? OT: Tyre pressures

[Bob Eager]

Boundaries...

[Bob Eager]

Doesn't seem to have microfortnights...

[Tim Downie]

Now I know an american pint=16 floz I had always assumed that the ounces were the same. Is this a mistake?

Tim

[Set Square]

I always remember that there are five and a half yards in a rod, pole or perch.

This conversion reference has them all!

[mike ring]

"Terry D" wrote in news:3Ljdc.194$ [e-mail]:

I was going to ignore you till you got over your huff; but it's worth pointing out that without the original query we wouldn't have been directed to a noteworthy site; plus all the usual culprits wouldn't have been able to maunder on about when they were lads.

I would have joined in, but I've already been well out-maundered

mike r

[Rod Hewitt]

"dave @ stejonda" wrote in news: [e-mail]:

Sorry - was that a joke page? Looked just like the instructions I was following last week! :-)

[John Laird]

Yep. The conversion from US gallons to UK (both have 8 "pints") is almost exactly 5/6, not the 4/5 you would expect from the 16 vs 20 fl oz difference in pint size. Their fluid ounces are bigger.

[Toby]

Okay, WTF is one of them

[NoSpamThanks]

== annual leave

[Andy Luckman (AJL Electronics)]

Easy, that's the British working month. :-)

[Huge]

What it says. The ISO prefix "micro-" (10 ^^ -6) to a fortnight (14 days). About 1.2 seconds.

[Dave Plowman]

Thatcher never got to your industry, then? ;-) With mine, we do a fortnight's work in a week. Dave. Sadly not joking.

[Gordon Henderson]

And lets not forget that there are PI seconds in a nanocentury...

(to within 1% anyway)

Gordon

[John Laird]

Hmm, I wonder if your background and mine have similarities ? Do you recognise this, from an official publication:

TIMEPROMPTWAIT defines the number of seconds that you want a processor to wait for the time and date to be entered when a system boot occurs, if the processor's time-of-year clock does not contain a valid time. (The time unit of micro-fortnights is approximated as seconds in the implementation.)

As demonstrated by:

Parameter Name Current Default Min. Max. Unit

-------------- ------- ------- ------- ------- ---- TIMEPROMPTWAIT 65535 -1 0 -1 uFortnight

[Andy Luckman (AJL Electronics)]

Sadly, she didn't get round to sorting everything before being ousted by a load of chauvinistic back stabbers. The only reason we have the delights of Phoney Bliar now is because there hasn't been anyone in the party good enough to follow her yet. Hopefully Michael Howard will be able to address that problem somewhat, before all the skilled people emigrate again and we end up with 15% interest rates and 98% tax.

I appreciate that you are a socialist Dave, but I won't hold it against you. At least you know where it's at with computers. :-)

[The Natural Philosopher]

No. teh reason you have Phony Bliar is because she back stabbed and destroyed the career of anyone who represneted a threat to her leadership. Post Thatcher, only simpering yes men and total crooks were left.

I doubt it. I don't think I have seen a less impressive suite of politicians in any party.

[Dave Plowman]

Strange. My memory must be failing. What were the average and peak interest rates under the last Tory administration and how do they compare with under this present Tory one?

[Bob Eager]

What it says! Funnily enough, I wanted to work out how long this was a few days ago (it's about 1.2 seconds AFAIR).

Believe it or not, one system (VAX/VMS) actuallu uses them. In the sense that one of the system generation parameters (a time interval) is actually expressed in this unit...

[Bob Eager]

That's the one. First encountered by me about 20 years ago, and most recently about 10 minutes ago on the machine in the next room here....at home.

[Huge]

Irrelevant, is what they were.