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Speedlaw · Post by **Speedlaw** » Wed Dec 17, 2003 10:26 pm

Who knows what this billboard says? I didn't... Do now though. Geeks, show thyself!

dxg · Post by **dxg** » Wed Dec 17, 2003 10:43 pm

N (78) << this will appear as a cool smilie - but it should be an 8 followed by a close bracket
o (111)
w (119)
(32) [space]
H (72)
i (105)
r (114)
i (105)
n (110)
g (103)
0 [the "null character" used to terminate a string]

So, it reads...

"Now hiring"

Deek
(Gets anorack...)

david burton · Post by **david burton** » Wed Dec 17, 2003 10:43 pm

i am a geek and i understand it. but i do program C at work, so am I forgiven?

No

Speedlaw · Post by **Speedlaw** » Wed Dec 17, 2003 10:47 pm

Damn.

Seriously,

How'd you know that? The guys at a Microsoft blog were clueless (for the most part, I guess the ones that knew didn't bother). I was stumped too, obviously.

Tell me again what you do for a living?

You big freaky anorak you.

Speedlaw · Post by **Speedlaw** » Wed Dec 17, 2003 10:49 pm

Oh, and David, you're forgiven. And I thought C# was the new envogue language now?

Post by **mole** » Wed Dec 17, 2003 10:50 pm

Very clever....

david burton · Post by **david burton** » Wed Dec 17, 2003 10:50 pm

as soon as you see

char

it's got to be code. and every letter is represented by a number in computer speak (it's all one's and zero's after all). So those numbers are the equivalent ascii character set numbers.

http://www.asciitable.com

p.s. thanks for the forgiveness. I was forced into programming as I am meant to be an analyst not a programmer! That's cool though. C is ancient but most other codes eventually get converted to C at the end of the day...

p.p.s dxg beat me to it, so he must earn the mighty yellow patent anorak award! I only get a thorn coloured one

Speedlaw · Post by **Speedlaw** » Wed Dec 17, 2003 11:07 pm

Seriously impressed with you guys.

Post by **mole** » Thu Dec 18, 2003 9:16 pm

I just typed the numbers holding "Alt" to convert them