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Re: February 19, 1990: Photoshop for Mac only. Photography will never be the same. - 2 days ago

I first used Photoshop 3.0 on System 7.1 on a work machine but later on used v2.5 on System 6.0.7 and 7.5.5 on personal ones.

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Re: MR Forum Fit Club: Jump you lump - 2 days ago

3.3 mi/day, hardly a variation for almost 2 months now. No better but no worse... I'll take that.

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Re: How to eat 40kg of chocolate and not get obese - 3 days ago

I'll jot those options down for the next time I'm 21.

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Re: How far are you from the nearest TRAIN station? - 5 days ago

0.9 Mi, 15 min walk

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Re: Speaking of other-world landings: when the Russians were basically throwing probes at Venus - 6 days ago

You need to be a space geek with an interest in optics to spend hours in the mid '90s trying to figure out how to un-spherically distort those unique pictures to get a slightly better perspective on the Venusian surface. I failed as I had no idea what I was doing. I was able to reconstruct full color versions of the RGB channel pics from the Vikings, though. Oddly those versions weren't availa

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Re: pRICE - check out this M1 Mac comparison to high-end PC - 6 days ago

The PC in that link is still much better for video work as most video apps can utilize multiple cores efficiently and that Ryzen CPU has 16 cores and 32 threads, far more than the M1. Dunno if the RTX Titan is used for this video conversion but it's also far faster than the M1s GPU, with a 250W minimum power spec and 4600 cores. Photoshop and most photo apps can only use a few CPU cores, so t

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Re: ‘Rona in da house... - 6 days ago

Hopes for a negative result! As long as you and Mrs. Belty don't have too many respiratory ailments, you both should handle this just fine even if positive.

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Re: Will there be counterfeit COVID vaccination certificates? - 7 days ago

Just flash your Covid card to whoever wants to see, it worked for Jake:

by Lew Zealand - 'Friendly' Political Ranting

Re: Rush Limbaugh dies from lung cancer - 7 days ago

QuoteSteve G. Thursday : 'Rush Limbaugh still dead' I'm not a big Chevy Chase fan but he'd get a hearty guffaw from me if he read this the right way.

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Re: what about Bob?!.....Bob Dole diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer...... - 7 days ago

QuoteOmbligo Dole was the last Republican presidential candidate that I considered voting for. He is a good and decent man. McCain was the last one I considered. Until he chose his veep. Sigh. Well at least it made my choice easier.

by Lew Zealand - 'Friendly' Political Ranting

Re: Reminder: NASA's Perseverance rover to land on Mars @ 3:55 PM EST - 7 days ago

Looks like lo rez JPGs first and then higher res full image. Feels like the early Internet with 56K and inline jpgs.

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Re: Reminder: NASA's Perseverance rover to land on Mars @ 3:55 PM EST - 7 days ago

Hmmm, that pic looks like all the other Mars pics. Stock photo #317.

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Re: Reminder: NASA's Perseverance rover to land on Mars @ 3:55 PM EST - 7 days ago

Aaahhhhh!! The Blob is on Mars!

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Re: todays fin lust - 7 days ago

Fins and single pair round headlights were the top. The double pair headlights made all cars look like trucks. Yuk. NL's Vacation got this exactly right by giving the Family Truckster quad pair headlights. If 2x is ugly, then 4x is buttttttt-ugly.

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Re: Rush Limbaugh dies from lung cancer - 8 days ago

Quotevision63 Grumpyguy is our forum friend. Let's not forget that. Too true, I edited my post to remove the quote.

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Re: Rush Limbaugh dies from lung cancer - 8 days ago

If Limbaugh had stuck to politics, then you would not see the vitriol spouted at him today. But he didn't, he instead mercilessly launched personal attacks on individuals and groups of people he didn't like. How can you expect people to show him the respect that he never showed to other people?

by Lew Zealand - 'Friendly' Political Ranting

Re: February 16, 2000: Apple introduces “Pismo” G3 PowerBook - 8 days ago

I dunno about people banging on about the Pismo's keyboard. I have 3 of them, as well as a Lombard and 2 Wallstreets. The Wallstreet KB is much nicer to type on, it feels more precise. Though the best KB ever in an Apple laptop is the PB1400. That thing was a rock. And with a G3 upgrade in it, the PB1400 was a decent machine. The PB1400 and the PB100 are the only machines I'm missing in my

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Re: MR Forum Fit Club: Don't get caught in the middle - 9 days ago

3.3 mi/day, meh good enough. Down another half pound or so but that could just mean I was dehydrated.

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Re: What bird is colored like a cardinal but has no crown? - 13 days ago

Wow, mikebw FTW!

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Re: What’s your current status on receiving a COVID-19 vaccine? - 13 days ago

I'm just old enough to get in the next wave of jabs but that won't happen for a while as I live in a well populated county with a great many people ahead of me who need it more than I do.

by Lew Zealand - 'Friendly' Political Ranting

Re: Mid 2011 iMac 2.7 core i5 external options - 13 days ago

As long as you have enough RAM installed (8GB?) so it doesn't need to spool memory to the disk, even USB2 will do fine with an SSD. FW800 would be better but a bus power FW800-SATA cable is exceedingly rare. I used to have 2 of them but lost track of one years ago and the second... It's around here somewhere and IIRC, it topped out at ~68MB/sec Reads and 55MB/sec Writes, so not even 80/80 whi

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Re: Anybody here taking rapamycin? - 14 days ago

It's an immune system inhibitor. Now may not be the time to start taking something like this for preventive reasons.

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Re: Managers: Impeachment managers laying out the facts - 15 days ago

QuoteSteve G. Quoterjmacs Boring day, since all we get to hear is one side of the argument. Sorry, maybe next time it can be a tweet battle. Hey, I remember that from Fox In Socks!

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Re: My Krispy Kreme on Ponce de Leon, Atlanta burned down... - 15 days ago

Quotebazookaman Well played, good sir!

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Re: Today is National Pizza Day. 3pm EST and not one mention. Sad. - 16 days ago

Little Zealand has a pizza sitting next to his computer and he's adhering to this vast and intricate tradition from which spring many of the sweet mysteries of life. One of which is: does pizza need both cheese and oil in it to balance the delicate humors of the alimentary system to ensure proper internal locomotion?

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Re: ISO 40,000 on the 50MP Sony A1, I think I'm in love - 16 days ago

QuoteOmbligo Quotemrbigstuff QuoteOmbligo I remember when did everything but sacrifice a virgin to push Tri-X to 3200. Even then we got highlights but zero shadow details. That ISO 40,000 image is incredible. That's when the "hand of God" was employed to draw attention to the subject. for those unfamiliar - Hand of God was the term for darkroom printing using extreme vignetting to d

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Re: I love the smell of peppers - 16 days ago

My kids eat raw peppers- red, yellow, orange, just like snacks. But the best smell is tomatoes from the backyard. Same colors, better taste to me (and to them).

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Re: What, no love for my girl Dana??? FPR version - 17 days ago

Anytime you see any job of any kind being filled by a non-white male when previous it was filled by a white male, you will find a number of vocal yet anonymous people whose egos need apparently assuaging by posting 'woke' in a public forum. It must make them feel better about themselves, otherwise why post? These jobs are being filled by non-white males because marketing says that you will ma

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Re: I Don't Want To Sound Like A Big Shot Or Anything, But I Just Had A New Apple Watch Series 6 GPS 44mm Delivered! - 17 days ago

Big Shot, eh? BS Leader!!!

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Re: Super Bowl programming - legitimate question - 17 days ago

Mrs. Zealand put the game on and she watched about half of it and I got about a quarter. That was my football for the year. She went shopping around the half and the stores were pretty empty of people but stocked with the food and stuffs we need. Good planning.

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