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    Quote Originally Posted by SlyMaelstrom
    Well it is possible you've bSOSn reading so SOSng that your miSOSd isOS seeinSOSg thSOSgs that aren't theSOS anSOS SOS beSOS SOS. SOS SOS witSOS SOS? SOSOS SOS SOS. SOS SOSOSOS SOS SOS.

    Right?

    when i first saw it and actually thought that at first. i had been reading for a few hours on my computer before i picked up where i left off in the book......my eyes were fried

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    I'm sorry, what is the significance of SOS? It doesn't mean Save Our Ship anymore?

    Gah... Dan Brown... confusing everyone.

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    It's actual mean is "Save Our Souls"
    Originally Posted by brewbuck:
    Reimplementing a large system in another language to get a 25% performance boost is nonsense. It would be cheaper to just get a computer which is 25% faster.

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    In reality, it means Stop Our Stool. It was developed because of Montezuma's Revenge.

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    The letters S O S are easy to produce and remember in Morse Code, so it became common for SOS to be used in distress signals, I don't know if it has a specific meaning.
    Sic vis pacum para bellum. If you want peace, prepare for war.

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    Read above. They have.
    Originally Posted by brewbuck:
    Reimplementing a large system in another language to get a 25% performance boost is nonsense. It would be cheaper to just get a computer which is 25% faster.

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    After posting that I did a little research on it, and it has no meaning. It was originally devised by Germans in 1905 and was adopted as international standard after that. The meanings were added afterwards and none are official.

    Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morse_code
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    I stand corrected
    Originally Posted by brewbuck:
    Reimplementing a large system in another language to get a 25% performance boost is nonsense. It would be cheaper to just get a computer which is 25% faster.

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    I thought the da vinci code sucked.
    I'm not immature, I'm refined in the opposite direction.

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    i wanna see garfield!

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    About the morse code stuff, I know all of that, I just found it strange that Brown took SOS completely out of context and confused people. Dumb twat.

    > I wanna see garfield!
    The new one? He goes to London and eats tons of food and harasses people. The end. The previous movie was probably the same way.

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    If you've ever read a Garfield short, you've read them all... and seen both movies, and seen every episode of the Saturday morning cartoon from the 80s.
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    Quote Originally Posted by SlyMaelstrom
    If you've ever read a Garfield short, you've read them all... and seen both movies, and seen every episode of the Saturday morning cartoon from the 80s.
    what about that one with lasagna though that one was pretty funny right

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    I'm pretty sure someone posted this before, but Garfield becomes much more entertaining if you remove all of his thought bubbles. There's a pretty long thread that illustrates the concept.
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