"Hi, IT helpdesk? I have been using my wireless mouse and wireless keyboard just fine for over two years and now it doesn't work ... can you please* bring me a new set that works."
No, No, No. These are all too easy. How do I answer "why it is flashing" (in reference to some text on the screen)? If I asked my friend at the time I got a non-syllabic answer.
No, No, No. These are all too easy. How do I answer "why it is flashing" (in reference to some text on the screen)?
say this
Aristotle distinguished between four causes, or four explanations, that each answer the question "why?" in different ways. These various means of explanation can be divided into four general types as follows:
* The material cause is the physical matter, the mass of "raw material" of which something is "made" (of which it consists).
* The formal cause tells us what, by analogy to the plans of an artisan, a thing is intended and planned to be.
* The efficient cause is that external entity from which the change or the ending of the change first starts.
* The final cause is that for the sake of which a thing exists, or is done - including both purposeful and instrumental actions. The final cause, or telos, is the purpose, or end, that something is supposed to serve.
Additionally, things can be causes of one another, reciprocally causing each other, as hard work causes fitness, and vice versa - although not in the same way or by means of the same function: the one is as the beginning of change, the other is as its goal. (Thus Aristotle first suggested a reciprocal or circular causality - as a relation of mutual dependence, action, or influence of cause and effect.) Also; Aristotle indicated that the same thing can be the cause of contrary effects - as its presence and absence may result in different outcomes. In speaking thus he formulated what currently is ordinarily termed a "causal factor," e.g., atmospheric pressure as it affects chemical or physical reactions.
Aristotle marked two modes of causation: proper (prior) causation and accidental (chance) causation. All causes, proper and accidental, can be spoken as potential or as actual, particular or generic. The same language refers to the effects of causes; so that generic effects assigned to generic causes, particular effects to particular causes, and operating causes to actual effects. It is also essential that ontological causality does not suggest the temporal relation of before and after - between the cause and the effect; that spontaneity (in nature) and chance (in the sphere of moral actions) are among the causes of effects belonging to the efficient causation, and that no incidental, spontaneous, or chance cause can be prior to a proper, real, or underlying cause per se.
All investigations of causality coming later in history will consist in imposing a favorite hierarchy on the order (priority) of causes; such as "final > efficient > material > formal" (Thomas Aquinas), or in restricting all causality to the material and efficient causes or, to the efficient causality (deterministic or chance), or just to regular sequences and correlations of natural phenomena (the natural sciences describing how things happen rather than asking why they happen).
No, No, No. These are all too easy. How do I answer "why it is flashing" (in reference to some text on the screen)? If I asked my friend at the time I got a non-syllabic answer.
So ... wait ... you're seriously asking this question because you are faced with it in real life???
I mistook this thread for a collection of "IT questions you have experienced" or something like that :lol:
I have a keyboard (musical) and and the music for Prelude in C, I'd like to be able to play it, but I keep turning on the PC, and wondering if I should try to chat up someone in my area on Facebook.
I have a keyboard (musical) and and the music for Prelude in C, I'd like to be able to play it, but I keep turning on the PC, and wondering if I should try to chat up someone in my area on Facebook.
defo go for the female.
although women are attrated to men who can play music.
I told someone 6 months ago to upgrade their laptop memory as it was 128mb ! after gfx card had 128mb taken.. obv. like trying to power a ferrari with a lawn mower engine
so they come back to me moaning about it, instead of spending ?25 to fix it.
I mistook this thread for a collection of "IT questions you have experienced" or something like that :lol:
Yes, but I vaguely remember being asked this is in my teens about flashing text on the screen when playing some game on the Spectrum, by my mum I think (bless her 80 next month). The thing is people think or thought I knew a lot about computers, but when it comes to explaining it, its like this is going to be so difficult. Basically I don't understand a lot, I know what stuff does in a sense. Surprisingly and delightedly my mum was rather good at Light Cycle though:smile:
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Q:"Why doesn't the computer turn on?"
A:"You're only turning on the monitor, not the computer."
A: Put paper in the printer.
I had this one.
*A word that is rarely, if ever, used by users.
BTW The answer is: "Insert new batteries."
...thanks for reminding me that I'm a bit tired of what I'm doing for a living. ;)
My games for the Spectrum: Dingo, The Speccies, The Speccies 2, Vallation, SQIJ.
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say this
Aristotle distinguished between four causes, or four explanations, that each answer the question "why?" in different ways. These various means of explanation can be divided into four general types as follows:
* The material cause is the physical matter, the mass of "raw material" of which something is "made" (of which it consists).
* The formal cause tells us what, by analogy to the plans of an artisan, a thing is intended and planned to be.
* The efficient cause is that external entity from which the change or the ending of the change first starts.
* The final cause is that for the sake of which a thing exists, or is done - including both purposeful and instrumental actions. The final cause, or telos, is the purpose, or end, that something is supposed to serve.
Additionally, things can be causes of one another, reciprocally causing each other, as hard work causes fitness, and vice versa - although not in the same way or by means of the same function: the one is as the beginning of change, the other is as its goal. (Thus Aristotle first suggested a reciprocal or circular causality - as a relation of mutual dependence, action, or influence of cause and effect.) Also; Aristotle indicated that the same thing can be the cause of contrary effects - as its presence and absence may result in different outcomes. In speaking thus he formulated what currently is ordinarily termed a "causal factor," e.g., atmospheric pressure as it affects chemical or physical reactions.
Aristotle marked two modes of causation: proper (prior) causation and accidental (chance) causation. All causes, proper and accidental, can be spoken as potential or as actual, particular or generic. The same language refers to the effects of causes; so that generic effects assigned to generic causes, particular effects to particular causes, and operating causes to actual effects. It is also essential that ontological causality does not suggest the temporal relation of before and after - between the cause and the effect; that spontaneity (in nature) and chance (in the sphere of moral actions) are among the causes of effects belonging to the efficient causation, and that no incidental, spontaneous, or chance cause can be prior to a proper, real, or underlying cause per se.
All investigations of causality coming later in history will consist in imposing a favorite hierarchy on the order (priority) of causes; such as "final > efficient > material > formal" (Thomas Aquinas), or in restricting all causality to the material and efficient causes or, to the efficient causality (deterministic or chance), or just to regular sequences and correlations of natural phenomena (the natural sciences describing how things happen rather than asking why they happen).
So ... wait ... you're seriously asking this question because you are faced with it in real life???
I mistook this thread for a collection of "IT questions you have experienced" or something like that :lol:
thats a rhtorical question.
its more likely that i didn;t understand my post.
is it one of those funks where you cant seem to be bothered with anything, or have you just run out of stuff to do?
defo go for the female.
although women are attrated to men who can play music.
honeslty if you can sit a girl down and play her some bach her knickers will pretty much fall off.
even better if you tell her you wrote it.
"So... what did the error message actually SAY before you clicked OK and it vanished?"
I told someone 6 months ago to upgrade their laptop memory as it was 128mb ! after gfx card had 128mb taken.. obv. like trying to power a ferrari with a lawn mower engine
so they come back to me moaning about it, instead of spending ?25 to fix it.
Yes, but I vaguely remember being asked this is in my teens about flashing text on the screen when playing some game on the Spectrum, by my mum I think (bless her 80 next month). The thing is people think or thought I knew a lot about computers, but when it comes to explaining it, its like this is going to be so difficult. Basically I don't understand a lot, I know what stuff does in a sense. Surprisingly and delightedly my mum was rather good at Light Cycle though:smile:
Nah, too old-school ... go for Prelude in C++ instead.
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