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Paul White SSC Guru Points: 150467 More actions · Answer 1

Yep. Just couldn't be bothered...I'd gone to the trouble of wrapping it in and thought that would be good enough...seems not

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spaghettidba SSC Guru Points: 105732 More actions · Answer 2

260 posts in 13 days...

You guys are posting crazy fast!

Never leave the thread alone for such a long time!

-- Gianluca Sartori

Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004343 More actions · Answer 3

Matt Miller (7/13/2009)
Jeff Moden (7/13/2009)
Dave Ballantyne (7/13/2009)
You can lead a horse to water but you cant force him to drink
Heh... well... you can if you don't mind getting your lips dirty. I'm going to leave that one alone, though.
Wow - I think you just "cleared the table" with that one....

Heh... I'd forgotten about the "fastest way to clear a table". Still works, though. 😉

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Grant Fritchey SSC Guru Points: 398882 More actions · Answer 4

Bruce W Cassidy (7/13/2009)
Grant Fritchey (7/13/2009)
You mean if you change fonts you get better performance? Holy smokes! I've got to get some edits into the chapter on tuning...
[font="Verdana"]I'm also thinking you could see a dramatic difference in performance, depending on which font you use. I wonder what would happen if you chose Wingdings?
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[font="Verdana"]Scary!
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Oh, I'm positive that using wing dings is like using cursors. It seriously impacts performance in a negative way. Hmmm... I'll have to set up tests, compare Lucida to Magneto & Book Antiqua to Bookman... How come there aren't already blog posts about this amazing discovery?

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spaghettidba SSC Guru Points: 105732 More actions · Answer 5

GilaMonster (7/14/2009)
Dave Ballantyne (7/14/2009)
IIRC it wasnt a turbo button , it was a 'go-slow for compatibility' button.
Yeah, it was. That was part (maybe too subtle) of my joke. It could be turned off for apps that ran too fast on the newer machines, but no one I knew then ever switched it off.

I did! Do you remember QBASIC's Gorilla game? It was one of the samples provided with MSDOS 6: it was impossible to play without the turbo button switched off.

-- Gianluca Sartori

spaghettidba SSC Guru Points: 105732 More actions · Answer 6

Link for nostalgic folks:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorillas_(video_game)

-- Gianluca Sartori

spaghettidba SSC Guru Points: 105732 More actions · Answer 7

Oops! It was snake instead!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_(video_game)

Gorilla was quite easy to play even if it ran too fast.

-- Gianluca Sartori

Dave Ballantyne SSC-Dedicated Points: 33667 More actions · Answer 8

Ahhh them were the days , a CGA card, floppy disks, 286 processors.

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GabyYYZ SSCertifiable Points: 7913 More actions · Answer 9

Hmmm...we're almost at page 666. Is it time to give in to the dark side? We should summarize this thread and perhaps list the absolute worst questions we've ever seen here.

LOL, with my luck, the ten posts for that page will fill it up while I'm asleep.

Gaby________________________________________________________________"In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not." - Albert Einstein

Alvin Ramard SSC-Forever Points: 41190 More actions · Answer 10

Gaby Abed (7/14/2009)
Hmmm...we're almost at page 666. Is it time to give in to the dark side? We should summarize this thread and perhaps list the absolute worst questions we've ever seen here.
LOL, with my luck, the ten posts for that page will fill it up while I'm asleep.

If you want you can change the number of posts per page to avoid the 666.

:w00t:

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Mike McQueen SSChasing Mays Points: 631 More actions · Answer 11

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July 14, 2009 at 7:53 am

#1024409

Only page 133 for me.. 😀

GabyYYZ SSCertifiable Points: 7913 More actions · Answer 12

Alvin Ramard (7/14/2009)
Gaby Abed (7/14/2009)
Hmmm...we're almost at page 666. Is it time to give in to the dark side? We should summarize this thread and perhaps list the absolute worst questions we've ever seen here.
LOL, with my luck, the ten posts for that page will fill it up while I'm asleep.
If you want you can change the number of posts per page to avoid the 666.
:w00t:

Uggh...I need to really do more customizating for SQLServerCentral, or I would have found that out.

Gaby________________________________________________________________"In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not." - Albert Einstein

Kit G SSCrazy Points: 2888 More actions · Answer 13

Gaby Abed (7/14/2009)
Hmmm...we're almost at page 666. Is it time to give in to the dark side? We should summarize this thread and perhaps list the absolute worst questions we've ever seen here.
LOL, with my luck, the ten posts for that page will fill it up while I'm asleep.

My apologies before hand... but with the upcoming 666 page... I couldn't resist. Enjoy!

666 - Biblical Number of the Beast

660 - Approximate Number of the Beast

DCLXVI - Roman Numeral of the Beast

665 - Number of the Beast's Older Brother

667 - Number of the Beast's Younger Sister

664 or 668 - Number of the Beast's Next-Door Neighbors

999 - Number of the Australian Beast

333 - Number of the Semi-Beast (also "Halfway to Hell")

66 - Number of the Downsized Beast

6, uh..., I forget - Number of the Blond Beast

666.0000 - Number of the High Precision Beast

665.9997856 - Number of the Beast on a Pentium

0.666 - Number of the Millibeast

X / 666 - Beast Common Denominator

0.00150150... - Reciprocal of the Beast

-666 - Opposite of the Beast

666i - Imaginary Number of the Beast

6.66 x 102 - Scientific Notation of the Beast

25.8069758... - Square Root of the Beast

443556 - Square of the Beast

1010011010 - Binary Number of the Beast

1232 - Octal of the Beast

29A - Hexidecimal of the Beast

2.8235 - Log of the Beast

6.5913 - Ln of the Beast

1.738 x 10289 - Anti-Log of the Beast

00666 - Zip Code of the Beast

666@hell.org - E-mail Address of the Beast

http://www.666.com - Website of the Beast

1-666-666-6666 - Phone & FAX Number of the Beast

1-866-666-6666 - Toll Free Number of the Beast

(which could also be written 18-666-666-666!)

1-900-666-6666 - Live Beasts, available now! One-on-one pacts!

Only $6.66 per minute! (Must be over 6+6+6 years old!)

666-66-6666 - Social Security Number of the Beast

Form 10666 - Special IRS Tax Forms for the Beast

66.6% - Tax Rate of the Beast

6.66% - 6-Year CD Interest Rate at First Beast Bank of Hell

($666 minimum deposit, $666 early withdrawal fee)

$666/hr - Billing Rate of the Beast's Lawyer

$665.95 - Retail Price of the Beast

$710.36 - Price of the Beast plus 6.66% Sales Tax

$769.95 - Price of the Beast with accessories and replacement soul

$656.66 - Wal-Mart Price of the Beast (next week $646.66!)

$55.50 - Monthly Payments for Beast, in 12 easy installments

Phillips 666 - Gasoline Used by the Beast (regular $6.66/gal)

Route 666 - Highway of the Beast (where he gets his kicks!)

666 mph - Speed Limit on the Beast's Highway

6-6-6 - Fertilizer of the Beast

666 lb cap - Weight Limit of the Beast

666 Minutes - Weekly News Show about the Beast (airs daily from

Midnight to 11:06 a.m., on Cable Channel 666, of course)

666^o F - Oven Temperature for Cooking "Roast Beast"

666k - Retirement Plan of the Beast

666 mg - Recommended Minimum Daily Requirement of Beast

Lotus 6-6-6 - Spreadsheet of the Beast

Word 6.66 - Word Processor of the Beast

Windows 666 - Bill Gates' Personal Beast Operating System

#666666 - Font Color of the Beast

i66686 - CPU of the Beast

666-I - BMW of the Beast

IAM 666 - License Plate Number of the Beast

Formula 666 - All Purpose Cleaner of the Beast

WD-666 - Spray Lubricant of the Beast

DSM-666 (rev) - Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the Beast

66.6 MHz - FM Radio Station of the Beast

666 KHz - AM Radio Station of the Beast

66 for 6 - A Beastly Score for an Innings (in cricket)

6 for 66 - Bowling Figures of the Beast

6/6/6 - Birthday of the Beast (but in which century?)

-- Kit

tosscrosby SSCoach Points: 18045 More actions · Answer 14

Kit G (7/14/2009)
Gaby Abed (7/14/2009)
Hmmm...we're almost at page 666. Is it time to give in to the dark side? We should summarize this thread and perhaps list the absolute worst questions we've ever seen here.
LOL, with my luck, the ten posts for that page will fill it up while I'm asleep.
My apologies before hand... but with the upcoming 666 page... I couldn't resist. Enjoy!
666 - Biblical Number of the Beast
660 - Approximate Number of the Beast
DCLXVI - Roman Numeral of the Beast
665 - Number of the Beast's Older Brother
667 - Number of the Beast's Younger Sister
664 or 668 - Number of the Beast's Next-Door Neighbors
999 - Number of the Australian Beast
333 - Number of the Semi-Beast (also "Halfway to Hell")
66 - Number of the Downsized Beast
6, uh..., I forget - Number of the Blond Beast
666.0000 - Number of the High Precision Beast
665.9997856 - Number of the Beast on a Pentium
0.666 - Number of the Millibeast
X / 666 - Beast Common Denominator
0.00150150... - Reciprocal of the Beast
-666 - Opposite of the Beast
666i - Imaginary Number of the Beast
6.66 x 102 - Scientific Notation of the Beast
25.8069758... - Square Root of the Beast
443556 - Square of the Beast
1010011010 - Binary Number of the Beast
1232 - Octal of the Beast
29A - Hexidecimal of the Beast
2.8235 - Log of the Beast
6.5913 - Ln of the Beast
1.738 x 10289 - Anti-Log of the Beast
00666 - Zip Code of the Beast
666@hell.org - E-mail Address of the Beast
http://www.666.com - Website of the Beast
1-666-666-6666 - Phone & FAX Number of the Beast
1-866-666-6666 - Toll Free Number of the Beast
(which could also be written 18-666-666-666!)
1-900-666-6666 - Live Beasts, available now! One-on-one pacts!
Only $6.66 per minute! (Must be over 6+6+6 years old!)
666-66-6666 - Social Security Number of the Beast
Form 10666 - Special IRS Tax Forms for the Beast
66.6% - Tax Rate of the Beast
6.66% - 6-Year CD Interest Rate at First Beast Bank of Hell
($666 minimum deposit, $666 early withdrawal fee)
$666/hr - Billing Rate of the Beast's Lawyer
$665.95 - Retail Price of the Beast
$710.36 - Price of the Beast plus 6.66% Sales Tax
$769.95 - Price of the Beast with accessories and replacement soul
$656.66 - Wal-Mart Price of the Beast (next week $646.66!)
$55.50 - Monthly Payments for Beast, in 12 easy installments
Phillips 666 - Gasoline Used by the Beast (regular $6.66/gal)
Route 666 - Highway of the Beast (where he gets his kicks!)
666 mph - Speed Limit on the Beast's Highway
6-6-6 - Fertilizer of the Beast
666 lb cap - Weight Limit of the Beast
666 Minutes - Weekly News Show about the Beast (airs daily from
Midnight to 11:06 a.m., on Cable Channel 666, of course)
666^o F - Oven Temperature for Cooking "Roast Beast"
666k - Retirement Plan of the Beast
666 mg - Recommended Minimum Daily Requirement of Beast
Lotus 6-6-6 - Spreadsheet of the Beast
Word 6.66 - Word Processor of the Beast
Windows 666 - Bill Gates' Personal Beast Operating System
#666666 - Font Color of the Beast
i66686 - CPU of the Beast
666-I - BMW of the Beast
IAM 666 - License Plate Number of the Beast
Formula 666 - All Purpose Cleaner of the Beast
WD-666 - Spray Lubricant of the Beast
DSM-666 (rev) - Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the Beast
66.6 MHz - FM Radio Station of the Beast
666 KHz - AM Radio Station of the Beast
66 for 6 - A Beastly Score for an Innings (in cricket)
6 for 66 - Bowling Figures of the Beast
6/6/6 - Birthday of the Beast (but in which century?)

Nothing better to do today??? 😉

-- You can't be late until you show up.

Kit G SSCrazy Points: 2888 More actions · Answer 15

Nope. This is our company's down time. Ask me again in about two months and I'll be swamped for the next 6 months.

edit to add how many months I'll be swamped

-- Kit