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| What would you buy your other half for Christmas ? |
| Something really expensive |
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38% |
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| Something cheap and nasty |
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0% |
[ 0 ] |
| Something you could use yourself |
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28% |
[ 6 ] |
| Nothing, being with you at Christmas is enough |
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33% |
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DennisN
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| GPS_fan wrote: | | Binary...do they still teach that? |
They didn't teach me! But somebody once explained it to me - I can't use it though. I find it difficult to comprehend that 10 is .125 of Hex, .2 decimal, .25 octal, 1/6 of base 12 and .1 of base 20 (of which the only one I can't figure is Hex). Dear Heaven, PLEASE don't anybody take this any further - I have just plumbed the absolute depths of my grey matter!!
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mostdom
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| Posted: Mon Nov 05, 2007 12:26 am Post subject: |
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Wayhay! You know me, can't help but find some obscure text to binary converter! So...
| DennisN wrote: | 0101010001101000011001010111100100100000011001000110100101100
1000110111000100111011101000010000001110100011001010110000101
1000110110100000100000011011010110010100100001001000000100001
0011101010111010000100000011100110110111101101101011001010110
0010011011110110010001111001001000000110111101101110011000110
1100101001000000110010101111000011100000110110001100001011010
0101101110011001010110010000100000011010010111010000100000011
1010001101111001000000110110101100101001000000010110100100000
0100100100100000011000110110000101101110001001110111010000100
0000111010101110011011001010010000001101001011101000010000001
1101000110100001101111011101010110011101101000001011100010000
0010010010010000001100110011010010110111001100100001000000110
1001011101000010000001100100011010010110011001100110011010010
1100011011101010110110001110100001000000111010001101111001000
0001100011011011110110110101110000011100100110010101101000011
0010101101110011001000010000001110100011010000110000101110100
0010000000110001001100000010000001101001011100110010000000101
1100011000100110010001101010010000001101111011001100010000001
0010000110010101111000001011000010000000101110001100100010000
0011001000110010101100011011010010110110101100001011011000010
1100001000000010111000110010001101010010000001101111011000110
1110100011000010110110000101100001000000011000100101111001101
1000100000011011110110011000100000011000100110000101110011011
0010100100000001100010011001000100000011000010110111001100100
0010000000101110001100010010000001101111011001100010000001100
0100110000101110011011001010010000000110010001100000010000000
1010000110111101100110001000000111011101101000011010010110001
1011010000010000001110100011010000110010100100000011011110110
1110011011000111100100100000011011110110111001100101001000000
1001001001000000110001101100001011011100010011101110100001000
0001100110011010010110011101110101011100100110010100100000011
0100101110011001000000100100001100101011110000010100100101110
0010000001000100011001010110000101110010001000000100100001100
1010110000101110110011001010110111000101100001000000101000001
0011000100010101000001010100110100010100100000011001000110111
1011011100010011101110100001000000110000101101110011110010110
0010011011110110010001111001001000000111010001100001011010110
1100101001000000111010001101000011010010111001100100000011000
0101101110011110010010000001100110011101010111001001110100011
0100001100101011100100010000000101101001000000100100100100000
0110100001100001011101100110010100100000011010100111010101110
0110111010000100000011100000110110001110101011011010110001001
1001010110010000100000011101000110100001100101001000000110000
1011000100111001101101111011011000111010101110100011001010010
0000011001000110010101110000011101000110100001110011001000000
1101111011001100010000001101101011110010010000001100111011100
1001100101011110010010000001101101011000010111010001110100011
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GPS_fan
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| Posted: Mon Nov 05, 2007 10:21 am Post subject: |
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| 999tommo wrote: | | If I had a view and therefore a vote Dennis, I wouldn't need to ask you lot for advice......doh ! That was the whole point of the poll. |
...and are you any wiser after our input?
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999tommo
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| DennisN wrote: | | I waved (discreetly, which is to say, below window level) to every police car and police bike I saw north of the border this weekend, but none of them waved back - I suppose none of them was you. Don't they have a lot of speed cameras up your way? If it's not Gatsos it's Mobiles and if it's not Mobiles it's Specs!! I just hope they didn't overstress GO720 #5, it was shouting so often. |
I work in Edinburgh. Did you come here ?? There are many cameras, you're right there Dennis. For the record, I don't agree with the siting of quite a few of them. The SPECS ones I agree with as they are either on roads with works ongoing or in the case of the A77, a road which has had loads of deaths relating to speed (coupled with the previously poor setup of the road).
| GPS_fan wrote: | | ...and are you any wiser after our input? |
Not really !!!, but I haven't had a wee chat with you regulars for a while, so it achieved something.
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DaveNN
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| Posted: Mon Nov 05, 2007 7:19 pm Post subject: |
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| DennisN wrote: | | GPS_fan wrote: | | Binary...do they still teach that? |
They didn't teach me! But somebody once explained it to me - I can't use it though. I find it difficult to comprehend that 10 is .125 of Hex, .2 decimal, .25 octal, 1/6 of base 12 and .1 of base 20 (of which the only one I can't figure is Hex). Dear Heaven, PLEASE don't anybody take this any further - I have just plumbed the absolute depths of my grey matter!! |
As noted somewhere once... reckon it was the old Gizmondo Forum.
"There are 10 types of people....those who understand Binary & those who don't". |
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mostdom
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| Posted: Mon Nov 05, 2007 8:23 pm Post subject: |
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| 999tommo wrote: | | Not really !!!, but I haven't had a wee chat with you regulars for a while, so it achieved something. |
Awww, how nice! 
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DennisN
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| Posted: Mon Nov 05, 2007 11:55 pm Post subject: |
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| 999tommo wrote: | | I work in Edinburgh. Did you come here ?? There are many cameras, you're right there Dennis. For the record, I don't agree with the siting of quite a few of them. The SPECS ones I agree with as they are either on roads with works ongoing or in the case of the A77, a road which has had loads of deaths relating to speed (coupled with the previously poor setup of the road). |
I missed Edinburgh this time - TomTom took me Glasgow, Dunblane, Perth, Dundee, Aberdeen. Sadly, the outbound trip saw me getting there in the dark, but on the return, I enjoyed all the glorious countryside views. You really are a lucky bunch of foreigners with all that.
I don't know why "they" don't install Specs all over the place. That's the real answer if they want to cut speeding rather than get income. And for interest, I did 577 miles outbound in 10 hours 20 minutes (depart Yeovil 10:30am, arrive Aberdeen International 8:50pm), pretty much an average of 56mph, except there were three "comfort and stretch stops".
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GPS_fan
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Ah ha, so you missed out Edinburgh and then went on to complain that the most famous traffic officer in Edinburgh refused to wave 
There must be logic in there somewhere, or is it getting lost in the translation from logic to binary to hex to white van man? 
Even if you had gone to Edinburgh, I would have thought you'd have gone incognito instead of a rather obvious vehicle with "Dennis' Great Big Little White Van" plastered down the side, hence tommo would have had difficulty recognising you anyway...apart from the royal wave, of course 
Perhaps we should all visit Edinburgh and take tommo shopping - a great day out and he'll be even more confused by the end of it
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999tommo
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| Posted: Tue Nov 06, 2007 1:43 pm Post subject: |
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| GPS_fan wrote: | | Ah ha, so you missed out Edinburgh and then went on to complain that the most famous traffic officer in Edinburgh refused to wave |
Famous ? For all the wrong reasons no doubt !!
| DennisN wrote: | | And for interest, I did 577 miles outbound in 10 hours 20 minutes (depart Yeovil 10:30am, arrive Aberdeen International 8:50pm), pretty much an average of 56mph, except there were three "comfort and stretch stops". |
The cynical amongst us would suggest that you may have exceeded the speed limit in places, if you stopped three times but still averaged 55.8387096mph.
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mikealder
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| Posted: Tue Nov 06, 2007 3:49 pm Post subject: |
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| DennisN wrote: | | GPS_fan wrote: | | Binary...do they still teach that? |
They didn't teach me! But somebody once explained it to me |
Perhaps Dennis does indeed know about binary and employs its various states to the throttle pedal then! (I doubt it though  ) - Mike |
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DennisN
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| Posted: Tue Nov 06, 2007 4:56 pm Post subject: |
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| 999tommo wrote: | | The cynical amongst us would suggest that you may have exceeded the speed limit in places, if you stopped three times but still averaged 55.8387096mph. |
I knew somebody would come up with this. The stops were roughly 10 minutes each - counted the way F1 pitstops are - I reckon I lost 10 minutes slowing, walking, weeing, walking back and driving out again. I will confess that there were about three occasions when my speed (i.e. TomTom speed) went over 70 by as much as 2 or 3 mph, but as I was taking care to aim at 68/69 for the whole trip where permissible, they were only for mere moments (and I think even your 155mph jobby would forgive me that). The revision to 9hours, 50 minutes gives average of 58.6779859925376 mph, which reflects the fact that the vast majority of the mileage was Motorways and dual carriageways. Having gobbled fuel at the rate of 49.68 miles per gallon on the outbound trip, the return (reduced to 447 miles by having returned to Dundee for the overnight hotel) was done in 11 hours = 40.6363636363636 mph average, at 64.79 mpg. People get out of my way when they see me in their rear view mirrors!  (or should that read "get out of my way if they see me"?).
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| DennisN wrote: | | ..........People get out of my way when they see me in their rear view mirrors! (or should that read "get out of my way if they see me"?). |
By the time they have seen you it is too late, you have taken those glasses off and "zapped" them out of the way.
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999tommo
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| DennisN wrote: | | People get out of my way when they see me in their rear view mirrors! |
What's your secret. I have blue lights and sirens and they still ignore me. 
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GPS_fan
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| Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2007 10:11 pm Post subject: |
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| 999tommo wrote: | | DennisN wrote: | | People get out of my way when they see me in their rear view mirrors! |
What's your secret. I have blue lights and sirens and they still ignore me. |
You're better looking and they can't stand Dennis' reflection staring back at them in their mirrors
It really is amazing how oblivious some people are to what's going on around them.
If you weren't in such a rush with your blues and twos, would this constitute not driving with due care and attention?
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DennisN
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The phrase was jocular. I don't suppose many people see me in their rear view mirrors for long enough to get out of my way - they're off up the road before they can recognise my grey hair!
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