Your post doesn't stand on its merits. By the sound of your arrogance, and the way it was modded up, your one skill in life is brown nosing. Be proud, your skill will help to change the world for the better.
I'm guessing more people would be using this drug than anything else the FDA has had to review and approve in quite a long time, if not ever, and I'm sure no one here wants millions of people across the world to suddely drop dead due to unforeseen effects down the road.
You obviously don't understand how the world works. Not in the slightest. The FDA does not make any decisions at all for the world governments on safety of drugs. Some governments use an FDA decision as a guide, but often decide to use a drug or not before the American FDA makes any decision. So until you get some experience under your belt use this "oldie but goodie"... People who live in glass houses should not throw stones.
I'm a mac user... On a powerbook right now. I value stability. I do not need stupid speeds, I do not need something to show off to my colleagues with. I need a stable system. OSX on the G processors had finally proven to be stable in that there were no more predicted system lurches that Steve (fucking) Jobs is famous for in the works. Well Linux has a pretty stable history now, and it has a clear enough roadmap into the future. Good luck cooking your goolies with the new "Core Duo" that WAS sopposed to be cooler and energy efficient than the current G4s, but is'nt.
I know of at least one other Apple user who did not want more speed at the cost of a stable IBM platform. We are making plans. Our new Macs will be x86 based Linux Machines. Oh, thats right, they AREN'T Macs! Steve Jobs can go blow himself... he is the only one who truely loves himself.
Again, spinning around and around. He said he wants to sell a product, and hire developers to make his product much better. However, his plan is somewhat hindered by the fact that most people are stealing, rather than purchasing, his software.
You know, I don't think Bill Gates is some great guy or anything, in fact, I do consider he's more about making the sale than providing a quality product; but at the same time I don't like to see people putting words in someone's mouth, which you most certainly are doing. Criticize him for what he actually did, or actually said, but not for what you think he meant to say.
I havent read through the whole document, but in this case I don't need to. You are accusing some person of "Spinning around and around". You then claim that most people steal their M$ products! Either you are quoting a lie from Billy G or you yourself are lying. If it is the second option, you yourself are spinning harder than the first person. Country by country piracy accross ALL software is normally between 10% and 30%, with a FEW exceptions, and thjose exceptions have a reason I will explain later. If fewer than one third of all software titles that people have installed how can you claim that "most people are stealing, rather than purchasing, his software"?!
spin spin spin spin, spin spin spin spin...
In countries other than USA softwre is actually more expencive most of the time. More expencive in US$. This is in countries where the average wage is lower to massivly lower than the average wage in USA. And then you have no competitions, giveaways, or mail in rebates AT ALL outside USA for these products. In fact if you look at the higher prices and the fact we get no benefits AT ALL (in many cases not even the phone support USA customers get) the poorest people in the world are subsidising your giveaways and mail in rebates... which is ironic because USA resedents are the most able to afford full price. If YOU had to put aside two months of your FULL WAGE for a copy of "M$ Office" you too would get pissy and would probably consider piracy as an option. M$ and many other American companies (software AND hardware) conviniently forget to tell US resedents these simple facts when they accuse citizens of China and Brazil of ruining their profits.
First of all... what "product of the US educational system" keeps modding you up?
Next you like to skew history a LOT for your own arguments. The LAST Caliphate ended approx 300 years BEFORE my 500 year slice of history. The Ottomans who replaced the Caliphate "SOMETIMES" called themselves Caliphates. The Ottomans expanded their empire to SOME of the areas you mentioned 100 years BEFORE the 500 year slice of history I referred to. Much of the territory they took was not part of the countries you listed. The parts of the countries you list that were occupied are only NOW parts of the countries mentioned on CURRENT maps.
I wont even go into the details of how the Turkish empire used Christian conscripts and volunteers in the campaigns of the Ottomans.
Don't bore me further. You have proved to everyone who has stuck this discussion out that there will never be true agreement of much of the history of the area, especially as the areas conflict go into pre history.
Well if you had READ my post and had a working short term memory you would have read that I had mentioned the invasions by Turkey into Greece. I missed the Invasions into central Europe, but that conflict has a history that has been disputed for hundreds of years. The conflict goes back to well before Christianity and Islam. It may settle for a generation or two, but it seems to start up on a regular basis. I don't claim to be an expert on the history and politics of the area, but few do, and all "experts" seem to disagree with each other on early facts depending on which country they come from.
I ask you. When has any Islamic country invaded a Christian country over the past 500 years? The answer is SELDOM. The only time that jumps to mind is when Turkey invaded Greece. How many times have Christian countries invaded Islamic countries over the same period? Well the list would take hours to type up.
USA has taken to invading, propping up corrupt leaders (including brutal dictators), funding revolt and war in the Middle East over the past century to get influence and cheap oil. USA continues to gift Billions in weapons to Israel which was set up by USA and other countries who wanted a quick easy way to placate the Jews. It didn't matter if the land belonged to another country, AND the houses belonged legally to Muslim families.
Osama Bin Laden did not even attack USA (I am a sceptic on this "FACT") until AFTER Clinton tried to have him assassinated AND sent cruise missiles into many civilian factories "just in case" Bin Laden had some sort of chemical factory. Your 9/11 if you are lucky (you would not be lucky if your own government orchestrated the act itself) was nothing more than a retaliation. USA itself claims the right to retaliate to ANY attack. WHy don't you accept that other people have this same basic right?
You may not be aware that around the world and outside of "diplomatic circles" the average person is referring to USA as Nazi America. This is important as you have used the same arguments for invasion as this little man. You may have heard of him in history class. A man called Adolph.
No mention of M$ deliberatly restricting levels to get the desirable "Console sold out on launch" headlines in the press. No mention of the consoles not working on masse. No mention of one of the big release games crashing on the 360. No prediction of the other BS statements maade by M$ for the future of the 360.
He actually talkes up the LIVE service... I wonder how much you get in kickback for a story like this?
First I need to note that I have already posted on the BBC forum a couple of years ago that they are biased in favour of Windows and neglect Linux and OSX.
The obscurity argument I get so damn mad at. I will go into some history here. On the Amiga, back when there were only 3 million Amigas worldwide, there were hundreds of Viri. Later when there were 6 million Amigas, we may have gotten to 1000 Viri including the slight variences. It was known as the most virus plagued machine of it's day. Dos and Windows machines had not many more machines in numbers during that time and they also had enough viri to make life difficult.
Linux has until very recently been obscure when compared to OSX. Yet there have been a few viri released during it's time of "obscurity".
If systems that have far fewer machines than OSX can have slight, moderate or severe problems with viri, then one must conclude that OSX has to be credited with far stronger security than just "obscurity". My conclusion is that obscurity is little to no protection from viri.
At the very least nearly every country, their leaders liberal or conservative, believed Saddam had nukes. There is no evidence for instance, that the weapons were destroyed years ago (it is a very strict requirement that photos of the destruction etc. are supplied to the UN, for obvious reasons). But I agree it was no reason to invade (I never saw anything that proved he still had them).
So your only news source is Fox? Here is the simple facts. Very FEW governments around the world believed Sadam had nukes. Those governments gullable enough to fall for this line were only going on information supplied by the US Government.
Please don't breed you will pass on your "stupid" and "gullable" genes to yet another generation.
The thing that I have found is that when teaching beginners is to explain early the gravity of playing with certain things.
They say that Beginners can do stupid things, and that with a small amount of information beginners can do a lot of damage. This is true.
So you will need to explain that there are places in all OS's that you should never poke in and/or delete from. You will need to explain things like the guts of the machine are not scary, but getting your fingers even close to the BIOS can cause a static charge to ark to it.
Oh, and a buyers guide. All new computer purchasers should find the software they want to run, then find out what OS or OS's it runs on. They then should have an idea of what they intend on doing with it. Simple home/small business use and Graphics = OSX, Home/Business use = Linux, Home/Business and Gaming use = Windows. That Windows has tons of payed help for beginners, Linux has moderate help for free for beginners and OSX has little help but is designed to be almost self explanitory.
All Beginners should also go to lengths to find modern examples of all platforms to try them out for a few hours with software before deciding what suits them.
The right OS and the right software for the beginner helps with understanding. For some beginners having the screen selector on Linux can be confusing, for other beginners the screen seletor is easy but they find having maany programs open in windows behind other windows on the one screen confusing.
Keyboard shortcuts for cut, copy and paste are almost 100% cross platform and do speed things up. This would force you to explain the simple theory and use of a clipboard. I have found that some beginners confuse the clipboard with loading and saving files. Be very clear about the difference.
My wife and I beleive Apple are shafting us by tying all OS upgrade backups to.Mac.
We lost our emails, contacts... and everything else on any apple shipped software when we moved to Tiger. We did my powerbook first and we both took turns with the complete backup of my system disk to move the data files onto Tiger so they would work. We searched the net for help..Mac is the only way it seems.
Well we arent going to spend $179 for.Mac. Not now not ever. in fact it made us really reconsider our ownership of macs altogether. NOTE amyone planning on buying a Mac needs to consider this drug like addiction to.Mac that all Macs have.
Now we use GMail EXCLUSIVLY and addressshare.com EXCLUSIVLY. If anyone has any other suggestions for us to go to free web based services we would greatly appreciate the help..Mac is a CON!
But I received my 15" powerbook 18 months ago. It had a fauty screen. As I was a switcher I had no idea the screen wasnt "SOPPOSED" to be so dark it could barely be read.
I figured this out but I had no backup machine at all... No replacement machine was ever offered even after repeated requests. So it NEVER went back for repair. This would have sorted itself out less than a year ago when I planned to send it for repair as soon as we purchased an iBook for my wife. I could then use that as a work machine tempoarily. Unfortuantly the new ibook went immediatly off for repair for battery and case problems, and then again for the same problems, then again for the same problems and then again for the smae problems... well We HAVE lost track of how many times the iBook has been back for repair.
This powerbook is no good for anything but a file server. We intend to get a new one when they come out and use this as the file server as it won't need a screen most of the time. It can also serve as the backup machine "WHEN" the new Powerbook blows it's guts.
I can't believe I agree with Dvorak. How much do I have to scrub before I wash this dirty feeling off my skin?
Photoshop does suck. I can use all the tools, but does this make it an easy program to use? No, it is needlessly complicated on every level.
Bundled software is rubbish no matter what type of equipment or what manufacturer. Well until I saw what Canons "DPP" could do. It has a ten minute learning curve, and works in a quality photoshop will not touch. Yes, it is fast to learn only if you see the Canon learning videos online, but it is obvious that it was designed as a no-nonsense tool for professional photographers workflow.
I have not tried Apples new Aperture, but I suspect that it is similarly layed out. Apple charge almost as much as Canon charges for a Digital Rebel, and I believe that DPP comes free with the camera. I know it comes free with any 20D camera or better.
OK, so you can make a distinction between Al-quaida and other organisations. Military, eh? Sounds much like the NRA. Now how about another organisation that exists freely in USA... well until they were all blown to bits... remember a town called WACO?! Oh, and remember the internal terrorism that happened as a direct result of WACO? The US government can claim anything after the fact about what these people were planning... they aren't alive now to defend themselves... if it wasn't so damn easy to calm the US population the US government could have always claimed that the WACO Davidian victims were building Nuclear weapons.
Oh, and about the world coming to the USA. No. Simple answer for a simple person. If you can handle more than monosyllabic words the big answer is... Only a few impoverished (normally through economic brutality by USA) countries keep running to the USA. Most of the world stays well away. The USA does not give aid to every country. Maybe I am wrong if you include money churches spend trying to indoctrinate the locals by buying up TV airtime to run Pentecostal and Baptist mantra. In fact the USA was not the first to give aid for the Tsunami. It was also not the most generous, until weeks later they were globally embarrased when it was aired how pathetic the US government aid contribution really was. And I don't hear you complain when the NZ government sends top firefighting management officers to fight your fires (you had enough men on the ground as we were told) and you aren't complaining about the tens of millions the NZ government sent to the New Orleans victims... do you realise that NZ had a full recovery team ready to run at your governments request IF they asked? They never asked, but the team was ready to roll within two days and could have been there 24 hours after that with dogs, equipment and the best in the world disaster identification and matching system for the dead and their relatives. I hear that Canada could have been there IF your government had OKed them crossing the border. Oh, and 9/11... almost every country in the world gave money to the American government and to the victims families. So if you still believe your countries propaganda, please refrain from spreading it where it is not appreciated.
The American that you're arguing with may be pathetically brainwashed, but he has a point. You ARE a hypocrite. Just because you don't agree with or are repulsed by Bestiality or Pedophilia does not mean it isn't censorship.
I feel our chief censor is an arsehole I would happily kick to the ground in a dark alley as he is a hypocrite. He is openly homosexual. Homosexuality was only made legal in New Zealand during his lifetime. Before then it was morally, legally and socially wrong to partake in homosexual acts, or have or distribute homosexual pornography. Yet our chief censor is a big enough arsehole to claim that his perversion is OK while other peoples perversions are not! Our chief censor is a sick, sick man. And that's not because he is homosexual.
New Zealand does have more freedom of speech than the USA, but to claim we have completely free speech is a lie. Censorship is a dangerous beast. You can choose to demand for censorship of Bestiality if you wish, but I will return with a call for banning any religion. I find religious indoctrination of the weak-minded and young through TV or any public gathering to be offensive. So, are your views more important than mine? Where do we stop if my views are as important as yours? If you need it explained more simply than that watch the Simpsons episode where Marge bans Itchy and Scratchy.
I thought that the previous poster said "European Army". in this part of the world (New Zealand) we see England as the Fifty First State of USA. We see France and Germany being the core of the future European Army.
And do YOU live in New Zealand? If you don't stop bloody misquoting what people say you TWAT!
What should have been said by the original poster of this thread is not that teenagers like realism over style, but that no life, no girlfriend loosers like realism over style. That just happens most often to be teenage boys... but it does include 30 something loosers still living at home with mummy (or having all bills payed by mummy because she couldnt stand having you around all the time any more).
I too believe that teenagers "just don't get it". Of course they would say that we older people don't get it, but teenagers throughout time have said that in ignorance.
Unlike teenagers, I now play games for enjoyment. Teenagers play games only for the bragging rites that beating a hard game brings. I LOVED Wind Waker as it gave a great story that was relaxing to play through and it lasted a good amount of time without being stale. I personally would just go out to sail the ship... nowhere in particular, just to sail the ship as it is fun and relaxing.
I also LOVED the graphic style. Not only do I not need blood, guts, gore and testosterone, but I prefer to play a game that I don't feel like I have to switch off if my children enter the room.
I do suspect that there is a little problem with more American gamers wanting something that is more manly and agressive. Men (including myself) amd male teenageers here in New Zealand that I have talked to have had no complaints at all about the Wind Waker graphics. In fact everyone I have encountered have all loved the style.
But then agin, I believe Nintendo lost the plot a whilee back. I REALY enjoy horror gaming, though I did not buy the Gamecube to play these games. I purchased it because there were few if any games aimed at adults on the platform, then the blood and guts games were released. There IS a market for a platform aimed at kids, or at least a platform with unbreakable Parental control, though I would preffer a platform with NO adult content as I would know if a friend of one of my children had a children only console, I could let my child visit unnatended.
I am not saying I am a prude, I do believe that nudity is good for children. I do know however that adult games are immersive and thus dangerous for young children to play.
Since surveys show that most spam around the world "ORIGINATES" from USA, what do Americans think of countries blocking American traffic?
It is interesting that an American company like Microsoft is trying to intefere with the government of New Zealand when it starts to bring in real anti spam legislation with real penalties for spam criminals.
Automator is one of the tools I got most exited about with Tiger. My wife and I have only just upgraded, so I have not had time to play with it. I am really hoping that it will be as good as or better than AREXX on the Amiga. That was a basic like scripting language that you could use to automate any tool in any aplication, move the output into any other application to edit, and then to save any way you choose. AREXX was also used to create new tools inside programs. I am really hoping that all OSX software will be able to include a back door for Automator (Like AREXX ports). Automator has a real front end, so it has a good start.
The funny thing is that you can have speed increases.
This situation just allows for a swapping of roles for M$ and intel. For a decade and a half, Windows bloat was used to fuel CPU sales. "Features" were used to sell Windows.
Now we are offered the mother of all "features" from Intel. Long battery life for mobile computing. The speed can now come from M$ cutting out it's bloat. It has an awful lot of it and that should allow for a decades worth of doubling in system speed.
My family and I will happily live without TV, Movies and Music fro the standard channels.
We look forward to waving goodbye to our media overlords. We already trust Aljazeera for our international news. I look forward to a truely independant film and music industry. In fact I would be happy to start working on free content. I could start a free animated childrens show. We could use advertising. The advertising is important as it would suck advertising dollars from DRM TV.
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Your post doesn't stand on its merits. By the sound of your arrogance, and the way it was modded up, your one skill in life is brown nosing. Be proud, your skill will help to change the world for the better.
I'm guessing more people would be using this drug than anything else the FDA has had to review and approve in quite a long time, if not ever, and I'm sure no one here wants millions of people across the world to suddely drop dead due to unforeseen effects down the road.
You obviously don't understand how the world works. Not in the slightest. The FDA does not make any decisions at all for the world governments on safety of drugs. Some governments use an FDA decision as a guide, but often decide to use a drug or not before the American FDA makes any decision. So until you get some experience under your belt use this "oldie but goodie"... People who live in glass houses should not throw stones.
No it isn't!
I'm a mac user... On a powerbook right now. I value stability. I do not need stupid speeds, I do not need something to show off to my colleagues with. I need a stable system. OSX on the G processors had finally proven to be stable in that there were no more predicted system lurches that Steve (fucking) Jobs is famous for in the works. Well Linux has a pretty stable history now, and it has a clear enough roadmap into the future. Good luck cooking your goolies with the new "Core Duo" that WAS sopposed to be cooler and energy efficient than the current G4s, but is'nt.
I know of at least one other Apple user who did not want more speed at the cost of a stable IBM platform. We are making plans. Our new Macs will be x86 based Linux Machines. Oh, thats right, they AREN'T Macs! Steve Jobs can go blow himself... he is the only one who truely loves himself.
This gives now meaning to "Hand Luggage".
"Please safely stow your sattelites in the compartments above your heads"
Again, spinning around and around. He said he wants to sell a product, and hire developers to make his product much better. However, his plan is somewhat hindered by the fact that most people are stealing, rather than purchasing, his software.
You know, I don't think Bill Gates is some great guy or anything, in fact, I do consider he's more about making the sale than providing a quality product; but at the same time I don't like to see people putting words in someone's mouth, which you most certainly are doing. Criticize him for what he actually did, or actually said, but not for what you think he meant to say.
I havent read through the whole document, but in this case I don't need to. You are accusing some person of "Spinning around and around". You then claim that most people steal their M$ products! Either you are quoting a lie from Billy G or you yourself are lying. If it is the second option, you yourself are spinning harder than the first person. Country by country piracy accross ALL software is normally between 10% and 30%, with a FEW exceptions, and thjose exceptions have a reason I will explain later. If fewer than one third of all software titles that people have installed how can you claim that "most people are stealing, rather than purchasing, his software"?!
spin spin spin spin, spin spin spin spin...
In countries other than USA softwre is actually more expencive most of the time. More expencive in US$. This is in countries where the average wage is lower to massivly lower than the average wage in USA. And then you have no competitions, giveaways, or mail in rebates AT ALL outside USA for these products. In fact if you look at the higher prices and the fact we get no benefits AT ALL (in many cases not even the phone support USA customers get) the poorest people in the world are subsidising your giveaways and mail in rebates... which is ironic because USA resedents are the most able to afford full price. If YOU had to put aside two months of your FULL WAGE for a copy of "M$ Office" you too would get pissy and would probably consider piracy as an option. M$ and many other American companies (software AND hardware) conviniently forget to tell US resedents these simple facts when they accuse citizens of China and Brazil of ruining their profits.
In the past week I have started researching and purchasing for a DIY PVR. Smug Smug Smug!
I Reasearched two XP based PVR systems, Two Linux Systems and one OSX System. Smug Smug Smug!
I have legal versions of all three OS's just hanging around. Smug Smug Smug!
I decided to go for a MythTV setup mainly because of the M$ DRM Hell! Smug Smug Smug!
I strted purchsing the missing pieces of hardware I needed to complete the system, making sure that each part is Linux compatible. Smug Smug Smug!
Within a week M$ starts screwing all the M$ kiddies. Dumb Dumb Dumb!
MythTV has a very bright future it would seem. Smug Smug Smug!
First of all ... what "product of the US educational system" keeps modding you up?
Next you like to skew history a LOT for your own arguments. The LAST Caliphate ended approx 300 years BEFORE my 500 year slice of history. The Ottomans who replaced the Caliphate "SOMETIMES" called themselves Caliphates. The Ottomans expanded their empire to SOME of the areas you mentioned 100 years BEFORE the 500 year slice of history I referred to. Much of the territory they took was not part of the countries you listed. The parts of the countries you list that were occupied are only NOW parts of the countries mentioned on CURRENT maps.
I wont even go into the details of how the Turkish empire used Christian conscripts and volunteers in the campaigns of the Ottomans.
Don't bore me further. You have proved to everyone who has stuck this discussion out that there will never be true agreement of much of the history of the area, especially as the areas conflict go into pre history.
Well if you had READ my post and had a working short term memory you would have read that I had mentioned the invasions by Turkey into Greece. I missed the Invasions into central Europe, but that conflict has a history that has been disputed for hundreds of years. The conflict goes back to well before Christianity and Islam. It may settle for a generation or two, but it seems to start up on a regular basis. I don't claim to be an expert on the history and politics of the area, but few do, and all "experts" seem to disagree with each other on early facts depending on which country they come from.
I ask you. When has any Islamic country invaded a Christian country over the past 500 years? The answer is SELDOM. The only time that jumps to mind is when Turkey invaded Greece. How many times have Christian countries invaded Islamic countries over the same period? Well the list would take hours to type up.
USA has taken to invading, propping up corrupt leaders (including brutal dictators), funding revolt and war in the Middle East over the past century to get influence and cheap oil. USA continues to gift Billions in weapons to Israel which was set up by USA and other countries who wanted a quick easy way to placate the Jews. It didn't matter if the land belonged to another country, AND the houses belonged legally to Muslim families.
Osama Bin Laden did not even attack USA (I am a sceptic on this "FACT") until AFTER Clinton tried to have him assassinated AND sent cruise missiles into many civilian factories "just in case" Bin Laden had some sort of chemical factory. Your 9/11 if you are lucky (you would not be lucky if your own government orchestrated the act itself) was nothing more than a retaliation. USA itself claims the right to retaliate to ANY attack. WHy don't you accept that other people have this same basic right?
You may not be aware that around the world and outside of "diplomatic circles" the average person is referring to USA as Nazi America. This is important as you have used the same arguments for invasion as this little man. You may have heard of him in history class. A man called Adolph.
Bullshit level HIGH!
No mention of M$ deliberatly restricting levels to get the desirable "Console sold out on launch" headlines in the press. No mention of the consoles not working on masse. No mention of one of the big release games crashing on the 360. No prediction of the other BS statements maade by M$ for the future of the 360.
He actually talkes up the LIVE service... I wonder how much you get in kickback for a story like this?
First I need to note that I have already posted on the BBC forum a couple of years ago that they are biased in favour of Windows and neglect Linux and OSX.
The obscurity argument I get so damn mad at. I will go into some history here. On the Amiga, back when there were only 3 million Amigas worldwide, there were hundreds of Viri. Later when there were 6 million Amigas, we may have gotten to 1000 Viri including the slight variences. It was known as the most virus plagued machine of it's day. Dos and Windows machines had not many more machines in numbers during that time and they also had enough viri to make life difficult.
Linux has until very recently been obscure when compared to OSX. Yet there have been a few viri released during it's time of "obscurity".
If systems that have far fewer machines than OSX can have slight, moderate or severe problems with viri, then one must conclude that OSX has to be credited with far stronger security than just "obscurity". My conclusion is that obscurity is little to no protection from viri.
At the very least nearly every country, their leaders liberal or conservative, believed Saddam had nukes. There is no evidence for instance, that the weapons were destroyed years ago (it is a very strict requirement that photos of the destruction etc. are supplied to the UN, for obvious reasons). But I agree it was no reason to invade (I never saw anything that proved he still had them).
So your only news source is Fox? Here is the simple facts. Very FEW governments around the world believed Sadam had nukes. Those governments gullable enough to fall for this line were only going on information supplied by the US Government.
Please don't breed you will pass on your "stupid" and "gullable" genes to yet another generation.
The thing that I have found is that when teaching beginners is to explain early the gravity of playing with certain things.
They say that Beginners can do stupid things, and that with a small amount of information beginners can do a lot of damage. This is true.
So you will need to explain that there are places in all OS's that you should never poke in and/or delete from. You will need to explain things like the guts of the machine are not scary, but getting your fingers even close to the BIOS can cause a static charge to ark to it.
Oh, and a buyers guide. All new computer purchasers should find the software they want to run, then find out what OS or OS's it runs on. They then should have an idea of what they intend on doing with it. Simple home/small business use and Graphics = OSX, Home/Business use = Linux, Home/Business and Gaming use = Windows. That Windows has tons of payed help for beginners, Linux has moderate help for free for beginners and OSX has little help but is designed to be almost self explanitory.
All Beginners should also go to lengths to find modern examples of all platforms to try them out for a few hours with software before deciding what suits them.
The right OS and the right software for the beginner helps with understanding. For some beginners having the screen selector on Linux can be confusing, for other beginners the screen seletor is easy but they find having maany programs open in windows behind other windows on the one screen confusing.
Keyboard shortcuts for cut, copy and paste are almost 100% cross platform and do speed things up. This would force you to explain the simple theory and use of a clipboard. I have found that some beginners confuse the clipboard with loading and saving files. Be very clear about the difference.
Good luck.
My wife and I beleive Apple are shafting us by tying all OS upgrade backups to .Mac.
We lost our emails, contacts... and everything else on any apple shipped software when we moved to Tiger. We did my powerbook first and we both took turns with the complete backup of my system disk to move the data files onto Tiger so they would work. We searched the net for help. .Mac is the only way it seems.
Well we arent going to spend $179 for .Mac. Not now not ever. in fact it made us really reconsider our ownership of macs altogether. NOTE amyone planning on buying a Mac needs to consider this drug like addiction to .Mac that all Macs have.
Now we use GMail EXCLUSIVLY and addressshare.com EXCLUSIVLY. If anyone has any other suggestions for us to go to free web based services we would greatly appreciate the help. .Mac is a CON!
But I received my 15" powerbook 18 months ago. It had a fauty screen. As I was a switcher I had no idea the screen wasnt "SOPPOSED" to be so dark it could barely be read. I figured this out but I had no backup machine at all... No replacement machine was ever offered even after repeated requests. So it NEVER went back for repair. This would have sorted itself out less than a year ago when I planned to send it for repair as soon as we purchased an iBook for my wife. I could then use that as a work machine tempoarily. Unfortuantly the new ibook went immediatly off for repair for battery and case problems, and then again for the same problems, then again for the same problems and then again for the smae problems... well We HAVE lost track of how many times the iBook has been back for repair. This powerbook is no good for anything but a file server. We intend to get a new one when they come out and use this as the file server as it won't need a screen most of the time. It can also serve as the backup machine "WHEN" the new Powerbook blows it's guts.
I can't believe I agree with Dvorak. How much do I have to scrub before I wash this dirty feeling off my skin? Photoshop does suck. I can use all the tools, but does this make it an easy program to use? No, it is needlessly complicated on every level. Bundled software is rubbish no matter what type of equipment or what manufacturer. Well until I saw what Canons "DPP" could do. It has a ten minute learning curve, and works in a quality photoshop will not touch. Yes, it is fast to learn only if you see the Canon learning videos online, but it is obvious that it was designed as a no-nonsense tool for professional photographers workflow. I have not tried Apples new Aperture, but I suspect that it is similarly layed out. Apple charge almost as much as Canon charges for a Digital Rebel, and I believe that DPP comes free with the camera. I know it comes free with any 20D camera or better.
OK, so you can make a distinction between Al-quaida and other organisations. Military, eh? Sounds much like the NRA. Now how about another organisation that exists freely in USA... well until they were all blown to bits... remember a town called WACO?! Oh, and remember the internal terrorism that happened as a direct result of WACO? The US government can claim anything after the fact about what these people were planning... they aren't alive now to defend themselves... if it wasn't so damn easy to calm the US population the US government could have always claimed that the WACO Davidian victims were building Nuclear weapons. Oh, and about the world coming to the USA. No. Simple answer for a simple person. If you can handle more than monosyllabic words the big answer is... Only a few impoverished (normally through economic brutality by USA) countries keep running to the USA. Most of the world stays well away. The USA does not give aid to every country. Maybe I am wrong if you include money churches spend trying to indoctrinate the locals by buying up TV airtime to run Pentecostal and Baptist mantra. In fact the USA was not the first to give aid for the Tsunami. It was also not the most generous, until weeks later they were globally embarrased when it was aired how pathetic the US government aid contribution really was. And I don't hear you complain when the NZ government sends top firefighting management officers to fight your fires (you had enough men on the ground as we were told) and you aren't complaining about the tens of millions the NZ government sent to the New Orleans victims... do you realise that NZ had a full recovery team ready to run at your governments request IF they asked? They never asked, but the team was ready to roll within two days and could have been there 24 hours after that with dogs, equipment and the best in the world disaster identification and matching system for the dead and their relatives. I hear that Canada could have been there IF your government had OKed them crossing the border. Oh, and 9/11... almost every country in the world gave money to the American government and to the victims families. So if you still believe your countries propaganda, please refrain from spreading it where it is not appreciated.
The American that you're arguing with may be pathetically brainwashed, but he has a point. You ARE a hypocrite. Just because you don't agree with or are repulsed by Bestiality or Pedophilia does not mean it isn't censorship.
I feel our chief censor is an arsehole I would happily kick to the ground in a dark alley as he is a hypocrite. He is openly homosexual. Homosexuality was only made legal in New Zealand during his lifetime. Before then it was morally, legally and socially wrong to partake in homosexual acts, or have or distribute homosexual pornography. Yet our chief censor is a big enough arsehole to claim that his perversion is OK while other peoples perversions are not! Our chief censor is a sick, sick man. And that's not because he is homosexual.
New Zealand does have more freedom of speech than the USA, but to claim we have completely free speech is a lie. Censorship is a dangerous beast. You can choose to demand for censorship of Bestiality if you wish, but I will return with a call for banning any religion. I find religious indoctrination of the weak-minded and young through TV or any public gathering to be offensive. So, are your views more important than mine? Where do we stop if my views are as important as yours? If you need it explained more simply than that watch the Simpsons episode where Marge bans Itchy and Scratchy.
I thought that the previous poster said "European Army". in this part of the world (New Zealand) we see England as the Fifty First State of USA. We see France and Germany being the core of the future European Army.
And do YOU live in New Zealand? If you don't stop bloody misquoting what people say you TWAT!
What should have been said by the original poster of this thread is not that teenagers like realism over style, but that no life, no girlfriend loosers like realism over style. That just happens most often to be teenage boys... but it does include 30 something loosers still living at home with mummy (or having all bills payed by mummy because she couldnt stand having you around all the time any more).
I too believe that teenagers "just don't get it". Of course they would say that we older people don't get it, but teenagers throughout time have said that in ignorance.
Unlike teenagers, I now play games for enjoyment. Teenagers play games only for the bragging rites that beating a hard game brings. I LOVED Wind Waker as it gave a great story that was relaxing to play through and it lasted a good amount of time without being stale. I personally would just go out to sail the ship... nowhere in particular, just to sail the ship as it is fun and relaxing.
I also LOVED the graphic style. Not only do I not need blood, guts, gore and testosterone, but I prefer to play a game that I don't feel like I have to switch off if my children enter the room.
I do suspect that there is a little problem with more American gamers wanting something that is more manly and agressive. Men (including myself) amd male teenageers here in New Zealand that I have talked to have had no complaints at all about the Wind Waker graphics. In fact everyone I have encountered have all loved the style.
But then agin, I believe Nintendo lost the plot a whilee back. I REALY enjoy horror gaming, though I did not buy the Gamecube to play these games. I purchased it because there were few if any games aimed at adults on the platform, then the blood and guts games were released. There IS a market for a platform aimed at kids, or at least a platform with unbreakable Parental control, though I would preffer a platform with NO adult content as I would know if a friend of one of my children had a children only console, I could let my child visit unnatended.
I am not saying I am a prude, I do believe that nudity is good for children. I do know however that adult games are immersive and thus dangerous for young children to play.
Since surveys show that most spam around the world "ORIGINATES" from USA, what do Americans think of countries blocking American traffic?
It is interesting that an American company like Microsoft is trying to intefere with the government of New Zealand when it starts to bring in real anti spam legislation with real penalties for spam criminals.
Automator is one of the tools I got most exited about with Tiger. My wife and I have only just upgraded, so I have not had time to play with it. I am really hoping that it will be as good as or better than AREXX on the Amiga. That was a basic like scripting language that you could use to automate any tool in any aplication, move the output into any other application to edit, and then to save any way you choose. AREXX was also used to create new tools inside programs. I am really hoping that all OSX software will be able to include a back door for Automator (Like AREXX ports). Automator has a real front end, so it has a good start.
The funny thing is that you can have speed increases.
This situation just allows for a swapping of roles for M$ and intel. For a decade and a half, Windows bloat was used to fuel CPU sales. "Features" were used to sell Windows.
Now we are offered the mother of all "features" from Intel. Long battery life for mobile computing. The speed can now come from M$ cutting out it's bloat. It has an awful lot of it and that should allow for a decades worth of doubling in system speed.
My family and I will happily live without TV, Movies and Music fro the standard channels.
We look forward to waving goodbye to our media overlords. We already trust Aljazeera for our international news. I look forward to a truely independant film and music industry. In fact I would be happy to start working on free content. I could start a free animated childrens show. We could use advertising. The advertising is important as it would suck advertising dollars from DRM TV.
Who is with me? Lets start the media revolution!