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To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (52049)	6/10/2000 11:01:00 AM
From: Gauguin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

I just want to smack you. eom

To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (52049)	6/10/2000 11:14:00 AM
From: Crocodile	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71178

I agree that the widespread availability of "media" can have its disasters, but I think that eventually can and will sort itself out... "Good art" will emerge from what sometimes appears to be miasma.... I was going to say more here... I'm thinking about how to say it though... And can't find the words right now... The main point is, that people will be able to work out where they want to "go" with discussions and interactions using the new media. This wasn't possible before... You had to have money to do any of this stuff... so there was an immediate barrier imposed between the people who "could" do things and those who couldn't.... and "talent" didn't really have that big a part in it... And I say that as one who has seen more than a little of the ugly side of a couple of areas of the media industry... Anyhow, I'll probably think about some of this stuff and post more later... Just don't want to say the wrong things...

To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (52049)	6/10/2000 12:31:00 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71178

I am surprised to read that your Mac is photophobic, although you did say "old Mac." If you want to look at images in the U.S. Patent Office web site, you can't use a PC, you have to use a Mac. I don't know why, they explain it on their site, but the explanation reads like "the only software that will work runs on a Mac, sorry, if anyone knows about some better software, please email us." Grrrr. As for printers, I've got printers out the ying-yang - so to speak. Two very high-end HP 4000 that print 17 pages per minute, one at the office, one in the home office. A fairly nice HP color deskjet that I could use to print out color images, but the kids seem to use much more than I do. It makes their homework really spiffy, and their teachers rave and give them A's. I've posted about feeling guilty because poor kids don't have that advantage. On the field trip Wednesday, Nick's teacher was raving about his computer skills, she stopped me twice to tell me about a school I should take a look at for him. I've got two scanners, one with a feeder for text, and a flat bed one for color images - the text one is at the office, it's small, the flat bed actually does text better but it's big. And then some old printers that I bought a while ago that have been eclipsed by the new ones, my mother is using one. Your kids will need a printer for school. I let mine start playing with my computer when they were three or four - bought them kid games but of course that was about ten years ago, they are out of date now. As for computers, the local schools use Macs, until high school, then in the programming classes they use PCs.