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Bill R wrote:
J. Clarke wrote: symplastless wrote: No one has answered by original question yet. The two suggestions, thank you, were not the correct answer. I would like to make a short cut to turn off a computer with vista rather than that little button at the far lower right corner of the start menu. Anybody have a clue? Hold down the button on the front of the computer for five seconds. That is an extremely bad suggestion. The moron wouldn't listen to any of the good ones. If he didn't like that one I was going to suggest that he shoot it. Vista is always doing something in the background and not going through the proper shutdown procedure could result in corrupt files and/or lost data. This site: http://www.mydigitallife.info/2006/1...lick-shortcut/ has some information on creating a shortcut to shutdown Vista. -- -- --John to email, dial "usenet" and validate (was jclarke at eye bee em dot net) |
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enigma wrote:
Frank frankdotlogullo@comcastperiodnet wrote in : Vista has been out for a year now and I had waited 6 months before buying a new computer with it. There were a lot of software conversion problems and driver updatings but now system works great and I prefer to XP pro on older computer that I still use. well, you bought it on new hardware, so presumably it has enough ooomph to run the bloatware. i'm sure tyou wouldn't be so charmed if you were trying to run it on your older computer. but still, what programs are you running on it & did they also come on the new computer or are they programs you purchased before you bought the Vista computer? does Vista run games & if so, which ones? my uses for a computer are graphics design (Windows sucks), games (Windows is passable) & email/usenet (Linux is better). in what way would a Vista "upgrade" help me, who detests bloatware? lee Upgrading an old computer to Vista is not a wise thing to do. -- Travis in Shoreline Washington |
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symplastless wrote:
No one has answered by original question yet. The two suggestions, thank you, were not the correct answer. I would like to make a short cut to turn off a computer with vista rather than that little button at the far lower right corner of the start menu. Anybody have a clue? Push the power button on the computer and hold it in until it shuts down. -- Travis in Shoreline Washington |
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"Jangchub" wrote in message
... On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 14:29:06 GMT, "JoeSpareBedroom" wrote: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...onsbox1&sub=AR I didn't have to read the whole article because I've been saying this same thing for years now. You go into a theater waiting for the show to start and people are so dependant on constant stimulation they are either on their phones, playing on their phones, watching television on their phones, typing on their phones, surfing the web on their phones, or talking incessantly. There is virtually no down time, yet, there is not much production either. It's a vast wasteland of business and motor movements which do not really require the skills of self entertainment. Mostly mindless blather provided to the XBox land of killing images and sexually inappropriate ideas. When I was a kid, an only child, I'd play for hours and hours alone with my Give A Show Projector, Barbie dolls with home made (by me) houses or accessories. Now you go buy Barbie Hummers and houses. I played with tinker toys, erector sets, Etch a Sketch, and my favorite Flintstone Building Blocks. When it snowed we'd be out in it from morning till night, frozen. We'd build forts, and snowmen and run around in it, throw snowballs at everything, laugh and play. Mindless playing with actual fun. Today kids have so much stress being busy doing nothing they need medications to keep their legs from moving at night! I know someone who couldn't stand their son moving his leg from nervousness, so they finally got their ADD diagnosis and put him on Ritalin (sp?) and as a side effect he stopped growing. His teeth couldn't fit in his stunted mouth and he needed to wear this incredibly disgusting stretching device. Still, he is only about a bear five foot and by now he is about 14 or so? I left that friend in the dust for all sorts of reasons, but mainly for being a lunatic. Oh, then there were very long days in summer when we'd ride our bikes which had foot brakes and no gears for hours and hours. Our parents had to drag us inside when it got dark around nine thirty at night. Those were the days when parents actually did things with kids. We'd go to the fireworks every Tuesday night at Coney Island and have a Nathan's hot dog, go on the Bobsled ride and ride the horses around the track at Steeplechase (long gone now). So, I don't need an article to see how far down this country has gone and what is being produced in our sorely lacking elementary school systems and the rates they pay teachers is so retched nobody of any mind is taking a teaching position that fast any more. It used to be a great job. No more. Sad really. None of this applies to those of you who are actively involved in your children's' lives. I applaud anyone who even has kids these days. Victoria Pretty much same/similar experiences here. No, not a Barbie doll guy. My perception is that children are guided by their peers, not their parents. TV and their peers require certain stuff for children to be fulfilled, if you will. Thereby, deem it a necessity. Their parents consent to all the accessories you mention, plus others not mentioned. Thus, the child's peers guide their parents. Parents should actively guide their children. Spending alot of time with them playing video games, watching the latest DVD or pay-for movie, and such is not active involvement. Not saying you intended to communicate contrary to that, but, that others do not perceive that notion. Having a child is a result of performing a bodily function. Promoted by hormones and personal perceptions of the partner. Then, as now, teens still get pregnant, and have children. I would hardly applaud that. Dave |
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No. Its a question that comes up from time to time on every windows system.
The user doesn't want to "waste" time clicking the double sequence of icons to effect a shutdown of the PC. One double click on a desktop icon shortcut is what he's asking for. And, to boot, he's asking for someone else. Anal, yes. Users still ask for it from time to time irregardless. -- Dave "Not@home" wrote in message news Vista has a help section that would give pertinent information if you looked there. Basically, the system comes with the start button configured to put the system in the sleep mode; if you want the button to do a complete shutdown, you reconfigure it as the help section describes. I rather prefer the sleep mode, as it saves what you were doing and facilitates restarting. I only shut down the pc completely when I will not be using it for a day or longer. symplastless wrote: I am just starting with Windows Vista. When shutting down I go to the start menu and down in the far left corner is a little itty bitty button that if I tag it with the pointer a menu comes up which allow me to shut down the computer. Is there not a larger button or another way to shut down the computer. I am trying to teach a client how to use her new computer. Thanks in advance. |
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Travis wrote:
symplastless wrote: No one has answered by original question yet. The two suggestions, thank you, were not the correct answer. I would like to make a short cut to turn off a computer with vista rather than that little button at the far lower right corner of the start menu. Anybody have a clue? Push the power button on the computer and hold it in until it shuts down. Actually, under Vista a quick tap of it should do an orderly shutdown. -- -- --John to email, dial "usenet" and validate (was jclarke at eye bee em dot net) |
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Jangchub wrote:
On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 16:57:15 -0500, "J. Clarke" wrote: The kid will likely have a growth spurt shortly--they discovered a while back that one of the side effects of ADHD is that the teenage growth spurt is delayed, regardless of whether the kid is medicated. OTOH, Ritalin wouldn't be the right med for moving legs at night, which is called "Restless Leg Syndrome" and which among others Ingmar Bergman had (no cite--saw him say it to Dick Cavett in an interview)--he was Swedish and this would have been the '60s or early '70s and he apparently had had it for a long time, so I don't think that one can blame it on anything unique to modern Amercan society. In any case stimulants are not normally used for its treatment. Possibly. Not definitely. RLS is not what I was talking about, though RLS doesn't need a drug either. We use too many friggin drugs for everything. Try meditation and relaxation techniques. People have turn into neurotics. As a person with ADHD I've _tried_ "meditation and relaxation techniques". Doesn't work. Too much noise inside the head. "Quiet it" you say. HOW? The movement of the legs I'm talking about are when he's on the couch and his leg jiggled as he watched television. A jiggling leg on a kid is not something which needs medication. I agree with you there. Teaching has never been "a great job". Them as can, do; them as can't, teach. And the pay in Connecticut is hardly "wretched". at an average of 56K a year. Is New York that much lower? None of this applies to those of you who are actively involved in your children's' lives. I applaud anyone who even has kids these days. -- Teachers make similar salaries in NY Metro area. Do you know the cost of a house in the NY Metro area? I have a friend who teaches SE and has for three decades. She makes 90,000 dollars a year and scrapes by with three kids and a working husband on Long Island. I live in Texas for the last 14 years where teachers make barely 25,000 and they spend on average 500 dollars a year for supplies in their rooms which are not supplied by the school. They do it to make their job easier. So how does that 90K compare with other occupations in the area? -- -- --John to email, dial "usenet" and validate (was jclarke at eye bee em dot net) |
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"Jangchub" wrote in message
... On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 19:04:16 -0600, "Dioclese" NONE wrote: Pretty much same/similar experiences here. No, not a Barbie doll guy. I'm a girl. I loved Barbie. My perception is that children are guided by their peers, not their parents. TV and their peers require certain stuff for children to be fulfilled, if you will. Thereby, deem it a necessity. Their parents consent to all the accessories you mention, plus others not mentioned. Thus, the child's peers guide their parents. Whose fault is that, the peers? My thinking is its the parents again... Parents should actively guide their children. Spending alot of time with them playing video games, watching the latest DVD or pay-for movie, and such is not active involvement. Not saying you intended to communicate contrary to that, but, that others do not perceive that notion. If I inferred it, it certainly was not my intention and by your reply I think you know what I was getting at. However, the same dullards will once again pound the doors down next Christmas to buy the latest 600 xbox and the kids suffer. 2 of my grandsons fall in that category. Have 5 grandchildren. My former son-in-law, their father, is more like a play partner and friend to those boys. They are spoiled rotten by my daughter and him regarding the latest toys, gadgets, first run movies every 2 weeks at the theatre, and yes, they went to Disneyland 2 years ago. This occurred during their marriage and afterwards. They barely made ends meet financially in both situations. The 2 boys demanded an Xbox 360 per their own research and peers. They got it last Christmas from my daughter. Between the 2 of the boys, they have 2 playstations, a PSP, and the prior version of Xbox as well. The older grandson got his own cell phone of course as well. Having a child is a result of performing a bodily function. Promoted by hormones and personal perceptions of the partner. Then, as now, teens still get pregnant, and have children. I would hardly applaud that. Dave I wasn't talking about teens. Am glad. Dave |
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Jangchub wrote in
: On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 19:04:16 -0600, "Dioclese" NONE wrote: Pretty much same/similar experiences here. No, not a Barbie doll guy. I'm a girl. I loved Barbie. i'm a girl. i hated dolls, Barbie in particular. but that irrelevant i agree that we played outside most of the time, but then, so does my kid. i tend to shock a lot of parents. my son is 7. he's quite "busy", as in scatterbrained & all over the place. running around outside, building forts & climbing trees are great outlets for all that energy. i booted him out the door to play alone at around 18 months old (he was walking at 6 months & climbing trees at 13 months). i gave him verbal boundries of where he was allowed to play, so that he would always be visible from a window, & let him go. pampering kids isn't doing them a favor. last summer he 'earned' the privilege of going to play at the pond by himself. this summer he wants to learn whittling & carving, so he's working on more self-control (oh my god! you aren't thinking of giving a 7 year old a knife, are you?!). My perception is that children are guided by their peers, not their parents. TV and their peers require certain stuff for children to be fulfilled, if you will. Thereby, deem it a necessity. Their parents consent to all the accessories you mention, plus others not mentioned. Thus, the child's peers guide their parents. Whose fault is that, the peers? of course not. many parents are either spineless, or trying to relive their childhoods vicariously through their kids. neither is good for the kids. of course, sitting inside playing mindless video games or futzing on myspace isn't healthy either, especially if it's unlimited or unsupervised. BTW, peer influence isn't really a big thing under age 10 or so, & hopefully by then the parents have instilled *some* values into a kid... Parents should actively guide their children. Spending alot of time with them playing video games, watching the latest DVD or pay-for movie, and such is not active involvement. Not saying you intended to communicate contrary to that, but, that others do not perceive that notion. If I inferred it, it certainly was not my intention and by your reply I think you know what I was getting at. However, the same dullards will once again pound the doors down next Christmas to buy the latest 600 xbox and the kids suffer. it's only nominally for the kids, as i said... lee -- Last night while sitting in my chair I pinged a host that wasn't there It wasn't there again today The host resolved to NSA. |
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Jangchub wrote:
On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 08:28:58 -0500, "J. Clarke" wrote: As a person with ADHD I've _tried_ "meditation and relaxation techniques". Doesn't work. Too much noise inside the head. "Quiet it" you say. HOW? How long a period did you meditate and what was the duration of each session? As long as I could sit still without developing an urge to kill something. What did you meditate on and which technique did you use? Whatever was before me at the time and when I was doing it there wasn't discussion of "techniques", you just did it. At least those around me were doing it. I was struggling to stay sane. Meditation takes committment and practice over the long haul. It doesn't work after several times. Calming the mind has been achieved by Buddhists for thousands of years. If you told a Tibetan they had ADHD they'd laugh hysterically with wonder at what you were talking about. The mind also can quiet when people don't have over stimulation, which I described in my first post. Perhaps no Tibetan suffers from ADHD. There is a small body of evidence that suggests that it is hereditary. You say that "calming the mind has been achieved by Buddhists for thousands of years". While I am certain that that is true for _some_ Buddhists are you saying that all Buddhists everywhere have achieved it? I'm sorry, but saying that some technique is going to work for a person with a neurological disorder because it has worked for others who do not have that disorder is kind of pointless. With regard to "over stimulation", I lived out in the sticks and my folks didn't even have a radio, so where did I get this "overstimulation"? You really don't seem to know much about ADHD. So how does that 90K compare with other occupations in the area? A police officer makes about 70,000 a electronics solderer makes about 35 to 40. Special Ed is paid at a much higher rate than teaching students without special needs. Teachers do not make 90k in New York. Nurses make about 65 with a 10-15,000 dollar signing bonus. It's all screwey. So it sounds like it was pretty good pay. You can't buy a house on Long Island or anywhere downstate for that matter without a minimum of a 20 percent down payment in cash. Even then, they will opt for you to take a mortgage up to 110 percent of the loan to help with the almost 15,000 in closing fees. It's insane. Add that to a car payment, 3.50 for a gallon of gas to sit in a parking lot to and from work for hours in many cases and there, you have not much left for anything. -- -- --John to email, dial "usenet" and validate (was jclarke at eye bee em dot net) |
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