How Dangerous 2012-10-09

[Mark N]

Just want to ask:
5) Is a Schrodinger's Blade necessarily a Chekhov's Gun?

Not at all my friend. It is just a proof that quantum physics is part and parcel of all things even the supernatural.

Oh god, I just thought a disturbing thought; Did I just coin a Trope?????

[illiad]

(you missed a bracket. ). . . Now we still have several more points to figure out.
1) Who made the 'Schrodinger's Blade' that is both in and not in M's head?

no its not that... If you look at the situation 'just before' it happened...
http://wapsisquare.com/comic/hold-on-to-your-ass/
you may see she seems to be in a 'different state'... I'm guessing, but the head that the knife goes in, is her 'presence' in the demon world...
a doorway has to have two sides.. The knife went in the 'demon side' so it does not exist on the 'human' side??
I think it was bud that said "anyone dead by the time the hammer stops ringing, becomes part of the machine and separates from the rest of existence"
and then a demon comes out, and says they will cease to exist when the calendar resets.. I guess keeping the door open, so they can take over... that is why the knife is needed, closing the door, and fixing the calendar.. ???????

2) Does she have an ancestor that explains her being the 'Jaguar Girl'? dunno..
3) Is she truly immortal and what does the aforementioned "S Blade" have to do with that state?
AFAICS she is NOT immortal.. same as, you would not be immortal(BUT very nearly! ) if you had a 'impregnable shield', that covered your whole body...
4) are Dietzel and Oscar what they seem? you will have to explain that...

Just want to ask:
5) Is a Schrodinger's Blade necessarily a Chekhov's Gun? well, tvtropes says that is a plot device... you will have to ask pablo!!!

[illiad]

Not at all my friend. It is just a proof that quantum physics is part and parcel of all things even the supernatural.

well... there are people who think that quantum physics may explain ghosts and things....

[Fairportfan]

*shrugs* It's the way I write. Thinking and writing in one go.

"Elk vogeltje zingt zoals hij gebekt is."

Yeah, but... it actually takes hitting two keys to produce an accented character on a German keyboard - is that any different on Dutch ones?

(Yeah, we've got extra keys for three umlauted characters - äber selbst dänn ersetze ich döch nicht einfäch ä, ö ünd ü dürch Ümläute... *hust hust*)

When i need to type them, i use Character Map.

[Fairportfan]

5) Is a Schrodinger's Blade necessarily a Chekhov's Gun?

Well, that one was.

[Leak]

(Yeah, we've got extra keys for three umlauted characters - äber selbst dänn ersetze ich döch nicht einfäch ä, ö ünd ü dürch Ümläute... *hust hust*)

When i need to type them, i use Character Map.

Sure, but... but... SLOOOOOOOW!!1!elf

[Fairportfan]

(Yeah, we've got extra keys for three umlauted characters - äber selbst dänn ersetze ich döch nicht einfäch ä, ö ünd ü dürch Ümläute... *hust hust*)

When i need to type them, i use Character Map.

Sure, but... but... SLOOOOOOOW!!1!elf

Maintain a text editor window. As you need each character the first time, use character map and paste it to the editor as well as your active document. While it might not be as quick as using multiple keystrokes, it will be quicker than using CM directly.

[Julie]

Maintain a text editor window. As you need each character the first time, use character map and paste it to the editor as well as your active document. While it might not be as quick as using multiple keystrokes, it will be quicker than using CM directly.

That sounds interesting...and far easier than having to remember the key-codes to bring up accented letters like I've done in the past. Where does one get one of these fancy new-fangled text editor windows?

[Aleister Crow]

Windows has one built in- Notepad.

[Fairportfan]

Windows has one built in- Notepad.

And it's a piece of junk.

I prefer EditPad Lite, which is free, and what i use for all of my entry and editing ... if i want it fancier, i grab Serif PagePlus X6 (Desktop Publishing).

(There is a free version of PagePlus, without the more sophisticated bells and whistles; i think the only catch is that you have to register it and get put on their mailing list. Of course, i'm sure that nobody here would think of creating a one-shot GMail address to register with...) Despite its reduced functionality vs PPX6, it's quite capable for the average person - certainly capable of things like church bulletins of flyers or the like.

[Aleister Crow]

Windows has one built in- Notepad.

And it's a piece of junk.

I figured that was a given, since it's part of Windows.

[Haylo]

Windows has one built in- Notepad.

And it's a piece of junk.

I figured that was a given, since it's part of Windows.

In all fairness to Microsoft, their only huge problem is that for many years their market share was over the service limit (the point at which things that help your customers stop helping your business). I'm amazed that they managed to do so many things right under that huge disincentive. There are a ton of things in Windows that are good and worthwhile...when supplemented by a few additional programs from the public domain or from companies not over the limit.

[lake_wrangler]

I use Notepad++.

Not only is it a decent text editor, but it also "knows" various programming languages, so that it can help with stuff like closing parentheses and so on...

[Fairportfan]

I use Notepad++.

Not only is it a decent text editor, but it also "knows" various programming languages, so that it can help with stuff like closing parentheses and so on...

If i ever get 'round to starting programming again - which will involve re-learning the languages i once knew and learning others - i might well swing to that.

Right now, like Word, it'd be overkill for me. EditPad Lite is plenty for me.

[lake_wrangler]

I was pretty good with COBOL, C, C++, SQL, and VB, back in computer college (93-97). When I graduated, I had to find work right away (had a family to feed, after all), so I took the first job I could which was some customer service job that had nothing to do with what I had studied... After a year of that, I felt I was wasting away, so I quit and looked for a job in the computer field. Unfortunately, as I did not have a computer at home at the time to keep up with the skills, and I had no "real world" experience, I could not land a programming job. I ended up doing tech support for a few years, until I was laid off my last tech support job... I looked again for another whole year, but since I was more of a generalist, with no certification of any kind, even that was hard to find... I ended up driving a delivery truck (6-wheeler, class D in Ontario, class 3 in Québec) and eventually applied and got into City Transit bus driving...

Fortunately for me, a friend I had in that last tech job had gone on to start his own company, and he needed my help at first with some SQL related stuff... He later started giving me contract work for MS Access databases, with much VBA behind the scenes. That way, I still get to use some of the techniques and knowledge I learned in computer college, even though I am not doing it full-time. For now, I am happy with that. I still vaguely remember C++, and would probably pick it up decently quickly, if I actually had the time, but it is not a priority right now.

[jwhouk]

Word stopped being useful as a text editor after Office 2k3. With Word 2k3, documents got saved with XML coding, which screwed things up when you saved stuff to do copy/paste as an HTML document.

Notepad++ rules, and I'm not even that much of a programmer. Much more robust of a text editor than Notepad or even Wordpad.

[lake_wrangler]

The only problem I have with Notepadd++ is that while I downloaded and installed the add-on for spell checking, I can't seem to get it to work... Other than that, I love it.

[Bathorys Daughter]

Windows has one built in- Notepad.

And it's a piece of junk.

I prefer EditPad Lite, which is free, and what i use for all of my entry and editing ... if i want it fancier, i grab Serif PagePlus X6 (Desktop Publishing).

The thing is Notepad was never meant to be much of a text editor. It was for taking notes (as the name suggests). Not editing documents. It's really unfair to compare it to word processing or programming editing programs. It does fine for what it was meant to be and is fine for me in that regard. I want something simple and straightforward for taking and saving notes. All those extra bells and whistles aren't needed for that. They just get in the way for most people.

If anything, one of those Notepad-like programs with the ability to leave sticky-notes on the screen would be more like an upgrade from Notepad.

[jwhouk]

Didn't the Mac have something like that a few OS'es ago in Sticky Notes?

[NOTDilbert]

I was pretty good with COBOL, C, C++, SQL, and VB, back in computer college (93-97). When I graduated, I had to find work right away (had a family to feed, after all), so I took the first job I could which was some customer service job that had nothing to do with what I had studied... After a year of that, I felt I was wasting away, so I quit and looked for a job in the computer field. Unfortunately, as I did not have a computer at home at the time to keep up with the skills, and I had no "real world" experience, I could not land a programming job. I ended up doing tech support for a few years, until I was laid off my last tech support job... I looked again for another whole year, but since I was more of a generalist, with no certification of any kind, even that was hard to find... I ended up driving a delivery truck (6-wheeler, class D in Ontario, class 3 in Québec) and eventually applied and got into City Transit bus driving...

Fortunately for me, a friend I had in that last tech job had gone on to start his own company, and he needed my help at first with some SQL related stuff... He later started giving me contract work for MS Access databases, with much VBA behind the scenes. That way, I still get to use some of the techniques and knowledge I learned in computer college, even though I am not doing it full-time. For now, I am happy with that. I still vaguely remember C++, and would probably pick it up decently quickly, if I actually had the time, but it is not a priority right now.

I took Programming in the late 70's - I learned FORTRAN, WATFOR, and WATFIV. And punched unending stacks of Hollerith Cards.....
I haven't understood how computer programs work since BASIC Compiler....