Set a self-running slide show. Include a slide or two with simple
"how-to" info. Put the info slide as every 5th slide or so. Do
something to encourage people to touch the Mac. I used to throw
soft-porn photos into preliminary slide presentations to keep the
viewers awake. heh heh. It worked.
Seeing the Bill Nye post, I was reminded of a favorite song fragment ...
[quote]
he sun's a moon that warms you
the moon's a sun with no heat
the sky above is to remind you
what's under your feet
[unquote]
--- Ben Harper, "Engraved Invitation" - Both Sides of the Gun
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While I agree about the "delete key", he does have a point though.
The character and function of lists change as people who use the list
change. If a lot of people using this list start talking progressively
more off topic, then it is common list progression that's what the list
becomes prog
On Aug 20, 2007, at 2:35 PM, b_s-wilk wrote:
I mention this because it's important to discuss computers and
technology in relation to everything else. Where one technology is
denigrated, misrepresented, or worse, denied, others can also be
adversely affected.
I have been clobbered by your
The bearing is going out on one of them... one of the two moving part
physical failings of computers. Short of unplugging one or the other,
as Tom says, stick a plastic fork in one of them for a moment and you
will know which one it is. Then replace it...
db
Robert wrote:
I have a Dell
SciFri "The World is Flat" podcast linky: http://snipurl.com/1pq37
All SciFri podcasts: http://www.sciencefriday.com/feed/
August can also be the time for good rants! Bob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, let's
hear more! Health care, religion, breaking 'Net Neutrality', poisoned
food [this week it's "organ
They must provide you a means to receive your bill she admitted as
much on TV. They do not have to account for each text message or
data packet served though.
Like Is aid Verizon details each phone call, but only gives me a lump
sum of text and data (Believe me I do not want a complete listin
She's not just sending text, she's getting updates for twitter. If
she has two dozen friends she's watching, that could be hundreds and
hundreds a day alone there.
I also think, I'm not sure, but by law the telcos have to give you the
option of a paper bill. AT$T lets you go all digital though i
>Mac OS 10.4.x is VERY stable and dependable.
Warning, the latest, X.4.10 is not stable and dependable. Stick with
X.4.9 or wait for X.4.11, which is supposed to be mostly a bug fix for
X.4.10.
* ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND RE
I have been a Verizon customer for many ears now and with 4 phones
two teenagers I have never gotten a bill that had to be boxed.
My oldest is at college and he uses his phone as a landline
phone. He text messages with the best of them. I have had to pay
overages for both text and phone serv
>the phone bill cost AT$T seven bux just to send it to her.
While it is distressing to think of someone sending 1,000 text messages a
day, it is even more distressing to have a supposed technology company --
AT&T -- be so ignorant about how the technology they sell is used. Apple
handed AT&T th
The problems with this situation is that the whole discussion centers
around interpretation. On one side is the fact that fundamentalists
center their beliefs on the King James translation of ancient Hebrew
texts (which were, of course, transcriptions of even more ancient oral
tradition). And e
On Aug 20, 2007, at 12:03 AM, b_s-wilk wrote:
Why not start with using photos of the art as your screensaver. Select
a
folder of art so that the pictures will fade in and fade to the next
photo as people walk by. That could spark some curiosity. Tell them how
easy it is to do that, then show th
It may be a bit late in the thread to return to the original debate.
However, being a highly secular person myself, I have to fault Mr. Nye for
having pointed out the "inaccuracy" of the biblical text as part of his
lecture. Anybody who made it through elementary school knows that the moon
doe
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