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From: Invisible
Subject: Red letter day
Date: 17 Mar 2010 06:25:11
Message: <4ba0ae07$1@news.povray.org>
Hallelujah, praise the Lord! After ten years, today we're *finally* 
going to replace our useless old projector! :-D


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From: Kyle
Subject: Re: Red letter day
Date: 17 Mar 2010 07:21:42
Message: <4ba0bb46$1@news.povray.org>
Invisible wrote:
> Hallelujah, praise the Lord! After ten years, today we're *finally* 
> going to replace our useless old projector! :-D

Based on the title, I though Half-Life 2: Episode 3 was released. 
Thanks for getting my hopes up.  :-P


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From: Invisible
Subject: Re: Red letter day
Date: 17 Mar 2010 07:31:14
Message: <4ba0bd82$1@news.povray.org>
Kyle wrote:

> Based on the title, I though Half-Life 2: Episode 3 was released. Thanks 
> for getting my hopes up.  :-P

Aww, sorry about that. Yes, that would indeed by very neat - but the 
last time I heard, they hadn't even decided what the storyline was going 
to be yet. (Heh, way to plan a game series! And to think I was expecting 
them to have it all planned out from before HL1 was released...)


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From: nemesis
Subject: Re: Red letter day
Date: 17 Mar 2010 09:01:46
Message: <4ba0d2ba@news.povray.org>
Kyle escreveu:
> Invisible wrote:
>> Hallelujah, praise the Lord! After ten years, today we're *finally* 
>> going to replace our useless old projector! :-D
> 
> Based on the title, I though Half-Life 2: Episode 3 was released. Thanks 
> for getting my hopes up.  :-P

I thought it was because of God of War 3 launching.  Blood Red Letters... :)

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From: Stephen
Subject: Re: Red letter day
Date: 17 Mar 2010 14:51:13
Message: <4ba124a1$1@news.povray.org>
Invisible wrote:
> Hallelujah, praise the Lord! After ten years, today we're *finally* 
> going to replace our useless old projector! :-D

A projector! We're still using an epidiascope.
Some people don't know their living.


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	Stephen


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From: Stephen
Subject: Re: Red letter day
Date: 17 Mar 2010 14:52:13
Message: <4ba124dd$1@news.povray.org>
Stephen wrote:

> Some people don't know their living.
> 

Or they are living. <Blush>

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	Stephen


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From: scott
Subject: Re: Red letter day
Date: 18 Mar 2010 03:14:09
Message: <4ba1d2c1$1@news.povray.org>
>> Hallelujah, praise the Lord! After ten years, today we're *finally* going 
>> to replace our useless old projector! :-D
>
> A projector! We're still using an epidiascope.

A projector! We stopped using ours ages ago when we got a big TV in each 
meeting room :-)


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From: Invisible
Subject: Re: Red letter day
Date: 18 Mar 2010 05:03:16
Message: <4ba1ec54$1@news.povray.org>
scott wrote:

> A projector! We stopped using ours ages ago when we got a big TV in each 
> meeting room :-)

OOC, how many million USD does your company lose annually?


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From: scott
Subject: Re: Red letter day
Date: 18 Mar 2010 05:27:12
Message: <4ba1f1f0@news.povray.org>
> OOC, how many million USD does your company lose annually?

About -1000


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From: Invisible
Subject: Re: Red letter day
Date: 18 Mar 2010 05:28:29
Message: <4ba1f23d$1@news.povray.org>
scott wrote:
>> OOC, how many million USD does your company lose annually?
> 
> About -1000

QED.


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From: Stephen
Subject: Re: Red letter day
Date: 18 Mar 2010 05:36:50
Message: <4ba1f432@news.povray.org>
Invisible wrote:
> scott wrote:
>>> OOC, how many million USD does your company lose annually?
>>
>> About -1000
> 
> QED.

Even I can see that a loss of -1000 is in the black ;-)

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From: scott
Subject: Re: Red letter day
Date: 18 Mar 2010 05:37:48
Message: <4ba1f46c$1@news.povray.org>
>>> OOC, how many million USD does your company lose annually?
>>
>> About -1000
>
> QED.

Actually the amount of profit the whole company makes has quite a small 
impact on the budget my department gets.  What made a much bigger difference 
was that we *lost* a key project, which meant we didn't have to pay for a 
lot of stuff, which meant we had the money left over to buy other things. 
And the way it works here is that any money you have left over on March 31st 
gets taken away from you.  IOW because we sucked at winning the project we 
were forced to spend a 5 digit sum of money on other stuff (new laptops, TVs 
etc) - incentive or what!


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From: Invisible
Subject: Re: Red letter day
Date: 18 Mar 2010 05:41:42
Message: <4ba1f556$1@news.povray.org>
scott wrote:

> Actually the amount of profit the whole company makes has quite a small 
> impact on the budget my department gets.  What made a much bigger 
> difference was that we *lost* a key project, which meant we didn't have 
> to pay for a lot of stuff, which meant we had the money left over to buy 
> other things. And the way it works here is that any money you have left 
> over on March 31st gets taken away from you.  IOW because we sucked at 
> winning the project we were forced to spend a 5 digit sum of money on 
> other stuff (new laptops, TVs etc) - incentive or what!

Dude, that's *advanced*! :-D

But anyway, my point was, my employer has a fairly serious lack of cash 
right now. Apparently banks tend to not like lending money to companies 
that keep posting larger and larger losses. I can't imagine why...


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From: Invisible
Subject: Re: Red letter day
Date: 18 Mar 2010 12:20:45
Message: <4ba252dd$1@news.povray.org>
Invisible wrote:
> Hallelujah, praise the Lord! After ten years, today we're *finally* 
> going to replace our useless old projector! :-D

Oh my god, it's here! :-D


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From: Stephen
Subject: Re: Red letter day
Date: 18 Mar 2010 12:42:44
Message: <4ba25804$1@news.povray.org>
Invisible wrote:
> Invisible wrote:
>> Hallelujah, praise the Lord! After ten years, today we're *finally* 
>> going to replace our useless old projector! :-D
> 
> Oh my god, it's here! :-D

You will be staying late to unpack it then?

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	Stephen


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From: Invisible
Subject: Re: Red letter day
Date: 19 Mar 2010 05:00:28
Message: <4ba33d2c$1@news.povray.org>
>> Oh my god, it's here! :-D
> 
> You will be staying late to unpack it then?

Er, no. ;-) Actually it didn't take that long to unpack it, set it up 
and try it out.

The colours are so much more saturated. And it seems to be possible to 
achieve a sharper focus. The image is much brighter; it lights up the 
whole room. It's just about readable even with the lights turned on. 
(Would probably be illegible in bright sunlight though.) And it's much 
quieter - although still not as quiet as I'd like...


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From: Stephen
Subject: Re: Red letter day
Date: 19 Mar 2010 08:14:25
Message: <4ba36aa1$1@news.povray.org>
Invisible wrote:
>>> Oh my god, it's here! :-D
>>
>> You will be staying late to unpack it then?
> 
> Er, no. ;-) 

:-D

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Best Regards,
	Stephen


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From: Phil Cook v2
Subject: Re: Red letter day
Date: 19 Mar 2010 08:33:49
Message: <op.u9teizdumn4jds@phils>
And lo On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 09:41:40 -0000, Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> did  
spake thusly:

> scott wrote:
>
>> Actually the amount of profit the whole company makes has quite a small  
>> impact on the budget my department gets.  What made a much bigger  
>> difference was that we *lost* a key project, which meant we didn't have  
>> to pay for a lot of stuff, which meant we had the money left over to  
>> buy other things. And the way it works here is that any money you have  
>> left over on March 31st gets taken away from you.

You don't work for the council do you? :-D

>>  IOW because we sucked at winning the project we were forced to spend a  
>> 5 digit sum of money on other stuff (new laptops, TVs etc) - incentive  
>> or what!
>
> Dude, that's *advanced*! :-D
>
> But anyway, my point was, my employer has a fairly serious lack of cash  
> right now. Apparently banks tend to not like lending money to companies  
> that keep posting larger and larger losses. I can't imagine why...

That's because they think they're the only ones who should get money for  
posting losses.

-- 
Phil Cook

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From: scott
Subject: Re: Red letter day
Date: 19 Mar 2010 08:48:54
Message: <4ba372b6$1@news.povray.org>
> That's because they think they're the only ones who should get money for  
> posting losses.

But we promise we'll make money next year!


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From: Phil Cook v2
Subject: Re: Red letter day
Date: 19 Mar 2010 11:11:23
Message: <op.u9tltmcvmn4jds@phils>
And lo On Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:48:54 -0000, scott <sco### [at] scottcom> did  
spake thusly:

>> That's because they think they're the only ones who should get money  
>> for  posting losses.
>
> But we promise we'll make money next year!

Yeah, yeah; that's what they said too ;-)

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Phil Cook

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