[AccessD] OT Tuesday? FW: The Most Collectible PCs

Karen Rosenstiel krosenstiel at comcast.net
Tue Oct 9 21:47:42 CDT 2007


I must say that IS pretty impressive. Too bad all the windows on that nifty
carousel were boys' stuff.

I remember a crisp fall evening and I went out on the porch with my Dad. Up
and down our little cul de sac other folks were out on their porches and
driveways too. Dad pointed up and said, "There it is!"  It was Sputnik, just
little red jewel speeding by.

I am so glad I lived at the beginning of the Space era -- wish I could be
back in a couple of hundred years to see what's next. 


Regards,
 
Karen Rosenstiel
Seattle WA USA

-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Shamil
Salakhetdinov
Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2007 12:13 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...
 

-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Gustav Brock
Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2007 8:55 PM
To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com
Subject: Re: [AccessD] OT Tuesday? FW: The Most Collectible PCs

Hi John

You could have written her a macro or two. Oh boy, brings back memories
struggling with the curly brackets. I wrote about 1990 in WP 5.x a lot of
macros for clients - it was dark ages compared to now.

/gustav

>>> jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com 09-10-2007 18:45 >>>
LOL.  There was no future in WP.  I kept telling her to email you with her
questions but she refused...  What was I to do?


John W. Colby
Colby Consulting
www.ColbyConsulting.com 

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