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Quote: Originally posted by hardeeharhar My stance certainly isn't antiquated, any more than my stance on powerpoint presentations, computers don't make everything better. They are good tools for very specific things, and that's it. Your view…
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Quote: Originally posted by CosmoNut That's not a good use of analogy and that's not what I'm saying. Point taken, but I don't think that the 'I pay your salary' argument holds much water. People use it too much, and feel that they are entit…
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Quote: Originally posted by CosmoNut With all due respect, if I'm contributing to your hefty salary as a professor, I don't give a sh*t if I'm wasting your time. I always thought it was ridiculous when my professors would dock points from our …
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Quote: Originally posted by rok i am sure i differ wit others, but i cannot take notes nearly as fast with a computer as i can with a thick notebook and a pen or pencil. handwriting recognition? i have one of the best recognition engines out ther…
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Quote: Originally posted by rok okay, fair enough, but usually if an app allows for multiple windows, i expect there to be some indication like in a "view" menu like "view -> new window" or "file -> new... window" or something. itunes doesn…
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Quote: Originally posted by Elixir pyr3- are you having your period? what the hell are u up my ass for? i've delt with routers that when contacting technical support told me "well we dont have much support for the osx" same with some i…
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It's not OS X or Windows 'being anal.' The DVD drive is set to a specific region coding. Usually you are allowed something like 5 changes of it (the MPAA thinks that this is very generous of them). The software requests the region code of the dri…
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The PeerGuardian plugin is probably the most useful for Azureus. acr4, you can turn off those pop-ups in the preferences. You can also turn off the Universal Plug-N-Play (UPnP) support too which might help get rid of errors. If the firewall…
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Shiira is lacking in things that I would like to see in a browser. Things like the ability to filter Javascript support like that Firefox extension. Not only that, I don't really like a lot of the sidebar features.
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Quote: Originally posted by wgauvin A friend of mine has had his iMac in for repairs so many times, it turns out it's Entourage being the problem, since it's a software problem it's not covered on the warranty. I remember when he got his iMac, h…
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Hard drives come in three flavors: 3.5 inch, 2.5 inch, and 1.8 inch (you could also count microdrives I guess). 3.5 inch drives are the drives that are in desktop computers. They are large and bulky to be carrying around for travel. These drive…
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Quote: Originally posted by mercury7 to me buying a pirated dvd is worse than copying a friends but that is just because those guys who make money off of them are the ones that have made it bad for the rest of us. Most of the big pirating ope…
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Quote: Originally posted by JohnnySmith Like someone said, if you purposely try to break it, you run a risk of getting caught and being left with a broken laptop that you can't get fixed without spending yet more money to fix what you broke. I…
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Quote: Originally posted by Elixir a cheaper router is just that , cheaper. The only routers that a crappy ones are the el cheapo brands. D-Link, Linksys, even Microsoft one will work (and should be really cheap seeing as MS pulled out of th…
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It depends on what type of classes you are taking. For math courses, it would suck because you would need to draw diagrams and such (this would be one of the few places that a tablet PC could excel). I graduated over the summer (CompSci), but …
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Quote: Originally posted by Gon I said that these monopolies are antithetical to capitalism by their very nature, and offered an explanation why. Now since you're going a direction that is about 180 degrees different, it would be customary to pro…
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Quote: Originally posted by Res The "They produce it once. They should get paid once." equation does not work at all for intellectual works -- it never has and it never will. Copyright laws are needed to encourage people to publish their works s…
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Quote: Originally posted by Aquatic Safari chokes Macs even with 20 or 30 pages open. If Flash sucks, it sucks. Did you not read the beginning of this thread pyr3? Your ENTIRE response is an apology. I don't want apologies. I want iChat …
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Quote: Originally posted by dojobi This is a major issue for me right now. Out of the 100+ people on my contact list, I don't know a single person who uses AIM, so it must be a US thing. Here in Australia, MSN is the standard. In the future, I…
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Quote: Originally posted by cygsid *sigh* If "it's something that's got to be done," then why doesn't Solaris need it? Why doesn't Linux need it? Why doesn't Windows need it? 'nuff said. ps: please do not take the above literally! I do not mea…