My brother worked at a fast food place where his coworkers managed to get a strict assistant manager fired by obtaining restraining order and calling the cops on him.
Good! That oughta teach the motherfucker to be a fucking asshole!!!
In that case every single adult should only own a bycycle or motorcycle because you aren't actually using your other seats. Why have a trunk if you don't use it?
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Delphi Turns 10
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The combination lets developers whip up full-featured GUI apps in minutes. This concept was hyped as "RAD" -- rapid application development: Create a new form. Put a tabular editor widget on it. Put a data source component on it. Hook the table widget visually to the data source. Now you have a table containing your database's data.
Some years ago in college, in a database class we had to do a presentation on the subject of our choice. This was after a whole session reeking of ASP and VBscript. The professor was a senior database jock whose day job was for $GOVERNMENT_DEPARTMENT that's big on VB.
So, I brought a Delphi disk, installed it on the class computer, and in 15 minutes demonstrated how you could create a relational database and have a visual application.
The class was impressed, the prof a bit less, until I showed him the executable which was actually a bona-fide compiled program, without a thousand attendant DLLs.
I've worked full-time some 5 years with Delphi (and since then once in a while), so when Kylix showed-up I was necessarly interested, so I downloaded the whole shebang.
Unfortunately, Kylix sucks as much as Delphi rocks; the code is not stable, as it reportedly uses WINE to run. And the basic "free" Kylix version is practically crippled as it does not includes the database components.
Do you understand how difficult it is when you cannot even trust your own mind and language, as you will find your very instincts erraneous and the very language biased?
You do not realize how ++ungood it is to hold such language???
Well the point of the restrictions is not really to stop those who do their best to circumvent things. Instead the point is to keep the public at large ignorant.
Yes, and each country has their own institutions to do that, like, for example, in the USA: ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, FOX...
Now you go to someone else's computer with a little bit less RAM. You cannot repesent as many states now so you must decide which of your named states are least important: like dropping functionality from a program by throwing away functions.
I will dismiss your "research" with the simple statement that, personally, as a heavy reader (of paper books), I will find a serif font much more comfortable to read. And I will stop reading a book when I don't find it comfortable.
More surprisingly, some research has suggested that serifs don't actually help much on paper either, at least for shorter works. They do seem to boost reading ease in long, blocky works like novels, but for something like a magazine article or a short paper, reading ease isn't much of an indicator one way or the other.
Serifs DO help reading on paper because the "little thignies" (serifs) that extend perpendicular to stroke ends help the eye denote where the stroke actually ends. And it also helps greatly to differentiate different letters, such as capital "i", lower-case "l" and the digit one, a thing impossible to do in a (otherwise beautiful) font like "Gill Sans".
For this reason, serif text will best be used for long text, and sans-serif text will best be used for titles (yes, you can mix fonts in the same document - BUT NOT MORE THAN THREE!!!).
All the above is about paper. On screen, mechanics are different; for example, screen resolution is much less than paper resolution, so the use of serifs on very small type will introduce clutter that make the text hard to read, no matter how-good the antialiasing is.
Actually, in the case of small fonts, antialiasing will NOT HELP because it will make letter edges fuzzy, the very opposite of what you need. For this, compare 7 point text rendered in Arial or Georgia with 7 point text rendered in the Microsoft font "Small font".
GPS resolution is LESS THAN the spaces between adjcent tracks. How the hell this system is gonna tell on which track a given train is? It's a little bit important to make sure that trains don't run into each other, à la "cornfield meet".
And, besides, trains run on tracks, whose position are firmly anchored in space and time. Furthermore, those said tracks are already divided in blocks, each of which is equipped to detect the presence of a train on it, in order to effect a suitable signalling system.
In other words, the system **ALREADY** knows where the trains are.
Perhaps it's just yet another technical band-aid plastered to a system to hide the PHBs' innate inability to communicate with the people in the field in order to manage the whole bloody thing???
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Pussyfooting isn't the only answer...
Oh, yes, there are just about as much people per square kilometers in Rhode-Island than there are in Nevada...
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So, I brought a Delphi disk, installed it on the class computer, and in 15 minutes demonstrated how you could create a relational database and have a visual application.
The class was impressed, the prof a bit less, until I showed him the executable which was actually a bona-fide compiled program, without a thousand attendant DLLs.
He was totally floored.
Just like there is an open-source Windows...
Unfortunately, Kylix sucks as much as Delphi rocks; the code is not stable, as it reportedly uses WINE to run. And the basic "free" Kylix version is practically crippled as it does not includes the database components.
The only thing it could do, with a name like Gameboy Advance, is tune the ignition advance...
You write whatever you want on a sheet of paper, pass it for a contract, and hope that suckers will fall for it.
So, some joker is bound to make an Edison wax disk engraver, or a 78rpm engraver...
I will dismiss your "research" with the simple statement that, personally, as a heavy reader (of paper books), I will find a serif font much more comfortable to read. And I will stop reading a book when I don't find it comfortable.
For this reason, serif text will best be used for long text, and sans-serif text will best be used for titles (yes, you can mix fonts in the same document - BUT NOT MORE THAN THREE!!!).
All the above is about paper. On screen, mechanics are different; for example, screen resolution is much less than paper resolution, so the use of serifs on very small type will introduce clutter that make the text hard to read, no matter how-good the antialiasing is.
Actually, in the case of small fonts, antialiasing will NOT HELP because it will make letter edges fuzzy, the very opposite of what you need. For this, compare 7 point text rendered in Arial or Georgia with 7 point text rendered in the Microsoft font "Small font".
Whatever you do anyways always opens you to potential legal action.
Don't forget the ground relays on engines, too!!! :)
GPS resolution is LESS THAN the spaces between adjcent tracks. How the hell this system is gonna tell on which track a given train is? It's a little bit important to make sure that trains don't run into each other, à la "cornfield meet".
And, besides, trains run on tracks, whose position are firmly anchored in space and time. Furthermore, those said tracks are already divided in blocks, each of which is equipped to detect the presence of a train on it, in order to effect a suitable signalling system.
In other words, the system **ALREADY** knows where the trains are.
Perhaps it's just yet another technical band-aid plastered to a system to hide the PHBs' innate inability to communicate with the people in the field in order to manage the whole bloody thing???