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* * * - TO THE GROUP - * * * Okay my reply is a bit long winded but please read it - Frecce Tricolori.jpg (0/1) - "Frecce Tricolori.jpg" (0/1) 258.1 kBytes yEnc
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* * * - TO THE GROUP - * * * Okay my reply is a bit long winded but please read it - Frecce Tricolori.jpg (0/1) - "Frecce Tricolori.jpg" (0/1) 258.1 kBytes yEnc
On Thu, 02 Aug 2007 20:02:06 GMT, "J.F."
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On Thu, 02 Aug 2007 07:50:14 -0500, Just Plane Noise
wrote: Dave, you know I agree with you, but I have to quibble about props. My wife calls any propeller-driven plane a "Buddy Holly plane", and since we usually travel out of Appleton, we've been on a few. I have to patiently explain to her that some of the prop-driven craft are considerably newer and more technologically sophisticated than some of the hand-me-down jets we've been on. But that leads to a story: We were scheduled to fly out of Oshkosh on Northwest's feeder, when (as often happened) Northwest simply cancelled the flight and trucked us up to Appleton. Our connection to the Pacific Northwest also changed. Upon boarding the plane, I asked the young, very blond flight attendant about flight times since we would now be going through DTW instead of MSP. She found a flight schedule, and I quickly realized she did not grasp the concept of time zones at all. Then she pulled back the cockpit curtain (this was obviously pre-9/11) to talk to the pilot. What do you know? It looked like Buffy's 18-year-old boyfriend Biff would be flying our plane today! I pointed to them, pointed to the propeller, and said to my wife "we're gonna die!" Too funny. I've flown on many prop aircraft and lots of jets too, having spent 20 years in the Navy. However, I have never crashed in a jet; I've crashed *twice* in prop aircraft - a C47 at Wright Patterson, and a C121 in Japan. My worse flight, however, was from Anchorage, AK to Petropovlosk, Kamchatka, Russia in a TU-214. The runway at Anchorage is smooth, until you fly in a TU-214 and you find out it feels like a dirt road full of pot holes. Funny but the Delta 757 I flew in on wasn't bumpy. Dave |
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* * * - TO THE GROUP - * * * Okay my reply is a bit long winded but please read it - Frecce Tricolori.jpg (0/1) - "Frecce Tricolori.jpg" (0/1) 258.1 kBytes yEnc
Excellent shot!!! Good contrast with the red against the cool tones in the
background... When and where was this taken? I need to talk the police into letting me fly some air to airs with civilian aircraft... Andrew "J.F." wrote in message . net... |
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On Wed, 1 Aug 2007 13:58:18 -0400, "Andrew-S"
I-Still-Hate-Spammers@Sorry-I had-to-leave-for-bit.com wrote: [sneep] In my opinion given how angry people get about yEnc, it should for moment be considered a taboo subject for a few weeks in the NG. As in no discussion of why it is good or bad. No remarks about the whining (and please don't try to argue that the pro yEnc crowd doesn't whine). If we all agreed about everything, there would be no need for democracy. Attempting to impose your will on others is a form of dictatorship. The Net is the greatest form/forum of democracy that we have on this planet. You are perfectly free to disagree with what I wrote above... it is your right to do so. [sneep] Elmo von Thud |
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My second post on this subject.....
Flame suit on :-) WHAT is so flippen difficult in reading/opening yenc files? Yes, I don't particularly like them, but it is SO easy to download and save them in OE, and then decoding with 3rd party software. And this from about six years back already, when I started net surfing. Heck, anything that saves bandwidth in this retard country of mine, is a bonus. Maybe, just maybe, slow down on the ranting and raving, and discreetly ask for help, draws less attention to one's shortcomings, I learnt that the embarrassing way :-) Buffy |
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"G.Kuhn" wrote in message ... My second post on this subject..... Flame suit on :-) WHAT is so flippen difficult in reading/opening yenc files? Yes, I don't particularly like them, but it is SO easy to download and save them in OE, and then decoding with 3rd party software. And this from about six years back already, when I started net surfing. Heck, anything that saves bandwidth in this retard country of mine, is a bonus. Maybe, just maybe, slow down on the ranting and raving, and discreetly ask for help, draws less attention to one's shortcomings, I learnt that the embarrassing way :-) Buffy Hi, Buffy ! Perhaps I can explain the problem to you since you don't seem to be of the same brash ilk as the bombastic group of kids who charged into this group and exiled our most prolific and congenial long-term posters. There is nothing wrong with yEnc. Mr. Noise explained it very well - if a person is a user of many newsgroups and downloads media files, e-books and other large files then something like yEnc is nearly mandatory. On the other hand, this is a still picture group where the file sizes rarely exceed 300KB. A file that size will download with yEnc in about 10 seconds on a DSL connection, around 12 seconds without yEnc. Two seconds may be an eternity for an impetuous youngster but it is totally insignificant in this newsgroup. Step up to cable service and differences in D/L time become almost immeasurable. With that said, the real reason(s) for the regular members here wanting to ban yEnc is that some are TOO OLD to understand how to install ANY kind of software on their computers. Some are (or were, before they bailed) barely able to use email and read this newsgroup. So, should we just tell them to fuddle off or upgrade? I doubt if the invaders would tell their own grandparents to F-off but for some reason they don't hesitate to tell those here to do the same. This is a global group of people who share the same love for aviation photos. The older members have provided a wealth of historical information regarding vintage aircraft, their experiences in various wars, and have been most generous by providing priceless information of a historical nature. Some of these same people are embarrassed to reveal a lack of skill using a computer and will simply leave to avoid the insolence of some snot-nosed kid who tells them to get out of the dark ages and upgrade to *their* standards. This is why a large amount of time was invested here to hammer out a usage guideline that would be agreeable to all regardless of their computer skills. Is this too difficult to understand? gdp |
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Don...as a geezer fully capable in yEnc and a dozen other equally
unpronounceable software applications, I think this message of yours is an absolute masterpiece of compassion, consideration and common sense. Nicely done!! |
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On Tue, 7 Aug 2007 19:18:33 -0400, "Boomerang"
wrote: Don...as a geezer fully capable in yEnc and a dozen other equally unpronounceable software applications, I think this message of yours is an absolute masterpiece of compassion, consideration and common sense. Nicely done!! Mmmm. Well, I am a 70 yo geezer who subscribes to a very good news reader and I can't tell the difference between yenc and jpeg. I don't even look at the format. My only complaint is the incessant whining about yenc. No one is making anyone switch to yenc. If you can not open it, so be it. Continue to open those pics you can see. As far as wasted bandwidth, well, threads like this and all the previous ****ing contests don't really help, do they? Dave |
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