Oh, like it's the fault of us Boston drivers that all the idiot BU students keep trying to cross Comm. Ave. Don't they know that the speed limit is something like 70mph? Living in Brighton cost me a fortune in car washing, let me tell you.
For anyone who has read Zodiac (set in Boston) and the Big U (based on Boston) let me tell you, the books are very true to life. And ever so much fun.
Okay guys, I see the potential to bring Scooby-Doo back on the air. That would seriously kick ass. Of course, it would have to be animated. The test photo on dark horizons last week of some dude made up to look like Shaggy was creepier than the creepiest costumed amusement park owner I've ever seen.
Absolutely. I, in fact, have developed a car that runs on water and can travel at significant fractions of c. (100 AU to the gallon, btw)
However, one of the design issues which there is not way around, is that you can only steer it with your toes. Someday a solution to this might be found, but right now it's sitting idle in my front yard on top of the edible cinderblocks.
Don't know about Stevie Wonder, but Ray Charles wasn't born blind at all. He went blind as a kid, but IIRC it wasn't until he was ~10 or so. And I think he had already started playing piano before he went blind.
('sides, he's a crack shot!;)
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I remember the IIgs keyboard all right. I had a IIgs, and I really wish that my Dad had asked me before donating it to a local school, which won't give it back.
I just enjoy a full-sized keyboard, with Fkeys and pagenav keys and arrow keys and room for a small assortment of military aircraft.
I do remember playing lots of Apple II games that were made difficult on the IIgs because they relied on open apple/closed apple being left and right but on the IIgs closed apple became option and moved to the left. Annoying as hell for a while, let me tell you.
(key configurations in games, no I don't believe we HAD those yet;)
AAUI probably made more sense when it was first introduced, a LONG LONG time ago. Most Mac LANs were using appletalk. Ethernet was not that common *ON MACS*. And so a generic solution (plug in 10b2, or 10bT or whatever) probably seemed like a good idea at the time.
By the time the power macs were out they realized this was no longer the case, and the 2nd generation of power macs had a 10bT and an AAUI (for backwards compatability). Not long after the AAUI was dropped entirely.
But for a quadra, that made some degree of sense. Don't you remember how much Nubus cards cost? PCI has been a godsend.
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Do not mock the mighty beige Mac keyboard. Those things are solid. They feel great. They use reverse wired phone cords, with jacks on the front of the case. They have their own processors.
Only two keyboards stand supreme above the beige Mac keyboards. The first is the Apple Extended II keyboard (affectionately known as the Nimitz) and the other is the original IBM PC keyboard, which weighs more than many men.
Microsofts keyboards aren't even made out of solid battleship steel! And people buy that junk?
Once it's old, obselete and doesn't work well anymore with what you need, dump it.
And once you are going to dump your computers (not your used razors, please) please send them all to me. I'll provide a home for them, even if I have to assemble furniture out of the things.
It's not just a beowulf cluster but also a handome settee. Well, someone had to say it.
You'll take my 21" Trinitron from me, when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers.
That is difficult. Killing you is simple: merely push the CRT so that it crushes you into jelly. But carrying it away... boy that could take some work.
No actually. Very few designers will use flatscreens because the colors are not consistant. It's already very difficult to match printed colors to colors on screen, and I for one avoid doing so whenever possible. It would be a damn lot harder if I couldn't shift my head any.
LCDs will probably never overcome this flaw. I'm hoping that plasma or color-changing polymers or something will work better. Sadly, this means I'm stuck with CRTs for another 10 years at least.
(also LCDs will always be expensive compared to CRTs because of the difficulty in manufacturing them. LCD plants are built on a 'glass mountain')
You're saying that now. But just wait until the killbots rise up against humanity. Oh, you'll long for the days before we created our robot masters, let me tell you.
I can see that you've never looked at the NT source. You see, NT is actually a _lot_ better than Linux. More stable, more features, better all around. But it has a unique design feature. Main memory is on the disk, and it swaps to RAM. I'm not really sure _why_ this is done, but most of the times when NT crashes it's because of bad sectors on the disk and other shoddy hw manufacturing.
Why, if MS would put main memory in RAM, it'd smoke Linux's ass. It's unlikely to happen though, because MS firmly believes that it's a feature, not a bug.
AFAIK (I use a Mac, so I don't have to deal with this) while Win9x appears to support long filenames, it's really a facade over the still-extant 8.3 naming system. Much like Windows is basically a very overgrown DOS.... Anyhow, if you wanted to name a file "Microsoft" (which is nine characters) the underlying file system would _actually_ name the file "Micros~1" plus some suffix. Presumably, as more files are created which use the same characters in the beginning, they go up, e.g. ~1, ~2, ~3...
Finally you might get "M~999999" at which point the filesystem, if it hasn't already broken down probably would then.
The reason for using it is probably to draw attention to the fact that MS has made the file system easier to deal with only if everything works perfectly. But in fact, it is a very half-assed solution. A better solution would have been a totally new file system which natively supported long file names. Give enough advance warning and only a few, generally unsupported apps will break when the change is made.
In the Mac camp, we're currently in the warning stage although I can't think of any app (other than some MS ones, actually!) which follow bad practices like hard-coded pathnames and such.
The short answer: When people say "Micros~1" they're deriding MS as lacking in technical ability, or at best lacking the balls to use it. And they're justified too, how about that?
Well the reason people want to establish trade with China is the popularity of Chinese food. Hardly any US business people appreciate Indian food, so the whole country sort of disappears from their mental radar.
For future reference countries on the radar are: China, Japan, pretty parts of Europe, Australia, exotic tropical islands, parts of South America where you don't have to see poor people and which have AC, friendly parts of the Middle East, Mexico, anglophone Canada, some parts of SE Asia.
Countries not on the radar: Former Soviet Union and satellite countries, India, Africa (except maybe Egypt. Maybe), hostile parts of the Middle East, places with lots of poor people, francophone Canada, the other parts of SE Asia.
Some of this is because of food preferences, but it's also strongly influenced by what parts of the world you might possibly want to vacation in.
As a duly appointed representative of The Technology Industry (TM), I'd like to publicly state that Lotus has just been kicked out. It is my understanding that, as they will no longer be allowed to sell technology products or services, they'll be switching over to afalfa farming.
Another example: Airlines. People complain about late flights, they complain about lousy service, but they book the cheapest flight. Duh! Leaving on time costs money! Great service costs money! If the consumer buys the cheapest product, they can complain until they are blue in the face, nothing will change, at least not for the better.
My experience with Southwest Airlines, which is really cheap, is that they leave on time and arrive on time. All the time. Perhaps this is because they feel that there's more money to be made if they stick to their schedule whenever possible. I like to think that it's because they have their values in the right place. Short term profits shouldn't be more important than behaving honorably and doing your best for customers. Do that, and the money will follow, cause that's the kind of stuff that customers will come back for.
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Oh, like it's the fault of us Boston drivers that all the idiot BU students keep trying to cross Comm. Ave. Don't they know that the speed limit is something like 70mph? Living in Brighton cost me a fortune in car washing, let me tell you.
For anyone who has read Zodiac (set in Boston) and the Big U (based on Boston) let me tell you, the books are very true to life. And ever so much fun.
Okay guys, I see the potential to bring Scooby-Doo back on the air. That would seriously kick ass. Of course, it would have to be animated. The test photo on dark horizons last week of some dude made up to look like Shaggy was creepier than the creepiest costumed amusement park owner I've ever seen.
Absolutely. I, in fact, have developed a car that runs on water and can travel at significant fractions of c. (100 AU to the gallon, btw)
However, one of the design issues which there is not way around, is that you can only steer it with your toes. Someday a solution to this might be found, but right now it's sitting idle in my front yard on top of the edible cinderblocks.
Don't know about Stevie Wonder, but Ray Charles wasn't born blind at all. He went blind as a kid, but IIRC it wasn't until he was ~10 or so. And I think he had already started playing piano before he went blind.
;)
('sides, he's a crack shot!
I remember the IIgs keyboard all right. I had a IIgs, and I really wish that my Dad had asked me before donating it to a local school, which won't give it back.
;)
I just enjoy a full-sized keyboard, with Fkeys and pagenav keys and arrow keys and room for a small assortment of military aircraft.
I do remember playing lots of Apple II games that were made difficult on the IIgs because they relied on open apple/closed apple being left and right but on the IIgs closed apple became option and moved to the left. Annoying as hell for a while, let me tell you.
(key configurations in games, no I don't believe we HAD those yet
I'm sorry that I phrased my response vaguely. I had meant the "guy" who "should" "be" in "charge" of Linux.
Power supplies? Easy. Start by making digital lemon juice bottles. Potato packaging could also work.
AAUI probably made more sense when it was first introduced, a LONG LONG time ago. Most Mac LANs were using appletalk. Ethernet was not that common *ON MACS*. And so a generic solution (plug in 10b2, or 10bT or whatever) probably seemed like a good idea at the time.
By the time the power macs were out they realized this was no longer the case, and the 2nd generation of power macs had a 10bT and an AAUI (for backwards compatability). Not long after the AAUI was dropped entirely.
But for a quadra, that made some degree of sense. Don't you remember how much Nubus cards cost? PCI has been a godsend.
mmmm... Woz IIgs... mmmmm....
Do not mock the mighty beige Mac keyboard. Those things are solid. They feel great. They use reverse wired phone cords, with jacks on the front of the case. They have their own processors.
Only two keyboards stand supreme above the beige Mac keyboards. The first is the Apple Extended II keyboard (affectionately known as the Nimitz) and the other is the original IBM PC keyboard, which weighs more than many men.
Microsofts keyboards aren't even made out of solid battleship steel! And people buy that junk?
And once you are going to dump your computers (not your used razors, please) please send them all to me. I'll provide a home for them, even if I have to assemble furniture out of the things.
It's not just a beowulf cluster but also a handome settee. Well, someone had to say it.
That is difficult. Killing you is simple: merely push the CRT so that it crushes you into jelly. But carrying it away... boy that could take some work.
No actually. Very few designers will use flatscreens because the colors are not consistant. It's already very difficult to match printed colors to colors on screen, and I for one avoid doing so whenever possible. It would be a damn lot harder if I couldn't shift my head any.
LCDs will probably never overcome this flaw. I'm hoping that plasma or color-changing polymers or something will work better. Sadly, this means I'm stuck with CRTs for another 10 years at least.
(also LCDs will always be expensive compared to CRTs because of the difficulty in manufacturing them. LCD plants are built on a 'glass mountain')
You're saying that now. But just wait until the killbots rise up against humanity. Oh, you'll long for the days before we created our robot masters, let me tell you.
(President, Skynet Historical Recreationist Society)
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Would this person be, in your opinion, Bill Gates by any chance?
Curses. So, you've discovered my little scheme, eh? Well, you won't live long enough to tell anyone else!
I can see that you've never looked at the NT source. You see, NT is actually a _lot_ better than Linux. More stable, more features, better all around. But it has a unique design feature. Main memory is on the disk, and it swaps to RAM. I'm not really sure _why_ this is done, but most of the times when NT crashes it's because of bad sectors on the disk and other shoddy hw manufacturing.
Why, if MS would put main memory in RAM, it'd smoke Linux's ass. It's unlikely to happen though, because MS firmly believes that it's a feature, not a bug.
AFAIK (I use a Mac, so I don't have to deal with this) while Win9x appears to support long filenames, it's really a facade over the still-extant 8.3 naming system. Much like Windows is basically a very overgrown DOS.... Anyhow, if you wanted to name a file "Microsoft" (which is nine characters) the underlying file system would _actually_ name the file "Micros~1" plus some suffix. Presumably, as more files are created which use the same characters in the beginning, they go up, e.g. ~1, ~2, ~3...
Finally you might get "M~999999" at which point the filesystem, if it hasn't already broken down probably would then.
The reason for using it is probably to draw attention to the fact that MS has made the file system easier to deal with only if everything works perfectly. But in fact, it is a very half-assed solution. A better solution would have been a totally new file system which natively supported long file names. Give enough advance warning and only a few, generally unsupported apps will break when the change is made.
In the Mac camp, we're currently in the warning stage although I can't think of any app (other than some MS ones, actually!) which follow bad practices like hard-coded pathnames and such.
The short answer: When people say "Micros~1" they're deriding MS as lacking in technical ability, or at best lacking the balls to use it. And they're justified too, how about that?
Maybe yes, maybe no
I can't believe that it actually got a 4. I wouldn't've given it a 4.
it's a rum ol world
Well the reason people want to establish trade with China is the popularity of Chinese food. Hardly any US business people appreciate Indian food, so the whole country sort of disappears from their mental radar.
For future reference countries on the radar are: China, Japan, pretty parts of Europe, Australia, exotic tropical islands, parts of South America where you don't have to see poor people and which have AC, friendly parts of the Middle East, Mexico, anglophone Canada, some parts of SE Asia.
Countries not on the radar: Former Soviet Union and satellite countries, India, Africa (except maybe Egypt. Maybe), hostile parts of the Middle East, places with lots of poor people, francophone Canada, the other parts of SE Asia.
Some of this is because of food preferences, but it's also strongly influenced by what parts of the world you might possibly want to vacation in.
As a duly appointed representative of The Technology Industry (TM), I'd like to publicly state that Lotus has just been kicked out. It is my understanding that, as they will no longer be allowed to sell technology products or services, they'll be switching over to afalfa farming.
Thank you, and good night.
My experience with Southwest Airlines, which is really cheap, is that they leave on time and arrive on time. All the time. Perhaps this is because they feel that there's more money to be made if they stick to their schedule whenever possible. I like to think that it's because they have their values in the right place. Short term profits shouldn't be more important than behaving honorably and doing your best for customers. Do that, and the money will follow, cause that's the kind of stuff that customers will come back for.
The thirteenth hour of the thirteenth day of the thirteenth month.