Last time I looked at a catalog (a while ago) you could mix-n-match the modes of operation, as evidenced by the selector: safe (one white bullet), semi (one red bullet), two-round burst (two red bullets), three-round burst (three red bullets), and full-auto (seven red bullets). You could order one with any trigger group you want--like safe, semi, two-round, and full; or safe, semi, and three-round burst only. (But if you call up and ask for 'full auto only and no safe, please' they'd probably hang up on you.:-) )
* before you reply saying GML stands for 'General Markup Language', RTFA! (Yeah, I know, I must be new here.) OK, here it is for you: "Later in 1969, together with Ed Mosher and Ray Lorie, I invented Generalized Markup Language (GML) to solve the data representation problem... in 1971, when product development was imminent, I gave GML its present name so that our initials would always prove where it had originated."
And now, the view from the other side of the fence...
- they look f'ing fantastic at their native resolution--ever look at an LCD and a CRT through a loupe? If you deal with a lot of one-pixel-wide lines (like Excel with aliased text) the sharpness is unbelievable. Just make sure you have DVI, which is now on $30 AGP cards.
- the RGB guns will never drift out of convergence. I've seen this happen on $1,000 CRTs--Apple Studio Displays with Trinitron tubes, Mitsubishi Diamond Plus/Pro 200s & 2060s--after just 18-24 months.
- Modern LCDs have a fine angle of view
- LCDs resond fast enough for most people--I watch TV and game on mine some and don't notice ghosting, smearing, etc.
- modern LCDs can do an honest 24-bits, which is enough for 99% of the world
- LCDs live fine if you take care of them, same as CRTs--a screensaver that "scrubs" the screen and have it power off after an hour or so.
- Bonus: they give off very little heat. My old 21" CRT would raise the temp in my bedroom noticable after just a couple hours. In Florida with the AC set to 78 in the middle of the summer, that sucks.
Posted by special contributor Richard Keiichi Yamauchi, Jr.
Some of you might be thinking, why? Well, I think it's about time. MCSE's, VB Programmers, and techies have been using Windows for years, and I think it's about time Windows moves to the desktop for ordinary people.
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We've heard it year after year after year: "This is the year Windows is for the masses on the desktop." Well, then another version comes out and still "Joe Longkneck" can't use it. I would love to see Windows on the desktop for the newbie. It's just it's going to take some effort.
... and so on.
It's not even Greenpeace. "Nuclear" just sounds bad, period. Everyone knows what a nuclear bomb is, and you can't educate people enough to convince them that nuclear is safe. Somewhere in their minds, there will always be the thought "But it's nucular, like the bombs, it might asplode!" It's been a long time since we dropped a coal bomb on anyone, and a coal mine cave-in doesn't have the same dramatic ring that Chernobyl does.
I know you're talking about carcinogens, but it doesn't matter--all that matters is which aspect grabs people's attention the most. Why are people still afraid to fly? Flying has been safer than driving for decades, but a 3-car pileup on the highway just doesn't have the same dramatic impact (no pun intended) as 250 people falling from the sky and dying a fiery death all at the same time.
...I moved into a place with no phone service (California, mid-1990s) the phone would work and you could call two numbers, IIRC--611 to set up phone service and 911 for emergencies. If you tried to dial anything else it wouldn't work. Am I remembering correctly? If so, is that still the case? Is that the case everywhere?
Yup, and they'll be dead as soon as people quit searching the web... and using webmail... and looking at cool draggable maps with integrated satellite photos... and comparison-shopping online... and reading aggregated news... and...
But seriously, once people quit all that... and quit using keyhole and picassa and whatever else google buys in the next five years... man, then they'll really be dead.
"...and if you're one of those who got a 4200 RPM drive with their Mini it's even worse than normal."
Is there a way to tell if I have a 5400 or 4200 RPM drive in my Mini without cracking it open? Will Apple System Profiler tell me, or is there a command-line utility?
"How is the user capable, or how has the user been capable to display information on the Web (not the internet, just a part) with a web browser... [things]* like this never happened before this FF extension..."
Wrong and wronger. The *whole point* of the WWW is that a document is presented with a documented set of tags, and it's up to the user agent to specify how those tags get interpreted. The first browser I used (Chameleon, ~1995) had a panel for setting prefs on how you wanted to interpret tags. If you want H1...H6 to be interpreted as darker...lighter instead of bigger...smaller, that's OK. If you want <strong> to be big red blinking text, that's up to you.
Furthermore, there are already tons of ways to control how a page looks. FF's web devloper toolbar lets you do all kinds of stuff. Browsers for quite a while have let you choose alternate style sheets, or none at all. There's even an FF extension that lets you *edit* the CSS on your page. No sense mentioning things like Links, Lynx, and screen readers, where most of the presentation information is completely stripped away.
If the site host has an *idea* of how his information should be presented, good for him. But if I want to sit with my back to the screen and pay a friend to read it to me, is the designer gonna come beat me up? I bet you think going to the bathroom during commercials is stealing, too.
"Those that chose to display information a certain way are in their right to do..."
They can *send the bits to my computer*, that is it. It's up to me and my software to interpret them as I wish. Remember, *he's* the one who posted his work in a public place. If he wants to be an anal-retentive, user-fighting dickwad, he can make PDFs. Just don't tell him I own the full version of Acrobat and can edit PDFs, too.
* it seems like "things" was what you meant to say here.
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Hey, we're not in Seminole Co. but we're closer to it than Tampa is, for God's sake! Anyway, here it is.
I've gone through 3 m105s. Not sure if I still have any of them laying around...
...in the back of Soldier of Fortune.
Last time I looked at a catalog (a while ago) you could mix-n-match the modes of operation, as evidenced by the selector: safe (one white bullet), semi (one red bullet), two-round burst (two red bullets), three-round burst (three red bullets), and full-auto (seven red bullets). You could order one with any trigger group you want--like safe, semi, two-round, and full; or safe, semi, and three-round burst only. (But if you call up and ask for 'full auto only and no safe, please' they'd probably hang up on you. :-) )
BTW, Mr. Goldfarb is the 'G' in 'GML'*, as described in this fascinating read on the origins of GML.
* before you reply saying GML stands for 'General Markup Language', RTFA! (Yeah, I know, I must be new here.) OK, here it is for you: "Later in 1969, together with Ed Mosher and Ray Lorie, I invented Generalized Markup Language (GML) to solve the data representation problem... in 1971, when product development was imminent, I gave GML its present name so that our initials would always prove where it had originated."
And now, the view from the other side of the fence...
- they look f'ing fantastic at their native resolution--ever look at an LCD and a CRT through a loupe? If you deal with a lot of one-pixel-wide lines (like Excel with aliased text) the sharpness is unbelievable. Just make sure you have DVI, which is now on $30 AGP cards.
- the RGB guns will never drift out of convergence. I've seen this happen on $1,000 CRTs--Apple Studio Displays with Trinitron tubes, Mitsubishi Diamond Plus/Pro 200s & 2060s--after just 18-24 months.
- Modern LCDs have a fine angle of view
- LCDs resond fast enough for most people--I watch TV and game on mine some and don't notice ghosting, smearing, etc.
- modern LCDs can do an honest 24-bits, which is enough for 99% of the world
- LCDs live fine if you take care of them, same as CRTs--a screensaver that "scrubs" the screen and have it power off after an hour or so.
- Bonus: they give off very little heat. My old 21" CRT would raise the temp in my bedroom noticable after just a couple hours. In Florida with the AC set to 78 in the middle of the summer, that sucks.
"Trying to make bits uncopyable is like trying to make water not wet."
--Bruce Schneier
...but if I'm lucky I'll be able to make it into the last-ever loopback!
"This isnt a 'me' post, there are a *lot* of people and businesses that have no plans to goto XP ( or server 2003 ) in the near future."
:-)
So it's a "Me, too!" post?
Microsoft won't lend full support to CSS2 because they claim it's a flawed specification...
:-)
Yeah, it's not like they helped write it over seven years ago or anything.
OS News, January 2003.
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... and so on.
It's time for Windows on the Desktop
Posted by special contributor Richard Keiichi Yamauchi, Jr.
Some of you might be thinking, why? Well, I think it's about time. MCSE's, VB Programmers, and techies have been using Windows for years, and I think it's about time Windows moves to the desktop for ordinary people.
We've heard it year after year after year: "This is the year Windows is for the masses on the desktop." Well, then another version comes out and still "Joe Longkneck" can't use it. I would love to see Windows on the desktop for the newbie. It's just it's going to take some effort.
...when I go to buy it, will there be a bunch of football videos on the shelf where Futurama should be?
It wouldn't make a dent at all. They aren't in it for the publicity, they're in it for the zombies. 0wn3d boxes = power to send spam, do DDoSs, etc.
"The only people they're tricking is morons."
But there's tons out there, and that's enough for them. That's like saying "all they're breathing is air." There's no shortage.
I'm in Orlando too and haven't seen the sky since I moved here. Does the club you're in have a website?
It's not even Greenpeace. "Nuclear" just sounds bad, period. Everyone knows what a nuclear bomb is, and you can't educate people enough to convince them that nuclear is safe. Somewhere in their minds, there will always be the thought "But it's nucular, like the bombs, it might asplode!" It's been a long time since we dropped a coal bomb on anyone, and a coal mine cave-in doesn't have the same dramatic ring that Chernobyl does.
I know you're talking about carcinogens, but it doesn't matter--all that matters is which aspect grabs people's attention the most. Why are people still afraid to fly? Flying has been safer than driving for decades, but a 3-car pileup on the highway just doesn't have the same dramatic impact (no pun intended) as 250 people falling from the sky and dying a fiery death all at the same time.
...I moved into a place with no phone service (California, mid-1990s) the phone would work and you could call two numbers, IIRC--611 to set up phone service and 911 for emergencies. If you tried to dial anything else it wouldn't work. Am I remembering correctly? If so, is that still the case? Is that the case everywhere?
"[Google] may just be a one-hit wonder"
Yup, and they'll be dead as soon as people quit searching the web... and using webmail... and looking at cool draggable maps with integrated satellite photos... and comparison-shopping online... and reading aggregated news... and...
But seriously, once people quit all that... and quit using keyhole and picassa and whatever else google buys in the next five years... man, then they'll really be dead.
"...and if you're one of those who got a 4200 RPM drive with their Mini it's even worse than normal."
Is there a way to tell if I have a 5400 or 4200 RPM drive in my Mini without cracking it open? Will Apple System Profiler tell me, or is there a command-line utility?
I love this program. http://typefaster.sourceforge.net/
Simple, clean, big, clear, and easy to use.
"How is the user capable, or how has the user been capable to display information on the Web (not the internet, just a part) with a web browser... [things]* like this never happened before this FF extension..."
Wrong and wronger. The *whole point* of the WWW is that a document is presented with a documented set of tags, and it's up to the user agent to specify how those tags get interpreted. The first browser I used (Chameleon, ~1995) had a panel for setting prefs on how you wanted to interpret tags. If you want H1...H6 to be interpreted as darker...lighter instead of bigger...smaller, that's OK. If you want <strong> to be big red blinking text, that's up to you.
Furthermore, there are already tons of ways to control how a page looks. FF's web devloper toolbar lets you do all kinds of stuff. Browsers for quite a while have let you choose alternate style sheets, or none at all. There's even an FF extension that lets you *edit* the CSS on your page. No sense mentioning things like Links, Lynx, and screen readers, where most of the presentation information is completely stripped away.
If the site host has an *idea* of how his information should be presented, good for him. But if I want to sit with my back to the screen and pay a friend to read it to me, is the designer gonna come beat me up? I bet you think going to the bathroom during commercials is stealing, too.
"Those that chose to display information a certain way are in their right to do..."
They can *send the bits to my computer*, that is it. It's up to me and my software to interpret them as I wish. Remember, *he's* the one who posted his work in a public place. If he wants to be an anal-retentive, user-fighting dickwad, he can make PDFs. Just don't tell him I own the full version of Acrobat and can edit PDFs, too.
* it seems like "things" was what you meant to say here.
no way will I have this done in time to record the Enterprise finale tonight.
now if they'd quit bugging me every time I download a .dmg we'd be set!
from http://money.cnn.com/2005/05/12/technology/persona ltech/xbox360/index.htm?cnn=yes: "But the real multimedia functionality ties in with the 360's wireless capabilities. The machine will automatically connect and stream digital media -- including video and digital pictures -- stored on any PC running Windows XP."
And this differs from what can be done with regular wired ethernet... how? Thanks for regurgitating MS's press release, fucktards.
the third looks inspired by Aphex Twin's 'Come To Daddy'
Hey TMM, were you in the john or something? Your post is, like, halfway down the screen. :-)