Drew Wutka
DWUTKA at Marlow.com
Tue Oct 9 17:50:02 CDT 2007
LOL, so true, so true, the foreboding that the country was headed for 2 months of constant bombardment about the life and death of Anna Nicole Smith...whose contribution to society was...erm...uh..... I think it's time to start recruiting for the OT list, since William has left, it's kind of slow over there! I've actually been getting work done... Drew -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Hale, Jim Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2007 3:01 PM To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving Subject: Re: [AccessD] OT Tuesday? FW: The Most Collectible PCs I remember when the Mickey Mouse club was preempted for almost a WEEK for the Eisenhower convention in '56. Dwight replacing Annette?! At age 5 I realized the country had its priorities backwards. I have seen nothing since to convince me otherwise. :-) Jim Hale -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Shamil Salakhetdinov Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2007 2:13 PM To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving' Subject: Re: [AccessD] OT Tuesday? FW: The Most Collectible PCs Hi All, Maybe it's a kind of Off-Topic for this Off-Topic thread, what I will write next but in the end of this message it should be clear that I'm on topic for this off-topic :) - pun intended :) I still remember the time I first time had watched a TV set, which my father bought and that was a black & white screen TV set, and we have had a high 7-8 antenna to receive TV signals - first this antenna was "sticked" to our house and I remember that when TV signal was bad we used to go outside to the side of the house where this antenna was installed and we used to beat it strongly, and that "beating" usually helped to get better TV-signal :) I also remember - I even clearly see the picture now, when I'm probably a 6 years old boy and I alone or with my mother go outside night winter time (and this is Russian winter you know), and it's not that dark and there is a moon and there are stars on the skies - all in all it is a magnificent frosty Russian winter night with a lot of sparkling from moonlight snow on the nearby trees etc. - and we have a movie on our TV, and TV signal got worsened on the most interesting event as usual - and so we go outside and beat our antenna strongly using heavy hammer - and voila' we had got very good TV signal and we can watch our TV serial further... ...soon we got our antenna installed very high on the nearby tree and TV signal became much better... ... in a few years later we got colored TV... ... ... ... ... now the house where I have got my first impression from our own black & white TV - that house has a satellite dish and I can get TV programmers from all around the World... ... and I can also use mobile Internet and when 3G and WiMAX technologies will soon become widespread then MS SilverLight will become as usual here as it was the snow sparkling on moonlight and a hammer I used to make TV signal better... If you do not have MS SilverLight yet installed then first watch this site http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/ without SilverLight; then go and get downloaded and installed MS SilverLight here: http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/downloads.aspx and then watch this page http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/ again... You'll get (very) impressed is my bet.... -- Shamil P.S. Yes, I have seen HollyWood movies where slightly(?) drunken Russian cosmonauts used to use hammer or similar tools to fix their spaceships - that was funny... I do not think it was like that in reality but I can't state that for sure - after all from my story above you can find that a hammer was a rather universal tool here to fix many things even TV-signal :) ... P.P.S. Yes, we on Earth have got incredible technology progress in the last half of a century: - world first spaceship - Sputnik - was launched here on 7th of October 1957, - transistors were invented several years before at 1950 at Bell Labs, - one of the main methids of laser beam pumping was found in 1955 also here by Basov and Prokhorov based on works of Charles H. Townes... All that and many other foundation technologies were predesessors, which made MS SilverLight a reality of today... Unfortunately, as far as I can see, social progress is not getting developed to the better so rapidly worldwide as technologies do... And who knows what this "developing to the better social progress" is is becoming more and more open question today - at least as far as I see it... *********************************************************************** The information transmitted is intended solely for the individual or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of or taking action in reliance upon this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you have received this email in error please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. As a recipient of this email, you are responsible for screening its contents and the contents of any attachments for the presence of viruses. 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