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What do you do most on your computer. Yes you! Answer: Make a new folder. Windows XP has the most p*ss poor implementation of new folder. Jeez, MDFolder was out years ago..... http://www.nttools-online.de/english/mdfolder.htm What do you think?

Mmmm. I thought she was going to be in the sea and an old monitor floated by, and she grabbed hold of it as a buoy. My thinking is based on the fact that the oceans of the world may soon be littered with old floating computer parts! But maybe that just an old fishermans tale..

Me too!

Yes, it's Guy Fawkes night here too.. KISS Principal. Light the fuse, throw and stand back. Unfortunately, we are not allowed to let off any crackers now. Blows too many kids eyes out and sets fire to the grass and the neighbours roofs, etc. God, I miss it. The smell of old burning rubber tyres.. You bring back fond memories!

Why would you do that? Now you have upset the Ying and Yang of the whole world. I may fall over .. *Does Frontpage do layers? And as easily as Dreamweaver?

Agreed, Microsoft is predatory, but so is all big business. Wait a while, you'll see Google can be just as ruthless as any of them. But let's not forget, just as prisoners-of-war are obliged to try and escape, company directors are charged (legally) with maximizing profits for shareholders.. _______________________________________________________ How about this .. So, after the VISTA release, Steve Ballmer leaves Microsoft and launches a hostile takeover of Google, through his company Centro Tech LLC, or CT for short (Ballmerstorming was just a codename.). Steve Jobs takes Ballmer's position at Microsoft and Jim Allchin doesn't retire but replaces Jobs at Apple. {Dn'ot let Svete Jbos arheywne near the pnicirg dpet but.} Jobs reinvigorates Microsoft and the shares rise, dramatically. Allchin takes an initial HIT at Apple but recovers when people find out how good a manager he is, and - with passion. Not to mention getting MS software ported to Apple on time, and not leaving users as second class citizens. While continuing to work with designers to release initiative Apple products. After all, Jobs has left (or was pushed) from Apple before. Only when he was brought back did the company start to turn around. But, he still had to call Bill (that's call Bill, not kill Bill) for a $200 million investment to carry on, to start with. Then came iMac and iPod. Microsoft can't allow Apple to fail for appearances, and they are no real threat to Microsoft. Linux was (or is) more of a threat to Microsoft, but now Google looms the biggest threat. Bill and Steve could do lunch after the takeover.. Michael Dell needs to be appointed to the Microsoft board. Dell survived and grew when almost everyone else, including the great IBM threw in the towel. For business.. Slogan: 'A Dell on every desktop. Windows and Office in every Dell..' Could be some upgrade offers for existing MS hardware and technology for mice, keyboards, video conferencing web cams, etc. Also, if you are moving into NEW MARKETS, at a Government level at first, a package deal may work best. Some closeness with the mob who bought IBM's PC business could also be an advantage. This is only the game plan, and depends on everyone's agreement, but more importantly on:- ^ Steve Ballmer gets control of Google. ^ Bill Gates has no plans to retire. ^ Jim Allchin can be persuaded not to retire. (He'll be reinvigorated by Apple.) Note: This is only a business hypothetical. However feel free to tear it apart and digitally tar and feather me! __________________________________________________________________ #This in no way impinges upon my right as a lone consumer to b*tch and moan about the present high price of software! Note to Microsoft: If your effective tax rate of 32% looks like rising, why not cut software prices in advance, especially on a Vista surge.* Better to reward consumers than hand it over to Internal Revenue. After all, IRS are going to get consumers as well! ______________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ *Although after the first Vista surge by the tech savvy, things may slow dramatically as consumers become confused by the large number of different Vista versions. Also, PC assemblers and particularly graphics card makers turn a greedy eye to increasing profits.

I don't understand your post at all. Can you explain more?

I'm not talking badly about the man. I'm saying: Is this software overpriced? If you can make this much after tax and lots of other people are making large amounts; plus the shareholders need big returns. Let's not forget Microsoft have a virtual monopoly on PC operating systems to the tune of about 600 million users. There's no real competition. Instead of all these countries suing the company to remove bits and pieces from the OS, they should be looking at the pricing. If the market was 5-10 million people you would expect to pay a lot for the product, but because of their unique position at 600 million, charging the same should not be on. And if people buy two copies of Vista; one for the old PC and one for the new; then that's 1.2 billion. Plus when the Chinese finally come onboard that's another 600 million. That makes 1.8 billion. As the figures go up from DOS through all Win versions, the price does not lower.

I have a ViviCam 3640 .. Battery compartment is a bit wobbly. ie. Have to jiggle it and close firmly, otherwise says 'batteries need replacing..' Have you installed the software drivers? Is the camera switching off because of dodgy battery compartment? You didn't switch to 'PC Camera', did you? XP will get the pictures but I choose just to drag the 100_0000 folder to desktop. As said by others, try a different USB connection, if all bad could be faulty supplied cable. That's a special cable.

Should Steve Ballmer make a hostile take-over of Google? Three times-a-day Steve Ballmer faces the direction of the Google Dome, gets down on his knees and prays that "The Blue Bird of Paradise" will fly up their Triostium perfoliatum.. Then he gets up and throws an office chair.. Now, according to Forbes, SB is worth a cool 18 billion bucks! Serious hostile take-over cash if you ask me. All you have to do is wait for a complete Google listing .. and they're ripe for the picking. Now, any lawyer worth his salt can get you a shelf company; there must be a few lawyers hanging around the top floor of 1 Microsoft Way. What you need is an already listed public company so you can back door list on the stock exchange. Maybe an old run down men's clothing company or merchant bank. You need the shares fairly tightly held and try to buy back the rest while offloading some to the Pension Funds. With a couple of Pension Funds onboard, you should have about 100 billion. Rename the old company to say, Ballmerstorming LLC, and you are ready to go. The lawyers will do the rest, for about 100 million bucks .. And, Steve, you're problems are solved - YOU OWN GOOGLE. Now promise, no more throwing office chairs around. It looks bad in the papers and upsets civilians at their breakfast! Maybe Google should think about swallowing a poison pill.

I voted for I DON'T DRINK SOFT DRINKS When I was a Kid I used to drink Pepsi at the Bayswater Town Hall pictures, but Coke must have paid them off, to stay away from Western Australia for ten years. Because, well, they disappeared for ten years. By that time Coke was well established and I was drinking Coke. But after forty, it starts giving you gas, not petrol gas but the wind gas !!!!! And after a life of booze it's now just strong black coffee for me. Arabica mostly, (the Rolls- Royce of coffee beans) but to make it strong some Robusta too.. Cafedirect : Types of Coffee - Arabica, Robusta and Roasting The following Cafédirect coffees contain robusta blended with arabica:. Cafédirect Rich Roast, Fresh Ground; Cafédirect Organic Medium Roast ... http://www.cafedirect.co.uk/products/coffee_types.php Arabica vs Robusta: No Contest (INeedCoffee.com) A comparison of arabica versus robusta coffee. ... In fairness, although most robusta coffee is of a lower grade and inferior to Arabica, there is a premium ... http://www.ineedcoffee.com/02/06/arabica/

Forbes' latest list Steve Ballmer - valued at $14 billion Is that US dollars, 'cause 1 Australian dollar = US 76 cents. How many boxes of Windows do you have to flog to get this? Conepatus leuconotus, me stinks, feverroot. Is this software overpriced?

B) I rather like .. Living in an Amish Paradise By Weird Al Yankovic

Pamela Anderson Patron saint of the Web http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9430337/ *Nothing to do with me... Well, I did download something once. At least I think I did. I'm pretty old, my memory is going...

Spitfire - The KISS principle - GUI Rolls-Royce Merlin Supermarine Engine I recently watched a documentary on TV about the training of Spitfire pilots for the Battle of Britain. 18 - 19 - 20 years old and 8 or 9 hours training in a Spitfire. In one interview with a veteran, he said it was like being handed your first drivers licence and then getting in a Formula One racing car and told if you lost the race - you die. (Or crash & burn trying.) But the most interesting comment was made by one chap who said after the battle he spoke to some captured German pilots and said to them: "Do you know why you lost?" "It was because you need to be highly trained and very skilled to fly a ME 109, but any i.d.i.o.t can fly a Spitfire.." And that's the secret isn't it! The KISS principle. Keep it simple stupid. Worth remembering when designing GUI's and the like. Google, IE 3, Irfanview, Apple iPod, even Ulead PhotoImpact, etc. Simply to use, beautiful to look at, and stunning in performance. If you have to RTFM, you're too complicated! I always used to think of it as the Heavy Brigade verses The Light Brigade. Netscape became the Heavy Brigade, as did IE 6. Firefox, so far, is The Light Brigade. As IE 7 B1 has become. KISS The Light Brigade...

Keyboard + Mouse Set US $5.32 - Aust. $7.oo _________________________________________ Presstik 422/70000 PS/2 White (Made in China - Just like MS stuff.) Classic Desktop keyboard employs a unique, comfortable typing keys technology that offers relaxing wrist position and quiet typing experience. Special key structure lets you spend light key forces for easy typing. Together with the state-of-the-art curved 3D scrolling mouse featuring maximum accuracy and precision, make the classic combo a must have with your computer. Designed for both left-right-hand user. ________________________________________________________ I went grocery shopping at Coles and picked up a $7 keyboard and mouse set. My old computer has a stuck 'H' key. It's amazing how much you use the letter 'H'. It I could be Microsoft, HP, Dell, or that IBM replacement name, I bet I could retail this for $29.95 and be considered moderate, and a good corporate citizen. (It's a ball mouse, so not too much.) What do you figure MS makes on selling mice per year. My guess would be a billion dollars at least. And what about keyboards. I just took my two girls to the Vet to get worm pills, and the front reception had 2 MS keyboards & 2 MS mice... And remember, you don't even know where Western Australia is, let alone the suburb of Morley. There are only 20 million people in the whole of Australia. What's the population of NYC alone? So, it's NOT just about flogging operating systems that you can make money on.. *One problem with the keyboard to illustrate even the Chinese don't know where we are, even though they are getting their iron ore from my State, (and now natural gas) is Australia is not listed as a keyboard choice. Just about ever other country in the world is though. Just have to change it to US 101 and change the date format from month, day, year, to day, month, year. Workie OK now.

> Are Macs Useful? Only if you are a pervert...

Very good finding this!!! All the seven words you can't say on television you can on Australian TV. Only c*nt was missing, until an episode of 'Sex and the City'. But, I tell ya, Conepatus leuconotus, Windows Blinds appear to be worrying. I always thought 'what's in a name..' It's only us that think a word is a no-no. What if I said 'wheelbarrow'. If everyone thought that was so-called dirty, they would be totally shocked. I feel wheelbarrow is a dirty word. Especially in the garden. Wheelbarrow, Wheelbarrow, there I said it again. Wheelbarrow. Na, it's like kissing in the wind sometimes..

----------------------------------- What Phalaris aquatica tinker's root. Uranus yous not! All I can say is felucca, toowomba canary grass..

Forum - use - non swear words - for swear words.. Below is a list of words that are genuine GOOD GUYS from WordWeb and/or TheSage. However they sounds a bit sweary or naughty. BUT THEY ARE NOT! If you don't believe me, look them up.. So, instead of writing: Well, f*ck me. You can write: Well, rooter skunk me. or what about: Well, fartlek me! I thought Tommo was a Conepatus leuconotus because of his farandole and Farsi in his Phalaris aquatica!! *USE SWEAR WORDS THAT ARE NOT* ____________________________________ rooter skunk Conepatus leuconotus wood pussy more F in Fun Woodsia alpina woodsy arboraceous farad farandole Farsi farthing fartlek Fast of Ab felucca felwort feverroot tinker's root Uranus titivate toowomba canary grass Phalaris aquatica persnickety B)

Everything is build on top of Home Basic. Added bits and pieces. So, you wouldn't want to remove any components, say from Ultimate, or you could end up with Basic. So, why not buy Basic at a much lower price? Do you really need all that business stuff in there? Are you paying for what you don't need, or will never use? Is it the name you like best. Home Brand against a Brand Name. What if Home Basic was called Professional Home Power Users Vista Edition. There's always three markets in retail: Cheap Medium Expensive B) Everyone will buy one of those three and sometimes change categories. It does not mean one is better than the other, it just means you can get more profits some of the time. Microsoft seem intent on starting new categories. And you need to discount Business Editions that come under different rules.

Understood! Anyway, that's a great blinking logo strip (in three parts?) you have there. Would be good for Firefox, IE7 and Opera!

I think I will be getting either Home B or Home P, but I voted for Home P. That is, unless I am short of gas/petrol at the time and need to fill my tank!

Well, I KNOW I am as thick as a brick, but the only small button I can find is this: And as it's 90 x 33, wonder if it's the right one. Any chance you can post the correct button? I might have a go at making one, but don't want to do the wrong one, or size. Also, I'd like to see the old correct one - as it may be better than my new one!!!!

It's only a 3.6 meg download, so I am getting it now it's free. Never took any notice of it before..