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From: Phil Carmody on 4 Feb 2007 20:35 Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> writes: > unsettled wrote: > > I was told that > > > > http://www.ts1000.us/ > > > > had a coding contest in 2006. That's using the old Sinclair > > "doorstop" computers with 1K memory which also held the OS > > and a basic interpreter. I don't know how much space was > > left for programs, but it wasn't very much. > > > > A contest puts one in mind of the period when these were > > new and such contests were common. > > Structured programming makes far more sense than minimalism. Thus spake someone who's never entered the IOCCC, or any Perl golf tournaments. C? main(int c,char**v){c-1&&main((c++<0?putchar(c%4?*v[1]++:",\n"[!c]):1[v][c-2])?c :2-4*c/3,v);} Perl? I managed to do a 3-stroke Magoo on Ton 'The Alien' Hospel in a just-for-fun minigolf the other day. (OK, an even shorter version was found later, but briefly I was on top of the world.) dc? dc -e'[q]sq16i3ADAAA893BE8B8DB1162094FD51711722A89C7[d0=q6D~9+Plxx]dsxx' Sense has its place. That isn't everywhere. Phil -- "Home taping is killing big business profits. We left this side blank so you can help." -- Dead Kennedys, written upon the B-side of tapes of /In God We Trust, Inc./.
From: unsettled on 4 Feb 2007 20:40 Eeyore wrote: > > jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > > >>I *finally* got to use my expensive VRRROOOMMM machine. Then >>spent the rest of my energy chipping ice with what was left. >>I only had two inches to blow. It must have rained a some >>point. > > > More riddles. > I understood it just fine. She used a snowblower. http://www.fayette.k12.in.us/~cbeard/calliope/snowblower.jpg
From: unsettled on 4 Feb 2007 21:06 Eeyore wrote: > > unsettled wrote: > > >>Phil Carmody wrote: >> >>>Of course, you'd not have enough time during he vertical flyback >>>to actually chage much of the "screen", surely? >> >>Nomenclature lesson: retrace > > > Retrace and flyback are equally acceptable. > > I can see you now. The kind of manager who delights in belittling ppl. You have > all the hallmarks. A total disaster for any company employing you. Never happen. Incompetents didn't stay around long enough to be belittled, competent folk don't deserve it. You wouldn't have made it past the personnel office interview.
From: unsettled on 4 Feb 2007 21:28 Eeyore wrote: > > 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'. Only complete idiots like those arguing about this would think that I intended the terms to be considered to be mutually exclusive. I merely gave a "nomenclature lesson" which remains intact above. Reading and comprehension are obviously very poor in the modern day technician class.
From: Ken Smith on 4 Feb 2007 21:47
In article <45C6845D.3A46D52E(a)hotmail.com>, Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > > >MassiveProng wrote: [....] >> qualified installer situation only, and if he can shove it into the >> location and plug it in, he can diagnose any problems it causes after >> being plugged in. Otherwise, he ain't all that to begin with. > >I don't know how you handle these things in the USA but in the UK a full-size >electric stove is a permanently installed device that an electrician fits to a >specific power point that includes ( as it happens ) an isolating switch. When new stuff gets put in, these days, it gets plugged in. Even stuff that you normally think of as permanent will have a way to plug and unplug it. This reduces the skill level needed to do a safe installation. BTW: In California, nothing is permanently installed. It may tumble out the door any minute. > >Graham > -- -- kensmith(a)rahul.net forging knowledge |