[Leica] Religious experience? Way OT

[wvl <wvl@marinternet.com>]

> Is this how the Crusades started?
> 
> As much as some of feel to the contrary... computers don't qualify as a
> religious experience.
> 


First, the Crusades weren't much of a "religious experience". A
colleague of mine who represented the Vatican Diplomatic Corps in Greece
said the Greeks still have not forgiven Rome for the sack of
Constantinople in 1204. (Roman Catholic knights sacked  Greek Orthordox
Constantinople  as a favor to Constantinople's rival, Venice, for which
Venice provided ships to assist the crusaders' attack on Egypt.)

  Second, In my classroom I am required to use a G3 Imac encumbered by
an outboard disk drive, an outboard USB bus, an outboard video converter
box, and a rat's nest of cables and connectors that fall off and
disconnect about twice a week for no apparent reason. This  brand new
whizbang computer for the rest of us refuses, despite the ministrations
of several tech gurus, to print in background, read files originated on
MS Excel or Word from a Windows platform, or operate reliably for a few
hours at a time without crashing. I have to do my real computer work at
home on my comfortable, reliable, intuitive old 486 PC running Windows
3.1. Of course, old reliable doesn't have a pretty aqua case. To me, Mac
is to EOS number something as PC is to M6.

Sorry Godfrey, but that's the way it is out here in the trenches. Does
anybody besides graphics pros use these things in the real world?
Admittedly, this tirade is also a reflection on the state of educational
leadership in America too. The users are the last to be consulted.
Bill Lawlor