Re: PHYS_L COURTESY

[Rick Tarara <rtarara@SAINTMARYS.EDU>]

Are you still using a Mac Classic and 9600 baud modem?  Sometime (in fact
often) newer IS better.  How many here would really like to take their
family for a cross the country drive in a '55 Chevy?   I for one use the
newer features of Office 2000.   We COULD include equations in our listserve
messages and small line drawings.  We don't for a variety of reasons, but it
shouldn't be because 'the old way was good enough for grandpa so it's good
enough for me'.

Now having full color, animated signatures IS clearly an abuse of bandwidth
in any setting....... ;-)  <---just for Leigh!

Rick

----- Original Message -----
From: "Leigh Palmer" <palmer@SFU.CA>
> Anyone who thinks newer to be synonymous with better has the Gates
> disease. Anybody else here still using Word 5.1 for the Mac instead
> of later versions (e.g. Word 98)? Many Macpersons have an older
> form of the disease, compulsive updating syndrome. There are even
> Mac applications that have no other purpose than to go out to the
> internet to find out if a later version of every application on
> the machine exists! Does that happen to the Windows crowd as well?
> It is pretty silly, in my opinion, to upgrade for no good reason.
>
> I have managed to get along without emoticons. I believe their use
> is waning (for which I am grateful). html email may also pass from
> use. I know that straight ASCII is a limited medium of expression.
> I particularly miss the ability to write mathematical expressions
> in this group, but when they are mecessary .pdf seems to suffice.
> In any event, I find html and its later versions to be ugly. I'll
> wait for something better before I "upgrade".
>
> Leigh