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From: Eeyore on 4 Feb 2007 20:05 unsettled wrote: > T Wake wrote: > > <jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote in message > > > >>Western fashions come and go at the drop of a haute couteur > >>hiccup. All through Islamic history, the clothes people wore > >>were dictated. Some had political reasons like banning > >>the styles that was dictated by your predecessor but others > >>seems to keep the infidels' influcence away from the the pure > >>Mulsim. That's control, serious control. > >> > >>And that's just textiles and shoes. > > > > > > If I point to a webpage with a picture of an Islamic Arabic cleric wearing > > sandles which do not have two straps are you happy this falsifies your > > claims? > > There are blasphemers in all religions. Blaspheming clerics ? Graham
From: Eeyore on 4 Feb 2007 20:08 MassiveProng wrote: > unsettled <unsettled(a)nonsense.com> Gave us: > >Eeyore wrote: > >> unsettled wrote: > >> > >>>Glad to see you took another dump in these > >>>newsgroups. Its a good thing you do it so > >>>well because it is obvious you don't do much else. > >> > >> That's a curious way to admit defeat ! > >> > >> It's sort of thing one might expect from management of course. > > > >Ah, you're a comedian. I don't know if a brain > >transplant will be enough after all. > > > You really don't have very much in the magazine to volley with, do > you, twit? > > You talk a real good one in political matters (maybe), but you get > all flustered on technical arguments. A typical (mis)manager. Graham
From: Eeyore on 4 Feb 2007 20:19 MassiveProng wrote: > jmfbahciv(a)aol.com Gave us: > > Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > >>jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > >>> Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > >>> > > >>> >I think you should read up about rationing during WW2. > >>> > >>> I have. It is significant that England couldn't figure out how > >>> to stop war rations until 3 decades after the warring stopped. > >> > >>3 decades ! Where on earth did you get that figure from ? What was being > >>rationed in 1975 ? > > > >I found it. whew! > > > >Reference: _The Downing Street Years_; Margaret Thatcher, Harper-Collins; > >1993; page 44. > > > >"But I took greatest personal pleasure in the removal of exchange > >controls -- that is the abolition of the elaborate statuatory > >restrictions on the amount of foreign exchange British citizens > >could acquire. These had been introduced as an 'emergency measure' > >at the start of the Second World War and maintained by successive > >governments, largely in the hope of increasing industrial > >investment in Britain and of resisting pressure on sterling." > > > >/BAH > > That's not "rationing", dingledorf. That's inflation control, and > economic growth initiative. Interesting comment. In the following period we had skyrocketing inflation (under Thatcher) and it marked the time when outsourcing also started to take serious hold. Graham
From: Eeyore on 4 Feb 2007 20:21 unsettled wrote: > Phil Carmody wrote: > > unsettled <unsettled(a)nonsense.com> writes: > >>Phil Carmody wrote: > > >>>an externally generated NMI, synchronised with the horizontal flyback? > >>>Of course, you'd not have enough time during he vertical flyback to > >>>actually chage much of the "screen", surely? > > >>Nomenclature lesson: retrace > > > It was a bleedin' telly - it was flying back. > > http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/tv8.htm > > "Horizontal-retrace signals to tell the TV when to move > the beam back at the end of each line > > "Vertical-retrace signals 60 times per second to move > the beam from bottom-right to top-left" > > http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/tv9.htm Only an idiot manager could fail to understand it's the same damn thing as 'flyback'. Graham
From: Eeyore on 4 Feb 2007 20:28
Ken Smith wrote: > Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > >Ken Smith wrote: > >> Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > >> > >> >I expect a computer to have some decent input and output devices / > >> >ports. A few buttons and a 4 character display don't cut it for example. > >> > >> So a PDP-8 could not be a computer then? > > > >It has the ports. So, you connect a teletype or VDU to it. I doubt BAH's > >stove has a > >keyboard input and a display or printer connection.. > > Actually, it may not have any ports. The PDP-8 didn't even really have an > I/O instruction. One of the 8 codes was a NOP as far as the CPU was > concerned. You would decode this externally and do the I/O operation with > external hardware. > > Most PDP-8s had a current loop interface built onto them for the paper > tape reader. There's your I/O then. I'd imagined it was RS-232. I never actually met an 8 in the flesh just an 11. Graham |