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On Wed, 11 Mar 2009 10:09:58 -0500, Mike Raiford <"m[raiford]!at"@gmail.com>
wrote:
>Invisible wrote:
>>> Mine is like that ATM.
>>
>> Hey, *I* am old enough to remember green-screen ATMs. :-P (Complete with
>> "insert card" burned into the screen...)
>
>Oh, please .. I'm old enough to remember when credit cards had no
>magnetic stripe, and credit transactions required carbon paper. :-P
I'm old enough to remember... Damn! I forgot. ;)
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Regards
Stephen
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"Invisible" <voi### [at] dev null> wrote in message
news:49b7cfed$1@news.povray.org...
>
> WTF-O-Meter: 4.6
Makes perfect sense (ceteris peribus). I'm surprised you cannot figure out
why .
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[GDS|Entropy] wrote:
> The only way I'm getting that one though is if funding for this biofuels
> startup comes through.
I'm involved with prizecapital.net if you are interested in that. Sort of
like X-Prize for biofuel start-ups.
--
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
My fortune cookie said, "You will soon be
unable to read this, even at arm's length."
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Mike Raiford wrote:
> Oh, please .. I'm old enough to remember when credit cards had no
> magnetic stripe, and credit transactions required carbon paper. :-P
And I'm old enough to have actually collected money that way. :-)
Along with the big book they sent you once a month with all the stolen card
numbers.
--
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
My fortune cookie said, "You will soon be
unable to read this, even at arm's length."
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Invisible wrote:
> 19-inch 4:3 aspect LCD monitor: £159.
> 19-inch 16:9 aspect LCD monitor: £113.
>
> WTF-O-Meter: 4.6
Isn't a 19-inch 16:9 smaller than a 19" 4:3? They're measured on the
diagonal, yes? So the smallest 19" monitor would be a 19:1 monitor?
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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
My fortune cookie said, "You will soon be
unable to read this, even at arm's length."
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>> 19-inch 4:3 aspect LCD monitor: £159.
>> 19-inch 16:9 aspect LCD monitor: £113.
>>
>> WTF-O-Meter: 4.6
>
> Isn't a 19-inch 16:9 smaller than a 19" 4:3? They're measured on the
> diagonal, yes? So the smallest 19" monitor would be a 19:1 monitor?
Well let's see now...
4:3 would be 15.2 x 11.4 inches = 173.28 in^2.
16:9 would be 16.55 x 9.31 inches = 154.08 in^2.
Given the miniscule difference, I don't think that has much to do with
it. (I am, however, baffled as to why there's an area difference at all...)
--
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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Darren New wrote:
> Mike Raiford wrote:
>> Oh, please .. I'm old enough to remember when credit cards had no
>> magnetic stripe, and credit transactions required carbon paper. :-P
>
> And I'm old enough to have actually collected money that way. :-)
>
> Along with the big book they sent you once a month with all the stolen
> card numbers.
>
Touché
Wow, So.... how likely was it that someone would be caught with a stolen
card then? Oh, and no electronic means to check credit limits...
--
~Mike
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>>> Oh, please .. I'm old enough to remember when credit cards had no
>>> magnetic stripe, and credit transactions required carbon paper. :-P
>>
>> And I'm old enough to have actually collected money that way. :-)
>>
>> Along with the big book they sent you once a month with all the stolen
>> card numbers.
>>
>
> Touché
>
> Wow, So.... how likely was it that someone would be caught with a stolen
> card then? Oh, and no electronic means to check credit limits...
Interesting.
I had always assumed that credit cards exist *because* of electronic
banking. :-P
--
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> I had always assumed that credit cards exist *because* of electronic
> banking. :-P
I remember getting utility bills on tractor feed paper, presumably
printed by some huge line printer...
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~Mike
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Mike Raiford wrote:
> Orchid XP v8 wrote:
>
>> I had always assumed that credit cards exist *because* of electronic
>> banking. :-P
>
> I remember getting utility bills on tractor feed paper, presumably
> printed by some huge line printer...
I remember being in the office where they *printed* that stuff.
In 1996.
What can I say? County councils aren't the most technologically forward
organisations.
--
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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