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Maybe that is why some people are richer than others? They get the timing right. But at the end of the day most of life is down to the people you meet and the decisions you make. For want of a description some call it luck? Years ago a young guy in the town we lived in walked into a newsagents...

@Jon #8 "a) you don't know when to pull out" Maybe don't let greed and 'what-if' have too much influence? If you turn a profit fine, then move on. I think that the trouble with things that expand quickly you really don't know why but once they fail you know exactly why they failed. What if...

@Isaac : Get in early That applies to all pyramid schemes. Maybe create your own and then you're in at the start? Then you're the one of the few that does well out of it and not one the many hoping the people running it do well and will drop a few crumbs down to the hopeful. How much will you...

Oh!.... I just scanned down at mouse wheel speed but did think whilst passing through #8 & #10 I'd give them a go sometime. I'd stuck them in my library before posting mine.

Why not use the Tilde ~ to shorten directory/folder names to eight characters? A couple of examples using the DIR command which should be self explanatory. Unfortunately there is little on the internet about using the Tilde. So you may need to do a few tests to get what you want. EXAMPLE 1...

I do think that time will certainly improve their capability to advance to super intelligence. The software certainly can only improve. Only problem I see is that we become submissive to their results and simply accept without question. AI could probably replace all British politicians at this...

Over here we have seen a few news conferences on TV recently, with LA fires and now this saddening event. One thing I don't quite understand is why when the person apparently in charge, or in a leadership position is surrounded by 15 to 20 staff. All they appear to do is hover about without...

There is an element of plagiarism in most music but I think less so in copying riffs, melody, or words. It surely comes in style, or as some like to call it genres. From the 60s there was an explosion of different musicians, all copying what they heard on records from the USA. They heard it and...

I see in the press at weekend that McCartney and Elton John are kicking off about copyright. Their copyright in particular. Mainly because they think, correctly I guess, that AI will use their output to create new music. But I cannot see that they can stop this from happening. Just as they...

My suggestion is only use integer calculations that are stored in your tables. (by integer in Access I refer to Longs) Do the calcs, multiply by 100, store the integer. If you want to round then add a rounding before you change it to an integer. When you add up integers you can only ever get...

When looking around, maybe make sure there isn't a DuPont, or a 3M factory anywhere near?

I have an original CD of Visual FoxPro 9.0 Professional which has been sat on the shelf for years. It says it is an upgrade but as I recall it installed Ok back in the day.

Found it with a combination Of Doc's and tvanstiphout's suggetions. I have a variable mFIOerr which I adjusted through the code. So I added one after every line of code. Initially the FIO error was 0, then it went to 5 and finally 18. Then running it with the R suffix it was located it with...

Not to my knowledge, they are usually referred to as a half timbered building. Newer houses aren't, just a decorative effect. But I do tend to agree with Uncle, as it does have the look of those you see in France.

Just wondering if anyone knows more detail on Error 2046. Its official explanation is: 2046 : The command or action '|1' isn't available now.@* You may be in a read-only database, or an unconverted database from an earlier version of Microsoft Access. I have a program developed in Access2019...

Have to say Doc, if it was 1st April I wouldn't believe this photo was taken in New Orleans. Particularly as it appears to be of a half timbered building in an English village. I imagined New Orleaner people to be either trumpet and trombone players happily wandering the streets entertaining...

I fail to understand how apple pie is considered exclusively American. Looking at the acclaimed Cotswold History of the Best English Speaking Peoples. It is clear that they were popular as far back as Tudor times in England. In fact it confirms that in addition to a couple of swans and a...

There were two snowmen chatting to pass the time and one said to the other "Hey, can you smell carrots?" I'm surprised you get snow in New Orleans. I've had the impression that it was always hot as you look as far south as Florida and Texas. In England we aren't keen on snow, so we want more...

I'm not entirely convinced about the DNA results from Ancestry, or associate much value to them. Maybe more of a novelty than anything else? Myself, my wife and son in law have references to Iceland which cannot be correct (in my opinion). The only reason I can think is that the Norwegian link...

Names and their spelling are always a problem. I've seen some in later 1800s censuses incorrectly translated by maybe not that interested census recorders. Or the fact that the people on the census didn't know how to spell their names, so couldn't correct them. I wonder at times if thy were...