Timewaster's Guide Archive
General => Rants and Stuff => Topic started by: Mad Dr Jeffe on January 31, 2005, 08:39:14 PM
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Its ghetto, its bachelor, but now I can type and watch movies while working out on my treadmill... Woo Hoo... and I know it works because Im half way through the Bourne Supremacy and 3 miles down the road...
Who says computing and fitness have to be divorced.
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Congratulations. That sounds like a sweet set up. How do you like Bourne Supremacy?
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It was ok, not as good as the books....
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There are books? Author?
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Robert Ludlum (May 25, 1927 - March 12, 2001) was the author of 29 spy fiction novels
3 of them about Jason Borne
The Borne Identiy, The Bourne Supremacy and The Bourne Ultimatum.
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I'd heard there were books, but I hadn't gotten around to figuring out what they were and checking them out. Well, I could have guessed the first two. Perhaps it will be my summer reading. Of course, the summer reading list is getting to be about a mile long.
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Its my fathers favorite book series.
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I'm working through Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe novels right now. It's hard to find some of the earlier books.
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ooh ooh Nero Wolf,... you should listen to NPRS big broadcast, they play the old Nero Wolf Radio Show....
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I'm sorry, but you all know who Tom Clancy is, but you don't know Robert Ludlum?
/me cries.
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Goodness, I know who he is. Just never read any of his stuff. Or Tom Clancy, for that matter.
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Tom Clancy has lots more movies, and they have the added benefit of starring people like Harrison Ford and Alec Bladwin rather than Matt Daemon.
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Um, don't forget Ben Affleck! Lardy lard!
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I was trying to ignore that. Though I think Morgan Freedman is adequate compensation.
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Alec Baldwin is the only true Jack Ryan.
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I would argue for Ford.
Personaly I like David Morell and Jack Higgins for my Spy Novels
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Harrison Ford is too much of an action movie hero to be Jack Ryan. The whole point of Ryan is that he's NOT a field agent; he's an analyst who gets thrown into situations where sitting at a desk isn't enough. Harrison Ford is no Jack Ryan.
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So I got my mini-mac. 3-4 weeks before its shipped they said. More like 3-4 hours.
Now... new OS. I'm like the jock, fumbling with the mouse like a anime character with her first tentacle. I mean, how do you delete programs? Normally its start menu-uninstall but there is no start menu! And the other method is control panel - add or remove programs, but no control panel, and the system preferences doesn't seem to have that in it :/
/me prods with a stick
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find the files in the applicationss folder and drag to the trash on the bottom, then empty trash... the Mac also defrags as you go.
oh, while your at it you can drag the applications folder to the right side of the bar at the bottom
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I'm like the jock, fumbling with the mouse like a anime character with her first tentacle.
thank you both for that mixed metaphor and horrible image.
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Mmmm Anime Tentacled Mice.....
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Entropy! Go to an Apple store and have them help! I went to a seminar type thing they had and it taught me a lot about these things. Thanks Jeffe for that too. It also taught me that there are some Asians who can't be differentiated between being a male or female. No offense to anymore, but the presentor seemed so... asexual. Honestly, I couldn't tell. And I doubt most of you'd be able to either. So don't harrass me on that. =P
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The trick in making the mental shift between Win to Mac is that you have to stop "overthinking"
Mac is VERY intuitive, to a level that you overlook the simple solution cause you think "it cant be that easy"
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I haven't found that to be the case. I haven't been able to find some things at ALL and I've found other things in the most unlikely places.
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thats cause you overthink everything :P
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remember when we couldn't find the FTP password? Yeah, that's the sort of thing I'm talking about. It's not "overthinking" if you check every single frippin' menu and option and the thing simply doesn't exist.
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actually I found it, its super easy.. just have to mount the disk
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and that is intuitive.... in what way?
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because its an icon click and then the password info pops up... you dont even have to access the internet through the browser, and then you just treat the other end like a hard disk...
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I connect to ftp with two clicks. That's it. Mounting it as a drive on your computer is counter-intuitive, sorry. I'm connecting to something else, I want to enter use/pass and then be done. If I want a path from my desktop/computer explorer/directory/whatever I can make a short cut, which is drag and drop.
Anything I want to do with FTP is much more intuitive in windows. I'm not saying macs are worse or anything, but telling me that everything is more intuitive just isn't true.
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Nothing on any computer is intuitive. You control it using a mouse and a keyboard. NO. You know what's intuitive? A Touchscreen. So is a pen. So is a microphone.
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I have a touchpad.... its like having a touch screen..