Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!think!ames!pasteur!helios.ee.lbl.gov!nosc!ucsd!ucsdhub!hp-sdd!hplabs!sdcrdcf!trwrb!aero!foy From: foy@aero.ARPA (Richard Foy) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Me and Peter on the binaries on the net Keywords: The NET Message-ID: <32674@aero.ARPA> Date: 22 Jun 88 18:00:51 GMT References: <4571@gryphon.CTS.COM> Reply-To: foy@aero.UUCP (Richard Foy) Organization: The Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, CA Lines: 31 In article <4571@gryphon.CTS.COM> richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton) writes: >.... > they are legally binding), and secondly, the information > content per byte of picture is about 10X lower than text. > The result of this would be lots and lots and lots of pictures > of big breasted women being posted. Let's not kid ourselves. >... > "Shrimp Ahoy" >richard@gryphon.CTS.COM {backbone}!gryphon!richard I agree with your assessment of the relative merits of pictures vs text. However I wonder why this is true. Techncal briefings come to mind. Sometimes one good chart showing a sketch conveys a lot more more information a lot better than do a lot of text charts or verbal statements. I wonder if we the users of teh Amiga have not yet learned to fully apreciate the power of the machine. So when we find a great graphics capability, we tend to use this for emotionally powerful subjects ie for males the subject is females or action type games. Perhaps we need to think a little more about how the technical community can use the graphics and sound capability to deal with the technical world. Any comments? /|\ | The above opinions are all my own. Richard Foy