I hear ya. I only started to know the terms cursor and pointer when I started teaching. And I have to teach according to syllabus. It'll be of no benefit to my students if I teach them other than what CIE advocates me teaching. So I'll stick to cursors and pointers. But, you are right and I agree that we, as people/consumers, will start calling things like the way we understand them most, even if they're not as exact as the original term/name, could even be opposite, e.g. Bruce Springsteen's 'Born in the USA'. Cheers Ledow.
Thought I'ld comment on "It's not a cursor, it's called a pointer." but then WikiPedia says that MS tends to use carets to call cursors and cursors as pointers, and that some people use text cursor and mouse pointer to call the two respectively, to avoid ambiguities. So, that is new to me, as I've always called the blinking vertical line where text will be entered as cursor, and the arrow-like thing that moves when you move the mouse as pointer. Which is also what I teach my students. Now, I question why they would call it WIMP and not WIMC...
Reminds me of the 'welcoming party' a Japanese town in Kyushu sent out to entertain the first group of US Marines (?) to land on the home islands right after Japan surrendered in WWII.
I was working in a PC shop selling and fixing h/w. There's this cute girl whose desktop was on the blink and she left it with us to fix. We set it up in our technician's area. She's got all these very irresistibly cute pictures of herself set up as the screensaver. I've caught myself, the others and some male customers losing lots of productive time just gazing at those pics.
I tried to hit it off with her but things never developed beyond a certain point. She wasn't that into me, I think. La amour...
I second this. I was in Japan over New Year and everywhere I went, Tokyo's Akihabara and Osaka's various shopping districts were sold out on the Wii, but most places had PS3 stock. I was also actually looking for the DS Lite, but that too was sold out. My friend advised me to look for it in out of way places, real suburbia. Only place in Akihabara that I saw it had it for almost twice the retail price. They had three unopened 'second-hand' ones. I finally found a large stock of DS Lite at Singapore Changi Airport, costing S$280 each, although these were the AnZac versions not to be sold outside those territories.
Sryn
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5ryn
being the only authorized spiritual representative?
I hear ya. I only started to know the terms cursor and pointer when I started teaching. And I have to teach according to syllabus. It'll be of no benefit to my students if I teach them other than what CIE advocates me teaching. So I'll stick to cursors and pointers. But, you are right and I agree that we, as people/consumers, will start calling things like the way we understand them most, even if they're not as exact as the original term/name, could even be opposite, e.g. Bruce Springsteen's 'Born in the USA'. Cheers Ledow.
5ryn
Thought I'ld comment on "It's not a cursor, it's called a pointer." but then WikiPedia says that MS tends to use carets to call cursors and cursors as pointers, and that some people use text cursor and mouse pointer to call the two respectively, to avoid ambiguities. So, that is new to me, as I've always called the blinking vertical line where text will be entered as cursor, and the arrow-like thing that moves when you move the mouse as pointer. Which is also what I teach my students. Now, I question why they would call it WIMP and not WIMC...
5ryn
Reminds me of the 'welcoming party' a Japanese town in Kyushu sent out to entertain the first group of US Marines (?) to land on the home islands right after Japan surrendered in WWII.
Sryn
Obi-Wan Kenobi would be proud.
Great story. Must be told up there with the 'greats'. Sryn
I was working in a PC shop selling and fixing h/w. There's this cute girl whose desktop was on the blink and she left it with us to fix. We set it up in our technician's area. She's got all these very irresistibly cute pictures of herself set up as the screensaver. I've caught myself, the others and some male customers losing lots of productive time just gazing at those pics.
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I tried to hit it off with her but things never developed beyond a certain point. She wasn't that into me, I think. La amour
Sryn
I second this. I was in Japan over New Year and everywhere I went, Tokyo's Akihabara and Osaka's various shopping districts were sold out on the Wii, but most places had PS3 stock. I was also actually looking for the DS Lite, but that too was sold out. My friend advised me to look for it in out of way places, real suburbia. Only place in Akihabara that I saw it had it for almost twice the retail price. They had three unopened 'second-hand' ones. I finally found a large stock of DS Lite at Singapore Changi Airport, costing S$280 each, although these were the AnZac versions not to be sold outside those territories. Sryn
Bummer. But it does seem possible. I wonder how one goes about making it possible...
If iAlertU uses the bluetoothed Front Row remote, surely someone can come up with a way to use a bluetooth mobile instead... Sryn