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(...) Doh! I saw that function, but I thought if was Excel's abbreviated way of calling me ASINine. Thanks--I'll give it a try. Dave! (22 years ago, 13-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Try asin() (short for arcsine the name commonly used for inverse sine function) HTH ROSCO (22 years ago, 13-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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As I've previously (and repeatedly) confessed, my knowledge of math is sketchy and, shall we say, somewhat organic. I have almost no recollection of many of the processes I briefly used fifteen years ago and not at all since. Well, until now. Using (...) (22 years ago, 13-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Geek trivia help?
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(snip) (...) Oh yeah! (...) Totally forgot about this. I don't know whether to be ashamed or glad ;) (...) These guys were priceless...Tung Lashor and Rattlor. Ah the good ol days. Cheers, -G (22 years ago, 10-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) You took the words right out of my mouth. Good memory. Except, it wasn't Scorpina it was Pythona. Golobulus was the one who was half snake, during most of the movie he rides in a big ball shaped pod, but at the end when he is fighting Falcon, (...) (22 years ago, 10-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Embarassingly, I believe I know the answer to both of these. Yep... under the command of Hordac, The Horde was the collective name for the group of bad guys that harrassed She-Ra (He-Man's sister) in the land of Etheria. Originally the mentor of (...) (22 years ago, 9-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Skeletor and the "Evil Horde"... As far as GI Joe, Cobra was the bad guy, but I don't remember a guy that was 1/2 snake (or at least, i don't remember his name)... Couldn't cobra turn into a snake? Jennifer Quoting Dave Schuler <orrex@excite.com>: (...) (22 years ago, 9-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Like any good geek, I ordinarily have a pretty good memory for worthless pop-culture trivia, but I'm drawing a blank. Therefore I call upon my geek cronies to help me with this vital issue: During the 80's, I believe, some cartoon or comic book or (...) (22 years ago, 9-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Curatorship
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(...) Hmmm, for .geek you need the Slashdot. (URL) And perhaps that Babelfish site from altavista, easy url to remember though. www.techtv.com and www.cnet.com are good places to geek-out. www.fileplanet.com for all your geek game needs. I also have (...) (22 years ago, 8-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | For everyone who forwards email...or receives too much forwarded email
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(URL) heard what the little guy said... -Tim (22 years ago, 7-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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I've taken on curatorship of .geek and .fun Send me your (geeky/funny respectively) suggestions for resources I should add.... thanks! (22 years ago, 7-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: New FireFly tonight
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(...) Yeah... Toto, we aren't in Kansas anymore... This isn't another 'feel-good' ST clone--and it was darker than most B5 eps. there was violence, lesbianism, torture and other stuff all around... Great ep.! Dave K. (22 years ago, 7-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Just thought I'd mention it :) Julie (22 years ago, 7-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Keep those 4.5volt trains alive!
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(...) Good point Chris, I already have the NiCads so I am being kind to the environment by continuing to use them. :-)! I think NiMh are a nominal 1.2volts like the NiCads. I would think that any of the available rechargeable would be ok as I doubt (...) (22 years ago, 5-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I'll ask Don Marti (the new Editor in Chief) about that tonight when I see him. He's also the president of my local LUG (that's LINUX user's group) which happens to be meeting tonight (www.svlug.org) I wonder whose LEGO minifigs those are on (...) (22 years ago, 4-Dec-02, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Does anyone own this game by any chance? The company that made it has gone bust, and I'm having fierce trouble getting it to work.... Thanx, Duq (22 years ago, 29-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) In a very real sense, it *is* the same platform. (22 years ago, 26-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) but it's not a port! winex just lets you run the original windows version while booted to linux. All it does is implement (in addition to all the API calls that wine does) the directx APIs that a lot of games use. So it really is the same (...) (22 years ago, 26-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Not the same platform == not the same game. Even if it's a port. Good try though. (22 years ago, 26-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) It's fine (but not up to Photoshop's level) for functionality, but has a *terrible* UI -- bad enough that it gets in the way of getting things done. (22 years ago, 25-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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