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Cornwall has now been restored to 19th Century Technology[^]. Well done Cornwall, well done.
Seriously, it is a great achievement to get the lien repaired and opened so quickly.
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: get the lien repaired
I'd hate to see the solicitor's bill. 
I assume you meant "get the lion repaired" - the poor chap hasn't been right since his cage was flooded.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Twas early in the morning and I hadn't had my coffee. 
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"£35m"
On the other hand, it was only a fraction of the cost of a single mile of HS2...
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I have just discovered Scratch.
Brilliant training tool for kids.
Makes everything easy and logical and you get instant results.
Such a great way to start the younglings in coding.
I never had this, I had to plod through reams of boring stuff that was badly explained and had no immediate impact.
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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This is pretty freaky  . I had never heard about it until a few hours ago. I was reading an article about the new ".NET Native" compiler and at the bottom of the page was a link to 25 fun things to do with a raspberry pi[^], which I checked out - Scratch was mentioned as #12...
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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You're probably behind the times cuz your kids aren't at school - a lot of schools (at least in Oz) have started to use it
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I helped my niece with a project in Scratch and ever since have recommended to adults who want to start programming to start with Scratch.
It's a great introduction to programming concepts and IDEs.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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It's great, I've recommended this to quite a few friends when their offspring express an interest in computing.
And of course, the fact that it (at least until recently) was designed and implemented in Smalltalk is another huge plus.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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It's a pitty I can only find them in English. Would like to get my kid started on this. Maybe I will build my own 
To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems - Homer Simpson
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Our heads are round so our thoughts can change direction - Francis Picabia
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Amazing! I may as well make some games.
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UK gov spends 200 quid per laptop to extend 'support' from MSFT for a year.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/microsoft/10741243/Government-pays-Microsoft-5.5m-to-extend-Windows-XP-support.html[^]
That's 5.5 million pounds in total. (They have had 7 years to upgrade to Win 7 though).
"The end of commercial support for Windows XP does not mean it will stop working, simply that Microsoft will stop releasing security patches for the operating system, so any security holes that are discovered after that time will be vulnerable to exploits and malware"
How will security holes be discovered if MSFT halt support? No one else will be reporting them, since they cant get support, so its only the likes of the UK gov who will be able to report any, and MSFT isn't going to release any new code anyway!
5.5 million down the drain then....
Shame, I would have given them the same level of support for half that. Oh well.
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I had a previous job where an entire team of consultants were hired to replace an existing system (which I was supporting).
The consultants got new PCs, huge budgets for new software and servers, and spend a year and a half delivering absolutely nothing.
I told my director (after they had all left/been released/etc) that I could have done what they did for half the money, in half the time... but the difference was, at the end of it all, they would at least have 1 happy employee left.
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The UK government wasting money on an IT project? Well that's a first. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Yeah, NHS data base and air traffic control come to mind....
"The whole idea that carbon dioxide is the main cause of the recent global warming is based on a guess that was proved false by empirical evidence during the 1990s." climate-models-go-cold
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Microsoft (and some people who upgrade laptops for a living) are claiming naughty men have been saving up security holes in XP for when it is out of support so they can exploit them with no danger of them being closed.
MSome men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Nice. 
"The whole idea that carbon dioxide is the main cause of the recent global warming is based on a guess that was proved false by empirical evidence during the 1990s." climate-models-go-cold
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Ringo has a hole in his pocket. Or at least half a hole.
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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Are you sure that was actually someone for Microsoft. I've had plenty of cases of folk ringing me telling me I have a problem with my computer and that if I log on to a certain web site they can take remote control of my PC and sort it out.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Did your moniker get an extra under score?
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Yes, but I changed it anyway, I got bored with it.
"The whole idea that carbon dioxide is the main cause of the recent global warming is based on a guess that was proved false by empirical evidence during the 1990s." climate-models-go-cold
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how much would it have cost to upgrade to Windows 7, though? what software would need to be replaced or upgraded? what about the time taken to install a new OS on every device affected?
Might well be cost effective - and I don't think school kids are vulnerable to security holes in the OS - let's face it, send them a .exe in the mail, tell them it's "reeely kewl" and they'll run it.
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Software would be OK, driver might, USB mostly, those will be online. Upgrade cost? Whats a win7 license, plus an admin install? Whatever it is that cost has to be bourn at some point. Shelling an extra 200 quid per machine to gain a few months shows serious lack of planning.
Oh, and I asked Chris to revert back to an old account whose email address I use more frequently, that's why my accounts changed.
"The whole idea that carbon dioxide is the main cause of the recent global warming is based on a guess that was proved false by empirical evidence during the 1990s." climate-models-go-cold
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Munchies_Matt wrote: Software would be OK
Not necessarily, there is certainly software out there that has problems on different versions of an OS.
Munchies_Matt wrote: Whats a win7 license,
I don't know what deal the schools get, but maybe 100 quid or a bit less?
Munchies_Matt wrote: plus an admin install
Every pc in every school? Quite high I would think?
Munchies_Matt wrote: Whatever it is that cost has to be bourn at some point.
true - but the longer you can go with existing software, teh more you can spread the cost - and if it aint broke, why fix it?
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