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From: SMS on 20 Apr 2010 12:51 On 19/04/10 7:28 PM, Ray Fischer wrote: > David J. Littleboy<davidjl(a)gol.com> wrote: >> "Ray Fischer"<rfischer(a)sonic.net> wrote: >>> sobriquet<dohduhdah(a)yahoo.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> I've seen plenty of complaints from Apple users in consumer programs >>>> who were >>>> very upset that their Apple computer broke down after only a few years >>>> of operation and Apple refused to do anything for them because they >>>> neglected to pay for an overpriced 'Apple care' insurance. >>> >>> Name one computer maker that provides a warranty that last for several >>> years. >> >> Dell Japan. You get a repair person at your site the next business day for >> three years > > Only three years? Tsk. And you had to go to Japan. Tsk. In the U.S., many of Dell's business line of machines have three year warranties. I have two Dell Latitudes in the house that came with those. Also, the warranties are fully transferable. The Dell's I bought were very inexpensive off-lease machines that still had two years of the warranty left. One of them was loaded with all sorts of stuff I didn't really care about, like a fingerprint reader and an internal 3G card. It was a choice of a low end consumer machine with a 1 year warranty, or a higher-end commercial machine with a two year warranty. Another factor was that I wanted a machine that could dock, and that's rare these days.
From: sobriquet on 20 Apr 2010 13:29 On 20 apr, 14:42, "whisky-dave" <whisky-d...(a)final.front.ear> wrote: > "sobriquet" <dohduh...(a)yahoo.com> wrote in message > > news:7d681f6b-f377-4a82-8434-12a8110e0407(a)11g2000yqr.googlegroups.com... > > > On 19 apr, 14:59, "whisky-dave" <whisky-d...(a)final.front.ear> wrote: > >> "sobriquet" <dohduh...(a)yahoo.com> wrote in message > > >>news:456adbbe-58cd-4a3d-992e-6be3c0e61c6f(a)k41g2000yqf.googlegroups.com.... > > >> If I'm listening to a facsinating audio book then why would I want to > >> listen > >> to music ? > > > Why do people usually enjoy music in a bar during their conversations? > > because the conversations aren't of interest to everyone present. > Usually during group conversations the music is a backdrop. Well, in my opinion, the vast majority of people enjoy music during many of their activities, like working out or commuting to and from work or school. Some people might claim they can't focus on their attention optimally when there is music to distract them, but surely not all activities demand our full attention and hence often you have at least some fraction of your attention available to enjoy music (or audiobooks) in the background. > > >> There's little proof that the human brain can mulititask, what is does is > >> ignore whatever other inmut is present, it's more time slicing than > >> multitasking. > > > So if you have a conversation with someone, you can't walk and you > > have to stand still and > > keep your eyes closed in order to keep track of the conversation? > > Well I don;t maybe you do ;-) > But do you understand the difference between such things. > I can breathe while asleep that isn't multitasking either. > If you get down to small time events you'd understand how it works. It might not be true multitasking in the sense of doing more than one thing at the same time, but subjectively we experience it that way because by rapidly alternating between different activities, the continuity of these activities in our awareness and memory gives the impression of multiple activities going on simultaneously. > > > Your brain might be different from a typical human brain. > > Well I wouldn;t mind one that can defy the laws of physics. Laws of physics are a mere figment of our lively imagination. Reality is under no obligation to live up to our expectations, however entrenched. Take Newtons idea of absolute time and space for instance that looked, at that time, like nothing could ever refute such intuitive and scientifically confirmed notions.
From: Ray Fischer on 20 Apr 2010 13:32 SMS <scharf.steven(a)geemail.com> wrote: >On 19/04/10 7:28 PM, Ray Fischer wrote: >> David J. Littleboy<davidjl(a)gol.com> wrote: >>> "Ray Fischer"<rfischer(a)sonic.net> wrote: >>>> sobriquet<dohduhdah(a)yahoo.com> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> I've seen plenty of complaints from Apple users in consumer programs >>>>> who were >>>>> very upset that their Apple computer broke down after only a few years >>>>> of operation and Apple refused to do anything for them because they >>>>> neglected to pay for an overpriced 'Apple care' insurance. >>>> >>>> Name one computer maker that provides a warranty that last for several >>>> years. >>> >>> Dell Japan. You get a repair person at your site the next business day for >>> three years >> >> Only three years? Tsk. And you had to go to Japan. Tsk. > >In the U.S., many of Dell's business line of machines have three year >warranties. Which the Army pays for. -- Ray Fischer rfischer(a)sonic.net
From: nospam on 20 Apr 2010 13:43 In article <a2bf710e-d736-46a5-be43-5abe39cf61d2(a)x38g2000vbx.googlegroups.com>, sobriquet <dohduhdah(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > Laws of physics are a mere figment of our lively imagination. uh huh.
From: Ray Fischer on 19 Apr 2010 22:26
John A. <john(a)nowhere.invalid> wrote: > rfischer(a)sonic.net (Ray Fischer) wrote: >>John A. <john(a)nowhere.invalid> wrote: >>> nospam <nospam(a)nospam.invalid> >> >>>>> Multitasking on the computer is something people do all the time. >>>>> Just because you have a mobile version of a computer, that's no reason >>>>> to stop multitasking. >>>> >>>>actually no. most people use one application at a time. if you are >>>>watching a movie, are you also reading an ebook? if you are playing a >>>>game are you also editing images in photoshop? >>>> >>>>you might have an email app running in the background and if it beeps >>>>for new email, you *switch* to it, read the email, then switch back to >>>>photoshop or whatever and continue working. >>> >>>And if you have true multitasking you can set a complex filter working >>>on your image in the background while you switch over to checking >>>email while you wait for it to finish. >> >>On a PHONE?!? > >The thread's about the iPad, right? If you're arguing that the iPad is not well suited to doing heavy computational tasks like image processing them my response is... No duh? Do you have an _intelligent_ complaint? -- Ray Fischer rfischer(a)sonic.net |