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Bill Glasheen wrote: Windows 8 has nothing on it that I want, and it takes away some of the capabilities I have with Windows 7 Pro. I don't need my OS dumbed down, and I don't have a whole slew of toys to synch up to my machine. I have no pen or touch screen input. I earn a living off my laptop by linking in with a company server that has a virtual machine on it.
Eventually I'll switch over to reading on tablets rather than books.
Micheal A. Walker wrote:Most delivery problems begin below the waist. It is widely believed that the most telling moment in a pitcher's delivery is the foot strike. This is when the lead foot makes contact with the mound and marks the beginning of the late cocking phase. Correct mechanics call for the pitching arm to be up and ready to throw at the instant of foot strike. During that instant, a right-handed pitcher should be showing the baseball to the shortstop, a lefty to the second baseman. If at the moment of foot strike, a pitcher's elbows come higher than his wrists and shoulders with the ball pointing down, he's said to be demonstrating an "inverted W" [Figure 3]. The “inverted W” is a hallmark sign that a pitcher’s sequencing is off and is often considered a predictor of future Tommy John recipients. Such poor timing leads to arm lag, evident when the throwing elbow trails the shoulder once the shoulders square to home plate. Current major league pitcher and Tommy John surgery recipient, Adam Wainwright [pictured below] exhibits both problems.
This forces him and others like him to rely more on the arm's relatively small muscles instead of the more massive ones in the legs and torso. Throw after throw the shoulder and elbow are under extra stress. The higher the pitch's velocity, the worse the flaw becomes and the more the arm suffers. In addition, the more a pitcher throws, the worse the injury becomes.
These days I can find almost anything I need with Google and a few accounts to special peer-reviewed publication services. I haven't bought a book on SAS or SQL in ages. If I'm not going online to get digitized sections from SAS themselves, I can often find class notes from some odd professor in San Diego. It's how for instance I scarfed an algorithm to figure out someone's age based on their date of birth. That's not as easy as you think.
I still read paper books. But as my presbyopia advances, I can see enjoying the ability to change font size on something I'm reading, or blowing up a picture to see detail. Even now I'll go outside, take a picture of one of my dragon fly buddies, bring the camera inside, upload the picture, and blow up the face to see the compound eye. That's better than what I can see in real life.
Forbes wrote:Welcome to some unwanted deja vu. Last week Microsoft released a cumulative bug fix for Windows 10 which caused endless crash loops. Now Microsoft has released a cumulative bug fix to address it and guess what? Yes, it is also causing Windows 10 computers to crash over and over again…
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