On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 11:48 PM, glen <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > >From: Wallace Adrian D'Alessio <[email protected]> > > >> > Content with prettier eye candy sells ideas If you cannot keep up with the > current "style" your content looks flaky and suspect. Think here of > mimeographed > > political flyers when Xerox came out. The medium in itself is a semaphore > subtexting and toning whatever it expresses. > > Rather than the democratizing effect that personal computers should have, > if you > > cannot keep up financially your ability to put a message out is > compromised. > > Your comments about the struggle on the street level I can well identify > with. > Steve jobs has lost touch with the needs of the masses he sought in the old > days. > >> > > Well, the mimeograph analogy is not the best but does serve a an example of > waning technology. > > In the early 70's my political friends and I produced 2 & 3 color political > flyers on a mimeograph. Xerox was a rather low quality black and white > substitute at at that time. Even the Gestetner mimeo techs were amazed at > what > we could do with their machines and took samples of our work to their > regional > office. We were doing duotones on a mimeograph. It took Xerox another 30 > years > to get a decent color copier. --And we were hard pressed to buy food in > those > days. > > I guess the point, is that if we are creative enough we will find solutions > to > the latest technological advances we are faced with regardless of our > budget (or > lack of). I have no fear of Apple or any other corporate giant. Just deal > with > it!! --glen >
When you have done it all your life, " make dos", work arounds, Goldberg and McGivering get very old and tiresome. PCs promise a lot and deliver headaches whether 'Nux or Winslowz. I am tired , tired, tired i say. ( and the shouting masses behind me) I want an affordable mac that will do the job and be upgradeable in increments as I can afford them. At one time a used 7xoo filled that need. but the old clunker hasn't the horsepower to pull the tall gears of modern software even slowly. And saying it again for the upteenth time, Apple now actively working to break the balls of even much more recent machines demoralizes troupes more well heeled than I. so what chance do I have? Being poor does not seem to translate well even on Low End Mac pages ( If they are so poor why do they have or want computer? (TO USE AS TOOLS TO MAKE MONEY SO THEY WONT BE SO DAMNEDLY POOR ! THAT'sWHY !) [apologies to the sensitive. But one needs to shout when communications are not heard. LOW END to me means poor. People too poor to afford new computers. People too poor to afford costly repairs. People too poor to listen to the more affluent dismiss their needs. If poor is not translatable then NEW END Mac would be a good place rather than being tortured by the rants of the relatively indigent. Fear Apple? That is not the subject. Asking Apple for some GD slack is more like it. Asking The Steve for a crumb from the table. Appealing to his beginnings. Get it ? -- Adrian D'Alessio aka; Fluxstringer [email protected] http://www.flickr.com/photos/fluxstreamcommunication/ http://www.youtube.com/fluxstringer http://www.facebook.com/FluxStringer http://www.linkedin.com/in/fluxstreamcommunications http://flux-influx.blogspot.com/ http://remnantsofthestorm.blogspot.com http://fluxdreams.designbinder.com/ -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
