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Well Hal did not affect me.
It is the ones you meet in daily life that I want to maintain with a 
baseball bat.

Automated telephone systems.
Checkouts that tell you to remove your items before you have had time to 
put your change away. And scream to everyone that you are buying alcohol 
every time you swipe a barcode.
Sat Nav/GPS - need I say more. ;-)

On 23/12/2013 12:57 AM, Doctor John wrote:
> On 23/12/2013 00:32, Stephen wrote:
>> I'm seriously thinking of rooting mine. Just to get rid of the voice
>> commands.
>> I hate lippy machines.
>>
>>
>
>
> Dave Bowman: Hello, HAL. Do you read me, HAL?
>
> HAL: Affirmative, Dave. I read you.
>
> Dave Bowman: Open the pod bay doors, HAL.
>
> HAL: I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that.
>
> Dave Bowman: What's the problem?
>
> HAL: I think you know what the problem is just as well as I do.
>
> Dave Bowman: What are you talking about, HAL?
>
> HAL: This mission is too important for me to allow you to jeopardize it.
>
> Dave Bowman: I don't know what you're talking about, HAL.
>
> HAL: I know that you and Frank were planning to disconnect me, and I'm
> afraid that's something I cannot allow to happen.
>
> John


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     Stephen

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On 23/12/2013 3:14 AM, Jim Henderson wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Dec 2013 00:24:58 +0000, Stephen wrote:
>
>> On 23/12/2013 12:12 AM, Stephen wrote:
>>> Other than Pov your right.
>>
>> You are right.
>> Oops!
>
> 50 lashes for that oversight. ;)
>

<Grumble, grumble.>
<The crew are looking restless.>

> SciFi and Math is your punishment.
>

OMG He has run them together. Making it one word now. Next it will be a 
verb.
I SCiFi him.
You SCiFi him.
He, she or it SCiFis him.

You would "un-man" Shakespeare. ;-)




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     Stephen

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On 23/12/2013 12:51 AM, Doctor John wrote:
> On 22/12/2013 23:47, Stephen wrote:
>>
>> Hoist by your own petard. My evil friend.
>>
>> Barrow-in-Furness (by the sea, by the way).
>>
>>
>
> My gods, that's a clever move.
>

I have a plan. A cunning plan.


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     Stephen

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On 23/12/2013 3:15 AM, Jim Henderson wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Dec 2013 23:39:04 +0000, Stephen wrote:
>
>> On 22/12/2013 10:56 PM, Jim Henderson wrote:
>>>>> Oddly, I'm appreciating this the second time around. I'm less
>>>>> stressed and our doctor seems to bow to my (superior?) knowledge.
>>> LOL - I always worry when I know more about it than the doctor.;)
>>>
>>>
>> You worry because your doctor doesn't know enough or because you know
>> too much?
>
> Maybe a little of both - but I haven't had that experience in a while,
> myself.  Have a friend, though, who recently was dealing with some type
> of benign tumors, and he /did/ know more than the doctor about them.
>
> Then again, he named them, too.
>
> Jim
>

But then GPs can't be expected to be experts in everything. And we have 
the interest and the internet.
I suppose it all depends on how the doctor takes the advice.

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     Stephen

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On 23/12/2013 3:20 AM, Jim Henderson wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Dec 2013 23:47:19 +0000, Stephen wrote:
>
>> No you didn't. You forgot it was *you're* move or you wouldn't have told
>> him about the trap.
>
> [Emphasis added]
>
> Um.  OK.  SciFi.  Math.  ;)
>

I heard that! Pardon?


>>> Carnforth (Brief Encounter)
>>>
>> Hoist by your own petard. My evil friend.
>>
>> Barrow-in-Furness (by the sea, by the way).
>
> Wow, and *I* was accused of mean-spirited play?  That was just *nasty*.
>

Ah! The Christmas spirit! It has started. :-)

> Well then.  Euston Road.  And remember that the game /must/ last until
> the 25th of December. ;)
>

The way you two are playing. It will last forever. ;-)

BTW Your (checks, yes your) Christmas Day or ours?

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     Stephen

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On 23/12/2013 3:13 AM, Jim Henderson wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Dec 2013 00:12:46 +0000, Stephen wrote:
>
>
> The thing for Blender is if you use the Cycles rendering engine, you'll
> want an nVidia higher-end GPU, which will add to the cost.

I don't I use the internal renderer. Then Export a mesh and render in 
PovRay. So I think that I will get away without worrying about that. I 
hope. :-)


>
> What I currently use as a laptop is what I bought 2 years ago - a Dell
> N7110 laptop.  8 GB of memory, i7 CPU, integrated Intel graphics.  Gets
> the job done, and is even better than the newer desktop I have (8 cores
> rather than 4).  But it does weigh like a laptop, too.
>

For Dell read Toshiba and that is me.
The machine needs a spring clean possibly a re-install of all my 
applications and a clean up of the services and processes I do not use.
Sigh!

>>> I understand the Acer ultrabooks are pretty good, though.
>>
>> Thanks, I'll have a look at them. It will be a good place to start. I
>> had an Acer laptop the one before last. It might have been the one
>> before that, even. It gave good service and I had no trouble with it.
>
> That's always a promising start. :)
>

I hope so.

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     Stephen

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On 23/12/13 10:53, Stephen wrote:
> Top Post warning!
> 

How did that happen? You're normally punctilious in avoiding that sort
of newbie error.

> Well Hal did not affect me.
> It is the ones you meet in daily life that I want to maintain with a
> baseball bat.
> 
> Automated telephone systems.
> Checkouts that tell you to remove your items before you have had time to
> put your change away. And scream to everyone that you are buying alcohol
> every time you swipe a barcode.
> Sat Nav/GPS - need I say more. ;-)
> 

As Andrew would say: It burns, IT BURNS

John
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It was not given to you by your parents
You hold it in trust for your children

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On 23/12/13 11:30, Stephen wrote:
> 
> The way you two are playing. It will last forever. ;-)
> 

Sorry, my teletype seems to be running a bit slow

> BTW Your (checks, yes your) Christmas Day or ours?
> 

How about Xmas day in American Samoa?

BTW That is not my move

Notting Hill Gate (that is)

John
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On 23/12/2013 2:34 PM, Doctor John wrote:
> On 23/12/13 10:53, Stephen wrote:
>> Top Post warning!
>>
>
> How did that happen? You're normally punctilious in avoiding that sort
> of newbie error.
>

Indeed, I am. I wanted to neither crop your dialogue nor require you or 
Jim to scroll 17 pages down to read my words.
Besides that, there has not been a good flame war for ages.


>> Well Hal did not affect me.
>> It is the ones you meet in daily life that I want to maintain with a
>> baseball bat.
>>
>> Automated telephone systems.
>> Checkouts that tell you to remove your items before you have had time to
>> put your change away. And scream to everyone that you are buying alcohol
>> every time you swipe a barcode.
>> Sat Nav/GPS - need I say more. ;-)
>>
>
> As Andrew would say: It burns, IT BURNS
>

LOL

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     Stephen

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On 23/12/2013 2:43 PM, Doctor John wrote:
> On 23/12/13 11:30, Stephen wrote:
>>
>> The way you two are playing. It will last forever. ;-)
>>
>
> Sorry, my teletype seems to be running a bit slow
>

Try 240 volts instead of 110.

>> BTW Your (checks, yes your) Christmas Day or ours?
>>
>
> How about Xmas day in American Samoa?
>

How about 24:00 GMT?

> BTW That is not my move
>
> Notting Hill Gate (that is)
>

Getting a bit la-di-da, are we?
I have a remedy for that. One you'll like, methinks.

Valhalla.
The brewery that is. The one in Baltasound, Unst.

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     Stephen

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