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In article <petrichDCoC8t.7F2@netcom.com>, petrich@netcom.com (Loren Petrich) writes:
|> In article <3vlchl$pof@sundog.tiac.net>,
|> Jim Williams  <williams@tiac.net> wrote:
|> >jdredd@eagle.ns.net (James DeBenedetti) wrote:

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|> 
|> >>-GUI:  Keeps me from having to type in dozens of 10+ character
|> >>filenames when I want to delete a portion of what's in a directory. 
|> >Aside from the fact that just about every CLI has a way to avoid doing
|> >this -- I find it far too easy to have accidents with every GUI I've
|> >ever used.
|> 
|> 	I think you need some mouse practice :-) Xerox PARC once had a 
|> mouse-practice game called "Fly" in which the cursor becomes a flyswatter 
|> and you're suppost to get the cursor over the fly and click. I have a Mac 
|> version of that called "Bash Big Blue", in which one tries to get an IBM 
|> logo, but it breaks in System 7. Has anyone come up with some updated 
|> version -- say, "Bash Bill Gates"?

There's an X-windows game named xbill which allows you to
practice your buttonclicking on Bills walking around
trying to install Microsoft on PC's, Apples,
and NeXT boxes.  I doubt it will be ported to Macs though. :-(

[more snippage]


|> 	Yawn all you want, but if you want to see what an image *really*
|> looks like, you'll have to have 24-bit color. Otherwise, you'll be stuck
|> with dithering, which is pixel-level fakery, and a waste of CPU time. 
|> That's one reason I prefer to look at images with a Macintosh instead of a
|> SparcStation at work -- the SparcStation only has an 8-bit video board
|> (how much does a 24-bit video board for a SparcStation cost?), while my
|> home Mac has a 16-bit video board and my office Mac has a 24-bit video
|> board. 

Even with 24-bit color you may still need to dither on
occasion (0.4% intensity variation between levels).

|> 
|> 	[...]
|> -- 
|> Loren Petrich, the Master Blaster	Happiness is a fast Macintosh
|> petrich@netcom.com			And a fast train
|> Visit ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/pe/petrich
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