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Quote: The んです qualifies an adjective and is a shortened version of のです the correct form. OK, so now tell us what does のです mean?!

Boys, I think my computer heard all the complaining I did on this thread. Today when I came back from lunch, there was a horizontal line running all the way across my screen about 5 cm from the top. The right half of it is all black, the left half fades from tan to whitish-invisible. It's there even in BIOS and during boot-up. Googling this problem appears to be a bad transistor in the LCD panel where the line is. If that's the case, nothing can fix it. Other possibilities are a bad monitor cable, but I have little hope for that. I never touch this damn monitor! I didn

We're the Ghostbusters of computers!

Now it seems Arnold has won, more people than ever are saying "only in America!" After seeing Clint Eastwood become the mayor of Carmel, California; Jesse "The Body" Ventura become governor of Minnesota; Sonny Bono, Cher's ex-husband, become a Congressman (he died skiing without a helmet-should I move this topic to the Snow-Related" section?); and Ronald Reagan do what he did, it's easy to go into agreement. But what other countries have seen celebs become politicians? ITALY Cicciolina (nee Ilona Staller), the porn actress, became a member of Italian parliament. PAKISTAN

From PC Magazine\'s 2003 survey results: "And the users of Win XP machines are considerably happier with their desktops than respondents running other versions of Windows. The higher satisfaction levels of Windows XP users may also be due to newer, more advanced hardware. But our readers agree that on machines two years old or younger, Win XP crashes less frequently than other Windows versions. 37 percent of Win XP users say their systems never crash. Among Windows 98 and Me users, only 7 percent make the same claim. The stability of Linux and Mac OS may have also helped wit

Sis has frequent lockups and system crashes on her home systems, a desktop and a laptop Mac. On the desktop she's had to re-install or restore her system or whatever Mac-heads do, 2-3 times this past year. Her home use is limited to Web browsing, e-mailing, downloading songs and burning the occasional CD, not running heavy graphics programs or beta software. I can't detail her exact problems from memory, but they sound like the usual apps that gradually slow down or fail over a long session of use, the computer forgetting system settings or going back to defaults no matter how many times other

I think any new computer would be better than this old turd. Ocean, right about the laptops. I also have this Prius desktop which is a cobbled-together parts-bin exercise as I found out when I tried to reformat the HD and install US Win 2000. Even this computer's maker couldn't identify half the components or point me to the correct drivers for them ("we change suppliers monthly based on market factors" [ = we buy the cheapest parts available]). After a weekend of puzzling through, I just gave up and reinstalled the factory setup from scratch. As for Linux or Unix on a home PC, forg

A long post for you. Don't worry, not only did I paste most of this in from assorted e-mails, I also type 75 wpm. This all only took me 1/2 a cup of coffee. I don't expect the world to go into agreement with me about my computer problems, because everyone's system and experience are different. I usually get reactions of disbelief, insinuations that I am doing something wrong, or that I should read the Help file or visit the MS site to get a solution. Oh, gee, thanks. That must be it...I didn't read the manual or visit the Microsoft website. Well, my agenda is to minimize the time I

Yeah...when I think about how much of my knee cartilage the doc removed.

Ta Ocean and Mogs. Looks like the only thing I'm going to take away from this thread is that I need a new computer.

I thought the topic was Snowbeds...sure it's not generally nice to trash a person on a public thread, but when the person is in business, puts his name on his place's Japanese and English website, advertises to the whole world on the Net with links on this site, and holds himself out to the public as the guy running the place, well, word-of-mouth seems fair game. How else could people with personal experience of Snowbeds present their complaints about a person who significantly affected their experience there, for better or worse? "There is a person at Snowbeds who shall remain unnamed [

Sorry! Actually, the first person to explain "seppo" to me was Mogski (from CC). However, I've never heard him or his Kiwi mates actually use the term in conversation, so I assumed it was mainly an Oz thing and intentionally left out Kiwis in my amateurish explanation. Apologies to all from NZ, one of the world's last good places.

Just as good a read even the 2nd time around!

DOES THAT MEAN I GOT IT RIGHT?!?!

Quote: I only reboot my entire system every month out of preference or when I load up a software fix for my many applications. Incredible!! I want that!! My sis and her whole company use OSX on great stonking Apple machines, and they crash all the time. But probably only during incredibly memory- and processor-intensive graphics rendering operations. I can't see OS X or Windows XP crashing much when just used for e-mail, web browsing and the occasional Word document (mostly resumes and complaint letters). These are my main uses. As reported elsewhere, my Win ME crashes 3-4 times ev

OK, that's more like it. A much better post.

Quote: Sorry, but in business, word of mouth is very important. There's no obligation whatsoever to confront anybody about bad service or whatever. The attitude that you display there doesn't do any credit to anybody either. What is your interest in this anyway? Why should anybody discuss this with you? Who are you? Right on, Ocean! I know nothing about Snowbeds, but posts like Paizuri's don't seem to help them much.

I believe Ocean had the definitive post on Cockney rhyming slang, but let me take a stab at it. Some English speakers from a part of London known as the "East End" used a funny kind of slang, called "rhyming slang". They took it to Australia when they...erm...moved there long ago. Instead of using a particular word, they'd use another word with a similar sound. For example, Americans are sometimes called Yankees or Yanks, right? Well, in rhyming slang: "Yank" rhymes with "septic tank"...and "septic tank" can be shortened to "seppo". Result: A "seppo" is a bad w

Mogs, sleep and hibernate features on all my Windows systems have been really buggy. Some drivers fail to wake up, and things always seem to go wrong after a short time. In particular, audio- and image-intensive stuff never works on my IBM or Vaio after a sleep. Which is not to say this isn't a great idea...just that its implementation has been bungled along with so many other things. Does sleep/hibernate work perfectly on your Apples then?

Yes, but they already are under the current state of affairs...dual boot system users don't usually have two separate keyboards, though I know a couple people in Tokyo who used to... Remember KanjiWord and those programs that let you input Japanese on a US-version computer? And the MS IME that came later and obviated them? If it bugs you, you can re-map your keyboard. This feature already exists. Most people prefer to stick to one layout though, even if it is not the one that matches the language version they are using on-screen. Hunt-and-peck typers excepted, of course. I've u

Ocean, maybe I didn't explain it properly, because I couldn't understand your comment about multi-language systems. I'm not talking about machine translation of content such as menus and on-screen items...that seems decades away, if the current state of machine or web-based auto-translators is any indication. Instead, I'm just talking about collecting all of the currently-available language versions of MS menus, dialog boxes, help files, etc. (these already exist in each localized language version of Windows), and making them available to anyone who buys any language version of Wind

I am in pain and feel the need for the following: 1. Instant On, Instant Off. Get it? No boot-up time. Just like turning on a calculator or a TV. OK, maybe you wait 2-3 seconds, but not 2-3 minutes. A corollary of this would be not having to click 3-4 things (including the "Start" button!) to shut down. Another corollary would be that the "Off" function would work even in the worst of crashes, so I wouldn't have to hold down the button or unplug then remove the battery. I know you know what I am talking about. 2. Perfect Crash and Support Service It would go like this: The co

I sure would like a Powerbook or any Apple computer. That would be great. But those crash and have various problems too. Nobody has yet come close to a crash-proof, trouble-free platform or OS for home computer users. With Windows 2000 and XP (both are giant turds if you ask me), and what I've heard about OS X from heavy users like my sis, another local pal and a company full of graphic design pros, I would no longer make a decision between the PC and Apple platforms based on a factor like "OS reliability" or "robustness". In fact, I never did decide based on those factors.

Thanks, _freak! Not only are you a genius, but you've saved me the trouble of finding a place that sells only the straps to Flows, AND ALSO guaranteed me a new set of the top-o-the-line BX Flows next season! Now that is what I call good advice.

I gots me the Pro FR-11's... Always wanted them, and finally Mogski made me buy them when we were hanging out in Utah last season... THEY WERE ALL I'D DREAMED THEY'D BE AND MORE. I'm looking to go even a bit stiffer, so I may try to get the BX strap for them, or maybe just live with them for another season then buy Flow's best stiffest binding. Damn I love those things. I was getting pretty good at locking in on the fly, even beat my skier buds to the slope since they actually had to twiddle with pole straps or something every time. My wife will be getting hers soon too, th