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If I never forget a swimming tortoise, do I have turtle recall?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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We shell sea!
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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My Cod, that was bad.
/ravi
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I can't stop imagining a three boobed turtle. Eugh. 
On a second thought: is the turtle male or female?
* CALL APOGEE, SAY AARDWOLF
* GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
* Never pay more than 20 bucks for a computer game.
* I'm a puny punmaker.
modified 21-Feb-17 11:25am.
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It's vaguely disturbing that you sailed past the notions of single-mammaried and dual-mammaried turtles without regard, and went straight for the triple.
Software Zen: delete this;
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It does mean that I don't want to see any of the movies on his hard drive. 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: his hard
How did you know? 
* CALL APOGEE, SAY AARDWOLF
* GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
* Never pay more than 20 bucks for a computer game.
* I'm a puny punmaker.
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It's just that "turtle recall" made me think of that awful movie with Ahnold Schwarzenegger and the absurd scene of the 3 breasted martian woman.
* CALL APOGEE, SAY AARDWOLF
* GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
* Never pay more than 20 bucks for a computer game.
* I'm a puny punmaker.
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I know, I was just being facetious (it's one of my superpowers).
Software Zen: delete this;
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That was tortuous tortoise tomfoolery.
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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Someone needs to pull their head in and hide - and it ain't me.
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As familiar with computers as my parents were (and still are), I would have hacked and then spied on them them. Too bad we did not have any internet back then. 
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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They were banned in Germany a few days ago[^].
I can't see any other option than to ban them; they will never be safe enough -- the cloud is no place to store such personal data from young children.
It wouldn't be a great hardship to rig a doll with an old smartphone, where you can at least take care of security matters yourself.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: I can't see any other option than to ban them; they will never be safe enough -- the cloud is no place to store such personal data from young children.
And yet we've had smartphones for a long time, and facebook. Why does anyone care about privacy when they choose to post their whole lives online and carry around a tracking device?
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: when they choose to post their whole lives online and carry around a tracking device?
I don't, and nor do other intelligent people.
And people take better care of their children than they do themselves.
Next question.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: Next question.
Why is 6 afraid of 7?
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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To the data gatherer's:
Don't worry - they won't take away their cell phones.
Or their "smart TV" - who just might be watching back.
Etc.
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I may get a new machine this year and I came across this lot^. The prices look quite good so I thought I'd share and I also wondered if anyone had used them.
veni bibi saltavi
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I don't have a feel for PC prices in the UK, but I had a look at their Intel based machines. I am convinced you could get a Dell or HP in the US with comparable performance at a considerably lower price.
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Unless you need something heavily customized, I don't see that they are such great bargains.
In Israel, you can get an i7-6700 based system with 16GB RAM, a 2TB HDD, and a DVD burner from Dell for less than UKP 1,000 (including Win10 Pro). I can't imagine that computers are that much more expensive in the UK.
EDIT: should have answered the OP 
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
modified 21-Feb-17 9:42am.
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I nearly bought one from them 18 months/2 years ago and the prices seem to have gone up massively since then. I'd shop around a bit.
Slogans aren't solutions.
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I don't see the point to buying a pre-assembled PC when it costs less than half to build it yourself.
if (Object.DividedByZero == true) { Universe.Implode(); }
Meus ratio ex fortis machina. Simplicitatis de formae ac munus. -Foothill, 2016
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