Re: Weather or not issue

[Marilyn and Don Bilderback via Talk]

I love this explaination.  Perfect example of using an orange.  Changes in 
latitudes and changes in attitudes anyone?


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From: David via Talk

Sent: Monday, February 04, 2019 10:33 AM
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Subject: Re: Weather or not issue

Larry and the resst,
I will spend a few minutes of your time, attempting to answer the
question of yours, the way I understood your asking.

How come, that every place on earth, can be refered to by a set of
coordinates?

First of all, we need to understand the terms Longitude, and Latitude.
Are you a former sighted person, or still have a certain amount of
eye-sight to lean on, this might be basic for you. For those of you who
grew up with no sight, geography might be one of the classes where
things sometimes got a bit too simplified. So let's take a moment to
explain the two terms.

Imagine the earth, being a fruit, like an orange. You know, if you peel
an orange, the inner fruit will consist of several wedges. Where all the
wedges meet, on top, and in the bottom of the fruit - is where the poles
are; North on top, South-pole (or Antartica) in the bottom. The lines
between the individual wedges, which runs from one pole to the other,
would now be your Longitudes. The fruit only holds a few longitudes,
whereas the Earth has been divided into 360 longitudes. To make things
easier for all who navigate, the longitude that runs through Greenwich -
which I do hold is located in the UK - has been defined as Longitude 0.
Any longitudes to the West (or left on the map), will have a negative
longitude value. Any longitude to the East (or right) of the Greenwich,
will be a positive longitude. When you, at the strict opposite side of
the globe, have the positives and negatives meet, you are standing on
the 180th longitude. By the way, that particular longitude - 180 - will
also be known as the Date-line. This due to the fact, that is where the
24-hour day has been defined by human wisdom, to wrap. You will very
likely be quite familiar with time-zones, and know that at given times
throughout the day, you are sleeping, while other locations on Earth
will be quite enjoying their lunch.

OK, so that all took care of the longitudes. But what are latitudes?
Get back to your orange. Place it so that the southern pole rests on the
table, and the North-Pole is located on the very top point of the fruit.
Take a pkiece of rope, and wrap it around the very belly of the fruit -
that is, where the fruit is at its very thickest. This belt, is the
Equator, running exactly mid-way between the two poles, and all around
the globe. It is Latitude 0. Go ahead, and stretch new belts around your
fruit, at exact intervals, until you reach the North-pole, or top of the
fruit. You now should hav 180 such belts, and they are all positively
numbered. Repeat the action, stretching belts around the southern
hemosphere of your globe, again equally intervalling them, till you
reach 180, which will be encircling the Southern Pole. All the southern
latitude belts, will have negative numbers.

Now that we have divided our globe into longitude lines, and latitude
belts, it all forms a coordinate system. Easily understood, is the fact
that we could refer to any place, which happen to be located at the very
crossing point of any of these lines. But what about the places, which
happen to be located anywhere in the areas BETWEEN the grid lines? How
can we best refer to them?

In the class of navigation, you would be talking about minutes, degrees
and seconds. They are not completely linked to the time you can read on
a clock, and I won't claim to understand these calculations too well.
What's more, we do not need to fully understand. But let me tell you
that modern technology has made it all a bit easier for us humans.

How about we tell that you need to move a certain amount of steps, to
get from one longitude to the next. And likewise, you need a given
number of steps, to get from latitude A, to latitude B. (please note, I
am not here refering to a walking step, but rather any predefined
stretch we have to move in our coordinate system.) If now, we could have
a way to tell which longitude and latitude to start from, and how many
steps into the grid square between our coordinate lines we are actually
positioned, it would make our location quite much more accurate. So how
do we do that?

If you noticed, when we were to fill in our Location coordinates, in the
WeatherOrNot ini file, we used some decimal values. The main part of the
value, the digits to the left of the decimal point, is the number that
directly refers to the line number in our coordinate. A latitude value
of 63.49420, will then refer to the latitude number 63 - counted from
the Equator and to the North. The minor part of the decimal number - in
our example 49420, will be how far - how many steps - further north of
the 63rd latitude our position is.

Again, a Longitude value of -59.12345, which is a 

Re: spell check with Windows Live Mail

[Marilyn and Don Bilderback via Talk]

Kim,  What I do with WLM on my Windows 7 machine is to press F7 which brings 
up the spell check.  HTH  Marilyn


-Original Message- 
From: Kim Lingo via Talk

Sent: Sunday, August 21, 2016 3:25 PM
To: Window-Eyes Discussion List
Subject: spell check with Windows Live Mail

Hi everyone,
I thought I had figured this out, but apparently not.  Does Windows Live 
Mail have a spell checker?  If so, how do you turn it on?

Kim Lingo
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Re: somewhat off topic--can i text someone's phone from my computer

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Some time back, on another list, this texting by computer was posted and I 
don't remember who it was from, butI want to thank them because I am now 
in touch with my kids and grand kids on a platform they pay attention to. No 
more telling me they never check their Email !!  And since I am so non 
techie, this was simple for even ME!!


-Original Message- 
From: Olusegun -- Victory Associates LTD,Inc. via Talk

Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2016 9:03 PM
To: 'Amanda Lee' ; 'Window-Eyes Discussion List'
Subject: RE: somewhat off topic--can i text someone's phone from my computer

Yes, you can text from your computer to a cell phone.  If you don't know the
carrier's SMS gateway address, no worries, just go here:

http://www.freesmsgateway.info/

In the edit box, type the phone number of the person you want to send a text
to and whack .  Use the cursor keys to read the results provided.
You should have both the SMS gateway and the MMS gateway addresses displayed
and you can pick either to use for sending the text message from your
computer.

Note:  THIS SERVICE IS ONLY AVAILABLE TO CANADIAN AND U.S. RESIDENTS!
Anywhere else in the world, no dice!  Sorry for being too stingy but we come
first, right?

Sincerely,
Olusegun
Denver, Colorado



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Re: confirm bb0b42df2f52832c5c444b511d5ba30ca082d315

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