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Here I am at my driver's ed course, on my instructor's iMac, "Big Mac" *L*. Honestly, I don't know what everyone has against these Macs. If you ask me, IBMs are far worse. This iMac is actually pretty nifty. And it's blue!
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Speaking of Driver's Ed...I should probably sign up for that this year. But all those damn Grade 10's will be in it. Greasy Grade 10's.
I guess that's what I get for being lazy, and waiting until Grade 12.
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I'm in it right now, and all the do is show gory films of car accidents. Signal 44, Death on the Highway, The Valvoline Driver Education Video, Room to Live ... all cult classics.
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"Woman is deprived of rights from lack of education, and the lack of education results from the absence of rights. We must not forget that the subjection of women is so complete, and dates from such distant ages, that we are often unwilling to recognize the gulf that separates them from us."
Tolstoy, on a more objective note.
[This message has been edited by SCSImperium (edited August 30, 2000).]
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USC has a ton of iMacs on campus. All I care to say is, to someone who's used to Windows and more than one mouse button, Macs are like new shoes. And you can't expand the web browser to full-screen, which was annoying.
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Our Computer Information Technology department just rid of the Mac lab here at our University. Apparantly, the problems of lack of use and crashing software did it in. Re-installing the MacOS every two weeks on half the computers just wasn't fun for anyone over here.
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"you can't expand the web browser to full-screen"
Yes, my dear Ziyal USC woman...you sure can.
Down on the bottom right of the browser window is what Mac calls the window shade thingie. Not to technical I know. But just click-hold-and drag that sucker and you can resize the browswer to whatever size you want!!
As far as the double mouse thingie goes, you can get Mac mice / mouses / meeses with multiple buttons. I rather prefer multiple buttons...but lacking any on you Mac, just hold that mouse button down for a bit and that serves to do generally what the second Generic IBM PC clone button would do. I.e. for saving a picture to your disk from a browswer, click and hold and you get a nifty pull down!
Sure, you may have asked some Trojan computer person for help but they ain't very nice unless you tip them. Besides UCLA is a better. Costs less too.
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[This message has been edited by Jay (edited August 31, 2000).]
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Hm... I guess my insurance company doesn't care about that. I learned how to drive from my parents for less than two months and then got my license. Just barely passed, but I still got it... :-)
BTW, that was a year ago. I drive much better now, so I'm not as much of a menace to society as you may think. Not in that context, anyway...
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