Actually, all the ones for the high-end Lexuses are not only a real key, but they're a very secure U-channel design. You can't see the key's cut shape, meaning you can't sneak a picture and cut one later, and it has the RFID-style circuit in addition to that.
Most of the reason documents don't convert properly is due to differences in the fonts they use.
The Mac has a glut of bitmapped fonts that tend to look OK on the screen, but turn to crap on paper. They also lack Windows counterparts. Windows apps (at the Office level of sophistication, anyway) will try to match the font to one that is named similarly, and failing that, a default font (usually Arial). This causes alignment to be way off with any kind of other elements (graphics, WordArt, etc). Add to this the fact that "Mac" fonts and "Windows" fonts somehow are treated differently despite being compatible with both platforms, and you have a recipe for a clusterfuck.
Another problem is in the basic differences between the Mac's and Windows' way of doing graphics and font rendering. Windows works on the assumption that the screen has a resolution of 96ppi, while MacOS assumes everything is at 72ppi. This screws with font rendering. Windows uses a slap-the-text-into-the-box-wherever-you-want system, where some programs put text centered vertically and horizontally in the container, while others just plop the text on the bottom edge of the container. The Mac defines a system-wide bottom-edge for text relative to the container, so you don't lose any tails from the j,p,q,y characters. (This last one was the case at least as recently as Win98, so feel free to correct me if things have changed more recently.)
(In other words... it's not about platform superiority... it's about sloppy converter coding. Just in case someone wanted to use my comments as flamebait, I'll douse the fire right now.)
The Gamecube does not use a "G3" variant. It uses a PPC variant in the 4xx line. The 4xx line was designed for embedded devices, like a PLC or a game console.
For reference, the "G3" is a PPC750. The 750 was designed as a desktop CPU, and has been used almost exclusively for that purpose.
I would think that Boobie Bowl would be a better name...
Bubble... boobie... whatever. Maybe titty bowl, but that would sound too much like Tidy Bowl and would someone to get sued for defamation of cleaning products' character.
Bankers rarely fit the definition of the classic Dilbert PHB. Bankers are businessmen who carefully study the flow of money and at the first sign of trouble, pull their funds out and make for the nearest exit.
PHB's are middle management who aren't socially competent enough to be upper management and aren't technically skilled enough to be a "plebe in the trenches". They're really just people who were popular in high school and drank and partied their way through college, only to find out that life isn't all fun and games. That's when they found a comfort zone waiting for them...
They are Institutionalized Stupidity, installed in the system to ensure slow, steady progress instead of wild leaps and bounds. When something wild begins to erupt from the ranks of technical plebes "below" them, they're there to shut it down long enough for the average progress of a given social structure (corporation, usually) to catch up, then they allow (and take credit for) the "innovation" that is (or would have been, five years earlier) manifest by the leap and/or bound made by the lower-ranked workers.
In summary: Upper management -> deals with the big picture business aspects. Bankers fit in here. Middle management -> Institutionalized Stupidity in human form. Not respectable or deserving of respect. See also: PHB. Worker -> takes direction from upper management and is not opposed to them unless they're way off base. Hates PHB's because they fuck things up on a day-to-day level. Also known as: slave, plebe, serf, pion (or pee-on), associate, employee, human resource, expendable.
The best is when some mental giant puts "CID" on their card because they've only heard people tell them to put that on the card. I saw more than a few of these during the time I worked at a grocery store. Most of them did it on their debit card, too.
You mention an external Firewire HD, which brings up an interesting side point.
Why bother upgrading the internal HD in the Mini to a larger 4200 RPM drive, when you can easily go out and buy a 7200 RPM FW HD that will work just as well if not better?
There really is a correlation there. Trust me. Of course, I always thought Gates McFadden was hotter. As bad as that seems, I never un-thought that until I found out Gates is a year older than my mom. Ick.
I have watched maybe 4 or 5 episodes of Enterprise (about the same frequency as the first three seasons of DS9) and lately, they're pretty good. Before, it wasn't carried on any local TV (I don't have cable or satellite, and I don't care to), so I wasn't in the habit of watching when we got a UPN affiliate (don't laugh... it's true!). It's a pretty good show, judging from what I can tell. It's at least light years ahead of those last two movies. Ugh.
As for Battlestar Galactica... well... I could stomach only a few minutes of the pilot. It was 1) poorly acted, 2) an unfamiliar plot/series, and 3) massively... uninteresting (to put it politely). I know that #2 isn't a total dealbreaker, but when you've just bought your seventh box of Stargate: SG1 DVD's, you really don't care enough to overcome it.
So, to summarize... - Star Trek (any form) -> still good because I'm not paying attention, but familiar enough that I can come back to it at any time - Stargate -> it owns you - Battlestar Galactica -> meh... not enough gravity to pull me in, not enough fire to set me alight. And the old guy in granny-glasses reminds me of the stodgy old police chief in Demolition Man.
I think you've just stumbled across the real point here...
features... which people enjoy
I don't know how to make the scrollbars change color, nor do I care to know how. But I do know that I hate sites that have oddly-colored scrollbars. Moronic web designers (usually the artsy-fartsy ones that were too stupid and/or uncool to get a Mac) that think this is "cool" should be bumped off this mortal coil with a quick dose of lead to the cranium. It's annoying, it's childish, and it isn't good design. Ask any real web designer (think artsy-fartsy Mac-type here) what they think of that trash, and you'll likely get bitchslapped.
You speak of making a site usable for everyone. Perhaps you shouldn't exclude IE users just because you think it's "neat-o" to camoflage their scrollbars.
Well, it doesn't help that they (Bush's conservative National Socialist religious idiot friends) don't even understand the Bible (which they claim to be "experts" in), much less scientific knowledge.
While it's not a science textbook, the Bible does not contradict proven science. It speaks of a round (Heb. chugh - "circle", "ball") Earth. It speaks of things coming into existence in the proper order (the "exapanse" -> Earth -> plants -> fish -> birds -> mammals -> people). It even can explain why the Big Bang happened (God is "abundant in dynamic energy" - what happens when he asserts some of that?).
Of course, people misunderstand it to say that the entire universe, everything in it, and all life were created in a mere 144 hours. Yeah, right. Even now we use the word "day" to mean periods of time of unspecified length. (For instance, "Every dog has its day.")
The only other issue is believing that there's an intelligence behind this creation, rather than a random force (and it's still "creation", it just has a different cause in some people's estimation). Some people just don't want to be accountable to a higher power. The truth is, you're accountable whether you believe or not, and whether it's "God" or not.
Bush's cronies are just using religion the same way they and other rulers throughout history have always used religion - as a means of manipulating people by twisting spirituality and morality. And most people are just too stupid to grasp that they're being lied to.
Yeah, tell me about it. I've been saving for 4 years. I'm buying a place now, but it's my grandma's old house and I'm getting a pretty good deal on it.
She's making about 500% on a 35 year investment, though.
I still know women, until this day, who say that women are equal with men in every possible way, both mentally and physically.
Challenge your friend to a pissing contest. Literally. That should shut her up. And if "she" wins, you should probably work on your gender recognition skills.
Cast iron is better for hot water applications. Ask any HVAC guy or pipefitter. And if you have a pump in the system, don't even think about PVC. A single deadheading will shatter the pipes, and there's a risk of shattering the pipes every time you start or stop the pump, due to the inertia of the water circulating in the system.
Actually, I'd almost classify the Debian installer as "Ignorant Housewife edition".
Sarge-something-something-x86 and Sarge-something-something-powerpc are the ones I've downloaded so far, and I've actually had a chance to mess with the x86 one. (The old beige powermac g3 is in the process of getting its heavy ass moved into another room.) The install went something like this: 1) download iso and burn to CD 2) boot spare x86 machine from CD 3) wait 4) let it configure DHCP 4a) wonder why it didn't work, play with it a bit 4b) plug the damned ethernet cable in, repeat 4) 5) give it some network settings (domain name, machine name, etc) 7) pick some package groups to install 8) wait 9) wait 10) wait 11) give a root password, create a user 12) log in and use the damned thing
So it's not a 3-step-with-no-step-3 iMac. Whoopee. I didn't expect it to be. Then again, this is the first time I've ever used a Linux system. Ever. And I was practically spoonfed a working installation. And within a few hours of use, I was able to install/uninstall packages, mess with basic environment settings, and play a few games. That's a far cry from "not ready for the desktop."
I declare it... 2004 (I did the installation on 12/30/04) is the year of the Linux desktop. Hey, it passed my test.
Now to toss MacOS X 10.2.8 (the last release "supported" on the beige g3) out on it's ass... maybe in a few days. I need sleep.
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The words "ensure" and "insure" are listed as synonyms in most dictionaries.
Don't diss Andromeda. Lexa Doig is hot.
Actually, all the ones for the high-end Lexuses are not only a real key, but they're a very secure U-channel design. You can't see the key's cut shape, meaning you can't sneak a picture and cut one later, and it has the RFID-style circuit in addition to that.
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Here's a pic of the u-channel design: http://image.www.rakuten.co.jp/lock/img1039136153
According to this book you can already do that, albeit in slightly different form. Try this:
a.blue, span.blue, div#back {color: blue;}
It's on page 3.
Most of the reason documents don't convert properly is due to differences in the fonts they use.
The Mac has a glut of bitmapped fonts that tend to look OK on the screen, but turn to crap on paper. They also lack Windows counterparts. Windows apps (at the Office level of sophistication, anyway) will try to match the font to one that is named similarly, and failing that, a default font (usually Arial). This causes alignment to be way off with any kind of other elements (graphics, WordArt, etc). Add to this the fact that "Mac" fonts and "Windows" fonts somehow are treated differently despite being compatible with both platforms, and you have a recipe for a clusterfuck.
Another problem is in the basic differences between the Mac's and Windows' way of doing graphics and font rendering. Windows works on the assumption that the screen has a resolution of 96ppi, while MacOS assumes everything is at 72ppi. This screws with font rendering. Windows uses a slap-the-text-into-the-box-wherever-you-want system, where some programs put text centered vertically and horizontally in the container, while others just plop the text on the bottom edge of the container. The Mac defines a system-wide bottom-edge for text relative to the container, so you don't lose any tails from the j,p,q,y characters. (This last one was the case at least as recently as Win98, so feel free to correct me if things have changed more recently.)
(In other words... it's not about platform superiority... it's about sloppy converter coding. Just in case someone wanted to use my comments as flamebait, I'll douse the fire right now.)
ConGlomSysCorp.
If you don't get it, go play Escape Velocity.
I somehow twisted that "infect the mothership" thing into a sexual proposition. In which case it really gets creepy.
Bumsex is a bad enough topic without Bill Gates or Linus Torvalds in the mix.
The Gamecube does not use a "G3" variant. It uses a PPC variant in the 4xx line. The 4xx line was designed for embedded devices, like a PLC or a game console.
For reference, the "G3" is a PPC750. The 750 was designed as a desktop CPU, and has been used almost exclusively for that purpose.
I would think that Boobie Bowl would be a better name...
Bubble... boobie... whatever. Maybe titty bowl, but that would sound too much like Tidy Bowl and would someone to get sued for defamation of cleaning products' character.
Bankers rarely fit the definition of the classic Dilbert PHB. Bankers are businessmen who carefully study the flow of money and at the first sign of trouble, pull their funds out and make for the nearest exit.
PHB's are middle management who aren't socially competent enough to be upper management and aren't technically skilled enough to be a "plebe in the trenches". They're really just people who were popular in high school and drank and partied their way through college, only to find out that life isn't all fun and games. That's when they found a comfort zone waiting for them...
They are Institutionalized Stupidity, installed in the system to ensure slow, steady progress instead of wild leaps and bounds. When something wild begins to erupt from the ranks of technical plebes "below" them, they're there to shut it down long enough for the average progress of a given social structure (corporation, usually) to catch up, then they allow (and take credit for) the "innovation" that is (or would have been, five years earlier) manifest by the leap and/or bound made by the lower-ranked workers.
In summary:
Upper management -> deals with the big picture business aspects. Bankers fit in here.
Middle management -> Institutionalized Stupidity in human form. Not respectable or deserving of respect. See also: PHB.
Worker -> takes direction from upper management and is not opposed to them unless they're way off base. Hates PHB's because they fuck things up on a day-to-day level. Also known as: slave, plebe, serf, pion (or pee-on), associate, employee, human resource, expendable.
You know, if I shit bricks, I'd probably go on the war path too. Ouch...
The best is when some mental giant puts "CID" on their card because they've only heard people tell them to put that on the card. I saw more than a few of these during the time I worked at a grocery store. Most of them did it on their debit card, too.
You mention an external Firewire HD, which brings up an interesting side point.
Why bother upgrading the internal HD in the Mini to a larger 4200 RPM drive, when you can easily go out and buy a 7200 RPM FW HD that will work just as well if not better?
Of course she has fans! She has nice tits.
There really is a correlation there. Trust me. Of course, I always thought Gates McFadden was hotter. As bad as that seems, I never un-thought that until I found out Gates is a year older than my mom. Ick.
I have watched maybe 4 or 5 episodes of Enterprise (about the same frequency as the first three seasons of DS9) and lately, they're pretty good. Before, it wasn't carried on any local TV (I don't have cable or satellite, and I don't care to), so I wasn't in the habit of watching when we got a UPN affiliate (don't laugh... it's true!). It's a pretty good show, judging from what I can tell. It's at least light years ahead of those last two movies. Ugh.
As for Battlestar Galactica... well... I could stomach only a few minutes of the pilot. It was 1) poorly acted, 2) an unfamiliar plot/series, and 3) massively... uninteresting (to put it politely). I know that #2 isn't a total dealbreaker, but when you've just bought your seventh box of Stargate: SG1 DVD's, you really don't care enough to overcome it.
So, to summarize...
- Star Trek (any form) -> still good because I'm not paying attention, but familiar enough that I can come back to it at any time
- Stargate -> it owns you
- Battlestar Galactica -> meh... not enough gravity to pull me in, not enough fire to set me alight. And the old guy in granny-glasses reminds me of the stodgy old police chief in Demolition Man.
I prefer this other site with NWS and NOAA data on it.
http://www.nws.noaa.gov
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// end rant
{
I think you've just stumbled across the real point here...
features... which people enjoy
I don't know how to make the scrollbars change color, nor do I care to know how. But I do know that I hate sites that have oddly-colored scrollbars. Moronic web designers (usually the artsy-fartsy ones that were too stupid and/or uncool to get a Mac) that think this is "cool" should be bumped off this mortal coil with a quick dose of lead to the cranium. It's annoying, it's childish, and it isn't good design. Ask any real web designer (think artsy-fartsy Mac-type here) what they think of that trash, and you'll likely get bitchslapped.
You speak of making a site usable for everyone. Perhaps you shouldn't exclude IE users just because you think it's "neat-o" to camoflage their scrollbars.
}
Well, it doesn't help that they (Bush's conservative National Socialist religious idiot friends) don't even understand the Bible (which they claim to be "experts" in), much less scientific knowledge.
While it's not a science textbook, the Bible does not contradict proven science. It speaks of a round (Heb. chugh - "circle", "ball") Earth. It speaks of things coming into existence in the proper order (the "exapanse" -> Earth -> plants -> fish -> birds -> mammals -> people). It even can explain why the Big Bang happened (God is "abundant in dynamic energy" - what happens when he asserts some of that?).
Of course, people misunderstand it to say that the entire universe, everything in it, and all life were created in a mere 144 hours. Yeah, right. Even now we use the word "day" to mean periods of time of unspecified length. (For instance, "Every dog has its day.")
The only other issue is believing that there's an intelligence behind this creation, rather than a random force (and it's still "creation", it just has a different cause in some people's estimation). Some people just don't want to be accountable to a higher power. The truth is, you're accountable whether you believe or not, and whether it's "God" or not.
Bush's cronies are just using religion the same way they and other rulers throughout history have always used religion - as a means of manipulating people by twisting spirituality and morality. And most people are just too stupid to grasp that they're being lied to.
Yeah, tell me about it. I've been saving for 4 years. I'm buying a place now, but it's my grandma's old house and I'm getting a pretty good deal on it.
She's making about 500% on a 35 year investment, though.
Yeah. We've got plenty of time.
T-Minus 15.193792102158E+9 years. Give or take. Remember, "You are Destiny."
Politicians have already proven that they don't need help being evil and/or crazy.
I still know women, until this day, who say that women are equal with men in every possible way, both mentally and physically.
Challenge your friend to a pissing contest. Literally. That should shut her up. And if "she" wins, you should probably work on your gender recognition skills.
??? = take pictures and blackmail said executive.
Cast iron is better for hot water applications. Ask any HVAC guy or pipefitter. And if you have a pump in the system, don't even think about PVC. A single deadheading will shatter the pipes, and there's a risk of shattering the pipes every time you start or stop the pump, due to the inertia of the water circulating in the system.
Actually, I'd almost classify the Debian installer as "Ignorant Housewife edition".
Sarge-something-something-x86 and Sarge-something-something-powerpc are the ones I've downloaded so far, and I've actually had a chance to mess with the x86 one. (The old beige powermac g3 is in the process of getting its heavy ass moved into another room.) The install went something like this:
1) download iso and burn to CD
2) boot spare x86 machine from CD
3) wait
4) let it configure DHCP
4a) wonder why it didn't work, play with it a bit
4b) plug the damned ethernet cable in, repeat 4)
5) give it some network settings (domain name, machine name, etc)
7) pick some package groups to install
8) wait
9) wait
10) wait
11) give a root password, create a user
12) log in and use the damned thing
So it's not a 3-step-with-no-step-3 iMac. Whoopee. I didn't expect it to be. Then again, this is the first time I've ever used a Linux system. Ever. And I was practically spoonfed a working installation. And within a few hours of use, I was able to install/uninstall packages, mess with basic environment settings, and play a few games. That's a far cry from "not ready for the desktop."
I declare it... 2004 (I did the installation on 12/30/04) is the year of the Linux desktop. Hey, it passed my test.
Now to toss MacOS X 10.2.8 (the last release "supported" on the beige g3) out on it's ass... maybe in a few days. I need sleep.