Completely OT - bedtime for children

Graph is just a representation. But if you have (say) a train or plane accelerating at some rate, then later decelerating to rest, you can calculate the time its gonna take to get there, assuming you know the distance.

Starving heathens in hot countries would be grateful for a mouthful of testicle.

And it's quite popular in some public schools apparently.

Owain

Hum, made me doubt my memory now. Pretty sure I didn't encounter it until A level. Prehaps it went so far above my head at O level it didn't stick. The only bits that stuck at A level were the bits that you needed for the Applied Maths side of a Pure and Applied course.

In the real world it is. Lotus WordPro, which I use by choice, isn't, which is why I have a copy of MS Office on my computer

I have had people make screen captures of error dialogs and then insert them into Word documents which they then emailed me. In dial-up days this was really painful.

The unlucky ones of course get a year in industry in a major computer company that goes pear shaped as soon as they leave...

(He's got something now though - but not a related company)

Andy

It was in my O'level in 1983.

SteveW

The "60,000,000 files" argument does not a standard make.

You can't copy and paste error dialogues in Winblows. Reason #1,532,543 that it sucks donkey dick.

I liked school meals. With the exception of celery cooked as a vegetable. I still regularly eat liver (and heart and kidneys) and reading this thread has made me hanker after Manchester Tart. (No jokes about ladies of negotiable virtue, please.)

But the memory of that celery makes me nauseous to this day, some 40 years later.

Ah, Mr Mintoe. My form master and the school metalwork teacher. He used to do both of the above. When I subsequently met him (and indeed a number of other teachers) he/they turned out to be quite normal. I suspect they behaved the way they did in school in order to survive. Ghod knows what teachers do these days.

Damn. "Flies", not "files". Although perhaps "files" is more appropriate.

True, you can't copy them as text, but Alt-PrntScrn works.

As it works for any images generated by clever technologies that won't allow you to 'download image'

Though if you use Firefox, it may be easier to use Ctrl-I and the Media tab to save individual files ..

But it leaves you with a graphic on the clipboard, which you've then got to do something with.

Owain

If I want to send a file to a business or government department, a M$ .doc, .xls or .ppt file will be openable by the recipient, even on Apple and Linux computers. By my reckoning, that makes it a standard. The new M$ format is becoming the accepted norm, and Libre Office can open them too, with only minor problems.

If I send a plain text file, that's even more universal, but less useful.

What files are "Standard" for commercial information transfer in your opinion, if the most commonly used formats in the world aren't? HTML?

I've got to say this - you find time to post on usenet but not figure out how to fix the file format issues? :-)

I know that usenet can be done while doing other productive stuff etc of course - that's why I'm only doing it on my iPad now. I can sync everything at home, the read/reply when ive got a few spare minutes at any point during the day. Without that, I find im always days behind on reading and replying.