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It's late fall and the Indians on a remote reservation in South Dakota asked their new chief if the coming winter was going to be cold or mild.
Since he was a chief in a modern society, he had never been taught the old secrets. When he looked at the sky, he couldn't tell what the winter was going to be like.
Nevertheless, to be on the safe side, he told his tribe that the winter was indeed going to be cold and that the members of the village should collect firewood to be prepared..
But, being a practical leader, after several days, he got an idea He went to the phone booth, called the National Weather Service and asked, 'Is the coming winter going to be cold?'
'It looks like this winter is going to be quite cold,' the meteorologist at the weather service responded.
So the chief went back to his people and told them to collect even more firewood in order to be prepared.
A week later, he called the National Weather Service again. 'Does it still look like it is going to be a very cold winter?'
'Yes,' the man at National Weather Service again replied, 'it's going to be a very cold winter.'
The chief again went back to his people and ordered them to collect every scrap of firewood they could find.
Two weeks later, the chief called the National Weather Service again. 'Are you absolutely sure that the winter is going to be very cold?'
'Absolutely,' the man replied. 'It's looking more and more like it is going to be one of the coldest winters we've ever seen.'
'How can you be so sure?' the chief asked.
The weatherman replied, 'The Indians are collecting firewood like crazy.'
So now you know how the Weather Service makes its predictions...
Will Rogers never met me.
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I always thought they picked the weather from a hat full of possibilities.
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You give them too much credit. I always thought it was picked from someplace else..
According to my calculations, I should be able to retire about 5 years after I die.
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At last, a Lounge joke that did not induce nausea 
thanks to you (and Ravi-ji, the other tasteful ragazzasaccio), Bill
«OOP to me means only messaging, local retention and protection and hiding of state-process, and extreme late-binding of all things. » Alan Kay's clarification on what he meant by the term "Object" in "Object-Oriented Programming."
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I work very hard, Bill, searching other forums for clever stuff to steal and share with you. Glad you appreciate it! 
Will Rogers never met me.
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I'm gonna burst your bubble: From my perspective, not only is it an old joke, but it's also a dad joke.  It hardly gets any worse than that...
In your defense, I wouldn't blame you for not being able to find a prior post on CP, since it the web the internet didn't exist the first time I heard it.
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Of course, Dear, you do know best what's right for me 
«OOP to me means only messaging, local retention and protection and hiding of state-process, and extreme late-binding of all things. » Alan Kay's clarification on what he meant by the term "Object" in "Object-Oriented Programming."
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I'm not about to waste my time with a search function that finds nothing when I try it, so you get to enjoy it twice. 
Will Rogers never met me.
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+5 
/ravi
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Will the circle be unbroken?
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.0
There's a fine line between crazy and free spirited and it's usually a prescription.
I'm currently unsupervised, I know it freaks me out too but the possibilities are endless.
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Mike Hankey wrote: Will the circle be unbroken
Great song! Twas listening to the Carter family last weekend.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
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jeron1 wrote: Great song! Twas listening to the Carter family last weekend.
Back when country music was really country.
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.0
There's a fine line between crazy and free spirited and it's usually a prescription.
I'm currently unsupervised, I know it freaks me out too but the possibilities are endless.
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Amen brother!
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
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Wanderers [^]
A little different form the normal fare yet utterly entrancing in it's own way. The quote from Melville says it all: I hope we make it out there and I lament that I won't be going.
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Awesome
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.0
There's a fine line between crazy and free spirited and it's usually a prescription.
I'm currently unsupervised, I know it freaks me out too but the possibilities are endless.
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Spot on!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Carl Sagan great voice for thing like that!
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At some point, this looks like a preview/trailer/teaser for Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars Trilogy[^].
I'd rather be phishing!
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smarter alien understands spaceflight without harder, has longer life can make it go there but human is stupid and all dies nearly soon without even getting farther than earth maybe it will be found flag on the moon but nothing ever care at all even if it found
To summary Neil DeGrasse Tyson think in Chimpanzee is 98% similar but is difference made that called 2% is understand physics, math, much more than chimp ever can. Maybe alien is 10% 50% 100% smarter than human
The Jurassic period produced such an abundance of lethal predators, that the oceans were a virtual STEW OF ASSASSINS - The history channel
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Ahh, an eternal optimist!
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
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In October I started a thread about what kind of free 3D modeling software to use and I decided to give SketchUp Maker a try. Now I finally found out that one feature that I really need is only available in the Pro version (which is ~500€) and I'm not going to spend that kind of money especially when all I need additionally to the free stuff is to add/subtract 3D shapes.
Looked around some more and now found AutoDesk 123D Designer which seems to have all I need. I'm installing it now and will give it a spin.
Anybody else here have some experience with that tool?
Cheers!
"I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"
Ron White, Comedian
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I don't know much about AutoDesk, but what does SketchUp have that Blender[^] doesn't? It's come a long way over the years.
Jeremy Falcon
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I did have a look at that one today too, but that beast is absolute overkill.
And out of the box I couldn't even figure out how to do a very simple 3D drawing.
It sure does have a lot of functions and usage scenarios, but neither do I want to animate, build a game
etc., all I want to do is 3D models of gadgets, jigs and furniture I'm building in my shop.
Well, that said Autodesk 123D Designer seems to have what I need and it's free.
I'll report on my success as soon as I looked into it a little deeper.
Cheers!
"I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"
Ron White, Comedian
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