jwcolby
jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com
Wed Oct 10 07:33:09 CDT 2007
>Google will offer a terabyte of space for gmail + google apps, per user. Unfortunately it will not be enough by an order of magnitude. >JWC will be nominated for a Nobel ROTFL. JWC will instead receive an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Advanced Computer Science (Purchased Degrees) in Nigeria which, in order to receive the degree, he will only have to pay a $1297 paperwork processing fee, but will also have one million dollars deposited into his account from the widow of the previous dictator if he will just.... John W. Colby Colby Consulting www.ColbyConsulting.com -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Arthur Fuller Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2007 7:33 AM To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving Subject: Re: [AccessD] OT Tuesday? FW: The Most Collectible PCs Predictions: Everyone in Africa will die of AIDS without us doing a thing. Unfortunately the few survivors will be running email scams out of Nigeria. Virtual reality will displace tourism. Physical reality will be solely for the rich. The rest of us will visit other countries virtually. Google will offer a terabyte of space for gmail + google apps, per user. An earthquake will finally saw off California, making Las Vegas even wealthier since it will then offer an excellent view of the Pacific ocean. JWC will be nominated for a Nobel, but narrowly lose to Hilary Clinton (or was it Paris Hilton -- I keep confusing them). A. On 10/9/07, Karen Rosenstiel <krosenstiel at comcast.net> wrote: > > 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 > > -- > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > > -- > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com