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View Poll Results: What's the best thing your computer does for you? | |
It connects me to the Internet!
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It allows me to play REALLY cool games!
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It gives me really awesome software... e.g. MSN Office, Quicken, etc.
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Other... tell us what the other is.
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03-01-2006, 04:31 PM
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#1 | | Head Mistress
Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Good ol' U.S. of A
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Rep Power: 6  | What's the most valuable thing your computer
does for you??
For example... the most valuable thing my computer does for me is connect me to the Internet.
What about you? 
Lyte
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03-01-2006, 06:27 PM
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#2 | | Senior
Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: US of A!
Posts: 777
Rep Power: 3 | The internet is a big one.
I like making it do stuff most wouldn't think it would do and tasks that would take forever by hand. Always have to find a better way to use your comp to its fullest .
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03-01-2006, 06:48 PM
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#3 | | Senior
Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Northern Arizona
Posts: 651
Rep Power: 3 | I have to agree........the intenet !!
If anybody cares to down-load the whole internet.......click on this link http://www.w3schools.com/downloadwww.htm 
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03-04-2006, 12:17 PM
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#4 | | Sophomore
Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Hayward, CA
Posts: 52
Rep Power: 3 | I use my computer mostly for school. Writing reports and junk. 
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03-26-2006, 07:50 AM
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#5 | | Sophomore
Join Date: Feb 2006
Posts: 41
Rep Power: 0 | Internet...
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06-03-2006, 12:25 AM
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#6 | | Freshman
Join Date: Jun 2006
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Rep Power: 0 | It is definitely the internet for me. There is so much info to research out there and I get to chat with you guys. | |
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06-07-2006, 05:53 AM
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#7 | | Freshman
Join Date: Jun 2006
Posts: 11
Rep Power: 0 | I would have to say the internet also...
Although my computer holds my most precious photos...I eat sleep and daydream about photos and digital cameras... (Only if I could afford a really good camera)
The internet allows me to connect to people all over the world, and make money at the same time.  | |
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06-07-2006, 08:16 AM
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#8 | | Sophomore
Join Date: Jun 2006
Posts: 101
Rep Power: 3 | I would have to say that the most important thing is that it connects me to the internet. I like using the internet for research to help me in my daily life: being able to look up a recipe for an exotic dish, or finding out the best way to train a dog in a particular way, it's SO much better than searching through books. | |
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06-07-2006, 08:26 AM
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#9 | | Sophomore
Join Date: Jun 2006
Posts: 64
Rep Power: 3 | I couldn't live without the internet. I make most of my money from being online. LOL... | |
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06-07-2006, 05:52 PM
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#10 | | Head Mistress
Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Good ol' U.S. of A
Posts: 3,357
Rep Power: 6 | Not surprisingly most chose the Internet as the most valuable task for their computer. This then begs the question... What the heck did we do BEFORE the Internet!?
Lyte
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06-07-2006, 06:11 PM
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#11 | | Sophomore
Join Date: Jun 2006
Posts: 64
Rep Power: 3 | Had real jobs.  No really I watched TV and hung out with friends, wait that hasn't changed. That's a good question, maybe it should be a topic of it's own. | |
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07-12-2006, 10:59 AM
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#12 | | Freshman
Join Date: Jan 2006
Posts: 27
Rep Power: 0 | If you're able to connect to the Internet, you can do almost everything else stated. Cool games? You could play some flash games online... still cool, eh? Latest softwares, download them... and pay for it, if not, crack it by google-ing cracks and keygens. Video and audio? You have the whole Internet, do you think you couldn't find one?
INTERNET! No Internet, no humanity (at least for the year 1995 upwards)
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07-14-2006, 09:53 PM
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#13 | | Freshman
Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: San Diego, CA
Posts: 14
Rep Power: 0 | Sharing knowledge and communication
I think the sharing of knowledge and communication between others is the most valuable. I just recently read all about Geodesic Dome design (Buckminster Fuller) and wind generators. It isn't doing too much for my productivity at work however!
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07-15-2006, 07:00 AM
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#14 | | Freshman
Join Date: Mar 2006
Posts: 12
Rep Power: 0 | Well if you tell me which one is the most valuable then i will say computer itself.
its my life. I play games, surf the net, use cool softwares, do some programming and web designing. I simply live for it. its my only girlfriend.  | |
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07-18-2006, 11:25 PM
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#15 | | Freshman
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Originally Posted by kenwilly I think the sharing of knowledge and communication between others is the most valuable. I just recently read all about Geodesic Dome design (Buckminster Fuller) and wind generators. It isn't doing too much for my productivity at work however! | That was the original intent of the designers, sharing of resources, knowledge and information.
What some people have yet to discover is there are in fact two webs.
For ease of understanding they are commonly called the visible web and the
invisible or deep web.
The deep web is where you will find university, gov, and subject specific FTP's.
Since these are not subject to seo or pr or the other types of manipulation you
find searching the visible web, real information can be found.
Oooops, what was the question?
Oh yea, the internet for me as well.
Any subject you can conceive of has been researched sometime by someone,
and a record of this lays waiting to be found, added to, disputed, proven....
it just grows and grows.
That is what my computer does for me... teaches me, and at 52yo I still crave learning.
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08-26-2006, 04:09 PM
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#16 | | Sophomore
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 127
Rep Power: 3 | Provides me a job.
Internet as well.
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08-30-2006, 02:36 PM
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#17 | | Freshman
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 5
Rep Power: 0 | Definitely, the Internet. It also provides me with a job and keeps me in touch with family and friends. | |
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08-30-2006, 04:20 PM
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#18 | | Head Mistress
Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Good ol' U.S. of A
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Originally Posted by sunnybeachcal ....and keeps me in touch with family and friends. | Amen to that!
Although I think the act of writing with pen and paper has become a lost art since the invention of the computer and the internet.
Lyte
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09-01-2006, 05:30 AM
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#19 | | Sophomore
Join Date: Jul 2006
Posts: 42
Rep Power: 0 | I can earn soem money from designing sites, I can grow my own communities and do what I love so much .. design sites
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09-10-2006, 06:25 AM
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#20 | | Sophomore
Join Date: Sep 2006
Posts: 61
Rep Power: 2 | Porn, of course, ... (Kidding ...)
Email. This is #1. I can't imagine living without email. I can't really work without email. Internet, i.e., the web, is as important as email. I also can't really work without the web.
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09-12-2006, 03:45 AM
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#21 | | Sophomore
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Rep Power: 2 | Organises my life! Where i'm supposed to be, at what time, who with etc, makes it easy to organise things as well | |
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10-23-2006, 06:43 PM
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#22 | | Sophomore
Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: USA! USA! USA!
Posts: 141
Rep Power: 2 | I voted other, because all of the above, minus the gaming one, my computer is NOT close to being able to run any good games.
Internet...it is my life, im on it all night, and i put most of my time into it, be it for a friend, for myself, for a forum, or any other of many reasons.
The awesome programs part...wow... i never knew so many programs existed for windows until i started searching, they have ones for everything. I love a lot of them, but you have to be careful of course.
Technically, internet and the programs are connected for me.
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10-24-2006, 04:23 PM
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#23 | | Professor
Join Date: Jul 2005
Posts: 2,208
Rep Power: 6 | Firefox on one computer, Apache on the other.
It's like a big circle. | |
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10-24-2006, 05:43 PM
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#24 | | Freshman
Join Date: Oct 2006
Posts: 11
Rep Power: 0 | People still use computers for other tasks other than getting on the internet? I am an internet junkie, I don't like games much, and I don't write too many letters. I like to communicate, and research, and try to be creative. I guess I use PSP 6.0 to make website graphics, but for the most part, the only applications that I use are registry mechanic, PC Pitstop Optimize, Diskeeper 10, Spybot S&D, and of course, Firefox. | |
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12-23-2006, 12:06 AM
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#25 | | Sophomore
Join Date: Dec 2006
Posts: 51
Rep Power: 2 | The internet.
It allows me to make money, gather information, social stuff. Everything happens there. Even games, and stuff. | |
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