I do have a spell checker that I found on the Internet. I use Outlook
Express 6 and Windows XP home edition. The spell checker was free. I have
it always running. It is not an inconvenience at all. Although I am a good
speller, I do want to give a good impression, and I do make occasional typos
and spelling mistakes. In fact, I just made one on purpose, and you won't
even notice it, because it alerted me to my error and I chose to correct it
as suggested.
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you! really! are! finished!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Draconis" <i...@dracoent.com>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2013 9:40 AM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] mac versus windows sales plus iOS question
Hi Tom, Dark, and others,
I am not sure that anyone is misrepresenting your position, Dark. You want
tangible benefits to a very small set of criteria, but life is made up of a
combination of both tangibles and intangibles. For instance, perhaps you don’t
spell check because you are using XP. A benefit to using a Mac is that the
spell checker is built in and system wide, meaning that you can take
advantage of it anywhere with no additional cost. I’m not sure if later
versions of Windows have this, but I know for along time Microsoft wanted
that to be a premium feature available only in Office. However, that benefit
would not impact you directly, only those of us reading your messages. It
would be, to you at least, an intangible benefit that would impact how you
are perceived by others. However, it does not fall into your very narrow
parameters, and so therefore you discount it.
In the case of those clinging to XP such as yourself, whether out of
stubbornness or necessity, the biggest concern I have is security. Perhaps
it will take a major catastrophe, such as a loss of data, identity theft,
loss of funds in one’s bank account, to wake some of you up. It won’t happen
to everyone, but the more blasé you are about the security benefits of
upgrading, the more likely you are to be one of those victims. But again,
this is an intangible that you will not care about until you are one of
them.
It is one thing to decide that now is not the time for you to upgrade. That’s
your decision. I think Tom and I are only pointing out good reasons you may
wish to that you have dismissed based on misinformation or flawed logic.
On Dec 18, 2013, at 9:36 AM, dark <d...@xgam.org> wrote:
Hi Tom.
I was probably thinking of vista, since I do know when getting my desktop
repared in 2008 I very much didn't want a machine with newer windows,
which was one other advantage of going to a local custom manufacturer
since all the main shops like Pc world were the slaves of microsoft and
ramming newer versions down people's throats.
Well I have said under what circumstances I'll upgrade. Yes, I can run
xp in a virtual machine and I am glad there is that option, but if the
newer os doesn't actually bennifit me, well why have the hassle?
to be honest I can understand that someone like yourself who cares about
all the technical stuff is interested in the newer os, but I am getting
slightly irritated with having the position I'm in missrepresented or
missunderstoo. I do not think xp is the best thing there ever will be,
neither do I reffuse to upgrade, I merely don't see the point at the
moment, that is all, and I fully expect in the future that this will
change when a new os actually make a practical difference that is worth
the hassle.
That is another reason I spent time playing with Windows 7 and I'd like to
try mac and windows 8 in the same way, although at this point in time I
have a sneaking suspicion that it will be a hardware not a software change
such as touch screen control or something like.
Beware the grue!
Dark.
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