Re: When they ask, what is this written in?

2008-12-01 Thread Mark Brownell
I agree that it's bad practice to draw attention to what you use in a defensive way or in criticizing other well known methods. I also see the logic in not using name overloading when describing RR, Rev, and Revolution as being a trinity of modern symbolism. I always ask, "what would you like it

Re: Random algorithm

2008-11-12 Thread Mark Brownell
random(upperLimit - lowerLimit + 1) + lowerLimit - 1 Gads, I've given myself a headache. The Vegas stuff is interesting. The modern RNGs are safe up to a half a million spins for their one armed bandits. After that an attack can find repeats of the random sequences. Before they fixed it they we

Re: Random algorithm

2008-11-12 Thread Mark Brownell
I'm surprised that the random seed was not mentioned. Please excuse this if someone has responded with that. I'm on digest mode. I've solved the random RNG problem by simulating the function of the Roulette wheel. This idea of using random bits or like some websites do it is the clue. When Revo

Re: Gaussian distribution (z)

2008-10-22 Thread Mark Brownell
>Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 15:03:17 -0700 >From: Timothy Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Greetings, > >I'm interested an a modest statistics demonstration, but I can't >figure out how do to the math myself. > > >H... I wonder if some website somewhere would do the work for me. >That could w

use-revolution@lists.runrev.com

2008-09-17 Thread Mark Brownell
>From: Andre Garzia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: Stack Overflow : a new site for programming Q&A. > >I think it should be "transcript" or "revolution code" but not >something like "rev code" or "runrev code" > >andre > How about "RevScript" , "Rev-Talk" , "TransOlution" , or RevSolution."

Re: Arrays: new and old keys, ii

2008-09-15 Thread Mark Brownell
-Original Message- >From: Brian Yennie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >So what would it be? A "combine" command which sorts the keys? Or >returns things in the order they were added? Or? > Last-In-First-Out (LIFO) or First-In-First-Out (FIFO) I would like to see that. I could us that. I could p

Re: Arrays: new and old keys, i

2008-09-14 Thread Mark Brownell
-Original Message- >From: Brian Yennie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> \> >This is all very clever (seriously!), but I think this thread is >simply talking about two different things. It is one thing to maintain >your own sorting information in arrays. It's another to pull the data >out of arrays

Re: Arrays: new and old keys, i

2008-09-14 Thread Mark Brownell
-Original Message- >From: David Bovill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Mark - looking at your script this is NOT doing what we need. It is not >sorting the keys - it is simply sorting a list, which happens to be inside >of an array. By that I mean nothing is actually happening to the array - you >simp

Re: Arrays: new and old keys, i

2008-09-14 Thread Mark Brownell
>From: Mark Wieder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ... >Maybe a property of arrays would do this: > >set the sortorder of theDataA to empty -- unsorted, fastest >set the sortorder of theDataA to "first input" -- FIFO >set the sortorder of theDataA to "last input" -- LFIFO >set the sortorder of theDataA to "alp

Re: Arrays: new and old keys, i

2008-09-13 Thread Mark Brownell
-Original Message- >From: Colin Holgate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >On Sep 13, 2008, at 1:08 PM, Mark Brownell wrote: > >> Wow, this is all coming back to me. The discussion list would fire >> up with two or three chiming in, in just a few seconds/minutes with

Re: Arrays: new and old keys, i

2008-09-13 Thread Mark Brownell
>> I'm going to do some experimenting now with Rev, or, have you >> already discovered these array within array tricks in single lines >> of code? > >Just doing v3 update now. Will report back soon! > Wow, this is all coming back to me. The discussion list would fire up with two or three ch

Re: Arrays: new and old keys, i

2008-09-13 Thread Mark Brownell
>peoplelist = [[name:"Tom",height:"72",city:"New York"], >[name:"Dick",height:"68",city:"San Francisco"], >[name:"Harry",height:"74",city:"New York"]] > >put peoplelist >-- [[#name: "Tom", #height: "72", #city: "New York"], [#height: >"68",#name: "Dick", #city: "San Francisco"], [#name: "Harry

Re: Arrays: new and old keys, i

2008-09-13 Thread Mark Brownell
> >Multi-dimensional arrays are a powerful addition to Revolution as it >provides a basis for more powerful array manipulation features in the >engine moving forward. I feel that ordered keys form the basis for a >lot of those features. > >Trevor DeVore Good idea. It's been a while but I be

Re: Arrays: new and old keys, i

2008-09-13 Thread Mark Brownell
>Subject: Re: Arrays: new and old keys, i > >Thank you all, for this discussion. Really. It was more informative >than the release notes could even hope to be. The exemplars of why >the new array features were so obviously useful helped me a lot in >exactly one way: I have no idea what y

test

2008-09-12 Thread Mark Brownell
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Re: Arrays: new and old keys

2008-09-12 Thread Mark Brownell
sorry, I'm on digest mode. >> put myArray["#476532"][4][3] into shippingPriceWestCoast > >I would assume you'd also be able to do: > > put myArray["#476532"]["shipping"]["west"] into shippingPriceWestCoast > >Right? > >Ken Ray Ken, Yes, right, you could. I'm mentioning it because you can use v

Re: Arrays: new and old keys

2008-09-12 Thread Mark Brownell
>Subject: Re: Arrays: new and old keys > >Then there is the whole question of hierarchical structures as >discussed so far. > >> >> Can anybody explain what the new array format provides that the old >> did not? All these bizarre examples seem not so much as >> exemplifying the ``new'' feat

Re: Arrays: new and old keys

2008-09-11 Thread Mark Brownell
>Message: 22 >Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 17:30:09 +0100 >From: "David Bovill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: Arrays: new and old keys >To: "How to use Revolution" >Message-ID: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > >Oh - and anyone know where to find some docume

Re: HTML tags in XML

2006-03-22 Thread Mark Brownell
>From: Devin Asay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Hi Folks, > >Is it possible to store html styled text in an xml document and then >successfully retrieve the text with html markup intact? > >I'm working on an application where I need to save styled text in an >XML document. I can successfully insert the

Re: Transcript and Dot Notation

2006-02-27 Thread Mark Brownell
>Mark- >Sunday, February 26, 2006, 12:36:57 PM, you wrote: >> Perhaps a few of you around here will find this funny, I could do >> an implementation of OOPs with a pull-parser. The trick to creating >> a child object is to assign attributes of the parent object to a >> child object. What is nee

RE: Transcript and Dot Notation

2006-02-26 Thread Mark Brownell
>On Feb 25, 2006, at 10:59 PM, Scott Kane wrote: > >>> What do dots enable that >>> Transcript does not? >> >> Properties and methods. > >Objects can already have properties, and methods as well. They can't >have _inherited_ methods -- at least not in the traditional IO sense. >An object inher

Re: OT: Internet Rich Applications Patent Granted

2006-02-25 Thread Mark Brownell
> On 2/24/06, Richard Gaskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >When a patent is found to be without merit with so many millions of >prior art examples, does the patent filer pay a penalty to the USPTO for >wasting their time? > >Or will the USPTO let me patent air? > >-- > Richard Gaskin > Managin

Re: get setRegistry ?

2006-01-26 Thread Mark Brownell
>Mark- > >Tuesday, January 24, 2006, 9:32:25 AM, you wrote: > >> Anyone know how to write the (get setRegistry) registration below in >> Transcript? > >> [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\vnc] >> @="URL:VNC Protocol" >> "URL Protocol"="http://www.realvnc.com/"; > >> [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\vnc\DefaultIcon] >> @="C:\\

get setRegistry ?

2006-01-24 Thread Mark Brownell
Hi, I do this to double click and to load a file during open: get setRegistry("HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.mtx\","IntuitMTX") get setRegistry("HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\IntuitMTX\","IntuitMTX document") get setRegistry("HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\IntuitMTX\DefaultIcon\","C:\Program Files\IntuitMTX\IntuitMTX.exe,1")

Re: [OT] exchanging data with browsers in Windows

2006-01-23 Thread Mark Brownell
On Friday, January 20, 2006, Ben Rubinstein wrote: Firstly, I've defined a custom protocol type, eg "ben:" instead of "ftp:", "mailto:";, etc. Once the user's configured their system to register my app as the handler for the protocol "ben:", clicking on a link in a web page invokes my app, w

Interpreting a URL?

2006-01-16 Thread Mark Brownell
How ShellExecute Interprets the URL Passed: ShellExecute parses the string passed to it to extract either a protocol specifier or a file extension, which it then uses to determine what application to launch by looking in the registry. If you pass "http://www.microsoft.com"; to ShellExecute

Re: [ANN] Revolution Updates Now RSS Feed

2006-01-15 Thread Mark Brownell
On Sunday, January 15, 2006, at 04:05 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For those of you who have subscribed to the Rev-Updates email service at my site (or those of you who *wanted* to, but never have) this is to let you all know that I now have changed this over to a convenient RSS feed, which

Re: HTML named characters

2006-01-08 Thread Mark Brownell
On Sunday, January 8, 2006, at 07:30 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And many others. This is from the htmlText property - yes? But that requires me to set the htmlText of a field... which is not such fun for a parser :) Guess I will have to manually stick them all in an array? I've had ext

Re: Making Revolution faster with really big arrays

2005-04-13 Thread Mark Brownell
On Wednesday, April 13, 2005, at 10:37 AM, Mark Brownell wrote: Dennis, I once used the split function to create almost instant arrays based on 1, 2, 3, etc... as the locations created by the split, ( I call them locations because I'm an old Director user.) This process could work well whe

Re: Making Revolution faster with really big arrays

2005-04-13 Thread Mark Brownell
On Tuesday, April 12, 2005, at 07:25 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I might be able to suffer with the chunk specification for the line#, then use a repeat for each item and put 2500 items in an array. That way I will only need 2500 array items at any one time instead of 125,000,000 array items pe

Re: Making Revolution faster with really big arrays

2005-04-12 Thread Mark Brownell
Hi Dennis, I have found that large data files can be broken down into smaller objects using simplified XML where access is obtained using a pull-parser. Unlike the XML parser in Revolution a very fast pull-parser can be used to break down objects and parse out specific fields without ever build

Re: Minor htmlText bug

2005-03-11 Thread Mark Brownell
On Wednesday, March 9, 2005, at 06:07 AM, Thomas McCarthy wrote: Message: 9 Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 03:00:26 -0500 (EST) From: "Thomas McCarthy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Minor htmlText bug To: use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-a

Re: Introducing our new Evangelist

2005-02-17 Thread Mark Brownell
Hi everyone, It is my pleasure to introduce Ro Nagey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> as our new Evangelist for Dreamcard and Revolution. Kevin I feel the power of the revolution!!! Great choice. Congratulations Ro. Mark ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@

Re: Arrays

2005-02-03 Thread Mark Brownell
On Thursday, February 3, 2005, at 05:16 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone think of a way to store an array? Can it be saved into the stack somehow? -Ben I use my pull-parser all the time to store and then repopulate an array. I store both text and binary/base64 encoded in the simple XML

[ANN] Intuition 1.2i for e-mail digests

2005-01-29 Thread Mark Brownell
Download the new version of Intuition 1.2i MTML browser: http://www.gizmotron.org/intuition/download.html Use Intuition to break up those digest versions of this list and to save the best ones in a searchable archive. From a new or existing open Intuition file: How to use Intuition for e-mail dig

Re: SpecialFolderPath in standalone

2004-12-23 Thread Mark Brownell
On Thursday, December 23, 2004, at 12:00 PM, Mark Smith wrote: on savePrefs put "file:" & specialFolderPath("Preferences") & "/MyPrefs" into fName put thePrefs into URL fName end savePrefs This works fine in theIDE, but not at all in the standalone. The file is simply not updated. Any ideas? T

Re: Standalone on Mac OSX 10.3.7

2004-12-21 Thread Mark Brownell
On Tuesday, December 21, 2004, at 08:47 AM, Klaus Major wrote: Just downloaded it to my german OS X 10.3.7 and works without trouble... Anything special i should try? Thanks for any help, Mark Regards Klaus Major If you were connected to the internet and you opened a file that comes in the Examp

Standalone on Mac OSX 10.3.7

2004-12-21 Thread Mark Brownell
Hi, Intuition on Mac OSX 10.3.7 doesn't work, maybe. This could be a problem with unicode or character sets on German machines. I created Intuition with Rev 2.2.1 on a Mac 10.2.8. I got this last night. Funny But Intuition doesn't start up on my powerbook osx 10.3.7 Thanks in advance Is there

Re: testing for Internet connection

2004-12-18 Thread Mark Brownell
On Saturday, December 18, 2004, at 06:19 PM, Mark Brownell wrote: Variants of that seem to be the most commonly-used method, but the counter-argument that's been raised here is that there's no way to differentiate between a transaction that fails because of the lack of a connecti

Re: testing for Internet connection

2004-12-18 Thread Mark Brownell
On Saturday, December 18, 2004, at 12:49 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Variants of that seem to be the most commonly-used method, but the counter-argument that's been raised here is that there's no way to differentiate between a transaction that fails because of the lack of a connection and one caus

Re: hard crashes with data from Internet

2004-12-18 Thread Mark Brownell
On Saturday, December 18, 2004, at 01:04 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: I thought about checking the data for the presence of something like "", but I can imagine circumstances where the garbage might also contain some of the returned data (though I haven't logged enough yet to really know how freque

Re: testing for Internet connection

2004-12-18 Thread Mark Brownell
On Saturday, December 18, 2004, at 11:46 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: There have been many posts here over the last couple years about various methods of having an app test to see if it has an Internet connection available, but for every suggestion I can find in the archives there's a subsequent po

Re: Newbie XML Question

2004-12-14 Thread Mark Brownell
On Tuesday, December 14, 2004, at 04:17 AM, Bill Marriott wrote: I want to generate a file that looks like it was generated from a single register, with the order numbers in sequential order (renumbering them as necessary). And the "use Rev's XML Library to parse it all together..." is the part

Re: Newbie XML Question

2004-12-14 Thread Mark Brownell
On Monday, December 13, 2004, at 12:29 PM, Bill Marriott wrote: Cherry Coca-Cola Hershey's Chocolate Bar Marlboro Cigarettes In other words, Bob had two customers. The first customer bought two items (

Re: Newbie XML Question

2004-12-13 Thread Mark Brownell
On Monday, December 13, 2004, at 12:29 PM, Bill Marriott wrote: Cherry Coca-Cola Hershey's Chocolate Bar Marlboro Cigarettes In other words, Bob had two customers. The first customer bought two items (

Re: Sexuality and Runtime Revolution

2004-12-13 Thread Mark Brownell
On Monday, December 13, 2004, at 07:22 AM, Howard Bornstein wrote: Just as a point of information, Mr. Batavia *has* posted to this list before under that name. Hmm? mb ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/list

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2004-12-13 Thread Mark Brownell
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Re: Sexuality and Runtime Revolution

2004-12-12 Thread Mark Brownell
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Re: Sexuality and Runtime Revolution

2004-12-12 Thread Mark Brownell
On Dec 12, 2004, at 2:25 PM, Klaus Major wrote: I think this is just a joke and should be treated like that. At least i find it very funny :-) I did that once. This guy submitted his biographical info & contact information to a directory of clinical therapists and psychologists. He was mostly pr

Re: Sexuality and Runtime Revolution

2004-12-12 Thread Mark Brownell
On Sunday, December 12, 2004, at 09:30 AM, Marian Petrides wrote: Am I the only one who finds this offensive? Marian No, but I cuss like a drunken sailor. I mean I know it's offensive to others that is. So what part of troll baiting don't you like? Mark __

Re: Arrays in Rev

2004-12-12 Thread Mark Brownell
On Saturday, December 11, 2004, at 06:42 PM, Troy Rollins wrote: Nope. But I've paid more bills and bought more toys using its tools than all the others combined. Basically, it all comes down to what makes me money, as this is my profession. Rev-based tools have helped me solve a few problems, b

Re: Arrays in Rev

2004-12-11 Thread Mark Brownell
On Saturday, December 11, 2004, at 10:50 AM, Troy Rollins wrote: On Dec 11, 2004, at 12:58 PM, Mark Brownell wrote: I really got sick of Director changing shockwave to such a degree that the new shockwave plug-ins would render my third party plug-ins inoperative unless I redeveloped my creations

Re: Arrays in Rev

2004-12-11 Thread Mark Brownell
On Friday, December 10, 2004, at 05:28 PM, Troy Rollins wrote: But... Lingo's are REAL. AFAICT... you are using strings... which *look* like multidimensional arrays, yet they would not *work* like multi-dimensional arrays. It looks to me more like you have a mechanism which allows *naming* and s

Re: Arrays in Rev

2004-12-10 Thread Mark Brownell
On Friday, December 10, 2004, at 11:13 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Mark Brownell wrote: This thing is not a real array within an array, it just acts like one. I hate to reinforce any perceptions of my curmudgeonliness, but for the benefit of newcomers here it may be useful to remind folks that

Re: Arrays in Rev

2004-12-10 Thread Mark Brownell
On Friday, December 10, 2004, at 12:17 PM, Troy Rollins wrote: Or in Lingo - myVar = [#check: [#this: [#out: "Cool"]]] put myVar.check.this.out -- "Cool" put myVar[1][1][1] -- "Cool" [snip] Troy That's where I got it, Director. The point I'm making is that it's a container that can store informati

Re: Arrays in Rev

2004-12-10 Thread Mark Brownell
d lock screen and unlock screen my cleanup script went from 356 ticks to 0 ticks when parsing a once considered very large document. So it now looks like I have my solution to fast enough pull-parsing. Mark Brownell Gizmotron Graphics ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution

Re: interesting patent

2004-12-08 Thread Mark Brownell
On Wednesday, December 8, 2004, at 12:12 PM, Lynch, Jonathan wrote: My understanding is that for many, the point of getting a patent is not even to prevent others from using the technology - it may well be too broadly defined or have other problems. However, if you have a patent, it guarantees your

Re: Nested Arrays

2004-11-19 Thread Mark Brownell
On Friday, November 19, 2004, at 08:47 AM, Gregory Lypny wrote: Hello everyone, Is it possible to create nested arrays of the form A[X[i]] or deeper? I tried but it doesn't seem to be working. Greg I can tell by your variables that you would like to have arrays within arrays. I fussed around

Re: Size limit of table field ?

2004-10-06 Thread Mark Brownell
On Wednesday, October 6, 2004, at 02:50 PM, Martin Baxter wrote: You're correct. The application memory you allocate is not used for data/stacks/media. I think only the engine etc is loaded into there, and if you allocate extra application memory it won't be used for anything, it will just reduce

Re: Size limit of table field ?

2004-10-06 Thread Mark Brownell
On Wednesday, October 6, 2004, at 10:26 AM, Martin Baxter wrote: I can confirm that it's true even for a 68k standalone running on system 7.6 If you increase the application memory, you can actually make the situation worse, because it leaves less for the system heap, which is where the applicat

Re: Size limit of table field ?

2004-10-06 Thread Mark Brownell
On Wednesday, October 6, 2004, at 12:10 AM, Mark Schonewille wrote: Increasing Rev's memory on MacOS 9 is no solution because Rev uses dynamic memory. Mark Mark Brownell wrote: Try increasing the allowable memory allocated to Rev on system 9 for the Mac. That might allow it to open. Mar

Re: Size limit of table field ?

2004-10-04 Thread Mark Brownell
On Monday, October 4, 2004, at 02:57 PM, jbv wrote: Fortunately I have a copy of that stack. I'm not sure if the 5000 lines is the cause of the problem (and don't feel like trying to reproduce it). But I'm wondering if anyone has any useful info about a possible limit regarding table fields content

Re: Encryption

2004-10-01 Thread Mark Brownell
On Friday, October 1, 2004, at 12:26 PM, David Kwinter wrote: Using bf-ofb with a 41 char key (328bits) with 328bits specified for encryption, the source does not come back properly after decryption, instead it's garbage binary data. If I use "blowfish" instead of "bf-ofb", everything works fine

Re: Simple array question

2004-10-01 Thread Mark Brownell
On Friday, October 1, 2004, at 03:41 AM, Martin Baxter wrote: But as soon as you do: put "j" into tvar[10] The element order would then be: [1]a [10]j [2]b [3]c [4]d [5]e [6]f [7]g [8]h [9]i HTH Martin Baxter Thanks for the heads up on this. I've never tried using the for each element x except aft

Re: Simple array question

2004-10-01 Thread Mark Brownell
On Friday, October 1, 2004, at 02:48 AM, Alex Tweedly wrote: [...] Of course, if the problem initially posed had been slightly different, then these methods might have been required. And similarly, the scripts from both Mark and me used "cr" rather than "the lineDelimiter"; an assumption NOT j

Re: parsing and arrays and xml

2004-10-01 Thread Mark Brownell
quot;, "John Doe") into field "showMTML" -- see stack scripts for functions -- function getArray dataString, spotArray -- Example for getting multi-dimensional data: -- put getArray(myMTMLDataString, "[1][4][5]") into field "showData" -- put getArray(myMT

Re: Simple array question

2004-09-30 Thread Mark Brownell
On Thursday, September 30, 2004, at 05:48 PM, Alex Tweedly wrote: At 15:50 30/09/2004 -0700, Mark Brownell wrote: Maybe by using a faster repeat loop and a simpler append technique. put "" into tResults put 1 into i repeat put x[i] & return after tResults if x[i] = empty th

Re: Simple array question

2004-09-30 Thread Mark Brownell
On Thursday, September 30, 2004, at 02:48 PM, Jim Hurley wrote: repeat with i = 1 to m put x[i] into line i of tResults end repeat put tResults into field 2 But is there any quick way to get the list sorted by the keys? I have 11,000 elements in the array. Jim Maybe by using a faster repea

Re: Accessing parts of arrays

2004-09-30 Thread Mark Brownell
], <2>[more data here], <3>[even more data]etc... and <1,1> <1,2> and <1,3,1> for dimensional arrays. Mark Brownell On Wednesday, September 29, 2004, at 09:50 AM, Mark Waddingham wrote: Hi Mark, [snip] In terms of your request for the suggested matchGlobal functi

Re: how Revolution did in programming contest: 82nd percentile

2004-09-21 Thread Mark Brownell
On Monday, September 20, 2004, at 07:41 PM, Dar Scott wrote: Back in June my son and I entered a programming contest. He was a strategist and I did the Transcript programming Well done. Thanks for sharing this that you and your son did so well using Revolution. Mark

Re: Encryption & Prime Numbers

2004-09-07 Thread Mark Brownell
On Monday, September 6, 2004, at 11:43 PM, MisterX wrote: the 32 bit word is just a long word... bitXOR is used as a small time encryption. Just bitxor any number, you will get aonther number. If you reverse the operation, you get your number back. The bitXOR function is limited to 2^48-1 or 2^64-1

Re: Encryption & Prime Numbers

2004-09-06 Thread Mark Brownell
On Monday, September 6, 2004, at 06:06 PM, Alex Tweedly wrote: Don't know about Blowfish specifically; it's a private-key algorithm, so may have no requirement on primes. It has none. It uses a symmetric key encryption process. In general public/private key systems depend on the inability to deco

Encryption & Prime Numbers

2004-09-06 Thread Mark Brownell
from here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1298728,00.html The Riemann hypothesis would explain the apparently random pattern of prime numbers - numbers such as 3, 17 and 31, for instance, are all prime numbers: they are divisible only by themselves and one. Prime numbers are the

Re: ANN: FTP Commander (the ftp browser Frank asked for...)

2004-09-06 Thread Mark Brownell
On Monday, September 6, 2004, at 02:31 PM, Andre Garzia wrote: don't forget the ending slash in the FTP URL like: ftp://myUser:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/mySweetFolder/ let me know if this works for you!!! :D Cheers andre Works great. Now I get it. In just a few guesses I got the correct configuration of t

Re: Who is chuck yeager? (OT)

2004-09-05 Thread Mark Brownell
On Sunday, September 5, 2004, at 10:40 AM, Geoff Canyon wrote: http://tinyurl.com/6hog5 It's one of those things that in retrospect seems so obvious. regards, Geoff Canyon Yes. The birthing process of the F-18 Hornet hatching from its egg is one of the most amazing phenomenon's of nature. mb

Re: Who is chuck yeager? (OT)

2004-09-03 Thread Mark Brownell
On Friday, September 3, 2004, at 11:02 AM, Ken Norris (dialup) wrote: So What? :-) Nearly impossible because it was very advanced for its time, and faster than any other manned aircraft. It wasn't heavily armed and had a short range, but it could outrun anything. But quality metals had become un

Re: Who is chuck yeager? (OT)

2004-09-03 Thread Mark Brownell
On Friday, September 3, 2004, at 11:22 AM, Eric Engle wrote: However Hans Guido Mutke did break the speed of sound and survived to tell the tale. Here http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schallmauer "Hans Guido Mutke claimed to have broken the sound barrier before Yeager, on April 9, 1945 in a Messersc

Re: Who is chuck yeager? (OT)

2004-09-02 Thread Mark Brownell
On Thursday, September 2, 2004, at 01:07 AM, Klaus Major wrote: Oh, c'mon, you started this :-D Best Klaus Major I just woke up, so if I remember correctly, I answered a who is Chuck Yeager question brought up by you asking about what someone else had said here using Chuck Yeager as an export in

Re: Who is chuck yeager? (OT)

2004-09-02 Thread Mark Brownell
On Thursday, September 2, 2004, at 01:04 AM, Klaus Major wrote: At the time, he was purported to have had a dislocated shoulder, but he knew the flight surgeon would ground him, so he didn't report it, made the flight in a lot of pain. Oh my god! He's a hero! In 1990, while I was in the Civil Air

Re: Why 10 hours for a newbie and 30 days for a "programmer" ?

2004-09-01 Thread Mark Brownell
On Wednesday, September 1, 2004, at 05:09 PM, Marian Petrides wrote: "No. No. No. A thousand times NO." On Sep 1, 2004, at 8:00 PM, Mark Brownell wrote: Just make it not capable of saving or standalone construction. I did suggest that they open training stacks/modules to learn

Re: Who is chuck yeager? (OT)

2004-09-01 Thread Mark Brownell
On Wednesday, September 1, 2004, at 05:17 PM, Ken Norris (dialup) wrote: Actually, the most important achievment of Chuck Yeager, and for which he is most well known, is that he was the _first_ pilot to break the sound barrier. He did it on October 14, 1947, in an experimental mission-specific ro

Re: Why 10 hours for a newbie and 30 days for a "programmer" ?

2004-09-01 Thread Mark Brownell
On Wednesday, September 1, 2004, at 03:56 PM, John Ballard wrote: For example, Southwest Airlines initially did not focus on competing with other airlines for existing business. Instead, they focused on what would entice long-distance drivers into flying. They succesfully launched themselves by

Re: Why 10 hours for a newbie and 30 days for a "programmer" ?

2004-09-01 Thread Mark Brownell
On Wednesday, September 1, 2004, at 11:07 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 10 hours! You get more time with a Free AOL CD, and we all know what happens to those. Seriously though, busy people will start the DreamCard demo, then become distracted by a customer or something, and the meter will continu

Re: Why 10 hours for a newbie and 30 days for a "programmer" ?

2004-09-01 Thread Mark Brownell
On Wednesday, September 1, 2004, at 10:51 AM, Klaus Major wrote: Who the heck is Chuck Yeager? I only know Chuck Connors :-D Regards read the book! This guy's like five good movies rolled into one epic. My favorite is him using air force helicopters to go trout fishing in the high sierras. He's a

Re: Why 10 hours for a newbie and 30 days for a "programmer" ?

2004-09-01 Thread Mark Brownell
On Wednesday, September 1, 2004, at 09:55 AM, Marian Petrides wrote: The difference is that flight instruction is a structured learning environment with literally one-on-one instruction from the CFI (certificated flight instructor). This is fun, just like hanger flying. A newbie to Dreamcard has

Re: Why 10 hours for a newbie and 30 days for a "programmer" ?

2004-09-01 Thread Mark Brownell
On Wednesday, September 1, 2004, at 09:58 AM, Ken Ray wrote: If that's true, then I agree with Judy that 10 hours is not enough time, IMHO. So make it 16 hours and kick them out at 1000 meters AGL. Mark ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Why 10 hours for a newbie and 30 days for a "programmer" ?

2004-09-01 Thread Mark Brownell
On Wednesday, September 1, 2004, at 09:15 AM, Judy Perry wrote: The difference is that, in flight school, the person has a dedicated 8 to whatever hours of instruction. With a software download, well, there's the telephone, starting another load of laundry, kids beating one another and thus requ

Re: Why 10 hours for a newbie and 30 days for a "programmer" ?

2004-09-01 Thread Mark Brownell
On Wednesday, September 1, 2004, at 07:20 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: If the phone rings don't answer it while Rev is open. ;) -- Richard Gaskin If you let it ring ten times before answering it then you get an extra ten Rev frequent traveler miles, really.

Re: Why 10 hours for a newbie and 30 days for a "programmer" ?

2004-09-01 Thread Mark Brownell
On Wednesday, September 1, 2004, at 12:24 AM, Chipp Walters wrote: For DreamCard users... I think 10 hours is just about right. If after spending 10 hours with DreamCard, you're not convinced to pop for the $99 version, then I'm not sure when you'd be. Now, Revolution is a different deal, as it'

Re: New RunRev site...

2004-08-31 Thread Mark Brownell
On Tuesday, August 31, 2004, at 10:40 AM, Chipp Walters wrote: www.runrev.com Really nice! Great job RunRev team! -Chipp Garr-oo-vee, this new site is beautivile. mb ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinf

Re: Preloading sounds for a Player?

2004-08-29 Thread Mark Brownell
On Sunday, August 29, 2004, at 09:50 AM, DJ Grumble wrote: hi, when I try to play two player objects simultaneously, there always is a delay between when they start. i heard you could 'preload' the data so this won't happen? any help would be appreciated. thanks grumble check out the load comman

Re: anyone here would use simple httpd or ftpd code?

2004-08-27 Thread Mark Brownell
On Friday, August 27, 2004, at 01:07 AM, Robert Brenstein wrote: Being able to accept uploads (through ftp or http) would be the most welcome feature for me. robert I know little or next to nothing about this topic. I know how to use Fetch. OK, so I'm a dumbBo, big deal. I'm also in need of tryi

Re: need advise on grid like control...

2004-08-26 Thread Mark Brownell
On Thursday, August 26, 2004, at 12:06 PM, Hershel Fisch wrote: What is the docking handler ? Hershel Don't hurry on my account. I don't need it. I would just work on the docking handler if I had nothing better to do. (I wish) Mark It's a reference to a possible library of duplicatable functions

Re: Two feature requests

2004-08-26 Thread Mark Brownell
On Wednesday, August 25, 2004, at 10:33 PM, Troy Rollins wrote: This is well-known as bugzilla entry #670, and has an impressive number of votes to its credit. I believe it may well be the single most requested feature to date. Now that I know how to use bugzilla I think I'll add five. Mark _

Re: anyone here would use simple httpd or ftpd code?

2004-08-26 Thread Mark Brownell
On Wednesday, August 25, 2004, at 09:07 PM, Andre Garzia wrote: missing parts are: FTP Resume and Upload, Cookie Handling (actually you can read them, not set them right now). hugz andre I was going to begin working of FTP Upload from my standalone apps on user's own machines. Mark

Re: Right click menu on Windows

2004-08-25 Thread Mark Brownell
On Tuesday, August 24, 2004, at 10:11 PM, Brian Yennie wrote: What happens if you set the traversalOn Ah! That reminds me of my rock-climbing days. This is a case of hearing about setting the traversalOn and forgetting why. Perhaps it would be better to say "get your arhs out there." Well, bette

Re: Right click menu on Windows

2004-08-24 Thread Mark Brownell
On Tuesday, August 24, 2004, at 06:34 PM, Sarah Reichelt wrote: Why do you want to simulate a key combination? Wouldn't it be easier just to have your popup menu use the "copy", "paste", "cut" & "undo" commands directly? Sarah They don't work for some reason that I can't understand. The keyboard

Re: Right click menu on Windows

2004-08-24 Thread Mark Brownell
On Tuesday, August 24, 2004, at 02:26 PM, Mark Brownell wrote: Is it possible to simulate a key combination click? I'm trying to simulate a (Control & C) and (Control & V) from a menuPick for "copy" & "paste." I have a popup menu that allows me to use a fiel

Re: need advise on grid like control...

2004-08-24 Thread Mark Brownell
On Tuesday, August 24, 2004, at 04:25 PM, Mark Talluto wrote: Nothing too magical under the hood. It is a bunch of fields aligned next to each other. I will see what it takes to rip it out of my program and post it. I expect to be back into that program next week. Don't hurry on my account. I

Re: need advise on grid like control...

2004-08-24 Thread Mark Brownell
On Tuesday, August 24, 2004, at 03:41 PM, Mark Talluto wrote: I have an app called Lesson Plan Generator. Take a look at the demo. If the cell/grid structure looks useful to you, I will make it available to anyone who wants it. I am working a a major upgrade to the program that will allow row

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