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I think he's been hanging around the local cafes too long.
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derek9999 wrote: local cafes
In Amsterdam? If he's been seeing good-looking women everywhere it isn't the cafes he's been visiting 
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It must have been the other local facilities then. Oh, hang on...
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Trailer[^]
Looks good to me.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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I've been getting pretty tired of all the zombie stuff, but this looks really good and seems to have a different feel to it.
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde
Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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I was in Glasgow when they were filming there - the opening scenes in the trailer were filmed there (it's the George Square area if anyone's interested).
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That explains the Glasgow Effect!
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I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
CCC Link[ ^]
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I just really hope that wasn't all the good bits!
If you get an email telling you that you can catch Swine Flu from tinned pork then just delete it. It's Spam.
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The movie is everything in the trailer plus 2.5 hours of scenes with zombies being shot in the head. Oops, maybe i should have said that would be a spoiler alert.
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Damnit! Just like all the other hollywood trailers then...
If you get an email telling you that you can catch Swine Flu from tinned pork then just delete it. It's Spam.
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So that's what it's going to look like?
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It is quite weird seeing familiar streets with totally unfamiliar skyscrapers and bridges in the background.
Zombies are quite normal however.
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I just received a call from our hardware suppliers.
[Previously on Stargate]
One of the Site Bods wants a new laptop so I said I would organise it.
However...It turns out that the regular suppliers only have W8 machines will charge about £50 more for it than previously (even though W8 is cheaper!).
I complain and said that there is no way we are having an 8 in this company and that if they want a sale they better jolly well obtain a 7 and get it to us pronto or there will be a word or two said, and probably a damn good thrashing.
So, returning to the phone call.
"We have been searching around and managed to get a W7 machine for you, it will be there by about 4.00pm today.
Sorry for that but everyone is trying to sell the new stuff via the trade, the old stuff is just being levered out the back doors.
I have a friend who got hold of one so don't worry, but any future machines will be 8's"
No they elephanting won't be!
Whatever happened to "Customer is King?"
If they want our money they should damn well do as they are told.
</righteous indignation>
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I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
CCC Link[ ^]
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Time to find a new supplier. Hey, even Microsoft is still supporting Windows 7. 
Chris Meech
I am Canadian. [heard in a local bar]
In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. [Yogi Berra]
posting about Crystal Reports here is like discussing gay marriage on a catholic church’s website.[Nishant Sivakumar]
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Yep, new supplier if they cannot get us what we want to pay for.
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I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
CCC Link[ ^]
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I'm sure the loss of the one system you buy of them every 6 months, will really hurt them.
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It's the principle that counts.
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So far this year we have had three laptops, a desktop, an external HDD, several memory sticks and about £3000 worth of printer cartridges.
Do you think it hurts if we left?
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I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
CCC Link[ ^]
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No.
I would have thought that is small fry, I can't see them stocking Win7 machines just for you. I work for a MNC we have 2,500 employees every time someone new starts they get a top of the range brand new system(I think we pay £2,500 a laptop).
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Each Windows licence includes the right to downgrade to the previous version, so you could quite easily install Win 7 on any Win 8 machine
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Transvestites - Roberts in Disguise!
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Chris Quinn wrote: Each Windows licence includes the right to downgrade to the previous version
I don't recall seeing that in the first version. 
Chris Meech
I am Canadian. [heard in a local bar]
In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. [Yogi Berra]
posting about Crystal Reports here is like discussing gay marriage on a catholic church’s website.[Nishant Sivakumar]
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W8 Woes?
Isn't that where Jonathan Ross goes shopping?
"I do not have to forgive my enemies, I have had them all shot." — Ramón Maria Narváez (1800-68).
"I don't need to shoot my enemies, I don't have any." - Me (2012).
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Bravo.
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
Shed Petition[ ^]
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Post of the Day.
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My dad is having a lot of eye problems and he had to get a light sorted out on the landing - above the stairs - and dear Mother sensibly vetoed him climbing a ladder. So he calls me to go over and change the light bulb.
30 seconds to change the light bulb and two hours in the pub afterwards to say thank-you.
Dad's are bad. Real bad. ![Beer | [beer]](/script/Forums/Images/beer.gif)
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.
Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H
OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre
I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer
Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett
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When he wants the Christmas Tree Lights done, I will join you and also notify the Liver Transplant Ward.
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I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
CCC Link[ ^]
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Dalek Dave wrote: When he wants the Christmas Tree Lights done
Normally around 6:30 on the evening of 24th December.
This year, they're coming to us on the 24th for Hungarian Style Thang and then we go to them for Traditional English Yule. Double doubles all round!
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.
Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H
OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre
I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer
Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: had to get a light sorted out on the landing
What a coincidence!
I left the landing light on all last night...
Woke up this morning and there was a 747 in the bedroom!
Boom, as they say, tish.
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So I was reading last night how good Jelly Bean 4.2 was, and I checked, I had 4.1. Moments later, I was prompted and my tablet updated to 4.2. It's very sweet, I can have multiple user accounts ( for example, we all play Words and Scramble, and each account will have a different person logged in ), and the front page just gets more and more useful. My take is that the Windows tablet will win with business users wanting to run office, iPads for the unwashed masses, and Android for geeks. Anyone disagree ?
Christian Graus
Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista.
Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
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Windows tablets are too expensive and the OS is power hungry, and the APIs for tables, phones and PCs is not compatible. Windows tables are doomed.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: Windows tables are doomed
I agree. Nice in the Summer but it gets cold when you sit there in the Winter. We've moved our table to a more central location.
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There's a tablet coming soon that runs full Windows 8. I think that will be compelling for business users.
Christian Graus
Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista.
Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
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Well, unless you're talking about desktop application development, which won't work on Windows RT, Windows 8 PC and tablet development is *exactly* the same -- Windows Store apps will run on both Win 8 and Win RT, if compiled that way. I know this because I'm developing one right now in my spare time. I'm developing it on my Windows 8 PC and testing it on both that PC and my Surface tablet running Windows RT. I *would* like to see the ability to develop for all three screens at once, but can already develop for two.
My RT tablet has enough battery life to get me through the day. Granted, I don't get to do much with it during the work day (since I'm working - well, except when I'm jacking around here on CP) but I make up for that in the evenings even when I'm not doing the dev/test/fix cycle.
As to price, the Surface is no more expensive than the iPad with the same amount of storage and it includes the ability to add removable storage in the form of microSDXC and USB. And that price includes a keyboard, unlike the iPad. I think we're going to see some truly cool hardware come out and the OEM hardware market will compete to bring prices down, just like the PC market already does.
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Christian Graus wrote: My take is that the Windows tablet will win with business users wanting to run office, iPads for the unwashed masses, and Android for geeks.
In my opinion: iPads for the rich unwashed masses, Android for the poor unwashed masses and Windows tablets for .NET programmers who are trying to do tablet development with their favorite tools.
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Well, the Android one is *better* ( I have both, and I've used the iPad a LOT more, but the Android is just winning me at every turn ). But, it has less content right now ( for example, the magazine store has less, and the content is more vanilla )
Christian Graus
Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista.
Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
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Christian Graus wrote: Well, the Android one is *better*
You mean Nexus 7 is better than iPad? I don't own either, but according to my coworker who owns a Nexus, even iPad mini is far better and the full iPad with Retina is entirely different class.
My own experience with Android devices is pretty 
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Yes, I've read a lot that says that the new OS was a major leap forward and the first to compete with Apple. I am talking about the whole environment, not something as trivial as how many pixels it has, although my Nexus 7 looks at least as nice as my iPad. The software is what defines the experience, not the physical device. I don't know if a mini has fundamentally different software on it, but that would seem odd to me.
Christian Graus
Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista.
Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
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I was trying to think who does not have an iPad. Everyone at my work has one. Everyone of my close friends have it. The only people who don't have it are hard core Microsoft loyalists who were waiting for surface. The future of Surface looks a little bleak to me.
Nexus 7 is my favorite - best value for money.
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Agreed - and I think it's cheap enough and cool enough for people who have an iPad to come on board, esp over time.
Christian Graus
Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista.
Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
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Rama Krishna Vavilala wrote: I was trying to think who does not have an iPad. Everyone at my work has one. Everyone of my close friends have it. The only people who don't have it are hard core Microsoft loyalists who were waiting for surface.
I do not own an iPad and I am not waiting on Surface. I, sir, have my priorities in order.
"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
"Show me a community that obeys the Ten Commandments and I'll show you a less crowded prison system." - Anonymous
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I not only do not have an iPad, nor am waiting to get a Surface, I do not own a mobile device. Think about this. If 30 years ago, any government had mandated that everyone in the population would now have to wear an identifying moniker around their neck, so that they could be tracked or traced at a moments notice, there would have been a rather large uproar about that. Instead, cell-phones were invented and seemingly everyone has gone out and purchased one.
Chris Meech
I am Canadian. [heard in a local bar]
In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. [Yogi Berra]
posting about Crystal Reports here is like discussing gay marriage on a catholic church’s website.[Nishant Sivakumar]
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No ipad here. So you can draw one line on your tote board. Or is there an app for that?
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Am going to send you a list of my favorite Android utilities (all free) later today.
/ravi
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Thanks, that would be awesome
Christian Graus
Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista.
Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
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Bad Facial Hair[^]
These are the faces of criminals with bad facial hair.
But one is missing.
Where is Merv Hughes?
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I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
CCC Link[ ^]
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#3 Didn't know y'all had Hobbits wandering around?
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Y'all surely?
These are US mugshots.
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I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
CCC Link[ ^]
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As far as the last image goes, you wouldn't know if they didn't tell you.
[I don't want to spoil this for those who haven't seen it yet.
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.
Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H
OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre
I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer
Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett
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