Personally, I think that the term "Personal Computer" is outdated. These days, all major operating systems are multi-user and most (home) computers are used by more than one person, hence the damned thing isn't "personal" anymore. All machines, Wintel, Mactel, Lintel, should simply be named "computer" and that's it.
So, if we really want to stick with the term, then all computers used by one person (or a family) should be called "Personal Computer" and that includes Macs.
But then, who am I to even have an opinion about these things....
Well, perhaps it isn't that mode. I remember a keycombo that put the screen in a black/white mode (with shades of gray). I know it exists, but I have no idea what the keycombo is and I don't have a Mac anymore.
In that case, I'd even recommend a Mac. There is a key-stroke you can do to set it in "high-contrast" mode. Very nice... It's Control+Option+Command+8, according to some google searches I just did.
technically you can download iTunes for free, download a free song once a week from the store
I'm not that familiar with the iTunes store. I have bought a few albums, but not big investment. However, I wouldn't piss on a free song every week. That's 52 songs a year... Or 51,48€ per year. I suspect it's a selected song, but I haven't seen the offer anywhere. Pray tell me how to get there...
They do? I must admit I never tried. I've used it as a microwave and as an oven. It never came in my mind to actually try both, I assumed it would be an "illegal operation";-) Should have read the manual, I guess.
I'll look into it next time that I'm there. You're right of course: there is no technical reason not to allow both, provided you don't put metal into it.
Why? It saves space. I know my parents have one. Never had a problem: there are two separate dials for the separate functions and you cannot turn on both at the same time.
You don't even need to that to have some nasties to zap. Just take the sponge next to the sink, it'll have all the nasties you need to zap: it's a bacterial breeder paradise. The researchers were going for overkill, which is very evident.
Yeah, the article is absolutely non-clear. I quote (from the original article): " Writing in the Journal of Environmental Health, Bitton and colleagues said they soaked sponges and scrubbing pads in raw wastewater containing fecal bacteria such as E. coli, viruses, protozoan parasites and bacterial spores. ".
Emphasis mine.... Draw your own conclusions, but I say it was pretty damn clear that the sponges should be wet. Apart from that, for the last 20 years, microwaves have been explained in basic high school physics class. Anyone under 30 should know how they work.
What a friend once positted me as the "Hills of beauty" correlation. The women in cities which are built on hills tend to be more svelt and.. just generally.. better looking
It's very strange, but I have the opposite impression. I live in a hilly country and I have the impression that many women are, let's say a bit overweight. I studied somewhere where the land is very flat and many women are very pretty. The difference?
Bikes! In this hilly country, a bike is seen as sports equipment, to be used in free time. In the flat country, bikes are seen as a transportation device. The kids there go to school with their bikes as from a very early age. In the hilly country, they take the bus. For the same distances! (I'm thinking 10-15km).... Guess who rides the bike more? It's not those in the hilly country.
I work exactly 10km from my home. I go there by car, because that takes about 15 minutes. Public transport would take over 40 minutes (including waking to the train station, waiting for the train, taking the train, waiting for the next bus, and finally arriving) I guess, I could bike to work. I don't think it's going to take much more than 45 minutes. However, if I'd do this, I'd arrive at work all sweaty because I have at least two very steeps hills to master (yeah, biking home is much more fun). My coworkers aren't going to appreciate it when I arrive sweaty at work. No, we don't have showers at work. Obviously.
I'd like to add another thing when using public transportation. Say, you go to the city to shop with public transportation, you will walk to the next shop. Even if it's a 10 minute walk. Why? Simple: you could (perhaps) take the bus, but that would mean wait 2 minutes and then drive 2 minutes. People don't like waiting. I really do prefer to walk 10 minutes, if I know I can spare me of 2 minutes of waiting. Net, I lose time, but at least I didn't wait. Perhaps I'm the only one that thinks this, but it does add to your total walking
You do realize that many kids love those helpers. I've even met adults that like Clippy, but only on first contact. Once you actually need to use it, the opinion quickly changes.
Years ago, I spent a lot of time trying to get to see all animations Clippy could do (and also the other "agents") Great timewaster when bored at the office with no internet connection;-)
Sure, you'll be fine with OpenOffice... BUT, once some dorks update to 2007, you will be "old", "incompatible" and "cheapskate". Just as strongholders of Office 97 were.
You have no choice dude.... And I say this as a longtime user of OpenOffice... One of the guys that uses it every day and likes it.... But at office they use MS, so what do I have to say in the end for "real work"? (=not my personal budget or my wedding invitations...which I all did/do in OpenOffice)
Seriously... A lottery that sends you an email out of the blue from a lottery that you did not participate in. A lottery should not set emails, Swedish, Finnish or Dutch (as in my journal). They should join people by phone or by mail....
Frankly this was just a way to point out how people forget their common sense when computers are involved. That's all....
Oh, come on.... Critical thinking would have helped just a bit. A lottery implies that you played with them. She clearly did not.... So how could she have won. Even ignore all other facts, that one is enough to tell you it's a scam!
Critical thinking is part of *any* PhD course... Fuck, it's part of any college course and should be part of any high school course (but I won't claim it actually is for that last one...)
It's not called "mounting", you silly. It's the equivalent. You set a directory where a drive has to be acessed. I used the Unix term for it. I'm sorry, I do not know the Windows term.
I want to mount my secondary partition so that no application thinks I'm on D:, so that noone can say that I have a "nonstandard" installation when I put something on D:. You never worked in a Corporate Environment, do you?
It works all fine, just, well deleting fucks up....
Those who are not into technology have no idea.... Look at my latest journal . You can have a PhD and fall for the simplest scam there is. Computers do seem to have this effect on people: their common sense fails because computers are somehow "Magic".
fully fixed the logical drives mess back with Windows 2000.
Yes, they did... but no, the did not. I run Windows XP at work and got a (Core 2 Duo) laptop which came with a whopping 8Gig hard disk. Yeah, I was surprised too, so I fired up "Computer Management" to find out that a good 100++Gig were not partitioned. (I have admin access, I must admit) I thought: Okay, let's use this "mounting" thingy I am used from at home. So, I mounted "C:\Documents And Settings\%USERNAMEATWORK%\My Documents" on the partition I just created. That worked (with some pain, but okay...)....
I have this thing in everyday usage now.... However, if I want to delete a file, it doesn't want to! It says the file is in use, but I know for sure it isn't. Proof? I mount the same volume as Z:, and then I navigate to Z:\ and delete it there it works!
So, yes, you can mount stuff in directories... but it's fucking buggy like hell.
I wasn't the fat kid, but the dorky guy that got the ball in his face every time. (I still hate ball games to this day) That was just normal, nothing to sue about... *sigh*
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I was just kidding...
Personally, I think that the term "Personal Computer" is outdated. These days, all major operating systems are multi-user and most (home) computers are used by more than one person, hence the damned thing isn't "personal" anymore. All machines, Wintel, Mactel, Lintel, should simply be named "computer" and that's it.
So, if we really want to stick with the term, then all computers used by one person (or a family) should be called "Personal Computer" and that includes Macs.
But then, who am I to even have an opinion about these things....
That's nothing... Try using it when the signal strength is low and the NIC is renegotiating speeds quite frequently. *sigh*
No, but it starts being "a computer" ;-)
Well, perhaps it isn't that mode. I remember a keycombo that put the screen in a black/white mode (with shades of gray). I know it exists, but I have no idea what the keycombo is and I don't have a Mac anymore.
She's older and her eyesight is going.
In that case, I'd even recommend a Mac. There is a key-stroke you can do to set it in "high-contrast" mode. Very nice... It's Control+Option+Command+8, according to some google searches I just did.
Some Marketing Talk about the accessibility features of Mac OS X.
"Member of the store?". I have an iTunes account, is that the same?
technically you can download iTunes for free, download a free song once a week from the store
I'm not that familiar with the iTunes store. I have bought a few albums, but not big investment. However, I wouldn't piss on a free song every week. That's 52 songs a year... Or 51,48€ per year. I suspect it's a selected song, but I haven't seen the offer anywhere. Pray tell me how to get there...
That's the one my dad has: he swears by it. I'm pretty sure that some day I'll inherit it. :-D
They do? I must admit I never tried. I've used it as a microwave and as an oven. It never came in my mind to actually try both, I assumed it would be an "illegal operation" ;-) Should have read the manual, I guess.
I'll look into it next time that I'm there. You're right of course: there is no technical reason not to allow both, provided you don't put metal into it.
Why? It saves space. I know my parents have one. Never had a problem: there are two separate dials for the separate functions and you cannot turn on both at the same time.
You don't even need to that to have some nasties to zap. Just take the sponge next to the sink, it'll have all the nasties you need to zap: it's a bacterial breeder paradise. The researchers were going for overkill, which is very evident.
Yeah, the article is absolutely non-clear. I quote (from the original article): " Writing in the Journal of Environmental Health, Bitton and colleagues said they soaked sponges and scrubbing pads in raw wastewater containing fecal bacteria such as E. coli, viruses, protozoan parasites and bacterial spores. ".
Emphasis mine.... Draw your own conclusions, but I say it was pretty damn clear that the sponges should be wet. Apart from that, for the last 20 years, microwaves have been explained in basic high school physics class. Anyone under 30 should know how they work.
What a friend once positted me as the "Hills of beauty" correlation. The women in cities which are built on hills tend to be more svelt and.. just generally.. better looking
It's very strange, but I have the opposite impression. I live in a hilly country and I have the impression that many women are, let's say a bit overweight. I studied somewhere where the land is very flat and many women are very pretty. The difference?
Bikes! In this hilly country, a bike is seen as sports equipment, to be used in free time. In the flat country, bikes are seen as a transportation device. The kids there go to school with their bikes as from a very early age. In the hilly country, they take the bus. For the same distances! (I'm thinking 10-15km).... Guess who rides the bike more? It's not those in the hilly country.
I work exactly 10km from my home. I go there by car, because that takes about 15 minutes. Public transport would take over 40 minutes (including waking to the train station, waiting for the train, taking the train, waiting for the next bus, and finally arriving) I guess, I could bike to work. I don't think it's going to take much more than 45 minutes. However, if I'd do this, I'd arrive at work all sweaty because I have at least two very steeps hills to master (yeah, biking home is much more fun). My coworkers aren't going to appreciate it when I arrive sweaty at work. No, we don't have showers at work. Obviously.
I'd like to add another thing when using public transportation. Say, you go to the city to shop with public transportation, you will walk to the next shop. Even if it's a 10 minute walk. Why? Simple: you could (perhaps) take the bus, but that would mean wait 2 minutes and then drive 2 minutes. People don't like waiting. I really do prefer to walk 10 minutes, if I know I can spare me of 2 minutes of waiting. Net, I lose time, but at least I didn't wait. Perhaps I'm the only one that thinks this, but it does add to your total walking
Still doesn't fix the deleting-bug, does it?
I might also want to point out that not everyone is a native-english speaker.
You do realize that many kids love those helpers. I've even met adults that like Clippy, but only on first contact. Once you actually need to use it, the opinion quickly changes.
Years ago, I spent a lot of time trying to get to see all animations Clippy could do (and also the other "agents") Great timewaster when bored at the office with no internet connection ;-)
Excel functions that are designed for the european market
Care to explain? I've been using Calc for ages in Europe...
Sure, you'll be fine with OpenOffice... BUT, once some dorks update to 2007, you will be "old", "incompatible" and "cheapskate". Just as strongholders of Office 97 were.
You have no choice dude.... And I say this as a longtime user of OpenOffice... One of the guys that uses it every day and likes it.... But at office they use MS, so what do I have to say in the end for "real work"? (=not my personal budget or my wedding invitations...which I all did/do in OpenOffice)
Seriously... A lottery that sends you an email out of the blue from a lottery that you did not participate in. A lottery should not set emails, Swedish, Finnish or Dutch (as in my journal). They should join people by phone or by mail....
Frankly this was just a way to point out how people forget their common sense when computers are involved. That's all....
Oh, come on.... Critical thinking would have helped just a bit. A lottery implies that you played with them. She clearly did not.... So how could she have won. Even ignore all other facts, that one is enough to tell you it's a scam!
Critical thinking is part of *any* PhD course... Fuck, it's part of any college course and should be part of any high school course (but I won't claim it actually is for that last one...)
It's not called "mounting", you silly. It's the equivalent. You set a directory where a drive has to be acessed. I used the Unix term for it. I'm sorry, I do not know the Windows term.
I want to mount my secondary partition so that no application thinks I'm on D:, so that noone can say that I have a "nonstandard" installation when I put something on D:. You never worked in a Corporate Environment, do you?
It works all fine, just, well deleting fucks up....
Those who are not into technology have no idea.... Look at my latest journal . You can have a PhD and fall for the simplest scam there is. Computers do seem to have this effect on people: their common sense fails because computers are somehow "Magic".
It's tragic if you ask me.
fully fixed the logical drives mess back with Windows 2000.
Yes, they did... but no, the did not. I run Windows XP at work and got a (Core 2 Duo) laptop which came with a whopping 8Gig hard disk. Yeah, I was surprised too, so I fired up "Computer Management" to find out that a good 100++Gig were not partitioned. (I have admin access, I must admit) I thought: Okay, let's use this "mounting" thingy I am used from at home. So, I mounted "C:\Documents And Settings\%USERNAMEATWORK%\My Documents" on the partition I just created. That worked (with some pain, but okay...)....
I have this thing in everyday usage now.... However, if I want to delete a file, it doesn't want to! It says the file is in use, but I know for sure it isn't. Proof? I mount the same volume as Z:, and then I navigate to Z:\ and delete it there it works!
So, yes, you can mount stuff in directories... but it's fucking buggy like hell.
Read the article perhaps? Because he stores H2 already when the system produces more energy that required. So, if he has it, why bother?
Wow.... Talk about being overprotective.
I wasn't the fat kid, but the dorky guy that got the ball in his face every time. (I still hate ball games to this day) That was just normal, nothing to sue about... *sigh*