Re: Engelbart and Kay --was: Back to the Future with Hypercard

2007-12-31 Thread j downs
You can buy a lot of library books for the price of a computer lab. My rural, moderately low SES (approx. 30% Free and Reduced Lunch) elementary school has a full-loaded computer lab and *ten* technology- focused regular third and fourth grade classrooms (each equipped with 16 desktop compu

Re: about the list

2007-12-31 Thread Sarah Reichelt
On Jan 1, 2008 10:06 AM, Mick Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I sent a msg to the list, which was turned down for having more than > 36000 bytes. > I counted less than 4500. Can anyone explain this to me? Did you try to send an attachment with it? Happy New year everyone :-) Sarah

about the list

2007-12-31 Thread Mick Collins
I sent a msg to the list, which was turned down for having more than 36000 bytes. I counted less than 4500. Can anyone explain this to me? ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe

Re: Recipes application

2007-12-31 Thread Randy Hengst
Peter, My experience is the same as Bill's. Mac, PowerBook G4, 10.4.10. take care, randy - On Dec 31, 2007, at 2:17 PM, Bill Vlahos wrote: Peter, I downloaded the Mac version but it doesn't launch on an Intel Mac with Leopard. It starts to open and then nothing happens. Bill On Dec

Re: Engelbart and Kay --was: Back to the Future with Hypercard

2007-12-31 Thread SimPLsol
You can buy a lot of library books for the price of a computer lab. Paul Looney ** See AOL's top rated recipes (http://food.aol.com/top-rated-recipes?NCID=aoltop000304) ___ use-revolution mailing list use-rev

Re: Engelbart and Kay --was: Back to the Future with Hypercard

2007-12-31 Thread Jim Ault
On 12/31/07 1:14 PM, "j downs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If all you want to do is sell Rev to that small niche (perhaps even > smaller than the potential niche of the ed market!) of savvy > programmers who aren't afraid to use something other than the > commonly-accepted programming languages o

RE: the char number of char 1 of word x

2007-12-31 Thread Randall Lee Reetz
Wait a min bill. There was confusion on this list because i was trying to describe something that doesnt exist... If it existed there would be a standard, and unique way to script it (not confusing to humans or the interpreter). -Original Message- From: "Bill Marriott" <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: OT: One Customer's Experience with her Computer's Warranty

2007-12-31 Thread Bill Marriott
Here's an even better one for you: A year ago when Microsoft was trying to get people into its new Expression line of software, they held events around the country showing off the product. I attended one; every presenter was using a Macbook or MacBook Pro, even the blue-badge Microsofties. If yo

Re: the char number of char 1 of word x

2007-12-31 Thread Bill Marriott
Hi Randall, Each new release of Revolution brings enhancements to the xTalk language. In Revolution 2.9 Beta 9, we introduced the new terms "begins with" and "ends with" for string comparisons, for example. Looking forward, we hope to consider columns in tabular data as a chunk. Whether we add

Re: OT: One Customer's Experience with her Computer's Warranty

2007-12-31 Thread Neal Campbell K3NC
They say (somewhere and its quoted in a Mac TV ad) that the Macbooks are the fastest laptops running windows right now. The only thing bootcamp really does is setup the proper boot loader and provides drivers to access the machine's hardware so outside of things like mapping the Mac keyboar

Re: OT: One Customer's Experience with her Computer's Warranty

2007-12-31 Thread j downs
1 Year... and she's had it for 3 months. Moral: Never Use Windows. Personally, I'd be calling Gateway four times per day until they replaced the machine. It clearly meets the textbook definition of defective. J. ___ use-revolution mailing list

Re: OT: One Customer's Experience with her Computer's Warranty

2007-12-31 Thread Derek Bump
1 Year... and she's had it for 3 months. Derek Bump Dreamscape Software http://www.dreamscapesoftware.com ___ Compress your photos quickly and easily with JPEGCompress 2.9! http://www.dreamscapesoftware.com/products/jpegcompress/ j

Re: OT: One Customer's Experience with her Computer's Warranty

2007-12-31 Thread Derek Bump
I felt the same way, so I offered to put OpenOffice.org onto her computer. She's been using it (when the computer was working) and likes it much better than Office 2007. Derek Bump Dreamscape Software http://www.dreamscapesoftware.com

Re: Engelbart and Kay --was: Back to the Future with Hypercard

2007-12-31 Thread j downs
If all you want to do is sell Rev to that small niche (perhaps even smaller than the potential niche of the ed market!) of savvy programmers who aren't afraid to use something other than the commonly-accepted programming languages of C/++/#, Java etc., then fine; but if you want to open up Rev's i

Re: OT: One Customer's Experience with her Computer's Warranty

2007-12-31 Thread j downs
I feel for the customer as she purchased this "high-end" machine for business use. Vista's been nothing but problems when the computer is running, and Gateway will not refund, nor will they replace the machine. What is Gateway's length of warranty? J. ___

Re: OT: One Customer's Experience with her Computer's Warranty

2007-12-31 Thread Neal Campbell K3NC
I would consider the broken office 2007 as a blessing, its the most difficult program suite to use that I have ever seen (and this goes back to the very first versions of slackware, etc.) The ribbon interface is so much work I uninstalled it and put the old versions back on. Neal Campbel

Re: OT: One Customer's Experience with her Computer's Warranty

2007-12-31 Thread Mikey
We have two machines that we purchased with Vista pre-installed with them. The one has been a real headache. The other I'm not putting in service until we have all the issues resolved with the first. In the interim, all new machines are being ordered with XP on them (as we were probably going to

Re: Recipes application

2007-12-31 Thread Bill Vlahos
Peter, I downloaded the Mac version but it doesn't launch on an Intel Mac with Leopard. It starts to open and then nothing happens. Bill On Dec 31, 2007, at 11:59 AM, Peter Brigham wrote: FYI, I just finished up creating my first standalone (with help from a variety of people on this list

Re: Mainstack Substack clarification

2007-12-31 Thread Björnke von Gierke
On 31 Dec 2007, at 20:39, Mark Swindell wrote: I'm just clarifying for myself what happens to a stack when its Main Stack property is changed. Scenario: Main stack "YellowStack" is opened and saved. Main stack "BlueStack" is opened and saved. Now, in BlueStack's stack inspector I change it

Re: Mainstack Substack clarification

2007-12-31 Thread Mark Smith
Accurate in my experience. Best, Mark On 31 Dec 2007, at 19:39, Mark Swindell wrote: I'm just clarifying for myself what happens to a stack when its Main Stack property is changed. Scenario: Main stack "YellowStack" is opened and saved. Main stack "BlueStack" is opened and saved. Now, in

Re: Mainstack Substack clarification

2007-12-31 Thread Jim Ault
On 12/31/07 11:39 AM, "Mark Swindell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm just clarifying for myself what happens to a stack when its Main > Stack property is changed. A bit more accurate phrasing will help: The YellowStack is opened in memory is saved to the hard drive in the same location with sa

OT: One Customer's Experience with her Computer's Warranty

2007-12-31 Thread Derek Bump
I just felt I should share this, as it's a rather interesting chain of events. I have a customer that's been having problems with her brand new Gateway computer (purchased 3 months ago). Thus far, here are the list of problems encountered. Problem #1: Blue Screen: Hard Drive Failure. Solution

Re: Mainstack Substack clarification

2007-12-31 Thread Devin Asay
On Dec 31, 2007, at 12:39 PM, Mark Swindell wrote: I'm just clarifying for myself what happens to a stack when its Main Stack property is changed. Scenario: Main stack "YellowStack" is opened and saved. Main stack "BlueStack" is opened and saved. Now, in BlueStack's stack inspector I chang

Re: the char number of char 1 of word x

2007-12-31 Thread Randall Lee Reetz
Thanks to all who have tried to help. I know (or could probably figure out) how to write my own functions for these text parsing affordances I am after. What I was looking for is a simple (built-in) syntax to get info from any chunk description returned in any string or chunk form. The fo

Recipes application

2007-12-31 Thread Peter Brigham
FYI, I just finished up creating my first standalone (with help from a variety of people on this list). It's a little application that allows you to store, print, import and export recipes. Tired of trying to read those old butter-stained pieces of paper in that overstuffed folder you keep

Mainstack Substack clarification

2007-12-31 Thread Mark Swindell
I'm just clarifying for myself what happens to a stack when its Main Stack property is changed. Scenario: Main stack "YellowStack" is opened and saved. Main stack "BlueStack" is opened and saved. Now, in BlueStack's stack inspector I change its MainStack property to "YellowStack." BlueStac

Re: Engelbart and Kay --was: Back to the Future with Hypercard

2007-12-31 Thread Richard Gaskin
Randall Lee Reetz wrote: > This topic would not be dissimilar to romantic discussions about > Model A Fords, except that we are in this case all still driving > Model A Fords and there isnt much of an alternitive out there. > Kind o weird dont you think? I think this metaphor is lost on me: I st

RE: Engelbart and Kay --was: Back to the Future with Hypercard

2007-12-31 Thread Randall Lee Reetz
This topic would not be dissimilar to romantic discussions about Model A Fords, except that we are in this case all still driving Model A Fords and there isnt much of an alternitive out there. Kind o weird dont you think? randall -Original Message- From: "Terry Judd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>