Hollywood OS wars 3308

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On 2006-03-06, Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:

Yes. I for one, love that about good keyboards. In the old days they used to call it tactile feedback, and I think that's a good name for it. It's one of the (many) things that I love about Macs: the keyboards have a firm snappy feel to them. There are few things I dislike more in the user input arena than a cheap mushy keyboard. One thing I loved about the original IBM PC was the loud, firm, keyboard. It definetly gave a sense of tactile feedback.

As for the mouse. That really depends on the user. Many users simply couldn't imagine using anything else, even though many good input devices exist. Personally I like tracballs when using a GUI. I prefer the command line, and non-gui applications for speed and incredible customization. Many people do, many do not. It's a matter of preference.

Typically, depending on caliber, a bullet will make a very small entrance wound and a *very* large exit wound. This is buttuming that it pbuttes completely through the body. If you have ever seen a .45 caliber round fired into ballistic gel, you can get an idea of the kinetic force delivered on impact. In addion, most rounds are designed to expand and fragment on impact increasing the affect, which is why ballistic Gel is only an approximation of damage to a real body. At any rate, I agree that hollywood exadurates the effect (dramatic licence) for the sake of drama. All that said, it is not unlikely that a bullet inpact will knock the victim backward before dropping him. Now if we are talking about a high velocity jacketed round....... oh, never mind. I can only go off topic so far in one sitting :)

Just some fun chatter,

Mathew

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