Posted by Anthony Susa on 12/06/05 07:56

On 5 Dec 2005 21:41:51 -0800, nobody special wrote:
> 3rd-grade kid or corporate client, you have to learn to face the
> consequences of your mistakes, so as to get your S@#$% together for
> life.
> Each of those still cams tends to only recognize it's own naming conventions
> for files, so if you want to transfer something, save it with the same name
> as an existing file in the target machine. That has worked for me.

On the AVI transfer from camera 1 to laptop to camera 2, this advice
worked. I don't know if it was the naming conventions or the fact I
converted the AVI to multiple formats and then back to AVI ... but the end
result was that, with perseverence, the Canon PowerShot finally recognized
the AVI in time and the technical problem was resolved.

One thing we must teach our children is to persevere and to ask questions
and to return results courteously back to the respondents (and to ignore
the blathering idiots who have nothing to contribute but who still feel the
urgency to advertise their presence).

Another thing, I've learned from experience, is that distributing parenting
is a lot like distibuting toothpaste. Those who press too hard on their
subjects eventually lose them and it is very difficult to get that
toothpaste back into the tube once you lose the kid. Therefore, you can't
press too hard - yet - you can't press too lightly either. If you leave it
alone, all to its own devices, nothing comes out the tube. It takes a bit
of feedback to know what amount to press - and - as any parent knows -
every child is baked differently - so the only one who knows exactly how
hard to press that delicate tube of toothpaste is the parent or someone
very close to the child. Anyone else may certainly offer advice but they
must realize their tube of toothpaste has almost nothing in common with
your tube of toothpaste in so much as personalities & temperaments are
wholly different from child to child and from parent to parent.

Thank you for the advice - and - good luck in both your parenting and
technology skills!

Tony Susa

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