Among other things, Dave VanHorn wrote:

> Vaya con dios,  Go with god.
> Vaya con huevos, "go with eggs".



;)

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Among other things, Dan P wrote:

>>>>Isn't that Spanish slang?
>>>
>>>Not really slang, just "many eggs".
>>>
>> I believe 'huevos' is a commonly used slang expression for testicles, and
>> that Jim is referring to that usage.

Yes, while there could be some "slangish" meaning in the phrase, the words 
are most common, that's what I meant :)

> I thought that was cahones (sp?)!

If the Spanish speakers here will pardon the language, it's "cojones" 
("cajones" means drawers).

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Sun Tzu wrote:
> I find it very frustrating when I've been keeping
> up with a thread to scroll all the way down to the
> new stuff at the bottom every time.

That's when people quote way to much... Otherwise you shouldn't have to
scroll.

> That is the way I've always seen email done as well.
> The current comments at the top and the thread
> history below.

No, no! You're not supposed to include any history at all! Only the
parts strictly necessary should be included when you're replying
directly to them, and that should be above your reply. If the quoted
text is not necessary to get meaning out of your post, then just strip
it away altogether. :)

Take this post as an example. There are two statements of yours that I
replied to, so I first quoted the first one and replied to that one, and
then quoted the second one and replied to that one. My replies wouldn't
have made much sense if there were no quotes at all, yet I only quoted
very little text, so you don't have to scroll. :)

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> I was inspired by Andrew C's Easter post so I decided to make some eggs.

*sits down*

Well, I _believe_ that's a first for this NG... someone inspired by ME! Heh.

> This is my first try at randomly placing a large number (3500) of objects
> with a rudimentary test to avoid intersecting objects.  It ran last night on
> a 2 GHz Pentium:  8 hours 45 minutes parse, 38 minutes trace.

Hmm... obviously something not quite right with the algorithm then... 
(as Tim already pointed out). The last one of His suggestions was the 
first thing that occurred to me.

(I once tried to do a system for randomly placing spheres so that they 
touch. That was pretty slow too - and still didn't look right. Mind you, 
what I really wanted was something gravitationally stable, which wasn't 
in my algorithm at all...)

Andrew @ home.

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Sun Tzu wrote:

> "Dan P" <dan### [at] yahoocom> wrote in message
> news:407f2150$1@news.povray.org...

<snip />

>>A quick note on etiquette: usually we post after a paragraph to match
>>the natural order of reading (posting above is called "top posting". I
>>took this particular post and reformatted; note that Rafal's response is
>>first, then your response, and finally mine at the bottom. That way, the
>>reader doesn't have to "scan up" the page. I also snipped out anything
>>that wasn't relevant to the replies by using some sort of "snip"

<snip/>

> I much prefer top posts actually.  (I'm just bottom posting now as a
> courtesy to you because I now know you prefer it, hehe)  I find it very
> frustrating when I've been keeping up with a thread to scroll all the way
> down to the new stuff at the bottom every time.  I like to see the newest,
> currently relevant text first, and if I'm not up to date with the thread I
> can scroll down and read the history if I want to.  That is the way I've
> always seen email done as well.  The current comments at the top and the
> thread history below.

You make a valid argument! I can totally see the sense in that. I've 
just been whipped into shape by the newsgroup nazis and don't want to 
irk them again :-)

> Of course if there is actually a consensus here regarding the 'correct' way
> to do this I will conform.  :-)

Uh oh -- now you did it. Everybody is going to have an opinion now. 
Brace yourself! :-)

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Jellby wrote:

> Among other things, Dan P wrote:

<snip />

>>I thought that was cahones (sp?)!
> 
> If the Spanish speakers here will pardon the language, it's "cojones" 
> ("cajones" means drawers).

Oh :-) I got that from GTA Vice City.

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