...which is too long ago to remember - Ok, maybe it was 35 years ago - a few of us drew a bogus, and presumably funny flowchart on one of our cubicle's blackboards.
Full of the "credits" here, "debits" there, etc,
lots of joke decision boxes,but with a "special subroutine" near the end.
We drew some "rounding" routine near the end, implying that all rounding was to be done to the lower cent.
All excess pennies accumulated from rounding were sent to a special fund- "Booze for the I.S. xmas office party" or some such designation.
The I.S. V.P. (probably called the CIO these days) walked in one day, and chuckled at the flowchart.
That is, until he came to that "rounding" logic. He mildly freaked, and quickly told us in no uncertain terms that if the accounting people ever saw this, there would be hell to pay, and he then erased it immediately.
Who is "Telltale"?
Is he one of those li'l coloured ribbons hanging from the sail showing the airflow?
Anyhow, when sailing - to determine the wind direction and strength- we usually use a plastic supermarket bag - hopefully emptied of all its booze - tied to one of the mainmast stays, where it's easily visible from the wheel.
I dunno what we'll do when plastic has been finally banned from the supermarkets and liqueur stores... go back to using the heavier (and less reliable) ensign, I guess.
NO.. THEY DID NOT get it wrong.
They got it "backwards" alright, - but correctly.
If you are gedankenly-challenged (are you perhaps of the distaff persuation?) then try it with a real bike.
Put your bike in highest gear, then turn your wheel. You will note the pedals DO NOT move very fast.
Now - put it in LOWEST gear.
Turn the wheel. You will note the chain and pedals move quickly.
ie- from the perspective of transmitting power from wheel to pedals, everything is reversed.
Low becomes high and vice-versa.
Get it?
Well, AMD might well be the antichrist.
ALL my Windows systems (Win2K, Xp-Pro and Vista Home run adequately on their respective AMD machines
But-
I cannot seem to install the.. hmmnn latest? Ubuntu 710 on my AMD Duron (currently running Win2000)
Someone, somewhere told me that Ubuntu had probs with some AMD processors. Go figure.
So I am now awaiting my CD of Ubuntu 804 - Ignoble Iguana or whatever it's called...
Perhaps they've solved some of the probs with earlier Ubuntus, but I'm not holding my breath.
BTW my previous comments were done after copious amounts of wine. Rage against the machine! And/.ers!
First of all: your "Edge" references leave me blank.
Never heard of it. Is this some Amurican service?
"All you can eat"? "Treo"?
Sorry- the WHOLE world reads/.
And we DO NOT revolve around the stars n stripes anymore. (figured that out yet?)
Anyhow -
I bet these ol' geezers in the 300 yr-old house are spinning in their looms.
Let 'em buy a $29 DVD player and be done with it.
If they are sooo "into" a 300-year-old farmhouse, they shouldn't be vandalizing it with electric powerlines and such!
Better to stick to candles (Only Tallow! NO kerosene!)
Jeeez. What a fukin' joke And- I BET! they are younger than I am!
>>they feel a dish would be as prohibitively ugly as running dedicated lines would be prohibitively expensive
What kind of weird new-age snobbery is this?
They live in a 300 year old house and they ARE USING THE INTERNET??
Perhaps they should prohibitively be burnt at the stake!
Salem witches indeed! (yes I know they were not burned- but perhaps the practice should be resumed for dilantettes)
I live in a 150-yr-old log cabin in the woods. And I have a sat-dish outside, nailed to a 300-year-old maple. But it is discreet. And "outlaw", WoteverTF THAT means.
But it is NOT two-way.
For that, alas, I am forced to use the dreaded "dial-up":
More info at The rural BELL-CANADA nightmare!
Anyone who installs one of these cheap two-way internet sat systems is truly desperate!
Further info - Don't buy Sat-Internet!
See the sentence on why you shouldn't
Wish you could sign the petition, but alas- ya gotta be in Quebec.
Anyhow- Sat service is good ONLY AS A LAST RESORT!
802.11 microwave, (oops that might involve an UGLY antenna!) or better yet, an underwater FiberOptic cable should be available to EVERYONE in a case like this!
Migod! -
They are afraid to destroy their 300-year-old house? Helloo..! Are they still using candles? No 220 or 110 volt lines sacrileging their hoity-toity house?
Migod- what hypocrites!
I've never had a prob with Vista, that I had not experienced under XP, or Win2000.
Of course they stole all the best nav techniques of linux and then added some, but at at least all my devices are supported, so I do not have to do some obscure SUDO -ffg fbt xf=J fr or shit like that.
OK - I'm not some crybaby weenie in momma's basement.
I don't have time to fuck around with arcane cmmd-lvl crap. I did that years ago.
And believe it or not, I still dual-boot Linux and Vista. But most of the time is spent on Vista.
Migod you weenies are pathetic.
>>The Canadian tabloid the National Post has coverage of...
The Canadian "TABLOID"?? LOL!
O, how the mighty have fallen!
Poor Conrad will be turning over in his cell, whilst chuckling, if he ever gets a chance to read the above description!
I'm sure Steyn will be, if he sees this!
Sir Richard, if you perchance read Slashdot, this may well be your (and my) last chance for the Soyuz!
I apologize to you, sir, for the rather base familiarity in my tawdry but very sensible Soyuz plea to you , and would beg that you please reconsider this ill-thought Virgin Galactic nonsense!
I regret the price I gave you-$25M - was a tad understated, but still, $40M is surely not beyond our purse-strings, is it?
I await your kind reply, sir, and if it is not soon forthcoming, I shall resume the following ill-thought-out negotiations with the those more progressive gentlemen Sergy and Larry!
"This will not stand... you know. This aggression will not stand, man!"
more? OK-
(Smashes asteriod with his crowbar) "...this is what happens, Nico, when you fuck a stranger in the ass! Are you LISTENING, Nico?
This is what happens, Nico, when you fuck a stranger in the ass!"
Whereupon the asteriod breaks into pieces.
If Shuttleworth really wants to test Hardy Heron properly, I suggest he send me up to the space station with the Ubuntu CD, and my laptop.
I shall then let him know if them mad wifi wrappers finally work!
The feisty ones dont. But I will continue to use FF (With FF of course) when I'm bored with Vista..
In rural Quebec,just north of Vermont and New York, we are now using modern COPPER to the desktop!
Just check out our Quebec 21st Century Bell Canada Sympatico infractructure! No need for DSLAMS, RSLAMS or any of that high-speed fiber-optic nonsense!
Rurale Quebec truly has an internet setup that can be envied!
In my land, we are busy training artisans to carve new subway cars out of old coral.
These new cars are gorgeous, as well as ecologically friendly- there is no mining or smelting, and the CO2 footprint is exceedingly small!
My goodness!
What is all this controversy about Billy Wilders?
I LOVED his comedy "Some like it Hot"!
Is it because Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis dressed up as "girlies" that these Muslims are now upset?
I know there is a lot of homosexual innuendo in the movie, but -
How can they possibly threaten him with death? He died several years ago!
Just a brief comment about the UN troops "protecting" Bosnians:
Same thing in Rwanda.
Same thing in Darfur.
And how much you want to bet that those UN "diplomats" currently arguing about Darfur went out tonight to some of New York's (or Geneva's) finest restaurants to dine at the taxpayer's expense, before resuming the "discussion" tomorrow?
Gee. Diplomacy and politics is a tough job, but SOMEBODY has to do it!
So stop complaining.
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Full of the "credits" here, "debits" there, etc, lots of joke decision boxes,but with a "special subroutine" near the end.
We drew some "rounding" routine near the end, implying that all rounding was to be done to the lower cent.
All excess pennies accumulated from rounding were sent to a special fund- "Booze for the I.S. xmas office party" or some such designation.
The I.S. V.P. (probably called the CIO these days) walked in one day, and chuckled at the flowchart.
That is, until he came to that "rounding" logic. He mildly freaked, and quickly told us in no uncertain terms that if the accounting people ever saw this, there would be hell to pay, and he then erased it immediately.
No spell-checker is used here.
I use a spell-slow-vacker instead!
Who is "Telltale"?
Is he one of those li'l coloured ribbons hanging from the sail showing the airflow?
Anyhow, when sailing - to determine the wind direction and strength- we usually use a plastic supermarket bag - hopefully emptied of all its booze - tied to one of the mainmast stays, where it's easily visible from the wheel.
I dunno what we'll do when plastic has been finally banned from the supermarkets and liqueur stores... go back to using the heavier (and less reliable) ensign, I guess.
"Thankfully we are smarter"?
Alas, that has been disproven.
A study several years ago, concluded that fully FIFTY PERCENT of the Canadian population had IQs of less than 100 !
And you still think you are smarter than Americans? HA!
NO.. THEY DID NOT get it wrong.
They got it "backwards" alright, - but correctly.
If you are gedankenly-challenged (are you perhaps of the distaff persuation?) then try it with a real bike.
Put your bike in highest gear, then turn your wheel.
You will note the pedals DO NOT move very fast.
Now - put it in LOWEST gear.
Turn the wheel. You will note the chain and pedals move quickly.
ie- from the perspective of transmitting power from wheel to pedals, everything is reversed. Low becomes high and vice-versa.
Get it?
And I want it to have FRICKIN' LASERS too!
Blah indeed!
/.ers!
Well, AMD might well be the antichrist.
ALL my Windows systems (Win2K, Xp-Pro and Vista Home run adequately on their respective AMD machines
But-
I cannot seem to install the.. hmmnn latest? Ubuntu 710 on my AMD Duron (currently running Win2000)
Someone, somewhere told me that Ubuntu had probs with some AMD processors. Go figure.
So I am now awaiting my CD of Ubuntu 804 - Ignoble Iguana or whatever it's called...
Perhaps they've solved some of the probs with earlier Ubuntus, but I'm not holding my breath.
BTW my previous comments were done after copious amounts of wine. Rage against the machine! And
First of all: your "Edge" references leave me blank. /.
Never heard of it. Is this some Amurican service?
"All you can eat"? "Treo"?
Sorry- the WHOLE world reads
And we DO NOT revolve around the stars n stripes anymore. (figured that out yet?)
Anyhow - I bet these ol' geezers in the 300 yr-old house are spinning in their looms.
Let 'em buy a $29 DVD player and be done with it.
If they are sooo "into" a 300-year-old farmhouse, they shouldn't be vandalizing it with electric powerlines and such!
Better to stick to candles (Only Tallow! NO kerosene!)
Jeeez. What a fukin' joke And- I BET! they are younger than I am!
>>they feel a dish would be as prohibitively ugly as running dedicated lines would be prohibitively expensive
What kind of weird new-age snobbery is this?
They live in a 300 year old house and they ARE USING THE INTERNET??
Perhaps they should prohibitively be burnt at the stake!
Salem witches indeed! (yes I know they were not burned- but perhaps the practice should be resumed for dilantettes)
I live in a 150-yr-old log cabin in the woods. And I have a sat-dish outside, nailed to a 300-year-old maple. But it is discreet. And "outlaw", WoteverTF THAT means. But it is NOT two-way.
For that, alas, I am forced to use the dreaded "dial-up":
More info at The rural BELL-CANADA nightmare!
Anyone who installs one of these cheap two-way internet sat systems is truly desperate!
Further info - Don't buy Sat-Internet!
See the sentence on why you shouldn't
Wish you could sign the petition, but alas- ya gotta be in Quebec.
Anyhow- Sat service is good ONLY AS A LAST RESORT!
802.11 microwave, (oops that might involve an UGLY antenna!) or better yet, an underwater FiberOptic cable should be available to EVERYONE in a case like this!
Migod! - They are afraid to destroy their 300-year-old house? Helloo..! Are they still using candles? No 220 or 110 volt lines sacrileging their hoity-toity house?
Migod- what hypocrites!
Sorry-
I've never had a prob with Vista, that I had not experienced under XP, or Win2000.
Of course they stole all the best nav techniques of linux and then added some, but at at least all my devices are supported, so I do not have to do some obscure SUDO -ffg fbt xf=J fr or shit like that.
OK - I'm not some crybaby weenie in momma's basement. I don't have time to fuck around with arcane cmmd-lvl crap. I did that years ago.
And believe it or not, I still dual-boot Linux and Vista. But most of the time is spent on Vista.
Migod you weenies are pathetic.
Good god, give it break, you pathetic Muckintosh-Linooks weenie!
Just how many big posters of Steve Jobs do you have plastered on your wall of your momma's basement anyhow?
svc 202
It's been reported that most of these switches will be combined in the soon-to-be-released Service Pack 3.
>>The Canadian tabloid the National Post has coverage of...
The Canadian "TABLOID"?? LOL!
O, how the mighty have fallen!
Poor Conrad will be turning over in his cell, whilst chuckling, if he ever gets a chance to read the above description!
I'm sure Steyn will be, if he sees this!
right now, I'm currently having a laff at this time.
-
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Sir Richard, if you perchance read Slashdot, this may well be your (and my) last chance for the Soyuz!
I apologize to you, sir, for the rather base familiarity in my tawdry but very sensible Soyuz plea to you , and would beg that you please reconsider this ill-thought Virgin Galactic nonsense!
I regret the price I gave you-$25M - was a tad understated, but still, $40M is surely not beyond our purse-strings, is it?
I await your kind reply, sir, and if it is not soon forthcoming, I shall resume the following ill-thought-out negotiations with the those more progressive gentlemen Sergy and Larry!
yours, etc, etc,
I, for one, am waiting for Dilbert to be presented in Silverlight.
Because the Russian Cosmonaut is at the other end of the space-station, and (in my spare time of course) I would like to view the Pr0n on HIS laptop!
Do you really expect me to lay Cat5 all over the station?
"This will not stand... you know. This aggression will not stand, man!"
more? OK-
(Smashes asteriod with his crowbar)
"...this is what happens, Nico, when you fuck a stranger in the ass! Are you LISTENING, Nico?
This is what happens, Nico, when you fuck a stranger in the ass!"
Whereupon the asteriod breaks into pieces.
If Shuttleworth really wants to test Hardy Heron properly, I suggest he send me up to the space station with the Ubuntu CD, and my laptop.
I shall then let him know if them mad wifi wrappers finally work!
The feisty ones dont. But I will continue to use FF (With FF of course) when I'm bored with Vista..
A deal, Mark?
My outrageous proposal is at
BLASTOFF WITH HARDY-HERON!
So far, that cheapskate Branson is ducking me- he hasn't bit.
Maybe I'll have better luck with the more progressive Shuttleworth.
In rural Quebec,just north of Vermont and New York, we are now using modern COPPER to the desktop!
Just check out our Quebec 21st Century Bell Canada Sympatico infractructure! No need for DSLAMS, RSLAMS or any of that high-speed fiber-optic nonsense!
Rurale Quebec truly has an internet setup that can be envied!
CHECK IT OUT HERE!
Caution! English language may be used!
In my land, we are busy training artisans to carve new subway cars out of old coral.
These new cars are gorgeous, as well as ecologically friendly- there is no mining or smelting, and the CO2 footprint is exceedingly small!
Shit- we all know that!
But more importantly-
Was the cat alive?
or dead?
We've been waiting about 75 years now for an answer!
My goodness!
What is all this controversy about Billy Wilders?
I LOVED his comedy "Some like it Hot"!
Is it because Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis dressed up as "girlies" that these Muslims are now upset?
I know there is a lot of homosexual innuendo in the movie, but -
How can they possibly threaten him with death? He died several years ago!
Please explain! I am totally confused!
Just a brief comment about the UN troops "protecting" Bosnians:
Same thing in Rwanda.
Same thing in Darfur.
And how much you want to bet that those UN "diplomats" currently arguing about Darfur went out tonight to some of New York's (or Geneva's) finest restaurants to dine at the taxpayer's expense, before resuming the "discussion" tomorrow?
Gee. Diplomacy and politics is a tough job, but SOMEBODY has to do it!
So stop complaining.
(speaking as a dissatisfied Canadian...)