Re: Sarah Palin - hot or not?

On Thu, 04 Sep 2008 17:35:11 -0700, StickThatInYourPipeAndSmokeIt
<Zarathustra@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Thu, 04 Sep 2008 17:17:39 -0700, John Larkin
<jjlarkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Thu, 04 Sep 2008 16:37:43 -0700, StickThatInYourPipeAndSmokeIt
<Zarathustra@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Thu, 04 Sep 2008 13:42:44 -0700, John Larkin
<jjlarkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Most of the engineering spreadsheets that I have seen had at least one
error, which didn't stop the authors from believing the results.

Sometimes you state some very stupid things, John.

If you have been away from spreadsheets for a couple decades, I could
see such a near sighted remark.

Modern spreadsheets are very powerful tools.

So is the ability to program. Given a complex problem, I prefer to
write a program that's properly commented, has helpful prompts, and is
easy to maintain.

Spreadsheets have rotten control structures, and don't make nice
reports. But the tools don't matter: the results do.

John

Like I said... You OBVIOUSLY have not worked with a modern spread***.
The charting and reporting functions are very powerful.

Excel does hideous graphing. I use a real graphing program for
presentation stuff, or a pencil and graph paper for private stuff. Why
read the numbers, write them down, type them in, and set up plots,
when you can make dots directly on paper?

Kids these days! Never learned how to draw.


Barcode scans, etc. get read straight into a cell. There are several
applications that can be written in simple tools like spreadsheets and
databases. Your specialized "front ends" for your data collection
routines are very single use and proprietary.

My "front ends"? Where?


Spreadsheets can do a lot. Job and time tracking.. all kinds of things
where a database application is overkill, but data handling is needed.

I don't do job or time tracking. Never have, never will.

John

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