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"Keith Miller MVP" wrote in message ... "Doug Kanter" wrote in message news Yeah. They're training to become president. The president thinks the world would be a better place if everyone thought like him; you think the world would be a better place if everyone's computer looked like yours --- you two have a lot in common!!! Well....at least I wouldn't be defending a business deal I'd just heard about a few days ago, pretending to understand it thoroughly. http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories...LATE=DE FAULT |
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Take a cold shower.
DSH "Tim Bird" wrote in message ... "Doug Kanter" wrote in message ... "Tim Bird" wrote in message ... "D. Spencer Hines" wrote in message ... O.K. Good Point... Technical Cybernetic Masturbators [TCM's] do proliferate in these newsgroups. They'd rather tweak, fiddle and futz -- rather than do useful work on the computer. For some people - myself included - that's actually fun. It's a break from using a PC as a workhorse in the daily life. I like the idea of seeing if I can do something different with my PC - make it look different. Use the desktop rather than have it as a menu, etc. Why use an application like Outlook to do scheduling and email, etc when you can have these tools built into the desktop and available all the time? Perhaps some of the TCM's are innovators and will come up with new ways of using their PC? Go for a walk! :-) Funny enough I am actually going on a walking holiday next week. So there! :-) |
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Technical Computer Masturbators [TCM's] do proliferate in these newsgroups. They'd rather tweak, fiddle and futz -- rather than do useful work on the computer. Oh, this is such merde...crap!! do you fellows ever change your shirts? Brush your hair? Maybe stick a daisy in a vase and decorate your table? I work on a computer. I have written several books and am in the midst of a third, but Ii like fooling around with the interface and I further like to see something a little unique--I don't necessarily want my computer to look lthe same as every pasty face, grey suited clone of Bill Gates. Sure it's fooly and time wasting--twiddle, futz and tweak, so is combing your hair...or tending roses--and certainly of no significant value...but so what? We don't need a bunch of politicaly correct, self-righteous nazis telling us how to decorate our houses either. Besides, games are fooly and time wasting and yet Micro$oft DID put them in the OS!!! And more than one. Why do you suppose that is? BECAUSE games are fun! And if computers are fun, more people will buy them. Just like themes and altering your desktop can be fun... AND MOST OF ALL ...there's no harm in folks having fun! Justin, Check out: Check out www.stardock.com and this article over at www.neowin.net http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.ph...t opic=244384 Aand don't let the "dimlights" of the world get you down. -- DW In the High Desert of Central Oregon |
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And crazy as a March hare.
DSH "DW" wrote in message ... DW In the High Desert of Central Oregon |
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Why are March hares considered crazy, anyway?
"D. Spencer Hines" wrote in message ... And crazy as a March hare. DSH "DW" wrote in message ... DW In the High Desert of Central Oregon |
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"DanS" wrote: Several years ago I was using Opera and when I first tried it the tabbed window, I thought it was great, but after using it for a while like that, I just stopped. Just don't care for it too much. Really? I love opera... Ive been using the InternetExplorer beta and I still think Its pale in comparison to Opera. I wont list my issues here but the GUI and functionality is minimal (other than their new phishing utility) . Once you get used to the mouse gestures in Opera its difficult to use windows again and tabbed browsing just makes for easier mouse movements so you're not throwing your cursor all over the destop to navigate windows (Im not a TAB/Ctrl+Shift person) tabs are unnecesary though. Opera demonstrates this with the wheel mouse gesture. you can open any page by pressing the wheel and turning it, I use it so much I turned off the tab bar. If IE would just put some more effort into the GUI and stop complicating security so much Id be happier. |
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Thot you'd never ask
http://www.askoxford.com/worldofword...otefrom/hares/ Doug Kanter wrote: Why are March hares considered crazy, anyway? "D. Spencer Hines" wrote in message ... And crazy as a March hare. DSH "DW" wrote in message .. . DW In the High Desert of Central Oregon |
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Tim Bird Wrote: Why use an application like Outlook to do scheduling and email, etc when you can have these tools built into the desktop and available all the time? Perhaps some of the TCM's are innovators and will come up with new ways of using their PC? ================================================== ====== I agree, why cant microsoft allow a user freindly theme/desktop editor? its really like editing a picture in MS paint anyway. You have to be a TCM to want to alter system configurations. I checked out windows blinds(premium version) and wont let you change anything until you buy it (or download the free version with all the same themes) when I tried to apply a theme it stalled my system and windows takes 15 minutes to load. Im not sure what it changed or how to fix it (since i uninstalled it) but since microsoft is jumping on the mp3 player bandwagon why not eat up all the little tweak markets too so this crap doesnt happen? |
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I'm sorry to hear that Brand. I have been running the trial version of
WindowBlinds for several weeks now...really, no problems. I can download and use third party skins...must have twenty or thirty of them now and it doesn't slow my computer down a whit. I've seen analyses concluding that WindowBlinds uses no more, and probably less resources than any of the other skin changers...AND no more than Windows itself!! And I even ran across an article that suggested that the default XP theme in Windows XP is an older Windowblinds version and skin. I can't say for sure. But I am buying the enhanced version (v.5) and if twenty dollars is too much for you then I think there's even an earlier version (v4.5) that's totally free of charge. No connection, just futzin' along, singin' a song, day by day... -- DW In the High Desert of Central Oregon "brand dub" wrote in message ... Tim Bird Wrote: Why use an application like Outlook to do scheduling and email, etc when you can have these tools built into the desktop and available all the time? Perhaps some of the TCM's are innovators and will come up with new ways of using their PC? ================================================== ====== I agree, why cant microsoft allow a user freindly theme/desktop editor? its really like editing a picture in MS paint anyway. You have to be a TCM to want to alter system configurations. I checked out windows blinds(premium version) and wont let you change anything until you buy it (or download the free version with all the same themes) when I tried to apply a theme it stalled my system and windows takes 15 minutes to load. Im not sure what it changed or how to fix it (since i uninstalled it) but since microsoft is jumping on the mp3 player bandwagon why not eat up all the little tweak markets too so this crap doesnt happen? |
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Couple of thoughts...DOS was a pretty good menu system if that's all you
want from an OS. Why did we all move to Windows...and Win98...and Win XP...and next will be Vista? Most of what has been added has nothing to do with a menuing systyem. And most of what has been added was added to "prettify" the interface. And how did all that happen? The programmers...and the execs...at M$ just kept tweakin' and futzin' and fiddlin'... Granted not all of what has been changed is useful or even attractive...take the search dog for instance. Anyone know of a good kennel? But hardly any of it was changed just for the sake of utility. And Vista? hey, Vista is just taking its clues from the ...skinners. After all who really needs transparancy? Any of you guys losing productivity due to a lack of transparent menus or windows? -- DW In the High Desert of Central Oregon "D. Spencer Hines" wrote in message ... O.K. Good Point... Technical Computer Masturbators [TCM's] do proliferate in these newsgroups. They'd rather tweak, fiddle and futz -- rather than do useful work on the computer. Remember the folks who would spend hours just watching their screensavers -- and changing them continuously? DSH "Doug Kanter" wrote in message ... "D. Spencer Hines" wrote in message ... Another Good Argument for NOT proliferating rinky-dink, 3rd Party add-ons and screw-ins from fly-by-night vendors in XP or Vista [when we have it]. IF it's a worthwhile feature for consumers... PUT IT IN THE OS... Where it can be properly INTEGRATED By MICROSOFT. DSH Better reason: The desktop is basically a menu. If you're spending much time looking at it, you're not using the computer. You're behaving like a patient that's just undergone a lobotomy. Animating the desktop is as dumb as having a dozen waiters sing happy birthday to you at a chain restaurant. |
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DW its not cost, I always try a program before I buy it and it failed me, its
not a burden to my cpu or ram its configured my system files so that even AFTER UNINSTALLING the changes it made to explorer and wallpaer remain. uninstalling it doesnt remove any files or folders apparently, just some reggies. "DW" wrote: I'm sorry to hear that Brand. I have been running the trial version of WindowBlinds for several weeks now...really, no problems. I can download and use third party skins...must have twenty or thirty of them now and it doesn't slow my computer down a whit. I've seen analyses concluding that WindowBlinds uses no more, and probably less resources than any of the other skin changers...AND no more than Windows itself!! And I even ran across an article that suggested that the default XP theme in Windows XP is an older Windowblinds version and skin. I can't say for sure. But I am buying the enhanced version (v.5) and if twenty dollars is too much for you then I think there's even an earlier version (v4.5) that's totally free of charge. No connection, just futzin' along, singin' a song, day by day... -- DW In the High Desert of Central Oregon "brand dub" wrote in message ... Tim Bird Wrote: Why use an application like Outlook to do scheduling and email, etc when you can have these tools built into the desktop and available all the time? Perhaps some of the TCM's are innovators and will come up with new ways of using their PC? ================================================== ====== I agree, why cant microsoft allow a user freindly theme/desktop editor? its really like editing a picture in MS paint anyway. You have to be a TCM to want to alter system configurations. I checked out windows blinds(premium version) and wont let you change anything until you buy it (or download the free version with all the same themes) when I tried to apply a theme it stalled my system and windows takes 15 minutes to load. Im not sure what it changed or how to fix it (since i uninstalled it) but since microsoft is jumping on the mp3 player bandwagon why not eat up all the little tweak markets too so this crap doesnt happen? |
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