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Posted on 02/27/2007 4:07:28 PM PST by PATRICKHENRY REPUBLIC
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To: sionnsar
"Superscripts are often (not always) rendered in a smaller font."
I am typing on a 1970 IBM Selectric Composer and can't figure out how to create superscript.
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posted on
03/15/2007 6:21:26 PM PDT
by
NicknamedBob
(I know where I have gone wrong, and I can cite it, chapter and verse.)
To: NicknamedBob
It's true that New Years would constitute a problem, what with the normal weekday pattern being interrupted by a Friday, Saturday, World Day, Sunday, Monday pattern. Believe me, this is a problem. Come Sunday, an awful lot of "devices" are going to think it's Monday and act accordingly.
And every four years, that would be even further confused by a Friday, Saturday, World Day, Peace Day, Sunday, Monday pattern to accommodate leap year.
Even worse. On "Peace Day" and "Sunday," a lot of devices (and buildings) are going to be on weekday behavior, and remain on that throughout the year, at least until corrected. (Think strip malls...)
If you consider it, this is actually less intrusive than the twice annual change of our clocks for Daylight Savings Time, (Not that that would go away, but that's another issue).
Actually not. An uncorrected DST deprives one of the advantage of "optimum start" (getting the building to "comfort" temperatures at the time when occupants are expected to arrive), but the effects of applying "presumed unoccupied" on normal weekdays are much more significant (not to mention "optimally starting" workspaces on weekends). In most cases today it only affects comfort, but in the near future it will affect energy consumption and pricing considerably.
A change such as this needs to be well advertised years in advance, just like (or better than) the impending demise of your common analog TV (sets) in.. what.. two years?
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posted on
03/15/2007 6:32:35 PM PDT
by
sionnsar
(†trad-anglican.faithweb.com†|Iran Azadi| 5yst3m 0wn3d - it's N0t Y0ur5 (SONY) | UN: Useless Nations)
To: sionnsar
The year 2006 started on a Sunday. It would have been a good place to start.
We needn't wait for the rest of the world. They'll never agree anyway.
I agree, some programming changes would be needed. It shouldn't be insurmountable.
The real question is whether any advantages would accrue. While it would be more logical, and easier to remember, that is true of the Metric System too, and yet it has its objectors for some obscure reason.
My dear wife is an example. She doesn't want to adapt to the Metric System.
"What system do we have now?" I asked her.
"I don't know, but I don't want to change from it."
She has no idea how many feet there are in a mile, or how to even figure out how many pints are in a gallon, but she likes it.
2,243
posted on
03/15/2007 6:43:27 PM PDT
by
NicknamedBob
(I know where I have gone wrong, and I can cite it, chapter and verse.)
To: NicknamedBob; sionnsar
He's just Rather to me.
2,244
posted on
03/15/2007 8:28:32 PM PDT
by
rottndog
(Well, the Ides of March are come,...........Ay, they are come, but they are not gone...)
Machines are now asleep....I will be soon to follow....
Do Robots Dream Of Electric Sheep?
2,245
posted on
03/15/2007 10:05:44 PM PDT
by
rottndog
(Well, the Ides of March are come,...........Ay, they are come, but they are not gone...)
To: All
2,246
posted on
03/16/2007 9:26:14 AM PDT
by
rottndog
(Well, the Ides of March are come,...........Ay, they are come, but they are not gone...)
To: rottndog
2,247
posted on
03/16/2007 9:35:27 AM PDT
by
sionnsar
(†trad-anglican.faithweb.com†|Iran Azadi| 5yst3m 0wn3d - it's N0t Y0ur5 (SONY) | UN: Useless Nations)
To: Monkey Face; rottndog; Peanut Gallery; Professional Engineer; Soaring Feather; GrammaBear; ...
St. Urho's Day ping!
2,248
posted on
03/16/2007 9:37:56 AM PDT
by
sionnsar
(†trad-anglican.faithweb.com†|Iran Azadi| 5yst3m 0wn3d - it's N0t Y0ur5 (SONY) | UN: Useless Nations)
To: sionnsar; Monkey Face
To: sionnsar
A giant grasshopper shaped war hammer?
Ingenious!
2,250
posted on
03/16/2007 9:48:25 AM PDT
by
Darksheare
(She had the face of a trucker. She used it as a purse.)
To: Soaring Feather; sionnsar
Happy St. Urho's Day to both of you!
I think this occasion calls for a nap :-).
2,251
posted on
03/16/2007 9:48:55 AM PDT
by
Tax-chick
(John Edwards is a gamma male. "Yeah, buddy, that's his own hair!")
To: sionnsar
WHOA!
With pointy-toed boots, too!
2,252
posted on
03/16/2007 9:51:47 AM PDT
by
Monkey Face
(I can resist anything but temptation.)
To: Soaring Feather; Tax-chick
Agreed. Unfortunately I am at work.
2,253
posted on
03/16/2007 9:54:12 AM PDT
by
sionnsar
(†trad-anglican.faithweb.com†|Iran Azadi| 5yst3m 0wn3d - it's N0t Y0ur5 (SONY) | UN: Useless Nations)
To: Tax-chick
I would take a nap but I have to go out for errands. Gotta get some food in here, storm is coming.
To: sionnsar
Well Happy St. Urho's Day!
(dip that grasshopper in some chocolate, and I'm up for that!)
2,255
posted on
03/16/2007 10:17:22 AM PDT
by
rottndog
(Well, the Ides of March are come,...........Ay, they are come, but they are not gone...)
To: rottndog
Take a big fondue pot for THAT grasshoppper...
2,256
posted on
03/16/2007 10:42:47 AM PDT
by
sionnsar
(†trad-anglican.faithweb.com†|Iran Azadi| 5yst3m 0wn3d - it's N0t Y0ur5 (SONY) | UN: Useless Nations)
To: sionnsar
2,257
posted on
03/16/2007 10:48:03 AM PDT
by
fanfan
("We don't start fights my friends, but we finish them, and never leave until our work is done."PMSH)
To: sionnsar
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posted on
03/16/2007 10:49:01 AM PDT
by
JRios1968
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To: sionnsar
Only one more day....
until patron saint of Engineer's day.
To: Professional Engineer
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posted on
03/16/2007 11:02:24 AM PDT
by
JRios1968
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