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Of course we adapt, (hence my usage above) but it is annoying that the other 90+ % of us have to because of American language imperialism.

Absolutely agree as with the other stricture about setting the format everywhere used(forms, reports controls etc) but there are still anomalies caused by MS's default - for instance assigning a date to a string to be used in an SQL statement. Being a Brit I always assign dates to strings as...

It never helps that Microsoft uses Date format (MDY) that is only used by about 3% of the world's population. 😏

Neville Shute the author of books including On thBeach an A Town Called Alice had the title of 'Chief Computer' in the 1920s whilst working on the R-100 airship. Everything done by hand or using a slide rule.

Hadn't seen this since I left school (in 1967).

The problem is that they are representations of the exactly same Word document as best as I could do them for the forum - I'm not interested in better was of doing it - I've already done that. The weird bit is that what comes out of the printer has the captions differently numbered to the...

I wonder if anyone has any thoughts about a weird problem I cam across preparing a picture round for pub quiz. Attached are; 1) a screen shot of the picture round as it shows on the PC screen: 10 picture with captions in text boxes underneath them. The picture are numbered 1 - 10 with the...

I was confused by the title of this thread - to me, as to most Brits, an 'OIK' is 'uncouth or obnoxious person' (OED). Hence I assumed an oikophobe would be someone with a fear of oiks.

No to mention my favourite from Tom Lehrer - 'what you get out a sewer depend on what you put in'!

Hadn't spotted the price - I was lent a copy. It's not even on the UK Amazon Web site.

If you want to be convinced to abandon AI read "If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies" by Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares.

Surely for this particular example of a multiple expression search the obvious answer is to use Regular Expressions, which are part of SQL Server.

Brings back memories of university!

Probably zero value - but old ...

Ignoring the bits about inappropriate content this main thread has amused me somewhat. All that is happening is that something is being put back that was available in 'days-of-yore'. The IE browser OCX which disappeared at the start of the century worked beautifully and then was gone and if...

I reality not much of a shift of anything in my personal opinion - except symbolism. More importantly does a religious assertion like BlueSpruces post have potential to cause the site problems - to me not, but who knows?

I would say that preferably the moderator of mods should be excluded as an everyday mod, so I would be reluctant to go with Doc_man as I like his everyday style of normal moderation. Whoever course is chosen we will complain about the MOM (mod of mods) won't we? - so he/she will need to be...

Explains my point exactly - to me his usage in the case in point had no hint of nastiness (I went back and reread it). We remain at misunderstanding each other. Granted his post was not necessarily pleasant but the use of 'dear' wasn't special. To quote Winston Churchill - 'two countries...

As far as I can see we have very good moderators who are conscientious (and proactive) but the site does have one problem: the mix of UK and US members and the misunderstandings possibly engendered. A relatively trivial example was when Pat got hot under the collar about the use of the word...

Actually when I started this thread I was far more focused. I can tell many tales of time gone by but I looking at the logic of what do you do when you have no system? Even if your have secure ack-ups of your data and apps, who knows where and how to find them and how do we work without the IT...