All I can tell you is that mods are people too. People working for FREE, i might add. Some of them are more sensitive than others. But the mods rule the roost. It's just a fact of forum life. Besides, is the title of your thread any more important than the content?
I changed it right away with no argument about the change. Just thought the smilies were incompatible with the sentiment.
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Given that smiie and the one flipping birds I was really surprised when a moderator wouldn't let me call fighting roosters "cocks", which after all is what they are called.
I don't know why I'm so dumb as to put my foot into yet another one of these. All computers os's suck eggs. All are crawling with bugs. All are limited in deep and frustrating ways. Different people adapt better to different systems. Many people really hate the idea of having to use more than one kind of computer (I like using different systems, but I know I'm odd.)
So why turn it into a religious war over and over again? These are tools and sometimes the hand fits the glove, the hammer hits the nail. Mostly, in my long experience, I'd say we (all software and hardware engineers and manufacturers) aren't really there yet.
It would be much more productive to have a thread about things that would be great for digital photography that no computer does right. My vote: the Dan Margulis expert system that can really help you nail color correction every time. I've been sort of working my way up to thinking about this for a few years, but the more I learn about what the prepress guys know, the harder it seems.
Or what about this: we like raw becaue it is lossless. We don't like it because it isn't really a format. Tiff and psd are huge. Jpeg2k looks good, but lossless jpeg2k is also huge. What about a format that really would preserve exactly the important information and not be huge. This is what jpeg and jpeg2k are supposed to do, but apparently they haven't succeeded.
This list is long. Where are the missing pieces of the digital darkroom? Identify them and you've done something creative. Bash any existing system and you are just stating the obvious. Hold up any existing system as being perfect and you are just showing your ignorance.
There, I said it, for all the good it will do. If I were really smart I'd avoid these things like the plague.
I don't know why I'm so dumb as to put my foot into yet another one of these. All computers os's suck eggs. All are crawling with bugs. All are limited in deep and frustrating ways. Different people adapt better to different systems. Many people really hate the idea of having to use more than one kind of computer (I like using different systems, but I know I'm odd.)
So why turn it into a religious war over and over again? These are tools and sometimes the hand fits the glove, the hammer hits the nail. Mostly, in my long experience, I'd say we (all software and hardware engineers and manufacturers) aren't really there yet.
It would be much more productive to have a thread about things that would be great for digital photography that no computer does right. My vote: the Dan Margulis expert system that can really help you nail color correction every time. I've been sort of working my way up to thinking about this for a few years, but the more I learn about what the prepress guys know, the harder it seems.
Or what about this: we like raw becaue it is lossless. We don't like it because it isn't really a format. Tiff and psd are huge. Jpeg2k looks good, but lossless jpeg2k is also huge. What about a format that really would preserve exactly the important information and not be huge. This is what jpeg and jpeg2k are supposed to do, but apparently they haven't succeeded.
This list is long. Where are the missing pieces of the digital darkroom? Identify them and you've done something creative. Bash any existing system and you are just stating the obvious. Hold up any existing system as being perfect and you are just showing your ignorance.
There, I said it, for all the good it will do. If I were really smart I'd avoid these things like the plague.
I don't know why I'm so dumb as to put my foot into yet another one of these. All computers os's suck eggs. All are crawling with bugs. All are limited in deep and frustrating ways. Different people adapt better to different systems. Many people really hate the idea of having to use more than one kind of computer (I like using different systems, but I know I'm odd.)
So why turn it into a religious war over and over again? These are tools and sometimes the hand fits the glove, the hammer hits the nail. Mostly, in my long experience, I'd say we (all software and hardware engineers and manufacturers) aren't really there yet.
It would be much more productive to have a thread about things that would be great for digital photography that no computer does right. My vote: the Dan Margulis expert system that can really help you nail color correction every time. I've been sort of working my way up to thinking about this for a few years, but the more I learn about what the prepress guys know, the harder it seems.
Or what about this: we like raw becaue it is lossless. We don't like it because it isn't really a format. Tiff and psd are huge. Jpeg2k looks good, but lossless jpeg2k is also huge. What about a format that really would preserve exactly the important information and not be huge. This is what jpeg and jpeg2k are supposed to do, but apparently they haven't succeeded.
This list is long. Where are the missing pieces of the digital darkroom? Identify them and you've done something creative. Bash any existing system and you are just stating the obvious. Hold up any existing system as being perfect and you are just showing your ignorance.
There, I said it, for all the good it will do. If I were really smart I'd avoid these things like the plague.
Man, I guess I'm done with humor here. This was supposed to be FUNNY. My title, "A Rant For the Rest of Us" was a take-off on Apple's old ad campaign which was a humorous poke at their own market share.
I also said "IRREVERENT MARK" in the message.
He writes a weekly IRREVERENT column, poking his stick at all manner of anthills and mountains.
I'm sorry about the folks that were offended. As someone who has worked the PC and Mac support trenches from 1986 on, I was terminally amused. IMO the willingness of Windows users to take this sort of abuse (oh, just reinstall your OS and apps) is as mystifying to me as it is to Mark.
.. IMO the willingness of Windows users to take this sort of abuse (oh, just reinstall your OS and apps) is as mystifying to me as it is to Mark.
Lynne
retreating behind the barricade
:uhoh
That was an ingenious move - start the whole thing and leave the forum for a few days! Re5pect!!
Just FYI: Last time I had to reinstall my OS for the housekeeping purposes was around 1999, with an early NT4 WS. Din't have that problem since Windows 2000.
Although, I must say, I usually don't download unknown apps from the net and do not open strange emails. For this reason maybe never had a virus launched by me (corporate networks, unfortunately, are prone to this threat, as far as bored ladies at the reception desks are just eager to open an "I Love You" letter with a "this is a special gift 4 u" attachement ;-)
As to the "mystifying' part - I'd say, no more mistifying than a willinness of apple users to put up with the outrageous prices and the lack of choice. It's a give-take balance, each person opts for something.
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I totally dig the fun/humor part. But you know what they say, "one man's joke is another man's vendetta":-)
Man, I guess I'm done with humor here. This was supposed to be FUNNY. My title, "A Rant For the Rest of Us" was a take-off on Apple's old ad campaign which was a humorous poke at their own market share.
lynnesite, it WAS funny. some pc'ers just don't laugh about stuff like that sometimes. :crazy
Please DO NOT stop posting jokes! In fact, the more the merrier.
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:uhoh
oh no you don't...get back here!
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So why turn it into a religious war over and over again? These are tools and sometimes the hand fits the glove, the hammer hits the nail. Mostly, in my long experience, I'd say we (all software and hardware engineers and manufacturers) aren't really there yet.
It would be much more productive to have a thread about things that would be great for digital photography that no computer does right. My vote: the Dan Margulis expert system that can really help you nail color correction every time. I've been sort of working my way up to thinking about this for a few years, but the more I learn about what the prepress guys know, the harder it seems.
Or what about this: we like raw becaue it is lossless. We don't like it because it isn't really a format. Tiff and psd are huge. Jpeg2k looks good, but lossless jpeg2k is also huge. What about a format that really would preserve exactly the important information and not be huge. This is what jpeg and jpeg2k are supposed to do, but apparently they haven't succeeded.
This list is long. Where are the missing pieces of the digital darkroom? Identify them and you've done something creative. Bash any existing system and you are just stating the obvious. Hold up any existing system as being perfect and you are just showing your ignorance.
There, I said it, for all the good it will do. If I were really smart I'd avoid these things like the plague.
UH huh
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thank you! i'm putting that into my arsenal
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Man, I guess I'm done with humor here. This was supposed to be FUNNY. My title, "A Rant For the Rest of Us" was a take-off on Apple's old ad campaign which was a humorous poke at their own market share.
I also said "IRREVERENT MARK" in the message.
He writes a weekly IRREVERENT column, poking his stick at all manner of anthills and mountains.
I'm sorry about the folks that were offended. As someone who has worked the PC and Mac support trenches from 1986 on, I was terminally amused. IMO the willingness of Windows users to take this sort of abuse (oh, just reinstall your OS and apps) is as mystifying to me as it is to Mark.
Lynne
retreating behind the barricade
:uhoh
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That was an ingenious move - start the whole thing and leave the forum for a few days! Re5pect!!
Just FYI: Last time I had to reinstall my OS for the housekeeping purposes was around 1999, with an early NT4 WS. Din't have that problem since Windows 2000.
Although, I must say, I usually don't download unknown apps from the net and do not open strange emails. For this reason maybe never had a virus launched by me (corporate networks, unfortunately, are prone to this threat, as far as bored ladies at the reception desks are just eager to open an "I Love You" letter with a "this is a special gift 4 u" attachement ;-)
As to the "mystifying' part - I'd say, no more mistifying than a willinness of apple users to put up with the outrageous prices and the lack of choice. It's a give-take balance, each person opts for something.
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I totally dig the fun/humor part. But you know what they say, "one man's joke is another man's vendetta":-)
No harm done, no worries!
Cheers!
Please DO NOT stop posting jokes! In fact, the more the merrier.
oh no you don't...get back here!
"The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over."-Hunter S.Thompson