h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

LOL nice image Just zis Guy, you know?
Of course I've often wondered why there are sometimes 2 'intentionally left blank' pages back to back in manuals (ie bith sides of the same piece of paper) - I've only just realised that the tech who produced the manual had become a 'user' of the software used to produce the documentation. Explains it perfectly really.


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It can only be a matter of time before Microsoft includes a "this Page Intentionally Left Blank Wizard (TM)" In MS Word. Then, of course, you will get dozens of these at once, as users click the button repeatedly instead of waiting the houar-and-a-half it will take to load if unless you use the latest PIII 600 with 3GB of RAM, which Microsoft thinks is appropriate for a word processor.

"64k will be all the memory people will ever need"

Something like that...

So very much nicer than beer

It was 640k, but yes. Come to think of it I managed to control a multi-million pound plant cabale of making a ton of asphalt at 150 degrees C every seven seconds, using an 8080 with 128k of memory. RAM and code-space.

Or run a mini capable of supporting 16 users on 128k - of course, if you asked about graphics the reply was "Wot, you want to draw stuff with ASCII characters?"


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My dad had a mini capable of supporting 16 users on 848cc. It was a mini van, and he once transported himself and 15 air cadets a distance of 5 miles in it. It was a bit tight, I understand.

The mini eventually passed to me and became Harold the Barrel, my university transport.

LOL - I wonder if the PTB are interested in a 'Most Strained Pun of the Day' page


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Oh, hey, that was hardly strained at all!

In Mercia, they make tea weak and with warm water instead of boling water. They then serve it, in the chinese way, without milk and with the leaves in the cup. Hence the old saying "the cooler tea of Mercia's not strained."

Tom Lehrer would be proud of you


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Ah, now there *is* a clever man!

I heard that Lehrer gave up satire after Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, on the grounds that he couldn't possibly cap that, but there was a radio interview with him recently in which, it was promised, we would learn the *real* reason. ONLY I MISSED IT!!

So if anyone out there heard it, I'd love to know why Tom Lehrer really went back to his blackboard!

There's an online chat transcript here -> http://www.rhino.com/chat/lehrerchathome.html from 1997 that doesnt answer it
Nor is it answered here -> http://www.wiw.org/~drz/tom.lehrer/index.html

But I thought you might enjoy them anyway.

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sheeesh who'd have thought you'd get 1294 matches on a quick search on Tom Lehrer

The idea of his being the source of the definitive Latin translation of The Wizard of Oz is beautiful.

Thank you for those links!

It is a Lehreresque concept isnt it.

No worries on the links.


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Aha, a little "gotcha" there. H2G2 renders colon-dash-close bracket as - hence use of three-colon-dash-capital D

I have no objection to other people's children (as long as the children are reasonably well behaved) because I can give the children back to the parents when I've had enough of them. A little goes a long way, for me.

I once told a friend that I'd be ready to have children when the sound of a crying child made me want to put things right, rather than throttle or drown the child. I'm getting there, but my husband doesn't like kids. Ho hum!

Do I detect an Anne MacCaffrey fan?

Hey, sorry to drag everyone back to the original origins of this Forum, and therefore stem a bit of thread drift, but..
I did "Computer Science" at college, ie I learnt about the way computers work and I did C programming,
I then worked on a helpline that dealt mainly with Doctors Surgeries using computer systems provided by the company I work for
and at the same time, and for the last 6 months exclusively, I am a hardware engineer.
I have been on all sides of the problem, and have drawn the conclusion that Computers are to blame, and are evil.
They prey on the Stupid User, as anyone knows that when a competent user drags an icon in Windows, it goes from A to B and stays there, whereas a "Stupid" User will do EXACTLY the same, and bring down the Network.

Also, I have knowledge of art's too, being a bit of an actor ( several amateur performances and a GSCE in drama and A level in Theatre studies ), Plus I DO know how to program my video... but
when I tell the video to record American Football at 3:55 am on 15th September, I expect to come back on the evening of 15th September and sit and watch the program... but because the video obviously knows better it decided just to NOT DO ANYTHING.

therefore in conclusion...... ALL COMPUTERISED MACHINES ARE EVIL

One shouldn't drink brandy,
One cannot drink stout.