From: krw on
In article <456ED79C.A359CCA2(a)hotmail.com>,
rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com says...
>
>
> jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote:
>
> > Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
> > >unsettled wrote:
> > >> jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote:
> > >> > Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
> > >> >
> > >> >>You simply can't make these analogies with small start ups.
> > >> >
> > >> > How do you think the large companies got started?
> > >> >
> > >> > It occurred to belatedly that you are a teenaged boy. That
> > >> > would explain a lot of the bizarre things you have written
> > >> > and your ignornance of how stuff works.
> > >>
> > >> "On December 17, 1903, at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, the Wright Flyer
> > >> became the first powered, heavier-than-air machine to achieve
> > >> controlled, sustained flight with a pilot aboard."
> > >>
> > >> http://www.nasm.si.edu/wrightbrothers/
> > >>
> > >> Small start up company.
> > >
> > >I'd like to see that happen now !
> >
> > The way the computer biz works these days, is the brightest start
> > up a company to make a widget. If it is successful, a large
> > company buys them out and begins the process of manufacturing
> > and distributing the widget. The bright young things begin
> > a new startup company making a new widget.
>
> And you believe there are an infinite number of widgets to be invented that the
> big companies can't think of too ?

Charles Duell, is that you?

--
Keith
From: krw on
In article <ekmifn$8ss_002(a)s886.apx1.sbo.ma.dialup.rcn.com>,
jmfbahciv(a)aol.com says...
> In article <MPG.1fd79bef70af1ed3989d3d(a)news.individual.net>,
> krw <krw(a)att.bizzzz> wrote:
> <snip>
>
> >It's not a "3" it's "=3F" (the code-point for the apostrophe). I'm
> >not sure what I did (it just happened recently). If someone has an
> >idea how to fix it I certainly will!
>
> Did your system get hexed?

Apparently! ;-) Maybe it's fixed, dunno.

--
Keith


From: unsettled on
krw wrote:
> In article <456EFE61.92EE5E87(a)hotmail.com>,
> rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com says...
>
>>
>>jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> krw <krw(a)att.bizzzz> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>It's not a "3" it's "=3F" (the code-point for the apostrophe). I'm
>>>>>>not sure what I did (it just happened recently). If someone has an
>>>>>>idea how to fix it I certainly will!
>>>>>
>>>>>Did your system get hexed?
>>>>
>>>>Can you explain what you mean in normal language ?
>>>
>>>START: MOVEI T1,[ASCIZ/Did your system get hexed?/]
>>> OUTSTR T1,
>>> END START
>>>
>>>/BAH
>>
>>I never get involved in assembler aside from DSP. It's far too difficult to
>>maintain and far too easy to write nonsense code.
>
>
> You're right. The simple minded should stay far away from
> assembler (or any other language for that matter).

Particularly the written ones.


From: Eeyore on


krw wrote:

> In article <456EFE61.92EE5E87(a)hotmail.com>,
> rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com says...
> >
> >
> > jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote:
> >
> > > Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
> > > >jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote:
> > > >> krw <krw(a)att.bizzzz> wrote:
> > > >>
> > > >> >It's not a "3" it's "=3F" (the code-point for the apostrophe). I'm
> > > >> >not sure what I did (it just happened recently). If someone has an
> > > >> >idea how to fix it I certainly will!
> > > >>
> > > >> Did your system get hexed?
> > > >
> > > >Can you explain what you mean in normal language ?
> > >
> > > START: MOVEI T1,[ASCIZ/Did your system get hexed?/]
> > > OUTSTR T1,
> > > END START
> > >
> > > /BAH
> >
> > I never get involved in assembler aside from DSP. It's far too difficult to
> > maintain and far too easy to write nonsense code.
>
> You're right. The simple minded should stay far away from
> assembler (or any other language for that matter).

Sorry to disappoint you then.

I do prefer at least medium level code though.

Graham

From: Lloyd Parker on
In article <456F373A.482D7B95(a)hotmail.com>,
Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>T Wake wrote:
>
>> <jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote in message
>> > krw <krw(a)att.bizzzz> wrote:
>> > <snip>
>> >
>> >>It's not a "3" it's "=3F" (the code-point for the apostrophe). I'm
>> >>not sure what I did (it just happened recently). If someone has an
>> >>idea how to fix it I certainly will!
>> >
>> > Did your system get hexed?
>>
>> Maybe sacrificing a chicken will change the codepage...
>
>LMAO !!!
>
>Hexed indeed !
>
>Graham
>
>

Didn't this start about the time the Democrats took control of Congress?
Maybe it's a sign. krw, see the light! Convert!