Hi Guys, I've stayed away from this thread so far, just didn't want to read / hear about more Doom & Gloom. Now that I read the posts I found it quite positive and realistic in many ways. Even the 'Buy Off' idea, €1M for over 50s. As we all know only too well the Building Industry has been devastated World wide and this is having a pretty depressing effect all round. However the Building Industry will be needed in the future so anyone that is unemployed should keep their hands in and learn new skills in ready for the day that things pick up again. I'm wondering if SketchUcation could play a part in generating some employment to expert SketchUp and associated program users by way on On Line Training / Consultancy Work. I'd like to bounce a few ideas off anyone that now finds they are low on work and willing to investigate the possibility of working through a 'SketchUcation Online Agency' whereby Online Training / Consultations could be booked, paid for and supplied via SketchUcation. Rather then hog this thread I will start a new topic and see how it goes. Look out for 'SketchUcation Online Services Agency' http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=179&t=18363&p=149171#p149171 Mike

We had a couple of old sewing machines as well, but I gave them to an exiled Nigerian Finance Minister.

I just bought one of the new U3 memory sticks with 160 times the entire storage capacity of my first real PC. Amazing when you think about it. Mind you, that old machine itself is pretty amazing when you consider that little more than a decade before the Enigma code breakers at Bletchley Park were using Colossus machines that had thousands of the old glass radio valves as logic gates and no onboard memory at all.

Well, look, they'd digitize the data anyway. I guess this way (encouraging people to do it themselves) it saves time,energy thus money for them. It's also compulsory for enterprises to hand in things this way. The "possibility" for paperwork is only for private people.

True. Or track your kids. (Un?)fortunately my phone cannot do this.

Question: "Who's voting for all these new regulations?" Answer: The millions who voted Labour in the last general election. It was in their manifesto. The millions who voted Conservative in the last general election. It was in their manifesto. (A weaker, but similar version, promised by them.) Moral: You get what you vote for. Regards Mr S

I wouldn't worry about Seiko, John. Just think of all the 3D car marques that are out there on the Net. Anyway, it's good publicity for them; contesting the issue and coming across as a miserly curmudgeon is quite the reverse. That is quite different from the case of the idiot that started posting dozens of FormFonts meshes to another forum. When challenged, he actually had the gall to claim that he was doing us a favour by publicising the site. Yeah, right...like I'd be doing someone else a favour by giving all their wordly goods away to demonstrate what good taste they had. Polite approaches often work. I'm glad it did in your case. But just occasionally you hit the Twilight Zone.

Nice find. Focusing a trackable heliostat panel on a static mounted solar water collecter would really increase its efficiency. Thanks

@ross macintosh said: Thomas - did they bust it? I think they confirmed that a hot car could make the boxes pop.

Well... My dad used to say... "Never trust rumours..."

OK, thanks again.

As an outside observer, I find it hard to reconcile these two contributions:- @unknownuser said: You missed the point. I wasn't saying McCain would have been better, I was saying the libs' reaction to McCain would have been more pronounced had he done what Obama is doing. and @unknownuser said: he's the most divisive president in the last 30 years. Surely the point of the apparent polarization over Obama’s policies is a sign that the political right is much less willing to meet any other opinion even half-way than is the political left….hence they are generally the more partisan of the two. If you actually look at the individual approval rating you will notice that the two lowest approvals (26% and 27%) are both Republican…by a very substantial margin, suggesting that Republicans are far less tolerant of any policies other than their own than are Democrats. It also seems to be the case that when a Republican president is in office the Democratic rating is usually within 10 or 20% of the Independent whilst the Republican approval goes stratospheric...suggesting the same thing. (Places big wooden spoon back on shelf)

...You saw it here. http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=179&t=17668

Andrew, no, not handwritten fonts. The numbers could be Arial or some other san-serif font. I'm looking for a font like this to be able to insert them into a document that has to reference various parts of some SketchUp drawings.

thats pretty sweet, too bad it doesn't cut CO2 as well

@krisidious said: hey Ron... how are things? good to see you as well... that's one of the reasons I stopped posting, too many conversations were about "me" and not Sketchup, that and this place was as addictive as crack... I get so much more done in my day now... Things are great, thanks. I too, am getting a lot more done now that I'm limiting my posts.

@ecuadorian said: Oh, the irony... In Youtube there are many smart, inspiring, entertaining, or simply informative videos. Some of them have many visits, but most don't. And which are the ones that consistently get hundreds of thousands (or even millions) of visits? Those of girls staring at the camera, talking gibberish, or not saying a word at all. I guess the entire world has gone not only da-da, but also ga-ga. 1000% agreed

Ooh, nice website. It was definitaely just me (well, the entire building). Google and Yahoo were blocked. Then after a couple of hours, all internet access was dead. Thanks everyone, Chris

Microsoft has closed the loop on virus, anti-trojan and firewall software. Microsoft Defender - free anti trojan and spy Microsoft OneCare - full free anti-virus scan software - onecare.live.com Microsoft - built in Firewall xp/vista or another free alternative firewall - ZoneAlarm by Checkpoint With these free pieces in place the personal pc "security for pay" market can now go take a bath. Kick your Norten to the curb!

All those characters are from Looney Tunes, except the Grinch, which is a Dr. Seuss character. Kinda odd. But I agree with Teezer - people who get upset with this sort of thing are too sensitive.