Great, so then every cop in a 10-mile radius is magically drawn to your car. Even if you're not doing anything wrong it would still be unnerving as hell leading a parade of squad cars all trying to get a contact sugar high from your exhaust.
Thinking of a joke. "Have you got a bronze lawyer?"
ormally I don't think much of case mods, but this is very impressive.
Being a modeler of the non computer kind I agree. Again, I don't case mod, and I don't think much of it. My computers live under the desk, I don't look at them. But artistry need to be recognized when you see it. That is art.
ABB? ABB??!! Really? ANYBODY?! How about Ralph Nader?
Why not Nader? No one likes him, he is moody and disagreeable. Both parties would hate his guts, and trash his programs. He in turn would veto their bills. The resulting pissing match would lock up the Federal government for four years.
Meanwhile we would would have a four year breather. We could get some real work done and at the end of it Nader would drop off the face of the planet so to speak, unless we could twist his arm for another four years.
I have an old Microsoft natural keyboard. The step in the front is good for my carpal, and you can't get that kind anymore. So I keep it. A few months ago I broke down and throughly cleaned this keyboard that has been through THREE computers (It started out on a 486/66 in 1995. I had enough cat hair to build a fifth cat, and enough bits of chips and other, debris, to feed said hair cat.
I do make a point of cleaning out my boxes at least one a year need it or not. the problem with Linux machines is you so seldom need to get into they they will breed longer.
I don't want to look in some of the Amiga keyboards I have.
Good thing it's my desk and my computers. I don't have to share. We are used to each other.
The Space Elevator idea is quite safe from becoming a joke until someone announces "I have a material strong enough to build a space elevator".
The one thing I never hear mentioned in space elevators is how to anchor the sucker. OK, you have unobtainium to build the beast out of, but can you anchor it in the crust so it doesn't rip out before you finish it? A chain is only as strong as the weakest link. In this case I think the weakest link is the earthbound anchorage.
Having worked on a few Compaqs I have to agree. They are truly difficult things to get to do anything that wasn't built into them. I tried Red Hat on a Armarda 7770. I never did get the think working totally right. It was replaced by the Thinkpad 600X that simply loved being set up for dual boot. Having worked on a few Compaqs I have to agree. They are truly difficult things to get to do anything that wasn't built into them. I tried Red Hat on a Armada 7770. I never did get the thing working totally right. It was replaced by the Thinkpad 600X that simply loved being set up for dual boot.
On the griping hand it does seem that some people really want Amiga to just go away. Sorry guys, we are not going away. The Amiga is still my preferred working platform, and like the old car commercial; This is not your Father's Amiga either. Amigastine, built for the ruins of three Amiga 4000 computers is my drug of choice. I run high color high resolution screens. I spend more time working with the computer than working on the computer. Age aside, I spend less time maintaining the Amiga than I do keeping windows happy. Check my Amiga Page for the full story.
Lastly, I take any list of "Top Ten" anythings with a grain of salt.
My ideal computer art surface would be a touch screen art tablet monitor so you can see exactly what you are working on. Input would be via real artists tools. Brushes, fans, palette knives. The color would be worked like the media of choice. Touch the palette, and the brush "picks up" that color until you touch the palette again. Your input is the brush, or pen against the tablet. The pressure you exert is translated to the computer, and appropriate effects happen. Your art program of choice would still give you all the tools you are familiar with, layers, lassoes, etc.. The difference would be a total melding of traditional methods with digital advances. Oh, yea, and no paint messes to clean up.
Heck, America can't figure out how to secure its borders when thousands of years ago, China came up with a solution that can be seen from space.
Small correction if I might. The great wall of China cannot be seen from space. This is a common misconception. Recall that at its best the Wall is no wider than an American two lane highway, which also cannot be seen from space. ("from space" defined as at least orbital altitude)
Secondly, as far as security is concerned the wall, which is not one wall but a series of interlocked fortifications, stopped nothing that really wanted over it. Like computers, Wall security is only as good as the people that have the keys. As the guard had the keys, not the Emperors, sufficient bribes got anyone through that wanted through.
Please, in future diatribes get the incidental facts straight. Thank you.
Now, Microsoft wants you to give them the keys. Being that they do not see fit to obey the law of the land, a simple thing, are you trusting them with you computer security? Something that is at least as "important" as the law, and to my mind even more so.
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Thinking of a joke. "Have you got a bronze lawyer?"
Being a modeler of the non computer kind I agree. Again, I don't case mod, and I don't think much of it. My computers live under the desk, I don't look at them. But artistry need to be recognized when you see it. That is art.
Why not Nader? No one likes him, he is moody and disagreeable. Both parties would hate his guts, and trash his programs. He in turn would veto their bills. The resulting pissing match would lock up the Federal government for four years.
Meanwhile we would would have a four year breather. We could get some real work done and at the end of it Nader would drop off the face of the planet so to speak, unless we could twist his arm for another four years.
HP Color LaserJet 5M. Have one.
I was going to say EXACTLY the same thing. You beat me to it.
I have an old Microsoft natural keyboard. The step in the front is good for my carpal, and you can't get that kind anymore. So I keep it. A few months ago I broke down and throughly cleaned this keyboard that has been through THREE computers (It started out on a 486/66 in 1995. I had enough cat hair to build a fifth cat, and enough bits of chips and other, debris, to feed said hair cat.
I do make a point of cleaning out my boxes at least one a year need it or not. the problem with Linux machines is you so seldom need to get into they they will breed longer.
I don't want to look in some of the Amiga keyboards I have.
Good thing it's my desk and my computers. I don't have to share. We are used to each other.
The one thing I never hear mentioned in space elevators is how to anchor the sucker. OK, you have unobtainium to build the beast out of, but can you anchor it in the crust so it doesn't rip out before you finish it? A chain is only as strong as the weakest link. In this case I think the weakest link is the earthbound anchorage.
On the griping hand it does seem that some people really want Amiga to just go away. Sorry guys, we are not going away. The Amiga is still my preferred working platform, and like the old car commercial; This is not your Father's Amiga either. Amigastine, built for the ruins of three Amiga 4000 computers is my drug of choice. I run high color high resolution screens. I spend more time working with the computer than working on the computer. Age aside, I spend less time maintaining the Amiga than I do keeping windows happy. Check my Amiga Page for the full story.
Lastly, I take any list of "Top Ten" anythings with a grain of salt.
My ideal computer art surface would be a touch screen art tablet monitor so you can see exactly what you are working on. Input would be via real artists tools. Brushes, fans, palette knives. The color would be worked like the media of choice. Touch the palette, and the brush "picks up" that color until you touch the palette again. Your input is the brush, or pen against the tablet. The pressure you exert is translated to the computer, and appropriate effects happen. Your art program of choice would still give you all the tools you are familiar with, layers, lassoes, etc.. The difference would be a total melding of traditional methods with digital advances. Oh, yea, and no paint messes to clean up.
>"Defenestration" is to throw out of a window; >what's a word for throwing 'Windows' out of >something? Linuxation.
Small correction if I might. The great wall of China cannot be seen from space. This is a common misconception. Recall that at its best the Wall is no wider than an American two lane highway, which also cannot be seen from space. ("from space" defined as at least orbital altitude)
Secondly, as far as security is concerned the wall, which is not one wall but a series of interlocked fortifications, stopped nothing that really wanted over it. Like computers, Wall security is only as good as the people that have the keys. As the guard had the keys, not the Emperors, sufficient bribes got anyone through that wanted through.
Please, in future diatribes get the incidental facts straight. Thank you.
Now, Microsoft wants you to give them the keys. Being that they do not see fit to obey the law of the land, a simple thing, are you trusting them with you computer security? Something that is at least as "important" as the law, and to my mind even more so.