Do you know how... (part II)

[Liar]

Do you know how to use any of these?

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Of course, most of these. Just because I can shoot the ass of a flea off at 100 yards doesn't make me a dummy.

I was going to do another poll and call it II but you just messed that up for me young man.

 

[Liar]

I was going to do another poll and call it II but you just messed that up for me young man.

Wups.

 

[glynndah]

I even HAVE law books.

 

[Handley_Page]

Never heard of PrePress DTP, but I CAN drive Ventura, Pagemaker & Quark (well out of practice though).

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Never heard of PrePress DTP, but I CAN drive Ventura, Pagemaker & Quark (well out of practice though).

Yeah, I didn't know what that one was either. It is just a page layout prog then it shouldn't be to difficult to drive. I can drive Presentation Manager, PowerPoint, Access, etc.

Use to use Ventura and Pagemaker...never tried Quark.

 

[Liar]

Never heard of PrePress DTP, but I CAN drive Ventura, Pagemaker & Quark (well out of practice though).

Prepress DTP is not a program. Pre press DeskTop Publishing is printing knowledge.

Can you proerly prepare a document you make in Pagemaker (or draw by hand for that matter) so that a printing company doesn't get coloring, paging, margins or rasterization wrong?

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Prepress DTP is not a program. Pre press DeskTop Publishing is printing knowledge.

Can you proerly prepare a document you make in Pagemaker (or draw by hand for that matter) so that a printing company doesn't get coloring, paging, margins or rasterization wrong?

Yep. But most printing presses understand most of the current spat of page layout software file formats, unless you talking manual print presses.

 

[Xelebes]

Double-entry bookkeeping - Yes. Trying to do the whole Chartered Accountant thing and I got the first year done. Got a little bit of the second year but not enough to claim most of it.

MLA - got that down.

Microphone - Set those up in band and had one in my studio. My biggest problem is my speech impediment which hampers me from using it.

Lossless compression - ayup. Especially with audio.

Algebra - yes. One of my most favourite things to do as a hobby when given a blank piece of paper.

 

[ishtat]

Algebra - yes. One of my most favourite things to do as a hobby when given a blank piece of paper.

I wondered whether all the people who answered yes to this understood the difference between algebra and abstract algebra.

 

[jomar]

Nope.

 

[Handley_Page]

I wondered whether all the people who answered yes to this understood the difference between algebra and abstract algebra.

No, but having looked it up, I'll leave it, very firmly, alone.
I wish someone would explain to me how these abstruse thing (Fermat's last Theorem?) is of significant use.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Algebra was never of any use. It was designed as an entertainment for well-to-to Arab gentlemen in the Middle Ages. The only reason for ever learning it is that it became the language of those higher mathematics that can be used like trigonometry and differential calculus. Despite those silly posters hung up in middle-school classrooms, carpenters have no use for algebra.

 

[Liar]

Yep. But most printing presses understand most of the current spat of page layout software file formats, unless you talking manual print presses.

Do you embed typefaces, color tweak photos to key black and so on? Those are what you do with the page layout software file to minimize the risk for errors in printing.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Do you embed typefaces, color tweak photos to key black and so on? Those are what you do with the page layout software file to minimize the risk for errors in printing.

Yep.

 

[Liar]

Yep.

There ya go then.

 

[Dragonlipz]

Algebra was never of any use. It was designed as an entertainment for well-to-to Arab gentlemen in the Middle Ages. The only reason for ever learning it is that it became the language of those higher mathematics that can be used like trigonometry and differential calculus. Despite those silly posters hung up in middle-school classrooms, carpenters have no use for algebra.

plenty of use for geometry and trig.....algebra just enhances true mathematics: trig, geometry, and calculus.....
Linear algebra was quite the slog some thirty-odd years ago when I took it.....

 

[Zeb_Carter]

The only thing I have used higher math for is to calculate the ballistic arc of a bullet for a given distance. Then add Kentucky windage to hit the target.

Other than that the only time I had to find x was when I was doing actuarial programming.

 

[Salvor-Hardon]

Not only do I know how to do relational databases, but I do them in Filemaker Pro, Postgresl, MySQL, and Oracle.

ODBC is my playground.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Not only do I know how to do relational databases, but I do them in Filemaker Pro, Postgresl, MySQL, and Oracle.

ODBC is my playground.

Hey, me too. Oracle, MS Sql, TransactSql, and AnywhereSql.

ODBC and JDBC and Direct Connect in LAN environments.

Also frontend tools, Powerbuilder, PowerJ, Dreamweaver, etc., etc.

 

[ishtat]

Algebra was never of any use. .... carpenters have no use for algebra.

True, but I could provide an elegant proof that algebra has no use for carpenters.

 

[Handley_Page]

True, but I could provide an elegant proof that algebra has no use for carpenters.

You owe me a new keyboard.
I should not have read your entry whilst drinking my coffee.