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Title: Which is better, hedge or bush?
Post by: blakestyger on 12/01/2009 09:00:29

This is what fallen hedge fund billionaire J Ezra Merkin could well be asking himself. According to today's Guardian he faces lawsuits to the tune of £66m for squandering investors' money in Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme.

Whatever happened to nominative determinism? Perhaps Merkin should have shunned hedges and stuck with bushes. [:I]

Title: Which is better, hedge or bush?
Post by: RD on 12/01/2009 09:57:01

Will Mr Merkin be up before Judge Judge (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Igor_Judge) ? (sic).

Title: Which is better, hedge or bush?
Post by: Chemistry4me on 12/01/2009 10:19:31

RD: How do you do that thing where you have a link highlighted but it's not the actual name of the website? Like how you have 'Judge Judge' instead of the actualy website name http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Igor_Judge

Title: Which is better, hedge or bush?
Post by: Karen W. on 12/01/2009 13:21:41

Very good question MIL!!

I have often  wondered  that myself !

Title: Which is better, hedge or bush?
Post by: DoctorBeaver on 12/01/2009 14:28:40

I'll use round brackets instead of square.

(url=whatever.com)PUT YOUR TEXT HERE(/url)

If you use the Quote facility on a reply that has that type of link then you can see it quite clearly.

(https://www.thenakedscientists.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fbestsmileys.com%2Fdoh%2F2.gif&hash=fef6931e562a6dc5fd0fd29a97202c70) Now why didn't I think of that!

Title: Which is better, hedge or bush?
Post by: RD on 12/01/2009 19:51:50

I was attempting to riff from Blakestyger's reference to nominative determinism (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominative_determinism#Examples):
people having surnames which match their job, e.g. Dr Brain the neurologist (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Brain).
 

Title: Which is better, hedge or bush?
Post by: Chemistry4me on 13/01/2009 02:11:50

Let me try:
Who likes cricket (http://www.cricinfo.com/)

Title: Which is better, hedge or bush?
Post by: Chemistry4me on 13/01/2009 02:16:02

Okay, thank you [;)], now I know! [:)] [:)]

Title: Which is better, hedge or bush?
Post by: Chemistry4me on 13/01/2009 02:22:05

How do you get that image onto the screen? Before you deleted your post? [:)]

Title: Which is better, hedge or bush?
Post by: RD on 13/01/2009 02:34:44

. [ Invalid Attachment ]


                It's a jpeg of a "screen grab" attached to the post.

Title: Which is better, hedge or bush?
Post by: Chemistry4me on 13/01/2009 03:19:12

Where is it? [???] I can't find it [???]

Title: Which is better, hedge or bush?
Post by: RD on 13/01/2009 04:01:39

You need something like "Snipping tool (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snipping_Tool)" or some other image capture programme which allows "frame grab" :
to copy what is on the screen.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screenshots

Title: Which is better, hedge or bush?
Post by: Chemistry4me on 13/01/2009 04:06:10

Like this:
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Title: Which is better, hedge or bush?
Post by: Chemistry4me on 13/01/2009 04:07:04

Hey, alright, I've got it. Thank you! Any other cool tricks you know?

Title: Which is better, hedge or bush?
Post by: RD on 13/01/2009 04:08:40

You'll have to scale the width of the image to 900 (or less) so it doesn't run off the screen.

If you don't have an image manipulation programme there's a free one called GIMP (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIMP) (it's a photoshop-type programme)

GIMP allows the creation of animation : here's one I made earlier ...

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there goes my chance of a knighthood  [:)]

Title: Which is better, hedge or bush?
Post by: Chemistry4me on 13/01/2009 04:19:13

Why does it go fuzzy when I resize it?
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Title: Which is better, hedge or bush?
Post by: Chemistry4me on 13/01/2009 04:20:17

Quote from: RD on 13/01/2009 04:08:40

GIMP allows the creation of animation

Hmm...very cool trick indeed!

Title: Which is better, hedge or bush?
Post by: RD on 13/01/2009 04:39:14

I meant scale the image width to 900 pixels, not resize the jpeg file.
Your resized (down sized) fuzzy image still runs off the screen: it is over 900 pixels wide.

BTW a jpeg of that size will have to be at least 30Kb to be readable (not fuzzy).

A programme like GIMP or similar photoshop-type programme will allow you to scale an image: change its dimensions in pixels, and change the size of the file it occupies: i.e. change the amount of memory it occupies, i.e. alter the amount of compression.

Your image is fuzzy because it is too compressed.