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#161
09-20-2007, 12:30 PM
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Re: Obsolete Skills
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how many people who watch the food channel actually cook more than once a week? [/ QUOTE ] More than once a week? I would guess a whole lot. Even if you take out the food network watchers, I would guess there are a lot more people that cook at least once a week than you suspect. Maybe among single white men in their mid to late 30's the number is low, but seriously once a week??? 
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#162
09-20-2007, 03:25 PM
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Re: Obsolete Skills
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Oh, it wasn't all that darn hard. After I learned the sequence I turned that machine over all the time. [/ QUOTE ] Maybe you misunderstood what I meant. "Learning the sequence" has nothing at all to do with scoring high.
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#163
09-21-2007, 12:40 AM
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Re: Obsolete Skills
Basic computer repair: It wasn't that many years ago that you could open up a knackered computer and see a burnt out track on the circuit board. This could then be bridged with a bit of copper wire and some nifty soldering... God help anybody who tries to do that on a modern motherboard!
Juk [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]
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#165
09-21-2007, 12:51 AM
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Re: Obsolete Skills
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Philuva, Researching information without the Internet! It's hard to imagine the way we had to write reports looking up stuff in card catalogs and microfilm and stuff at the library. Oh man, that sucked. The difference between being good at that or not was incredible in terms of how long it took to get a report or research paper done. [/ QUOTE ] Writing code with out the internet... People now just rush to Google and find a library, a snippet or some nicely edited article on www.codeproject.com, etc. Before the internet coders had to be sooooooo much more self sufficient. Juk [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]
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#166
09-21-2007, 09:47 AM
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Re: Obsolete Skills
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Basic computer repair: It wasn't that many years ago that you could open up a knackered computer and see a burnt out track on the circuit board. This could then be bridged with a bit of copper wire and some nifty soldering... God help anybody who tries to do that on a modern motherboard! [/ QUOTE ] There was a "leaky capacitor" problem on computer motherboards some years back, caused by an unscrupulous electronics company in Japan or Taiwan. It was a controversy right out of "Disclosure". Anyway, long story short, I replaced the capacitors on my motherboard myself. And my computer still worked!
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#167
09-23-2007, 06:08 PM
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Re: Obsolete Skills
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[ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] I don't even know what a sine or a tangent or a cosine is. At all. [/ QUOTE ] Sines and cosines of angles are the vertical and horizontal components of the position of a point on the perimeter of a unit circle lying at that angle. [/ QUOTE ] I know that was English but I still have no idea what you just said. [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img] [/ QUOTE ] Heres the graphs: Sine:  Cosine:  They are made from some crap involving circles that I wont explain. Just look at the purdy graph! [/ QUOTE ] a rough day at the tables?
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#168
09-23-2007, 09:56 PM
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Re: Obsolete Skills
Unlocking a car door with a coat hanger is a lost art. This used to be standard practice when you locked your keys in your car.
You also used to be able to pick crappy interior door locks (e.g. the ones with a button lock on the doorknob) with a coat hanger.
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#170
09-23-2007, 11:07 PM
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Re: Obsolete Skills
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Unlocking a car door with a coat hanger is a lost art. This used to be standard practice when you locked your keys in your car. [/ QUOTE ] How is this a lost art? You can still do this. Hell, with some cars, you don't even need a coat hanger, just the car's antenna.
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