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Living Room / Re: The Greatest Graphic Novel of All Time: Watchmen
« Last post by superboyac on March 05, 2009, 05:39 PM »Thanks for spoiling it, Ed!
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Thanks for mentioning this great little freeware tool! I will definitely using this!No problem, glad you like it!
Peter-pencoe (February 26, 2009, 01:33 AM)
Thank you Powermarks for many years of good service.Nicely said, Steven. I think I feel the same way.
Thank you Linkman for taking over where Powermarks left off, and more.
Shalom,
Steven-Steven Avery (February 21, 2009, 04:38 PM)
That's very different than what I have.Hmm...ok. Then I need to make a correction. There is no physical click-click, but the mouse will behave like a normal clicky mouse when it is in that mode. So the two modes are controlled entirely by the software, and physically the wheel is always in free-spin mode.
Mine never click-clicks. It can't click-click. It has no detents to do that click-clicking with.
There is no 2 modes. There is only no click-click.-app103 (February 22, 2009, 03:07 AM)
Actually, the old guy was largely self-educated (like many of his generation) and only had about five or so years of what we would call formal schooling. That said, 'Grandpa Roy' was one of the most educated and intelligent individuals I ever knew.He sounds fascinating. I often wonder what kinds of things I missed out on from previous generations.
He was also a bit of a savant. He could do rapid mental arithmetic, speed read a book in under an hour, and had damn near total recall of everything he read. He was also ambidextrous. He could (and often did) write with either hand using an elegant longhand script.
He had no use for what he called "idiot gadgets." He felt things like slide rules just encouraged your brain to be lazy. He used to use logarithms when he was doing heavy math. And as was typical with him, he had apparently memorized a good chunk of the Base-10 tables to save himself the need to look them up.
None of his mental talents rubbed off on me.
Roy was well-liked and respected inside and outside the family circle. He made it to three days short of his 102nd birthday, and was healthy, mentally aware, and physically spry right up until his last day. He died peacefully in his sleep.
Roy never lived to see the advent of personal computing. I sometimes wonder what he would have thought of the Internet?
I'm guessing the crusty old Gent would have thought it another great idea that got spoiled by idiots.-40hz (February 15, 2009, 03:55 PM)
Recently I found out that there is a new material (graphene) that seems to be the ideal candidate for hydrogen tanks. Besides being a better conductor than silicium, it is also extremely strong (especially when it comes in contact with hydrogen). Articles 1, 2 and 3 are in Dutch, so have fun with the Google translator (if you are interested of course)The more I deal with the nuts and bolts of these environmental technologies, the more I'm convinced that the real solution is a very difficult one that is beyond the scope of technology. And that is getting people to just not be wasteful. Then, no matter how dirty or clean our fuel is, we are at least using it only as much as we have to. All other solutions will pale in comparison to this. The only problem is you can't make people do things, it's next to impossible.-Shades (February 15, 2009, 01:01 PM)
PS. Politics or not, I still think you Dad sounds like a great guy.he is. He's very highly respected--almost globally now--not only for his expertise, but his calm demeanor. It's really something to see. Then you have me, on the other hand, and I'm quite a bit more fiery than my father. But yes, my dad is a good guy, one of the few around.-40hz (February 15, 2009, 11:24 AM)
Yes I did. And very nice posts they were too!Thanks, I'll let him know! Actually, I'm working pretty heavily on that now also, and the environmental benefit of it is rather misleading. It's more political than anything. Sure, it sounds good, but the big picture is not as squeaky clean. Here's why: those huge ships that get plugged in spew a lot of pollution from their engines, and that goes straight to the port area. Now, they get to turn their engines off and use electrical power. Sounds good, right? But where is the electrical power being generated? Some plant off in nevada or something. Now, instead of LA getting polluted, nevada is getting polluted. The argument people give for that is that creating the energy at the plant is more efficient than creating it on the ship. But there's no proof of that.
(Congrats to your Dad BTW. Interesting work he's involved with, to say nothing of bettering the environment for all of us.)
-40hz (February 14, 2009, 06:49 AM)
Fear not "Ben's son." We know your heart is pure.Oh geez...I can see you saw some of my other posts!-40hz (February 13, 2009, 03:09 PM)
Nice green gradient in the skin -- I went looking for it locally but somehow didn't come across it.Thanks. THat green gradient is just the overall Windows XP setting. It has nothing to do with FARR. Basically, I've set the theme to classic Windows look rather than the default bubbly XP theme. Then you can just edit the gradient colors in the display properties.
The Poweruser section was a nice touch-ewemoa (February 11, 2009, 04:29 PM)
I usually end up closing or ending processes for both. Wish they had a way to regulate their indexing.Is this something Process Tamer can handle?-J-Mac (February 10, 2009, 05:15 PM)
