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Well I don't mind going back to paper and CD roms, may be dust up my old "PC" and wait for the next DOOM Demo CD.And save my data on the Floppy Disks ! Those were the days when the computer was cool if you had MUTIMEDiA and Bill Gates wrote The Road ahead and skipped the Internet.
Quote: Gates is as fearful as he is feared, and these days he worries most about the Internet, Usenet and the World Wide Web, which threaten his software monopoly by shifting the nexus of control from stand-alone computers to the network that connects them. The Internet, by design, has no central operating system that Microsoft or anybody else can patent and license. And its libertarian culture is devoted to open—that is to say, nonproprietary—standards, none of which were set by Microsoft. Gates moved quickly this year to embrace the Net, although it sometimes seemed he was trying to wrap Microsoft's long arms around it.
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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Wow, from that quote, Gates was right. The Internet really did threaten MS dominance.
Interesting.
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If this happened people would have to relearn social skills! Not sure young people could handle that?
Everyone has a photographic memory; some just don't have film. Steven Wright
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Mike Hankey wrote: If this happened people would have to relearn social skills! Not sure young people could handle that?
Too busy staring at their phones. 
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Even when I meet them when I'm out walking and say hello the most I get is a grunt, rarely a hey or hello.
Everyone has a photographic memory; some just don't have film. Steven Wright
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...and true.
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I'd be fine 
Go back to once a week BBS based systems over a telnet link, it would be awesome, just like the old days
I'd still have Skype desktop to talk to my clients, and while I might not be writing "Web Based Software" I'd still be writing some kind of software, because I think business will still want software, even if it's not on the web.
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Peter Shaw wrote: while I might not be writing "Web Based Software" I'd still be writing some kind of software, because I think business will still want software, even if it's not on the web.
Exactly. We had software before the web. The web is just an added layer. And the important part of the layer is the communication layer -- the Internet.
It's just too bad that the potential of the Internet is wasted by bad web implementation.
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Hit the nail on the head
I do miss Telnet Style BBS's though, and Gopher, with all their cheesy ANSI orientated screen art, some of it was actually very well drawn.
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To be fair to the restaurants, soooo many people make reservations and never keep them. What you're seeing is the result of our own carelessness. 
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milo-xml wrote: o be fair to the restaurants, soooo many people make reservations and never keep them.
I agree with you. Maybe the restaurants could add a credit hold functionality which charges your card $5 and then if you show up the $5 is applied to your meal and if not the restaurant keeps the $5.
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If the Web or the Internet went away, the world would probably return to a sense of a little more sanity in it.
For all of the good that the Internet has provided, it has opened a Pandora's Box of degeneracy that appears to have no end in sight...
Steve Naidamast
Sr. Software Engineer
Black Falcon Software, Inc.
blackfalconsoftware@outlook.com
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I'll name a restaurant chain that does something similar - Chili's.
I put in a reservation for four at 6 PM about an hour before leaving home. Got there at 5:55 PM and was told to put my name on the waiting list. I haven't been back.
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obermd wrote: I put in a reservation for four at 6 PM about an hour before leaving home. Got there at 5:55 PM and was told to put my name on the waiting list.
It's so annoying.
The restaurant that I was dealing with was Olive Garden. I wonder if it's owned by the same corporate entity or if they all just do this?
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relevant knowledge.
Along with what some have said about asking questions. The connection of sites and continued connecting of sites helps provide a great scale of knowledge FINDING.
Could 99.99% of questions and answered be found in the Text books printed years ago? YES
How quickly could you find that answer in the book?
Might depend how well the books index is and ordered.
How quickly could you find your question? Longer if at all.
As with programming there can often be more then one way to solve the same thing. But being able to ask similar questions multiple times helps lead to an answer more suitable to your situation. Compared to a book written by a limited group.
Share ability of add ability of that knowledge, with validation flows far faster and wider then other means.
Your internet seems to be a 1 way pipe of information. Who curates and feeds you that information vs anyone being able to post their knowledge and you choosing to view that or not.
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But.... I bought one of your books online!
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jaf2 wrote: But.... I bought one of your books online!
LOL!
You got me there.
Well, let's say you used the Internet to do that.
Or, at least you used _one_ of the good web sites to make the purchase.
I'm really ranting about the poor use of Internet technology and bad web site functionality.
For example, if you go back to the web site where you purchased my book and try to return it but the functionality doesn't work...then that is an example of good functionality.
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... software would be more expensive, and there would be fewer "developers".
"(I) am amazed to see myself here rather than there ... now rather than then".
― Blaise Pascal
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50 cent was born in 1975.
If you account for inflation, he is now 2 dollars and 34 cent! 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain
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your maths is backwards, inflation means the value of cash drops.
that 50 cents from 1975 is today now only worth [the mid 70's] equivalent of 11 cents.
you should have spent it back then.
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As long as he insists on pronouncing it "fitty", I will continue not to care about his...music creations.
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What about his crustaceans?
Are you implying he has crabs?
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Johnny J. wrote: he is now 2 dollars and 34 cent!
In my book, his value has actually decreased.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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In the Survey Voting Form, it says "Below are a list of the top 10 articles submitted last month."
What puts an article in the top 10?
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Article rating, primarily.
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject
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