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Oso Oluwafemi Ebenezer20-Jan-15 1:24

Oso Oluwafemi Ebenezer

20-Jan-15 1:24

RyanDev wrote:
Check ebay

Just checked! A Nigerian prince is selling a New York replica for $500 million! Wait what, that will be me! Poke tongue | ;-P

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OriginalGriff20-Jan-15 1:23

20-Jan-15 1:23

Oso Oluwafemi Ebenezer wrote:
Wish I call buy one of those cities!

Why? The commute to Nigeria every day is going to be a killer!

BTW: I'd remove the link to your company facebook site from your sig if I was you, before someone decides it's spam and starts reporting you - which it probably is...

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Oso Oluwafemi Ebenezer20-Jan-15 1:26

Oso Oluwafemi Ebenezer

20-Jan-15 1:26

OriginalGriff wrote:
which it probably is...

Is it?

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HobbyProggy20-Jan-15 1:39

HobbyProggy

20-Jan-15 1:39

Answer -> [^]

if(this.signature != "")
{
MessageBox.Show("This is my signature: " + Environment.NewLine + signature);
}
else
{
MessageBox.Show("404-Signature not found");
}

Oso Oluwafemi Ebenezer20-Jan-15 1:59

Oso Oluwafemi Ebenezer

20-Jan-15 1:59

Hmm, well said!

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PIEBALDconsult20-Jan-15 2:17

PIEBALDconsult

20-Jan-15 2:17

Spam is in the eye of the beholder.

PhilLenoir20-Jan-15 3:05

PhilLenoir

20-Jan-15 3:05

Get it out with Optrex!

Disclaimer: As I typed the above, I found myself thinking "Is this spam". I hereby refute any suggestion that I have any vested interest in the promotion of Optrex for eye irrigation or any other purpose. All enquiries should be directed to my solicitors, Sue, Grabbitt & Runne

Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.

chriselst20-Jan-15 2:06

chriselst

20-Jan-15 2:06

Why would a company make all their staff sit at ridiculously cramped desks then get rid of people so they end up with pods of empty desks then setup unused computers on the empty desks so it doesn't look like they're empty?

Purely hypothetical question, of course.

Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.

Mark_Wallace20-Jan-15 2:17

20-Jan-15 2:17

It's because:

1. There are so many billionaires (real billionaires, not penny-pinching milliardaires who call themselves billionaires, like in the US) in China who don't have a clue what to do with all their money, so they build stuff.

2. Local governments have even vaster funds to spend on trying to relieve the population expansion of existing cities (I live mainly in NL, which population is lower than that of each of the bigger Chinese cities).

The problem with both groups is that they have, so far, shown a remarkable level of inability in figuring out what people want.

I'm seriously considering visiting Thames Town on one of my next jaunts over there. It looks well cool.

I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

User 1013254620-Jan-15 2:35

User 10132546

20-Jan-15 2:35

They did the same in Spain too..

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2203278/Empty-streets-playgrounds-Spanish-ghost-town-built-property-crash.html[^]

How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.

modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.

Gawd, they know how to make me feel old...

Maximilien20-Jan-15 2:43

Maximilien

20-Jan-15 2:43

Mostly to funnel and generate corruption money thrue illegal funding and underpaid workers and crappy construction quality.

I'd rather be phishing!

OriginalGriff20-Jan-15 0:34

20-Jan-15 0:34

Comitstrip: First Computer[^]

My first was an Amstrad 1640: EGA graphics, 640K RAM, 8MHz processor, no math coprocessor (but a socket so you could add one), no HDD, but twin 5 1/2" floppies (360Kb per disk).
And that was second hand...

What was your first "real" computer? (I'm not counting Spectrums and their ilk here: if it had a cassette tape it doesn't count Laugh | :laugh:

)

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Nagy Vilmos20-Jan-15 0:41

Nagy Vilmos

20-Jan-15 0:41

My first[^] and I still have it /somewhere/

veni bibi saltavi

OriginalGriff20-Jan-15 0:52

20-Jan-15 0:52

Um..."and was meant to work with a basic audio tape recorder to save and load data"

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Mark_Wallace20-Jan-15 1:49

20-Jan-15 1:49

Bluddy right!

If you couldn't find it on tape, you had to type the damned program in!

I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

OriginalGriff20-Jan-15 2:35

20-Jan-15 2:35

Several times, if I recall correctly... Laugh | :laugh:

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Mark_Wallace20-Jan-15 1:46

20-Jan-15 1:46

I had the Speccy itself; you just had the cheap knock-off.

I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

Nagy Vilmos20-Jan-15 0:49

Nagy Vilmos

20-Jan-15 0:49

And the first PC I bought was one of these[^] babies

veni bibi saltavi

Mark_Wallace20-Jan-15 1:56

20-Jan-15 1:56

Hey, I bought the same model, as an upgrade from the Amstrad PPC640[^]!

I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

Richard Deeming20-Jan-15 0:52

Richard Deeming

20-Jan-15 0:52

OriginalGriff wrote:
if it had a cassette tape it doesn't count

Ah, so the +3 still counts[^] then? Roll eyes | :rolleyes:

"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer

OriginalGriff20-Jan-15 1:00

20-Jan-15 1:00

Barely. But yes. Damnit! Laugh | :laugh:

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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter20-Jan-15 0:59

Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter

20-Jan-15 0:59

I was expected some older module from you...
Mine was a (also used) C64 with tape and joystick (and floppy later). I got it from my father at age 12...

Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.

User 1106097920-Jan-15 1:00

User 11060979

20-Jan-15 1:00

I don't remember it exactly, it was maybe an "IBM PC XT".

But I remember very well when I bought an additional 300MB HDD. It felt like I can never fill it up Laugh | :laugh:

And soon I began to hate the 300MB when I had to backup it on 700kB diskettes with FASTBACK or something like this Java | [Coffee]

Bruno

modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.

OriginalGriff20-Jan-15 1:05

20-Jan-15 1:05

I got myself a 32MB hard drive for mine.
Cost the same as I paid for the computer (£400 then, equivalent to around £1000/$1500 in todays money)
400ms access time - so every time I read something from the disk, it would take at least half a second.
I tried backing it up, but I ran out of floppies...

And I thought it was so quick!

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