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From: Jim on 21 Feb 2010 04:12 D.M. Procida <real-not-anti-spam-address(a)apple-juice.co.uk> wrote: > > What kind of failure of intellect did you suffer to enable you to make > > that cognitive error, if indeed you did not mean to insult me? > > It could have been an Out of Memory Error. It's always disturbing when your own personal HIMEM-TOP produces a negative number. Old BBC BASIC joke there. Jim -- "Microsoft admitted its Vista operating system was a 'less good product' in what IT experts have described as the most ambitious understatement since the captain of the Titanic reported some slightly damp tablecloths." http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/
From: Geoff Berrow on 21 Feb 2010 07:34 On Sat, 20 Feb 2010 15:30:16 +0000, peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk (Peter Ceresole) wrote: >Geoff Berrow <blthecat(a)ckdog.co.uk> wrote: > >> >As far as I know I'm the only one, so yes. What year was that? 2009? >> >> Give or take ten years... > >Jeez. So that's why I can't remember being in Birmingham... Well I don't remember you being older than me. Take that how you will. I remember asking you how you pronounced your name but you said you didn't know either. I think Andy Mabbett was there too. Can't see how you could have forgotten that. BTW there is an Illumitran on Fleabay 300398066720 It's like the one I used to use when I worked for an AV company back in the 80s. Handy because it has contrast control. Almost tempted to bid on it myself. -- Geoff Berrow (Put thecat out to email) It's only Usenet, no one dies. My opinions, not the committee's, mine. Simple RFDs www.4theweb.co.uk/rfdmaker
From: Rob on 21 Feb 2010 14:34 On 16/02/2010 11:11, Jaimie Vandenbergh wrote: > On Tue, 16 Feb 2010 11:03:09 GMT, Rob<patchoulianREMOVE(a)gmail.com> > wrote: > >> On 16/02/2010 10:48, Jaimie Vandenbergh wrote: >>> On Tue, 16 Feb 2010 10:07:57 GMT, Rob<patchoulianREMOVE(a)gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Having just got back from hols with an iPhone holder in our party, I've >>>> decided the time has come. Couple of questions: >>>> >>>> I figure PAYG is cheaper by about �200 for me over the two years of a >>>> contract, including the cost of year 2 wireless. Is this �200 likely to >>>> result in hassle/loss of features? >>> >>> No, although I *think* that currently only O2-on-contract has working >>> Visual Voicemail. Which I've never missed, and certainly isn't worth >>> �200. >>> >> >> Thanks - I don't know what that is, so it's hardly a priority! Phone use >> is secondary - it's the internet and roamingness (other post) of the >> iPhone over the Touch that's of interest. > > Yes, the only way to use a Touch comparably would be to have a 3G > device (or phone) that acts as a wifi hotspot in your other pocket. > Which seems silly. > >> That and the camera, compass, GPS, built-in mic, stuff . . . > > Serious functional omissions, pushing people to get the iPhone. > Indeed - but what can you do? :-) Went for a PAYG the other day, from O2. So far, so good, splendid bit of kit. Thanks for the pointers, everyone. Rob
From: Duncan Kennedy on 21 Feb 2010 16:44 In message <1je7li7.s4h488d0y1e5N%peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk>, Peter Ceresole <peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk> writes >Duncan Kennedy <nospam(a)nospam.otterson-bg.couk> wrote: > >> I *did play with CP/M on the Amstrad but went back to more ambitious >> versions of ZX81 Basic stuff in Amstrad Basic. > >Oh yes. Made Basic loaders for programs which configured keys and screen >parameters (for Protext on ROM) and included a startup picture (for >Baintstorm). Great fun, if weenie. Now I had Protext and its spell checker on separate ROMs - and a full ROM box - I had forgotten that was Amstrad - had it in mind it was the STE. > >Now I've reached that venerable age of 70 (go on, venerate me) at which >I mostly just want my applications to do stuff. Which they do. Sprog! But at 72 I know what you mean. -- Duncan K Downtown Dalgety Bay
From: Elliot Doper on 26 Feb 2010 03:12
On Sat, 20 Feb 2010 14:44:15 +0000, Rowland McDonnell wrote: >> Graham J <graham(a)invalid.?.invalid> writes >>>[snip] >>>> I was allowed a calculator for that. So I took three calculators into >>>> the exams and the slide rule and the 4 figure tables. I wasn't going to >>>> be let down by the kit. Nor was I let down by my brain. I got an A, >>>> and I'd've been embarrassed if I hadn't. >>> >>>I also got an "A" but I never saw myself as especially clever - I was about >>>half way down a class of 30. > > You are insulting me dishonestly by implying that I'm crowing about my > cleverness, which I'm not - as you well know. Yes, we all know your cleverness is nothing to crow about. > > I was the prize thicky in my class; I'd've been /really/ embarrassed if > I'd not got an A. > Be honest Rowlie, the girls in your class got better marks than you did and they thumped you on the way home to boot. In any case, what good did it do you? You still ended up a drain on the state. -- "But it seems that lots of posters here seem to think it's acceptable to behave towards me like a poisonous turd. I think all such posters - and I do mean you, Firth, not to mention that Tim Streeter creature, David Kennedy, and various other dung beetles masqerading as human beings - I think all of you are quite despicable and a blight on society." Rowland McDonnell - Keeper of the Dung Beetles - Oct 14, 2008 |