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Hi,
Like some people here I have the odd Raspberry PI (Dave...) and memories of using the Acorn Archimedes at school. So I have downloaded and played briefly with the Riscos installation. I was wondering of anyone else had seen a use for it. The main thing I found was BBC basic. Anyone see any point to it (other than nostalgia)
[Edit:] Set-top boxes.... [/Edit]
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There are lots of things like that -- I remember what wonderful times I had with some technology or other, and go out of my way to get it back, only to realise that things really have moved on for the better.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I think nostalgia pretty much sums it up.
I still have a commercial Basic ISO 5167 flow meter sizing/flow calculation tool. Being in basic a simple case of 'list' and voila, source to hand. Did consider porting it across to VB/VB.Net/C#/JavaScript for the hell of it one day, but then thought why bother....
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if it works don't fix it!
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Sign Language Interpreter who did not know sign language[^]
I learnt to sign (still not very good) as I am worried about going deaf.
The sign for 'Inserting a tampon' is easy...Make a Vulcan V sign with your left hand, horizontally with the back of your hand uppermost.
Use your right forefinger and push it upwards from underneath into the gap.
I cannot tell you the sequence of events that led up to me learning that, but it was amusing!
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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I thought he looked rubbish when I saw him on the news. I know almost no ASL (apart from "Bullsh*t" and suchlike) but it did look like he was making it up...
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Dalek Dave wrote: I am worried about going deaf.
You'll find yourself lip reading more, when the hearing does start to fail.
I should stop being lazy and get on a sign language course before my right ear gives up working too.
Every day, thousands of innocent plants are killed by vegetarians.
Help end the violence EAT BACON
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I know nearly nothing about sign language but could tell there was something wrong...
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A terrorist who pretended to be a saint; a w@nker who pretended to be an interpreter?
Seems highly appropriate, to me.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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You read my mind!
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What? Me? Agent provocateur?
I have no idea what you're talking about.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Think that line of argument is for the Soapbox tbh. And I hope you weren't one of the people talking about 'respect' when people were celebrating Thatcher's death.
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It's called "taking the piss", and it's what I did to DD's comments on his saint thatcher's passing, too.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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The Blessed Margaret was above such things.
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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Dalek Dave wrote: The Blessed Margaret was above such things. Just remember that the Blessed Margaret spent a lot of time beneath the Drunken Dennis.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I don't understand the criticism of Dennis's drinking. FFS, we was married to Beelzebub!
speramus in juniperus
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I liked Frankie Boyle on Thatcher's funeral:
"£3,000,000? For £3,000,000 you could have given everyone in Scotland a shovel and we'd have dug a hole so deep we could hand her over to Satan in person!"
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Is that why he was drunk?
Politicians are always realistically manoeuvering for the next election. They are obsolete as fundamental problem-solvers.
Buckminster Fuller
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I understood every gesture he made...
"Blah blah blah..."
Makes perfect sense.
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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Josie Ensor wrote:
Mr Buxton, whose wife is South African and also deaf, said neither could not believe what they were watching.
Nice to see the usual standard of English being maintained.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Just ignore, he doesn't know nothing.
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Shameel wrote: Just ignore, he doesn't dont know nothing nuffin.
FTFY!
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