Neat Story (Piper)

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From: [email protected] (Ted Cashel)

Date: Wed Mar 31, 1999 11:10:17 PM US/Eastern

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I got this from a recent Tidbits and it reminded me of your prime number program. This guy has a more complex program (albeit nearly as pointless) but has the background to have tried it on a proud line of mainframes and modern PC’s.

Power Macintosh G3: The Cannonball Express

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by Rick Holzgrafe

The Cannonball Express was the fabled train that was so fast it

took three men to say “Here she comes,” “Here she is,” and “There

she goes.” Computers are fast too, although unlike trains, most

aren’t self-propelled. What makes a computer fast, and how much

effect does software design have? How much faster are today’s

computers than yesterday’s? Recently I revisited some of these

questions, beginning with a trip down memory lane.

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Captions Under Thumbnails

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Trying to figure out a way to display thumbnails horizontally with captions without using tables. Ran into this suggestion to use a DL tag (data list) which has a DT tag for a title (which can be the image) and a DD tag for data (which can be the caption.)

<style type=”text/css”>

#wrap {width: 500px;

}

dl.gallery {float: left; width: 150px; padding: 2; border: 1px #f00 solid; margin: 0;

}

dl.gallery dd {padding: .0em; margin: 0;

}

</style>

A Definition List:

<img src="http://mac.fiveforks.com/stonegate/archives/Thinking%20Come%20Back-thumb.jpg"
Thinking Come Back
Lights Out and Fugetta Bout It

Not sure this is easier than tables which I’m using here:

<img src="http://mac.fiveforks.com/stonegate/archives/Thinking%20Come%20Back-thumb.jpg"
Thinking Come Back


Lights Out and Fugetta Bout

Help Greg (Hire Greg!)

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help-greg.jpgGreg recently lost his job with a small company. He sent me the snapshot below from his visit to the refrigerator magnet website. It must have been a civilized group, because he was able to arrange a bunch of the letters to spell help. Someone then spelled out “What’s the matter” and he was able to reply. Humor can be the best medicine. (Greg has a big medicine cabinet.)

Someone Keeps Stealing My Letters

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You have to let the flash program load, so wait until you see colorful letters. Warning: Immature people will try to make bad words. (Same thing happened on flooj.com.)

It is funny to watch some of the dynamics in place. I immediately assumed the role of curse-word spoiler. When there are 30 to 40 people on, words rarely can get spelled, so you end up with other spontaneous, group interactions around shapes, colors, positions and patterns.

someonekeeps.gifI did this for about a half hour at home last night. Someone started an alphabet string, and I got the string to be bend in the circle. The whole group jumped in and an overlapping, sequential circle of letters was quicky formed, using all letters. This was the only completed group task that occured.

You’ll find 5 different “fridge sites” at the link above. One only allows 15 users which is less chaotic. We built the alphabet heart pictured here. When it worked (two complete alphabets met to form the heart) someone spelled “YAY LOL.”