O
Omni
"Seth" wrote in message
It might be not enough and too late for some customers ...-
B
Bucky Breeder
Microsoft certainly has the "TBTF" (Too Big To Fail) mindset...
They venture to come up with a paid upgrade to Windows 8.1 instead of a
service pack for Windows 8, and they are fixing to see a veritable
explosion of viable, meaningful, end-user-friendly competition which will
start the nail-gunning process to their proverbial coffin. <word>
The advantage to the current Windows 8 configuration is with touch-screens
and various mutatations away from the "standard desk top computer" with
which so many people are familar and hold great affection. It's actually
quite handy - and intuitive - on a really good touch screen. Or one of
those floor-mounted hologram units that many of us 1-Percent'ers have in
our media rooms. Committing the library of hand/arm gestures to memory is
not such a terrible burden...
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xfile
It's doomed to happen and just Vista all over again. Either MS change or
they die. Period.
It never ceases to amaze me how people are proud of using/buying a 3rd
party utility after buying/installing a new OS just to get back to how
things used to be.
After twenty-some years of computer evolution, techies and fanbois still
don't get the idea about productivity and the cost of learning curve. (sad)
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The Other Guy
HOW do you know that??
To reply by email, lose the Ks...
A
Ashton Crusher
Anyone besides me remember HAL? Human Access Language add-in for MS
Excel waaay back in the early days.
Provided a menu bar where you could type in "Make ColA numbers" and it
would convert all the alpha-numeric's in Col A to numbers(Values). You
could type in "Add Col A to Col B then divide that result by Col F and
put in Col G" or "Print A1 thru G33" and other stuff like that. It
made my use of Excel much easier but I must have been the only one who
bought a copy as it never made it thru the next upgrade of Excel.
B
Bucky Breeder
Snipped the context didja? That prolly don't happen much.
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Daniel47
(PeteCresswell) wrote:
If I have a pocket full of coins, I'll often do this as well! On at
least one occasion, with older style till's I think, I've been given
change of $0.77 plus $1.23. Seems some people don't really look at what
is going on!
On a Mathematical bent, between 1985 and 1995, I was an Electronics
teacher at an Australian Army Trade School, and, at one time I was
teaching a Circuit Analysis subject dealing with
Thevinin's/Norton/Kirchoff's/Etc. Theromyns.
At one time, having finished "teaching" the subject, I was drawing up
circuits on the "blackboard" for the students to solve. One that I drew
up had six interconnected circuit loops, requiring six simultaneous
equations to solve! Didn't take me long to realise that I had no idea
how to solve six simultaneous equations, let alone for the students to
manage anything.
Not a problem .... I went off to the General Education section and got
one of the Education Corps Captains to come over and help me/us out. So
he started working his way through the six equations, multiplying one
equation so that one of the numbers would be equal to a figure in
another equation, which allowed substitution and "normal" simultaneous
equations processes, again and again and again.
I was standing at the back of the room, helping out with the divisions
in the sum, e.g. it might have needed 2 and 1/3 divided by 1 and 3/4,
and I would call out 1 and 1/3.
As the equations were sorted out, the numbers got nastier and nastier,
maybe 7 and 11/16 divided by 3 and 7/8 and I'd call out 1 and 51/62.
Wasn't long before most of the class had turned around looking at me do
all this *mental* arithmetic.
Ahh!! The good old days!! Made me remember to pre-prepare any problems I
set the students
Any body remember "Four Figure Log books"??
(Hope my maths is right!!)
Daniel
(catching up on some old/unread threads)
If I have a pocket full of coins, I'll often do this as well! On at
least one occasion, with older style till's I think, I've been given
change of $0.77 plus $1.23. Seems some people don't really look at what
is going on!
On a Mathematical bent, between 1985 and 1995, I was an Electronics
teacher at an Australian Army Trade School, and, at one time I was
teaching a Circuit Analysis subject dealing with
Thevinin's/Norton/Kirchoff's/Etc. Theromyns.
At one time, having finished "teaching" the subject, I was drawing up
circuits on the "blackboard" for the students to solve. One that I drew
up had six interconnected circuit loops, requiring six simultaneous
equations to solve! Didn't take me long to realise that I had no idea
how to solve six simultaneous equations, let alone for the students to
manage anything.
Not a problem .... I went off to the General Education section and got
one of the Education Corps Captains to come over and help me/us out. So
he started working his way through the six equations, multiplying one
equation so that one of the numbers would be equal to a figure in
another equation, which allowed substitution and "normal" simultaneous
equations processes, again and again and again.
I was standing at the back of the room, helping out with the divisions
in the sum, e.g. it might have needed 2 and 1/3 divided by 1 and 3/4,
and I would call out 1 and 1/3.
As the equations were sorted out, the numbers got nastier and nastier,
maybe 7 and 11/16 divided by 3 and 7/8 and I'd call out 1 and 51/62.
Wasn't long before most of the class had turned around looking at me do
all this *mental* arithmetic.
Ahh!! The good old days!! Made me remember to pre-prepare any problems I
set the students
Any body remember "Four Figure Log books"??
(Hope my maths is right!!)
Daniel
D
Daniel47
Larry__Weiss wrote:
Although you didn't ask, Larry, here in Australia, the Tax year is 1
July to 30 June.
People then have until 31 Oct to lodge their Personal Income Tax docs,
either on-line or via post. If they use a Tax Accountant, they have
until 31 May following year.
Companies may have to submit returns each quarter or month, depending on
size, with any monies forwarded/credited by the end of the next month.
FYI
Daniel
(Catching up on old posts)
Although you didn't ask, Larry, here in Australia, the Tax year is 1
July to 30 June.
People then have until 31 Oct to lodge their Personal Income Tax docs,
either on-line or via post. If they use a Tax Accountant, they have
until 31 May following year.
Companies may have to submit returns each quarter or month, depending on
size, with any monies forwarded/credited by the end of the next month.
FYI
Daniel
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Wolf K
[snip entertaining story]
printing. It gives 6 decimal places for logs and for trig functions.
Why do I have this book? Because it was cheap. It has a leatherette
cover, and gilded page edges. Wonderful paper, not a sign of browning
after 105 years! A B . J. Crest owned it before me.
;-)
I have before me Shunk's "The Field Engineer", 9th edition, 1908
printing. It gives 6 decimal places for logs and for trig functions.
Why do I have this book? Because it was cheap. It has a leatherette
cover, and gilded page edges. Wonderful paper, not a sign of browning
after 105 years! A B . J. Crest owned it before me.
;-)
R
R. C. White
Hi, Daniel.
(3 * 8 = 24 + 7 = 31) * 2 = 62/16
123 - 62 = 61
So you should have said 1 and 61/62.
If MY math is right. ;^}
(Win8's Calculator says 123 / 62 = 1.983870967741935.)
RC
--
R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
(e-mail address removed)
Microsoft Windows MVP (2002-2010)
Windows Live Mail 2012 (Build 16.4.3508.0205) in Win8 Pro
"(e-mail address removed)" wrote in message
(PeteCresswell) wrote:
If I have a pocket full of coins, I'll often do this as well! On at
least one occasion, with older style till's I think, I've been given
change of $0.77 plus $1.23. Seems some people don't really look at what
is going on!
On a Mathematical bent, between 1985 and 1995, I was an Electronics
teacher at an Australian Army Trade School, and, at one time I was
teaching a Circuit Analysis subject dealing with
Thevinin's/Norton/Kirchoff's/Etc. Theromyns.
At one time, having finished "teaching" the subject, I was drawing up
circuits on the "blackboard" for the students to solve. One that I drew
up had six interconnected circuit loops, requiring six simultaneous
equations to solve! Didn't take me long to realise that I had no idea
how to solve six simultaneous equations, let alone for the students to
manage anything.
Not a problem .... I went off to the General Education section and got
one of the Education Corps Captains to come over and help me/us out. So
he started working his way through the six equations, multiplying one
equation so that one of the numbers would be equal to a figure in
another equation, which allowed substitution and "normal" simultaneous
equations processes, again and again and again.
I was standing at the back of the room, helping out with the divisions
in the sum, e.g. it might have needed 2 and 1/3 divided by 1 and 3/4,
and I would call out 1 and 1/3.
As the equations were sorted out, the numbers got nastier and nastier,
maybe 7 and 11/16 divided by 3 and 7/8 and I'd call out 1 and 51/62.
Wasn't long before most of the class had turned around looking at me do
all this *mental* arithmetic.
Ahh!! The good old days!! Made me remember to pre-prepare any problems I
set the students
Any body remember "Four Figure Log books"??
(Hope my maths is right!!)
Daniel
7 * 16 = 112 + 11 = 123/16
(3 * 8 = 24 + 7 = 31) * 2 = 62/16
123 - 62 = 61
So you should have said 1 and 61/62.
If MY math is right. ;^}
(Win8's Calculator says 123 / 62 = 1.983870967741935.)
RC
--
R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
(e-mail address removed)
Microsoft Windows MVP (2002-2010)
Windows Live Mail 2012 (Build 16.4.3508.0205) in Win8 Pro
"(e-mail address removed)" wrote in message
(PeteCresswell) wrote:
(catching up on some old/unread threads)
If I have a pocket full of coins, I'll often do this as well! On at
least one occasion, with older style till's I think, I've been given
change of $0.77 plus $1.23. Seems some people don't really look at what
is going on!
On a Mathematical bent, between 1985 and 1995, I was an Electronics
teacher at an Australian Army Trade School, and, at one time I was
teaching a Circuit Analysis subject dealing with
Thevinin's/Norton/Kirchoff's/Etc. Theromyns.
At one time, having finished "teaching" the subject, I was drawing up
circuits on the "blackboard" for the students to solve. One that I drew
up had six interconnected circuit loops, requiring six simultaneous
equations to solve! Didn't take me long to realise that I had no idea
how to solve six simultaneous equations, let alone for the students to
manage anything.
Not a problem .... I went off to the General Education section and got
one of the Education Corps Captains to come over and help me/us out. So
he started working his way through the six equations, multiplying one
equation so that one of the numbers would be equal to a figure in
another equation, which allowed substitution and "normal" simultaneous
equations processes, again and again and again.
I was standing at the back of the room, helping out with the divisions
in the sum, e.g. it might have needed 2 and 1/3 divided by 1 and 3/4,
and I would call out 1 and 1/3.
As the equations were sorted out, the numbers got nastier and nastier,
maybe 7 and 11/16 divided by 3 and 7/8 and I'd call out 1 and 51/62.
Wasn't long before most of the class had turned around looking at me do
all this *mental* arithmetic.
Ahh!! The good old days!! Made me remember to pre-prepare any problems I
set the students
Any body remember "Four Figure Log books"??
(Hope my maths is right!!)
Daniel
W
...winston
+1R. C. White said:
984/496 = 123/62 = 1 and 61/62
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Daniel47
Bugger!R. C. White said:
So I got the 7 x 6 correct but mucked up the 7 x 10!! Bugger!!
C
Char Jackson
Does 'Merkin' have another definition besides pubic wig?Gene said:Sorry, I don't speak English[1].In message <[email protected]>, Gene E. Bloch
On Wed, 17 Apr 2013 19:18:05 +0100, John Williamson wrote:
I had the micturation extracted when I built my own calculator from a
set of chips on a home etched PCB while I was at college.
I have trouble understanding that sentence.
AFAICT, micturation means a desire or need to urinate.
Any assistance will be welcome
=> "Taking the mickey" ...
Fortunately, Google does,or at least knows someone who does.
Thanks for the clarification (and it was a clarification, thanks to
Google's buddy, http://www.phrases.org.uk).We'uns talk Merkin.[1] Although I *do* speak a vaguely related language
Z
Zaphod Beeblebrox
Slang in some circles for "American", intended to mimic the slurredDoes 'Merkin' have another definition besides pubic wig?Gene said:On Wed, 17 Apr 2013 23:10:27 +0100, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
In message <[email protected]>, Gene E. Bloch
On Wed, 17 Apr 2013 19:18:05 +0100, John Williamson wrote:
I had the micturation extracted when I built my own calculator from a
set of chips on a home etched PCB while I was at college.
I have trouble understanding that sentence.
AFAICT, micturation means a desire or need to urinate.
Any assistance will be welcome
=> "Taking the mickey" ...
Sorry, I don't speak English[1].
Fortunately, Google does,or at least knows someone who does.
Thanks for the clarification (and it was a clarification, thanks to
Google's buddy, http://www.phrases.org.uk).We'uns talk Merkin.[1] Although I *do* speak a vaguely related language
pronunciation of a presumably less literate speaker.
C
Char Jackson
Oh, those Yanks and their language. ;-)