wa ha

-- 
Tim Cook
http://home.bellsouth.net/p/PWP-empyrean

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"Tim Cook" <z99### [at] bellsouthnet> wrote in message 
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<checks date>
?

> wa ha
??

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Brian Elliott wrote:
> "Tim Cook" <z99### [at] bellsouthnet> wrote in message 
> news:47280e63$1@news.povray.org...
> 
> <checks date>
> ?
> 
>> wa ha
> ??
> 

OCT 31 == DEC 25

*runs*

-- 
Tim Cook
http://home.bellsouth.net/p/PWP-empyrean

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Tim Cook <z99### [at] bellsouthnet> wrote:
> Brian Elliott wrote:
> > "Tim Cook" <z99### [at] bellsouthnet> wrote in message
> > news:47280e63$1@news.povray.org...
> >
> > <checks date>
> > ?
> >
> >> wa ha
> > ??
> >
>
> OCT 31 == DEC 25
>
> *runs*
>

Are you sure? OCT 31st is the old Keltic “New Year” not Xmas. :) :)
Are you going out guising tonight?


Stephen

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Stephen wrote:
> Are you sure? OCT 31st is the old Keltic “New Year” not Xmas. :) :)

You fail at geekery.  (and in all technicality, the equinox is the New 
Year, and that's not 'til the 4th of November)

-- 
Tim Cook
http://home.bellsouth.net/p/PWP-empyrean

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Tim Cook <z99### [at] bellsouthnet> wrote:
> Stephen wrote:
> > Are you sure? OCT 31st is the old Keltic “New Year” not Xmas. :) :)
>
> You fail at geekery.  (and in all technicality, the equinox is the New
> Year, and that's not 'til the 4th of November)
>
> --
> Tim Cook
> http://home.bellsouth.net/p/PWP-empyrean
>


Well yes I was always too busy to study geek, I had computers to fix :)
And when you are linking pagan festivals to the Christian church, a few days
over the centuries is neither here nor there. IM(ns)HO :)
Any way it is time we took back the holiday from you lot. Look what you’ve done
to it – “Trick or treat” OMG. In my day it was all bogie men and you were lucky
to come back home with your soul. :)

How are you keeping BTW, long time no hear.


Stephen

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Stephen <mcavoys_AT_aolDOT.com> wrote:
> Are you sure? OCT 31st is the old Keltic ?New Year? not Xmas. :) :)
> Are you going out guising tonight?

  There are 10 types of people: Those who understand binary and those
who don't.

-- 
                                                          - Warp

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Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:
> Stephen <mcavoys_AT_aolDOT.com> wrote:
> > Are you sure? OCT 31st is the old Keltic ?New Year? not Xmas. :) :)
> > Are you going out guising tonight?
>
>   There are 10 types of people: Those who understand binary and those
> who don't.
>
> --
>                                                           - Warp

No there are 011 types, you forgot those who are fuzzy about it.
Oh dear, I’m in two minds about it.
What reminded you of that, do you remember BCD?


Stephen

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Stephen <mcavoys_AT_aolDOT.com> wrote:
> What reminded you of that, do you remember BCD?

  Has it ever been used anywhere since the 60's or something?

-- 
                                                          - Warp

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"Tim Cook" <z99### [at] bellsouthnet> wrote in message
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> Brian Elliott wrote:
> > "Tim Cook" <z99### [at] bellsouthnet> wrote in message
> > news:47280e63$1@news.povray.org...
> >
> > <checks date>
> > ?
> >
> >> wa ha
> > ??
> >
>
> OCT 31 == DEC 25
>
> *runs*

rofl.



nerd :)

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Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:
> Stephen <mcavoys_AT_aolDOT.com> wrote:
> > What reminded you of that, do you remember BCD?
>
>   Has it ever been used anywhere since the 60's or something?
>
> --
>                                                           - Warp

Ah! The 60’s when there were only 4 bits to a word. Those were the days :)

Stephen

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On Wed, 31 Oct 2007 07:42:56 -0400, Tim Cook <z99### [at] bellsouthnet> wrote:

>OCT 31 == DEC 25

Wow.  I read that this morning and only just now got it.  I guess my nerd gears are
turning slow.  :-p

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"Kyle" <hob### [at] gatenet> a écrit dans le message de news: 
uvdhi318eifr06c404r9khtp3kus2hep00@4ax.com...
> On Wed, 31 Oct 2007 07:42:56 -0400, Tim Cook <z99### [at] bellsouthnet> 
> wrote:
>
>>OCT 31 == DEC 25
>
> Wow.  I read that this morning and only just now got it.  I guess my nerd 
> gears are turning slow.  :-p

Naaaaaaaaahhhhhhh thank you, I'll sleep better tonight :-)
I've no nerd gear so I had to have my finger put on it.

Marc

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Stephen wrote:
> Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:
>> Stephen <mcavoys_AT_aolDOT.com> wrote:
>>> What reminded you of that, do you remember BCD?
>>   Has it ever been used anywhere since the 60's or something?
>>
>> --
>>                                                           - Warp
> 
> Ah! The 60’s when there were only 4 bits to a word. Those were the days :)
> 
> Stephen
> 
> 

yes, very small vocabulary.
crippled by the fact that 6 were curse words.


Tom

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Warp wrote:
> Stephen <mcavoys_AT_aolDOT.com> wrote:
>> Are you sure? OCT 31st is the old Keltic ?New Year? not Xmas. :) :)
>> Are you going out guising tonight?
> 
>   There are 10 types of people: Those who understand binary and those
> who don't.
> 

There are actually 10 types of people: Those who understand trinary,
those who think it's binary, and those who don't understand either.

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That's quite a costume that your subject line has there.

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"Tim Cook" <z99### [at] bellsouthnet> wrote in message
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> Brian Elliott wrote:
> > "Tim Cook" <z99### [at] bellsouthnet> wrote in message
> > news:47280e63$1@news.povray.org...
> >
> > <checks date>
> > ?
> >
> >> wa ha
> > ??
> >
>
> OCT 31 == DEC 25
>
> *runs*

*groan*

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Sabrina Kilian <"ykgp at vtSPAM.edu"> wrote:
> There are actually 10 types of people: Those who understand trinary,
> those who think it's binary, and those who don't understand either.

  There are 10 types of people: Those who understand base-n numbers,
and n-1 of other types which have several levels of understanding.

-- 
                                                          - Warp

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Warp wrote:
> Sabrina Kilian <"ykgp at vtSPAM.edu"> wrote:
>> There are actually 10 types of people: Those who understand trinary,
>> those who think it's binary, and those who don't understand either.
> 
>   There are 10 types of people: Those who understand base-n numbers,
> and n-1 of other types which have several levels of understanding.
> 

Doesn't work past base 9. Base 10 and up, and the people who don't
understand it fit in both the "think it's base 10," and the "don't
understand" groups. If they fail to understand, they wouldn't belong in
a higher group. And if they understand a higher group, like base 10,
then they don't belong in the 'don't understand' group.

Anyways, post base 10, there are 10 - 1 people kinds of people.

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Warp wrote:
 >   There are 10 types of people: Those who understand binary and those
 > who don't.

2 + 2 is ... 10.....

   ... IN BASE 4!  I'm *FINE*!

-- 
   Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
     Remember the good old days, when we
     used to complain about cryptography
     being export-restricted?

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"Darren New" wrote:
> 2 + 2 is ... 10.....
>
>   ... IN BASE 4!  I'm *FINE*!

It did annoy me that that joke doesn't really make sense when spoken out 
loud. "10" can mean many different numbers but "ten" cannot.

Rune

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Sabrina Kilian <"ykgp at vtSPAM.edu"> wrote:
> Warp wrote:
> > Stephen <mcavoys_AT_aolDOT.com> wrote:
> >> Are you sure? OCT 31st is the old Keltic ?New Year? not Xmas. :) :)
> >> Are you going out guising tonight?
> >
> >   There are 10 types of people: Those who understand binary and those
> > who don't.
> >
>
> There are actually 10 types of people: Those who understand trinary,
> those who think it's binary, and those who don't understand either.

Somehow I am reminded of this:

He who knows not and knows not that he knows not is a fool. Shun him. He who
knows not and knows that he knows not is a child. Teach him. He who knows and
knows not that he knows is asleep. Wake him. He who knows and knows that he
knows is a wise man. Follow him.

I don't know why :)

Stephen

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"Stephen" <mcavoys_AT_aolDOT.com> wrote in message 
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>
> Somehow I am reminded of this:
>
> He who knows not and knows not that he knows not is a fool. Shun him. He 
> who
> knows not and knows that he knows not is a child. Teach him. He who knows 
> and
> knows not that he knows is asleep. Wake him. He who knows and knows that 
> he
> knows is a wise man. Follow him.
>
> I don't know why :)

Noe's nose knows no's.

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Tim Cook <z99### [at] bellsouthnet> wrote:
> wa ha
>

Funnily enough, I actually dressed as Santa Claus for my Halloween costume, just
to throw people off :)

....Chambers

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Rune wrote:
> "Darren New" wrote:
>> 2 + 2 is ... 10.....
>>
>>   ... IN BASE 4!  I'm *FINE*!
> 
> It did annoy me that that joke doesn't really make sense when spoken out 
> loud. "10" can mean many different numbers but "ten" cannot.

Actually, it makes perfect sense. The computer has been hit by a number 
of missiles. It says "Two plus two is ten."  It then tries to pretend it 
didn't make a mistake, in a rather lame and transparent way.  The joke 
isn't supposed to make sense. The joke is that it's a lame attempt at 
pretending everything is just fine. :-)

-- 
   Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
     Remember the good old days, when we
     used to complain about cryptography
     being export-restricted?

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Darren New wrote:

> 2 + 2 is ... 10.....
> 
>   ... IN BASE 4!  I'm *FINE*!

I thought it sounded more like "in base 4 I'm FINE!", but anyway...

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Darren New wrote:
> Rune wrote:
>> "Darren New" wrote:
>>> 2 + 2 is ... 10.....
>>>
>>>   ... IN BASE 4!  I'm *FINE*!
>>
>> It did annoy me that that joke doesn't really make sense when spoken 
>> out loud. "10" can mean many different numbers but "ten" cannot.
> 
> Actually, it makes perfect sense. The computer has been hit by a number 
> of missiles. It says "Two plus two is ten."  It then tries to pretend it 
> didn't make a mistake, in a rather lame and transparent way.  The joke 
> isn't supposed to make sense. The joke is that it's a lame attempt at 
> pretending everything is just fine. :-)

Somebody somewhere wrote that "Windows 98 is like an old guy sitting in 
the corner who pees himself and then tries to pretend there's nothing 
wrong"...

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On 31 Oct 2007 10:40:11 -0500, Warp wrote:
> Stephen <mcavoys_AT_aolDOT.com> wrote:
>> What reminded you of that, do you remember BCD?
>
> Has it ever been used anywhere since the 60's or something?

Yes, NES games used it often in particular for most of the numeral
information shown to players (such as the score). Though even more
often, they encoded each decimal digit in a single byte.

-- 
Joel Yliluoma - http://iki.fi/bisqwit/

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Joel Yliluoma wrote:
> Yes, NES games used it often in particular for most of the numeral
> information shown to players (such as the score).

If the majority of your use of the number is display, BCD makes sense. 
(It's how phone numbers are encoded over X.25 and SS7 et al, also.)

The 6502 at least had a BCD math instruction.

> Though even more
> often, they encoded each decimal digit in a single byte.

That *is* BCD. "Packed BCD" is two BCD digits per octet. :-)


-- 
   Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
     Remember the good old days, when we
     used to complain about cryptography
     being export-restricted?

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