Re: Mind's Eye Windows Eight

I can barely resist fixing things. I'm about to upgrade my PC to a
solid state drive - but should really have worked out whether anyone
will use it. I'd probably want to fit a miniature mobile phone to the
watch before fixing it to my belt. I rebuilt an old Land Rover a
couple of years back - should really have worked out whether I'd ever
want to drive the thing first! I've just been thwarted by a tap-
washer - the screw actually has a hex-splined head - but I have a box
of them in the shed from my car mechanic past so it will succumb
tomorrow! Assuming nothing in the shed attacks me - I'm not very
tidy.

Aero was a duck-egg if ever there was one!

On Dec 18, 11:13 pm, James <ashkas...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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:
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> > 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.
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> > On Dec 17, 1:20 pm, gabbydott<gabbyd...@gmail.com>  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.
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> >> I have treated myself to a new smartphone, the Nexus 4. It arrived earlier
> >> than expected and it is a wonderful new toy! :)
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> >> 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"<nwte...@gmail.com>:
>
> >>> 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<leerevdoug...@gmail.com>  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<nwt...@gmail.com<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<gabbyd...@gmail.com>  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<nwte...@gmail.com>
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> >>>>>>>> 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<allanh1...@gmail.com>  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<nwte...@gmail.com>
> >>>>> 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<allanh1...@gmail.com>  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<nwte...@gmail.com
>
> >>>>> 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
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