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re: My colleague picked a good day to go out and catch a baseball game
And as a snarkier answer, I'll say "Armando Galarraga". en.wikipedia.org/.../Armando_Galarraga%27s_near-perfect_game
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re: My colleague picked a good day to go out and catch a baseball game
(I like how Wikipedia has a page dedicated to the 23rd perfect game in baseball history, but no page for the first perfect game in baseball history. Because Wikipedia covers pop culture prior to 2001...
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re: My colleague picked a good day to go out and catch a baseball game
There are many reasons that an umpire can declare a forfeit. If that were to occur after 9 innings were complete, the forfeited team officially loses 9-to-0.
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re: My colleague picked a good day to go out and catch a baseball game
Update to my guess: I had the idea right, but not the specifics. The game would have to be suspended by a condition listed in 4.12(a), which includes rain. If that were the last scheduled meeting of...
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I think some web browsers segregate developer windows from actual web pages in this way.
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I wish the grouping behavior was more directly under control of the user. Many applications today are web-based. I see no reason why the browser instance I have open for email (er, webmail) should be...
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>Just a friendly that this is not your father's Programming Windows; this edition deals exclusively with Metro / Windows 8 / Modern UI. It's also all in C#. That's great and all, but I still...
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re: My colleague picked a good day to go out and catch a baseball game
I've been reading about perfect games and how baseball works, and now I think I understand a cartoon that I saw about 30 years ago but didn't understand at the time. A young man and young woman arrive...
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Was never even remotely interested in Baseball, but still reading these articles just for the heck of it (I sometimes even have a hunch what Raymond is talking about!). But still very impressed with...
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There was a manager who decided: "Users should never be able to pin SDK/DDK documentation viewer on the taskbar." So he applied all his influence to make a special case for a shortcut with...
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re: My colleague picked a good day to go out and catch a baseball game
Just to be picky, a game that ends before the bottom of the ninth is played is not a "nine-inning game" as specified in the puzzle. The home pitcher can throw nine complete perfect innings in an 8 1/2...
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re: My colleague picked a good day to go out and catch a baseball game
One scenario that very nearly meets the requirements would be an uncaught third strike on the final batter, in which said batter reaches first base on a passed ball or wild pitch. In this case the...
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re: My colleague picked a good day to go out and catch a baseball game
PJ, a perfect game is one in which no batter safely reaches first base, for any reason, including an error. In this case, the play is "strikeout, runner reaches on an error", so no out is recorded....
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@Michael Dunn: "So no winner and no perfect game." Are you assuming that a perfect game requires a winner? Are you saying "No winner and THUS no perfect game"? You might be right, I don't know, but...
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For anyone who doesn't like grouped icons, remember that a two-row-high taskbar gives you a lot more room for taskbar icons. I set the option to disallow grouping completely, and I like it that way.
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I was little irked I wasn't notified, but then I remembered that my copy was purchased before there was a World Wide Web.
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re: My colleague picked a good day to go out and catch a baseball game
@David Walker: The pitcher has to be the winner to pitch a perfect game. @GregM: I am aware that my scenario is NOT a perfect game -- that is the point of the puzzle. The rest comes down to strict...
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@voo, If you read through the examples -- Java and Silverlight, for example, each use a single executable to run multiple programs. The program is determined by which JAR/XAP is loaded. Going down...
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PJ, I agree, it's not a complete perfect ninth. David, as PJ said, the victory is part of the definition of a perfect game.
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re: My colleague picked a good day to go out and catch a baseball game
I would argue that a game which enters the ninth inning at all is a nine-inning game.
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