Re: is a CF card necessary for a Canon Digital Rebel?

In article <5NydncvqhYvsPpDbnZ2dnUVZ_syunZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, Frank ess
<frank@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Ken Lucke wrote:

<snip>

<rant mode on>
What *I* don't understand about this type of post, when geniune, is
why people buy as complicated a piece of equipment as a DSLR and
then
refuse to thoroughly read and understand the manual, expecting
others
to come to their rescue with information that they already have on
hand????

We see it here (and everywhere else, for that matter) on a
semi-weekly
basis [at least] - people coming in and asking hand-holding
questions
(for all sorts of equipment) that their manuals clearly cover, or at
most a simple googling would turn up tons of info on.

Don't get me wrong - I don't have the slightest issue with questions
that are not covered in the manual, or go beyond (or beneath) the
manual's information, because we all had to learn the very basics at
some time. Sharing the non-basic information is a pleasure -
requoting (or watching others requote) the manual continually is
irritating.

Ignorance [i.e., a simple lack of knowledge] of the basics is not
bad,
nor stupid*, but the very basics ARE covered in the manuals that
come
with the equipment - ignorance of those contents is NOT excusable.
It's the refusal to read (and sometimes even to accept) the manual's
information that gets my goat. ::mb-a-a-a-a-ahhhh::

Which is why, sometimes, some of us reply snorkily to some of these
posts - because we're tired of week after week somebody coming in
and
asking the same questions that their manuals aready cover, or
wanting
to argue with the manual ("It says you can" No, it doesn't. Read
it
again. "It should let you..." Well, it doesn't. Deal).
</rant>


*(one of my favorite sayings: "Ignorance can be fixed, but stupidity
is forever")

What side of the "but" do pompous, pretentious, and arrogant fall on?

Should I take it that you are implying that it's pompous, pretentious
and arrogant to expect people to actually read the manuals [::Gasp!::
::Shudder!:: Horor of Horrors!] that come with their equipment instead
of lazily relying on others to do so for them?

--
You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a
reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating
the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for
independence.
-- Charles A. Beard
.

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