PanoTools NG:
Re: Re: I just don't get Facebook...
Trausti Hraunfjord 2012-Feb-18 00:17:07
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 6:07 PM, Pat Swovelin <#removed#>wrote:
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> ** On 2/17/2012 2:54 PM, Trausti Hraunfjord wrote:
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> One could datamine FB with a program such as "Teleport" ... saving
> everything to one's HDD... but considering all the cat-stories, weather
> reports from granny's kitchen window etc, there would be little sense in
> doing so. On the other hand, today's society for "most", doesn't include
> "no internet access". We are connected 98% of the time, and I doubt that
> any information is so essential that it could not wait for a connection to
> be retrieved.
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> Imagine you're in a remote shooting location and need access to that
> data. Imagine you're in an airplane and need access to that data. Imagine
> your Net connection goes down (the horror!) and you need access to that
> date. Imagine ... well you get the idea. If it's local you always have
> access to it.
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> Electricity could cut out (lightning strike, unpaid bills, car hits the
transformerbox...) ... best option is to absorb the information and
remember it (say I... with a memory loss big as the ozon holes). In a few
years we will have access to the internet everywhere, planes, boats,
mountain tops... everywhere. We can still find places and situations where
we don't have access, but it is more like a transition period now.
I prefer to keep everything archived for later use... and for that, local
storage is best.
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> That being said, I see this group as the perfect setup, and would not like
> it to change over to anything remotely resembling FB.
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> Hear hear!
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> Don't fix it if it ain't broken.
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> Exactly.
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> Trausti
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> On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 5:40 PM, Pat Swovelin <#removed#>wrote:
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>> On 2/15/2012 12:21 PM, Hans wrote:
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>> --- In #removed#, Roger Howard <rogerhoward@...><rogerhoward@...>wrote:
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>> On Feb 15, 2012, at 10:05 AM, Ken Warner wrote:
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>> We all use this forum to announce or denigrate other types of forums.
>> What does that tell you?
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>> You might. The vast, vast majority of people I know, work with, and
>> socialize with, don't subscribe to any mailing lists - in fact a
>> significantly large number of people I associate with barely use email at
>> all, as it's viewed (rightly, in my judgement) a terribly limited,
>> >awkward, and inflexible medium.
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>> I have never used Panotools as a mailing list.
>> Why would you spam, you mail with it when you can visit it online and
>> post online.
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>> I do not understand why people choose to receive mails from it.
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>> Because you have *local control* of everything which gives you access
>> to that knowledge anytime and anywhere without a Net connection. Nothing
>> else allows you that capability. And if you need to you can always access
>> it with a web-based UI.
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>> Hans
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>> Anyway, this *mailing list* has a lot of noise on it these days,
>> including discussions of the opinions of the relative value of other
>> communications mediums, frequent debates about platforms, and other
>> discussions with only the most tenuous connection to the stated purpose of
>> the forum. I would agree, not every medium is right for everyone - it's
>> often generational and cultural - but to suggest that those mediums are not
>> valuable is entirely self-centered. But mailing lists are hardly the
>> end-all-be-all of social communications mediums.
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>> If you think Twitter is just for following Bieber, and Facebook is all
>> about fending off requests from people you left behind when you graduated
>> high school, you use them differently than I do.
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> Pat Swovelin
> Cool Guy @ Large
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