Bzzzt! And thank you for playing. Here's your lovely parting gift.
The concept of the "graphics" card has been around since at least 1981. The original IBM PC had no on-board graphics, and you could choose between an MDA (text only, monochrome), or a CGA (640x200x2 or 320x240x4, or text: 8 color). It may predate the PC, but IIRC, it was considered revolutionary at the time.
Your last sentence is also wrong. You had to change both your monitor and graphics card to go from EGA to VGA.
EGA used a 9-pin connector with digital level outputs. VGA used a 15-pin connector with analog level outputs. Thus the need to swap monitors -- unless you were using something like a NEC MultiSync, in which case, you kept the monitor and opened your system unit and swapped the graphics card.
I'll concede the above posters' points, and admit that some of the bulletproof rep came from the fact that there werent |<1dd135 out there trying to kill everything in sight.
However, having a clearer Userland/Kernel demarcation surely helped security.
Actually, 3.51 had a reputation for being relatively bulletproof.
Remember, they hadn't moved everything into the kernel yet. Even GDI and video drivers were userland. And, of course, they hadn't yet "integrated" Insecure Exploder into the system either, I don't even think IE existed then (NT4 shipped with IE2).
In the US, you don't vote for a party. You vote for a candidate. For lots of offices. And for lots of propositions. My sample ballot for the upcoming election has (I think) about 43 different things to vote on.
I don't use word often, except when forced to at work. Every time I cringe about one of its billion bugs or quirks, I find that OO did the same thing properly, and I rejoice.
My least favorite "feature" of Word is something that broke between Word6 and Word97.
Numbered list styles don't restart in new paragraphs! You have to manually restart the list. I know it's doable properly because Word6 did it 10 years ago!
Ventura was the Reform Party candidate. In fact, his election led to the schism (Ventura-ites vs. Perot-nistas) which essentially destroyed the Reform Party.
And for flights that may cross a state line (cf. suborbital ballistic transport), the Interstate Commerce Clause actually is relevant, as opposed to a stretch.
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I had to explain to them how COOL that was back in 1980 when the movie first came out!
The link you gave was for From Russia with Love, which was released in 1963.
Bzzzt! And thank you for playing. Here's your lovely parting gift.
The concept of the "graphics" card has been around since at least 1981.
The original IBM PC had no on-board graphics, and you could choose between an MDA (text only, monochrome), or a CGA (640x200x2 or 320x240x4, or text: 8 color). It may predate the PC, but IIRC, it was considered revolutionary at the time.
Your last sentence is also wrong. You had to change both your monitor and graphics card to go from EGA to VGA.
EGA used a 9-pin connector with digital level outputs. VGA used a 15-pin connector with analog level outputs. Thus the need to swap monitors -- unless you were using something like a NEC MultiSync, in which case, you kept the monitor and opened your system unit and swapped the graphics card.
Sorry, but the word "Cosmonaut" was there first.
The first man in space was Russian.
They used a 1B to get the crews up there. They used a modified V to launch the lab itself.
Honestly, if you look at the way the Founding Fathers set up the government, that's what they wanted.
"That government which governs best, governs least" -- Thomas Jefferson.
I'll concede the above posters' points, and admit that some of the bulletproof rep came from the fact that there werent |<1dd135 out there trying to kill everything in sight.
However, having a clearer Userland/Kernel demarcation surely helped security.
Actually, 3.51 had a reputation for being relatively bulletproof.
Remember, they hadn't moved everything into the kernel yet. Even GDI and video drivers were userland. And, of course, they hadn't yet "integrated" Insecure Exploder into the system either, I don't even think IE existed then (NT4 shipped with IE2).
why are you saying there is a 0% chance of the machines running *BSD?
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Because *BSD is dead. Netcraft confirms it!
</JOKE>
Actually, you could get a small tax writeoff... donate to your favorite charity (or Goodwill or Salvation Army).
They'll resell them, and you get a deduction.
n the moon with the completely water frozen surface, orbiting jupiter (or maybe it was saturn)
Europa, the second Galilean moon (Io, Europa, Ganymede, Callisto).
How do you carry the power supply for your ultra-bright lights when you're walking?
So that would be a DBSOT Attack? (Distributed Beat the Shit Out of Them)
Q: Why did Darl McBride cross the road?
A: To file yet another lawsuit?
IBM uses CMVC internally.
Drove a Fiat 128 for about 3 years. Had to keep replacing the clutch cable every 3000 miles or so (it rubbed against something else).
It finally died on the 101 freeway in LA when it threw a rod.
Many moons ago, my favorite character was an AD&D(1ed) Bard named Noman (I was into the Odyssey at the time).
Radioisotopes don't grow on trees..
What about Carbon-14?
In the US, you don't vote for a party. You vote for a candidate. For lots of offices. And for lots of propositions.
My sample ballot for the upcoming election has (I think) about 43 different things to vote on.
+1 Flintstones
I don't use word often, except when forced to at work. Every time I cringe about one of its billion bugs or quirks, I find that OO did the same thing properly, and I rejoice.
My least favorite "feature" of Word is something that broke between Word6 and Word97.
Numbered list styles don't restart in new paragraphs! You have to manually restart the list. I know it's doable properly because Word6 did it 10 years ago!
free editions generally do not include urpmi, yum, etc update utilities that will do it for you for free
Obviously you've never used Mandrake.
mail boxes, etc.
:-)
Aren't they "The UPS Store" now? I didn't realize they changed their name to avoid liablility from the xxAA!
Ventura was the Reform Party candidate. In fact, his election led to the schism (Ventura-ites vs. Perot-nistas) which essentially destroyed the Reform Party.
there is *some* civilization out there. The towns of Lancaster and Palmdale come to mind...
:-)
My friend, you have an odd definition of "civilization"
And for flights that may cross a state line (cf. suborbital ballistic transport), the Interstate Commerce Clause actually is relevant, as opposed to a stretch.