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Microsoft 'Confirms' Windows 7 New Monthly Charge
Wolf K wrote:
On 2019-02-13 10:11, Jonathan N. Little wrote: Wolf K wrote: If it fixed some of the flaws of MS Word, such as the lack of fine-grained control Just curious, what do you mean by "fine-grained control"? (BTW was a WP user back at the ol' 5.1 days but 6.0 killed it for me...) trimmed the conspiracy, no string connected pin-ups on my wall Show Codes level, which also makes it easy to move the Box anchor if expedient. Ah, you mean they still show the underlining formatting codes like the old DOS days? Other than viewing field codes which you can in Word and Writer seems an easy way to bugger a document. A kin to debug editing a file, powerful but risky and not often needed. -- Take care, Jonathan ------------------- LITTLE WORKS STUDIO http://www.LittleWorksStudio.com |
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Microsoft 'Confirms' Windows 7 New Monthly Charge
On 2/12/19 12:44 PM, nospam wrote:
In article , Mark Lloyd wrote: I pay $40/month for unlimited data and text. But at a cost of only 100 minutes a month. And they don't roll over. For me, this has not been an issue. Oh, after a set amount of data, it goes from 4G LTE to 3G. But there is no additional cost for me. I've yet to reach the limit, so this is also not an issue for me. I'm on Verizon. They say they're going to eliminate 2G and 3G at the end of the year (voice calls will use VOLTE). I wonder what they're going to then. volte has been in use for several years. Yes. What does that have to do with "goes from 4G LTE to 3G" when there is no 3G? -- Mark Lloyd http://notstupid.us/ "[Fundamentalists] never wonder why, if herpes is sent by 'god' to scourge "adulterers," whooping cough and measles weren't purposely created to lambaste children." [Fred Woodworth] |
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Microsoft 'Confirms' Windows 7 New Monthly Charge
On 2/12/19 1:18 PM, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
In message , Mark Lloyd writes: On 2/11/19 9:30 PM, Paul wrote: [snip] Since the executables don't have access to the physical layer on disk drives, commercial software attempting to write license patterns in places they shouldn't, are blocked. I think that's what happened when I had a dual boot (Win and Linux on the same disk). Some Windows program messed up the bootloader. [snip] Are you sure it wasn't some Linux program? [stir, stir ... (-:] The last thing I did before the failure to boot was to update a Windows program. -- Mark Lloyd http://notstupid.us/ "[Fundamentalists] never wonder why, if herpes is sent by 'god' to scourge "adulterers," whooping cough and measles weren't purposely created to lambaste children." [Fred Woodworth] |
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Microsoft 'Confirms' Windows 7 New Monthly Charge
On 2/12/19 1:34 PM, Dan Purgert wrote:
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Mark Lloyd wrote: On 2/11/19 9:30 PM, Paul wrote: [snip] Since the executables don't have access to the physical layer on disk drives, commercial software attempting to write license patterns in places they shouldn't, are blocked. I think that's what happened when I had a dual boot (Win and Linux on the same disk). Some Windows program messed up the bootloader. I remember something (uhh, WOW? ... maybe?) deleting boot.ini. A dual-boot (Win/Lin) system boots first to the Linux bootloader which then loads the Windows bootloader. A Windows file shouldn't prevent booting Linux. [snip junk] -- Mark Lloyd http://notstupid.us/ "[Fundamentalists] never wonder why, if herpes is sent by 'god' to scourge "adulterers," whooping cough and measles weren't purposely created to lambaste children." [Fred Woodworth] |
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Microsoft 'Confirms' Windows 7 New Monthly Charge
In article , Mark Lloyd
wrote: I pay $40/month for unlimited data and text. But at a cost of only 100 minutes a month. And they don't roll over. For me, this has not been an issue. Oh, after a set amount of data, it goes from 4G LTE to 3G. But there is no additional cost for me. I've yet to reach the limit, so this is also not an issue for me. I'm on Verizon. They say they're going to eliminate 2G and 3G at the end of the year (voice calls will use VOLTE). I wonder what they're going to then. volte has been in use for several years. Yes. What does that have to do with "goes from 4G LTE to 3G" when there is no 3G? that only happens if you reach the data cap, which you said you have never done, so as you also said, it's not an issue. and what they'll do is simply throttle lte speeds. switching to cdma just makes that easier. |
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Microsoft 'Confirms' Windows 7 New Monthly Charge
In message , 123456789
writes: [] In my state (AZ/US) it is the same. Even though the car may have the right of way, the driver must still *TRY* to avoid hitting any pedestrian, even if the pedestrian is in the wrong (such as walking against a red light). If the collision does occur, the offending pedestrian would be listed as 'at fault' in the accident report and (if he survives) issued a traffic citation. [] I'm pleased to hear the last line, at least. -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf Never be led astray onto the path of virtue. |
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Microsoft 'Confirms' Windows 7 New Monthly Charge
On 2/12/19 3:42 PM, nospam wrote:
[snip] i was taught to follow at least 3 seconds behind. I usually hear 2, but feel better with 3. of course, that never happens in the real world, which is one reason why there are so many crashes. Yes. I remember driving in Dallas TX, and comparing the highway to a parking lot at 60MPH. Cars were almost that close. -- Mark Lloyd http://notstupid.us/ "[Fundamentalists] never wonder why, if herpes is sent by 'god' to scourge "adulterers," whooping cough and measles weren't purposely created to lambaste children." [Fred Woodworth] |
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Microsoft 'Confirms' Windows 7 New Monthly Charge
On 2/12/19 4:46 PM, Char Jackson wrote:
[snip] Maybe if you'd slow down you wouldn't have "so many crashes". Slow down, and somebody passes you, re-creating the problem. -- Mark Lloyd http://notstupid.us/ "[Fundamentalists] never wonder why, if herpes is sent by 'god' to scourge "adulterers," whooping cough and measles weren't purposely created to lambaste children." [Fred Woodworth] |
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Microsoft 'Confirms' Windows 7 New Monthly Charge
On 2/12/19 5:42 PM, nospam wrote:
[snip] driving too fast for conditions and not paying attention is. Considering "driving too fast for conditions": Where I used to live (north Texas) they has a poll in the paper that asked "Are you afraid to drive on icy roads?", where people were allowed to leave comments. Many of them were "No, just afraid of other people who drive on icy roads". My mother (from Montana) mentioned that driving on icy roads was safer there, since people knew how to do it right. -- Mark Lloyd http://notstupid.us/ "[Fundamentalists] never wonder why, if herpes is sent by 'god' to scourge "adulterers," whooping cough and measles weren't purposely created to lambaste children." [Fred Woodworth] |
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Microsoft 'Confirms' Windows 7 New Monthly Charge
On 2/12/19 7:02 PM, Eric Stevens wrote:
[snip] Person A: "It was sunny yesterday!" nospam: "not last night, it wasn't!" Bang on, Char. Dammit! I at first wrote that but then thought it was unnecessarily provocative and deleted it. (-: I have deleted a post, but not before someone replied so my words weren't really deleted. -- Mark Lloyd http://notstupid.us/ "[Fundamentalists] never wonder why, if herpes is sent by 'god' to scourge "adulterers," whooping cough and measles weren't purposely created to lambaste children." [Fred Woodworth] |
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Microsoft 'Confirms' Windows 7 New Monthly Charge
In message , Mark Lloyd
writes: On 2/12/19 7:02 PM, Eric Stevens wrote: [snip] Person A: "It was sunny yesterday!" nospam: "not last night, it wasn't!" Bang on, Char. Dammit! I at first wrote that but then thought it was unnecessarily provocative and deleted it. (-: I have deleted a post, but not before someone replied so my words weren't really deleted. Even if they hadn't, I doubt you have "deleted your post": unless the server you are using honours delete requests _and_ processed it before communicating with its peers, there is little you can do to delete a post. -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf Never be led astray onto the path of virtue. |
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Microsoft 'Confirms' Windows 7 New Monthly Charge
On 2/13/19 3:54 AM, KWills Shill #3 wrote:
[snip] I'm on T-Mobile through Metro PCS. I admit I don't pay attention to its plans for 2G and 3G termination. If it becomes an issue, I'll face it then. It might somewhere there aren't enough 4G towers. I have an older phone (2G/3G only) that will need to be replaced, but I'll wait until later to replace it because of that possibility. -- Mark Lloyd http://notstupid.us/ "[Fundamentalists] never wonder why, if herpes is sent by 'god' to scourge "adulterers," whooping cough and measles weren't purposely created to lambaste children." [Fred Woodworth] |
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Microsoft 'Confirms' Windows 7 New Monthly Charge
On Wed, 13 Feb 2019 11:21:22 -0500, Wolf K
wrote: On 2019-02-13 10:11, Jonathan N. Little wrote: Wolf K wrote: If it fixed some of the flaws of MS Word, such as the lack of fine-grained control Just curious, what do you mean by "fine-grained control"? (BTW was a WP user back at the ol' 5.1 days but 6.0 killed it for me...) trimmed the conspiracy, no string connected pin-ups on my wall Show Codes level, which also makes it easy to move the Box anchor if expedient. I agree completely about Reveal Codes. It makes it easier to do many things, and that's one of the main reasons I prefer it to Microsoft Word. But oddly enough, that's the thing about WordPerfect that many people *don't * like, and has turned them away from it. That makes no sense to me, for two reasons: first, it's a great feature, in my view; second, if you don't like it, don't turn it on--it's optional. And referring to Jonathan N. Little's comment, "6.0 killed it for me," I agree that it was a very poor release with lots of problems. But that was just a single version that didn't last very long, and its problems are long gone. I run WordPerfect X7. It's hardly any different from the two or three versions before it, and the two newer versions, X8 and X9, are also almost the same as those. I've seen no reason to upgrade. I think most of the people who use Microsoft Word these days use it in preference to WordPerfect for two reasons: it has the name "Microsoft" attached to it; many computer vendors include it as a trial version in the computers they sell. Probably most Word users don't even know WordPerfect exists, or if they do, know next to nothing about it and how it compares to Word. |
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Microsoft 'Confirms' Windows 7 New Monthly Charge
On Wed, 13 Feb 2019 12:16:36 -0600, Mark Lloyd
wrote: On 2/12/19 5:42 PM, nospam wrote: [snip] driving too fast for conditions and not paying attention is. Considering "driving too fast for conditions": Where I used to live (north Texas) they has a poll in the paper that asked "Are you afraid to drive on icy roads?", where people were allowed to leave comments. Many of them were "No, just afraid of other people who drive on icy roads". I've long been amused by statements like "you should drive slower on wet roads." People think that's the safe thing to do. But say exactly the same thing in reverse, "you should drive faster on dry roads," and most people would think it's the dangerous thing to do. |
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Microsoft 'Confirms' Windows 7 New Monthly Charge
In article , Ken Blake
wrote: I've long been amused by statements like "you should drive slower on wet roads." People think that's the safe thing to do. But say exactly the same thing in reverse, "you should drive faster on dry roads," and most people would think it's the dangerous thing to do. they don't think that at all, and in fact, that's exactly what they do. |
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