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| Thread ID: 40213 | 2003-12-01 23:23:00 | Let down again by PC World | JJJJJ (528) | Press F1 |
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| 196323 | 2003-12-03 17:01:00 | No GrahamL. Jack is not looking for sympathy. And yes I should have read through the contents before buying it. Believe it or not I did a quick scan before buying it. I missed the 40 page article and I also missed the bit on the cover. That's entirely my fault. My only excuse is I didn't have my reading glasses with me and I am half blind without them. And I am too trusting. I believe something that calls itself a computer magazine should be about computers. Not cameras, cell phones and other silly gadgets that will be forgotten about next month. How often have you read an article about something or other and then on the next page , a paid advertisement for it. Might be financialy rewarding, but hardly fair to readers. I won't even mention the number of times I have read an article in an American mag. and then next month get the same article in the NZ version of the mag. Jack |
JJJJJ (528) | ||
| 196324 | 2003-12-03 17:05:00 | if u get the same article in the american one then find it in the nz one the next month then forget about 1 of the magazines and i think i know which one i would forget.......no not the nz one ;) or are you gonna say that the american one is mroe computer related than our one? |
csinclair83 (200) | ||
| 196325 | 2003-12-03 17:12:00 | No. Not a great deal of difference Jack |
JJJJJ (528) | ||
| 196326 | 2003-12-08 11:00:00 | <Humming> Boobies... hmmm not a bad idea.... I don't mean of 'real' women pin-ups in the magazine... plastic ones... the next generation of mouses... just enuff to make a 'real' man click... </Humming> |
CyberRites (4930) | ||
| 196327 | 2003-12-08 12:23:00 | Well I just have to say this Jack. When I went to school I used an inkwell in which I used to dunk a pen so I could write. Pen with Nib attached to a wooden handle. Later I used a fountain pen. The Biro ( or Ballpoint ) became banned as it would destroy our handwriting. Pencils and erasers were always allowed. Accounts like the local shop were handwritten on cards that's if you had an account. There were no TV sets. We used to listen to Radio. These days I use a cellphone but don't use it for text or calling out much. My Mother (85yrs old), Myself (61) and my two younger siblings all use the Internet and Email to keep in touch.. If you like then I will go back to a fountain pen. If I do that then I suggest you buy a Horse and get to work that way. From your post it would appear that you may be be older than I am. You can of course get along without a cellphone. The point I would like to make is that some people use them for good reasons. I would not have minded having one when I was a little stuck in the bush near Wellington but of course they weren't around then were they. |
Elephant (599) | ||
| 196328 | 2003-12-08 12:23:00 | This is your first post to a self-help forum on computing. People post with questions or with answers to other people's questions. Are you sure you're in the right place? |
Laura (43) | ||
| 196329 | 2003-12-08 12:46:00 | I don't get the humming part. Not at all. In fact, I don't get that entire post, aside from the reference to a previous post. | agent (30) | ||
| 196330 | 2003-12-08 13:18:00 | He's referring to a mouse in the shape of a ...... | metla (154) | ||
| 196331 | 2003-12-08 13:40:00 | Well, thanks for that, Metla. It was obviously too subtle for me. My bits & bytes must need polishing.. |
Laura (43) | ||
| 196332 | 2003-12-08 17:14:00 | Thank you Elephant. Yes when I was at school we used pens that were dipped in inkwells. In fact that was progress. I started off with a slate and slate pencil. During week ends and holidays we used to wander around in the bush near Wellington. I don't ever recall anyone getting lost or injured. So no one needed a cell phone to call for help. Today people are so soft they wont't walk down the street without one. They might get hit by a bus and have to call for help. If I wanted to phone someone I had only to walk a mile to a public phone booth. What's wrong with that ? Didn't do that very often either. Plenty of other things to spend my penny on. When I started work I managed to get buy without numerous phone calls. In fact if the phone rang it was a nuisance. Now you do very little work. Spend most of the day answering inane questions on your indespensible cell phone. Don't make me laugh ! I used to write letters to relatives once or twice a year. Usualy just before Xmas or my bithhday. Now we send them e-mails every five minutes. And of course your polite relatives have to reply. More time wasted. Yes I used to listen to the radio at home. But I managed to walk down the street without carrying a portable. We took the odd photo with a box camera. And I still have a lot of the photo's. Now you take thousands of pictures with a digital camera and don't even print most of them. And if I wanted to read about camera's or telephones I certainly didn't go and buy a computer book to do so.:^O :^O Jack |
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