Posts by CRConrad 498 publicly visible posts • joined 12 Jun 2012
to research aircraft of WW2:
1) IHYLS should be alright, I hope?
2) About that Mosquito: If it was in German hands, couldn't that glass dome have been shattered (or damaged) when they captured it, and therefore replaced with a German-style one? (Or if they just preferred them that way?)
> Catamarans and trimarans are usually positively buoyant, ie. their overall density is less than the water they float in as they have no keel.
All boats and ships are usually positively buoyant, regardless of how many hulls they have and whether they have a separate keel or not.
If they weren't positively buoyant they wouldn't be boats or ships, but submarines.
(Or, adding them up: Ignorant + unimaginative = stupid.)
So please feel free to explain how you think such a lifting keel mechanism would work,You don't think they had electric power on board that luxury superyacht to power a winch? Or, as apparently was the case here, a hydraulic pump? (Or any of the myriad other tried-and-true ways of converting power into movement, like, say, a rack-and-pinion system.)
and maybe where they would keep it when it was retracted.Just like on any tiny lifting-keel dinghy, in a shaft in the center of the vessel. Sure, the keel is much bigger than on a dinghy, but so is the craft itself. So it fits and works pretty much exactly the same way, only on a larger scale.
Like, duh.
I haven't read up on the Chamberlain accident, but the comment you replied to talked about a country road. Are there usually sidewalks bustling with crowds for a pusher hitman to hide among on the country roadfs where you're from?
These conspiracy theories don't only look absolutely dranged in themselves, but make the people spouting them look even more so.
The woman who hit him apparently stayed at the scene and reported herself to police. How many shady hitmen, male or female, do that?
So you're down to one single "freak" accident; nothing there _to_ co-incide, so not even co-incidence.
The yacht sinking being an accident is not at all impossible, so don't eliminate it. Which leaves it far more probable than any silly conspiracy theries.
> Still that's better than the acrobat windows which can decide their location is miles off the screen and which makes it hard to move them back to somewhere I can see.
Alt-Tab to focus the offscreen window, Alt-Spacebar to get its system menu, X to maximize it. From there, if you click the "restore" (overlapping windows, upper-right corner, next to the red X to close) titlebar icon, it scoots back offscreen -- but if you grab the title bar while maximized and move it a bit down, it goes to non-maximized with the titlebar where you released it.
At least that usually works for me, with the apps that do that shit. Dunno if it works for all apps, but HTH!
>> Also I think it would be helpful if the taskbar on each screen showed just the applications that are open on that screen instead of showing all of them.
At least on Windows 10 I have to explicitly set it to show all apps on all taskbars[*].
If the taskbar's behaviour is something that bothers you... Have you ever looked into Taskbar Settings?
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[*]: Which is how I prefer it; I hate only seeing some of my open programs, never mind which screen I'm looking at. But then, my taskbars are vertical, autohiding, show labels, and are rather wide. Like, you know, sensible people would want them to behave.
If you've set your taskbar to autohide like a normal person who wants to, you know, see their desktop... Then that button wouldn't be visible / clickable until you move your mouse to the taskbar.
And why faff about with the mouse in the first place -- is there something wrong with the Windows or D keys on your keyboard?
This article is about Windows. I don't want Teams to be part of Windows installation.
Yeah no, who would. But you're missing two things:
1) Some people might.
2) And whether it comes with Windows or not, it's just an example: The OP (or someone else) might want to do stuff like that with any application, and what they're lamenting is the removal of the facilities for doing that from the OS.
Sadly it is in current Win11...
Yet another reason to avoid W11 like the plague... Easy enough at home, but at work, it's coming soon. Sigh... :-(
Your clipboard text switch is easy to implement into a keyboard shortcut.
Yeah, but that disregards the (rather obvious, IMO) fact that stuff you want to copy from Teams isn't just firstname-lastname pairs; it's the text the people behind those names sent, too. What's that script going to do, "every switch of pair around words"?
> 9. A fun UI. The modern simple designs are boring and no longer new.
Or even a *boring* UI. Like in NT4. Computers and operating systems are supposed to just work; if we want to have fun, we install some fun application.
> 11. A replacement for Fax and Scan.
E-mail? ;-)
A minute with a non-conductive, thin, sharp, implement removed all the fluff and now it works fine!...an ordinary wooden match or toothpick. Or, if even that is too thick (many toothpicks and all matches are, I think), whittle it a little thinner with a sharp knife.
Of course I found this out the day after I'd bought a new phone to replace the “dead” one.
Liam Proven wrote:
Pull a window toward a screen edge, and it will snap there, but in Windows 11, the OS then visually prompts you in case you'd like to tile the previous window you were using on the other side of the screen.So does Windows 10. If not by dragging with the mouse, at least by the Win-Arrow key combo.
...I notice that so did I. Dunno why, for just noticing that "bazza"'s comment had (at least) a "1" in the "Downvotes" column... "Yup, it did" doesn't mean that was from me. FWIW, I still see a blue up-arrow next to "Upvotes", which means that one of those currently 14 upvotes was mine.
Seen her referred to as the mother of the daughter who died (plus another one) once or twice in media reports.
So apparently Lynch at least wasn't the type to, like so many tycoons, dump Dumpy Old Mom for a newer-model Bimbo Trophy Wife. Speaks for his integrity, raises my impression of him a notch.
> and his daughter died with him leaving wife/mother behind.
At a guess, with her surname different from his and the daughter's, I'm thinking perhaps wife/stepmother. You know, once they make their billions, these guys often upgrade to new cars, domiciles, boats... and wives.
(Except I think I saw somewhere the boat is actually hers. Dunno whether she's independently wealthy, or it was a "write it on the wife so they can't take it from me" hedge against taxes and court cases.)
...tap in a PIN at the POS (interpret as you like) terminal.
Would be cool if you could set the up to follow the card-holders chosen preference: "Never" (for he gullible), "Random / every X(10?)th payment + on bigger amounts" (as seems to be the default now, at least where I live), or "Always" (for the more paranoid among us).
Generative AI is a system that can be asked to retrieve significant portions of the data fed into it.Well, that's easily fixed, then: Remove that retrieval capability, and now it's magically legal!
Whether that is in accordance with the spirit of the law, though...? (Not to even mention "fair" or "just".)
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