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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: You may have hit on something
But of course...I was hitting my head against the wall after that article...
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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Gotta love these content-free articles...
My long term goal is to live forever. So far, so good...
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A smartphone in the hand, it's really not that practical. For example, not when one is driving a car or cooking.
It is so much more practical to put an AI robot in your car seat so you can call your robot. Also very handy for making it cook bacon.
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He has decided to make a version of the Wolfram Language and development tools available as a free cloud service. Everyone else is going open source
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Time to cheat in Calc 
i cri evry tiem
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Developers today have trouble setting career and life goals and staying focused on them. Well, that's just
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Developers give no sh*t about "career and life goals"  -- we're gettin' it done!
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You do start to think more about those when you're near to retirement, though.
My long term goal is to live forever. So far, so good...
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And CodeProject doesn't help!
Marc
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Offshore tax loopholes have existed for far longer than Microsoft’s 30 year existence, and the company certainly isn’t alone in making the most out of maximizing tax relief in an increasingly global economy. I don't recommend attempting the same methods with your taxes
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Kent Sharkey wrote: I don't recommend attempting the same methods with your taxes
I desagree.
In France, we have a saying about a school exam:
"you have the right to cheat, but you do not have the right to get caught." 
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
modified 15-Dec-15 1:42am.
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ppolymorphe wrote: "you have the right to cheat, but you do not have the right to get caught."
Is your not count in the second half off by one? "You have the right to get caught" or "You don't have the right to not get caught" both seem to make more sense in context.
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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Dan Neely wrote: Is your not count in the second half off by one?
No mistakes here, it is a colorful saying.
"C'est comme au BAC, tu as le droit de tricher, mais tu n'as pas le droit de te faire prendre"
BAS is the French school exam.
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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The best measurement yet of the lifetime of the electron suggests that a particle present today will probably still be around in 66,000 yottayears (6.6 × 1028 yr), which is about five-quintillion times the current age of the universe. For those who were worried (and I'm sure many of you were)
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Yoda's lifetime is at least 1 yodayears
I'm sorry, a recent post in the lounge gave me a black hole where my humor is supposed to be... 
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I think it is still too soon to tell, said the cat....
(Actually, if an unobserved electron is a probability distribution function or waveform, to what extent can we say that two time separated observations of that waveform are the same "electron"? - more semantics than physics question)
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I find the issue about what an electron "is" fascinating, and I'm reminded of Heisenberg's thought (which I don't pretend to understand):
"Light and matter are both single entities, and the apparent duality arises in the limitations of our language."
"Atoms are not things; they're only tendencies."
In my next lifetime I intend to explore quantum mechanics and cosmology
«Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.» Benjamin Franklin
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I thought a 'yotta was 10 to the 24th, equivalent to 1000 to the eighth, but I never actually met a 'yotta yet.
«Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.» Benjamin Franklin
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BillWoodruff wrote: I never actually met a 'yotta yet.
A yotta that I did not like, I never met.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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I want to be an electron.
Hundred years of human life is nothing in comparison.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: 66,000 yottayears (6.6 × 1028 yrs)
Fixed that for ya!
Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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That's a lorra, yottayears!
(With apologies to Cilla Black)
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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If you want to be a space explorer, you’re one step closer to quitting your day job. Previous experience as a space cadet not required
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Trio of metrics providers all report that Edge's percentage of Windows 10 users has declined monthly. You couldn't go with, "It's fallen off the edge?"
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New York Times, December 13, "In Virtual Reality Headsets, Investors Glimpse the Future" [^].Quote: Magic Leap, a secretive company making wearable technology for mixing digital imagery with the real world, is seeking to raise $827 million. Jaunt, maker of a 3-D camera for filming virtual reality video, has nabbed a total of $100 million, including $65 million in September. And 8i, which makes technology that lets people interact with video of humans as though they were in the same room, has raised nearly $15 million.
No like. Don't wanna.
«Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.» Benjamin Franklin
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