>>Are these new changes happening out of some desire to resemble the old Windows software as little as possible? Is there some kind of necessity to change the interface? Does it need a complete overhaul?
I would have said no, but I showed the new interface to my wife who is going back to school and is not a computer person. I spent a lot of time trying to get her to use a book to learn Word, knowing that she will have a lot of papers to type. When she saw the new interface she said that will be so much easier to learn.
Those of us who grew up on command lines and drop down menus will have a problem (there is no real drop down menu in the new Office), but if we step back and watch the newbie do things you will see that it really is a lot easier to use.
The Doc
It reminds me of a few years ago, that there was some 'adult' content on a Tiger Woods Golf game for a PlayStation (though it may have been a Nintendo). You could take the CD and put it in the coputer to get to it but not view it on the PS. Now the minute that kids heard about it they put all their games CDs into computers to find content.
the point is, that once kids get the word they will do whatever they can to try to share it with others. The content was there and had to go through steps to get to it. In the process, they share with others. Is it right for it to have been there in the first place? IMHO no, but I do not play games of that nature anyway.
The Doc
Contrary to many of the statements here it comes down to legality. It is next to impossible for a theater the way they are designed now to stop anyone from going into any film once they paid for it. So If a teen pays for Bambi and goes into "I am Curious - Yellow", then the theater gets in trouble for letting the kid see porn. Either change the layout of the theaters (fat chance, they make more money this way) or make sure any kid under 18 is accompanied by an adult to all movies (that is not going to happen either). It comes down to $$$.
The Doc
Yahoo is also an ISP supplied one. If you have SBCGlobal, a special branded, but clearly Yahoo portal page is given to you open starting your browser, unless of course you 1)do not use their modified browser or 2) change it to your liking.
The Doc
>>I do not believe that such matters of faith should be taught in schools.
So take evolution out of the schools as well. It is a matter of faith. None of us have ever seen evolution happen. We have seen the assumed results of it.
It takes more faith to believe in evolution than intelligent design. For example. Take the computer that you are on now and take it apart, down to the individual chips on the board. Throw them in a bag and just shake it up. Do you have a computer come out of the bag. If not how can you believe that things just happend without a mysterious force behind it? In fact that computer had an intellignet designer behind it (unless it runs Windows - joke), and shaking that bag an infinite number of times is not going to make a computer that works.
I say teach them both or teach neither, they are both theories.
The Doc
My first computer experience was in 1957 or there abouts. My mom was a 'keypunch operator' for a bank. I got to sit down and type my name in the machine and see a card with my name on it. Computers and technology facinated me since then. I was a kindergardner at the time.
As for kids being introduced to them, I have just made them available. My kids (ranging from 24 to 6) have never had any real fear of them and in fact my 8 year old daughter does not realize any difference between a local program and one on the internet.
One rule though, all computing is done in open areas where parents can supervise. Though there are no filters on the machines, they have not needed them either.
The Doc
The only ones that had VCR's in those days were either incredibly rich, or televisions stations. The stations used big real to real tape if my memory serves me right. In 1976 I took a class at a college in Producing and Directing in TV studio. The cartridges that had been developed by that time were quite expensive. The college would regularly go through and delete things that instructors had requested to be taped but had not been used in a while so that they could free up more tapes.
The Doc
As opposed to CNN or MSNBC "which are slanted, biased, spinning out of control, disgustingly sensationalist, and generally full of lies."
You get it from the right or the left.
Ran spy bot on neighbors machine when fixing it for them, 148 different spyware programs(including about 5 comets also). Incuding 3 adult dialers, which happened to be down loaded when son had friends over one Saturday night while parents were out. Can you say grounded?
The Doc
What I find funny is that when I clicked on the link to read this page, my Spybot Search and Destroy (Yes I run Windows) poped up and said that the site was trying to download Avenue A to my machine, upon sigining it to comment, I was hit with popup boxes that said that the site was trying to load mediaplex on my machine....
Perhaps the ones that are the worst are the ones from the sites that you do not think that you would get them from...
The Doc.
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>>Are these new changes happening out of some desire to resemble the old Windows software as little as possible? Is there some kind of necessity to change the interface? Does it need a complete overhaul?
I would have said no, but I showed the new interface to my wife who is going back to school and is not a computer person. I spent a lot of time trying to get her to use a book to learn Word, knowing that she will have a lot of papers to type. When she saw the new interface she said that will be so much easier to learn.
Those of us who grew up on command lines and drop down menus will have a problem (there is no real drop down menu in the new Office), but if we step back and watch the newbie do things you will see that it really is a lot easier to use.
The Doc
It reminds me of a few years ago, that there was some 'adult' content on a Tiger Woods Golf game for a PlayStation (though it may have been a Nintendo). You could take the CD and put it in the coputer to get to it but not view it on the PS. Now the minute that kids heard about it they put all their games CDs into computers to find content.
the point is, that once kids get the word they will do whatever they can to try to share it with others. The content was there and had to go through steps to get to it. In the process, they share with others. Is it right for it to have been there in the first place? IMHO no, but I do not play games of that nature anyway.
The Doc
Do not blame the opensource movement for the Internet, it was all Al Gore's fault. Doc
Contrary to many of the statements here it comes down to legality. It is next to impossible for a theater the way they are designed now to stop anyone from going into any film once they paid for it. So If a teen pays for Bambi and goes into "I am Curious - Yellow", then the theater gets in trouble for letting the kid see porn. Either change the layout of the theaters (fat chance, they make more money this way) or make sure any kid under 18 is accompanied by an adult to all movies (that is not going to happen either). It comes down to $$$. The Doc
Yahoo is also an ISP supplied one. If you have SBCGlobal, a special branded, but clearly Yahoo portal page is given to you open starting your browser, unless of course you 1)do not use their modified browser or 2) change it to your liking. The Doc
>>I do not believe that such matters of faith should be taught in schools. So take evolution out of the schools as well. It is a matter of faith. None of us have ever seen evolution happen. We have seen the assumed results of it. It takes more faith to believe in evolution than intelligent design. For example. Take the computer that you are on now and take it apart, down to the individual chips on the board. Throw them in a bag and just shake it up. Do you have a computer come out of the bag. If not how can you believe that things just happend without a mysterious force behind it? In fact that computer had an intellignet designer behind it (unless it runs Windows - joke), and shaking that bag an infinite number of times is not going to make a computer that works. I say teach them both or teach neither, they are both theories. The Doc
My first computer experience was in 1957 or there abouts. My mom was a 'keypunch operator' for a bank. I got to sit down and type my name in the machine and see a card with my name on it. Computers and technology facinated me since then. I was a kindergardner at the time. As for kids being introduced to them, I have just made them available. My kids (ranging from 24 to 6) have never had any real fear of them and in fact my 8 year old daughter does not realize any difference between a local program and one on the internet. One rule though, all computing is done in open areas where parents can supervise. Though there are no filters on the machines, they have not needed them either. The Doc
You mean Speed Racer lived in Arkansa... The Doc
The only ones that had VCR's in those days were either incredibly rich, or televisions stations. The stations used big real to real tape if my memory serves me right. In 1976 I took a class at a college in Producing and Directing in TV studio. The cartridges that had been developed by that time were quite expensive. The college would regularly go through and delete things that instructors had requested to be taped but had not been used in a while so that they could free up more tapes. The Doc
As opposed to CNN or MSNBC "which are slanted, biased, spinning out of control, disgustingly sensationalist, and generally full of lies." You get it from the right or the left.
Ran spy bot on neighbors machine when fixing it for them, 148 different spyware programs(including about 5 comets also). Incuding 3 adult dialers, which happened to be down loaded when son had friends over one Saturday night while parents were out. Can you say grounded? The Doc
What I find funny is that when I clicked on the link to read this page, my Spybot Search and Destroy (Yes I run Windows) poped up and said that the site was trying to download Avenue A to my machine, upon sigining it to comment, I was hit with popup boxes that said that the site was trying to load mediaplex on my machine.... Perhaps the ones that are the worst are the ones from the sites that you do not think that you would get them from... The Doc.