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If events are out of your control, should you drink red wine? After all, Que Syrah Syrah!
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I am very grapeful for that remark.
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If you think this will boozt your rep, you're grapely mistaken. One more of these - and you are toast!
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... such stuff as dreams are made on
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At yeast he's trying...
In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem. ~ Ronald Reagan
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Quit yer wineing
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Have you considered the malternatives? Are we that unbeerable?
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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One merlot blow like that and you must be dregged outa' here.
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Dammit, now I got a tune stuck in my head, turned out to be a Doris Day today.
Sin tack ear lol
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Might be best to mull it over first.
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The aging cuvaison of riddling, tempered with Baumé, leaves yet the astringent aftertaste of crust, and it's our fault, for we engaged in a free run of the mental look of the MOG posted by our parody sommelier. 
Wine Terms & Wine Lingo[^]
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Whatever will Beer, will Beer!
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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How can they be so big when everyone calls them Microsoft?
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Because when they aren't soft they get bigger ...
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That's a hard one.
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
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It's a long story.
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With a painful ending.
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
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I greatly fear you're doing it wrong.
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Kinda like why can't women be carpenters? (Hold fingers 2 inches apart) because they've been taught that this is 6 inches!
Got my coat and on my way out
New version: WinHeist Version 2.2.2 Beta I told my psychiatrist that I was hearing voices in my head. He said you don't have a psychiatrist!
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The micro part is their thought processes,
that's why they both count up weird 7, 8, 8.1, 10 ...
and at the same time even though the hardware improves their own products go backwards
Sin tack ear lol
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Lopatir wrote: 7, 8, 8.1, 10 ...
That's a slightly more logical sequence than 6.0*, 6.5, 7.0, 2000, 2005, 2008, 2008R2, 2012 etc., and as for the X-Box version numbers ...
*Had a long wait for the page lock to clear when I typed that one!
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Lopatir wrote: their own products go backwards
What's incredible is they are still the best in the world. 
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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RyanDev wrote: What's incredible is they are still the best in the world
Well not really, just like beatmax was better than vhs, the better one didn't win.
On computers: unix/bsd could do a lot more on a lot less hardware than windows (already had true multi-processing/better disk management, better memory management in the 80's - saw a ms exec demo win2k claiming 'multi-processing was a brand new invention' when unix for instance had it on a 8kb PDP 10 years earlier), cp/m's 8080/z80 was a better cpu than apples 6502 but apple set the first PC benchmark
... marketing, catching the market right place/right time...
Don't not confuse "most popular" with "best."
ms is OK but still far from "the best," it's only the most popular and most over-hyped.
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Who has better software products than MS?
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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UNIX was seriously hampered by proprietary versions with SCO, IBM, HP and everyone all going their own merry way.
Yes, it was, in a great many ways, a far superior OS especially when it came to handling multiple users but all the big players were so obsessed with the server/dumb-terminal marketplace where they were already kings that they didn't pay any attention to the rapidly rising PC market.
At the same time Microsoft, as leaders in PC-land, were thinking "why can't we extend our OS to server platforms?" When they did, it was the natural way for many to go - they were familiar with Windows and it became a fairly natural choice for what was by then an increasingly a server/PC based world.
In many ways, Microsoft's success was simply brought about by the failure of others to seize the day. They were broadcasting in glorious technicolor while everyone else was happy to stick with black and white.
And it would be wrong to disregard the fact that a fair portion of their success actually is based on quality products. SQLServer is way better than the alternatives; Office has generally been up there amongst the better products; .NET has an awful lot going for it and IIS is solid. There may have been some cruddy things along the way (I hate COM with a passion and there are two or three versions of Windows that should never have seen the light of day) but how many companies get it right every single time?
Sure, they started with a huge stroke of luck and have maybe had a fair bit along the way, but luck alone doesn't keep you on top for too long. Richie Benaud, the late, great Aussie cricketer summed it up beautifully when he said "captaincy is 90% luck and 10% skill - but don't try it without the 10% skill" as did Gary Player when he said "the more I practice, the luckier I get."
Slogans aren't solutions.
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