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Dearest Tony, Excuse me? You feel I would be surprised and humbled that there are people experienced with computers on this list? (Since I personally know people who have been programming computers since the early 80's and some who have always rolled their own, does that have any relevance to the quality of my opinion? No... Would you be surprised and humbled to know that back in 95, after I had a mechanical problem with one of their scanners, a high mucky muck at Polaroid called me later to chat because I was using his scanner with, as he put it, the most sophisticated installation they were aware of at the time? No, me neither.) You feel it would surprise me that people have found it necessary to switch to PC's because of platform incompatibilities in a world dominated by Microsoft? (Did it seem that I sounded like I had been living under a rock?) Do you know what irony means? Excuse me, but I did apologize in advance and I did change the subject line to make obvious the subject of my post. I specifically responded to a post that called it "free market capitalism gone awry" that software companies appeared to act as though most serious graphics work was done on the Mac, and acted accordingly. Despite your condescending tone, I still find it ironic to hear a Windoze user voice such complaints. And as he stated it made him want to go out and buy a G4 and I have one, I feel qualified to recommend that he do so. I did not suggest that a PC user should be described as "a poor fool lusting after a G4". And finally, I would have made no further posting on this topic on this list, but for your "personal" posting to me on this list. Try your "what would you know, you little peon" rap on someone more easily impressed.... Oh, and "thanks for sharing". Harry Huff Tony Karp wrote: > Thank you for sharing. > > Our most recent "platform war" was a little bit one-sided, mostly Mac > users telling us how they don't get viruses, are smarter, more honest, > have better hardware, software, etc. > > In short, lots of posts like yours. > > The good news is that a couple of weeks ago, the Mac users had a hissy > fit and started their own mailing list, why, I can only conjecture, > but I guess that Macs have special Epson problems that can't be > discussed here. Perhaps you can join them. > > Harry, there are folks here whose depth of experience on many computer > platforms would surprise and humble you. For them, the choice is not > always so easy. > > It would probably surprise you to learn that there are folks here who > were once dedicated Mac users who have switched to other platforms > because they gave up on the Mac as a viable machine that could be used > for many different computer related jobs. > > Please don't believe that inside every PC user there lurks a poor > fool who lusts after a G4. Hard as it may be to believe, there are > actually PC users who are happy and productive, in many fields, > including graphics. > > All platforms have advantages and disadvantages, and hopefully these > will be weighed by everyone who has to spend hard-earned money on > hardware and software. > > In the meantime, can we go back to discussing printing, and > printing-related problems? > > Tony Karp, TLC Systems Corp tkarp@tlc-systems.com > > Visit our web sites: > Techno-Impressionist Museum: http://www.techno-impressionist.com > TLC Systems: http://www.tlc-systems.com > > - > Turn off HTML mail features. Keep quoted material short. Use accurate > subject lines. http://www.leben.com/lists for list instructions. - Turn off HTML mail features. Keep quoted material short. Use accurate subject lines. http://www.leben.com/lists for list instructions.
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