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This day did not start well!
I started my faithful Dell desktop and decided that I might listen to one of my favorite playlists. The music started but the volume was extremely low. Turning up the volume made very little difference. So turned up the volume to max - no difference. Checked sound settings in the Control Panel - nothing helped. Turned off the computer and moved it into a position where I could reach the back panel connectors. Unplugging and reconnecting sound connectors had no effect. At this point I was considering "mother board failure" and went to the Dell website to check the price of new desktops.
Then I noticed something that struck me like a lightning bolt: My Sony headphones were plugged into the two Bose speakers connected to my computer!! Unplugged the headphones and my sound came booming through. What a relief! All the time I was hearing the headphones, not the speakers.
This reinforces the old adage: YOU JUST CANNOT FIX STUPID.
I will now stand in the corner, donning a dunce cap, so you can all kick my behind. 
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Been there, done that! 
Now kicking your butt with my left foot and myself with the right foot.
Oh wait ...
"I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"
Ron White, Comedian
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I would pay to see that
Life's like a nose, you've got to get out of it whats in it!
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Sorry, I knocked over the camera when I hit the floor. 
"I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"
Ron White, Comedian
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You are not alone ... I tried to move objects outside the screen using my mouse and after a second realized - this won't work the cursor didn't go where I wanted ... 
Cheers,
modified 1-May-15 11:25am.
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A couple of weeks ago I was scribbling out the bones of a new procedure I needed on paper when I tried to select a couple of lines I had written with my pen so I could copy and paste them
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Did you ever hear the old joke from the 1980s:
How do you know the blonde was on your computer?
Answer: There is white-out on the monitor!
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I often give webex demonstrations and point at the screen with my finger rather than the cursor.  .
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That's a new one for me!
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I once took apart a friend's boiler, looking for the cause of its not working.
After I had spread the thousand pieces out and checked every possible fault, I noticed that the bluddy thing had been turned off at the socket.
Had a similar thing with another friend's oven. Same routine, but dirtier, to find the non-existent fault, and then twigged that the timer had been set, so it could only work from 19:00 to 19:40 each day. Try to turn it on at another time, and it would wait until 19:00.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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This following is a required post:
The answer to your question is "Practice Makes Perfect";
End of Required Post.
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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I once went to my boss telling him I needed a new monitor because mine went broke somewhere last night.
I had two and one just worked like always, but the other didn't, no matter what I tried.
So my boss came to look at the monitor.
And then he turned it on
If stupidity hurt I'd still feel that one
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woman arrested after setting gas pump fire in jerusalem[^] The world is truly a messed up place.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
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Leslie[^] agrees with you!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Doh!, note to self, must read more than the first ten posts of a thread. I'm my own defense though, the search utility would never have found it.
[edit] Kudos to the search utility! see below [/edit]
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
modified 1-May-15 10:58am.
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Um...You sure?[^]
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Damn you!!!!!
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
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Life's a bitch! 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Especially when its without cigarettes.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
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I find live without cigarettes a lot more peaceful than life with!
But then, I've seen the price of the damn things these days 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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When I quit (19 years ago) they were $3.00 USD, now they're $12. I still think about them  , then I think how much more cash I have not buying the stupid things.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
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My coworker this morning started to "take shots" at my use of the "q" object in our project.
Through some discussion I told him that I appreciated the clarity, and that angular also has the "q" model so the code would look the same on both ends. You also don't need to guess on weather or not something is goina block, etc (especially if you are new to the code type). It also allows us to implement a waiting on things that normally wouldn't.
Most importantly, all with a consistent interface. All the code base uses the same methods.
His argument was "I prefer the async in node". A great argument!
What do you think?
Elephant elephant elephant, sunshine sunshine sunshine
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I think that arguments are relevant, and preferences aren't.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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I think the end satisfies the means, whatever option can make it work best should be used... tough i would like to see a better argument than that.
Life's like a nose, you've got to get out of it whats in it!
modified 1-May-15 10:56am.
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