h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

V - Vertical and H = Horizontal

The plus should move the window to the right when you select the H Position and up when you select the V Position.

Alji

hi Alji,

Have decided not to try and mess around with the settings in case I screw things up and can't make them right again. Anyhow, you have not told me what advantages there would be to setting my monitor to this other thingy.

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So what is everyone up to this lazy Sunday? Me? Am being lazy. It's kind of overcast here and I have this thing about overcast days and so am staying in.

Betwixt and between checking in on hootoo I am doing boring house stuff.

Will soon be getting a DSL line, which I am quite excited about. Will be able to download music faster and also keep my house phone line free. Yipee!

That's all for now.

very boringly yours,
az

Doing much the same, az. Various chores to be done, checking in here on and off to see if anything's cooking.

Noggin

Only thing cooking around here is predetermination. Or rather, a massive argument about in on the God? thread. And az agreed with toxx! It must be a cold day in hell.

I don't believe in predetermination. And apparently, neither does Toxxin. So what's the big deal?

az

I assumed that you two hated eachother so much that you'd forego your own beliefs to argue. Oops, wait, you don't hate anyone, apparently. Hmm.
I'm sure that no human being believes in predetermination, at least in their hearts. As you say, once the future is fixed there is no hope.
Oh, btw. Was having a discussion with a hippy-philosopher acquaintance of mine, discussing free will. He says that given enough data and a big enough computer, he can predict with 100% certainty the future of all the universe. But, I reply, that would take away free will. No, he says, it wouldn't.
Am I missing something obvious? I hope not. But surely 100% certainty of anything is just predetermination, and I'd lose any choice in the matter.

Fnord (refuse to call you by that new name!)

I've never understood when people say they believe in destiny and free will at the same time. Like we can make choices, but if they are predetermined, then how is that a personal choice?

Yes, you are right - I don't hate anybody. And I have never had the notion that Toxxin hated me at all. Only that he liked winding me up and making fun of me, for reasons best known to himself.

Me? I have reached a new philosophy here on h2g2 which is that I don't give a monkey's what people think of me or what they say about me. Before I used to take things way too personally. I think I'm over that now.

But YOU still have to be nice to me, otherwise I'll beat you up.

az

Some people believe that some major events are predetermined, but not the small things. Well, major events are still influenced by small things, so they must be predetermined, too. The small things are all there is. Also, I read an argument, while lurking around Noggin's page, that we couldn't possibly have free will, because after we've completed an action, our past selves don't have any choice whatsoever in what's going to happen. That idea just seems like a ghost in the machine, born out of semantics to me, but who knows.

Fnord,

I don't believe that any events - big or small - are predetermined. Though some actions follow other actions as a matter of course. This is different. It's more like once you set the ball rolling then certain things will happen, unless something else happens to stop the progress of the rolling ball.

Basically, humans are quite predictable in the way they will respond to certain circumstances. But then again, it only takes one person to say - NO.

I am constantly saying NO. How about you?

az

I'll also say that I agree with the concept of Karma to a point. But this is more or less a 'what goes around comes around' sort of idea which is quite logical. Which doesn't always work.

But basically, if you constantly sh*t on people then you should not be surprised if the rest of the world ends up sh*tting on you.

Also, if you decide to be loving and kind to people, it behooves one to choose these people carefully and not to do this willy-nilly.

Otherwise it is often just wasted love and energy.

az

So do you want us to call you Fnord or Malaclypse?

I agree az; Karma is a "this life" rule of thumb deal.

Malaclypse - you can tell your friend that the universe can be as deterministic as you please and he *still* couldn't predict everything, for some very good reasons to do with the logic of self reference. So there's no possible way of telling whether things are predetermined or not. But either way our actions are part of the input to future events and *do* make a difference.

Noggin

I'm going to keep calling him Fnord.

So there.

az


so, hey, just made a personal choice! only 'pre-determined' by knowing what a stubborn ole thing I am.

can't help it - I'm a Capricorn.

az, you will not mess thing up! And if you ant to go back to the original settings then all you have to do is write them down before you make any changes.

V Size 35
V Position 47
H Size 39
H Position 60
OSD. V Position 54
OSD. H Position 44

"Anyhow, you have not told me what advantages there would be to setting my monitor to this other thingy." You will see the advantage when you do it! If you don't, you can go back to the old screen size.

Alji

sheesh that guy is bossy!

Okay okay okay - I will try it but not today. Will have to have my wits about me and my wits have gone away for the weekend.

The should be back soon . . .

az

Okay! I have changed the resolution and also changed the vertical and horizontal thingys so that everything is centred properly.

Everything just looks smaller.

And since I sit about four feet away from my screen I'm not sure this is a good thing.

Are there other obvious advantages to this that I am apparently missing?

az

Why do you sit so far from the monitor?

Do you have any wallpaper on your windows desktop?

Here's what I have on mine at the moment;

http://www.webshots.com/g/33/644-sh/41276.html
I' ve also got the following to chose from;

http://www.webshots.com/g/33/644-sh/12450.html

http://www.webshots.com/g/32/584-sh/20496.html

http://www.webshots.com/g/32/578-sh/31796.html

http://www.webshots.com/g/32/585-sh/41222.html

http://www.webshots.com/g/33/615-sh/40062.html

http://www.webshots.com/g/33/617-sh/30963.html

http://www.webshots.com/g/33/617-sh/12324.html

Alji

Alji,

I sit so far back because I don't have a proper desk for my computer in the living room - it's on a bookshelf unit thingy. So I sit a bit back from it on an angle, and because of my bad back, usually sit with my feet up on a footstool (and the keyboard on my lap, unless a cat is there) and so that's approx. 4ft away.

I now only have wavy blue lines as wallpaper. Before I used to have a gorgeous photo of Benicio del Toro lying seductively on one side and looking very sexy except then I realized that 1) I was too old for that sort of thing and 2) he was never going to call. So I'm over him.

az

. . . so, like, where'd everybody go?

Have you all seen the new smileys? I still think we need a 'yay!' smiley and a 'sun' smiley. Ah well. What the hell is that ROFL one? Looks scary, not at all like a laughing smiley.

Time for

az

Oh, c'mon now - there is nobody out there? May have to resort to crying soon.

Noggin, Alji, Fnord . . . ?

Well, it would appear that nobody loves me so I shall have to take myself aside and . . . tell myself 'well who cares anyhow?'

As in - hey I don't care. What . . . me? Care? Nope, not me. That's for sure.

You can all ignore me. No skin off my nose. I don't care.



az

Don't be so selfish, forcing me to reply here when I haven't the time. And I wasted yours by making you read this, too. Everybody cares. Just not too much... c'mon... better be a smiley... d'oh!