BL> It's got a few little quirks. What you see on screen is not
 BL> always what you get whne you print (or FAX) it, and its style
 BL> sheets are a

 FM> Maybe not in Page Layout mode, but I think it's OK in Print
 FM> Preview.

  Nope. I've been caught a few times there, too. It's not foolproof,
and it can be a nuisance with a FAX when you don't actually get to see
what happened at the other end. I use a standard boilerplate that I
had them FAX me back to check it...

 FM> The problem I have is something slightly different between the
 FM> one at home and at work - a document formatted exactly as I
 FM> want it on one might have the last line flow onto the next page
 FM> on the other

  Yes... that sort of thing.

 FM> The bells & whistles in Word 6 clutter and complicate it (IMHO)
 FM> for no added functionality, and some of the things I want to do
 FM> seem to have disappeared - they're certainly not in the menus
 FM> where they used to be.

 BL> (grin) I even cut the bells and whistles out of Word2.

 FM> Oh? How?

  The grammar... and other stuff I can't be bothered looking up.

 FM> Yeah, what happened to that project? :-)

 BL> Delphi. It's almost trivial to do it now...

 FM> If you want < than 32k documents you could use a TMemo, more
 FM> than that it's a bit harder. Plus if you want to put in
 FM> graphics, formatting, etc. 

  I wrote something that loads 32K at a time as you page down and up.
It was a bit jerky on the old 386 but on the 486 is works quite well.

 BL> I don't think I'd like to be a kid now, trying to decide a
 BL> future. Even Medicine is changing! If you look 20 years ahead
 BL> it's impossible to see. Do we end up the brains-trust feeding
 BL> the industrial giant of China, or food-peasants feeding Asia, a
 BL> nation taking in each other's washing in the service
 BL> industries, or what?

 FM> But I don't think that's much different from then. I did
 FM> science and engineering but became a banker and now
 FM> stockbroker. Hardly relevant skills. The post-grad Comp Sci. I
 FM> did was probably useful though, when I was a programmer.

  I assume you choose an education appropriate to your career, which
is really the whole point, isn't it? I did Engineering because I was
an engineer. Why would I want to do Commerce unless I wanted to be a
banker and a stockbroker? This is the point I was making... 40 years
ago I could predict where I would end up (not as it turned out, in
fact) but today there is no way to know. I suppose the 60s were the
end of predictabilty.

  I don't think there is a danger in a narrow education. You learn as
you go along anyway, and mostly you learn how to learn, but the waste
is prodigous!

  Personally, I think the answer is a shortened non-Uni education that
finishes High School at 16, and goes on to a polytechnic for 4 years.
I can't see that universtities have a function any more. A profession
will no longer be recognisable after 20 years, and if this is so, the
Uni will always be teaching 10 years out of date!

 BL> Instead of being a real big deal with lots of continuing
 BL> business and an entire department... they cure ulcers forever
 BL> now. You get a breath test, a bottle of yoghurt, and ta ta
 BL> ulcers. The local GP could do it, and probably will.

 FM> I thought I'd heard that they've discovered that it's a
 FM> bacteria that causes ulcers. Where do the breath test and
 FM> yoghurt come in?

  The C13-urea breath test is used to diagnose presence of helibacter
pylori, and yoghurt is used as the medium to deliver the antibacterial
goop to the gut where it does the most good.

  I was using that as an example of the big change in gasterentiology.
Ulcers were the major part of the speciality, and now they're the
least of it.

  I wonder if cardiology might go the same way. I notice a similarity
to ulcers... too many known causes, an undefiend genetic link, stress,
food... and it turns out to be a bloody germ! One effect, one cause.  

Regards,
Bob
  

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