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4th of July (O.T.)
Message #1 Posted by Vieira, Luiz C. (Brazil) on 3 July 2005, 11:03 p.m.

Hi, all North-Americans;

although it is not a regular subject, let me mention (remember) some facts, amongst many:

1) the ARPANET began in the North-America;
2) W. Hewlett and D. Packard funded HP in North-America;
3) Ed Roberts created the Altair 8080 in the North-America;
4) IBM engineers designed the PC in the North-America;
5) Dave Hicks created the MoHPC in the North-America...

So, I`d not be keying these words in my IBM-compatible PC, a single-unit personal computer, to post this message in the MoHPC through the www about HP calculators without knowing that all of the ones above came from the USA. Have you all the best celebration in this fourth of July. You deserve it.

Luiz, from the southern America.

Edited: 3 July 2005, 11:14 p.m.

      
Re: 4th of July (O.T.)
Message #2 Posted by Ed Look on 3 July 2005, 11:37 p.m.,
in response to message #1 by Vieira, Luiz C. (Brazil)

Hey thanks!

But do you think point #5 has a chance of making it to children's history books?

;)

            
Re: 4th of July (O.T.)
Message #3 Posted by Vieira, Luiz C. (Brazil) on 3 July 2005, 11:59 p.m.,
in response to message #2 by Ed Look

All of the other four did that, didn't they? Why not the MoHPC and Dave being part of history as well? <8^D

            
Re: 4th of July (O.T.)
Message #4 Posted by Dave Hicks on 4 July 2005, 12:07 a.m.,
in response to message #2 by Ed Look

Maybe not the children's history books, but there is a word problem about me in an Addison Wesley 6th grade math text book. :-)

It has the URL too so I get questions from students and teachers.

                  
Re: 4th of July (O.T.)
Message #5 Posted by GE on 4 July 2005, 4:07 a.m.,
in response to message #4 by Dave Hicks

Funny, could you copy here the text of the problem (in the hope we can solve it ... SSMC). Thx

By the way, I have a problem with the new forum : while it is VERY (very) nice to see a complete thread as a whole, the links to individual messages do not change color even if you have read them. So it is quite hard to keep track of what has been read or not.
We'll survive, I guess..

                        
Re: 4th of July (O.T.)
Message #6 Posted by Dave Hicks on 4 July 2005, 11:28 a.m.,
in response to message #5 by GE

I'll see if I can find the math problem.

Unfortunately I don't see a way around the visited link coloring, except to use the (new) indicators instead of the link colors, or to use the individual message display (search/personalize: Display Messages = Individually.) Alternately, you could consider the "compressed" view for the list messages view and "the grouped into threads" for the message view. This provides one link from the main page per thread and shows the number of new messages.

Because of they way browsers color links, for a threaded list and a grouped into threads display, I can either do it like it is now, where the message you click on is colored as visited, or I can make it such that all the messages in a thread are colored as visited when you click on any - but then posts made after you view the thread would also be colored as visited. (I would do the latter by making the thread page look like a singe page to the browser - whereas now it looks like each message has it's own page - even though the content of each page is the same through-out the thread, when you set Display Messages to Grouped.)

There is nothing in HTTP that I know of that lets me tell a browser to mark some additional links as visited. Browsers manage that themselves.

      
Re: 4th of July (O.T.)
Message #7 Posted by Dave Hicks on 3 July 2005, 11:44 p.m.,
in response to message #1 by Vieira, Luiz C. (Brazil)

Thank you Luiz!

Quote:
So, I`d not be keying these words in my IBM-compatible PC, a single-unit personal computer

I keep saying this but someday I'm going to write a browser for my Altair so I can respond to that like:

And I'd not be keying these words in my Altair... :-)

Someday...

      
Kind thoughts and a gift for the 4th of July (OnTopic coz' it's a calc)
Message #8 Posted by Etienne Victoria on 4 July 2005, 3:37 a.m.,
in response to message #1 by Vieira, Luiz C. (Brazil)

Hi all US citizens!

I'd like to add my french congrats to Luiz' for the Independence Day.

...and state the major features/inventions I love from your land (apart from the buggy Hp calcs and in increasing importance) :

- the man on the moon,

- peanut butter,

- my first girlfriend in Milwaukee,

- my caring, eternal american friends in Virginia whom I consider part of my family.

I'll keep those four in my heart but today I extend it to you all!

Have a nice day!

Etienne


PS : Please find hereafter as a gift the first BP (not HP) that started it all (I mean Luiz' list not mine ;-))




Well... Wilhelm Schickard pictured hereafter:
did preceed it with his stunning achievement:




123.456 to delete.......just joking...

Edited: 4 July 2005, 4:02 a.m.

            
Re: Kind thoughts and a gift for the 4th of July (OnTopic coz' it's a calc)
Message #9 Posted by Gerson W. Barbosa on 4 July 2005, 2:42 p.m.,
in response to message #8 by Etienne Victoria

Hi Etienne,

You forgot to include coca-cola (light coke!) in your list. You should have mentioned the Pascaline was invented by Blaise Pascal (from France, of course), so some people don't think this was Bérnard Parisse's first computing device :-)

I have a theory that might explain why we Brazilians have not made so many inventions: it's Wintertime here and there's a blazing sun out there (24.5°C/76.1°F) - and I live in one of the coldest cities here. Who would be locked in a room inventing anything with such a weather?

I second you and Luiz on the 4th of July congratulations.

(Edited to update the temperature :-)

Edited: 4 July 2005, 3:31 p.m.

                  
Re: Kind thoughts and a gift for the 4th of July (OnTopic coz' it's a calc)
Message #10 Posted by Etienne Victoria on 4 July 2005, 6:03 p.m.,
in response to message #9 by Gerson W. Barbosa

Hi Gerson,

I understand your point because I was born in a warm country too (Syria)!

However, put me in a street, ask me to sing and dance, watch all the girls fleeing far away and you'll see that Brasil invented much of the musical harmony I love.

...and Brasil also invented Lucio Costa and Oscar Niemeyer!!

Just for this, I'll come and visit!

Friendly regards from the pole: (Fourqueux)

Etienne

                        
Re: Kind thoughts and a gift for the 4th of July (Now completely O. T.)
Message #11 Posted by Gerson W. Barbosa on 5 July 2005, 11:56 a.m.,
in response to message #10 by Etienne Victoria

Quote:
Hi Gerson, ...and Brasil also invented Lucio Costa and Oscar Niemeyer!!

Did you know Lúcio Costa was born in Toulon, France? Well, the French weather was good to him as was to Santos-Dumont...

Anyway, thanks for remembering them.

Kind regards,

Gerson.

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