more bandwidth is nicer. but sometimes bandwidth is gratuitously wasted (e.g., some people where i work regularly send each other these fat microsoft word documents containing only textual information). > Best > > Stuart phillips - -rei - -- Rei Shinozuka shino@panix.com Ridgewood, New Jersey - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html