Re: "Device not ready" (CDBurn)

Tim Hill <tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> In article <slrn.2006-01-09.00-53-34@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Ben Shimmin
> <bas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

[...]

>> using their computers
>
> which pre-supposes they have a computer

Yes, I expect most of the benefits of computers are only available to those
who actually possess a computer...

[...]

>> I do vaguely agree with some of the points you raise, but I just can't
>> really make much sense of them if I pause to think for a moment whether
>> I'd rather be using my Mac or your machine running RISC OS.

[...]

> So, you go off and play with your mac, and I'll get on with some work

Why the `play'/`work' distinction?

> with my Iyonix, a Risc PC, an ancient windows 95 box for /occasional/ web
> browsing and BBC radio and and XP box in the next room which, it has to
> be said, I do have to use to get stuff out of my phone with bluetooth.
> Can your mac do that?

Yes. My Mac fully supports my Sony Ericsson mobile (synchronising, file
transfer, and connectivity). In fact, using the excellent Salling Clicker,
I can even use my mobile as a remote control for my computer.

> How many RISC OS (or mac for that matter) users are limited only to that
> technology?

As a Mac user, the word `limited' doesn't really have any meaning for me.

> Some of us already have a music collection, have seen enough animation
> for a lifetime and wonder why so many companies apparently want a
> flashy-lighty web site laid out like it was created with a porn-site
> wizard. Mostly, I am looking for information on the web and watch DVDs
> via the PlayStation on a 36" widescreen telly, otherwise they are rather
> squashed on a 4:3 17" screen - equivalent to 14" widescreen.

I watch a lot of DVDs on my computer. I'm thinking of getting a larger
display (and a Miglia TV Mini) and getting rid of my TVs altogether.

> Even my
> daughter would rather watch her DVDs on a portable player than on her PC.
> Can hardly have a desktop on her lap in bed, now can she?

If I were in bed, I'd watch my DVDs on my iBook.

I see this argument here more and more: if RISC OS can't do something, it
isn't worth doing (that is, of course, until RISC OS finally can do it, at
which point everyone will jump up and praise RISC OS for being at the cutting
edge again). It's understandable, of course, but also rather amusing...

b.

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