Re: Mind's Eye Windows Eight

Getting a little worried here, my fiancee just told me she didn't think
tribal cultures were all that advanced. Enough to integrate weapons
(bows and arrows) in play anyways, I wonder what would make her think
that, she is far ahead of me on book learning (English and History major).

I consider my office and shop areas a reflection of my mind, you can
deduce from that. Ha! Need to find a way to extract some money from all
these watts my brain is consuming, some days it runs through me like a
lightning rod, and on others it is difficult to read more than three
words at a time. Molly might have some advice on psychic pendulums, but
I'm thinking Allan or RP could tell me a thing or two about how to use
an echo before it's origin, I've been waiting for a sweet explanation
from science but the statistics are way outta my league. Inner
monologue: how to make some money? (echo, echo, echo), no reply. :|

I love taking apart and fixing things, especially when they work better
after. *chuckles

On 12/19/2012 1:38 PM, archytas wrote:
> 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.
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>>>> I have treated myself to a new smartphone, the Nexus 4. It arrived earlier
>>>> than expected and it is a wonderful new toy! :)
>>
>>>> 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:
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>>>>>>> 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>
>>
>>>>>>>>>> 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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