Well its nearly YAPC::Europe again and that means we have to find some
extra items to sell all in order to make sure that the conference pays
its bills and future conferences can continue to keep the price down.
So does anyone have anything that they think would sell? You can give
something
Greg McCarroll wrote:
So does anyone have anything that they think would sell?
I could sell a running joke, or another recurrent mention of
something, for the P5P summaries. - That's not like I was
copying on Piers. Is it ?
ps I am Jos' and Elaine's bitch
I believe Elaine prefers 'pussy-whipped towel boy', but my memory may be
faulty...
+Pete
--
A cucumber should be well-sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and
then thrown out.
-- Samuel Johnson
* Leon Brocard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Greg McCarroll sent the following bits through the ether:
So does anyone have anything that they think would sell?
I would just like to point out that I have already been auctioned off
this month and that auctioning me off again would create a
* Rafael Garcia-Suarez ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Greg McCarroll wrote:
So does anyone have anything that they think would sell?
I could sell a running joke, or another recurrent mention of
something, for the P5P summaries. - That's not like I was
copying on Piers. Is it ?
straw poll -
Greg McCarroll wrote:
* Rafael Garcia-Suarez ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
I could sell a running joke, or another recurrent mention of
something, for the P5P summaries. - That's not like I was
copying on Piers. Is it ?
straw poll - would anyone be interested in bidding on this?
More
hi,
could someone/anyone test a module for me? it builds fine on all my
machines but keeps failing for cpan testers. it's non-xs and very
small:
Inline::Interp 0.03
http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/I/IA/IAMCAL/Inline-Interp-0.03.tar.gz
the error i'm getting from cpan testers is during
On Thursday 26 June 2003 9:13 am, Cal Henderson wrote:
hi,
could someone/anyone test a module for me? it builds fine on all my
machines but keeps failing for cpan testers. it's non-xs and very
small:
Inline::Interp 0.03
I haven't tried it, but in t/01basic.t don't you mean $@ not $! ?
On Thursday, Jun 26, 2003, at 09:22 Europe/Amsterdam, Greg McCarroll
wrote:
* Leon Brocard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Greg McCarroll sent the following bits through the ether:
So does anyone have anything that they think would sell?
I would just like to point out that I have already been
I finally got round to packaging my NestedMap module, and have uploaded it
to CPAN. Bug reports, code review, pedantic documentation-testers from
heck, and steak and kidney pies are welcome.
--
David Cantrell
Peter Sergeant [EMAIL PROTECTED] quoth:
*
*I believe Elaine prefers 'pussy-whipped towel boy', but my memory may be
*faulty...
No, he was unsuitable for that since he kept bringing me orange towels.
I won't be auctioning myself off either as I have enough to do with
helping to keep Jarkko from
On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, Cal Henderson wrote:
hi,
could someone/anyone test a module for me? it builds fine on all my
machines but keeps failing for cpan testers. it's non-xs and very
small:
Inline::Interp 0.03
http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/I/IA/IAMCAL/Inline-Interp-0.03.tar.gz
At 09:33 GMT 26.06.03, Ian Brayshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: I haven't tried it, but in t/01basic.t don't you mean $@ not $! ?
argh. thankyou
--cal
On Thursday 26 June 2003 10:12 am, Cal Henderson wrote:
At 09:33 GMT 26.06.03, Ian Brayshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: I haven't tried it, but in t/01basic.t don't you mean $@ not $! ?
argh. thankyou
Not a problem. You might also want to have a look at Test::More and
Test::Exception. They
Hi folx,
Do any of you wild 'living life on the edge' contractor types have a
standard contract that you use (and, by extension, that I can use)? I'm
looking for normal monthly work contracts rather than fixed-price job
type contracts.
Jon
P.S. If these are things that you all have to pay
Andrew Wilson wrote:
On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 11:00:54AM -0700, Toby Corkindale wrote:
Gah! my head-wall;
Your head has a wall method! What does it do?
It sends a message to everyone currently logged in to his head, preceded
by Broadcast Message from ...
--
Jonathan Peterson
Jos is in town thus we are going to the pub to show him how to drink.
When: This Saturday (28th), from 6pm-ish
Where: The Window Castle
http://grault.net/cgi-bin/grubstreet.pl?Windsor_Castle,_W8_7AR
You are all welcome to join us! Leon
--
Leon
Leon Brocard sent the following bits through the ether:
Where: The Window Castle
Window Castle? I must be going mad. Windsor Castle, as in the URL of
course.
Leon
--
Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/
scribot.http://www.scribot.com/
I won't be auctioning myself off either as I have enough to do with
helping to keep Jarkko from going nuts over the elusive 5.8.1. Maybe we
could auction you off Pete...Just think of the joy you'd give to Uri for
20 quid :)
Jokes about Uri's stem[1] aside, I'll go on the record as saying I'm
On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, Peter Sergeant wrote:
[2] Get out clause: as long as my g/f doesn't complain (selling my
kidneys would of course violate this...)
Would she complain if she won the auction for your kidneys ?
the hatter
it's been a while, as always, ignore if you don't care, but for those that
do:
super simple code, with very gentle obfu.
eval packH*,join,qw757365205469653a3a48616e646c653b7375622054494548
414e444c457b626c6573735c24697d737562205052494e547b73656c65637424712c2471
snip
my maze sig, in 6 lines for those that missed it before. I've been
hacking for ages trying to get it down, but i'm buggered if i can find any
more spare chars (i also tried doing it with bitwise operators):
$p=1;[EMAIL PROTECTED]$_47$_751,($p-1)%47$m[$p-1]ne|?$p-2:0,($p+2)
$_=just another technical yahoo!;@b=sort{rand cmp [EMAIL PROTECTED]//;$|=
print\ec;[EMAIL PROTECTED];sub p{print\e[$_[1];$_[0]H$_[2]}while($e=$a[$g++]){
$f=0;{redo if$b[$f++]ne$e}$b[$f-1]=0;p($f,1,$);$i=$f-$g0?1:-1;while($f
!=$g){select$q,$q,$q,p($f,2,$e)/20;p(($f+=$i)-$i,2,$)}p($f,3,$e.$/)}
snip
Running obfuscated code is A VERY VERY BAD IDEA.
yep, although at least you know where i live. (or at least some do...).
also i hope most of you know i'm a nice kind of chap who isn't so lame as
to do something malicious (lame enough to write obfuscated sigs
though..).
Alex
+Pete
yep, although at least you know where i live. (or at least some do...).
also i hope most of you know i'm a nice kind of chap who isn't so lame as
to do something malicious (lame enough to write obfuscated sigs
though..).
Windows email viruses also often send themselves from seemingly
Jonathan Peterson wrote:
P.S. If these are things that you all have to pay solicitors hundreds of
quid to draw up for you then just say, I'm not trying to get stuff on
the cheap.
I'm curious.
Elaine just used the term 'quid' a few emails ago, and now Jonathan.
Could someone please explain
Jonathan Peterson wrote:
Andrew Wilson wrote:
Toby Corkindale wrote:
Gah! my head-wall;
Your head has a wall method! What does it do?
It sends a message to everyone currently logged in to his head, preceded
by Broadcast Message from ...
funny
Oh. I see. At a first glance, I tought that
On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, Luis Campos de Carvalho wrote:
Jonathan Peterson wrote:
P.S. If these are things that you all have to pay solicitors hundreds of
quid to draw up for you then just say, I'm not trying to get stuff on
the cheap.
I'm curious.
Elaine just used the term 'quid' a few
From: Luis Campos de Carvalho [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 6/26/03 12:50:46 PM
I'm curious.
Elaine just used the term 'quid' a few emails ago, and now
Jonathan.
Could someone please explain what is a 'quid'?
Quid is the real name of the UK's monetary unit. You might
hear it called a pound by
On Thu, 2003-06-26 at 12:50, Luis Campos de Carvalho wrote:
Elaine just used the term 'quid' a few emails ago, and now Jonathan.
Could someone please explain what is a 'quid'?
A quid is another word for a pound (UKP).
One of the things that I found hardest to explain to Tracy was when you
Dave Cross wrote:
Quid is the real name of the UK's monetary unit. You might
hear it called a pound by people who don't know what they are
talking about, but quid is the proper term.
A quid is made up of 20 shillings, each of which contains 12
pennies.
Thank you very much, Dave.
Please allow
snip
Quid is the real name of the UK's monetary unit. You might
hear it called a pound by people who don't know what they are
talking about, but quid is the proper term.
A quid is made up of 20 shillings, each of which contains 12
pennies.
There are also larger amounts called a monkey and
Sam Smith wrote:
On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, Luis Campos de Carvalho wrote:
Jonathan Peterson wrote:
P.S. If these are things that you all have to pay solicitors hundreds of
quid to draw up for you then just say, I'm not trying to get stuff on
the cheap.
I'm curious.
Elaine just
On Thursday, June 26, 2003, at 02:04 pm, Dave Cross wrote:
A quid is made up of 20 shillings, each of which contains 12
pennies.
Sorry to correct you Dave, but i think you'll find a quid is made of of
20 bob.
From: Luis Campos de Carvalho [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 6/26/03 1:19:39 PM
Thank you very much, Dave.
Please allow me just one more question.
I would like to know the relation stated below:
(\d+) monkey == (\d+) pony == 1 quid == 20 shillings == 240
pennies
A pony is 25 quid and a
Redvers Davies wrote:
On Thu, 2003-06-26 at 12:50, Luis Campos de Carvalho wrote:
Elaine just used the term 'quid' a few emails ago, and now Jonathan.
Could someone please explain what is a 'quid'?
A quid is another word for a pound (UKP).
One of the things that I found hardest to explain
On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 10:19:39AM -0300, Luis Campos de Carvalho wrote:
Dave Cross wrote:
Quid is the real name of the UK's monetary unit. You might
hear it called a pound by people who don't know what they are
talking about, but quid is the proper term.
A quid is made up of 20
On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, Luis Campos de Carvalho wrote:
Redvers Davies wrote:
On Thu, 2003-06-26 at 12:50, Luis Campos de Carvalho wrote:
Hmm, sounds like Acme::Quid to me.
Interesting.
And what such a module would do?
Interestingly enough, almost exactly the same as Math::Units?
S.
On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, Luis Campos de Carvalho wrote:
Jonathan Peterson wrote:
P.S. If these are things that you all have to pay solicitors hundreds of
quid to draw up for you then just say, I'm not trying to get stuff on
the cheap.
I'm curious.
Elaine just used the term 'quid'
Dave Cross wrote:
A pony is 25 quid and a monkey is 500 quid.
But as I said before, you might want to avoid using them as these
terms carry a slight inference that the money is being used for
criminal purposes (for example a bribe).
Oh, I see.
So what is the 'banking' name of UK money?
I
On Thu, 2003-06-26 at 13:49, Luis Campos de Carvalho wrote:
Oh, I see.
So what is the 'banking' name of UK money?
I mean, what is the official name for the UK money?
Not the Euro :-D
Red
Luis Campos de Carvalho wrote:
Hmm, sounds like Acme::Quid to me.
Interesting.
And what such a module would do?
Interestingly enough, almost exactly the same as Math::Units?
I don't know.
Math::Units is able to use UK measures and convert UK money as it was
presented on the last emails?
From: Andy Mendelsohn [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 6/26/03 1:26:15 PM
On Thursday, June 26, 2003, at 02:04 pm, Dave Cross wrote:
A quid is made up of 20 shillings, each of which contains
12 pennies.
Sorry to correct you Dave, but i think you'll find a quid is
made of of 20 bob.
Bob and
Luis Campos de Carvalho said:
This is the first time I meet a monetary system that is not based on
[base ten numbers]
that's because the english system in question dates from a time when doing
things in a metric/decimal way hadn't been discovered to be a generally good
idea.
i believe they
On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 07:01:29AM -0700, Dave Cross wrote:
From: Andy Mendelsohn [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 6/26/03 1:26:15 PM
On Thursday, June 26, 2003, at 02:04 pm, Dave Cross wrote:
A quid is made up of 20 shillings, each of which contains
12 pennies.
Sorry to correct you
On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 07:10:56AM -0700, Dave Cross wrote:
There are others like a fathom (6 feet - but used to measure
depths not lengths or heights), a chain (22 yards - the length
of a cricket pitch I think) and a furlong (220 yards).
And a chain is 4 rods (or poles or perches) which
On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 03:09:19PM +0100, Joel Bernstein wrote:
On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 07:01:29AM -0700, Dave Cross wrote:
From: Andy Mendelsohn [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 6/26/03 1:26:15 PM
On Thursday, June 26, 2003, at 02:04 pm, Dave Cross wrote:
A quid is made up of 20
Luis Campos de Carvalho wrote:
Dave Cross wrote:
A pony is 25 quid and a monkey is 500 quid.
But as I said before, you might want to avoid using them as these
terms carry a slight inference that the money is being used for
criminal purposes (for example a bribe).
Oh, I see.
So what is the
Dave Cross wrote:
Here's a brief guide to our measures of length.
1 foot is 12 inches
1 yard is 3 feet
1 mile is 1760 yards
There are others like a fathom (6 feet - but used to measure
depths not lengths or heights), a chain (22 yards - the length
of a cricket pitch I think) and a furlong (220
On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 03:16:58PM +0100, Andrew Wilson wrote:
We currenlty have the following coins:
1pround copper
2pround copper
but for the past few years actually made from steel coated to give the
same colour as the old alloy, because the old alloy was becoming too
expensive
(\d+) monkey == (\d+) pony == 1 quid == 20 shillings == 240
pennies
A pony is 25 quid and a monkey is 500 quid.
Does £1000 == a 'Gorilla'?
--
Nigel Hamilton
Turbo10 Metasearch Engine
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
tel:+44 (0) 207 987 5460
fax:+44 (0) 207 987 5468
On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, Nicholas Clark wrote:
Meanwhile, which is heavier, an ounce of feathers or an ounce of gold?
In air, an ounce of gold. In a vacuum, they weigh the same.
Ian
-
--
The soul would have no rainbows if
On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 03:16:58PM +0100, Andrew Wilson wrote:
We currenlty have the following coins:
20phexagonal silver
50phexagonal silver
s/x/pt/g
R
On Thursday, June 26, 2003, 3:18:39 PM, Dave Thorn wrote:
DT And an acre, which is/was a measurement of the area a team of oxen could
DT plough in one day, or (4,840 square yards).
DT I wonder if they had a measure for oxen standards.
*.weights-and-measures, metric, imperial, american, the lot,
On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, Nicholas Clark wrote:
Meanwhile, which is heavier, an ounce of feathers or an ounce of gold?
In air, an ounce of gold. In a vacuum, they weigh the same.
Ian
-
--
The soul would have no rainbows if
Dave Cross wrote:
Here's a brief guide to our measures of length.
1 foot is 12 inches
1 yard is 3 feet
1 mile is 1760 yards
There are others like a fathom (6 feet - but used to measure
depths not lengths or heights), a chain (22 yards - the length
of a cricket pitch I think) and a furlong (220
On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, Dominic Mitchell wrote:
Fortune saves the day with essential facts such as:
1.79 x 10^12 furlongs per fortnight -- it's not just a good idea, it's
the law!
If it comes to obscure units, I always had a great fondness for the
nanocentury:
%% (fortunes)
How
Dave Cross said:
Currently it's called sterling. Soon it will become the Euro.
Yes, but it's positively simple compared with our systems
of length and weight :)
Is there more? Cool! =-]
Can you point me somewhere on the net where I can
(read|learn) about this? Thank you very, very,
Luis Campos de Carvalho wrote:
Dave Cross wrote:
Here's a brief guide to our measures of length.
1 foot is 12 inches
1 yard is 3 feet
1 mile is 1760 yards
There are others like a fathom (6 feet - but used to measure
depths not lengths or heights), a chain (22 yards - the length
Nigel Hamilton wrote:
Does £1000 == a 'Gorilla'?
No, but £2000 is an Archer. :-)
-Dom
--
| Semantico: creators of major online resources |
| URL: http://www.semantico.com/ |
| Tel: +44 (1273) 72 |
| Address: 33 Bond St.,
On Thursday, June 26, 2003 14:26 +0100 Andy Mendelsohn
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thursday, June 26, 2003, at 02:04 pm, Dave Cross wrote:
A quid is made up of 20 shillings, each of which contains 12
pennies.
Sorry to correct you Dave, but i think you'll find a quid is made of of
20 bob.
So is
At 14.35 + 03-06-26, the hatter wrote:
If you're measuring speeds, you obviously need a time unit to go with your
length, I propose wider adoption of the millifortnight - about 20 minutes.
I prefer the microfortnight, 1.2096 seconds.
--
Anders Hellström
Ian Malpass said:
On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, Nicholas Clark wrote:
Meanwhile, which is heavier, an ounce of feathers or an ounce of gold?
In air, an ounce of gold. In a vacuum, they weigh the same.
bzzt! they always weigh the same, because the same mass experiences the same
amount of
On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 03:27:21PM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote:
5p round silver
10p round silver
20p hexagonal silver
50p hexagonal silver
Both are heptagonal - they have 7 sides. This can surprise foreigners
Indeed they are. Braino on my part. Would you believe I actually hoked
one
On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 03:27:59PM +0100, Ian Malpass wrote:
On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, Nicholas Clark wrote:
Meanwhile, which is heavier, an ounce of feathers or an ounce of gold?
In air, an ounce of gold. In a vacuum, they weigh the same.
No, because it is a different trick question
An ounce
We currenlty have the following coins:
---
20p hexagonal silver
50p hexagonal silver
---
andrew
Um, I think septagonal is the accurate term:
http://www.tclayton.demon.co.uk/pics/dec20.html
http://www.tclayton.demon.co.uk/pics/dec50.html
Dave (Just Another Pedantic Hacker)
On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 04:40:09PM +0200, Anders Hellstr?m wrote:
At 14.35 + 03-06-26, the hatter wrote:
If you're measuring speeds, you obviously need a time unit to go with your
length, I propose wider adoption of the millifortnight - about 20 minutes.
I prefer the microfortnight,
So... what you're telling me here, is that if I take an ounce of feathers
and place them on a set of scales, then it will weigh less than an ounce? Or
that ounce of gold weigh will weigh more than an ounce?
From: Ian Malpass [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 15:28:40 +0100 (BST)
On Thu,
On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 03:42:11PM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote:
On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 03:27:59PM +0100, Ian Malpass wrote:
On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, Nicholas Clark wrote:
Meanwhile, which is heavier, an ounce of feathers or an ounce of gold?
In air, an ounce of gold. In a vacuum, they
muppet said:
volume measures are weird, too: ounces, cups, pints, quarts, gallons,
barrels, thimbles, something smaller than an ounce that i can't
remember
One of my favourite recipes calls for a scant gill of milk, which I always
found rather poetic.
--
Paul Johnson - [EMAIL
From: Nicholas Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 6/26/03 2:19:10 PM
Meanwhile, which is heavier, an ounce of feathers or an
ounce of gold?
I believe they are the same. However if your question was which
is heavier a _pound_ of feathers or a _pound_ of gold? then
the answer (surprisingly) is a
On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 07:10:56AM -0700, Dave Cross wrote:
I mean, what is the official name for the UK money?
Currently it's called sterling. Soon it will become the Euro.
For some value of soon.
--
Chris Benson
On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 04:50:04PM +0200, Paul Johnson wrote:
muppet said:
volume measures are weird, too: ounces, cups, pints, quarts, gallons,
barrels, thimbles, something smaller than an ounce that i can't
remember
One of my favourite recipes calls for a scant gill of milk,
On Thursday, June 26, 2003, 3:27:21 PM, Nicholas Clark wrote:
2 pound round silver and brass
NC Has the inscription Standing on the shoulders of giants around the edge.
NC Anyone tempted to avoid code re-use (Not Invented Here should obtain
NC a £2 coin and read it)
Does it? Never
On Thu, 2003-06-26 at 15:33, David Cantrell wrote:
On Thursday, June 26, 2003 14:26 +0100 Andy Mendelsohn
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thursday, June 26, 2003, at 02:04 pm, Dave Cross wrote:
A quid is made up of 20 shillings, each of which contains 12
pennies.
Sorry to correct you Dave,
muppet said:
volume measures are weird, too: ounces, cups, pints, quarts, gallons,
barrels, thimbles, something smaller than an ounce that i can't
remember
One of my favourite recipes calls for a scant gill of milk, which I always
found rather poetic.
From what I
On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, Joel Bernstein wrote:
There must be others...
Guinea, 21 shillings, or 1 pound, 1 shilling.
Still used in horse racing or perhaps pony racing?
T.
snip
there are several (5) multipliers, usually used only on a lot and a bunch:
.5x ickle
2x whole
4x damn
7x bleedin'
10x f*ckin'
plus combinations, such as a whole, whole lot (2x2x7=28), and a whole damn
f*uckin bunch (2x4x10x6=480).
however, infinity, or at least the
[OK mariachi, how you gonna thread this?]
On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 03:45:30PM +0100, Joel Bernstein wrote:
On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 03:42:11PM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote:
A Troy ounce is heavier.
Which is heavier, a pound of gold or a pound of feathers?
How many troy ounces in a troy
David Wright said:
Scottish measures are bigger too (from fond memory), I think they might be
1/5 gill.
Ooh, and whilst searching for the correct fraction, I found some other
curious Scots quantities:
4 gills = 1 mutchkin
2 mutchkins = 1 chopin
Which is well on the way to Brahms and
On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 04:20:18PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
however, infinity, or at least the superlative limit of something's magnitude,
is brass monkey.
actually that's a measure of cold.
there is 1 SI unit used as well - the sh*tload
as in 1 SI sh*tload of X
I think you'll
On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, Joel Bernstein wrote:
On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 04:40:09PM +0200, Anders Hellstr?m wrote:
At 14.35 + 03-06-26, the hatter wrote:
If you're measuring speeds, you obviously need a time unit to go with your
length, I propose wider adoption of the millifortnight - about
On Thu, 2003-06-26 at 14:51, Chris Benson wrote:
For some value of soon.
Soon being defined as If i'm here, over my dead body.
Hmm, what was I doing on Tuesday again?
On Thu, 26 Jun 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
there is 1 SI unit used as well - the sh*tload
as in 1 SI sh*tload of X
Also is the closely related 'Shed'
/J\
On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 03:31:31PM +, the hatter wrote:
The best unit is the millihelen - which is defined as the amount of
beauty required to launch one ship.
My favourite unit is the barn. I don't recall what it is, something like
10^(-26) at a rough guess.
Oh, the wit of pyysicists
For some value of soon.
Soon being defined as If i'm here, over my dead body.
Surely the value of 'soon' here means 'as soon as possible', and implies
that it would be an exceptionally good thing?
/me dons flame-retardant suit, runs, ducks, covers
+Pete
--
B: Pinky, Are you pondering what
On Thu, 2003-06-26 at 16:00, Peter Sergeant wrote:
For some value of soon.
Soon being defined as If i'm here, over my dead body.
Surely the value of 'soon' here means 'as soon as possible', and implies
that it would be an exceptionally good thing?
So you're saying you want me dead?
Cool.
On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, the hatter wrote:
Another obscure but official unit which I occassionally use in the correct
context is a jiffy, as in just a jiffy, which is actually 1/50th (or
occassionally 1/60th of a second depending on what video standard you're
using)
A jiffy is 1/HZ of a second,
On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 10:56:09AM +0100, Jonathan Peterson wrote:
Andrew Wilson wrote:
On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 11:00:54AM -0700, Toby Corkindale wrote:
Gah! my head-wall;
Your head has a wall method! What does it do?
It sends a message to everyone currently logged in to his head,
On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, muppet wrote:
Ian Malpass said:
On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, Nicholas Clark wrote:
Meanwhile, which is heavier, an ounce of feathers or an ounce of gold?
In air, an ounce of gold. In a vacuum, they weigh the same.
bzzt! they always weigh the same, because the same mass
On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, Rob Thompson top-quoted:
In air, an ounce of gold. In a vacuum, they weigh the same.
So... what you're telling me here, is that if I take an ounce of feathers
and place them on a set of scales, then it will weigh less than an ounce? Or
that ounce of gold weigh will weigh
On Thursday, June 26, 2003 15:19 +0100 Nicholas Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Alternatively a chain is 100 links, which sounds almost metric.
(Quick, wash your mouth out)(or bah, that sounds too sane to be Imperial)
But we're saved by the hundredweight not being a hundred anything.
--
David
On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, Ian Malpass wrote:
On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, muppet wrote:
Ian Malpass said:
On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, Nicholas Clark wrote:
Meanwhile, which is heavier, an ounce of feathers or an ounce of gold?
In air, an ounce of gold. In a vacuum, they weigh the same.
bzzt!
On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, David Cantrell wrote:
On Thursday, June 26, 2003 15:19 +0100 Nicholas Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Alternatively a chain is 100 links, which sounds almost metric.
(Quick, wash your mouth out)(or bah, that sounds too sane to be
Imperial)
But we're saved by the
On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, Shevek wrote:
A jiffy is 1/HZ of a second, where HZ depends on your architecture. On
most x86s, it's 1/100.
Unless you're using a Pentium, in which case it's 1/101...
--
Chris Devers
On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, Chris Devers wrote:
Bzzt! You're forgetting the effect of uplift in a fluid.
Now, of course, we're assuming the feathers are in an uncompressed
state
But you're forgetting the Manchurian Gambit of 1978, in which it was
clearly demonstrated that this very
On Thursday, June 26, 2003 19:37 +0100 Ian Malpass [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
For shame, Mr. Devers! Oh, for shame! The Manchurian Gambit of 1978 has
been considered obsolete since 1981, after Lt. Col. Charles Monkfish
(rtd.) demonstrated that no feathers could exist at King's Cross station
Ian Malpass wrote:
No, they'll both have a mass of an ounce. Their weight - the force exerted
on them by gravity - differs, due to the different uplift by the air
around them. As I mentioned before (assuming this post doesn't beat my
last one) I'm assuming uncompressed feathers.
Ian
..and what
On Thu, 2003-06-26 at 18:16, Ian Malpass wrote:
No, they'll both have a mass of an ounce. Their weight - the force exerted
on them by gravity - differs, due to the different uplift by the air
around them.
No. Their weight - the force exerted on them by gravity is the same.
The force in the
On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, David Cantrell wrote:
On Thursday, June 26, 2003 19:37 +0100 Ian Malpass [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
For shame, Mr. Devers! Oh, for shame! The Manchurian Gambit of 1978 has
been considered obsolete since 1981, after Lt. Col. Charles Monkfish
(rtd.) demonstrated that no
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