Quoting t.piwowar t...@tjpa.com:
On Dec 21, 2009, at 11:15 PM, Reid Katan wrote:
But Tom and Betty both say the Dock *works better* (not has more
functions, but is more user friendly) on the side. And IIRC, Tom
intimated that no serious user would leave the Dock on the bottom.
So, what
On Dec 22, 2009, at 1:02 AM, mike wrote:
More Tom hatred fuming forth...maybe he can get the Christmas spirit
and
spare us for a few days?
In the Holiday spirit of love and charity: some of you cause your own
problems.
Right. I don't know what the Dock does when it gets full. When
you've got more icons than can fit in a given space (vertical or
horizontal). Do the icons shrink to make more room? start a second row?
They shrink.
I like mine on the right.
Humans eyes scan better in the horizontal plane. Maybe
On Dec 22, 2009, at 8:54 AM, Reid Katan wrote:
I'm not trying to arm-chair anything. Inquiring minds want to know.
What are the obvious improvements?
Go try it.
Everyone I showed it to, except certain folks on this list, have found
it better. What's your evidence?
Quoting tjpa t...@tjpa.com:
On Dec 22, 2009, at 8:54 AM, Reid Katan wrote:
I'm not trying to arm-chair anything. Inquiring minds want to know.
What are the obvious improvements?
Go try it.
Everyone I showed it to, except certain folks on this list, have found
it better. What's your
What is your favorite color? What is your evidence that this is the best
color?
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 7:36 AM, tjpa t...@tjpa.com wrote:
On Dec 22, 2009, at 8:54 AM, Reid Katan wrote:
I'm not trying to arm-chair anything. Inquiring minds want to know. What
are the obvious improvements?
Quoting Jordan jor17...@gmail.com:
Right. I don't know what the Dock does when it gets full. When
you've got more icons than can fit in a given space (vertical or
horizontal). Do the icons shrink to make more room? start a second
row?
They shrink.
I like mine on the right.
Humans
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 9:58 AM, mike xha...@gmail.com wrote:
What is your favorite color? What is your evidence that this is the best
color?
Plaid.
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I don't know where you shop, but I have not seen even *one* netbook being
sold with more than 1 GB of RAM, and many with less.
Maybe you are confusing regular notebooks and netbooks.
On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 8:29 PM, Rev. Stewart Marshall
revsamarsh...@earthlink.net wrote:
Earlier
I was not talking about Netbooks. Netbooks have only been sold with
XP or now Win7Basic.
I was talking about full size Notebooks.
My son is running Win7Home Premium on his netbook without a hitch.
They cannot sell netbooks with more than 1 GB of ram or it is no
longer a netbook. (According
On Dec 22, 2009, at 9:58 AM, mike wrote:
What is your favorite color? What is your evidence that this is the
best
color?
Just like I figured. You don't know much about interface design. I
might as well waste my time discussing French cuisine with somebody
who thinks McDonalds and Pizza
On Dec 22, 2009, at 10:15 AM, Reid Katan wrote:
Tom. I tried it. The icons bounce a different direction. Big deal.
The right click menu is the same. I see no difference.
Biased observer.
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Votre arrogance m'étonne même parfois.
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 10:22 AM, tjpa t...@tjpa.com wrote:
On Dec 22, 2009, at 9:58 AM, mike wrote:
What is your favorite color? What is your evidence that this is the best
color?
Just like I figured. You don't know much about interface design. I
Anyone who doesn't back Tom's fascist OS view is biased. Get in line you
dolts!
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 10:22 AM, tjpa t...@tjpa.com wrote:
On Dec 22, 2009, at 10:15 AM, Reid Katan wrote:
Tom. I tried it. The icons bounce a different direction. Big deal. The
right click menu is the same. I
Entshuldigung Sie bitte?
Stewart
At 11:54 AM 12/22/2009, you wrote:
Votre arrogance m'étonne même parfois.
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 10:22 AM, tjpa t...@tjpa.com wrote:
On Dec 22, 2009, at 9:58 AM, mike wrote:
What is your favorite color? What is your evidence that this is the best
Moi aussi!
mike wrote:
Votre arrogance m'étonne même parfois.
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 10:22 AM, tjpa t...@tjpa.com wrote:
On Dec 22, 2009, at 9:58 AM, mike wrote:
What is your favorite color? What is your evidence that this is the best
color?
Just like I figured. You
Red. No, blue!
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 9:58 AM, mike xha...@gmail.com wrote:
What is your favorite color? What is your evidence that this is the best
color?
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 7:36 AM, tjpa t...@tjpa.com wrote:
On Dec 22, 2009, at 8:54 AM, Reid Katan wrote:
I'm not trying to
Well, I'll bite, in the interest of trying to have an actual discussion.
I've always moved my Windows (XP and down, anyway, never used Vista on up)
task bar to the left and set it to auto-hide. Always responded to moving
the mouse there or hitting the Windows key if I needed it, and stayed out
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On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 9:28 AM, Allen Firstenberg cg...@addventure.comwrote:
Red. No, blue!
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 9:58 AM, mike xha...@gmail.com wrote:
What is your favorite color? What is your evidence that this is the best
color?
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 7:36 AM,
Tom, Betty
What are the advantages you find in putting the Dock/ Taskbar to the left?
db
t.piwowar wrote:
On Dec 21, 2009, at 11:15 PM, Reid Katan wrote:
But Tom and Betty both say the Dock *works better* (not has more
functions, but is more user friendly) on the side. And IIRC, Tom
Quoting tjpa t...@tjpa.com:
On Dec 22, 2009, at 10:15 AM, Reid Katan wrote:
Tom. I tried it. The icons bounce a different direction. Big deal.
The right click menu is the same. I see no difference.
Biased observer.
Do you treat your customers with such contempt? How do you even still
Quoting mike xha...@gmail.com:
Anyone who doesn't back Tom's fascist OS view is biased. Get in line you
dolts!
I don't even care about OS. I'm not even asking about TaskBar. I just
want to know what it is about putting the Dock on the side that works
so much better. I'll never get an
Quoting Reid Katan ka...@his.com:
BTW, notice that Jeff Wright finally got tired of Tom's shit. I haven't
seen him around for a while.
Oops. That not supposed to be a command that everyone take note.
Here's what it's *supposed* to say:
BTW, *I* notice that Jeff Wright finally got tired of
This list has been careful to not get into risky illegal discussion
territory but it hasn't seemed to exhibit similar caution about
exercising good list etiquette re: interpersonal respect..
I've seen decidedly more and more name calling , personal slights, and
non value-added chatting etc
Not sure if Gail got run off or got busy.
But, there are still a few who had questions that may have been lost in the
maze of the thread that started this..so
What exactly is the computer doing that you think it has a virus? I've seen
bad hardware behave strangely, this may be the issue this
Years ago when I joined this list, I found it to be very supportive,
especially of newbies. There was very little slamming of anyone and
while the Mac versus PC opinions were out there, the wars had yet to
begin. Now it appears that some of the regular posters have no trouble
bashing anyone's
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 12:22 AM, t.piwowar t...@tjpa.com wrote:
Silly question. Selling computers with inadequate RAM is a very old story.
In fact, if the retailer were taking the high ground they would not be
selling Windows.
If they want to market to the masses, they will sell Windows
It has gotten better over time.
At one time memory price was an issue.
I remember way back when memory sold for $60 a MB. (We sold a custom
machine where the man wanted 16 MB of ram, cost him $640 a lone for the ram.)
Memory has become so cheap (comparatively, same with HD cost) that
this
On Dec 22, 2009, at 6:44 PM, phartz...@gmail.com wrote:
I do not know of any new Macs ever sold that had RAM in amounts that
was inadequate to the point of not being able to be booted up.
Not so little that the Mac would not boot up, but not enough to avoid
the Mac running inefficiently.
I'd like to see this system, I've never seen a system sold with so little
ram it wouldn't boot. That would be a defective machine by any
standard..like buying a car with no tires. Perhaps I don't frequent these
shops you do so I've never seen it. When anyone with the will can build and
sell
I think my first computer had a 250MB hard drive. I don't remember how
much ram. At work we were wowed when the CAD guy got a 500MB and then a
1 Gig hard drive. I had been using DOS a lot at work for CNC machine
programming and thought it was kind of fun. I found Windows 3.0 pretty
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 7:16 PM, tjpa t...@tjpa.com wrote:
On Dec 22, 2009, at 6:44 PM, phartz...@gmail.com wrote:
I do not know of any new Macs ever sold that had RAM in amounts that
was inadequate to the point of not being able to be booted up.
Not so little that the Mac would not boot
My first PC (not commodore) had dual 5.25 floppies no HD.
My first HD was a 30 MB Hardcard (fit into a full size slot) I paid
over $300 for it. The most expensive HD I ever bought.
Stewart
At 06:49 PM 12/22/2009, you wrote:
I think my first computer had a 250MB hard drive. I don't
More and more machines are coming with lots of RAM.
It is a sign that RAM has become less expensive. Same with HD's.
My wife's laptop came with a 250 GB drive in it. Also 2 GB RAM.
Last Laptop I bought came with 3 GB ram. (not a net book)
Stewart
At 06:57 PM 12/22/2009, you wrote:
Most
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 7:48 PM, mike xha...@gmail.com wrote:
I'd like to see this system, I've never seen a system sold with so little
ram it wouldn't boot. That would be a defective machine by any
standard..like buying a car with no tires. Perhaps I don't frequent these
shops you do so
Geek squads like to sell things and services.
However if I remember correctly many of the first machines sold
Vista Ready were not really. MS woefully under reported the need
for RAM on these first machines and I think they started bumping up
the RAM at this point.
Like I said I bought my
On Dec 22, 2009, at 8:16 PM, Rev. Stewart Marshall wrote:
Geek squads like to sell things and services.
They are paid a commission on whatever stuff they load you up with.
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I'll second that. I just bought a new HP and it came already maxed out
on memory. The MB could ONLY accomodate 8GB and memory is so cheap,
that's what came with the machine. Hope it will be enough for a few
yearsg.
Rev. Stewart Marshall wrote:
More and more machines are coming with lots of
Yup and load you up they will.
Stewart
At 08:27 PM 12/22/2009, you wrote:
They are paid a commission on whatever stuff they load you up with.
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On Dec 22, 2009, at 5:44 PM, db wrote:
I'd like to think that my critique and my questions re: Mac OS
weren't because I am dumb or nasty.
I sent a response that covered your issues and included links to some
great articles that offered further explanations. I even sent info
about
Geeze. You kids today.
My first HD was a Davong 5MB that cost several thousand dollars (fortunately, a
client paid for it). But that's not the amusing part.
No, the amusing part is that I partitioned it into two 2.5MB partitions so I
could run both PC-DOS and the UCSD p-System (and the
On Dec 22, 2009, at 11:29 AM, Allen Firstenberg wrote:
When I first started using OSX, I tried moving the dock around and
trying
different hide settings and never quite liked it. Lots of my
windows put
stuff on the left, and having the dock there would cover it.
Setting it to
auto hide
I found it annoying to hide the dock myself, although I found it worked just
fine at the bottom. I always made it as small as I could and still see it
and let it grow rather large when I wanted it. It's interesting to note
about showing you information in the dock, this is one of the complaints
I came into computers rather late.
I graduated from Seminary (graduate school) in 82 and the only
computers then were very rudimentary.
I got a Commodore 64 in 84. I did not get my first PC till 86.
The commodore had 64K memory and I started with a cassette tape
drive. I remember typing in
I've got a friend with a os x machine and he wants to limit his sons
internet time to 30 minutes...I'm not quite sure if or how to do this on the
mac. He wants his son to have full access to the machine 24/7, but limit
internet connectivity to a specified time period. Any advice appreciated.
On Dec 22, 2009, at 11:03 PM, mike wrote:
I've got a friend with a os x machine and he wants to limit his sons
internet time to 30 minutes...I'm not quite sure if or how to do
this on the
mac. He wants his son to have full access to the machine 24/7, but
limit
internet connectivity to a
Thanks, I don't have the box in front of me ATM and I wasn't sure you could
get that precise as to set a time for access to the net.
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 11:30 PM, t.piwowar t...@tjpa.com wrote:
On Dec 22, 2009, at 11:03 PM, mike wrote:
I've got a friend with a os x machine and he wants to
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