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Chapter 11 doesn't mean the end of the company. It's a legal mechanism under which a company that's in financial difficulty can recover. The airlines and the automotive industry have been doing it regularly for years. On a smaller scale, the company I work for did it three years ago.
It's traumatic for the employees, customers, and creditors involved, but it's better than the Chapter 7 alternative: break the company up and sell off the parts. In that case the employees rarely get any kind of separation package, customers are left in the lurch for support, and the creditors get pennies on the dollar, if that.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Apparently Sprint is looking to buy Radio Shack, or at least thinking about it. The Shack would probably turn from what it has historically been to just another place hawking cell phones (not that it doesn't already). Strange that a somewhat failing cell phone company is looking to buy a failing electronics chain.
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The last time I went into our local Radio Shack, a couple of years ago, it seemed like all they had to sell were cell phones and cheesy knockoff electronic toys. They had a little bit in the way of home audio/video cabling stuff. There wasn't much in the way of hobbyist electronics supplies.
<OldFartMoment>
I remember getting the new Radio Shack catalog every year and drooling over the goodies  .
</OldFartMoment>
Software Zen: delete this;
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Online stores will gradually replace all traditional ones except groceries.
TOMZ_KV
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Tomz_KV wrote: except groceries.
Amazon[^] begs to differ with that remark.
(I know. Really, Amazon?)
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
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The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
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Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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On a beautiful summer's day, two English tourists were driving through Wales.
At Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch, they stopped for lunch, and one of the tourists asked the waitress "Before we order, I wonder if you could settle an argument for us".
Can you pronounce where we are, very, very, very slowly?"
The girl leaned over and said "Burrr-Gurrr-King"
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I was taught how to pronounce that by someone Welsh many sheep moons ago. It is one of those utterly useless skills that people possess. 
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Being Welsh is a skill? Well I suppose there's all the phlegm to contend with.
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I guess it's the staying part that makes people despair. 
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I have never had trouble pronouncing Burger King. 
Mongo: Mongo only pawn... in game of life.
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Wow! Didn't know that was the actual name of a place. 
I believe PsuedoGriff lives in Ystradgynlais - something that I can't pronounce in the first attempt. So I think you could have used that in the joke just fine. 
Your time will come, if you let it be right.
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This one occurred for my client:
This object file does not define any previously undefined public symbols, so it will not be used by any link operation that consumes this library (LNK4221)
I thought it amusing because of the triple negative: does not / undefined / will not.
Then I got to poke around and looked up the last of the fatal compiler errors, C1905:
Front end and back end not compatible
Yeah, I've experienced that. 
Marc
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I got the following error using a third-party collection once:
"Fatal rear-end insertion malfunction"
(I was getting an item from the collection)
Also (From a physics simulator):
"Fatal: double penetration == NaN!"
There are a lot of bizarre errors out there.
From Windows 8.1 Update 1 (Right after logging in):
"Fatal Error: Sh*t on a shingle!"
(Don't ask. I don't know.)
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
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The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
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Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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"All of the public symbols in this object file have been previously defined, so this object file will not be used by any link operation that includes this library."
Karnaugh maps to the grammatical rescue.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Marc Clifton wrote: Yeah, I've experienced that.
Personally?
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."
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We won't go there. 
Marc
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1998 called, they want their BSOD jokes back (...etc)
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As we read yesterday, Microsoft has open-sourced CoreCLR on Linux.
it can run Windows Console application.
I wonder when we can run full Windows Form Application? I have a Window Application and waiting for this opportunity.
diligent hands rule....
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It was already possible for some time.
Download Mono.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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But how easy to build installer and deploy to client machines?
diligent hands rule....
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So, the great innovation of CoreCLR is the installer?
Linux is a different beast then Windows, and some things will be different, regardless of your installer. AFAIK, the installer is also not part of a programming-language, runtime or framework.
Even if you use "Path.Combine" to build a path to a text-file (so you get the correct separators) instead of hardcoding to some "C:\Program Files\MyStuff.txt", you'd still have to account for a different newline in a text-file.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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if I remember corretly, to deploy .NET application on client machine, it needs some DLLs from Mono to be deployed too. If CoreCLR resolves these extra DLLs, the deployment will be simpler.
diligent hands rule....
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Mono comes with a runtime that needs be installed.
CoreCLR will come with a runtime that needs be installed.
.NET on Windows even needs assemblies to be installed on the target machine - the entire framework, and all other stuff you reference.
And yes, there are some distros that will already contain Mono when installed. I doubt that will be true yet for CoreCLR.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: Download Mono.
I thought Mono relied on Wine. Even a simple TreeView didn't work right in Wine. I'll take a look though.
Marc
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