Klarinet Archive - Posting 000227.txt from 2003/04
From: "Wendy Bosma" <bosma@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] .pdf (was The Oklahoma Clarinet Symposium)
Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2003 00:32:44 -0400
My boss bought us all McAfee Online. For a mere $20 per year, you get every
update available ever and blah, blah, blah. I get the feeling that you have
decided that it isn't worth it to you and nothing we say is going to make
much difference here. I guess if you can live with internet sans
downloading fun stuff, more power to you.
When I was a kid I used to write programs that did nothing on my Texas
Instruments 99 old school computer. My favorite was a program that would
play a certain pitch when you moved the joystick in a particular direction.
Man, those were the days.
-----Original Message-----
From: B. Rite [mailto:b1rite@-----.net]
Subject: RE: [kl] .pdf (was The Oklahoma Clarinet Symposium)
<><> Wendy Bosma wrote:
If a .pdf is too large for your computer, you are in serious need of a
new computer. [snip] You are missing out on some important things.
This is absolutely true, Wendy. It's a trade-off.
I don't know about Anne, but I use WebTV --- even though I have a 'real'
computer which I refuse to connect to a telephone line --- because I
refuse to invest the time & effort to battle viruses and other malicious
tricks which indicate the social immaturity of the twits who write them.
I admit that my perspective has changed over the years.
At one time, I was on a 3-person team who wrote an operating system for
the local University. It was designed to make the best use of ArpaNet
(predecessor to the Internet), and it allowed us to talk with Far
Eastern universities before 'email' became a household fixture. In
those days, I thought it was !GREAT FUN! to write programs (in
assembler) that did nothing useful, but their execution produced EMI
('static' or 'interference') which caused a nearby FM radio to 'play' a
melody of some sort. Each of us worked out loops for the notes on a
scale. Sometimes we argued about the precision thereof. One of us
had perfect pitch and could 'write' melodies in any temperament. (yep,
even back then I had a bit of music in my soul, we competed to see who
could 'write' the best melody)
....anyway, WebTV doesn't have a disk drive, and hence I am 'immune' to
most of these nastinesses --- albeit I can't download anything at all
(such as sheet music or MP3's or Adobe's PDF program).
As I say, it's a trade-off, but even programs such as Norton (which I
have on my 'real' computer) can be tricked, and you need constant
updates, and you need to educate yourself how to use them..... and....
and it just isn't worth it to me.
(by the way, as I understand it, it's not the .pdf files that are too
large, it's Adobe Acrobat tat's too large)
Cheers,
Bill
---------------------------------------------------------------------
---------------------------------------------------------------------
