Damn you! I only have one. But it does have a nifty blue glowing fan in it. I need to figure out how to install a lava lamp cell between the cube and it's clear outer case. ?hat would look cool!
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Why would someone's politics have any bearing on doing business with them? Hell, I'm glad to support anyone who actually gets off their ass to try and improve something. Civic mindedness is sadly waning in this country.
Horn is correct that click-and-drag methods were invented at Apple and not at PARC (or elsewhere, as far as I know). I created this method for moving objects and making selections after finding the Xerox click-move-click method prone to error. Bill Atkinson extended the paradigm to pull-down menus...
My thesis in Computer Science, published in 1967, argued that computers should be all-graphic, that we should eliminate character generators and create characters graphically and in various fonts, that what you see on the screen should be what you get, and that the human interface was more important than mere considerations of algorithmic efficiency and compactness. This was heretical in 1967, half a decade before PARC started. Many of the basic principles of the Mac were firmly entrenched in my psyche. By the way, the name of my thesis was the "Quick-Draw Graphics System", which became the name of (and part of the inspiration for) Atkinson's graphics package for the Mac.
Raskin was the guy who initiated the Macintosh program at Apple and even talked to Jobs and Woz, in their garage, while they were working on the Apple I, about how they should be doing a graphical computer.
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'Macintosh' as a name came about due to Jef Raskin. He liked the apples but didn't want to conflict with McIntosh stereo equipment.
Start with 3 or more RISK boards. Add the rule that you can exchange 20 armies for 1 nuke (can clear any adjoining country) and have movement to either adjoining countries or to the same country on another board. It helps if you picture in your head, the boards stacked over each other. One game took over 30 hours to play. I lost.
Now that there are RISK variants out there, it could get really interesting on how different types of armies would interact.
After the elections, our troops should be able to come home and Steve Jobs can send Bill Gates over to Abu Gharib prison so Bill can show the guards how to make a Ballmer pyramid. Somehow, this will result with an increase in sales of NOS Next Cubes.
Hey! Any pocket protector wearing, arithmetic using, budget using geek who wants to use 'numbers' to compare expenditures and income is a commie! Real men don't use numbers. They just spend money. It's people like you who will be the downfall of the United States of NeoCon Jesus Land!
Check out Lileks. From his daily bleat, he sounds a bit conservative.
As for myself, I was a Republican up until the 2000 primaries and saw how BushCo. went and savaged McCain. For now, I'm stuck with writing congressmen and trying to get a critical mass of people in Washington to wake up and see what the hell's going on.
Oh yeah, I'm planning on integrating a Mac Mini with 70 Impala big block eco-fiend (in your face ya' farkin' cheese huggers!). And the iGun definitely needs to be invented.
Fox Lorber is the butcher of movies. The original DVD releases of The Three Musketeers and The Four Muskateers were pan-and-scan versions that were then cropped top and bottom as well. No had feet or hats/top of heads. Pitiful.
As the Mac guy here at my school, I have drawers full of new Apple mice. Each new computer gets a Dell scroll wheel mouse by default, unless the user specifically asks for one. There's been a few that have. To each their own. We (ITS) does it's best to make a pleasant and useful computing environment for our users.
If only there was some way to cut this mouse cord and put one of those new fangled multi-button mouse on it. Wonder if I could get away with wire nuts or would I have to solder it?
On the Mac, you can use two one button mice at the same time. Totally cool. I bet you could even use two more down on the floor. Now there's some clicking for ya.
I had a professor get a 20 GB iPod when she bought her laptop at the local Apple store (didn't speak to me about her educational discount). She said there was a discount on the iPod if she bought it with the laptop. She then brought in her new kit and asked me what to do with iPod. She had no idea what it was for. I told her it was backup storage for her laptop and it could also play music. She was thrilled, especially when she found I'd thrown about 10 GBs of stuff from my work machine on it. Wonder if she's gotten to.50 Cent or DMX yet?
Hey, I should be able to plug anything into a Mac and it'll just work. That's what they say, right? I'm going to plug my TI 99/4A in as soon as I get my Mini.
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I thought dumb meant silent or couldn't speak. Wouldn't stupid be a more correct term?
I've never known anyone who's been mugged. I live in a boring place.
True, true. I still won't buy from Shell. Am pissed at their cavalier attitude towards the eco problems in Nigeria and the death of Ken Sarawewa.
I fit my bedroom inside my computer. I had to put my computer up near the Arctic Circle, though as I didn't want to run noisy fans on it.
Damn you! I only have one. But it does have a nifty blue glowing fan in it. I need to figure out how to install a lava lamp cell between the cube and it's clear outer case. ?hat would look cool!
Why would someone's politics have any bearing on doing business with them? Hell, I'm glad to support anyone who actually gets off their ass to try and improve something. Civic mindedness is sadly waning in this country.
The Mac Mini only has a 167Mhz motherboard. Not much of an increase in speed over the Via. Also, 1.25GHz isn't that much faster than 1 GHz.
Horn is correct that click-and-drag methods were invented at Apple and not at PARC (or elsewhere, as far as I know). I created this method for moving objects and making selections after finding the Xerox click-move-click method prone to error. Bill Atkinson extended the paradigm to pull-down menus...
My thesis in Computer Science, published in 1967, argued that computers should be all-graphic, that we should eliminate character generators and create characters graphically and in various fonts, that what you see on the screen should be what you get, and that the human interface was more important than mere considerations of algorithmic efficiency and compactness. This was heretical in 1967, half a decade before PARC started. Many of the basic principles of the Mac were firmly entrenched in my psyche. By the way, the name of my thesis was the "Quick-Draw Graphics System", which became the name of (and part of the inspiration for) Atkinson's graphics package for the Mac.
-Jef Raskin
Raskin was the guy who initiated the Macintosh program at Apple and even talked to Jobs and Woz, in their garage, while they were working on the Apple I, about how they should be doing a graphical computer.
'Macintosh' as a name came about due to Jef Raskin. He liked the apples but didn't want to conflict with McIntosh stereo equipment.
Start with 3 or more RISK boards. Add the rule that you can exchange 20 armies for 1 nuke (can clear any adjoining country) and have movement to either adjoining countries or to the same country on another board. It helps if you picture in your head, the boards stacked over each other. One game took over 30 hours to play. I lost.
Now that there are RISK variants out there, it could get really interesting on how different types of armies would interact.
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After the elections, our troops should be able to come home and Steve Jobs can send Bill Gates over to Abu Gharib prison so Bill can show the guards how to make a Ballmer pyramid. Somehow, this will result with an increase in sales of NOS Next Cubes.
Hey! Any pocket protector wearing, arithmetic using, budget using geek who wants to use 'numbers' to compare expenditures and income is a commie! Real men don't use numbers. They just spend money. It's people like you who will be the downfall of the United States of NeoCon Jesus Land!
Check out Lileks. From his daily bleat, he sounds a bit conservative.
As for myself, I was a Republican up until the 2000 primaries and saw how BushCo. went and savaged McCain. For now, I'm stuck with writing congressmen and trying to get a critical mass of people in Washington to wake up and see what the hell's going on.
Oh yeah, I'm planning on integrating a Mac Mini with 70 Impala big block eco-fiend (in your face ya' farkin' cheese huggers!). And the iGun definitely needs to be invented.
Fox Lorber is the butcher of movies. The original DVD releases of The Three Musketeers and The Four Muskateers were pan-and-scan versions that were then cropped top and bottom as well. No had feet or hats/top of heads. Pitiful.
I guess I'll have to switch out my copies of The Handmaid's Tale and Black Mama, White Mama. Will be cool to see what I've been missing.
As the Mac guy here at my school, I have drawers full of new Apple mice. Each new computer gets a Dell scroll wheel mouse by default, unless the user specifically asks for one. There's been a few that have. To each their own. We (ITS) does it's best to make a pleasant and useful computing environment for our users.
If only there was some way to cut this mouse cord and put one of those new fangled multi-button mouse on it. Wonder if I could get away with wire nuts or would I have to solder it?
Doh! Wrong link. I hate ruining a post by rushing. Scroll to the bottom for Bubble Gum.
Or:
I came here to chew ass and kick Bubble Gum and I'm all out of gum.
On the Mac, you can use two one button mice at the same time. Totally cool. I bet you could even use two more down on the floor. Now there's some clicking for ya.
I'd be interested in having some kind of touch screen and maybe one of those , if there are any that work with a Mac. Keep the Mini safe in a high cupboard and just have a flip-down suspended screen and keyboard projector on the underside. That would be sweet! Maybe even mount the Mini to the door or side of the cupboard so that the DVD slot was aligned with one in the cupboard. Hell, the ports could be extended and aligned that way now.
I came to kick ass and chew bubble gum and I'm all out of ass...
I had a professor get a 20 GB iPod when she bought her laptop at the local Apple store (didn't speak to me about her educational discount). She said there was a discount on the iPod if she bought it with the laptop. She then brought in her new kit and asked me what to do with iPod. She had no idea what it was for. I told her it was backup storage for her laptop and it could also play music. She was thrilled, especially when she found I'd thrown about 10 GBs of stuff from my work machine on it. Wonder if she's gotten to .50 Cent or DMX yet?
Hey, I should be able to plug anything into a Mac and it'll just work. That's what they say, right? I'm going to plug my TI 99/4A in as soon as I get my Mini.