On Aug 15, 2007, at 6:10 PM, Tom Piwowar wrote:
It's getting hard to find reasons to buy a Windows PC, aside from
sheer
inertia. Windows PCs used to be far more cost-effective than Macs, but
no
longer. Macs can now compete hard with PCs on cost, for all but the
very
cheapest, sub-$600
I have never had any problems with health care in the United States. NONE. My
family has always received great care. We are not rich, and we live in a rural
area in the midwest. Our EMT's are volunteers and our hospital is non-profit
and operates in the black.
Good for you Jeff, but does that prove anything?
How about the 45.000.000 without insurance? The
ones who fall into the crack between
insurance and medicaid. Don´t they count?...
Marcio
At 08:41 AM 8/16/2007, Jeff Morris wrote:
I have never had any problems with health care
in the United
Steve,
I would start by creating user accounts for them, or at least for some
logical sub-group. I would also invite them to a demonstration where
you help someone set up their desktop preferences and show them how to
do some basic real-world tasks. Then invite them to use their personal
People are normally afraid of unknown items, give em time, sit them down
and show them how to use it, the mac isn't going to show them how to use
itself. The faxing seems to be a perfect example, explain you want the
wasting of paper to stop and use that to get them on the computer. Don't
give
I have never had any problems with health care in the United States.
NONE. My family has always received great care. We are not rich, and we
live in a rural area in the midwest. Our EMT's are volunteers and our
hospital is non-profit and operates in the black.
You have just been fortunate.
It is possible to cover everyone for health insurance, we just have
to change the way we think, and as you said take the profit motive
out of the equation.
Well Rev. the wing nuts believe that everything ought to be for profit.
Even their mega churches are for-profit corporations paying big
Uh oh...undesirables...next we'll hear we have to cull all pc users from the
population. It's too bad those pesky pixar people are undesirableusing
non macs to make cars...
Mike
On 8/16/07, Tom Piwowar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You might also want to point out that creative people
Uh oh...undesirables...next we'll hear we have to cull all pc users from the
population.
First they came for Windows fanboys, and I said nothing because I was not a
Windows
fanboy...
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I'm a registered user, and a Mac owner, and I was about to pony up my
100 bucks, when I read:
Canvas 11 is available for Windows only.
I don't understand this. With the increasing popularity of the Mac,
and (my assumption) that's it's not that difficult to port a
Win-intel version to a
Most people do not understand that we have only one political party
in this nation. It's the Corporation Party. It has two wings, the
Democratic Wing and the Republican Wing. Each wing draws voter
support from a different base, but what counts is money support, and
for each wing, that comes
On Aug 16, 2007, at 9:18 AM, mike wrote:
People are normally afraid of unknown items, give em time, sit them
down
and show them how to use it, the mac isn't going to show them how to
use
itself. The faxing seems to be a perfect example, explain you want the
wasting of paper to stop and use
What do they say they are afraid of?
If they have trouble with camera cards on any system, it sounds as if they
aren't the brightest bulbs anyway. Is this your shop or is it owned by
another?
Mike
On 8/16/07, Steve Rigby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Aug 16, 2007, at 9:11 AM, Snyder, Mark
On Aug 16, 2007, at 10:51 AM, mike wrote:
Uh oh...undesirables...next we'll hear we have to cull all pc users
from the
population. It's too bad those pesky pixar people are
undesirableusing
non macs to make cars...
Mike
On 8/16/07, Tom Piwowar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You might
different but maybe related - i've been getting messages out of order.
many times, i see the reply to a message before i receive the original
message. at least, it looks that way when i compare the timestamps ... ymmv
-andy
/snip/
Upon seeing this message which is a response to something
Also the idea they
have been trained to be afraid because they don't use a mac is beyond
ridiculous, they might be bristling at this notion.
I don't know--people can have very odd phobias sometimes. I remember
working as a temp at the Brookings Institution (the natives call it The
Brookings,
Steve,
I'm assuming from everything you've written that you don't have a lot of
experience in change management.
As much as you'd like to believe that its an evil M$ cult going on in your
shop, the truth is, if you required them to have cream of pumpkin soup every
week, you'd have about the
I have to mostly agree with this. Though those who can't afford it
do get it, and this is what raises the cost for those who can afford
it. In 2003 I was diagnosed with Congestive Heart Failure. At the
time I had no health insurance and no job. I was treated anyway with
several EKGs and
Occasionally I notice missing messages, but more frequently a reply to a
message shows up well before the original message arrives.
Steve Rigby wrote:
On Aug 16, 2007, at 10:51 AM, mike wrote:
Uh oh...undesirables...next we'll hear we have to cull all pc users
from the
population. It's too
my iphoto library is way to big and besides exporting the photos to
dvds and such is there a good program that will strip out the saved
origenals and the empty folders from my library?
i am looking at iphoto diet but would like some collective wisdom
before i screw things up.
ibook g4, 10.3.9,
my iphoto library is way to big and besides exporting the photos to
dvds and such is there a good program that will strip out the saved
origenals and the empty folders from my library?
Buy an external terabyte drive for $300 and never have to worry about
storage space again.
On Aug 16, 2007, at 4:46 PM, Andy Gallant wrote:
different but maybe related - i've been getting messages out of order.
many times, i see the reply to a message before i receive the
original message. at least, it looks that way when i compare the
timestamps ... ymmv
I have seen that as
On Aug 16, 2007, at 3:32 PM, mike wrote:
What do they say they are afraid of?
If they have trouble with camera cards on any system, it sounds as if
they
aren't the brightest bulbs anyway. Is this your shop or is it owned by
another?
The shop is not mine. I just work there. The other
On Aug 16, 2007, at 5:05 PM, Admiral Harris wrote:
Steve,
I'm assuming from everything you've written that you don't have a lot
of experience in change management.
As much as you'd like to believe that its an evil M$ cult going on in
your shop, the truth is, if you required them to have
On Aug 16, 2007, at 4:21 PM, Robert wrote:
Occasionally I notice missing messages, but more frequently a reply to
a message shows up well before the original message arrives.
Ditto.
Steve
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On Aug 14, 2007, at 8:48 PM, Tom Piwowar wrote:
Epson needs the money.
Didn't Epson have to make a big payout in that class action lawsuit
about a year ago concerning their ink cartridges and how they would
indicate Empty when they still had considerable ink remaining?
Steve
Time stamp and delays depend on reliability and location of outgoing and
incoming servers, unless your battery is getting weak. I usually use a
U.S. based server, but when there's high traffic, I switch to one of
Yahoo's foreign servers.
I'm curious about time stamps, so I'm using a server in
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