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I am really, really hoping that isn't a metaphor...
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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You owe me a new monitor, keyboard and cup of coffee!! 
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I think Willy Wonka making the best chocolates, I've been told 
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Nope. My brother made some catalogs for a Belgian chocolate factory - so he got a lot of chocolate to photograph, and eat (in that order strictly  ). It was awful!!! 
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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I want to apply for junior chocolate photographer, please give me your brother's e-mail
Microsoft ... the only place where VARIANT_TRUE != true
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"State acheived after eating too many chocolate-covered coconut bars - bountiful"
Chris C-B
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Vishal Pand3y wrote: 6. Besides the obvious cheese and ice cream industries, American chocolate manufacturers use about 1.5 billion pounds of milk and consume approximately 3.5 million pounds of whole milk yearly.
Because they use soured milk, Hershey's chocolate tastes of cheese!
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I'm an optoholic - my glass is always half full of vodka.
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Vishal Pand3y wrote: 4. Americans eat an average of 22 pounds of candy each year, or approximately 2.8 billion pounds annually which is split almost equally between chocolate and candy. Most Europeans consume far less than this.
2,800,000,000 pounds per year / 22 pounds per individual per year = 127,272,727 individuals.
There's way more than 127M Americans. If they can't get such basic and easy to verify math right, why should I believe any of the rest of these stats?
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Synchronise watches and set your alarm for Saturday @ 10:15 then tune to Radio 4[^]!
I have my towel with me, so be there and hear the hoopy froods!
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Excellent. I've been listening to the H2G2 replays on iPlayer.
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was about to shout FARRKK off at you until I saw the show you are talking about good call
Every day, thousands of innocent plants are killed by vegetarians.
Help end the violence EAT BACON
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Please, according to the expert it's one F, two A's, three R's and four K's - FAARRKKKK!
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: it's one F, two A's, three R's and four K's - FAARRKKKK!
So where's your third R then?
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Already stuck out my thumb.
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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And if you go here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/on-air[^] you should be able to get it online. No guarantees if you live outside the Uk, though...
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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From experience, the Home Service is available from forn parts.
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Is that on the sub-etha wave band?
I trust I can hear a recording later?
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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When I was about 12, which is 30 years ago now they used to have these competitions where nerd dads and their nerd kids would create 'mice' little robots which navigated around a 16x16 maze. It was a race, I think. I thought it was very cool.
Well, apparently it's still going on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micromouse[^]
There are some impressive videos on YouTube too, the record being about 4 seconds.
I still think its very cool. And it lead me to reading extensively about ARM Cortex M processors all last night to see how they've changed since the early days of the Acorn Archimedes computer. Not much apparently, although they have this 'Thumb' instruction set now.
I need to win the lottery so I can pack up the day job and become a professional mouse competitor. Anybody else (perhaps those a little more mature) remember these things?
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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I heard of it. Now you can buy ready mouse and just program it. It's kinda depressing, the companies are robbing you of the joy of soldering. Currently i am doing a research on robots and currently i am looking into this particular firm. You can find really interesting things in it and i don't think they are as expensive as some others
The upper information must not be mistaken for some kind of product positioning, its just someone's opinion. Feel free to correct it.
Microsoft ... the only place where VARIANT_TRUE != true
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I know what you mean, but I think its much harder to create your own boards these days. Everything is surface mount and 32 bit which means too many wires or tracks. I used to like the 8088 microprocessor, because with a crystal and a capacity (I think) it was pretty much self-contained.
Yes, it would have to be a pre-fab microcontroller board, but that still leaves the assembly and software!
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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Its all about the definition of a Robot.
For me a Robot is hardware pile of nice lightnings and stuff which does something without the help of humans. Its about the sensors , programs, algorithms and so on 
The link you provided, it is just bunch of people fighting each other with metal boxes and remote controls
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I think the reason for that is that people would program their robots in a first instant, give them AI in the second instant and in doing so destroy mankind... 
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If there is any dog lover here, don't miss this video... it looks like a professional magician shows a biscuit to a set of dogs and make it disappear just in front of their noses. IT is fun and it takes 2 minutes.
Of course, feel free to avoid looking at it.
Probably that would have ended in tears if it would have been a piece of bacon and not a biscuit... 
See the video here: Disappearing biscuit[^].
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