<x-charset iso-8859-1> |-----Original Message----- |From: George Newbury [mailto:newbury@tidalwave.net] |Sent: Monday, July 03, 2000 11:15 PM | | |One point I disagree on - buying into new technology. As part of the |government I frequently have bought into the "bleeding edge" for work |purposes. Back in the dark ages - circa 1988 I would prepare purchase |orders for equipment that did not exist as of the time I initiated the |request. It took several months for the order to go through the government |system. I once got lucky and got some color Macs right after they were |introduced. I had started the purchase when they were a strong rumor. | But I suspect this is pretty unusual, most gov't agencies are buying on quantity, so they try to get the most for their buck. Bleeding edge is expensive and chancy. And we can't buy Macs anyway. | |I (we , my office) tries to CONSTANTLY upgrade, but incrementaly, swap a |motherboard, get a new video card or cpu, etc. One of my favorite |boxes is a |large tower that has a high end pentium in it. However the machine is on |the property books as a 33Mhz 486. We don't have the tech support for that. Our IT guy's main job is keeping the network and servers (network, email and web) running. I also am the webmaster, but I don't do the hardware end (except what's on my own desk, and maybe my immediate workgroup's), just the code and design. So we tend to do whole boxes, with occasional card swaps. It's not economical for us to try and build systems, although I've certainly customized mine.<g> |Film is DEAD, can't buy Kodoachrome 25 any more. I quit using Kodachrome when I couldn't get blue skies on the stuff, and anything I sent to Kodalux/Qualex came back scratched, IF it came back at all. Nice thing about E-6, it doesn't have to leave town (or even your own lab). Sorta like digital!<g> - Turn off HTML mail features. Keep quoted material short. Use accurate subject lines. http://www.leben.com/lists for list instructions. </x-charset>