FW: The FP Room: Meeting with Ken and Laura Brody

[Fairlight]

The honourable and venerable John Esak spoke thus:
> There are new wireless headsets from Plantronics... very pricey, but very

Very.  *dry cough*  Their stuff is pretty good quality, the 1/8"->USB
adapter model notwithstanding.

> As for all this, you sort of make the Room sound like something you must do
> ALL day long... noen of us do that... (well some of us _are_ pretty
> addicted...) on the whole, we just tune in when we have a question that

I dunno, is 4-5am signoff a sign of addiction?  :)

> needs answered or when we have some time for some pleasant chat. Jeez, Mike,

Or some of us that can multitask visually but not as much auditorily may
tune in when we hear our name and ask for the question to be repeated if we
missed part of it the first time.  But it's not -that- big a hassle.
Easier than trying to tag us in email or on the phone in some cases.

> audience. What I _specifically_ do NOT want... (and it is not just me, but
> the desire of EVERYBODY who frequents the Room) is for anyone to log in
> talking about other solutions and how they do what filePro can't do... We
> are all quite tired of the people who define filePro by what it _can't_ do
> rather than by what it _can_ do. It is very easy to understand filePro's
> limitations and still depend on it strongly to do all sorts of enterprise
> wide functions. I know you know that, and are shooting toward showing these

I'm past that.  I mean, sure, I have the occasional gripe that it's harder
for -me- to do some things in fP, but I prefer to focus on adding
"bridgeware" that gives fP access to newer technologies, while letting the
developer stay mostly in fP with only some external hooks--most of which
are actually strictly configuration rather than coding.

It's amazing what you can bring to the table if you look towards providing
solutions rather than just making base comparisons.

mark->
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