Funny, I just disabled Aero on a netbook with Win7 and the user seemed
astonished at how fast it worked after (interactive response time was
the word I used while grumbling). This was a retired engineer who
designed and built the early PC stuff while managing four layers in
development for manufacturing industries. I kinda shrug and ask for
feedback in a week, "what do you think?" style.
Something tells me much of what we do is because of someone deciding for
us what we want or need. When we look deeper we find things with an
astonished expression, but really much of our issues were figured out by
hunter gatherers on the savannah some time ago but we're being led
around like a bunch of clothes shoppers changing fads by the season. :p
One of the names my peers used to use was 'trash picker' (among others),
I always looked back blank and thought the morons were walking past a
$600 stereo on the curb because of their pride, all it needed was a fuse. :/
I find my belt is a handy place for a wristwatch, you have to remove a
pin and let it hang unhinged-like.
On 12/18/2012 12:13 PM, archytas wrote:
Mine came small with a bigger thing to allow fitting to old sized
equipment. The EA stuff works after retro-installation and as long as
the Origin thing is switched off before the machine is. The major
import of smart phones in my world is not having to wear a watch.
On Dec 17, 1:20 pm, gabbydott<[email protected]> wrote:
I am planning to do the upgrade on my notebook between the years. After
what I have heard from your experience I will not upgrade Noah's computer
system with all his EA Sports games installed on it.
I have treated myself to a new smartphone, the Nexus 4. It arrived earlier
than expected and it is a wonderful new toy! :)
I still need to wait for a new micro sim card. I tried to cut the old one
smaller, but I must have ruined it. No need to cry over spilled milk. At
least I tried.
Am 15.12.2012 18:12 schrieb "archytas"<[email protected]>:
To be fair the W8 thing is now working a bit better than 7 did - I
just resent it not coming with easier upgrade and having to re-install
most programmes. The big problem turned out to be with EA Games.
Shut down and restart are now quicker and I was able to use my laptop
in wordprocessing for 6 hours without charger - an hour's
improvement. I wish someone made systems that were less about being
kids' toys.
On 14 Dec, 21:42, Lee Douglas<[email protected]> wrote:
Now I'm not one of these anti Apple bods, but it is true that as an IT
professional I like kit that I can tinker with and that I can make work
in
the ways in which I like to work. So my biggest hangup with Apple
products
is that you are forced into doing things there way. And updates, well of
course you do get them automatically applied as well, and things like
Itunes, well I'll not tell you how many of my mates have called me up
this
week to ask me to roll back to the previous version for them!
Also, nice to see you Don.
On Saturday, 8 December 2012 13:33:34 UTC, Don Johnson wrote:
I'm skittish of upgrades. "If it ain't broke don't fix it" is almost
my personal motto. The Mac costs more and lacks some of the software
available to the IBM model but imho is worth every extra dollar. Zero
issues. Loads faster. No constant downloading of updates for
protection and what not.
MicroSoft is desperate to compete with Apple. They keep rushing
unfinished crap to production and it shows. From what I've read the
interface for Win8 makes it more like the Mac. New learning is
required to utilize the new stuff. Perhaps a good time to switch to
Mac if you've ever considered it. It's different but intuitive enough
where I think it's easier once you get out of the Windows mindset. Of
course, if your programs aren't available on the Mac it would make the
switch unadvisable. And then there's the price....
dj
On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 1:58 AM, archytas<[email protected]<javascript:>>
wrote:
I finally have my laptop working about 2 weeks after installing W8 as
an upgrade. I had to use the refresh option. This uninstalled about
50 programs, including MS Office, along with my text files and
anything from competitors like Google Chrome. I may as well have
formatted my hard drive and installed W8 from scratch. It's
marginally better than W7 now. Without my back-up I'd have to spend
about £200 to get the programs I actually use back. I had 2 hours of
pain with Microsoft over Office - which wouldn't let me reinstall
from
my genuine disk. The new version of IE that supplanted my normal
browsers left me cold and I will never learn its new interface. In
all it's cost me 2 days work and frustration and left me feeling the
thing is intended to get us to spend more money on MS products.
Analysis boils down to a con I could easily do without. My old fart
prediction on your son is he will learn more about deviant mothering
on the lines of 'A Boy Named Sue' than the tribulations of dotage. I
shall encode something in cloud cabal to let him know getting old is
crap but does entail a certain freedom from mothers.
With England at 332 for two I sorely miss Vam. I'd explain in great
detail Gabs - but cricket is one secret we have kept from you Germans
since refusing to send professionals to expand the game in your
country in the 1930s. I have an image of you as the lady chair of
the
Deutscher Cricket Bund, ensuring the teas are maintained to the high
standard I found in a small club outside Munich. The potatoes were
particularly excellent, though not as rewarding as my practical
explanation of 'chin music' on the pitch - which led to some jokes on
dueling scars during splendid after-match hospitality. I'm sure the
game would be safe in your hands and would always return to see the
pigs flying on tandems over the Munich Hills (with are, in fact,
outside Dublin). Sadly, as an old fart, I am reduced to guile,
deception and soin to get batsmen out these days, before retiring to
the pavilion and endless discussion of bad backs and has-beenery.
On Nov 26, 3:50 pm, gabbydott<[email protected]> wrote:
Right, which is why one should write an alternative text for the
images
one
uses. But the visual stuff helps the un-initiated more than gray XP
style
and code language. My son says he doesn't need W8. For him to be
able
to
decode old farts' stories of victimization I'll have to buy the
upgrade
for
him.
2012/11/25 archytas<[email protected]>
I'd still be on dos given the choice too. I finally have W8
looking
like XP and most of the glitches out. I wouldn't have bothered
except
for the reasons above. Lots of this metro, visual stuff makes
things
much harder for blind people. I'd go for text-only with a button
to
play pics and vids.
On 25 Nov, 09:43, Allan H<[email protected]> wrote:
Right now my hands are stuck firmly in my pockets I preferred
IBM
Dos
over MS dos and only started using had a fantastic email
program..
wonder it it is still around.. I fully understand about the
barge
pole.. excellent idea.. I am sure your son or grand son will
love
it..
Allan
On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 12:59 AM, archytas<[email protected]>
wrote:
Lots of stuff doesn't work - start up and shut down remain
dicey,
the
laptop's mousepad doesn't shut down automatically when I plug
my
mouse
in - the lis of such annoying bits is long. Microsoft (after
two
fob-
offs) told me to use F8 to do some debugging. I'd rung to
tell
them
F8 didn't work! I wouldn't touch the thing with a bargepole
unless
you have a commercial reason for needing to.
On 24 Nov, 20:07, Allan H<[email protected]> wrote:
Actually MS is trying to get control of the gaming market ,,
by
getting game programers to set their programs that they only
operate
on Windows 8
Allan
On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 6:21 PM, archytas<[email protected]
wrote:
W8 looks like yet another attempt to stick us with yet
another
portal
directing us to Microsoft products - via its metro
interface
that
replaces desktop. I don't like Faceflop, Googleplod or
Twatter
(which
started as a place to host audio podcasts - am amazing
non-starter).
The highlight on these over several years was Gabby
tagging me
as a
rabbit in a weird building in Berlin.
I'm rid of the metroface through a bit of cheap software.
One
can
understand why these conglomerates want to shoehorn an
advertising-
based business model into our social activities. These
days I
watch
all commercial TV via Tivo to fast forward he ads and
increasingly
do
the same with BBC to evade their promos. I-google lets me
rid
myself
of the standard bimbo products of all browsers. I use
gmail
in
order
not to give out my 'serious' email address. I guess we
essentially
want to freeride on the technical provision.
Wikipedia gets stick for not being sufficiently
peer-reviewed.
In
terms if the subjects I 'teach' it is more accurate than
textbooks
and
the material publishers provide if you recommend their
texts
to
students (it's very difficult not to when 'exams' are
based on
the
rot
- much of which is trashed in wider academic peer review).
A
few
academics like Steve Keen (economics and under redundancy
threat at
his uni) and Alain de Connes (maths) publish all their work
for free
access. I wish I was in a position to do the same - if I
allowed
free
access my income would go.
In principle I would like Mind's Eye to have wider
contribution.
Currently I would say we are open to diversity but actually
not
diverse. But we don't want the SNERTs, trolls, flamers and
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