RE: Feelers for London Open Source Convention

2001-01-17 Thread Mike Jarvis
Gareth Harper wrote: >there are sites with all the no1's, but I don't know of any with all the top tens, >theres probably one around, if not, start one ;) Who's chart would you use? I.E., who do you want to be sued by? I don't know about the UK, but Billboard (THE chart in the US) is very pick

RE: Feelers for London Open Source Convention

2001-01-17 Thread Mike Jarvis
Tony Bowden wrote: > On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 01:26:24PM -0500, Mike Jarvis wrote: > > Who's chart would you use? I.E., who do you want to be sued > by? I don't > > know about the UK, but Billboard (THE chart in the US) is very > picky about > > such thing

RE: Feelers for London Open Source Convention

2001-01-17 Thread Mike Jarvis
Robin Szemeti wrote: > jsut do them as they do to you ... > ... then when next weeks top 10 comes out and Billboard publish a top > 10 that matches one of your pages sue them blind... remove the all but 1 > selected page from the site .. The problem would be, you still couldn't post your top 1

RE: Feelers for London Open Source Convention

2001-01-17 Thread Mike Jarvis
Robin Szemeti wrote: > and if I publish all the variants .. and each week Billboard 'copy' one > of my 'works of art' can I sue them ? :) Did you label the variants as Billboard charts? If not, they aren't publishing the same thing. A list of songs is not a chart. -- mike

RE: Feelers for London Open Source Convention

2001-01-18 Thread Mike Jarvis
Tony Bowden wrote: > The fact you are recording is "What Billboard said was number one". *That* > is a fact. Why they decided it was number one isn't the issue. How about if I put up a website wherein I disclose the fact: "This is what the object code to looks like?" Under (U.S.) IP law, it's p

RE: NY invasion, was Re: Conway Hall

2001-02-12 Thread Mike Jarvis
Piers Cawley wrote: > > Hmm. I assume group is cheaper, though. Well, of the list, I'd be > > surprised if that many dropped out, and I had stupidly forgotten Grep's > > interest, so that takes us up to 12. Which may be enough to guarantee a > > group. Aah, tricksy. > > Am I down as interested? I

RE: NY invasion, was Re: Conway Hall

2001-02-12 Thread Mike Jarvis
David H. Adler wrote: > On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 04:32:08PM -0500, Mike Jarvis wrote: > > > > When looking at cost, remember what hotel rates in NYC are like > (almost as > > bad as London). You can easily pay US$250/night for a room > that you would > > swear

RE: VA?

2001-02-13 Thread Mike Jarvis
Chris Devers wrote: > At 01:24 PM 13.2.2001 +, you wrote: > >Anyone have an opinion on VA? > > Virginia's nice but I like Massachusetts better. Too close to > both AOL ground zero & American political hell ground zero Both of which I've worked in. :) On topic, last place I worked we had

Re[2]: Greetings

2001-02-23 Thread Mike Jarvis
Friday, February 23, 2001, 12:40:19 PM, grep wrote: <> Q: What is the best way to protect and add value to domestic felines? A: Gold plate -- mike

Re: geek football

2001-02-27 Thread Mike Jarvis
Tuesday, February 27, 2001, 11:54:15 AM, Hamlet D'Arcy wrote: HDA> As an American in the audience of Quantum::Superpositions last night I have HDA> one question. HDA> What in the world is a 'geek football pool'? Just be glad they didn't start playing "Slap the Yank". -- mike

Re: Matt's Scripts

2001-03-14 Thread Mike Jarvis
Wednesday, March 14, 2001, 11:34:16 AM, grep wrote: GM> * Dave Cross ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >> An admirable point of view in my opinion. Why would anyone possibly >> want to run an ISP and have to deal with all the clueless people? GM> Mike J, you used to work for AOL, you should be more th

Re[2]: Matt's Scripts

2001-03-14 Thread Mike Jarvis
Wednesday, March 14, 2001, 1:55:03 PM, Robin wrote: RS> there is a rather good ISP on Hawaii that plainly states 'the service is RS> not suitable for clueless users' .. ring em up and ask too many docile RS> questions and they pull your account .. My gfriend in pharmacy school plans on having a

Re: Buffy riding a pony!

2001-04-03 Thread Mike Jarvis
May I forward your post to one of my company's internal humour/perl lists? -- mike

OT: parsing xml

2001-04-04 Thread Mike Jarvis
Sorry, no Buffy content follows: Has anybody dealt with the data exchange xml standard called BMEcat? I've got to hack a parser together quickly and I was hoping to nick somebody else's code. CPAN has a XML::BMEcat module, but it's aimed more at creating BMEcat files rather than reading them. T

Mourning clothes for London.pm

2001-04-18 Thread Mike Jarvis
CNN reports that BtVS's SMG will wed Freddie Prinz. Of course he'll probably be attacked by vampires before that can actually happen. -- mike

Re: Mourning clothes for London.pm

2001-04-18 Thread Mike Jarvis
Wednesday, April 18, 2001, 5:37:22 PM, David H. Adler wrote: >> > Mike Jarvis wrote: >> > > CNN reports that BtVS's SMG will wed Freddie Prinz. DHA> Clarification: That's Freddie Prinz, Jr. His father was the star of DHA> Chico and the Man, a sitcom of, uh,

Re: MySQL -> Oracle wrapper/compat. libs

2001-04-27 Thread Mike Jarvis
Friday, April 27, 2001, 1:09:05 PM, Robin Szemeti wrote: RS> but in the end (assuming that both RS> codesets use similar basic principles) you will not beat the speed of C RS> with anything other than hand optimised assembler. Now that is a fact. Sounds much more like a function of the compiler t

Re: MySQL -> Oracle wrapper/compat. libs

2001-04-27 Thread Mike Jarvis
Friday, April 27, 2001, 2:20:21 PM, Paul Makepeace wrote: PM> On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 01:51:38PM -0500, Mike Jarvis wrote: >> Sounds much more like a function of the compiler to me. A >> really good Fortran compiler would turn out faster code than a bad c >> compiler. PM&g

Re: More revolting natives

2001-05-06 Thread Mike Jarvis
Saturday, May 05, 2001, 5:33:47 AM, Brad Bowman wrote: BB> An Irish friend once had trouble convincing a Mid-Westerner BB> that Ireland was a country in Europe not a State near the BB> Canadian border. A cow-orker of mine had to be told that Spain was in Europe, not South America. -- mike

Re: Buffy musings ...

2001-05-09 Thread Mike Jarvis
Wednesday, May 09, 2001, 3:54:53 AM, Jonathan Peterson wrote: >> >> And while we are on the old films chestnut, my current recommendation >> is 'O Brother, where art thou?', excellent film. However I here Momento >> is a very good film as well. JP> Oh Brother should be subtitled. Don't expect t

Re: Sara Cox - was Re: FHM Top 100 Sexiest Women

2001-05-20 Thread Mike Jarvis
Sunday, May 20, 2001, 3:19:47 AM, Dave Cross wrote: DC> And besides, since when could you work out how sexy a woman (or man) was DC> simply by looking at a photo. This is really two questions: 1) Can you tell from looking at a photo if this is someone you'd like to have a relationship with? (N

Re: Sara Cox - was Re: FHM Top 100 Sexiest Women

2001-05-20 Thread Mike Jarvis
Sunday, May 20, 2001, 3:17:03 PM, Dave Cross wrote: DC> At 20:50 20/05/2001, Mike Jarvis wrote: >>Sunday, May 20, 2001, 3:19:47 AM, Dave Cross wrote: >> >>DC> And besides, since when could you work out how sexy a woman (or man) was >>DC> simply by looking at

POSIX::localeconv()/Germany

2001-05-23 Thread Mike Jarvis
Anybody have experience with POSIX localization functions/clients in Germany? I've got a client in .de that wants prices to look like this: DEM 1.234,00 i.e., the thousands sep is a "." and the decimal is a ",". The posix routines return a space for the thousands sep and a dot for the decimal, s

Re: POSIX::localeconv()/Germany

2001-05-23 Thread Mike Jarvis
Wednesday, May 23, 2001, 2:45:24 PM, Dave Cross wrote: DC> Haven't tried the routine you're talking about, but if you ever decide to DC> give up on them, the Number::Format module (from CPAN) will solve all of DC> your problems. After RTFM'ing about that fine module, I thought I found my probl

Re[2]: POSIX::localeconv()/Germany

2001-05-24 Thread Mike Jarvis
Thursday, May 24, 2001, 4:16:17 AM, Dominic Mitchell wrote: DM> On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 03:05:59PM -0500, Mike Jarvis wrote: >> Wednesday, May 23, 2001, 2:45:24 PM, Dave Cross wrote: >> >> DC> Haven't tried the routine you're talking about, but if you ever deci

Re: BUFFY - SPOILERS , DO NOT READ IF YOU HAVE NOT SEEN SKY 1 LAST NIGHT

2001-06-02 Thread Mike Jarvis
Saturday, June 02, 2001, 5:58:44 AM, Greg McCarroll wrote: GM> * James Powell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >> On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 08:19:56AM +0100, Dave Cross wrote: >> > On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 07:47:00AM +0100, Greg McCarroll >([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > *SPOILE

Re: www.gateway.gov.uk

2001-06-12 Thread Mike Jarvis
Tuesday, June 12, 2001, 2:55:38 PM, Chris Benson wrote: CB> On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 08:15:36AM +0100, Robert Thompson wrote: >> > From: Chris Benson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >> > >> > Why, when the sun is shining (almost) and there is a popular (?) govt. >> > do I feel like I did in early/mid 7

Re: www.gateway.gov.uk

2001-06-12 Thread Mike Jarvis
Tuesday, June 12, 2001, 10:24:47 PM, Paul Makepeace wrote: PM> On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 10:10:28PM -0500, Mike Jarvis wrote: >> Missed Texas by 500 miles? I think not. I was in Houston. Worst >> place on earth. I most definatly did NOT miss Texas. PM> Houston rocks, althou

Re: www.gateway.gov.uk

2001-06-13 Thread Mike Jarvis
Wednesday, June 13, 2001, 1:16:12 AM, Dave Cross wrote: DC> On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 10:55:17PM -0500, Mike Jarvis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >> >> Larry speaks in a bit over 9 hours. Yippee! DC> Actually - he doesn't :) DC> <http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=01/