Re: [CGUYS] Missing messages?

2007-08-16 Thread b_s-wilk
Time stamp and delays depend on reliability and location of outgoing and incoming servers, unless your battery is getting weak. I usually use a U.S. based server, but when there's high traffic, I switch to one of Yahoo's foreign servers. I'm curious about time stamps, so I'm using a server in

Re: [CGUYS] OEM vs Compatible Epson Ink jet cartridges

2007-08-16 Thread Steve Rigby
On Aug 14, 2007, at 8:48 PM, Tom Piwowar wrote: Epson needs the money. Didn't Epson have to make a big payout in that class action lawsuit about a year ago concerning their ink cartridges and how they would indicate "Empty" when they still had considerable ink remaining? Steve **

Re: [CGUYS] Missing messages?

2007-08-16 Thread Steve Rigby
On Aug 16, 2007, at 4:21 PM, Robert wrote: Occasionally I notice missing messages, but more frequently a reply to a message shows up well before the original message arrives. Ditto. Steve * ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND R

Re: [CGUYS] Pro Apple Agitprop (on topic!)

2007-08-16 Thread Steve Rigby
On Aug 16, 2007, at 5:05 PM, Admiral Harris wrote: Steve, I'm assuming from everything you've written that you don't have a lot of experience in change management. As much as you'd like to believe that its an evil M$ cult going on in your shop, the truth is, if you required them to have cre

Re: [CGUYS] Pro Apple Agitprop (on topic!)

2007-08-16 Thread Steve Rigby
On Aug 16, 2007, at 3:32 PM, mike wrote: What do they say they are afraid of? If they have trouble with camera cards on any system, it sounds as if they aren't the brightest bulbs anyway. Is this your shop or is it owned by another? The shop is not mine. I just work there. The other fo

Re: [CGUYS] Missing messages?

2007-08-16 Thread Steve Rigby
On Aug 16, 2007, at 4:46 PM, Andy Gallant wrote: different but maybe related - i've been getting messages out of order. many times, i see the reply to a message before i receive the original message. at least, it looks that way when i compare the timestamps ... ymmv I have seen that as w

Re: [CGUYS] iphoto library

2007-08-16 Thread Tom Piwowar
>my iphoto library is way to big and besides exporting the photos to >dvds and such is there a good program that will strip out the saved >origenals and the empty folders from my library? Buy an external terabyte drive for $300 and never have to worry about storage space again.

[CGUYS] iphoto library

2007-08-16 Thread Josh Byrd
my iphoto library is way to big and besides exporting the photos to dvds and such is there a good program that will strip out the saved origenals and the empty folders from my library? i am looking at iphoto diet but would like some collective wisdom before i screw things up. ibook g4, 10.3.9, ip

Re: [CGUYS] Canvas Customer Exclusive! Reserve your copy of Can

2007-08-16 Thread Tom Piwowar
>Or you could listen to what the Executive VP said was the reason: > >Ultimately the decision was decided by economics - it is simply not >profitable for us at this time to continue to develop for both platforms. Ultimately, he is saying that they were selling very low numbers to Mac users. He d

Re: [CGUYS] Missing messages?

2007-08-16 Thread Tom Piwowar
>different but maybe related - i've been getting messages out of order. >many times, i see the reply to a message before i receive the original >message. at least, it looks that way when i compare the timestamps ... ymmv That is how the Internet works. Think of it as a bunch of pipes...

Re: [CGUYS] Sicko -- discussion location (off topic)

2007-08-16 Thread Jeff Miles
I have to mostly agree with this. Though those who can't afford it do get it, and this is what raises the cost for those who can afford it. In 2003 I was diagnosed with Congestive Heart Failure. At the time I had no health insurance and no job. I was treated anyway with several EKGs and Ec

Re: [CGUYS] Missing messages?

2007-08-16 Thread Robert
Occasionally I notice missing messages, but more frequently a reply to a message shows up well before the original message arrives. Steve Rigby wrote: On Aug 16, 2007, at 10:51 AM, mike wrote: Uh oh...undesirables...next we'll hear we have to cull all pc users from the population. It's too

Re: [CGUYS] Pro Apple Agitprop (on topic!)

2007-08-16 Thread Admiral Harris
Steve, I'm assuming from everything you've written that you don't have a lot of experience in change management. As much as you'd like to believe that its an evil M$ cult going on in your shop, the truth is, if you required them to have cream of pumpkin soup every week, you'd have about the

Re: [CGUYS] Pro Apple Agitprop (on topic!)

2007-08-16 Thread Constance Warner
"Also the idea they have been trained to be afraid because they don't use a mac is beyond ridiculous, they might be bristling at this notion." I don't know--people can have very odd phobias sometimes. I remember working as a temp at the Brookings Institution (the natives call it "The Brookings,"

Re: [CGUYS] Missing messages?

2007-08-16 Thread Andy Gallant
different but maybe related - i've been getting messages out of order. many times, i see the reply to a message before i receive the original message. at least, it looks that way when i compare the timestamps ... ymmv -andy /snip/ Upon seeing this message which is a response to something t

Re: [CGUYS] Sicko -- discussion location (off topic)

2007-08-16 Thread Robert
I am not going to suggest how to improve health care in the United States. Instead, I am going to relate my recent experience with health care in Italy. Last summer my wife and I vacationed in France and Italy. After a minor accident in France (my wife slipped and fell to the ground), her le

Re: [CGUYS] Canvas Customer Exclusive! Reserve your copy of Canvas 11 for $99.99 and get ACDSee Pro

2007-08-16 Thread Alvin Auerbach
I'm not a professional user, consequently I don't want to spend big bucks. I asked the list some time ago about binding text to a curve in AppleWorks, and several people did respond, but their suggestions didn't work out for me. Then I remembered Canvas 5. Yes, 5. I purchased it years ago after

[CGUYS] Missing messages?

2007-08-16 Thread Steve Rigby
On Aug 16, 2007, at 10:51 AM, mike wrote: Uh oh...undesirables...next we'll hear we have to cull all pc users from the population. It's too bad those pesky pixar people are undesirableusing non macs to make cars... Mike On 8/16/07, Tom Piwowar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You might a

Re: [CGUYS] Pro Apple Agitprop (on topic!)

2007-08-16 Thread mike
What do they say they are afraid of? If they have trouble with camera cards on any system, it sounds as if they aren't the brightest bulbs anyway. Is this your shop or is it owned by another? Mike On 8/16/07, Steve Rigby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Aug 16, 2007, at 9:11 AM, Snyder, Mark w

Re: [CGUYS] Pro Apple Agitprop (on topic!)

2007-08-16 Thread Steve Rigby
On Aug 16, 2007, at 9:11 AM, Snyder, Mark wrote: Steve, I would start by creating user accounts for them, or at least for some logical sub-group. I would also invite them to a demonstration where you help someone set up their desktop preferences and show them how to do some basic real-world ta

Re: [CGUYS] Pro Apple Agitprop (on topic!)

2007-08-16 Thread Steve Rigby
On Aug 16, 2007, at 9:18 AM, mike wrote: People are normally afraid of unknown items, give em time, sit them down and show them how to use it, the mac isn't going to show them how to use itself. The faxing seems to be a perfect example, explain you want the wasting of paper to stop and use t

Re: [CGUYS] Canvas Customer Exclusive! Reserve your copy of Canvas 11 for $99.99 and get ACDSee Pro

2007-08-16 Thread b_s-wilk
I've used Canvas on and off, trying new versions over the years. Version 2 was good for the magazine/newspaper work I did until I got Aldus PageMaker, which was significantly better. Canvas has too many problems to be reliable for high quality color printing. I need WYSIWYG; there's no time to

Re: [CGUYS] Canvas Customer Exclusive! Reserve your copy of Can

2007-08-16 Thread mike
Or you could listen to what the Executive VP said was the reason: The decision not to develop a universal binary version for Canvas was not an easy one. In the one year I have been executive vice president I have been exploring every option available to try and find a viable path for this product

Re: [CGUYS] Canvas Customer Exclusive! Reserve your copy of Can

2007-08-16 Thread Tom Piwowar
>I don't understand this. With the increasing popularity of the Mac, >and (my assumption) that's it's not that difficult to port a >Win-intel version to a Mac-intel, why are you doing this? Why are you >throwing away your Mac customers? Canvas was bought by ACD Systems, a company that didn't ha

Re: [CGUYS] Sicko -- discussion location (off topic)

2007-08-16 Thread Alvin Auerbach
Most people do not understand that we have only one political party in this nation. It's the Corporation Party. It has two wings, the Democratic Wing and the Republican Wing. Each wing draws voter support from a different base, but what counts is money support, and for each wing, that comes mai

Re: [CGUYS] Pro Apple Agitprop (on topic!)

2007-08-16 Thread John DeCarlo
On 8/16/07, mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Uh oh...undesirables...next we'll hear we have to cull all pc users from > the > population. It's too bad those pesky pixar people are > undesirableusing > non macs to make cars... > Well, the unenlightened still use non-free operating systems.

Re: [CGUYS] Canvas Customer Exclusive! Reserve your copy of Canvas 11 for $99.99 and get ACDSee Pro

2007-08-16 Thread Alvin Auerbach
I'm a registered user, and a Mac owner, and I was about to pony up my 100 bucks, when I read: "Canvas 11 is available for Windows only." I don't understand this. With the increasing popularity of the Mac, and (my assumption) that's it's not that difficult to port a Win-intel version to a Mac-i

Re: [CGUYS] Pro Apple Agitprop (on topic!)

2007-08-16 Thread Chris Dunford
"First they came for Windows fanboys, and I said nothing because I was not a Windows fanboy..." * ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== * ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PRO

Re: [CGUYS] Pro Apple Agitprop (on topic!)

2007-08-16 Thread mike
Uh oh...undesirables...next we'll hear we have to cull all pc users from the population. It's too bad those pesky pixar people are undesirableusing non macs to make cars... Mike On 8/16/07, Tom Piwowar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > You might also want to point out that creative people

Re: [CGUYS] Sicko -- discussion location (off topic)

2007-08-16 Thread Tom Piwowar
>It is possible to cover everyone for health insurance, we just have >to change the way we think, and as you said take the profit motive >out of the equation. Well Rev. the wing nuts believe that everything ought to be for profit. Even their mega churches are for-profit corporations paying big

Re: [CGUYS] Sicko -- discussion location

2007-08-16 Thread Tom Piwowar
>I have never had any problems with health care in the United States. >NONE. My family has always received great care. We are not rich, and we >live in a rural area in the midwest. Our EMT's are volunteers and our >hospital is non-profit and operates in the black. You have just been fortuna

Re: [CGUYS] Pro Apple Agitprop (on topic!)

2007-08-16 Thread mike
People are normally afraid of unknown items, give em time, sit them down and show them how to use it, the mac isn't going to show them how to use itself. The faxing seems to be a perfect example, explain you want the wasting of paper to stop and use that to get them on the computer. Don't give t

Re: [CGUYS] Pro Apple Agitprop (on topic!)

2007-08-16 Thread Snyder, Mark
Steve, I would start by creating user accounts for them, or at least for some logical sub-group. I would also invite them to a demonstration where you help someone set up their desktop preferences and show them how to do some basic real-world tasks. Then invite them to use their personal account

Re: [CGUYS] Sicko -- discussion location

2007-08-16 Thread Marcio V. Pinheiro
Good for you Jeff, but does that prove anything? How about the 45.000.000 without insurance? The ones who fall into the crack between insurance and medicaid. DonĀ“t they count?... Marcio At 08:41 AM 8/16/2007, Jeff Morris wrote: I have never had any problems with health care in the United Stat

Re: [CGUYS] Sicko -- discussion location

2007-08-16 Thread Jeff Morris
I have never had any problems with health care in the United States. NONE. My family has always received great care. We are not rich, and we live in a rural area in the midwest. Our EMT's are volunteers and our hospital is non-profit and operates in the black. ***

Re: [CGUYS] Pro Apple Agitprop (on topic!)

2007-08-16 Thread Steve Rigby
On Aug 15, 2007, at 6:10 PM, Tom Piwowar wrote: "It's getting hard to find reasons to buy a Windows PC, aside from sheer inertia. Windows PCs used to be far more cost-effective than Macs, but no longer. Macs can now compete hard with PCs on cost, for all but the very cheapest, sub-$600 Window