[Xerte] sub/super script?

Fri Nov 13 00:52:46 GMT 2009

Corporate IT's default response. ;-)

Sometimes those type of things have significant impacts.

At the height of the U-boat crisis of WWII, the Allies came up with centimetric radar, and that short a wavelength allowed patrolling aircraft to distinguish periscopes from waves.

A huge number of submarines were subsequently sunk, but the Germans were convinced it was a case of code-breaking, as their scientists had concluded "centimetric radar is not theoretically possible".

Subject: RE: [Xerte] sub/super script?
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:39:43 -0800
From: Paul.Swanson at harlandfs.com
To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk

Great story. 

Never say something’s not possible. I once had a boss that
wanted some kind of report out of a 3rd-party software program that used
a database. She asked our IT department for it, they told her it couldn’t be
done. She asked me if I could get the information out of the program, but didn’t
tell me the IT department said it couldn’t be done. 

It took me half an hour …

P

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[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Dave Burnett

Sent: Thursday, November 12, 2009 3:24 PM

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Subject: RE: [Xerte] sub/super script?

Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:15:59 -0800

From: Paul.Swanson at harlandfs.com

To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk

> … I
didn’t realize you could create your own tags in that way. I was disappointed
that the Flash player didn’t support the <span> tag, as that is an easy
way to apply a style class. Being able to create your own tag accomplishes much
the same thing as defining a class. 

Truth be told, I just didn't know any
better. I tried it and it worked (except for the nesting annoyance).

You know the story of the Lear jet?

Lear was founded by Bill Lear.

You remember the 60's when the latest gadget was the transistor radio?

Lear invented that. He wanted to make a portable radio and the advent of
transistors made it possible. The one block was the field coil. Common physics
theory at the time said you could not drop the physical size of the coil below
some ratio of it's number of windings. So theoretically, you couldn't make a
coil the size he needed.

But Bill was a high school drop-out and never heard that theory, so he just
wound one the size he wanted, and it worked. ;-)

He has a daughter. He named her Shanda. Shanda Lear.

-Dave

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