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Offline Sandman

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« Reply #60 on: August 01, 2006, 07:40:05 PM »
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What happens on day 43?


The system clock gets whacked. Duh.
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« Reply #61 on: August 01, 2006, 07:40:26 PM »
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What happens on day 43?


no one has lived to tell

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« Reply #62 on: August 01, 2006, 07:47:29 PM »
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BTW, my mouse has 8 buttons and I use them all in games. How many does the MAC have?


OSX supports multi-button mice natively. Just plug it in and it works - all contextual menus work. You need all those buttons for Windows because it takes that many more steps to do the same thing in OSX. :D

BTW, OSX can change to any language without even rebooting. How many languages does any MS OS have? It's a rhetorical question, so no answer is expected. No OS is perfect, but OSX is not inferior to Windows.

It seems like you don't own or are familiar with OSX. Making comparisons without that knowledge is like discussing a book never read, or a movie never seen, reducing your credibility.

Anyway, I'm not going to continue any MS vs. Apple conversation in this thread. I use both, but I'm am not evangelical about either.
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« Reply #63 on: August 01, 2006, 08:04:58 PM »
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What happens on day 43?


Isnt that when the infected scorpion bite finally kills you?
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« Reply #64 on: August 01, 2006, 08:25:20 PM »
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The system clock gets whacked. Duh.


I dunno what that means, or what happens to the OS. /shrug
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« Reply #65 on: August 01, 2006, 08:26:31 PM »
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I dunno what that means, or what happens to the OS. /shrug


In all honesty, neither do I. ;)
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« Reply #66 on: August 01, 2006, 08:27:37 PM »
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In all honesty, neither do I. ;)


:rofl
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« Reply #67 on: August 01, 2006, 08:30:08 PM »
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It seems like you don't own or are familiar with OSX. Making comparisons without that knowledge is like discussing a book never read, or a movie never seen, reducing your credibility.


Exactly.  Like when you posted that I said the Skyraider and the Skyhawk were the same airplane when in fact I did not.
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« Reply #68 on: August 01, 2006, 09:09:26 PM »
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The thread was about the prop-driven A-1 delivering a tactical device - a very unusual and little known part of history.

You posted info about the A-4 delivery, which was well known and not unusual at all.

That is why I said the A-1 is not the A-4. That's all. I thought you made a mistake since you didn't preface it with something like, "Here is info about the A-4 delivery,' or some other intro.

It seems that neither of us are adept at guessing what the other is thinking, but not writing. ;)
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« Reply #69 on: August 01, 2006, 09:10:22 PM »
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OSX supports multi-button mice natively. Just plug it in and it works - all contextual menus work. You need all those buttons for Windows because it takes that many more steps to do the same thing in OSX. :D

BTW, OSX can change to any language without even rebooting. How many languages does any MS OS have? It's a rhetorical question, so no answer is expected. No OS is perfect, but OSX is not inferior to Windows.

It seems like you don't own or are familiar with OSX. Making comparisons without that knowledge is like discussing a book never read, or a movie never seen, reducing your credibility.

Anyway, I'm not going to continue any MS vs. Apple conversation in this thread. I use both, but I'm am not evangelical about either.


I'm certainly no Microsoft evangelist. Just thought some might be interested in the latest iteration of an o/s many have been using for the last 20 years.

I never used used a Mac myself but I did think the Amiga was a superior system to both the Mac and the PC in it's day.
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« Reply #70 on: August 01, 2006, 09:16:21 PM »
Rolex, the Skyraider was known as the AD-1, then later the A-1.  That's where I think you got the wires crossed.  It's all good.  ;)
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« Reply #71 on: August 01, 2006, 09:18:47 PM »
I'm sure that was your intent, lukster. I think many of us are interested in what MS has planned for our futures.

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I was not implying that you were an evangelist. I said that I was not. I am not a sarcastic or cynical person by nature. If I write with sarcasm, I try to make it so obvious that it can't possibly be construed as anything but sarcasm. I'm not always successful, though...
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« Reply #72 on: August 01, 2006, 09:21:10 PM »
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no one has lived to tell

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I heard an urban legand that a windows computer starts working right on that day.
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« Reply #73 on: August 01, 2006, 09:25:03 PM »
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Rolex, the Skyraider was known as the AD-1, then later the A-1.  That's where I think you got the wires crossed.  It's all good.  ;) [/QUOTE

Ou at the main gate of Oceana theres a a-4 Skyhawk, and a AH1-D Skyraider, the Skyhawk is a jet, the Skyraider is a prop plane, but I bet you could hang a Skyhawk under each wing of the Skyraider, and still fly.
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« Reply #74 on: August 01, 2006, 09:28:10 PM »
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Rolex, the Skyraider was known as the AD-1, then later the A-1.  That's where I think you got the wires crossed.  It's all good.  ;)


I'm really confused now.  :huh
What you posted was about AD-4s, not AD-1s or A-1s. :D
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"The AD-4B was a version of the AD-4 designed to carry and deliver nuclear weapons. The airframe was strengthened to make it possible for the airplane to deliver nuclear weapons by the over-the-shoulder toss bombing technique. It was also armed with 4 20-mm cannon in the wings.

28 AD-4s were converted to AD-4B standards, whereas 165 AD-4Bs were built from scratch. Tests were carried out with an externally-carried dummy atomic bomb, but no AD-4B ever dropped an actual atomic bomb in a test. It may very well be the case that the AD-4B never flew with an actual atomic weapon slung underneath it. The AD-4B was apparently used as a political tool in the Navy's battle with the Air Force over the B-36 bomber. The Navy eagerly wanted a nuclear role for its fleet of carriers."


It is still all good even though I think we're in parallel universes. ;) Cheers!
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