That was what I thought, but if it did, it might get me off my duff to do some work on the perfectly myth-capable machine I already have... thanks for the info.
Fred: It's the pictures in my mind that are getting me. It's like being stuck in a really bad movie with those Clockwork Orange clampy things on my eyeballs. Wesley: Why imagine? Reality's disturbing enough.
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amych - Mar 09, 2006 9:56:38 am PST #7467 of 10003
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
tommyrot - Mar 09, 2006 10:36:17 am PST #7468 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
DXMachina - Mar 09, 2006 11:07:47 am PST #7469 of 10003
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
I don't need pretty. I need don't-frell-up-the-good-features-you-already-had-by- adding-a-bunch-o'-useless-crap.
§ ita § - Mar 09, 2006 11:17:40 am PST #7470 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I don't need pretty, although I sure do like it.
But pretty looks more OSXish, and that makes me laugh. I like OS X and all that, but my Windows boxes do not use the XP skins--they use the 2000 one.
DXMachina - Mar 09, 2006 11:28:26 am PST #7471 of 10003
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
my Windows boxes do not use the XP skins--they use the 2000 one.
Mine, too. I dislike both the XP and OS X boxes.
Sean K - Mar 09, 2006 11:50:43 am PST #7472 of 10003
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
my Windows boxes do not use the XP skins--they use the 2000 one.
Yeah, I go for the "Windows classic" look, myself. Although I do turn on the web-like one-click activation (select on mouse hover). My mouse hand gets sore really easily, due to an old broken metacarpal, so if I can reduce my amount of mouse clicking by %50, I will.
Tom Scola - Mar 09, 2006 3:18:07 pm PST #7473 of 10003
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
My co-op building's annual shareholders' meeting is coming up, and this year it promises to be extremely mathy.
My Treo has a built-in calculator that can do amortization calculations, but I can't figure out how to use it. It lets you input any four of these five variables, and it will solve for the other:
- PV
- FV
- Pmt
- APR
- N
Can anyone tell me what those variables mean?
tommyrot - Mar 09, 2006 3:22:57 pm PST #7474 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Yes.
In order,
Present value, future value, payment (per period), annual percentage rate, number of payments.
eta: Typically, in a loan the present value is the amount of the loan and the future value is zero (if you're paying off the entire loan).
Tom Scola - Mar 09, 2006 3:30:12 pm PST #7475 of 10003
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Ahh, I see why I was having trouble getting it to work. It wants the payment to be negative.
tommyrot - Mar 09, 2006 3:32:31 pm PST #7476 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Yeah, either the payment or the present value has to be negative (depending on how you look at it) for a loan.