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From: Jim Henderson
Subject: Re: Tell me it isn't so!
Date: 29 Jul 2009 14:52:26
Message: <4a709a6a$1@news.povray.org>
On Wed, 29 Jul 2009 13:47:58 -0400, clipka wrote:

> Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:
>> Bill was quoting Monty Python there, just in case you're unfamiliar
>> with The Life of Brian.  :-)
> 
> Duh - and I didn't recognize it...

What does that say about both of us? ;-)

Jim


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From: David H  Burns
Subject: Re: Tell me it isn't so!
Date: 29 Jul 2009 21:04:45
Message: <4a70f1ad$1@news.povray.org>
Jim Henderson wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Jul 2009 08:51:23 -0500, David H. Burns wrote:
> 
>> Bill Pragnell wrote:
>>> "clipka" <nomail@nomail> wrote:
>>>> "David H. Burns" <dhb### [at] cherokeetelnet> wrote:
>>>>> A convenient excuse anyway. "Everybody needs someone to look down on.
>>>>> If you ain't got nobody else, well help yo'self to me!" -Kris
>>>>> Kristofferson (quoted from
>>>>> memory) :)
>>>> "Jesus was a capricorn"
>>> "Capricorn, eh? What are they like?"
>>> "He is the son of God, our Messiah! King of the Jews!" "And that's
>>> capricorn, is it?"
>>>
>>>
>> Well, I agree with the middle quote of the three. Of course whether He
>> is a Capricorn in astrological terms depends on the date of His birth,
>> which is disputed. Of course I doubt if that was what was meant. :)
>>
>> David
> 
> Bill was quoting Monty Python there, just in case you're unfamiliar with 
> The Life of Brian.  :-)
> 
> Jim
Thanks, I'm familiar with "The Life of Brian" only by name. :)

David


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From: Jim Henderson
Subject: Re: Tell me it isn't so!
Date: 30 Jul 2009 01:15:21
Message: <4a712c69$1@news.povray.org>
On Wed, 29 Jul 2009 20:04:59 -0500, David H. Burns wrote:

> Thanks, I'm familiar with "The Life of Brian" only by name. :)

No problem - very funny movie, at least for most people I know.  Oddly 
enough, the Pythons *claim* that they didn't intend it to be a religious 
spoof, it just 'turned out that way', but that claim to me seems highly 
suspect.... ;-)

Jim


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From: Chambers
Subject: Re: Tell me it isn't so!
Date: 30 Jul 2009 22:28:39
Message: <4a7256d7$1@news.povray.org>
Tim Cook wrote:
> Chambers wrote:
>> Invisible wrote:
>>> I am 75% sure that the C64 would *automatically* indent your code. As 
>>> in, if you wrote a FOR-NEXT loop, the loop body would automatically 
>>> appear indented, and there was nothing you could do about it.
>>
>> I had one, and I can guarantee that it didn't.
> 
> Screenshots or it didn't happen.

You want a screen shot of an obsolete system that I had more than twenty 
years ago?

I don't have my computer from *five* years ago, let alone the C64!

-- 
Chambers


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From: Chambers
Subject: Re: Tell me it isn't so!
Date: 30 Jul 2009 22:30:27
Message: <4a725743$1@news.povray.org>
Darren New wrote:
> Or even on sophisticated hardware. 1994 or so I needed to do compression 
> testing (i.e., figure out whether JPEG works), so I wound up buying a 
> $3000 graphics board for the Sun workstation so I could see 24-bit color.

Was that one of the Targa boards?  I remember reading about them, and 
thinking how cool it would be to use one!

-- 
Chambers


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From: Chambers
Subject: Re: Tell me it isn't so!
Date: 30 Jul 2009 22:32:11
Message: <4a7257ab$1@news.povray.org>
Warp wrote:
> David H. Burns <dhb### [at] cherokeetelnet> wrote:
>> Another *really* impressive piece of software. It won't run on an XP 
>> machine, of course.
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOSBox
> 

Do you have your newsreader post these little reminders automatically, 
or you do actually go to the effort of manually proselytizing DOSBox? :)

-- 
Chambers


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From: Darren New
Subject: Re: Tell me it isn't so!
Date: 30 Jul 2009 22:39:53
Message: <4a725979$1@news.povray.org>
Chambers wrote:
> Darren New wrote:
>> Or even on sophisticated hardware. 1994 or so I needed to do 
>> compression testing (i.e., figure out whether JPEG works), so I wound 
>> up buying a $3000 graphics board for the Sun workstation so I could 
>> see 24-bit color.
> 
> Was that one of the Targa boards? 

Yes!  Of course I remember the brand of a video card my employer installed 
in a work computer 15 years ago! NOT!

-- 
   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   "We'd like you to back-port all the changes in 2.0
    back to version 1.0."
   "We've done that already. We call it 2.0."


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From: Warp
Subject: Re: Tell me it isn't so!
Date: 31 Jul 2009 04:24:00
Message: <4a72aa1f@news.povray.org>
Chambers <Ben### [at] gmailcom_no_underscores> wrote:
> Do you have your newsreader post these little reminders automatically, 
> or you do actually go to the effort of manually proselytizing DOSBox? :)

  If the subject is about running old DOS programs, do you have any better
suggestion?

-- 
                                                          - Warp


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From: Chambers
Subject: Re: Tell me it isn't so!
Date: 31 Jul 2009 10:41:02
Message: <4a73027e@news.povray.org>
Warp wrote:
> Chambers <Ben### [at] gmailcom_no_underscores> wrote:
>> Do you have your newsreader post these little reminders automatically, 
>> or you do actually go to the effort of manually proselytizing DOSBox? :)
> 
>   If the subject is about running old DOS programs, do you have any better
> suggestion?
> 

No, it's just that I've gotten to the point where I can predict when 
you're going to post a link to it.  Rather like knowing that if someone 
posts a comment about inefficient programming, Andy will comment on 
Haskell ;)

-- 
Chambers


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From: Chambers
Subject: Re: Tell me it isn't so!
Date: 31 Jul 2009 23:34:01
Message: <4a73b7a9$1@news.povray.org>
Jim Henderson wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Jul 2009 13:47:58 -0400, clipka wrote:
> 
>> Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:
>>> Bill was quoting Monty Python there, just in case you're unfamiliar
>>> with The Life of Brian.  :-)
>> Duh - and I didn't recognize it...
> 
> What does that say about both of us? ;-)
> 
> Jim

http://www.xkcd.com/16/

;)

-- 
Chambers


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