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Old 10-11-2006, 21:06   #1
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Oh dear, I guess that really proves it

Read an article in teh Observer car pages about private plates, the closing comment was about a bloke who had a plate '6765656B' and how someone had put their thumb up to it in recogniustion. teh reason given was that" its 'geek' in hex", WELL....... I immediately corrected it to" 'geek' in unicode" in my head!!!!!

Oh dear, theres no hope I guess
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Old 10-11-2006, 21:16   #2
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Geez Ian u dont have much of a life do u can u put that in laymans terms????
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Old 10-11-2006, 21:20   #3
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Went right over my head to even when he explained it to me.
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Old 10-11-2006, 21:27   #4
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Geez Ian u dont have much of a life do u can u put that in laymans terms????

I have a full life thanks, looking after Siobhan, keeping Julie in the style she has become acustommed, being an all round good guy and of course devising new methods to cheat at quiz's

in laymans terms, its technically not right to say its in "hex[1]" as it defines a particular computer standard for the representation of all characters in computer terms(unicode).

[1] hexadecimal, base 16 (0123456789ABCDEF) which is used usually to give a more readable form to the binary that all computers use, its dead easy to convert binary to hex as each hex character represenst 4 binary 'bits', [2]

[2] Yes, I knmow, when in a hole stop digging!!!
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Old 10-11-2006, 21:30   #5
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So does that make you a...... 0001010011010
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Old 10-11-2006, 21:30   #6
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Don't worry about it Entwisi, I've got one at home just like you!

Rerunning a full episode of Friends in my head usually keeps me going long enough for him to explain it and get it out of his system!
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Old 10-11-2006, 21:30   #7
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keeping Julie in the style she has become acustommed,
Will that be commatosed? When she has to listen to the likes of that ^^^^^

Only messing with you entwisi. I'm sure someone somewhere understands it
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Old 10-11-2006, 21:32   #8
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I learnt binary before i learnt hex and binary is easier to read.. especially as i learnt 8bit first ..

I wouldnt like to actually try to do anything other than ON/OFF in binary though ... thats a joke i just made up.. only one other person will get it
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Old 10-11-2006, 21:34   #9
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Remember Ian there are only 10 types of people in the world: Those who understand binary, and those who don't.
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Old 10-11-2006, 21:35   #10
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I got it Kipax, does that mean Ian won't?
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Old 10-11-2006, 21:37   #11
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So does that make you a...... 0001010011010

= Devil

Ya must have found that somewhere.. that binary = 666 and i was about to type it when i saw..............
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Old 10-11-2006, 21:38   #12
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I underestimated ya willow
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Old 10-11-2006, 21:41   #13
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I learnt binary before i learnt hex and binary is easier to read.. especially as i learnt 8bit first ..
8 bit = two hex chars, most people in them days were assembler programmers.

I always worked in hex when I messed in m/c code, although thinking exactly how long ago that was rather scares me!
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Old 10-11-2006, 21:44   #14
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I don't work in hex or binary.. Well obviously need hex here and there... but binary was so long ago I am racking my brains trying to remember why.... Like anything else I had to learn it all off the internet so it's within the last 12 yrs.. cant recall why i needed binary though...
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Old 10-11-2006, 21:45   #15
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Look at this! The perfect clock for Entwisie!
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