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(...) Is that something that gets promised in the SLA?* ;) Allan B. *Service Level Agreement - a term that gets bandied about in our offices... especially when something's gone down and someone needs to point a finger. (22 years ago, 18-Dec-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) True. I just wanted to call attention to this stuff in case someone had the sense that things were supposed to look better but for some seemingly unknown reason they did not look better -- and without tweaking they will not come to look better (...) (22 years ago, 17-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) [snip] Or: 1. Install Mozilla 2. Never use IE again. (22 years ago, 17-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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It occurs to me that many people are probably using IE 6 by now; at the same time most people are likely unaware of some weird and poorly chosen default settings in the browser. Now this may seem off-topic, and I have set followups accordingly, but (...) (22 years ago, 16-Dec-02, to lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I don't recall any movie stating, "And it has N decks," but I do admit I'm trying my hardest to forget Insurrection. Okay, not quite my hardest; people keep telling me there was a movie between _The Voyage Home_ and _The Undiscovered (...) (22 years ago, 16-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) The Remans ARE mutated Romulans, more or less. They're the brother race to the Romulans. You know, Romulus and Remus, that whole bit...? Maybe I don't get what you're saying. -Stefan- (22 years ago, 15-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.space)
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(...) Well... other then the fact the Enterprise-E has 24 decks, not 29/30... it was good. :) It could have lost the whole Shinzon/Picard connection, kept the Remans (Do these look like mutated Romulans to anyone else?) and Romulans, and the (...) (22 years ago, 15-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.space)
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(...) Geeky?!?! Die by my Bat'leth! :^) (...) Agreed. That was an awesome sequence. I especially loved how the ships were firing those volleys out. And they FINALLY acknoweledge the fact that those ships only have so many torpedoes! (...) The (...) (22 years ago, 14-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.space)
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I'd like to disregard this movie's many faults and talk about some of it's cooler aspects in regards to .space (.geek included cuz, well, trek=geek) If there is one thing that stuck with me after I left the theater, it was how graceful the Romulan (...) (22 years ago, 14-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.space)
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(...) I think we should be ashamed. My only ray of hope is that someday there will be a gameshow where this information could be useful or profitable. In the Wizard issue this month there's a 80's toy trivia article. I scored way above the editors (...) (22 years ago, 14-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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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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(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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(...) 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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