Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/07/23

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Awesome Web Site OT Opera - you're kidding right?!
From: "Rei Shinozuka" <shino@panix.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 13:21:21 -0400 (EDT)

> 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

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Rei Shinozuka shino@panix.com
Ridgewood, New Jersey

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