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Dude! Do you live directly north or directly south of the border (aka the Ohio River)?
Software Zen: delete this;
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Well, less'n Harlan's done moved a ways north...
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Just because you've got a device without a manual doesn't mean you need to throw it away. There are plenty of places on the Internet that can help you find its instructions. Because I had to find one over the weekend, and this will save me time, next time.
Sadly, the WiFi on the Sony Clie 50 only seems to be good for syncing data. Thought I might have a new old tool.
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It's amazing some of the manuals you can find. Sometimes they're a PDF containing a scan of a fax of some hand-scrawled notes, but if they tell you what you need to know, who cares?
My favorite is probably the Signetics 25120[^] data sheet, whose origin predates the Internet. Yes, children, there was life and tech before the Internet. Now go out and play and let grandpa take his nap.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Microsoft is running a limited-time promotion for EA and EAS customers which will give them a year of Windows 7 extended security updates for no additional charge. When you wish upon a star, sure does matter who you are
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Microsoft warns the users of Windows 10, version 1703 Enterprise and Education editions to take action since this Windows 10 version will reach end of life on October 9, 2019. "Windows 10 is the last version of Windows"
Last(ish), but 1903 is the latest last version
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I think we must be on windows 50-odd by now, mustn't we?
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Here’s a good reason to turn that frown upside down: Optimistic people live as much as 15% longer than pessimists, according to a new study spanning thousands of people and 3 decades. "Ah, well; who wants to live forever?"
Which must be read in the original Brian Blessed voice. (As everything should)
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Stress kills.
Big news.
200 years ago.
it's nice to see that millennials are finally beginning to catch up.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: Stress kills.
I must be immortal  .
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Quote: Pessimists can learn to become more optimistic with proper guidance.
Write out the following a million times:
"The world is not going to hell in a handcart and I must have more faith in the intellectual and moral superiority of our glorious leaders."
Your life may not be extended but it will certainly feel like it has been!
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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Tune in next week for more Adventures in Spurious Correlation 
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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honey the codewitch wrote: Spurious Correlation
Hardly -- but I suppose that they don't teach about hormones at microsoft.
... Or about writing robust code.
... Or about UX design.
... Or about customer satisfaction.
... Or about proper maintenance and bug fixing.
Oh, you poor thing! You've missed out on so much in life!
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Hey well that may be true, but I'm not on codeproject insulting other people.
So you know, I was raised better than that. So I didn't miss out on everything.
Have a great day, Mark.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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Insulting microsoft is grist for the CP mill.
You don't even work for them, any more, so taking it personally seems a strange thing to do.
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I thought those remarks were addressed at me. That's what it looked like. I'm sorry I misread you.
As far as Microsoft, I used to work for them. In fact, that's where I got my start in IT professionally.
I think it was the "you missed out on a lot" and "you poor thing" at the end that threw me.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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On the plus side, why would a pessimist want to live longer?
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ha! fair point. +1
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds and the pessimist fears this is true. - Mark Twain
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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Google: Banning tracking cookies "jeopardizes the future of the vibrant Web." "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it."
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I'm stuck trying to wrap my head around the fact that they believe that advertising makes the web "vibrant".
Oh, what am I saying?
They don't believe it for a moment. They're just committing pride, greed, and gluttony.
It's a good thing that they do no evil -- well, let's agree that there's no solid proof in this one article that they commit the other four deadly sins, anyway.
... But I'm sure that there will be more articles.
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It doesn't matter what sort of clever idea Google comes up with. When it became clear that the spyvertizing industry only pretended to be cooperating with consumer advocates long enough for the govt to forget that they were threatening mandatory privacy protection it was clear a state of war existed between them and everyone using the web. From that point my willingness to cooperate with anyone serving less intrusive ads evaporated and instead of only manually blocking highly disruptive (audio, animation, or overlay) ads, I started using 3rd party feeds to block everything. Nothing short of non-opt in tracking being made illegal and violators to include all the executive management of offending companies being jailed will convince me to relent. They've poisoned the well. Let them die from it.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing 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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Google is just waiting it out until it has 95% browser market share, then it will implement a huge raft of privacy features.....that are of course simply ignored when it comes to google-related services.
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Study shows university software engineering programs focus too much on the needs of large companies They need more training in PowerPoint for presentations to potential investors?
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The article is based on an incorrect premise.
Software Engineering grads are bleeding useless to large companies, too.
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