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Ah. Ok. Thanks. Ya live and learn. I may not even buy any. (Back at Easter I bought a "happy snap" Nikon 14.1 MP camera but it just isn't the same as an SLR. It was only $450.)

Ok, update: Canon SX30. Alas it is not an SLR, but it looks pretty good.

Hey folks. I have an EOS 300D now. 6 Meg. Not bad. But for "rapid fire" shots, it kind of is slow. Bing Ree are selling a 14.1 Meg SLR Canon camera for $569. I like Canon cameras and would prefere to stay with them so as to not have to learn another manufacturer's menu system/layout. Sorry I don't have the model number, but saw it advertised in today's rag. Anyone got one? Comments?

Ha ha ha. What can I say? Quack? :) I hope to be there too.

Hi Jen. Sorry for the late reply. Dexter told me of the story. Putting aside Planedriver's requset for the feather, I would suggest YOU Keep it as a reminder/souvenire (how ever you spell it). I too am glad you are none the worse for it. Take care and good luck with the study.

David, thanks, but the problem was more to do with: Check the pref dom.storage.enabled on the about:config page and make sure that the pref is set to true. Somehow the "dom.storage.enabled" got disabled. Setting it to TRUE all is now working.

Yup. It is enabled. THat was the first thing which was suggested. Alas it is not the answer though. :(

Folks, I use Firefox to browse. Until recently - an update from FF - when I go to GMAIL, I can reply/compose e-mails and can "Chat". Now I can't do any of that. To compose an e-mail (or reply) I have to switch to Basic HTML. My JRE is uptodate as far as I know - went into the control pannel and clicked on JAVA and clicked the "update now". Is anyone else having this problem/had this problem? Any suggestions what the cure is?

Yeah, heard it a long time ago. It is a good one.

Have a look at this one! ICON Aircraft: Sport Flying Revolution

Folks, I have FS9 runing on XP. The GFX card supports two monitors and I have had two monitors once before, but just now I am back to one. A problem which has been bugging me is the GPS. I have hardware which supports controlling the GPS functions from buttons to make it more "real" but the GPS would clutter the screen. The second monitor was good. Anyway, I have just seen an advert: Used 15 inch touch-screen LCD monitors. $59. Limited stock! So..... If I get one, and link the screens, then drag the GPS's screen onto that monitor, I can see/use the GPS and the buttons would work as shown on the GPS as it is a TOUCH SCREEN! Yeah, I would have to connect the input from the touch screen to the computer, but I guess that is just a connection. The person selling it should be able to help me, but I thought I would ask here too. Anyone think it would be a good idea? And yeah, I really need to get back into the SIM. I guess all this bad weather is a good reason/excuse to do more flying on the sim.

Murwillumbah is ok. Tweed valley council. I have been in/out if there many times and even some overnight stays. No charges. There are/is clubs there and they are ok too.

Well, good news. Telstra have released the new Android OS. My question is: is it worth updating?

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Well, on my desktop it was pretty well "plug and play" but I am using my lappy now and when I plug in the desire, it wants drivers. It can't find them so I can't connect to the web. Well, I kind of am, but even so asking windoze to "auto search" still yields nothing. What am I missing?

I'd be interested, but can't get there for a few weeks sorry. Let me know if they are taken before hand, otherwise I shall get them. Thanks.

The word for which I was searching is: (Drum roll) ERROR Just if anyone else was interested.

You all seem to be missing my point. To me it seems very badly constructed. They give things names but have not put much thought into the words they chose, causing confusion. This seems to go against what is being told to us to "KISS" (Keep It Simple Stupid). I have actually found parts of the HF stuff handy. But I stress: SOME. Because of the poor way it was done, it seems like a good idea done badly. I am confused about it and though it isn't "important" to flying - directly - I want to keep learning for as long as I can. This is frustrating - but I'll get over it - as I am trying to learn/understand it.

My neighbour found out that her dog (a schnauzer) could hardly hear, so she took it to the veterinarian. The vet found that the problem was hair in the dog's ears. He cleaned both ears, and the dog could then hear fine. The vet then proceeded to tell the lady that, if she wanted to keep this from recurring, she should go to the chemist and get some "Nair" hair remover and rub it in the dog's ears once a month. The lady went to the chemist and bought some "Nair" hair remover. At the register, the pharmacist told her, "If you're going to use this under your arms, don't use deodorant for a few days." The lady said, "I'm not using it under my arms." The pharmacist said, "If you're using it on your legs, don't shave for a couple of days." The lady replied, "I'm not using it on my legs either. If you must know, I'm using it on my schnauzer." The pharmacist said, "Well stay off your bicycle for about a week."

Metalman, I fully agree. In fact I don't think I could agree more. But it has been "forced" upon us. New terms and definitions and dealing with them. The problem is that it was poorly thought out and the terms used were very badly chosen. (Climbs back on soap box) (oh, and forgive the spelling, it isn't helped with the existing problem.) Another reason this is so difficult for me to get my head around. (Gee work are going to hate me for all this time I am investing in thinking about "my" problems and not doing my work) Anway: In any profession there are "terms" (or words) which are specific to that field of work. EG: Spool. To an airline pilot it is what you do to a jet engine. You "spool it up" (or down). To a submarine captain in war you "Spool up the missiles" in preparation to launch them. To a seamstress a spool is something around which you wrap cotton. HUB: To an IT Person it is a network connection point. To someone who works at a tyre place it is something on which you put tyres and connect to the car. RIM: To an electronics/comms person it is a Remote Intergrated Mulitplexor. To the person at the tyre shop it is something else again. Desktop: To "mum and dad" it is the top most part of the desk. To a windoze person it is the GUI which windoze gives us. And so you can see that picking these "Terms" is very important that there are NO AMBIGUITIES with the words chosen. So when "they" throw SLIP at me as a word meaning to do one thing when meaning to do another, and I am flying my plane and doing a turn and put just a bit toooo much rudder in to it, I SLIP. Now, what does that mean?! Am I turning in an unbalanced configuration resulting form having too much rudder, or am I doing one thing when I mean to do something else? Now, I grant you in this case as I worded it, it could mean both/either. But if I re-word it to this: I am going in to land and reach down and push the landing gear lever down and actually turn off the fuel pump, is that a slip? No, I am not turning. IT CAUSES CONFUSION HAVING ONE WORD MEANING TWO COMPLETELY DIFFERENT THINGS IN THE ONE DISCIPLINE. And wasn't this course supposed to remove such confusion and clarify what is happening? And that there was no collective noun chosen to describe the collection of these four words is also bad/poor "design" of the syllabus. I'd better stop there.

After a bit of bashing the head on a brick wall, I wonder if the word could be PROBLEM But, because of my poor vocabulary, I don't want to use that word until someone "with authority" says it is the right one. As well as that though this is an example of how confused I am: Red Green Yellow Blue These are all......... RED. No, wait. That can't be right. I'll call them YELLOW. It doesn't resolve the problem. Though I could call them YELLOW, in the long term it may work in my world, but when I talk to other people it won't be clear and so won't be useful.

BlackRod, As correct as your reply is, it doesn't answer my question. I am STUCK on resolving how to "define" these terms when there is a recursion loop existing with the terms "they" picked. Until it is resolved, I can't define things correctly and so can't learn. To me, that is bad teaching. But hey, that's only my thoughts.

I guess one of the BIG things confusing me is the inclusion of the word MISTAKE as a "type" of ............. What is that word? To me, in my world it is a MISTAKE. You can't have a sub-class of MISTAKE to a MISTAKE. So it creates a loop. Probably bad education, but that is called a cop out and so I won't call it that, but can someone see it from my perspective? (And help me learn the "more correct" term for the greater ....... errrr...... "Mistake".)

Frank, Thanks for that however, that is exactly what was in the HF exam. For some reason it ain't going in. Violations may stick if I think about it. It is obvious too, but I honestly don't know what is going on with my head just now.

Ok, I passed the course, but........ A couple of things don't "work" for me. I appreciate there need to be TERMS which are used to define a situation, but in the past it is easy to associate the term with what it describes. In the course there was a part about making mistakes and they had four TERMS (most of which escape me at this moment). The one I do remember is a SLIP. I think that is where you think you want to do one thing and do another. I can kind of see the association with that - thus I remember the name. The other three are weird ones which I can't associate with their given errors. Can someone help me get a grip on the names? I could sit there and learn them parrot fasion, but I don't think that is a good way to learn what they mean and their name. I also have detected an error I made at work but it is less than 1% - or below the threashold. Ok, mistakes happen. But I am curious to the mechanics of what happened. Basically I am reading lines of text. I had to write the data from one page's line somewhere else, then take information from there on the first page, and use that to do the job. The data I wrote on the second page was from the line above on the first page. But on the first page I wrote the correct information from the second page. Somehow the work wasn't done. I do my work. It isn't that I just claim to do it and don't. Alas it was about a week or so ago, so my memory of exactly what happened is non-existant. Do I need to really drill down on this error or is it that I should just accept it and get on with it? To get it in perspective: I am doing this task about 25 times a day. So, a week ago would be 25*7 itterations ago - give or take.