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Quote: Scientists do not yet understand why these giants of the skies died out.
Because they tasted delicious covered in batter and deep fried?
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging 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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Went to Werchter to see the Metallica By Request tour. Those old geezers can still get the crowd going. 
So what happened on Codeproject apart from the obvious failed attempts of certain mice to take of the world?
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We had a vote and banned single letter usernames - how did you get through? 
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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OriginalGriff wrote: how did you get through?
I dot my V's! 
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They are also done talking about World Cup. 
Don't mind those people who say you're not HOT. At least you know you're COOL.
I'm not afraid of falling, I'm afraid of the sudden stop at the end of the fall! - Richard Andrew x64
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Love is the feeling which can be felt when it comes or lost. For the reason of love we walk towards anyone. When we love anyone from the bottom of our heart we give everything of our self instead of asking. Love is nothing but the greatest gift in the whole world. We cannot define love specific. When we feel love we feel most alive. Love is what make you perceive things and help you express your emotions. . Send Valentine's Day Flowers to USA and express your love by sweet way with this gift.
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This group doesn't plan that far ahead.
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A month or so ago my fridge failed - just stopped cooling enough to be safe, with the evaporator fan not turning on. I threw out all the soon-to-be-spoiled food and tore into the thing looking for something that was broken. Not only did I not find anything, the silly thing started working again. I gave it a good cleaning, chased away the dust bunnies, reassembled it and decided to watch and see for a while. It didn't fail again for weeks, so I gradually restocked it and figured it was a fluke.
I spent most of last week off work, taking some long needed vacation time, enjoying the holiday and fireworks across the Colorado River, thinking not a thing about the fridge, since the problem ceased to exist as if by magic. This morning I was due back to work bright and early, and I plan to make spaghetti for the office this week, so I opened the fridge to grab all the fixin's and found that the damned thing failed again!!!
Oh, the frozen stuff was still frozen, and the freezer compartment was mostly okay, but the refrigerator section was far too warm for safety. I toddled off to work, unable to do anything about the problem today. Of course, upon arriving I found absolute mayhem - the usual result of taking a few days off. The power had failed, our solar power system ceased generating power, the emergency generator never started, and the main network switch for all our computing systems was dark - permanently fried. We had a little monsoon storm activity while I was away, it seems...
Anyway, after getting things sorted out at work I was fit to be tied, all benefits of a short vacation erased in a single day. I did some searching for refrigerators and it turned out that Lowes has a great sale on appliances going on! Having spent my pay on bills and food to stock the fridge, I had only my NRA credit card available - something I hate to use, but I'm glad to have available for emergencies. I found a nice little basic fridge I can afford on sale for <$500, and in stock at my local store, so I bought it. After work I picked it up and brought it home.
The beast outweighs me by quite a bit, but I got it out of the truck safely. With much scientific cleverness and leverage (thank you, Archimedes), I was able to get the thing onto a hand truck and dragged to the kitchen door. Oops; the door is 1" too narrow for it to fit. So, off the porch, onto the rain softened dirt in the yard for a grueling drag around the house to another, wider door... I eventually got the box inside the house and reasonably close to its destination. Mind you, it hasn't helped that all this while it's 113 F, overcast, and about 50% humidity. It has taken several 'sips' of scotch to get this far.
Once the packaging was removed I noticed something important. The wall-hung cabinets in the kitchen wrap around the fridge location, and the new fridge is 4" taller than the hole available for it. 
I did the only thing a real man could reasonably do under the circumstances. I ripped the cabinets off the wall and tossed them in the yard. Only a wuss would call the store and ask about returning the item in exchange for something a little smaller. I've always hated those cabinets, anyway, and I've been planning to design and build better ones for a couple of years.
The new fridge is humming along nicely and cooling down faster than I expected. As soon as the freezer compartment is down to 32 F, I'll move the frozen stuff over. I'll have to sort through the other stuff to see which is likely dangerous to keep, and which is safe to transfer to the new box. Sheesh...
Will Rogers never met me.
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It's a PITA getting new appliances, isn't it?
Last time I bought a new cooker / stove it was two inches wider than the old - not a problem, I'll just have to move one unit over two inches...
Why do people not tile under units? And when you tile a floor, and you use partial tiles so you don't have to tile under a single narrow unit, could you please get "spares" or buy tiles that will stay on sale for a few years?
A nice simple job takes a week to do if you don't...
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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I think rather than loose the cabinet space, I would have cut a notch out of them in the short term, and framed them round the fridge!
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That was my first thought, but the gap was too large.
Will Rogers never met me.
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Quote: I threw out all the soon-to-be-spoiled food
A real man would have eaten all that food.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Since the fridge wasn't working, you obviously had no cold beer available - the only recourse would be to go to a pub.
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Fortunately, I had plenty of scotch available, else I would have been doomed.
Will Rogers never met me.
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A true developer - always have a backup.
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And here I was thinking "chainsaw" when you said the new 'fridge wouldn't fit.
Your story reminds me of a time I helped a friend get an old refrigerator out of a basement. The basement steps had been replaced and the doorway modified since the refrigerator had been placed downstairs. It took us a couple hours, a couple 'come-along's, and partial disassembly of the doorway to get the thing out.
Software Zen: delete this;
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You lost me at "fridge". I'm not reading all that. Keep it light, keep it bright, keep it gay.
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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(buying in Canada/Québec)
GF is looking for a laptop; basic, usable laptop for mostly Office work; she already have a iPad for "entertainment".
All the tablets we looked at were running windows 8(.1) and some of them have tactile displays (useful ?)
I have to admit, I was completely lost at the stores today looking at the different lower-end CPUs!!
What is the lowest CPU I need to look at ? i3 or i5 ? what are the equivalent AMD cpus (Quad-Core A4-5000?) ?
I assume I need 8gig ram for Win8.1; HD size/speed is not really an issue.
Portability and battery life is not an issue.
The ACER Aspire series seems to be getting nice reviews in the $500-$600 price range.
The Lenovo Flexpad is also getting nice reviews.
Thanks.
Max.
I'd rather be phishing!
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If portability is not required, you will get more bang for your buck with a desktop... 
As with everything, set your budget then get the most ram, biggest HDD and fastest processor you can with your money!!
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I would set the budget then go for the best you can get for that amount. I'd hate to try and spec a machine at the low end, the variations are mind boggling. I would assume that EVERY laptop you could buy will do the minimum you are asking for.
We bought one a few years ago, a net book I think they were called, it did everything we were after and was light and easily portable. It was only ever used for travel as we use a tricked up desktop at home. We then got a laptop that I could use for development, just. Total waste of money, it only ever gets used for email and browsing.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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My wife likes her Lenovo Yoga thingy (Windows 8.1)
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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I'd go for the i5 and the bigger size ram. Then I would try to get one of those SSD drives (if budget still allows) and just buy a robust USB drive for my data.
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Send in Oscar!
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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Well, we all know us aussies like to get legless, so he'll fit right in. With the trial coming to an end, he may even be afforded the status that should make him a quasi local - legless criminal.. (I'll get my hat)
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