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Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> Gail Shaw wrote:
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>> Lordi?
>
> Most improbable Eurovision winners in history.
>
Yes. The only Finnish band ever made it so far (=to the finals, that is)
with having even a slightest chance of winning.
--
Eero "Aero" Ahonen
http://www.zbxt.net
aer### [at] removethis zbxtnetinvalid
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Halbert wrote:
> Why doesn't the rest of the world understand that?
Because I learned to program on a machine with 8k of memory. A byte
saved is a byte earned.
Regards,
John
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Gail Shaw wrote:
> "andrel" <a_l### [at] hotmailcom> wrote in message
> news:486### [at] hotmailcom...
>
>>> My honours project at university had a line of code in it
>>>
>>> while (!hellFrozenOver) {
>>> ...
>>>
>>>
>> was that before or after Lordi won?
>
> Lordi?
>
> Sorry, reference to something I am not familar.
>
>
Sorry Gail, that was sort of eurocentristic. Indeed the winners of the
Eurovisionsongcontest a few years back.
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6VzdtmrP6Y is the best I could find).
Finland was considered the country most unlikely to win the contest ever
before this act. Especially by the Finnish themselves. On some webpages
it was put down as an event even less likely than hell freezing over.
Some publications the day after apparently opened with 'it is official:
hell frozen over' or similar. IIRC Eero is from Finland.
Why Finland won: they couldn't so they send in a hardrock band because
that is not what the songcontest was about. The band was dressed like
monsters, again not exactly according to dress code. Very important
contribution was that the voting was not done anymore by a geriatric
jury with knowledge and taste but by SMS by mainly adolescents. And
within it's genre it was a good song of course.
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On Fri, 27 Jun 2008 13:29:17 -0700, Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom>
wrote:
>Invisible wrote:
>> Perhaps you forget, the very word "computer" means "device for
>> performing mathematical calculations". ;-)
>
>Actually, it means "person whose job it is to do the arithmetic." Only
>after they automated it did it refer to a machine. :-)
You are right of course but should it have been computor not computer.
--
Regards
Stephen
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On Sat, 28 Jun 2008 10:43:44 +0200, andrel <a_l### [at] hotmailcom>
wrote:
>Gail Shaw wrote:
>> "andrel" <a_l### [at] hotmailcom> wrote in message
>> news:486### [at] hotmailcom...
>>
>>>> My honours project at university had a line of code in it
>>>>
>>>> while (!hellFrozenOver) {
>>>> ...
>>>>
>>>>
>>> was that before or after Lordi won?
>>
>> Lordi?
>>
>> Sorry, reference to something I am not familar.
>>
>>
>Sorry Gail, that was sort of eurocentristic.
Isn't Hell a town in one of the Nordic countries?
--
Regards
Stephen
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"andrel" <a_l### [at] hotmailcom> wrote in message
news:486### [at] hotmailcom...
> Gail Shaw wrote:
> > "andrel" <a_l### [at] hotmailcom> wrote in message
> > news:486### [at] hotmailcom...
> >
> >>> My honours project at university had a line of code in it
> >>>
> >>> while (!hellFrozenOver) {
> >>> ...
> >>>
> >>>
> >> was that before or after Lordi won?
> >
> > Lordi?
> >
> > Sorry, reference to something I am not familar.
> >
> >
> Sorry Gail, that was sort of eurocentristic. Indeed the winners of the
> Eurovisionsongcontest a few years back.
Ah. I'm also not a major music fan.
The code dates from well before that, 1998.
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On Sat, 28 Jun 2008 10:49:53 +0200, Stephen <mcavoysAT@aolDOTcom> wrote:
> Isn't Hell a town in one of the Nordic countries?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell%2C_Norway
Also:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell%2C_California
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell%2C_Michigan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell%2C_Grand_Cayman
--
FE
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John VanSickle <evi### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
> Halbert wrote:
> > Why doesn't the rest of the world understand that?
> Because I learned to program on a machine with 8k of memory. A byte
> saved is a byte earned.
You had a C compiler in a machine with 8k of memory? Which one was that?
--
- Warp
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On Sat, 28 Jun 2008 11:18:14 +0200, "Fredrik Eriksson"
<fe79}--at--{yahoo}--dot--{com> wrote:
>On Sat, 28 Jun 2008 10:49:53 +0200, Stephen <mcavoysAT@aolDOTcom> wrote:
>> Isn't Hell a town in one of the Nordic countries?
>
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell%2C_Norway
Thanks, I couln't find it on Google maps.
--
Regards
Stephen
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Warp wrote:
> John VanSickle <evi### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
>> Halbert wrote:
>
>>> Why doesn't the rest of the world understand that?
>
>> Because I learned to program on a machine with 8k of memory. A byte
>> saved is a byte earned.
>
> You had a C compiler in a machine with 8k of memory? Which one was that?
PDP-11? I had a machine with a COBOL compiler that ran in 8K of
real-live core memory. And, like, it ran banks and stuff. :-)
--
Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
Helpful housekeeping hints:
Check your feather pillows for holes
before putting them in the washing machine.
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