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(...) Whew, good thing the NSF funded that. Otherwise, we might be stuck with a shrinking universe, and who wants that? (...) See, now, if you ask me, I'd say they could have skipped that one. (22 years ago, 9-Jan-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) If I'd only known what I'd be starting! Heh. A) Yeah, good mouse tactic, but I dislike using the mouse unless I have to. B) I always forget the exact keycombo for straight to the end, thanks. C) yep. but that goes without saying. OR DOES IT? (...) (22 years ago, 9-Jan-03, to lugnet.people, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) And note that either way you select your huge chunk, you can use shift and cursor keys to adjust the end of the selection. You can also re-adjust the end with a shift mouse-click. FUT: lugnet.off-topic.geek (22 years ago, 8-Jan-03, to lugnet.people, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Lots of geeky things listed here on this US National Science Foundation page. (URL) Nifty Fifty: Innovations Driven By NSF Research Funding 1. Accelerating, Expanding Universe 2. American Sign Language Dictionary Development 3. Antarctic Ozone Hole (...) (22 years ago, 8-Jan-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) it's all relative isn't it. you could set up a thruster system to ensure that your anchor point wouldn't move, relatively. (...) yes, again, this is possible the key here is that you zig zag points stay the required distance apart. (...) this (...) (22 years ago, 29-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.space)
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(...) weight in space so we'll talk in inertia or mass. If you are a single person winching a large object such as a ship or asteroid or other large mass... then if we apply Einstein's space-time theory the object with the larger mass will move less (...) (22 years ago, 29-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.space)
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"Jon Palmer" <jon@zemi.net> skrev i meddelandet news:H7uLH0.I7r@lugnet.com... (...) the (...) This is where the force equations will hit you hard :-) The next pulley will suddenly get a great force through the line, and needs to increase it's thrust (...) (22 years ago, 28-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.space)
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(...) I'll say "sure" but with this question as a follow-up. Pulleys are usually used on Earth to gain a mechanical advantage. In space, since the object is weightless (but still has mass!) there isn't the need for the pulleys... at least as far as (...) (22 years ago, 29-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.space)
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(...) ... (...) It would be far more efficient to attach thrusters to the object being winched and move it to that location - or, if that is not possible, attach the tether line (which you've got on your object being moved) to a tow ship. Assuming (...) (22 years ago, 28-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.space)
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Imagine a winch pulling a rope or cable through a series of pulleys (horizontal) that are staked to the ground. The pulleys are arranged so that the rope makes a zig zag pattern on the ground. There is an object at one end of the cable, being reeled (...) (22 years ago, 28-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.space)
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Quoting Christopher Tracey <ctracey@enviroweb.org>: (...) I was going to let it slide, but why use anything but vim? it has a nice windows GUI, and can do anything (include fetch you a sode from the vending machine :) Dan (22 years ago, 23-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) i've done ~220 files at once... textpad does not seem to have a limit so far in every test. i've had >150,000 line files open in it with out a problem- contrast that to the 65,000 line limit in word or excel. (...) definately, one of the best (...) (22 years ago, 21-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) *drool* I'm running it under Win2k, but with only 256mb RAM. Need to upgrade... not too familiar with prices though, and it's a laptop, so bound to be pricey. I'd love to upgrade the HD too...20 GB just ain't enough for my MP3 usage ;-) I've (...) (22 years ago, 21-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) YES!!! I did this the other week for some of the castle world pages. It had never come up for me before until that occasion, but yeah -- Textpad will replace a given piece of text in all open files. I don't know if it had a limit but I had (...) (22 years ago, 20-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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David Eaton <deaton@intdata.com> schrieb in im Newsbeitrag: H7DtC2.CM3@lugnet.com... (...) with (...) wacky (...) wasn't saying batch coding is programming. the stress was meant to be on "simple" and on the mistaking batch coding for programming. (...) (22 years ago, 19-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Oh, I would usually scoff anyone who called themselves a programmer for having written batch code, but this stuff was fully fledged programming. My boss had me doing testing on a linker that was written for a DSP. It started as "maybe you (...) (22 years ago, 19-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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<snip> (...) have (...) on (...) was (...) <snip> and <sigh> oh dear, yup those were the days, writing simple batch files and people calling you a programer. my computers were organized and navigated with batch files since 92 because windows was so (...) (22 years ago, 19-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Or get PERL for Windows (URL) (22 years ago, 18-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) There may be some batch commands you can use, but I'm not sure offhand-- I used to be somewhat of a whiz with Windows NT batch (1), but it's been a while... not to mention that I know Windows 95/98 didn't have the same functionality for "for" (...) (22 years ago, 18-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) try textpad (IMO the best text editor for the win-systems). you can download a version at www.textpad.com. there is a feature in the find-replace dialog where you can replace text in mulitple files at once. -chris (22 years ago, 18-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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