I have bought computers since the 1980's, both personal use (Apple) and
corporate/government-contracts (SGI, Sun, many PC vendors). I Never buy
_any_ additional memory from the computer vendor. It has always been
cheaper to buy memory from a memory vendor - much cheaper! That proof
is
On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 7:48 PM, Tom Piwowar t...@tjpa.com wrote:
Definitely. A significant percentage of Windows buyers are motivated by low
self esteem. This is a well-known phenomenon.
In some cases perhaps.
When I speak of what type of computer one wants, I am speaking of
personal
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I have an MSI Wind which I use as my jukebox, with iTunes. I've read
articles in which people describe how they put OS X on the machine,
but it seems that one must be quite knowledgeable to do so. I'm not
that knowledgeable. Has anyone heard of a turnkey solution?
Yes there is a disk image
Let's hope USB3 is stable, because I can easily see it replacing SATA
internally if it is.
I hold little hope for USB3. The engineers working on it do not appear to
be the brightest bulbs.
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10 days ago or so I inquired about recommendations for OSX typing tutor
software. I got some good recomendations ... one of which was a
software app.
Unfortunately, I have forgotten the name and am 3000 miles away from the
computer with those emails on it.
Would you all be so kind to
The point, which you seem to miss, is that PS2 is an obsolete product.
Not for Nielsen numbers. Nielsen is measuring what people have in their
homes and are using. PS2 Wins. If you want to track non-obsolete products
you should be looking at current sales. For that the latest stats are at
the
Unfortunately, I have forgotten the name and am 3000 miles away from the
computer with those emails on it.
Would you all be so kind to remind me again?
You are never far away from the CGuys. At www.cguys.org you will find a
link to archives. You can find the thread and an answer in a flash.
So first you argue they don't use their machines more...then you say when
they do they are lazy good for nothings? And you wonder why people think
you hate MS with your no win scenarios you play out here.
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 7:06 AM, Tom Piwowar t...@tjpa.com wrote:
Looks like I shouldn't
Might want to read again...I never sent a link.
I'm not sure why you are looking to spend 450, you've made it clear you
don't mind spending more on apple hardware. I spend quite a bit more
getting ipods then I would getting other mp3 players.
Some of us do like the experiment factor, the case
Speaking of...how many here have ever been a participant in a Nielsen poll
or survey?
Not me...
D
In a message dated 4/10/2009 10:11:21 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
t...@tjpa.com writes:
And I'm sure you'll be terrified by any discussion of what the Nielsen
numbers really represent.
I participated in one local radio survey...never another.
One point to add perhaps, MS basically has unlimited money to dump into the
xbox line, and they have shown a wilingness to do so. Sony is another story
however with their company wide losses. And I've said before...the wii is
not
For about a year and a half or two ears we were a nielsen family.
We were supposed to scan all that we bought and either put in the
prices or they could automatically get the price.
When we got home we pulled out the scanner and scanned every item we
bought (for personal use) and then put in
When I speak of what type of computer one wants, I am speaking of
personal use. A fair number of purchases for personal use are also
predicated upon the need to do work at home for an employer.
It may very well be the situation, but that is a business tool needs case.
Windows buyers fear
Are you really that clueless about business economics? I expect better,
even from a WFB. To stay in business these companies are either going to
raise prices 50 to 100% or start sourcing their parts at junkyards. A
profit margin that slim is simply unsustainable.
Project, monkey boy, project.
The point, which you seem to miss, is that PS2 is an obsolete product.
Not for Nielsen numbers. Nielsen is measuring what people have in their
homes and are using. PS2 Wins. If you want to track non-obsolete
products
you should be looking at current sales. For that the latest stats are
at
My response was aimed at Tom who thinks that giving consumers a good
bargain is a bad thing. In his book, $$$ = quality; it's largely an
exercise in snobbery. There is some correlation with price and
reliability, but not always. In real estate, it's location, location,
location. You
Most products have at least a 50% markup [that means base cost is 50% of
selling price, not including shipping, handling, storage, marketing,
advertising, sales]. With some electronics it has been as low as 10% to
cover costs and have a minimal profit. A net profit of 1.7% is hardly
worth
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$759 (assuming you pay for the OS) vs. $999 for a MacBook. That's way too
much. I would spend the extra $240 just for the reliability factor.
Heck if I wanted to go that way I could just go to the nearest college
campus and steal a MacBook.
The Dell and HP
Thanks Betty, Tom, and Mike, for your info.
After looking it over, I've decided that for my degree of computer
expertise, I should leave my MSI Wind just they way it is. It does run
iTunes well, and that's the main reason that I purchased it.
BTW, I paid $379 + $9 shipping at Costco.com,
My Sennheisers do well enough and are very portable
You probably said which ones they are some time back, but I overlooked it.
Please tell!
Mary
I first bought the MX 500 earbuds a few years ago, then lost them last
fall, and bought two more pairs from an Amazon store. They're somewhat
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 10:12 AM, Tom Piwowar t...@tjpa.com wrote:
I think you are using that Apple math where everything costs more. The
MSI
wind can be picked up for less then 320, add in a used copy of OS X for
say
100 bux? Now you are looking at less then 450. I know you like to pay
You have it backwards. $$$ doesn't equal quality. However, often it costs
more to design and make a quality product--and have money left over for RD.
No, I don't have it backwards; I explained as much. Please read again
what I wrote.
Apple is very good at business. They offer excellent products at a fair
price with enough cash left over for RD. How much of the competitors' 1.7%
profit goes to RD?
Betty--Assuming Tom's claim is real (he misplaced his link to back
this up, goshdarnit!), 1.7% is an average of ALL PC makers,
There is another problem with this number.
Apple combines their whole operation. Hardware and Software.
You would have to separate out what their profit margin is on the OS,
and what their profit margin is on their hardware (Computer)
MS does not sell computers. They sell an OS, a Suite
Recently I've been having intermittent connectivity problems with IE7
accessing the Internet. More often than not, IE7 just sits there and
spins away with no Internet activity showing in the Zone Alarm Intenet
monitor. Shutting down the firewall doesn't help all the time
(although it did seem to
Foxconn makes boards for Apple towers too, I believe ASUS handles the laptop
side.
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 10:03 AM, Rev. Stewart Marshall
popoz...@earthlink.net wrote:
There is another problem with this number.
Apple combines their whole operation. Hardware and Software.
You would have
Chronologically:
Steve W. Steve J. came first. The hardware came first, then an OS to
make the hardware do something useful in a relatively easy manner.
Bill G. came last. It wasn't his hardware. The hardware was made by
IBM. He didn't decide to sell an OS. IBM licensed QDOS from Bill,
Speaking of...how many here have ever been a participant in a Nielsen poll
or survey?
Not me...
Me, me, me!
The phoned me every morning to ask what I had watched the night before.
The funny thing was that they always questioned me incredulously about
gaps. They would say you watched
Orginally being?
OS X is based on freebsd and other open standard projects, not at all an
apple designed os..Apple did what a lot of companies do, take a product and
make it better.
Classic mac OS was partially based on things coming out of xerox. I believe
Jobs hired on one or several? of the
Chronologically:
Steve W. Steve J. came first. The hardware came first, then an OS to
make the hardware do something useful in a relatively easy manner.
Bill G. came last. It wasn't his hardware. The hardware was made by
IBM.
I think that chronology is accurate, but only you're talking
Orginally being?
OS X is based on freebsd and other open standard projects,
not at all an apple designed os..Apple did what a lot of
companies do, take a product and make it better.
Classic mac OS was partially based on things coming out of
xerox. I believe Jobs hired on one or
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5890
Tree Style Tabs. This does just what it says, puts your tabs on the side in
the tree format. For those with tons of tabs open in firefox, this makes
them much easier to find and hit. Great little extension.
I have Firefox set to new pages should be opened in a new
tab. This works fine if I click on a link in a new email. However,
if I attempt to open a new site from my Personal Tool Bar, the new
page opens in the tab that is currently open.
Am I doing something wrong? The only way I can seem
I use my middle mouse button to open links in new tabs.
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 4:00 PM, Sue Cubic scu...@earthlink.net wrote:
I have Firefox set to new pages should be opened in a new tab. This works
fine if I click on a link in a new email. However, if I attempt to open a
new site from my
Tree Style Tabs. This does just what it says, puts your tabs on the side in
the tree format. For those with tons of tabs open in firefox, this makes
them much easier to find and hit. Great little extension.
I saw that and I do like to have lots of tabs open, but my experience
with FireFox
At 04:29 PM 4/10/2009 -0400, you wrote:
I use my middle mouse button to open links in new tabs.
I don't have a middle mouse button. :) So I'm not missing something
in the controls setup?
Sue
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So first you argue they don't use their machines more...then you say when
they do they are lazy good for nothings? And you wonder why people think
you hate MS with your no win scenarios you play out here.
??? The Nielsen study is looking at something very different than the
hardware sales stats
I'm not sure why you are looking to spend 450, you've made it clear you
don't mind spending more on apple hardware. I spend quite a bit more
getting ipods then I would getting other mp3 players.
I don't mind spending more on Apple hardware because it works. I don't
have to futz with it much.. I
Am I doing something wrong? The only way I can seem to have more than one
tab is to open a new tab first.
Command-click on the link.
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A laptop? Strangely, everyone I know - myself included - drags around
mice with their laptops, so I *always* have a middle mouse button
available.
As Tom said, if you don't mind using two hands there are hotkeys. You
can also right-click and open link in new tab. Thing is, you don't
want EVERY
Classic mac OS was partially based on things coming out of
xerox. I believe Jobs hired on one or several? of the guys
who worked for xerox to work on the lisa OS. Someone here
might know that history better.
Not really. The Mac team did interact with the Xerox team as they were
nearby
Why do you quote something, then talk about something else? When you say
'you', who are you talking to? I think you are skipping the part to see who
is writing the emails.
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 1:56 PM, Tom Piwowar t...@tjpa.com wrote:
So first you argue they don't use their machines
I have Firefox set to new pages should be opened in a new tab.
This works fine if I click on a link in a new email. However, if I
attempt to open a new site from my Personal Tool Bar, the new page
opens in the tab that is currently open.
Am I doing something wrong? The only way I can seem to
Bill G. came last. It wasn't his hardware. The hardware was made by
IBM.
And the OS was written by Digital Research. Some say MS stole it.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WIMP_(computing)
Doesn't look like it was just a mockup.
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 2:11 PM, Tom Piwowar t...@tjpa.com wrote:
Classic mac OS was partially based on things coming out of
xerox. I believe Jobs hired on one or several? of the guys
who worked for
Here you provide and example of one of your worst traits...passing off your
opinions as if they are facts.
With your logic, Steve W would have never created the mac. He enjoyed
*doing* things to computers, a lot of people do. Don't knock it...don't do
it if you don't want to, but putting it
I saw that and I do like to have lots of tabs open, but my experience
with FireFox (and other browsers) is that they run slower and slower as
more tabs are open. So I often run with several browsers to divide my
open tabs among them. This seems to avoid slowdowns.
Is this just me or are
Why do you quote something, then talk about something else
I just identified this scheme earlier today as Plan #1.
My dad used to have a joke about two guys stranded on a desert island. After
they'd been through all their jokes a hundred times, they just gave each one
a number, so one guy would
Chrome does this too...does safari on mac?
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 2:30 PM, Chris Dunford ch...@covesoftware.comwrote:
I saw that and I do like to have lots of tabs open, but my experience
with FireFox (and other browsers) is that they run slower and slower as
more tabs are open. So I
Bill G. came last. It wasn't his hardware. The hardware was made by
IBM.
And the OS was written by Digital Research. Some say MS stole it.
Oh, boy, here we go.
Who exactly says that, and why? MS licensed it, which to the best of my
knowledge isn't theft.
(Anyway, it was Seattle Computer
At 05:08 PM 4/10/2009 -0400, you wrote:
A laptop? Strangely, everyone I know - myself included - drags around
mice with their laptops, so I *always* have a middle mouse button
available.
As Tom said, if you don't mind using two hands there are hotkeys. You
can also right-click and open link in
At 05:22 PM 4/10/2009 -0400, you wrote:
In Firefox/Seamonkey/Flock/Camino location bar type: about:config
In search field type:tab
That gives you all the available choices for how you want tabs to work.
Double-click on any and you can change the parameters. Confused? This
explains
Heh. That scroll wheel *is* your middle mouse button. Press it down.
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 8:08 PM, Sue Cubic scu...@earthlink.net wrote:
No, not a laptop. It's a Logitech Trackman Wheel mouse. No center
button--in the center is a scroll wheel.
At 08:22 PM 4/10/2009 -0400, you wrote:
Heh. That scroll wheel *is* your middle mouse button. Press it down.
I know that it locks the scroll, but didn't know it did anything
else. I'll be darned! :)
Sue
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Classic mac OS was partially based on things coming out of
xerox. I believe Jobs hired on one or several? of the guys
who worked for xerox to work on the lisa OS. Someone here
might know that history better.
Not really. The Mac team did interact with the Xerox team as they were
nearby
A laptop? Strangely, everyone I know - myself included - drags around
mice with their laptops, so I *always* have a middle mouse button
available.
As Tom said, if you don't mind using two hands there are hotkeys. You
can also right-click and open link in new tab. Thing is, you don't
want EVERY
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