Posted by GMAN on 12/07/05 07:04

In article <vib9clx5ju41$.1rrnmeiqcb4bd.dlg@40tude.net>, Anthony Susa <susa.anthony@neosporum.com> wrote:
>On 5 Dec 2005 21:41:51 -0800, nobody special wrote:
>> 3rd-grade kid or corporate client, you have to learn to face the
>> consequences of your mistakes, so as to get your S@#$% 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).
>

Pot Kettle Black


>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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