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From: Gordon Darling on 17 Apr 2010 11:52 On Sat, 17 Apr 2010 15:27:40 +0000, Bear Bottoms wrote: > What are you running on your desktop...ya know notebooks are already > very limited in what they can do. So are you -- ox·y·mo·ron n. pl. ox·y·mo·ra or ox·y·mo·rons A rhetorical figure in which incongruous or contradictory terms are combined, as in Microsoft Security, Microsoft Help and Microsoft Works.
From: Craig on 17 Apr 2010 13:55 On 4/17/2010 5:23 AM, Bear Bottoms wrote: > Mark Warner wrote: >> Bear Bottoms wrote: >>> Bear Bottoms wrote: >>>> Mark Warner wrote: >> >>>>> Try Mint. Or PCLinuxOS. Or SimplyMEPIS. Surely you'll be able to >>>>> figure one of those out. >>>> >>>> OK, I'll give one a shot tomorrow. >>> >>> I don't want to experiment any >>> farther with Linux. >> >> So does this mean you're chickening out? > > Yup. Y.a. victory for willful ignorance. -- -Craig
From: Mark Warner on 17 Apr 2010 14:35 Bear Bottoms wrote: > Craig wrote: >> >> Y.a. victory for willful ignorance. > > Are you really that insecure? Exiled, too. Can't forget exiled. -- Mark Warner MEPIS Linux Registered Linux User #415318 ....lose .inhibitions when replying
From: John Corliss on 17 Apr 2010 14:58 za kAT wrote: > Bear Bottoms wrote: >> John Corliss wrote: >>> Man-wai Chang to The Door wrote: >>>> Bear Bottoms wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Why is it that I see relatively little innovative new software >>>>> posted by most in this group? I see a lot of "see I'm participating" >>>>> update posts. >>>> >>>> You discovered a new problem that's not solvable by existing >>>> freewares? Share it! >>> >>> +1 >> >> Where is yours John? > > Mr Corliss has you killfiled. I told you that last week. > > I'll just pass the message on for you. Please don't make a habit of this, > I'm not your nanny. Bear's criticism of this group served no purpose. Lately, there's been a lot of constructive discussion going on in this group about freeware, and that's what the group is for. This is in direct response to a lessening of the amount of forgeries and trolling going on here. Man-wai's tongue-in-cheek remark points out the fact that this is a very mature group agewise. Over the years that ACF has been in existence, most software needs have been discussed and freeware found to fill those needs. Development of new programs to fill those needs isn't really happening at the rate it once was, so discussion of improvements in existing freeware is more of a hot topic. That's just the way it is and it's just as simple as that. However, I've got an idea. How about a USB powered nose picker? Sometimes I'm too busy to take my hands away from the keyboard and it would be nice to be able to have something else do the digging for gold. Of course, such an appliance would require some kind of AI freeware to run it. Something say, that would prevent it from assuming that your ear is a nostril and, by mistake, giving you a pre-frontal lobotomy by mistake. -- John Corliss BS206. I block as many posts from anonymous remailers (like x-privat.org for eg.) as possible due to forgeries posted through them. No ad, CD, commercial, cripple, demo, nag, share, spy, time-limited, trial or web wares OR warez for me, please. Adobe Flash sucks, DivX rules.
From: za kAT on 17 Apr 2010 15:50
On Sat, 17 Apr 2010 19:27:27 GMT, Bear Bottoms wrote: > John Corliss <q34wsk20(a)yahoo.com> wrote in news:19qdnQ4kp-J5mVfWnZ2dnUVZ_h- > dnZ2d(a)posted.ccountrynet: > >> Development of new programs to fill those needs isn't really >> happening at the rate it once was, so discussion of improvements in >> existing freeware is more of a hot topic. >> > > Have you completely lost your rocker? Development is at a faster pace than > ever before. There is more new innovative stuff than ever before. The whole > world is opening up before our very eyes...open yours. Yunno what botties, the whole world is 'passionate' about something nowadays, and everything is new and 'innovative', and that's why you are 'such' a lightweight, because you believe it. -- zakAT(a)pooh.the.cat - www.zakATsKopterChat.com |