Re: OT: Another XP doomsday thread ... and other stuff.

2014-04-11 Thread John Sessoms
And an update if anyone cares ... I still don't know what caused the problem, but I shut everything down, including the UPS; crawled up under the desk and unplugged everything and then plugged them all back in. The only things plugged in to the UPS were the System Unit wall wart for an

Re: OT: Another XP doomsday thread ... and other stuff.

2014-04-11 Thread Paul
Residual voltages will do strange things sometimes and completely unplugging everything and letting it sit can sometimes solve the problem. At the outset of a printing project that was time sensitive my printer insisted on going through a complete cleaning cycle before every print. Cost me a

OT: Another XP doomsday thread ... and other stuff.

2014-04-09 Thread John Sessoms
I know support for XP was supposed to end yesterday, but I got security updates this morning. I'm also having a problem with Windoze7 that I haven't been able to figure out. The only hard-drive failures I've ever encountered happened at boot up, so I try to minimize that by keeping my computers

Re: OT: Another XP doomsday thread ... and other stuff.

2014-04-09 Thread Paul
Do you have a depleted coin battery on your motherboard? When that goes strange things begin to happen. -p On 4/9/2014 1:57 PM, John Sessoms wrote: I know support for XP was supposed to end yesterday, but I got security updates this morning. I'm also having a problem with Windoze7 that I

Re: OT: Another XP doomsday thread ... and other stuff.

2014-04-09 Thread Mark C
Odd - I has a similar thing happen on my Win 7 machine a couple of weeks ago. I was working on it and it shut down with a message that the battery was depleted. I turned the UPS off and on and rebooted. With the UPS I use there is battery / power icon on the system tray like a laptop and it

Re: OT - the XP doomsday thing

2014-04-09 Thread mike wilson
On 08/04/2014, John Sessoms jsessoms...@nc.rr.com wrote: That does bring up some interesting questions: 1. Why won't Adobe make versions of Lightroom Photoshop for Linux? Linux users are lucky like that. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net

Re: OT - the XP doomsday thing

2014-04-09 Thread P.J. Alling
On 4/9/2014 6:23 PM, mike wilson wrote: On 08/04/2014, John Sessoms jsessoms...@nc.rr.com wrote: That does bring up some interesting questions: 1. Why won't Adobe make versions of Lightroom Photoshop for Linux? Linux users are lucky like that. Linux users generally want free software, OK so

Re: OT - the XP doomsday thing

2014-04-09 Thread Brian Walters
Quoting P.J. Alling webstertwenty...@gmail.com: On 4/9/2014 6:23 PM, mike wilson wrote: On 08/04/2014, John Sessoms jsessoms...@nc.rr.com wrote: That does bring up some interesting questions: 1. Why won't Adobe make versions of Lightroom Photoshop for Linux? Linux users are lucky like

Re: OT: Another XP doomsday thread ... and other stuff.

2014-04-09 Thread John Sessoms
I think that's unlikely. It's a fairly new system. Built it early in 2013. If it was the coin battery I'd expect it to be losing CMOS settings. On 4/9/2014 5:49 PM, Paul wrote: Do you have a depleted coin battery on your motherboard? When that goes strange things begin to happen. -p On

Re: OT: Another XP doomsday thread ... and other stuff.

2014-04-09 Thread John Sessoms
I do have that battery icon, but it's showing 100% every time I check it and the UPS monitor software shows the battery fully charged. If the UPS software was telling the system the battery was getting low, I'd expect to see something about it in the logs. On 4/9/2014 6:22 PM, Mark C wrote:

Re: OT: Another XP doomsday thread ... and other stuff.

2014-04-09 Thread John Sessoms
And now, it just started getting worse. It's suddenly just logging me off and shutting down. I was in there going through all the power management settings trying to find a reason. I changed the low battery critical battery from sleep to shut down. I was in the middle of checking other

Re: OT: Another XP doomsday thread ... and other stuff.

2014-04-09 Thread Mark C
Maybe try it without the UPS and see what happens. On 4/9/2014 8:59 PM, John Sessoms wrote: And now, it just started getting worse. It's suddenly just logging me off and shutting down. I was in there going through all the power management settings trying to find a reason. I changed the low

Re: OT - the XP doomsday thing

2014-04-08 Thread mike wilson
Not to prosyletise too much; you really should try Ubuntu. Download the installation iso from Ubuntu.com and try it running from a disk before you install. Unless there are specific Windows-only apps that you need, just about everything you want can be run as an equivalent. Firefox and T'bird

Re: OT - the XP doomsday thing

2014-04-08 Thread Henk Terhell
Agree Linux Ubuntu is the way to to go to wipe off XP on your old PC and feel comfortable about these XP hazards. However I soon got tired of the interface of Ubuntu and switched now to the light-weight Ubuntu version Lubuntu on both an old desktop and a laptop. LibreOffice and all of the

Re: OT - the XP doomsday thing

2014-04-08 Thread Brian Walters
Quoting Henk Terhell hterh...@chello.nl: Agree Linux Ubuntu is the way to to go to wipe off XP on your old PC and feel comfortable about these XP hazards. However I soon got tired of the interface of Ubuntu and switched now to the light-weight Ubuntu version Lubuntu on both an old desktop

Re: OT - the XP doomsday thing

2014-04-08 Thread Henk Terhell
For me Vista was quite OK until it got slow and finally crashed. Win 8 is also not bad but I got the classic desktop with the $ 5 Start8 utility (so at least I know how to switch off the PC). Win 8 (on an i7 processor with NVDIA GT-640 graphic card) handles Lightroom well. I think the file

Re: OT - the XP doomsday thing

2014-04-08 Thread Mark C
That is exactly what I did with my only XP machine. I originally installed Ubuntu and then switched over to the LXDE desktop. Now it says Lubuntu when it is booting. VueScan works just like it does on XP (which it should) - I scanned eight 35mm rolls via VueScan and the LS8000 under Lubuntu

Re: OT - the XP doomsday thing

2014-04-08 Thread Mark C
I'm not a techie but I doubt your computer will turn into a pumpkin at midnight. But you might want to pick up a pie crust just in case From what I read it looks like WinXP will simply start to become more and more insecure as new vulnerabilities are found and not patched. And there might

Re: OT - the XP doomsday thing

2014-04-08 Thread Paul Stenquist
I suppose Ubuntu is fun if you’re a techy and like to play with computers. But if you’re a photographer, an operating system that won’t run the best image processing software sucks dead dog dick. Paul On Apr 8, 2014, at 2:31 AM, mike wilson m.9.wil...@ntlworld.com wrote: Not to prosyletise

Re: OT - the XP doomsday thing

2014-04-08 Thread Ann Sanfedele
to pass up. Gerrit -Original Message- From: PDML [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of Mark Roberts Sent: Monday, April 7, 2014 8:10 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: OT - the XP doomsday thing Ann Sanfedele wrote: I have a feeling the threats from Windoze

Re: OT - the XP doomsday thing

2014-04-08 Thread John Sessoms
@pdml.net Subject: Re: OT - the XP doomsday thing Just to add my 2¢: Windows XP is an incredibly old operating system by today's standards. Yeah, Vista and Windows 8 were/are pretty awful, but Windows 7 is great. You really don't need to fear upgrading to 7, especially since you can install the XP virtual

Re: OT - the XP doomsday thing

2014-04-08 Thread John Sessoms
This machine is on at least it's 3rd motherboard. I think the latest mother board is from 2007. I'm not sure how old it actually is, but at least some of the parts date back into the 20th century. It's still got the certificate of authenticity sticker for a Windoze98 Second Edition Upgrade on

Re: OT - the XP doomsday thing

2014-04-08 Thread Mark Roberts
Ann Sanfedele ann...@nyc.rr.com wrote: I searched my C: drive and found a file called firewall.cpl in the i386 folder. Is that telling me I have a hardware firewall? No. A hardware firewall is a box in between your computer and your cable/DSL modem. Typically it's a router. -- PDML

Re: OT - the XP doomsday thing

2014-04-08 Thread John Sessoms
to pass up. Gerrit -Original Message- From: PDML [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of Mark Roberts Sent: Monday, April 7, 2014 8:10 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: OT - the XP doomsday thing Ann Sanfedele wrote: I have a feeling the threats from Windoze that their lack

Re: OT - the XP doomsday thing

2014-04-08 Thread John Sessoms
That does bring up some interesting questions: 1. Why won't Adobe make versions of Lightroom Photoshop for Linux? 2. IIRC, there used to be a windoze emulator for Linux called WINE that was good enough that some earlier versions would run on it. Whatever happened to that? 3. Mac OS is based

Re: OT - the XP doomsday thing

2014-04-08 Thread Mark C
I can't say re Adobe but I used a thumbnail program called ThumbsPlus and checked on a Linux version of that program. From their FAQ: ...snip... One thing that is bothersome about a Linux port is that so many of the Linux users who have written have exclaimed how wonderful it is to have a

Re: OT - the XP doomsday thing

2014-04-08 Thread Mark C
DarkTable? http://www.darktable.org/ On 4/8/2014 12:51 PM, John Sessoms wrote: PS: I'm pretty sure there's a Lightroom clone for Linux - can't remember the name of it off the top of my head right now - that works a bit better than Gimp does as a Photoshop clone. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss

Re: OT - the XP doomsday thing

2014-04-08 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
On Apr 8, 2014, at 9:51 AM, John Sessoms jsessoms...@nc.rr.com wrote: That does bring up some interesting questions: 1. Why won't Adobe make versions of Lightroom Photoshop for Linux? Too much development cost, not enough return on investment. Linux users hate to pay for anything. 3. Mac

Re: OT - the XP doomsday thing

2014-04-08 Thread Ann Sanfedele
- the XP doomsday thing Ann Sanfedele wrote: I have a feeling the threats from Windoze that their lack of support will result in all of us die-hard Xp users getting hacked to death at the stroke of midnight is a bit overstated, or to put it another way, B S. Given one has one's own virus protection

Re: OT - the XP doomsday thing

2014-04-08 Thread Ann Sanfedele
So therefore it is a physical thingy I need to buy I gather. I may get some neighborly help soon - fingers crossed ann On 4/8/2014 12:18, Mark Roberts wrote: Ann Sanfedele ann...@nyc.rr.com wrote: I searched my C: drive and found a file called firewall.cpl in the i386 folder. Is that

Re: OT - the XP doomsday thing

2014-04-08 Thread Bill
On 08/04/2014 11:55 AM, Ann Sanfedele wrote: So therefore it is a physical thingy I need to buy I gather. I may get some neighborly help soon - fingers crossed A hardware firewall (router), resist the temptation to go wireless if you can, turn off the wireless radio on the router, and tell

Re: OT - the XP doomsday thing

2014-04-08 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
Gosh, there are a bunch of paranoid folks on this mailing list. G -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.

Re: OT - the XP doomsday thing

2014-04-08 Thread Bob W-PDML
It's important to keep the cosmic paranoia/smugness ying-yang tiddly-i-po thing in balance. For every Mac user you need 1024 windows users or the entire universe will go out of whack. It's a bit like Buddhists spinning a prayer wheel to keep the earth turning. B On 8 Apr 2014, at 19:07,

Re: OT - the XP doomsday thing

2014-04-08 Thread John Francis
On Mon, Apr 07, 2014 at 09:25:29PM -0700, John Celio wrote: Just to add my 2?: Windows XP is an incredibly old operating system by today's standards. Yeah, Vista and Windows 8 were/are pretty awful, but Windows 7 is great. You really don't need to fear upgrading to 7, especially since you can

Re: OT - the XP doomsday thing

2014-04-08 Thread Ann Sanfedele
DOn't worry I will NEVER go wireless thanks for the other info a On 4/8/2014 14:01, Bill wrote: On 08/04/2014 11:55 AM, Ann Sanfedele wrote: So therefore it is a physical thingy I need to buy I gather. I may get some neighborly help soon - fingers crossed A hardware firewall (router),

Re: OT - the XP doomsday thing

2014-04-08 Thread Ann Sanfedele
On 4/8/2014 14:23, John Francis wrote: On Mon, Apr 07, 2014 at 09:25:29PM -0700, John Celio wrote: Windows XP mode only works on the Professional, Enterprise Ultimate versions of Windows 7 - it does not work on the (cheaper) Home version. This means anyone wanting to go that

Re: OT - the XP doomsday thing

2014-04-08 Thread Mark Roberts
Bob W-PDML p...@web-options.com wrote: It's important to keep the cosmic paranoia/smugness ying-yang tiddly-i-po thing in balance. Truer words were never spoken. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please

Re: OT - the XP doomsday thing

2014-04-08 Thread P.J. Alling
I wouldn't worry too much Ann. I used Win2K, (not to be confused with WinME), for a number of years after Microsoft dropped support. It did everything I needed it to, and only upgraded to XP when I couldn't hack the OS to get a new printer to work properly, (I was able to find adequate AV

Re: OT - the XP doomsday thing

2014-04-08 Thread P.J. Alling
-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: OT - the XP doomsday thing Ann Sanfedele wrote: I have a feeling the threats from Windoze that their lack of support will result in all of us die-hard Xp users getting hacked to death at the stroke of midnight is a bit overstated, or to put it another way, B S. Given

Re: OT - the XP doomsday thing

2014-04-08 Thread steve harley
on 2014-04-07 20:52 John Coyle wrote I still have one PC running XP (SP3) and have it behind a router firewall and anti-virus protection. Only need it to maintain absolute compatibility with some older systems I've written, where clients are still running them, so I won't upgrade it unless it

Re: OT - the XP doomsday thing

2014-04-08 Thread Ann Sanfedele
[mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of Mark Roberts Sent: Monday, April 7, 2014 8:10 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: OT - the XP doomsday thing Ann Sanfedele wrote: I have a feeling the threats from Windoze that their lack of support will result in all of us die-hard Xp users getting

Re: OT - the XP doomsday thing

2014-04-08 Thread P.J. Alling
There could have been significant disruptions due to the Y2K problem, but it was very over hyped, I doubt that planes would have fallen out of the sky, and a lot of work went into making sure that those disruptions didn't happen, a lot of busy work was done that wasn't strictly necessary at

Re: OT - the XP doomsday thing

2014-04-08 Thread Bob W-PDML
On 8 Apr 2014, at 20:46, P.J. Alling webstertwenty...@gmail.com wrote: There could have been significant disruptions due to the Y2K problem, but it was very over hyped, I doubt that planes would have fallen out of the sky, and a lot of work went into making sure that those disruptions

Re: OT - the XP doomsday thing

2014-04-08 Thread John Sessoms
On 4/8/2014 1:22 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: On Apr 8, 2014, at 9:51 AM, John Sessoms jsessoms...@nc.rr.com wrote: PS: I'm pretty sure there's a Lightroom clone for Linux - can't remember the name of it off the top of my head right now - that works a bit better than Gimp does as a Photoshop

Re: OT - the XP doomsday thing

2014-04-08 Thread John Sessoms
On 4/8/2014 2:06 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: Gosh, there are a bunch of paranoid folks on this mailing list. G It's not paranoia if they REALLY ARE out to get you. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML,

Re: OT - the XP doomsday thing

2014-04-08 Thread Paul Stenquist
Wireless is pretty safe as long as it’s password protected and you use a password that is complex and differs from your other passwords. Been wireless for many years, no problems. Paul On Apr 8, 2014, at 2:40 PM, Ann Sanfedele ann...@nyc.rr.com wrote: DOn't worry I will NEVER go wireless

Re: OT - the XP doomsday thing

2014-04-08 Thread steve harley
on 2014-04-08 11:22 Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote OS X is built around a Mach kernel and includes a FreeBSD UNIX command-line environment. Linux is built around a different kernel implementation, UNIX-like, and similarly includes a FreeBSD-like command-line environment. There the similarity ends.

Re: OT - the XP doomsday thing

2014-04-08 Thread John Sessoms
I do remember a few stories from after the fact where there were billing errors due to the date not rolling over correctly. Mostly (99 and 44/100%) it got fixed in time and the few instances where it did slip through were easily quickly corrected after the fact. On 4/8/2014 3:45 PM, P.J. Alling

RE: OT - the XP doomsday thing

2014-04-08 Thread Gerrit Visser
Of John Sessoms Sent: Tuesday, April 8, 2014 12:51 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: OT - the XP doomsday thing That does bring up some interesting questions: 1. Why won't Adobe make versions of Lightroom Photoshop for Linux? 2. IIRC, there used to be a windoze emulator for Linux called

Re: OT - the XP doomsday thing

2014-04-08 Thread Brian Walters
Quoting John Sessoms jsessoms...@nc.rr.com: That does bring up some interesting questions: 2. IIRC, there used to be a windoze emulator for Linux called WINE that was good enough that some earlier versions would run on it. Whatever happened to that? It's still around and still being

OT - the XP doomsday thing

2014-04-07 Thread Ann Sanfedele
I have a feeling the threats from Windoze that their lack of support will result in all of us die-hard Xp users getting hacked to death at the stroke of midnight is a bit overstated, or to put it another way, B S. Given one has one's own virus protection and spam-blocker, that is. Anyone else

Re: OT - the XP doomsday thing

2014-04-07 Thread Bill
On 07/04/2014 5:10 PM, Ann Sanfedele wrote: I have a feeling the threats from Windoze that their lack of support will result in all of us die-hard Xp users getting hacked to death at the stroke of midnight is a bit overstated, or to put it another way, B S. Given one has one's own virus

Re: OT - the XP doomsday thing

2014-04-07 Thread J.C. O'Connell
update to win7, its pretty painless and win7 works pretty well. On 4/7/2014 7:10 PM, Ann Sanfedele wrote: I have a feeling the threats from Windoze that their lack of support will result in all of us die-hard Xp users getting hacked to death at the stroke of midnight is a bit overstated, or to

Re: OT - the XP doomsday thing

2014-04-07 Thread Mark Roberts
Ann Sanfedele wrote: I have a feeling the threats from Windoze that their lack of support will result in all of us die-hard Xp users getting hacked to death at the stroke of midnight is a bit overstated, or to put it another way, B S. Given one has one's own virus protection and spam-blocker,

RE: OT - the XP doomsday thing

2014-04-07 Thread Gerrit Visser
-Original Message- From: PDML [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of Mark Roberts Sent: Monday, April 7, 2014 8:10 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: OT - the XP doomsday thing Ann Sanfedele wrote: I have a feeling the threats from Windoze that their lack of support

RE: OT - the XP doomsday thing

2014-04-07 Thread John Coyle
Sanfedele Sent: Tuesday, 8 April 2014 9:10 AM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: OT - the XP doomsday thing I have a feeling the threats from Windoze that their lack of support will result in all of us die-hard Xp users getting hacked to death at the stroke of midnight is a bit overstated, or to put

Re: OT - the XP doomsday thing

2014-04-07 Thread John Sessoms
On 4/7/2014 7:10 PM, Ann Sanfedele wrote: I have a feeling the threats from Windoze that their lack of support will result in all of us die-hard Xp users getting hacked to death at the stroke of midnight is a bit overstated, or to put it another way, B S. Given one has one's own virus

Re: OT - the XP doomsday thing

2014-04-07 Thread John Sessoms
On 4/7/2014 7:19 PM, Bill wrote: On 07/04/2014 5:10 PM, Ann Sanfedele wrote: I have a feeling the threats from Windoze that their lack of support will result in all of us die-hard Xp users getting hacked to death at the stroke of midnight is a bit overstated, or to put it another way, B S.

Re: OT - the XP doomsday thing

2014-04-07 Thread John Sessoms
, April 7, 2014 8:10 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: OT - the XP doomsday thing Ann Sanfedele wrote: I have a feeling the threats from Windoze that their lack of support will result in all of us die-hard Xp users getting hacked to death at the stroke of midnight is a bit overstated

Re: OT - the XP doomsday thing

2014-04-07 Thread John Sessoms
The hardware I'm running XP on might just barely meet the minimums for Win7, but it wouldn't run worth a damn. On 4/7/2014 7:32 PM, J.C. O'Connell wrote: update to win7, its pretty painless and win7 works pretty well. On 4/7/2014 7:10 PM, Ann Sanfedele wrote: I have a feeling the threats from

Re: OT - the XP doomsday thing

2014-04-07 Thread Ann Sanfedele
I have Trend Micro due to renew in about 50 days.. Pretty sure I am connected through a hardware firewall. ann On 4/7/2014 20:10, Mark Roberts wrote: Ann Sanfedele wrote: I have a feeling the threats from Windoze that their lack of support will result in all of us die-hard Xp users getting

Re: OT - the XP doomsday thing

2014-04-07 Thread J.C. O'Connell
I should have said update your hardware and OS to win7 On 4/7/2014 11:17 PM, John Sessoms wrote: The hardware I'm running XP on might just barely meet the minimums for Win7, but it wouldn't run worth a damn. On 4/7/2014 7:32 PM, J.C. O'Connell wrote: update to win7, its pretty painless and

Re: OT - the XP doomsday thing

2014-04-07 Thread Ann Sanfedele
I just don't see why I should have to do that at all .. and I haven't got any money to do it with anyway. What MARk said about the firewall - I'll check, but I'm pretty sure that is what I have.. ann On 4/7/2014 23:27, J.C. O'Connell wrote: I should have said update your hardware and OS to

Re: OT - the XP doomsday thing

2014-04-07 Thread J.C. O'Connell
FWIW, early 2013 I picked up a brand new HP desktop less a monitor for $400 with decent specs and win7 pre installed. my old machine with XP was about 6 years old and kicked the bucket ( bad motherboard ). On 4/7/2014 11:27 PM, J.C. O'Connell wrote: I should have said update your hardware

Re: OT - the XP doomsday thing

2014-04-07 Thread John Celio
Just to add my 2¢: Windows XP is an incredibly old operating system by today's standards. Yeah, Vista and Windows 8 were/are pretty awful, but Windows 7 is great. You really don't need to fear upgrading to 7, especially since you can install the XP virtual machine and run all the old software you

Re: OT - the XP doomsday thing

2014-04-07 Thread Alan C
Yes, John, I totally agree. I upgraded some time ago have not looked back. Perhaps MS should offer free upgrades? Alan C -Original Message- From: John Celio Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2014 6:25 AM To: PDML@pdml.net Subject: Re: OT - the XP doomsday thing Just to add my 2¢: Windows XP

Re: OT - Kodak Created it's own Doomsday Device

2011-12-27 Thread Tom C
Applicable poster: http://www.despair.com/discovery.html :) Darren Addy Kearney, Nebraska That's rich. :-) Tom C. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow

Re: OT - Kodak Created it's own Doomsday Device

2011-12-23 Thread Darren Addy
Applicable poster: http://www.despair.com/discovery.html :) Darren Addy Kearney, Nebraska -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.

Re: OT - Kodak Created it's own Doomsday Device

2011-12-22 Thread Keith Whaley
Assuming what you say is true, that's a good compilation, Igor. Thanks. By the above I don't dispute what you say, just haven't checked it out for myself. keith whaley Igor Roshchin wrote: Wed Dec 21 20:57:48 EST 2011 Paul Stenquist wrote: On Dec 21, 2011, at 5:39 PM, Larry Colen wrote:

Re: OT - Kodak Created it's own Doomsday Device

2011-12-22 Thread Paul Stenquist
On Dec 21, 2011, at 11:15 PM, Igor Roshchin wrote: Wed Dec 21 20:57:48 EST 2011 Paul Stenquist wrote: On Dec 21, 2011, at 5:39 PM, Larry Colen wrote: It's a tragedy of the commons thing. For each business it makes economic sense to move aspects of production off shore to where labor

Re: OT - Kodak Created it's own Doomsday Device

2011-12-22 Thread Paul Stenquist
On Dec 22, 2011, at 7:25 AM, Paul Stenquist wrote: On Dec 21, 2011, at 11:15 PM, Igor Roshchin wrote: Wed Dec 21 20:57:48 EST 2011 Paul Stenquist wrote: On Dec 21, 2011, at 5:39 PM, Larry Colen wrote: It's a tragedy of the commons thing. For each business it makes economic sense

Re: OT - Kodak Created it's own Doomsday Device

2011-12-22 Thread Tom C
Now, they're even trying to outsource writing software. At the moment,  the problem is that few of the Asian programmers have the necessary mindset to write code well. Then there is the disconnect from managing projects with teams 8-12 timezones apart.  Eventually, the software culture will

Re: OT - Kodak Created it's own Doomsday Device

2011-12-22 Thread Christine Aguila
On Dec 22, 2011, at 11:34 AM, Tom C wrote: I've been saying it for a long time (as I'm affected every day by either outsourced or on-shored technical workers). When the majority of the population is working at McDonald's or Walmart, who will be making the money to buy the SUV's and

Re: OT - Kodak Created it's own Doomsday Device

2011-12-22 Thread Paul Stenquist
On Dec 22, 2011, at 12:34 PM, Tom C wrote: Now, they're even trying to outsource writing software. At the moment, the problem is that few of the Asian programmers have the necessary mindset to write code well. Then there is the disconnect from managing projects with teams 8-12 timezones

Re: OT - Kodak Created it's own Doomsday Device

2011-12-22 Thread Larry Colen
There is something that I find amusing in a complaint about Japanese car manufacturers putting American car manufacturers at an unfair disadvantage in a thread about Kodak going out of business on a mailing list about Japanese cameras. -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com sent from i4est --

Re: OT - Kodak Created it's own Doomsday Device

2011-12-22 Thread Paul Stenquist
On Dec 22, 2011, at 2:02 PM, Larry Colen wrote: There is something that I find amusing in a complaint about Japanese car manufacturers putting American car manufacturers at an unfair disadvantage in a thread about Kodak going out of business on a mailing list about Japanese cameras.

Re: OT - Kodak Created it's own Doomsday Device

2011-12-22 Thread Stan Halpin
On Dec 22, 2011, at 12:34 PM, Tom C wrote: Now, they're even trying to outsource writing software. At the moment, the problem is that few of the Asian programmers have the necessary mindset to write code well. Then there is the disconnect from managing projects with teams 8-12 timezones

Re: OT - Kodak Created it's own Doomsday Device

2011-12-22 Thread Tom C
From: Paul Stenquist pnstenqu...@comcast.net I've been saying it for a long time (as I'm affected every day by either outsourced or on-shored technical workers). When the majority of the population is working at McDonald's or Walmart, who will be making the money to buy the SUV's and

Re: OT - Kodak Created it's own Doomsday Device

2011-12-22 Thread Darren Addy
I like this quote: A market economy is to economics what democracy is to government: a decent, if flawed, choice among many bad alternatives. -- Charles Wheelan, Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science You may also substitute any other form of government for democracy in the quote above

Re: OT - Kodak Created it's own Doomsday Device

2011-12-22 Thread William Robb
On 22/12/2011 1:37 PM, Tom C wrote: The 'we must remain competitive' argument only works if those displaced have suitable and equal alternatives to the lost opportunity. Guess what? That costs money so there's little interest in doing that, as it again affects short term profitability. Those

Re: OT - Kodak Created it's own Doomsday Device

2011-12-22 Thread Paul Stenquist
On Dec 22, 2011, at 2:37 PM, Tom C wrote: From: Paul Stenquist pnstenqu...@comcast.net I've been saying it for a long time (as I'm affected every day by either outsourced or on-shored technical workers). When the majority of the population is working at McDonald's or Walmart, who will be

Re: OT - Kodak Created it's own Doomsday Device

2011-12-22 Thread William Robb
On 22/12/2011 3:42 PM, Paul Stenquist wrote: What will big dog eat when little dogs are gone? Cats. That's as good an argument as I've ever heard for continuation of the present capitalist model. -- William Robb -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net

Re: OT - Kodak Created it's own Doomsday Device

2011-12-22 Thread David Parsons
Chinese made junk is only junky because the companies that outsource to China cheap out and specify to make the products cheaply. The Chinese are plenty capable of making very high quality products if their customers are willing to pay for that quality. Also, not every thing that used to be made

Re: OT - Kodak Created it's own Doomsday Device

2011-12-22 Thread Paul Stenquist
On Dec 22, 2011, at 5:26 PM, David Parsons wrote: Chinese made junk is only junky because the companies that outsource to China cheap out and specify to make the products cheaply. The Chinese are plenty capable of making very high quality products if their customers are willing to pay for

Re: OT - Kodak Created it's own Doomsday Device

2011-12-22 Thread Tom C
From: Paul Stenquist pnstenqu...@comcast.net Capitalism is in the process of cannibalizing itself because it ultimately relies on people, and when it discards people as not needed, it's eating itself away from the inside out. It's dog eat dog. What will big dog eat when little dogs are gone?

Re: OT - Kodak Created it's own Doomsday Device

2011-12-22 Thread John Sessoms
From: Tom C I've been saying it for a long time (as I'm affected every day by either outsourced or on-shored technical workers). When the majority of the population is working at McDonald's or Walmart, who will be making the money to buy the SUV's and flat-screen TV's? I'm not sure it's a

Re: OT - Kodak Created it's own Doomsday Device

2011-12-22 Thread John Sessoms
From: Stan Halpin On Dec 22, 2011, at 12:34 PM, Tom C wrote: Now, they're even trying to outsource writing software. At the moment, the problem is that few of the Asian programmers have the necessary mindset to write code well. Then there is the disconnect from managing projects with teams

Re: OT - Kodak Created it's own Doomsday Device

2011-12-22 Thread Tom C
6. Re: OT - Kodak Created it's own Doomsday Device (John Sessoms) When I worked as a contractor for the IBM PC Company back in the late 90s, 3 out of 4 of the people in my department were there on H1b visas. IBM *STRONGLY* discouraged discussion of compensation, but if you kept your mouth

Re: OT - Kodak Created it's own Doomsday Device

2011-12-22 Thread Collin Brendemuehl
I believe you 100%. It's also why when I hear politicians talk about job creation I know it's just a bunch of hooey since many of them, regardless of party, are board members and/or major stock holders in the corporations that have these practices. It's also why I live where I do now (not that

RE: OT - Kodak Created it's own Doomsday Device

2011-12-22 Thread Bob W
[...] Eventually, China and India will outsource to other, poorer parts of the world as their workforce becomes too expensive, and the process will continue on. I predict that Africa will be the next big outsourcing region. I'm helping a team at work recruit someone to look after an

OT - Kodak Created it's own Doomsday Device

2011-12-21 Thread Tom C
http://www.marketplace.org/topics/business/economy-40/decline-kodak-offers-lessons-us-business A story on Marketplace, transcript and audio. Interesting reader comments also. Tom C. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE

RE: OT - Kodak Created it's own Doomsday Device

2011-12-21 Thread Bob W
http://www.marketplace.org/topics/business/economy-40/decline-kodak- offers-lessons-us-business A story on Marketplace, transcript and audio. Interesting reader comments also. Tom C. they say it offers a lesson for US business, but IBM did the same thing - twice (DOS and Oracle) - and

Re: OT - Kodak Created it's own Doomsday Device

2011-12-21 Thread P. J. Alling
On 12/21/2011 2:14 PM, Bob W wrote: http://www.marketplace.org/topics/business/economy-40/decline-kodak- offers-lessons-us-business A story on Marketplace, transcript and audio. Interesting reader comments also. Tom C. they say it offers a lesson for US business, but IBM did the same thing -

Re: OT - Kodak Created it's own Doomsday Device

2011-12-21 Thread Bruce Walker
On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 2:14 PM, Bob W p...@web-options.com wrote: http://www.marketplace.org/topics/business/economy-40/decline-kodak- offers-lessons-us-business A story on Marketplace, transcript and audio. Interesting reader comments also. Tom C. they say it offers a lesson

Re: OT - Kodak Created it's own Doomsday Device

2011-12-21 Thread John Sessoms
From: Bruce Walker On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 2:14 PM, Bob W p...@web-options.com wrote: http://www.marketplace.org/topics/business/economy-40/decline-kodak- offers-lessons-us-business A story on Marketplace, transcript and audio. Interesting reader comments also. Tom C. they say it offers a

Re: OT - Kodak Created it's own Doomsday Device

2011-12-21 Thread Larry Colen
On Dec 21, 2011, at 2:16 PM, John Sessoms wrote: From: Bruce Walker On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 2:14 PM, Bob W p...@web-options.com wrote: http://www.marketplace.org/topics/business/economy-40/decline-kodak- offers-lessons-us-business A story on Marketplace, transcript and audio.

Re: OT - Kodak Created it's own Doomsday Device

2011-12-21 Thread Paul Stenquist
On Dec 21, 2011, at 5:39 PM, Larry Colen wrote: On Dec 21, 2011, at 2:16 PM, John Sessoms wrote: From: Bruce Walker On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 2:14 PM, Bob W p...@web-options.com wrote: http://www.marketplace.org/topics/business/economy-40/decline-kodak- offers-lessons-us-business A

Re: OT - Kodak Created it's own Doomsday Device

2011-12-21 Thread Igor Roshchin
On Dec 21, 2011, at 2:16 PM, John Sessoms wrote: From: Bruce Walker On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 2:14 PM, Bob W pdml at web-options.com wrote: http://www.marketplace.org/topics/business/economy-40/decline-kodak- offers-lessons-us-business A story on Marketplace, transcript and audio.

Re: OT - Kodak Created it's own Doomsday Device

2011-12-21 Thread Igor Roshchin
Wed Dec 21 20:57:48 EST 2011 Paul Stenquist wrote: On Dec 21, 2011, at 5:39 PM, Larry Colen wrote: It's a tragedy of the commons thing. For each business it makes economic sense to move aspects of production off shore to where labor is cheaper. After a while, nobody is building anything

Re: OT - Kodak Created it's own Doomsday Device

2011-12-21 Thread kwaller
Kenneth Waller http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller - Original Message - From: Igor Roshchin s...@komkon.org Subject: Re: OT - Kodak Created it's own Doomsday Device Wed Dec 21 20:57:48 EST 2011 Paul Stenquist wrote: On Dec 21, 2011, at 5:39 PM, Larry Colen wrote

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