MCL

quote:Originally posted by Pharisee:Think about the size of the receiver with all those thermionic valves in it. They probably had to leave it on the mainland. Forget the reciever, think about the size of the satellites! Thats why the moon was built, and they ran out of money before they built the second one.... No trees were harmed during the production of this posting, but a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced....

quote:I shall not be late nor shall I be early I shall arrive precisely when I mean to. ...but it *will* be after dark, and he *will* have a torch with him.... No trees were harmed during the production of this posting, but a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced....

quote:Originally posted by jeremyp:To take one of your examples and bend it round to the point I was trying to make: suppose I write a book by taking lots of other people's short stories and putting them all together in one volume. Can I claim copyright on the whole book? no. Oh abso-friggin-lutely you can! What you publish is called an "edition" and you are the "Editor" and that particular edition is your copyright. The design, the layout, the choice of items itself is an artistic work, and you own the copyright for that piece of art you have created. Of course the individual writers of the stories still own the copyright in their own stories and you will have had to clear that copyright with them in order to publish the book. The 1988 Copyright designs and Patents Act lays out quite clearly that copyright subsists in any work that adds creative or artistic content, whether or not that content was created by a person or a machine. This was mainly to allow for the then somewhat younger software industry to claim copyright in a program (prior to that it had only been enshrined in case law) Why do I know so much about the Copyright laws? Well I have been heavily involved in Hospital Radio and....oh dadgum, someone has done that one already! No trees were harmed during the production of this posting, but a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced....

So far any of those dates is fine with me. No trees were harmed during the production of this posting, but a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced....

quote:Originally posted by el10t:As a statistician I agree with everything you have said. As an analyst I'd say that is perfectly normal behaviour for a statistician.... No trees were harmed during the production of this posting, but a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced....

quote:Originally posted by Huga: Definitely a good thing. I don't agree on this one. I think the money is better spent elsewhere. To convert postcode to lat/long surely only requires some nifty code to prod streemap.co.uk into life. When you give it a UK postcode, you get back the full coordinates of the code given. All for free. same for mapquest.co.uk and multimap.co.uk. I'm not a web coder, but I bet someone out there is and will do it for less that a thousand dollars. No trees were harmed during the production of this posting, but a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced....

quote:Originally posted by Pharisee:Could it be that perhaps, in the not-too-distant future, a cache that hasn’t had a visit logged for, oh I don’t know… let’s say a year, should be archived and physically removed (if it’s still there) to make room for a new one? No. No trees were harmed during the production of this posting, but a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced....

quote:Originally posted by Jeremy Irish:What's up with the cost of postcodes in the UK? Here in the US you can purchase a pretty good version for under $50. Probably something to do with the fact that your postal service is not about to go bankrupt? Our one has just borrowed £3bn and unless they get a penny rise in stamp prices through, they ain't going to be able to repay it... They want money. Lots of it. And they want it now. No trees were harmed during the production of this posting, but a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced....

I want both kinds of caches: Ones that are hard and ones that are dead easy. The dead easy ones are good for introducing new people to the game, (I prefer this method of expansion rather than TV promotion...) plus the fact that they are good for people with disabilities who may not be able to climb, or even walk any sort of distance. Having said that I would say that if you had more than half a dozen of these type of caches within a 5 mile radius of your home location then that would be too many. How about aiming for a sort of distribution figure such that in any given area the proportions of cache difficulties are something like 5 ones (easy) 4 twos, 3 threes, 2 fours and a five (hard)? So if you lived in an area that had 20 easy ones and no hard ones you could consider it your duty to redress the balance... Bear in mind also that by their very nature, the easy ones tend to be the ones that go missing, so there is a certain amount of "replacing" going on when you hide a 1/1. I am a bit worried by the fact that people around my region seem to be hiding the harder types of cache, and so as time goes on and the easier ones disappear, we are going to get a sport which consists of ever more 4s and 5s and fewer 1s and 2s. I think T&J's rule of thumb about distances is a good one. However I worry about the idea that they might not apporove caches on the basis of having too many other easy ones in the area. That IMHO is being a bit *too* judgmental. Not all cachers are agile, young, fit, and intelligent and educated. We wouldn't want to be considered to be discriminating against ageing, unfit and intellectually challenged cachers now would we? This point may raise a smile in the reader, (and it was partly meant to) but in fact behind it I am being deadly serious. It seems that the vast majority on here are an intelligent, articulate and well-read bunch of Doug Adams fans and there is nothing wrong in that. But not everyone out there is. Some people are *not* able to attempt caches that have puzzles associated with them especially ones that require a certain level of literature knowledge. Some people are too old or frail to walk up hills and down dales, climbing over styles and shimmying up trees. The current population stats show that over 1 in 3 of the population of the UK are over 50. Thats 20 million out of 56 million. Every time we place a very demanding cache (physically) we are effectively excluding many in this group. I believe this must be borne in mind. For instance, I did "Brian's Warren" a while back. Lovely cache but I would not allow my 65 year old dad to attempt it. Not without an ambulance standing by anyway... Now, if I am to get my Dad more into caching, I need to know that there are sufficient caches in his region to occupy him , and that sufficient new ones are being placed. This trend for only placing harder nd harder ones is no use to someone like him. As others have said, we need both kinds of cache and we need to keep a balance. No trees were harmed during the production of this posting, but a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced....

quote:Originally posted by canadazuuk:"Love Immateriality is assenting in return love animality is watery" Now where in the heck did you get the idea to translate that verse? I can answer that one easily. The original verse was used many years ago in one of the early translation attempts using computers and the classic response of the program, when asked to translate from english to russian, the phrase "the Spirit is willing but the flesh is weak" (and back again) was the response "the vodka is tempting but the meat is rotten!" Anyone who knows their scripture will recognise it as coming from the New Testament, 41st verse of Chapter 26 of the Book of Matthew. The really interesting thing about this is that this (famous) phrase itself is a translation from the original greek and not an english original at all... That episode has rather passed into IT folklore, indeed it may even be an urban legend, yet serves to make its point, so every time I am given the opportunity to test a translation service (of any type!) I always like to give it that verse as a test. (the other similar howler is the translation of "out of sight, out of mind" as "invisible idiot"...) [This message was edited by MCL on December 02, 2002 at 05:06 PM.]

quote:Originally posted by Huga:What's the highest nukber of caches anyone has found in one day? You are well justified in being chuffed. My best has been 5 in one day so far. Pitiful. Quite pitiful.... No trees were harmed during the production of this posting, but a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced....

quote:Originally posted by SimonG: ...That's the joke I _thought_ MCL had seen in my post, but his comment above suggests otherwise. Now I haven't got a clue. Yes it *was* the joke I saw in it. Thats why I was hinting at the location being one virtually guaranteed to make the moderators change it. The reason they made you change it was due, as I said, to the nature of the location. I was trying to hint but not give the game away too easily. OK everybody? get it now? No trees were harmed during the production of this posting, but a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced....

quote:Originally posted by el10t:Was the funny bit the fact that you had coords at N0 0.000, E0 0.000 refused but you were asked to change it to "nearby coords" i.e. coords that were near to N0 0.000, E0 0.000 ?? Perhaps N0 0.001, E0 0.001 for example. No it wasn't... It was far more subtle than that. It was more to do with the nature of the location N0 E0... No trees were harmed during the production of this posting, but a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced....

...however, to add my bit into the pot, I think that we must avoid situations where we fall foul of a known bug, so therefore move the co-ordinates slightly, until such time as the bug is fixed. No trees were harmed during the production of this posting, but a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced....

quote:Originally posted by SimonG: I originally submitted Quantum Entanglement Part 2 at N0°00.000 E0°00.000, and I got an email from the moderators saying I had to change it to nearby coords before they would approve it, so you might not have much choice. ..Oh very funny. Very very good. I now have a coke-splattered monitor for that...Thankyou very much No trees were harmed during the production of this posting, but a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced....

quote:Originally posted by Nia:True techies listen to it they don't read it. OH WELL SAID NIA!!! Thats the first time I have heard anyone else admit that it is in fact a *radio script* originally, and not a book. Described by the critics a "a piece of pure radio...as the TV series went on to prove!" Erm, I suppose that makes me a techie...ooops. I know its off topic but this is such fun....I remember listening to the original broadcast in 1978. Anyone else on here actually able to say(admit) that?

..oh but it is hilarious.. Try this: - Select translation from English to English - Enter the plain text "The Spirit is willing but the flesh is weak" - Click "translate". Please don't do this with a mouthful of food and drink, while in front of your monitor... No trees were harmed during the production of this posting, but a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced....

Hey Ben, I'm told there are free courses in esperanto on the net too.... No trees were harmed during the production of this posting, but a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced....

Burial Mound? I haven't actually even started on that one yet. Its a bit further down my page. I tend to work down the page sequentially, especially on nearby caches so i'm not due to get to that one for a bit yet. Quell thy vigour, oh impetuous youth! No trees were harmed during the production of this posting, but a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced....

Look, its simple really...Stop doing their difficult caches. You *know* it only encourages them! Its bad enough having the most avid cache-planters in the country sitting right on your doorstep without giving them an excuse to lay any more! God help my front page.... No trees were harmed during the production of this posting, but a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced....

..erm..don't bother with Obelisk on the Prime Meridian, because it almost certainly is not there any more. I tried it only last week, twice and came up with nothing even after a previous finder helped direct me to where it should be.. See my log on the page. Having said that, I can confirm that Lea Valley Walk *is* there (or was last week) and is only a short distance away from Obelisk, so you might want to swap one 1/1 for another... No trees were harmed during the production of this posting, but a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced....

quote:Originally posted by Tim and Carol: In the caches we have placed (well just the one so far actually, we leave a "cache card"; not a calling card as such, but these are intended as a souvenir for the visitor. ...I suppose we should stop calling them geocaches then and change their name to cachepoints No trees were harmed during the production of this posting, but a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced....

You are not dreaming it is horrendously off-topic. Pid and I had better shut up now. No trees were harmed during the production of this posting, but a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced....

Team minim, if you think you are going to stave off any more puns I can bass around this subject, then I think you will have to cringe at these two more, and hope I don't try for the treble! Other punsters take note! No trees were harmed during the production of this posting, but a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced....

quote:Originally posted by Geo Weasel:No No No Wetlands 3 is there because Dan swims like a fish.....I thought you really were up for that one? what happened then Martin,,,,,lost ya marbles ? ..don't you mean Dan *drinks* like a fish?.. Anyway, no I have not lost my marbles on this one. Lets just say plans are being laid.... But if Michael wants to bag the cache first then I don't mind. I just want it off my front page! Oh and its Martyn with a 'y'...