Doesn't this conversation pretty much PROVE my early post on the matter that the common usage of he word "obsolete" is very vague. It means something different to many different people. I don't even think it's a good to use because of that problem. It leads to misunderstanding even on general terms let alone specifics.... jco
-----Original Message----- From: Tom Reese [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 23, 2005 12:31 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Camera engineering (was Re: Rename request) From: "P. J. Alling": > Everything is obsolete the minute it leaves the factory. Nonsense. Nothing is obsolete until it's superseded by something better. > On the other > hand nothing that still preforms it's function > is truly obsolete. Also nonsense. There are many things that are still functional but are obsolete. > Using the old glass on the new cameras doesn't make > sense? Only from a marketing point of view. I disagree with your "only from a marketing..." sentence but I believe you'd also disagree if you thought about it. The billions of "it depends" permutations make further debate pointless. Tom Reese
