EDUCATIONAL INCUBATION & HATCHING CHAT THREAD, w/ Sally Sunshine Shipped Eggs

[BantyChooks]

That works! Gas money for when you & Mel meet up
Well get cracking, then.  We'll expect a progress report tomorrow evening, with photo documentation, of course. Get the free version of Sketchup and make it easy on yourself. Then when you get Sketchup figured out, you can clue me in, 'cause it makes my head spin

I can't make heads nor tails of it either....

 

[ocap]

Quote:
it is, in saving i have half for the coop and half for an ipod

I had a course in college called "Economic Decision Making", interesting course, I recommend !

sounds interesting!

should you drive to meet Mel or ship the chicks, make your decision strictly on cost would be one example of the kind of problems the course covered

 

[kwhites634]

Quote: The 1st computer I owned was a Mac, and it came with a neat little pseudo-CAD program that was super easy to use, which I did, a lot. When I made the switch to a PC, because most of what I wanted was non-compatible with the MACs, I no longer had that program, and nothing like it was available in the PC format, unless I wanted to sink a boatload of money into a full-blown CAD program, which I couldn't afford then & still can't. Sketchup is the closest I've ever come across, and I have it on my desktop, if I can ever get beyond making the little man disappear

 

[BantyChooks]

The 1st computer I owned was a Mac, and it came with a neat little pseudo-CAD program that was super easy to use, which I did, a lot. When I made the switch to a PC, because most of what I wanted was non-compatible with the MACs, I no longer had that program, and nothing like it was available in the PC format, unless I wanted to sink a boatload of money into a full-blown CAD program, which I couldn't afford then & still can't. Sketchup is the closest I've ever come across, and I have it on my desktop, if I can ever get beyond making the little man disappear 

Yeah, my Mac went kaput a while back... I still have some stuff that will only work on Mac that I can't bear to throw out.


I've made some basic buildings, but for me drawing it on a piece of paper is much easier.

 

[kwhites634]

Quote: I was with IBM when PC's first came out. I had one on a desk in the computer room I worked in. I never found a manual on it, hence, I could power it up, but nothing else. The sad part was the fact that I was a computer Operator, had been for 20 years, but the PC operating system was in no way similar to the big mainframes I was familiar with. After I left IBM, I eventually went to work for a guy who ran his whole business with the MAC, and I taught myself how to make it do what I wanted it to do. I even put together a catalog of all the dog & horse tack I sold in my own business, and printed it. When I left there, MAC was all I knew, so that's what I bought. I had a devil of a time learning enough to get me by on a PC.

 

[kwhites634]

I guess I've had about all the fun I can handle for one day, so I'm going to bed.
Never fear, I shall return.

 

[BantyChooks]

I guess I've had about all the fun I can handle for one day, so I'm going to bed.
Never fear, I shall return.   

Night whites

 

[BantyChooks]

 

[campingshaws]

In college I worked for two different newspapers at the same time. One used macs, one used pcs. The one that used pcs had a Mac in the production office. I got pretty good at going back and forth between the two different programs we used, and remembering the keyboard shortcuts between the two different versions of the same program.

Oh to have that pliable teenaged brain again.

 

[Pensmaster]

I was with IBM when PC's first came out. I had one on a desk in the computer room I worked in. I never found a manual on it, hence, I could power it up, but nothing else. The sad part was the fact that I was a computer Operator, had been for 20 years, but the PC operating system was in no way similar to the big mainframes I was familiar with. After I left IBM, I eventually went to work for a guy who ran his whole business with the MAC, and I taught myself how to make it do what I wanted it to do. I even put together a catalog of all the dog & horse tack I sold in my own business, and printed it. When I left there, MAC was all I knew, so that's what I bought. I had a devil of a time learning enough to get me by on a PC.

I know you've headed to bed but did you know Gerhard Dierks of IBM?