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marshalla

15,902 posts

200 months

Friday 4th December 2015
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Billsnemesis said:
Why is there no other word for thesaurus?
Because the lizard gods have decreed that there shall be no other word.

TwigtheWonderkid

43,246 posts

149 months

Saturday 5th December 2015
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Billsnemesis said:
TwigtheWonderkid said:
First rule of Thesaurus club, you don't talk, discuss, natter, gab, chat, converse, deliberate, confer or gossip about Thesaurus Club.
Why is there no other word for thesaurus?
For the same reason there's only one monopolies commission.

Dr Jekyll

23,820 posts

260 months

Saturday 5th December 2015
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TwigtheWonderkid said:
For the same reason there's only one monopolies commission joke.
EFA

DragsterRR

367 posts

106 months

Saturday 5th December 2015
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Einion Yrth said:
There's no place like ~ , surely.
There's no place like <ESC>[0;0H<ESC>[2J

Anyone?

(Second bit not really needed)


gmaz

4,382 posts

209 months

Saturday 5th December 2015
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DragsterRR said:
There's no place like <ESC>[0;0H<ESC>[2J

Anyone?

(Second bit not really needed)
Curses!

TwigtheWonderkid

43,246 posts

149 months

Saturday 5th December 2015
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Billsnemesis said:
Why is there no other word for thesaurus?
Why is dyslexic so hard to spell, and why is monosyllabic such a long word?

popeyewhite

19,622 posts

119 months

Saturday 5th December 2015
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Billsnemesis said:
Why is there no other word for thesaurus?
Synomyny

ajprice

27,315 posts

195 months

Saturday 5th December 2015
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Waits for MB/GB pedantry... hehe

TwigtheWonderkid

43,246 posts

149 months

Saturday 5th December 2015
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I was in a band called Prevention. We were better than The Cure.

DragsterRR

367 posts

106 months

Saturday 5th December 2015
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gmaz said:
DragsterRR said:
There's no place like <ESC>[0;0H<ESC>[2J

Anyone?

(Second bit not really needed)
Curses!
Well VT100 escape sequences but close enough smile

gmaz

4,382 posts

209 months

Saturday 5th December 2015
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DragsterRR said:
gmaz said:
DragsterRR said:
There's no place like <ESC>[0;0H<ESC>[2J

Anyone?

(Second bit not really needed)
Curses!
Well VT100 escape sequences but close enough smile
Yeah I know

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curses_(programming_...

I've written many a terminfo/termcap entry back in the 1980's

MartG

20,620 posts

203 months

Saturday 5th December 2015
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xRIEx

8,180 posts

147 months

Saturday 5th December 2015
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ajprice said:


Waits for MB/GB pedantry... hehe
Nope, it's right - 1000 megabytes is a gigabyte. 1024 mebibytes would be a gibibyte.

DataHamster

74,393 posts

271 months

Saturday 5th December 2015
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ajprice said:
Waits for MB/GB pedantry... hehe
Regardless of which way you define a MB and a GB, 999 MBs isn't a GB (GB or GiB) either way so your point is moot. nerdsmile

Civpilot

6,235 posts

239 months

Saturday 5th December 2015
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DataHamster said:
ajprice said:
Waits for MB/GB pedantry... hehe
Regardless of which way you define a MB and a GB, 999 MBs isn't a GB (GB or GiB) either way so your point is moot. nerdsmile
You get that the whole joke is that they are not a gb but only 999mb don't you?

DataHamster

74,393 posts

271 months

Saturday 5th December 2015
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Civpilot said:
You get that the whole joke is that they are not a gb but only 999mb don't you?
No, that completely passed me by. rolleyes

Point was that the joke still works regardless of how you define a GB.

Do you want a whoosh parrot or do you have your own?

Civpilot

6,235 posts

239 months

Saturday 5th December 2015
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DataHamster said:
No, that completely passed me by. rolleyes

Point was that the joke still works regardless of how you define a GB.

Do you want a whoosh parrot or do you have your own?
Clearly I will be borrowing yours when your done with it ;-)

K12beano

20,854 posts

274 months

Sunday 6th December 2015
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What if it were re-phrased as "....started a band called 99.999% of a Gb"?

glenrobbo

35,066 posts

149 months

Sunday 6th December 2015
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Civpilot said:
DataHamster said:
No, that completely passed me by. rolleyes

Point was that the joke still works regardless of how you define a GB.

Do you want a whoosh parrot or do you have your own?
Clearly I will be borrowing yours when you're done with it ;-)
I just popped in briefly, but even as a technophobe, I'm loving this banter! biggrin

( Sorry, but I just had to correct the "your". ) Play nicely now. smile

MartG

20,620 posts

203 months

Wednesday 9th December 2015
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