[rollei_list] Re: Oddball Musings from This Mutabile Soul
- From: J M N <retinaiiic@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 11:48:55 -0400
Hey Marc, I am 63 and I subscribe to the Mary martin 1955 performance of Never
Neverland where if you keep an open mind you'll soon find you never grow old!
John
> Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 11:40:07 -0400
> To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> From: marcsmall@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [rollei_list] Oddball Musings from This Mutabile Soul
>
> At 11:03 AM 3/29/2012, Eric Goldstein wrote:
> >Hi Marc -
> >
> >Again, we don't know if XP drivers are available for the new
> >computer AND Microsoft has announced the end of support for XP in a
> >couple of years so that OS is headed for the finish line.
> >
> >Windows 7 is a fine OS and his new computer will run well under
> >it... there is no reason to dump it. Older people, myself included,
> >need to stay open minded/flexible and try new technologies before
> >criticizing them... adopting new ideas and learning new things keeps
> >you nimble...
> >
> >And speaking of which, exactly when was the last time you used Mac
> >OS for an extended period? It is an extremely well done
> >implementation of Unix and considered a really advanced OS by just
> >about any impartial judge...
>
> Microsoft has announced the 'end' of support for Windows XP at least
> five times, but has always had to pull back as there is demand for
> it, while there is no demand for Vista or 7 and because so many folks
> dump Vista or 7 and load XP on their computers. It is a free
> enterprise market, and Microsoft will support XP so long as it
> continues to sell. As XP is the perfected version of Windows, why
> improve perfection?
>
> I have never used any Mac for any length of time. Charlie Barringer,
> the great Zeiss lens guru, always swore by Mac, but he was a mindless
> idiot when it came to computers, and liked Mac as, in his terms, 'I
> don't have to think when I use it'. I go back to the key-punch days
> of the late 1960's and the first computer I personally used was an
> IBM 360, so I understand the early machine-code systems. Heck, I was
> happy with CPM and DOS 3.1 was very heaven to me. I was most
> suspicious when my wife suggested that I upgrade from Windows 97 to
> XP but, having made the change a decade back, I am content.
>
> Windows 7 may be a fine operating system but I have been told that it
> will not easily run DOS programs. This may or may not be true but it
> does matter: I have XP and I see no reason to pay a gazillion
> dollars to upgrade to Windows 7. WOLFENSTEIN 3D runs well under XP
> as do my other DOS programs. Riddle me this, Batman: why mess about
> with a good thing? This is along the same lines as the dispute we
> all had over T-Grain films when they came out in the 1980's. What
> was wrong with Panatomic-X? Shucks, I go back to the days of Royal
> Pan and Ilford HP-3. I was really happy with the films of, say,
> 1985, and then Kodak messed things up with TMX and TMY and then I
> learned how to develop TMX in Rodinal and Bob's Your Uncle.
>
> Carlos still fights the Good Fight with film. I shoot about three
> shots a year now, and all are digital and generally get deleted. The
> joy is gone from photography. But, then, I'm an Old Guy and my joys
> are in listening to Big Band and Swing music and in rereading books I
> first read forty years back. I often sit on the back deck and smoke
> a cigar and recall the Glory Days of the past. Mind you, I did not
> FEEL old until last autumn, when I suddenly realized that I was 61
> and that the Nixon campaign of '68 was more real to me than the
> effort to unseat Obama was.
>
> Eric, you are a mainstay of this List and I admire your willingness
> to see progress as improvement. I have become a documenter of the
> past much more than part of the evolving future. It is a bit scary
> to realize that my son, aetate XXX, feels much as I do ...
>
> Marc
>
>
> It is a good world for doing good deeds.
> -- Nathaniel the Faun
>
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