You managed to find a suitable script pretty quickly. That would be along the same lines as my Linux experience. Plenty of help and stuff all ready to go. Notice how well commented that script is. Pretty easy to make minor changes. You can bet that MS would probably hide it all in a binary file and you'd have to buy a book to make it work.
Just a little tip. If you have to do school papers check out LyX www.lyx.org it comes on most distros and will make you look like a genius with about a third of the effort that a word processor requires. Spend about a half an hour with the tutorial and you'll never use a word processor again.
You say that over 3000 files in Word Perfect format is a strong incentive not to switch. I see a large amount of data (that you say he may still need) at risk of being lost to proprietary format hell. As long as he has a machine around that can read them fine, but what about the future?
I think it would be prudent to switch to an open format on an open system in order to protect this information.
If you shoot him in the legs it could become your word against his about his intentions. If you shoot and kill him he won't be able to tell his story. If you are going to shoot an intruder make sure they end up dead.
Re:I hate math...
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When was the last time a cashier counted back your change. They usually give whatever the computer tells them. Counting back change is a lost art. There is no question that these unusual coin values would be more difficult. Ease in making change isn't simply number of coins given back.
Start Rant I blame MS Word as being primarily responsible for nearly destroying the quality of printed documents. Lately I have been running into more and more large documents that violate simple rules by using a sans-serif font in the text. My theory is that san-serif looks fine on a computer screen because of the horizontal scan lines provide a guide for the eye. When printed on plain old paper it looks like crap. WYSIWYG just doesn't work. If some of these documents had been prepared using the right tool for the job, ie LyX, then this wouldn't happen. I find that fully justified text in MS Word looks terrible. Looks fine in LyX.
I'm still baffled how MS Word became a document standard when there is no postscript support. End Rant
With Tivo like machines for time shifting and DVD for movie playback, the writing is on the wall for VHS. Sales of VHS machines are way down. Betamax is the choice of professionals for electronic news gathering and such. Betamax is hardly dead it just turned pro. In the end it may be Betamax that is the survivor here.
I had a telemarketer hang up on me once. It went like this:
Her: Hi, I'm blah blah and I'm calling to tell about the fantastic prize you've won. It's a blah blah blah.
Me: Oh.
Her: You don't sound too excited for someone who has won such a wonderful prize.
Me: I'm waiting for the catch.
Her: (click)
Another thing is to tell them that you were just sitting there masturbating and would really like it if they could describe themselves for you. Ask what colour their underwear is. They'll hang up.
I'm an RIAA detective and my partner and I noticed that you were singing. May I please scan your universal id card. Enter your secret password, please and I remind you that refusing to supply your passcode is an offence.
It says that you are not licensed for singing. You haven't submitted the proper fees. Your cable bill is also overdue. I suggest that you take this summons and pay the fine and get these matters in order.
(There was music before the music industry and there will be music after.)
Actually, fuck isn't profanity. Look up profanity in the dictionary for Christ's sake (now THAT's profanity.) Shit, fuck, piss, cunt, cocksucker, motherfucker and tits are all vulgarities. (Thanks George.)
As you are pointing out, vulgarities certainly have their place in language and particularly art. Some people think that art should always be cute and pretty. Fuckin' losers.
Tilley was driving 95 around a corner and he heard something pop. The chasis/bearings are going out. The suspension on the car is not equipped to handle this kind of track. It puts too much pressure on the bearings. "The car is not going to move again today." Race cars have a special kind of suspension to handle tracks at high speed, so it won't put a bind on the bearings. The curves are banked. Regular cars not designed to handle that -- even the DeLorean.
Of course race cars have special suspension. That's part of what makes them race cars, but the banking in the turns serves to convert what would normally be lateral forces to more vertical forces. In other words the banking should make it easier on the wheel bearing, but harder on axle bearings. Regular street cars are frequently tested on banked race tracks even at places like Talledega which is banked at 33 degrees, Nashville is banked at 14 degrees. Oh yeah, 95 mph is not exactly high speed for a super speedway.
Kananaskis is hardly in the middle of nowhere. It is near a major highway that will have thousands of cars driving passed it next weekend.
The middle of nowhere is about 600k north of here (northern Saskatchewan, look up Black Lake or Stony Rapids on a map) and cell phones most certainly do not work from there. Neither does 911 for that matter.
You should take a look at LyX (www.lyx.org) you'll find it included with many Linux distros and it is the best little piece of software I have ever tried. It has great support for formulas and the quality of the documents it produces makes you look like a genius. It does require a slight paradigm shift on how you think about word processing (it's a document processor) but in about thirty minutes with the tutorial you'll never want to use a 'word processor' again.Highly recommended.
Last year at Texas Motor Speedway the Champ (CART) car race was cancelled due to concerns over excessive G-force. They were very concerned that someone might experience G-LOC. A car that is capable of 2Gs lateral acceleration on a flat surface can generate more than that on a banked oval for quite a sustained period, although the forces become less lateral and more vertical. I've heard that Top Fuel Dragsters pull around 6 Gs while accelerating.
I worked at a remote sensing facility and we were receiving shipment of our first Honeywell Digital recorder. These things were huge and ran about a quarter mill for cost. The truck driver backed his truck up to our door and while six geeks were trying to figure out how to get this 900lb crate out of the truck the driver said "just push it back towards me, I'll lift it out". "How the hell are you going to do that" I asked. "Technique" he said and then lowered the entire crate to the floor by himself. We were all quite taken aback. I still talk about that story.
Religion is simply the worship of one or more dieties. Atheists don't believe in dieties. Atheism is not a religion.
(I hope I didn't go too quickly.)
Consider very briefly some facts about myself. I have never really had a bad experience with religion. I cannot prove that something doesn't exist. I control my own mind and have never owned a religion. I think that some people are evil, but that a simple idea, such as religion, cannot be evil. I have met evil people who were religous and have met very good people who were religous. I tend to blame, or praise the individual rather than some silly idea they might cling to.
You can't build your own UFO as you'll know what it is.
UFO == Unidentified Flying Object
If you know what it is then it would be an Identified Flying Object.
Re:CSI - Crummy Science for Idiots
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Last week, during the autospy of a dead hockey player, they pulled his dental plate from his mouth. While many hockey players have plates none are stupid enough to play while wearing it.
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You managed to find a suitable script pretty quickly. That would be along the same lines as my Linux experience. Plenty of help and stuff all ready to go. Notice how well commented that script is. Pretty easy to make minor changes. You can bet that MS would probably hide it all in a binary file and you'd have to buy a book to make it work.
Just a little tip. If you have to do school papers check out LyX www.lyx.org it comes on most distros and will make you look like a genius with about a third of the effort that a word processor requires. Spend about a half an hour with the tutorial and you'll never use a word processor again.
You say that over 3000 files in Word Perfect format is a strong incentive not to switch. I see a large amount of data (that you say he may still need) at risk of being lost to proprietary format hell. As long as he has a machine around that can read them fine, but what about the future?
I think it would be prudent to switch to an open format on an open system in order to protect this information.
Can you spell D-e-m-o-c-r-a-c-y?
Its called free wheeling if you can spin it over and not clang up the valves. High compression engines are often not free wheeling.
F1 cars use pnuematic valves.
If you shoot him in the legs it could become your word against his about his intentions. If you shoot and kill him he won't be able to tell his story. If you are going to shoot an intruder make sure they end up dead.
When was the last time a cashier counted back your change. They usually give whatever the computer tells them. Counting back change is a lost art. There is no question that these unusual coin values would be more difficult. Ease in making change isn't simply number of coins given back.
Start Rant
I blame MS Word as being primarily responsible for nearly destroying the quality of printed documents. Lately I have been running into more and more large documents that violate simple rules by using a sans-serif font in the text. My theory is that san-serif looks fine on a computer screen because of the horizontal scan lines provide a guide for the eye. When printed on plain old paper it looks like crap. WYSIWYG just doesn't work. If some of these documents had been prepared using the right tool for the job, ie LyX, then this wouldn't happen. I find that fully justified text in MS Word looks terrible. Looks fine in LyX.
I'm still baffled how MS Word became a document standard when there is no postscript support.
End Rant
We've certainly kicked the shit out of this place.
With Tivo like machines for time shifting and DVD for movie playback, the writing is on the wall for VHS. Sales of VHS machines are way down. Betamax is the choice of professionals for electronic news gathering and such. Betamax is hardly dead it just turned pro. In the end it may be Betamax that is the survivor here.
I had a telemarketer hang up on me once. It went like this:
Her: Hi, I'm blah blah and I'm calling to tell about the fantastic prize you've won. It's a blah blah blah.
Me: Oh.
Her: You don't sound too excited for someone who has won such a wonderful prize.
Me: I'm waiting for the catch.
Her: (click)
Another thing is to tell them that you were just sitting there masturbating and would really like it if they could describe themselves for you. Ask what colour their underwear is. They'll hang up.
I like Blackbox with the NYZ theme so anything that doesn't present a plain black screen is just plain ugly and busy.
I'm an RIAA detective and my partner and I noticed that you were singing. May I please scan your universal id card. Enter your secret password, please and I remind you that refusing to supply your passcode is an offence.
It says that you are not licensed for singing. You haven't submitted the proper fees. Your cable bill is also overdue. I suggest that you take this summons and pay the fine and get these matters in order.
(There was music before the music industry and there will be music after.)
Actually, fuck isn't profanity. Look up profanity in the dictionary for Christ's sake (now THAT's profanity.) Shit, fuck, piss, cunt, cocksucker, motherfucker and tits are all vulgarities. (Thanks George.)
As you are pointing out, vulgarities certainly have their place in language and particularly art. Some people think that art should always be cute and pretty. Fuckin' losers.
6) Door #3
Of course race cars have special suspension. That's part of what makes them race cars, but the banking in the turns serves to convert what would normally be lateral forces to more vertical forces. In other words the banking should make it easier on the wheel bearing, but harder on axle bearings. Regular street cars are frequently tested on banked race tracks even at places like Talledega which is banked at 33 degrees, Nashville is banked at 14 degrees. Oh yeah, 95 mph is not exactly high speed for a super speedway.
Kananaskis is hardly in the middle of nowhere. It is near a major highway that will have thousands of cars driving passed it next weekend. The middle of nowhere is about 600k north of here (northern Saskatchewan, look up Black Lake or Stony Rapids on a map) and cell phones most certainly do not work from there. Neither does 911 for that matter.
You should take a look at LyX (www.lyx.org) you'll find it included with many Linux distros and it is the best little piece of software I have ever tried. It has great support for formulas and the quality of the documents it produces makes you look like a genius. It does require a slight paradigm shift on how you think about word processing (it's a document processor) but in about thirty minutes with the tutorial you'll never want to use a 'word processor' again.Highly recommended.
Next time you post a joke you should try a funny one, like:
Two Nuns walked into a bar. "Ouch".
Last year at Texas Motor Speedway the Champ (CART) car race was cancelled due to concerns over excessive G-force. They were very concerned that someone might experience G-LOC. A car that is capable of 2Gs lateral acceleration on a flat surface can generate more than that on a banked oval for quite a sustained period, although the forces become less lateral and more vertical. I've heard that Top Fuel Dragsters pull around 6 Gs while accelerating.
I worked at a remote sensing facility and we were receiving shipment of our first Honeywell Digital recorder. These things were huge and ran about a quarter mill for cost.
The truck driver backed his truck up to our door and while six geeks were trying to figure out how to get this 900lb crate out of the truck the driver said "just push it back towards me, I'll lift it out".
"How the hell are you going to do that" I asked.
"Technique" he said and then lowered the entire crate to the floor by himself. We were all quite taken aback. I still talk about that story.
Religion is simply the worship of one or more dieties. Atheists don't believe in dieties. Atheism is not a religion.
(I hope I didn't go too quickly.)
Consider very briefly some facts about myself. I have never really had a bad experience with religion. I cannot prove that something doesn't exist. I control my own mind and have never owned a religion. I think that some people are evil, but that a simple idea, such as religion, cannot be evil. I have met evil people who were religous and have met very good people who were religous. I tend to blame, or praise the individual rather than some silly idea they might cling to.
You can't build your own UFO as you'll know what it is.
UFO == Unidentified Flying Object
If you know what it is then it would be an Identified Flying Object.
Last week, during the autospy of a dead hockey player, they pulled his dental plate from his mouth. While many hockey players have plates none are stupid enough to play while wearing it.