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WTF? There is an alert code for Air Raids? Seriously?
Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.
- Mitchell Kapor
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Probably just a free text field to go with the exclamation in a triangle.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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More petabytes for the NSA to track.
/ravi
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Office 365 users now get the same service-level-agreement and compliance guarantees with Access-based Store apps as with the rest of Office 365. Access your Access, now in the cloud
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New U.S. government rules allow the companies to disclose how many FISA requests for member data they receive.
Will the "truth" set them free?
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Developers can integrate the SDK into their existing mobile or web apps to stream them on Chromecast.
All for dongle streaming, and dongle streaming for all.
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The proportion of Windows XP users actually rose in January, according to NetMarketShare figures.
They hit it with six shots, and it's still alive!
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Unless you believe net market share's precision is better than .25% ; all the chuckleheads reporting on the XP revival are confusing sampling noise for a signal.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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We gaze into our coding crystal ball to find the sure bets and intriguing developments developers should target in the next five years. "In the year 2525, if man is still alive, if woman can survive"
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Together they fashioned a general purpose programming language that was also suited to advanced mathematics and statistics and could run at speeds rivaling C, the granddaddy of the programming world. What, another "one language to rule them all"?
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...and in the darkness bind them.
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Excellent!
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This defense of our own choices and ideas is core to human nature. It is easy for us to adopt a new idea but we religiously defend the ones we have without needing much evidence to back it up. The problem is we tend to tie up our ideas about things with our identity and even our value as human beings. "Burn the heretic, Kill the mutant, Purge the unclean."
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Prove it.
I'll also add that OpenVMS is the very best operating system and Windows and all other "personal" operating systems are utter crap for enterprise work. But Windows pays the bills so I use that.
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: I'll also add that OpenVMS is the very best operating system and Windows and all other "personal" operating systems are utter crap for enterprise work. But Windows pays the bills so I use that.
PIEBALDconsult wrote: Prove it.
Thank you for saving me the effort
TTFN - Kent
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Glad to be of service.
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I haven't used OpenVMS but VMS rules, used it a lot back in the hay day of DEC.
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Sanity is for the weak! I am possessed when I wrote code.
(Sure, I may end up as chaos spawn for so much caffeine, tobacco and code use).
Nuclear launch detected
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Wow, a WarHammer 40k quote!
You sir, have my eternal respect
This isn't a signature
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edit: I take it back.....
modified 3-Feb-14 17:06pm.
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He's a top bloke, that Dave.
modified 3-Feb-14 17:13pm.
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So is that Pete chap!
modified 3-Feb-14 17:25pm.
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