That's fine, and I agree with you. However, a dialup user doesn't really have a choice in this matter - downloading a 2MB (or whatever it is) video clip to go to the next page is simply not practical as part of a browsing session on dialup unless you are an extraordinarily patient person.
Furthermore, is there any kind of warning [for the dialup user] that you're downloading a 2MB clip to give someone a chance to back out? Or does the page just sit there with nothing happening, so the average non-tech user just keeps hitting refresh and has no idea why this stupid ESPN page with their favourite sport stats won't load? Even with windows media player (insert you other favourite movie player) loaded and sitting there, unless you are aware that it is waiting to load an advert that is going to take some time, you won't have a choice in this matter.
That's why the rest of the world just uses Google.
Yep, and have done for a long time. BUT, recently almost everything I search for requires wading through 4+ pages of commercial sites or indexing sites or sites that just collect links or sites that redirect you to amazon. Google is becoming frustrating because all I seem to get are commercial links. Even with a stream of excluded terms, eg. buy, price, sale, etc added it doesn't seem to be helping the situation.
I like google's simple, quick, to-the-point interface but frankly the search results lately need improving.
You're hardly dealing with an ignorant anti-Word zealot here.
I never assumed I was. In fact, my comment wasn't directed at you personally - if it came across that way (and it obviously did from your response) I apologise.
Word 2002 has a "Reveal Formatting Task Pane", and if anyone who knows what they're talking about can tell me if its comperable to reveal codes I'd appreciate it, I don't have 2002.
I'm not sure why I'm really bothering to try and help after your post, but anyway. No, it's not the same as reveal codes in WP - the pane gives you all of the information for the current selection, and you can edit the 'codes' (by edit I don't mean directly like in WP, but click-the-link-in-the-pane-and-go-to-the-edit-box) , but you can't see where the codes start/finish, and you can't navigate by code like you can in WP (ie. move to the next bold tag, etc). There's a decent image of it here.
In earlier versions of Word you can get this formatting info by help->what's this? and then selecting the text. It's a little tedious to be of any real use, and it means taking your hands off the keyboard though you could assign it a shortcut if you find it usefull I guess.
no it should work in all versions. However, it will only reveal "field codes", not codes for things like bold, italics, paragraph formatting, indents, tabs, etc since you can see these on the screen.
ALT+F9 is the shortcut to turn "reveal field codes" on/off globally
Other than in certain specialised applications, I can't understand why having all of those codes on the screen is so important in word processing (which is, after all, what word processors are designed to do).
How is it that someone who so obviously doesn't understand the first technical detail of battery technology is allowed to write an article about the R&D state of the battery industry? As if this isn't enough, he then makes a sweeping statement to the effect that battery research is not happening fast enough. Of course, he gains instant credibility for using this year's buzzword "fuel cell".
1) Energy in a given space has nothing to do with exploding.
The word "exploding" is probably misleading here, but what the original poster said is still true. Any system wants to be in a state of maximum disorder, ie. entropy (2nd law of thermodynamics). If you pack a massive amount of energy into a small space, this is doing the opposite - if you can figure out how to encourage the system to go the other way, it will do so if it can.
Newtons three laws... [snip]... It's an approximation, it's good enough when it's a means to an end.
It's not just good enough, it bloody well works. Newton's three basic laws underpin most of mechanical and civil engineering. Much of the infrastructure of our society is designed and built on "approximations" which don't account for quantum/wave mechanics.
Seriously, what percentage of even the gaming community (let's not even count joe average, mum & dad or corporate users) does this actually cover? Now disclude all the writers who work for gaming/hardware review sites and are just angling for a "demo" of the latest hardware and just how many are you left with? I'm sure there are exceptions, but come on, gimme a break....
No, let's not. I know it's a pipe dream but I'd much rather see some real, proper international cooperation, and I'm sure many of the scientists working in this area would love to see this as well. With all the great minds working in this area (after all, 3 nations have individually now put humans into space) imagine what could be achieved?
foster some nationalistic pride in the US again
(bye bye karma....) This is not meant as flamebait, but I can't think of any other nation on earth that has as much nationalistic pride as the US - too much nationalistic pride in fact. By all means, be patriotic (I know I am), but when you're so patriotic that you blindly assume your way is right and won't listen to anybody else, then you have a problem.
I know this: if the Chinese lost a capsule, they'd bow their heads in homage for a moment of silence, then get to launching another one, two weeks later.
a very appropriate response IMO - what better way to show that their lives were not lost in vain than to finish the job they loved so much (nobody can tell me that anyone would put themselves through that much selection and training with so much dedication without loving the job)?
that's a bad analogy. A better analogy would be if your neighbour distributed and stored all of their food throughout all of the spare space in the fridges and freezers everybody else in the street owns.
All of sudden you care because you are paying the power bills for storing your neighbour's food (and drinks).
Computers aren't the solution, but tools to help achieve one.
I couldn't agree more. Computers are fantastic when you already know what you are doing, but - much like programmable/graphic calculators - they negate any need to understand the basic theory behind the numbers they spit out at the other end. The result is a complete blind trust in the answer "because the computer said so it must be right". Yes, I'm talking science here, but it's something I've noticed slowly happening over the last 5 or so years.
Surely the money could be better funnelled elsewhere to help these kids?
Thanks - that was it. The X-38 project was also cancelled (along with the habitation module) by NASA when the ISS budget overruns hit.
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The original plans for the ISS called for a permanent (or was it maximum - sorry don't have the info handy) crew of 7 once the ISS was finished. However, until the habitation module was built it would be limited to a crew of three (like it is now). NASA/US govt cancelled the habitation module during the budget overruns/cuts problems a year or so ago so the permanent crew is now three.
I'm not sure what the standy safety measures were for a crew of 7 - I seem to remember multiple Soyuz, but I'm really not sure. Hopefully someone else can fill in the blanks.
A 486 was one of them magic computers which finally allowed you to play civilization with all the computer players turned on and not have to wait at least 30 minutes for your turn to come around once you got past 1900AD. ah I remember the days...
Utterly brilliant post mate. Echoes my thoughts and dreams perfectly. And having been lucky enough to chat with an astronaut (Andy Thomas) myself I'm pretty sure it's the reason most of them got into that gig as well. I hope you make it.
Couldn't agree more, but let's be realistic here - it ain't gonna happen because the politicians and lawyers will get involved. I'm sure the scientists, technicians and engineers would absolutely love this kind of global cooperation, but sadly it will never happen.
clip art was nothing compared to watching every bullet point flying in from all sides of the screen or flashing on and off or dimming or dissolving or... having to listen to the constant mouse clicking/pgdn because someone has just discovered the animation feature.
Not to mention the fairly fundamental and kind-of-related question: "Can it be worn in the rain?" (or snow) because if the answer to that is no, it might be an idea to go back to the drawing board.
Also, how will all these clothes be cleaned?
A very valid question considering the cleanliness of the type of people most likely to be attracted to these clothes;-)
Best would be to immediately begin work on an elevator. Current best estimates say that an elevator could be built in about ten years, with a budget of six billion.
I'm sorry, but let's come back to the real world. The space elevator is a great idea, but there is no way in hell one will be built in 10 years, let alone 20. The tech (materials) doesn't even exist to build it at the moment, yet you not only have a timetable but a budget estimate as well???
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Then don't go to their websites.
That's fine, and I agree with you. However, a dialup user doesn't really have a choice in this matter - downloading a 2MB (or whatever it is) video clip to go to the next page is simply not practical as part of a browsing session on dialup unless you are an extraordinarily patient person.
Furthermore, is there any kind of warning [for the dialup user] that you're downloading a 2MB clip to give someone a chance to back out? Or does the page just sit there with nothing happening, so the average non-tech user just keeps hitting refresh and has no idea why this stupid ESPN page with their favourite sport stats won't load? Even with windows media player (insert you other favourite movie player) loaded and sitting there, unless you are aware that it is waiting to load an advert that is going to take some time, you won't have a choice in this matter.
That's why the rest of the world just uses Google.
Yep, and have done for a long time. BUT, recently almost everything I search for requires wading through 4+ pages of commercial sites or indexing sites or sites that just collect links or sites that redirect you to amazon. Google is becoming frustrating because all I seem to get are commercial links. Even with a stream of excluded terms, eg. buy, price, sale, etc added it doesn't seem to be helping the situation.
I like google's simple, quick, to-the-point interface but frankly the search results lately need improving.
You're hardly dealing with an ignorant anti-Word zealot here.
) , but you can't see where the codes start/finish, and you can't navigate by code like you can in WP (ie. move to the next bold tag, etc). There's a decent image of it here.
I never assumed I was. In fact, my comment wasn't directed at you personally - if it came across that way (and it obviously did from your response) I apologise.
Word 2002 has a "Reveal Formatting Task Pane", and if anyone who knows what they're talking about can tell me if its comperable to reveal codes I'd appreciate it, I don't have 2002.
I'm not sure why I'm really bothering to try and help after your post, but anyway. No, it's not the same as reveal codes in WP - the pane gives you all of the information for the current selection, and you can edit the 'codes' (by edit I don't mean directly like in WP, but click-the-link-in-the-pane-and-go-to-the-edit-box
In earlier versions of Word you can get this formatting info by help->what's this? and then selecting the text. It's a little tedious to be of any real use, and it means taking your hands off the keyboard though you could assign it a shortcut if you find it usefull I guess.
no it should work in all versions. However, it will only reveal "field codes", not codes for things like bold, italics, paragraph formatting, indents, tabs, etc since you can see these on the screen.
ALT+F9 is the shortcut to turn "reveal field codes" on/off globally
Other than in certain specialised applications, I can't understand why having all of those codes on the screen is so important in word processing (which is, after all, what word processors are designed to do).
please tell me where the Word reveal codes command is
Tools -> options -> "view" tab -> reveal codes
That's the global setting, if you just want to reveal a particular code (or only for part of a document), select and use shift+F9
http://www.mvps.org/word is a great resource for anyone who wants to learn to use Word more effectively.
I know this is unlikely to get me anything other than slated on slashdot, but if you take the time to learn to use it, Word is actually very powerful.
amen brother, amen. RPN forever!
Perhaps you should have read the article.
normally yes, but in this case, trust me - you are much better off not reading the article. That was 10 minutes of my life I'll never get back.
How is it that someone who so obviously doesn't understand the first technical detail of battery technology is allowed to write an article about the R&D state of the battery industry? As if this isn't enough, he then makes a sweeping statement to the effect that battery research is not happening fast enough. Of course, he gains instant credibility for using this year's buzzword "fuel cell".
1) Energy in a given space has nothing to do with exploding.
The word "exploding" is probably misleading here, but what the original poster said is still true. Any system wants to be in a state of maximum disorder, ie. entropy (2nd law of thermodynamics). If you pack a massive amount of energy into a small space, this is doing the opposite - if you can figure out how to encourage the system to go the other way, it will do so if it can.
I call fake. It wasn't written in ALL CAPS.
He obviously would have benefitted from attending the 3rd Annual Nigerian Email Conference
Newtons three laws ... [snip] ... It's an approximation, it's good enough when it's a means to an end.
It's not just good enough, it bloody well works. Newton's three basic laws underpin most of mechanical and civil engineering. Much of the infrastructure of our society is designed and built on "approximations" which don't account for quantum/wave mechanics.
no-budget, but don't waste money
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Seriously, what percentage of even the gaming community (let's not even count joe average, mum & dad or corporate users) does this actually cover? Now disclude all the writers who work for gaming/hardware review sites and are just angling for a "demo" of the latest hardware and just how many are you left with? I'm sure there are exceptions, but come on, gimme a break
Kudos to the Chinese.
....) This is not meant as flamebait, but I can't think of any other nation on earth that has as much nationalistic pride as the US - too much nationalistic pride in fact. By all means, be patriotic (I know I am), but when you're so patriotic that you blindly assume your way is right and won't listen to anybody else, then you have a problem.
Absolutely, couldn't agree more.
Let's get another Space Race started.
No, let's not. I know it's a pipe dream but I'd much rather see some real, proper international cooperation, and I'm sure many of the scientists working in this area would love to see this as well. With all the great minds working in this area (after all, 3 nations have individually now put humans into space) imagine what could be achieved?
foster some nationalistic pride in the US again
(bye bye karma
I know this: if the Chinese lost a capsule, they'd bow their heads in homage for a moment of silence, then get to launching another one, two weeks later.
a very appropriate response IMO - what better way to show that their lives were not lost in vain than to finish the job they loved so much (nobody can tell me that anyone would put themselves through that much selection and training with so much dedication without loving the job)?
that's a bad analogy. A better analogy would be if your neighbour distributed and stored all of their food throughout all of the spare space in the fridges and freezers everybody else in the street owns.
All of sudden you care because you are paying the power bills for storing your neighbour's food (and drinks).
Computers aren't the solution, but tools to help achieve one.
I couldn't agree more. Computers are fantastic when you already know what you are doing, but - much like programmable/graphic calculators - they negate any need to understand the basic theory behind the numbers they spit out at the other end. The result is a complete blind trust in the answer "because the computer said so it must be right". Yes, I'm talking science here, but it's something I've noticed slowly happening over the last 5 or so years.
Surely the money could be better funnelled elsewhere to help these kids?
Thanks - that was it. The X-38 project was also cancelled (along with the habitation module) by NASA when the ISS budget overruns hit.
The original plans for the ISS called for a permanent (or was it maximum - sorry don't have the info handy) crew of 7 once the ISS was finished. However, until the habitation module was built it would be limited to a crew of three (like it is now). NASA/US govt cancelled the habitation module during the budget overruns/cuts problems a year or so ago so the permanent crew is now three.
I'm not sure what the standy safety measures were for a crew of 7 - I seem to remember multiple Soyuz, but I'm really not sure. Hopefully someone else can fill in the blanks.
I once worked for an engineer who was very fond of quoting that, by definition, 50% of the population has an IQ below 100.
;-)
But IQ is not necessarily a good indicator of common sense or decision making ability
A 486 was one of them magic computers which finally allowed you to play civilization with all the computer players turned on and not have to wait at least 30 minutes for your turn to come around once you got past 1900AD. ah I remember the days ...
Utterly brilliant post mate. Echoes my thoughts and dreams perfectly. And having been lucky enough to chat with an astronaut (Andy Thomas) myself I'm pretty sure it's the reason most of them got into that gig as well. I hope you make it.
Couldn't agree more, but let's be realistic here - it ain't gonna happen because the politicians and lawyers will get involved. I'm sure the scientists, technicians and engineers would absolutely love this kind of global cooperation, but sadly it will never happen.
clip art was nothing compared to watching every bullet point flying in from all sides of the screen or flashing on and off or dimming or dissolving or ... having to listen to the constant mouse clicking/pgdn because someone has just discovered the animation feature.
Its amazing how much these researchers get blinders on and inflate the importance of their research. There must be a term for this.
"Research Grant Application"
Not to mention the fairly fundamental and kind-of-related question: "Can it be worn in the rain?" (or snow) because if the answer to that is no, it might be an idea to go back to the drawing board.
;-)
Also, how will all these clothes be cleaned?
A very valid question considering the cleanliness of the type of people most likely to be attracted to these clothes
Best would be to immediately begin work on an elevator. Current best estimates say that an elevator could be built in about ten years, with a budget of six billion.
I'm sorry, but let's come back to the real world. The space elevator is a great idea, but there is no way in hell one will be built in 10 years, let alone 20. The tech (materials) doesn't even exist to build it at the moment, yet you not only have a timetable but a budget estimate as well???