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Assume a weekly lottery that draws six numbers from the series 1 through 40, with no duplicates. Statistically speaking, am I better off repeatedly playing the same six numbers selecting six numbers at random each week? It seems to me that if (in a (...) (19 years ago, 21-Jun-05, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Thoughts?
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(...) Update - I don't know why this piqued my interest, but it did. Anyway, Googling for PIC16F876 and CD4066BCM brought up a couple of interesting pages. Some of the images came from (URL) this page> on DansData web site. There's also a (URL) (...) (19 years ago, 16-Jun-05, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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| | Re: Working with Excel and XML?
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"Larry Pieniazek" <lar(at@at)miltontra...t.dot)com> wrote in message news:IHx8rs.1Er8@lugnet.com... (...) contents of (...) headers) (...) XML (...) Excel XML (...) into (...) put (...) if you (...) that (...) Thanks for the suggestions. I had (...) (19 years ago, 14-Jun-05, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Working with Excel and XML?
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(...) I use Excel to generate HTML tags all the time. But I'm not using the Excel XML process myself, I am just using formulas to get the contents of tables into tagged HTML One thing that bites me somewhat regularly is the fact that Excel wants to (...) (19 years ago, 11-Jun-05, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Probably simpler to have excel save it as a CSV and use perl or somesuch to transform the CSV into XML. That's assuming the webapp couldn't be made to import the CSV directly... (19 years ago, 11-Jun-05, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Has anyone done any work with Excel and XML? I want to save the contents of an Excel worksheet (a simple table of rows and columns will column headers) in XML format so I can use it as part of a web application. The Excel XML map process is (...) (19 years ago, 11-Jun-05, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Falling thru earth revisited
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(...) Sounds right to me. Acceleration adds linearly, so when you integrate to get the velocity, you have the integral of the thrust plus the integral of the gravitational acceleration. Assuming that the change in mass of the rocket due to depleted (...) (19 years ago, 8-Jun-05, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Falling thru earth revisited
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(...) One other thing to think about is the amount of time something's been exposed to something that increases its speed. For example: Uncle Ben and Aunt Jemima have a race from point A to point B, and back to point A. Aunt Jemima stays at a (...) (19 years ago, 8-Jun-05, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Falling thru earth revisited
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'cause I've been ruminating about it.... So let's take this from the base model-- Base model ignores the following-- Rotation AIr Resistance you have the earth and a hole from where you are, going straight thru the center and right out to the other (...) (19 years ago, 8-Jun-05, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | View the movie trailer (was: Re: Firefly Fans?)
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(URL) show something that is sorta spoiler-ish, so viewer beware and/or enjoy! Julie (20 years ago, 28-Apr-05, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: password management
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(...) That's kind of what I do - except that I started now using site specific strong passwords using a pretty cool mozilla extension (which even plans for what to do when you're not on your own browser!) - https://addons.updat...php?id=469 (...) My (...) (20 years ago, 27-Apr-05, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: password management
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(...) [snip] (...) I just have 3 or 4 each of what I consider "strong" and "weak" passwords. I use a randomly selected password from the appropriate list for each site[1], and sites with "strong" passwords get changed (to another on the list) fairly (...) (20 years ago, 27-Apr-05, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I run KeePass off of a thumb drive: (URL) an encrypted database app that will store user ids, passwords, urls, notes, attachments, etc. It also features a group/category feature which allows you to organize everything. A rule based pwd (...) (20 years ago, 27-Apr-05, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) The plan sounds like Brad Edwards plan (here's the closest I can get to his website): (URL) He did a NIAC study on it, a well-written and researched one, *including* the economic aspects (something often overlooked). *IF* you can get carbon (...) (20 years ago, 27-Apr-05, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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(...) I should note, that site's content seems cribbed from the Wikipedia article on the same topic. I noticed that when I found ANOTHER site that had very similar phrasing and decided to look up (URL) Space Elevator> in the Wikipedia. Further, if (...) (20 years ago, 27-Apr-05, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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(...) I agree with all of the above, even if I still have reservations about the value of manned space exploration. (...) I just hope that it's faster than the one in my building. It would be faster to walk into orbit. Dave! (20 years ago, 27-Apr-05, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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(...) That would be cool if it comes off. Color me skeptical for now. Space Elevators are an idea that has been around since forever, and if you have the materials strength to do it, they offer the cheapest way per pound of any technology devised. (...) (20 years ago, 27-Apr-05, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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Now (URL) that's> what I call upward mobility. Dave! FUT: OT.Geek (20 years ago, 27-Apr-05, to lugnet.space, lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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| | password management
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It's time to revamp how I manage my passwords. I have a scheme now for generating different passwords for different sites but there are just too many. I did a little Google search: and came up with a few ideas generator approach: (URL) (put in the (...) (20 years ago, 27-Apr-05, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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