Re: OT: Religion in CLC posts WAS: Re: MF Collection Class speed

From: Pete Dashwood (dashwood_at_enternet.co.nz)
Date: 03/04/05 

Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2005 12:14:04 +1300

Good point about the cameras.

I'm a keen photographer and I like to use transpare
"James J. Gavan" <jgavandeletethis@shaw.ca> wrote in message
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> Howard Brazee wrote:
> > On 3-Mar-2005, Peter Lacey <lacey@mb.sympatico.ca> wrote:
> >
> >
> >>To this day most people do not understand how
> >>computers actually work.
> >
> >
> > They also don't understand how radios or nerves work. But figure out
how to
> > get what they want from them.
> >
> >
> > It used to be that a baby-sitter didn't need to get trained on how to
use the
> > phone and the TV set when left with your children, but things aren't so
simple
> > now.
>
> You maybe Howard but not this rocket scientist operating from home. I
> get my tips from here, clc - not Calgary.
>
> My son buys me a DVD player for Christmas. Think to myself, "That's
> bloody useless - I've only got VCRs". Well he loans me his copy of LOTR
> (Part I), then subsequently "King Arthur" and "Troy" - I preferred the
> latter of the trio.
>
> Ah ha ! Nearly forgot this. Couldn't get my VCR to work as a result of
> attaching the DVD - nor could my son, who isn't too high-tech, but
> sensible. Shopping for my new XP and talking to a salesman, a lady
> overhears my comments, and suggests "Contact Shaw they will do it for
> nothing". Shaw is both my TV cable-provider and ISP. Phone - sure enough
> girl says we will send somebody out and not charge you.
>
> Firstly he adds fresh wiring so that I've got leeway to move the
> equipment around - but then - connects firstly through the DVD player
> and then through the VCR player before making the connection to the TV
> set. Now unless you are an electrical/electronic geek you'd never figure
> that one. And as he said, they constantly get calls from people with
> $3,000 to $4,000 setups who haven't a clue how to configure their
> entertainment unit.
>
> Some off the cuff remark I made, and my son said, "Sure gimmie one". So
> I gave him a Vivaldi CD - magic - I've got music coming out of my TV.
> Yes I know you can do things with media players on computers - but had
> never considered the possibility of a similar approach with a TV
> configuration.
>
> Not being tech interested - I'm not into cameras. Completely turned off
> by the jargon - apertures, sunlight, whatever. Real simple when I was a
> kid. A box Brownie - point the bloody thing and hope you got a decent
> black and white. Digital cameras ? Roughly four weeks ago, my wife goes
> in for some re-prints. Young girl swings into action, thinking I'm
> another customer. "Nope. I'm with that lady at the counter". Anyway,
> nice girl. She and I chat and she moves me over to the digital display.
> I had absolutely no concept of digital = a CD containing your
> photographic images, and more importantly the CD can be re-used. Then
> two weeks later, quite by accident, I read digitals are currently some
> 80% plus of camera sales.
>
> Familiarity breeds contempt. Well not really 'contempt', but rather
> 'knowledge'.
>
> Jimmy
>

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