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Can't you use your X-ray vision to find us something really interesting?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Don't you like the Thing reference at least?
Yes, that was cute. A friend of mine once defined the word "cute" as meaning "nice but useless." Unfortunately, the context there was when I told him that my gf said that I was "cute." Ahhh, the teenage years.
Marc
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There's also the Jan/Feb issue of the NT Insider out now...
· Develop and Test Complex Drivers... in User Mode
· Making Device Objects Accessible AND Safe
· What's New in Win10 for File System and File System Filter Driver Devs?
· Best Practices for Windows Driver Developers: A Compilation of Techniques
· Yes, Windows 10... but WHICH Windows 10?
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The tech industry in the city of Wellington is looking to recruit tech experts from around the world and they are offering a free holiday to the country for anyone who can prove their merit. Just beware the Orcs
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They should team up with the US TSA and a flight rebooking service....
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hah - I can imagine our NZ officials ... "please pronounce the following words"
sex
six
fish
chips
...
(as a kid I came from NZ to Aus, the pronunciation is 'different' )
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Any Kiwis here?
Just curious what "the truth" is about Wellington.
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Kiwis are biased. As an Aussie who discovered NZ some years ago and go there every year I can only rate it very highly. Fantastic fishing and generally great outdoors. NZ is big in software development especially games. Wellington (Windy Wellington) ain't bad. 30% of Wellington's population have a University degree. I would think working there for a few years would be a good experience for a certain type of person. This is the official blurb: [^]
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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pwasser wrote: Kiwis are biased.
In what way are we more biased then any one else?
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None. This is a universal human trait. I did not use the quantifier 'more'.
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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Like any place it has it good and not so good. It all really depends on what lifestyle you enjoy. Wellington is definitely windy but has a good cultural feel and being the capital has a lot of head office, govt department type people.
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I'm seriously considering it. Thanks Kent!
* CALL APOGEE, SAY AARDWOLF
* GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
* Never pay more than 20 bucks for a computer game.
* I'm a puny punmaker.
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Why didn't they do this sort of thing when I was young? Plain inconsiderate, if you ask me.
I've never been there but it always looks very nice when I'm watching the cricket on TV (or LOTR for that matter).
Slogans aren't solutions.
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I would like a trip to New Zealand... I had fantasies about the country way before LOTR...
(Ask wife, what would she do if I had an offer at the end of the week - you stay (there), we stay (here) she told...)
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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count me in, I would move there.
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The computing industry progresses in two mostly independent cycles: financial and product cycles. "It's all just a little bit of history repeating"
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The computing industry progresses in two mostly independent cycles:
Bigger bugs and smaller bugs.
Marc
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Developers fixing bugs make smaller bugs
in the patch, that bite 'em.
To fix those bugs makes smaller bugs
and so on, ad infinitum.
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I'm guessing a patent on an "in-office" email notification.
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation is bringing light to what it calls a "stupefyingly mundane" patent on e-mail technology, given not to a patent troll hiding in a small office but to one of the world's largest technology corporations. I bet no one has a patent on flint tools. Ogg will be rich!
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Seriously, IBM? That company is run by f***tards and idiots. And the person that approved the patent needs to be fired. And the patent itself needs to be invalidated.
How about every time something like this happens, the entity that filed the patent cannot file for new patents for 5 years and needs to pay back any money obtained from the patent through any means, along with a major fine, say 50% of the entities annual income.
Or just destroy software patents once and for all.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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A lot of times, bigger companies will patent something just to keep actual trolls from causing a ruckus by taking out a patent and going after deep pockets.
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They immediately disclaimed it and set it free[^](.PDF), so it's a tactical move, shoving something sharply up the backsides of patent trolls.
Good on 'em for spending time, effort, and money on that. Lots of kudoses.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Ah, that is good of them. Still, it would be better if the patent office had a slight clue about "prior art".
TTFN - Kent
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