Re: Just venting (totally OT)

Mandy <mandy2uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

real-address-in-sig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Rowland McDonnell) wrote:

Mandy <mandy2uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

real-address-in-sig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Rowland McDonnell) wrote:

Mandy <mandy2uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

real-address-in-sig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Rowland McDonnell) wrote:

Mandy <mandy2uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

real-address-in-sig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Rowland McDonnell) wrote:

Mandy <mandy2uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
[snip]

Oh, but it does - I've noticed stuff sticking after enough repetition.
You're not incapable of learning - it's just slower (much, much
slower) than it ought to be. You say yourself that constant daily
repetition means some bits stick, don't you?

As long as it is repeated often enough it sticks but, for example, if
something took Jo Average 2 hours to learn it would take *me* 2 weeks of
constantly doing the same thing :o(

Hmm - not as bad as it might be, then.

[snip]

Anyway, stuff does stick eventually - your memory's not a complete
wash-out yet. It just takes a lot of work over a long time to get
anything to stick in it.

Got it in one! :o)

Exactly like a sydexic learning to spell a word, so it seems. The
patterns smell the same.

[snip]

lol The things
that stick most are things I do over and over again every day - Vista
for example, for the first week I had it I did the same thing several
times a day, every day and I'm still doing that now so I know how to
do it now but I wouldn't have remembered if I hadn't done it so many
times when I first got it!

Exactly - you can learn, it's just slow and takes an awful lot of
repetition, yes? So if you get a Mac and use it just occasionally,
you'll never get the hang of it. But if you get a Mac and use it
every day, you will.


*nodding* I'm thinking of using it every evening when Steve gets home
from work so that he can use his computer while I use the Mac :o)

<grin> You might change your mind, you know.

[snip]

(I have many many whinges about Spotlight and view it as `completely
crap' for *my* needs (I have a way all the whinges, btw). Most people
are surprised when they hear my opinions on it, 'cos most people find
that it's brill for their needs. For specific technical reasons, you
almost certainly won't meet any of the bother I have.)

As long as it does what you've said then I'll be happy! :o)

It does what I've said for most people most of the time. Oh, it's
complicated, but if you're using `normal files types', and you've got
one hard disc drive, and you're not doing odd things, there's no
particular reason to think that it *won't* work for you.

/Especially/ since everyone's telling me that Spotlight under the
current version of MacOS X seems to work much better and seems to have
have got round all the things that had been annoying people previously
about it.

[snip]

I seem to be OK most
of the time online 'cos I can go back and look at webpages and old
emails and stuff but I can't do that IRL so my bad memory really
shows up then!

Your bad memory has shown up here quite a lot. I've paid attention.

What sort of things have I said that show how bad my memory is? Just
wondering :o)

Oh, I can't recall the details - but I do recall getting irritated that
you'd simply forgotten something really straightforward, giving me the
idea that you were not treating me with decent respect given how much
effort I'd put in trying to explain something. And then you explained
about the illness so I stopped being irritated and started being
sympathetic.

From then on, I've just let `the modeller' handle it. I do all the
analysis `in the back of my head' outside of conscious thought
processes, and I let `the modeller' (a process running in my brain) tell
me what's what. <shrug> That probably sounds a bit mad, but it's
actually a very good and direct way of doing things that anyone who
knows a bit about `how people really think as opposed to how people
think they think' would understand pretty well.

Anyway, the upshot of that is that i've got no idea exactly what's shown
me how bad/good your memory is, but I'm getting a fairly clear picture I
think, based on gathering the evidence. But I don't `think about it'
with my conscious mind, remember - I just `let myself pay attention, let
the data sink in, and let the answer come up as and when it's needed'.

And on the other hand, you might be surprised at quite how good
your memory is. It's not as bad as all that, from what I've
gathered here.

Some things are better than others... if I knew it before I went in
to hospital then it's in there somewhere but very little new stuff
stays in there unfortunately :o(

Lots of repetition, day after day, and bits do stick. They do, don't
they? I've been paying attention ever since I noticed your mention of
your specific problems in this line.

Eventually they stick but I have to do it at least twice a day, every day
but I wish I didn't have to!

<hug> Keep at it.

[snip]

(there is one exception: the very strange and new Macintosh Air.
Then again, it's unusual in that it's got enough RAM to start with,
but I think that's because the RAM - and the rest of it - isn't
upgradable. You don't want one of them, I'm pretty sure.)

So I just need a bigger hard drive and more memory then?

More RAM, almost certainly; a bigger hard disc drive is a `maybe' -
depending on what size you get to start with and what you end up doing
with the machine.

Hold on and I'll go and look :o) This is the one I'm thinking of
getting

Righto - erm, do you know what the model name is?

2.16Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo
2GB 667Mhz DDR2 PC2-5300 SDRAM
120GB 5400rpm Serial ATA hard drive
8x SuperDrive
Intel GMA 950 64MB DDR
Built-in Airport Extreme (802.11n) Built-in Bluetooth 2.0+EDR

Righto - well, you've got built-in wireless networking, an optical drive
that can read and write CDs and DVDs, built-in Bluetooth (which can be
handy for connecting you to peripherals) - all good stuff.

Buckets of CPU oomph - no worries there (two processor cores, and
they're fast - which is all very good).

The graphics hardware isn't fancy - but that shouldn't matter unless you
want to play games.

But 120GB HD space - well, you need about 25GB for 100,000 of these PSP
pipes you've talked about (which is a lot more pipes than you said you
had), leaving you with 95GB for `everything else'. That'll do you - it
wouldn't be enough if you wanted to fill your HDD up with music and
video, but since you don't, it's plenty.

And 2GB of RAM - well, I suspect that if you use `one program at a
time', that'll be fine, and probably perfectly okay for everything you
want to do. I always want more of everything myself and more than 2GB
RAM could turn out useful, mind. But it's not `far too little' as is
traditional with Apple.

I've got 2.5GB RAM in this Mac and that's fine for me mostly - it's only
noticably not enough when I'm working on really, really huge high
resolution scans of the sort I don't think you'd contemplate going near.

The 768MB RAM in our iMac downstairs isn't really enough - it works
perfectly well, but it's a bit sluggish at times when lots of things are
open due to its lack of RAM.

So: I'd say that Mac - as it is - will do for your current needs and if
you do need to add anything at any point, it'd be more RAM only but
that's not a pressing need at all.

[snip]

Erm - check this out, dudette:

<http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/timemachine.html>

(okay, it's the Apple marketing material, but it gives you the idea.
People have reported `issues' with using it, and of course Apple likes
to gloss over any defects, but it's actually very nearly as good as
Apple makes out from what I've heard)

Blimey!

If you did decided to `use a Mac as your main computer', it'd be a very
good idea to get an external hard disc drive just to use for backups
with Time Machine. Don't bother unless you decide to `go Mac', mind.
No point spending money you don't have to.

Rowland.

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