You had a 100 in 1 kit from Radio Shack?!! Why, when I was a kid, I had a 1 in 1 kit from Radio Shack! It was a single resistor! We had to just stick that resistor in the wall socket! And we liked it!
Actually, OS X uses a combination of the old Type/Creator codes and the file extensions. However, any individual document can have a specific application associated with it.
Click on the file's icon, type Command-I. (For "Info".) It's the second option down on the popup window.
I'm going to have to play the math geek and suggest that this would not only double the number of possible filenames, it would raise it two to the n times.
I've been doing too much math homework tonight...sorry.
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It was the GeoPort, actually. I had one on my old 6100/60, and when I was online, it slowed the entire computer down to about 50% responsiveness. While the idea of being able to "upgrade" your modem through software seemed appealing, I never got it to work faster than 14400 bps. The 2.0 update crashed my machine repeatedly. (No 28.8 for me...)
Stories like this really make me wonder how authors like Stephen King have been able to get to where they are now. Look at a story like Rage: that would almost certainly have landed him in some correctional institution, assuming current attitudes existed when he wrote it. It makes me wonder just who our "great authors" in the next century are going to be. Almost every author/artist/musician who has contributed to the development of culture has had some traits which make them stand out from the status quo. Is writing going to be limited to serialized garbage; the adult equivalent of the BabySitter's Club books?
It seems to me that people in our society today are trying desperately to hold on to something which is consistant and static. We want companies to always post a successful financial quarter; we want sitcoms to run forever; if Garry Trudeau or Gary Larson goes on sabbatical (or God forbid, stops producing our favorite comic strip) then we get pissed off. I truly think that we are in an era which fundamentally resists progress (beyond new and great technical acheivements...1.1Ghz:)). If a movie deviates from the Hollywood formula, then it does poorly, and then that deviant filmmaker has less chance to spread his nasty little message around.
Oh, dear. I've gone off on a little ramble/rant. Um, there are always going to be people who are not all right in the head. Does that mean that we should be ultraparanoid about anyone who does not try to maintain the status quo? No. Progress is natural, and by trying to hold things in place as we are, we are effectively wiping out any true innovations for the future.
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Simple, really! Just take the limit as n goes to infinity of:
first n digits of pi
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10 ^ (n-1)
Next!
I'm not sure when exactly System 7 was released, but my gut is around 1991-1992.
That was, of course, before it was acquired by Micro$oft....hmmmm....
You had a 100 in 1 kit from Radio Shack?!! Why, when I was a kid, I had a 1 in 1 kit from Radio Shack! It was a single resistor! We had to just stick that resistor in the wall socket! And we liked it!
Actually, OS X uses a combination of the old Type/Creator codes and the file extensions. However, any individual document can have a specific application associated with it.
Click on the file's icon, type Command-I. (For "Info".) It's the second option down on the popup window.
I'm going to have to play the math geek and suggest that this would not only double the number of possible filenames, it would raise it two to the n times.
I've been doing too much math homework tonight...sorry.
It was the GeoPort, actually. I had one on my old 6100/60, and when I was online, it slowed the entire computer down to about 50% responsiveness. While the idea of being able to "upgrade" your modem through software seemed appealing, I never got it to work faster than 14400 bps. The 2.0 update crashed my machine repeatedly. (No 28.8 for me...)
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Stories like this really make me wonder how authors like Stephen King have been able to get to where they are now. Look at a story like Rage: that would almost certainly have landed him in some correctional institution, assuming current attitudes existed when he wrote it. It makes me wonder just who our "great authors" in the next century are going to be. Almost every author/artist/musician who has contributed to the development of culture has had some traits which make them stand out from the status quo. Is writing going to be limited to serialized garbage; the adult equivalent of the BabySitter's Club books?
It seems to me that people in our society today are trying desperately to hold on to something which is consistant and static. We want companies to always post a successful financial quarter; we want sitcoms to run forever; if Garry Trudeau or Gary Larson goes on sabbatical (or God forbid, stops producing our favorite comic strip) then we get pissed off. I truly think that we are in an era which fundamentally resists progress (beyond new and great technical acheivements...1.1Ghz :)). If a movie deviates from the Hollywood formula, then it does poorly, and then that deviant filmmaker has less chance to spread his nasty little message around.
Oh, dear. I've gone off on a little ramble/rant. Um, there are always going to be people who are not all right in the head. Does that mean that we should be ultraparanoid about anyone who does not try to maintain the status quo? No. Progress is natural, and by trying to hold things in place as we are, we are effectively wiping out any true innovations for the future.
Western civilization is a stale cache.
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