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[old man emu]

19 minutes ago, red750 said:

The question was specifically worded to trap the unwary. 

What was the answer that was wanted?

[facthunter]

Who knows? The question contained  errors and cannot be answered without assuming something that was not there. Quite clearly "the Number", SINGULAR. is specific. so you find any one and it's an answer. You could argue there are six correct answers..  Nev

[onetrack]

The answer that was really wanted, was, "I can't find any number that's not 803!"  

 

The quiz is directly related to the quality of your eyesight, and the size on the screen. I didn't try, but I guess if you magnified the image, the answer/s would be found very rapidly, even by someone with poor eyesight.

 

Quizzes that test your mental dexterity, rather than visual acuity, are far better, IMO.

 

Edited April 23, 2022 by onetrack

[spacesailor]

Same as the ' test ' question in Raa certification. " what causes icing " the answer was  "   moisture in the air !.

Which makes " mcmurdo Valley Antarctica " great for my little petrol engine ! .if l could use FROZEN SOLID PETROL.

While Darwin NT is the worst place, as the moisture content is Very high.

spacesailor

[red750]

Here's another one to test your eyesight - do your eyes deceive you? What do you see when you first look at this photo?

 

[old man emu]

The God-damned most ugly pig that ever when Wee! Wee! Wee! all the way home.

[onetrack]

That's good. It's a dog with its head twisted at a weird angle. Lean your head as far left as you can, and it makes sense, then.

[red750]

Maybe this looks better. The original is an optical illusion.

 

[willedoo]

I suspect whether you see a pig or a dog is a left brain/right brain thing. You can sense the shift in the brain when you are looking at a pig and it turns into a dog before your eyes.

[Yenn]

I saw a pig and it was confirmed by the fact that the feet looked like trotters, then it took a lot to see it as a dog and realize that they were really paws, or should that be pause, pours or even pores.

[nomadpete]

1 hour ago, Yenn said:

really paws, or should that be pause, pours or even pores.

Now,now. We'll have none of that over here. OME has a special thread dedicated to linguistic confusions.

[old man emu]

Confusions say ...

[red750]

Now here's a really useless bit of trivia. I just checked the properties of the "Recreationalflying/Aircraft" folder on my external hard drive.

 

19,363 files in 88 folders.

[nomadpete]

That's (mostly) a lot of aircraft profiles, Peter.

You have created a great resource.

[red750]

Yes Pete, for every profile there are at least 5 photos, and there are at least 2 copies of most photos. It is amazing how many people upload photos to the internet without post-processing. You do an image search online and download the photos you require. Then these need to be resized to the standard format I use. All my photos on the profiles are 750x422 (16:9) format. Most downloads are much larger and often in 4:3 format (too much sky or foreground). Some are smaller and need enlarging. Cropping them makes the subject look much closer. Then there are the photos where the subject is some distance from the camera and looks small in the image. Sometimes there are distracting objects in the foreground. Again, cropping or cloning takes care of these problems. Often photos are not well exposed, and are too dark or too light. When a photo is edited, my software saves an original copy to a subfolder in case I need to re-edit it, as well as saving the edited version. Not many photos come directly out of the camera perfect. I'm no expert, I don't have Photoshop on this computer. I use a free download editor that does everything I need.

[kgwilson]

GIMP is supposed to be the best free photo editor. I have it but haven't used it. It has so many features it confused the crap out of me when I decided to edit a photo so I went back to using the now unsupported Google Picassa.

[nomadpete]

I tried Gimp. It has impressive capabilities. It depressed me because it soon showed me that I do not possess matching impressive capabilities to use it. Like most versatile programmes it has too many non intuitive options for me.

[old man emu]

The trouble with most software is that the developers pack so many abilities into it that to learn all of them takes constant use over months. How many of us know how to use all the features of MS-Word? It took me a couple of weeks to create an emergency evacuation route diagram using a simple program. I tried to create something in a CAD program I used to use, but forgot how just to enter the desired length of a line. 

 

The developers do a good job, and the resultant software is great, but is often too complex to do simple tasks.

[red750]

If you will forgive my showing off, I have attached a .pdf of the Order of Service I created for my wife's memorial, using MS Publisher.

 

I took a Word and a Publisher format file to Officeworks, and they couldn't print them - their system undid the formatting. I had to come home and save it as a .pdf.

 

Publication2.pdf

 

[Marty_d]

PDF is always better for sharing because the format doesn't change.  I sent out birthday invites on Word and depending on the recipient's settings, it appeared differently.  So I saved it as PDF and everyone got it as it's meant to appear.

[spacesailor]

IF

You had a PDF reader !.

I fell into the problem,  when nothing on my desktop would open this file system.

Another funny one is " ActiveX " . Is it installed .even if never knowingly used.

spacesailor

[octave]

Spacey Windows should open PDFs. I also use  Foxit which is a free PDF reader and editor. 

Edited April 26, 2022 by octave

[onetrack]

Spacey, PDF Reader is available for free to download, just go to Adobe.com.

[kgwilson]

I wouldn't send any editable document to anyone. A pdf can't be edited by anyone easily but anyone can modify a word document. Also I don't use any microsoft products, especially their office suite that they want you to keep paying for. I use Open Office which is free from Apache Software. Libre Office is another free system. Both are easier to use with more features that microsoft office. Same with Email. Microsoft email is appalling. I have Mozilla Thunderdird for all 6 of my email accounts & have them all on the same page & bluemail on my phone. 

[spacesailor]

Yes , l had to download a PDF reader & it was free.

BUT

Untill someone tells you, you have a long wait for anything to happen.

(  lv,e never heard of Mozilla Thunderbird, or Blue Mail )

spacesailor