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We just had a very nice lunch in an independent cafe. Very good food and all for £25. Lots of chatting and very friendly.
Opposition is a Pret a Manger. I noticed the window seats full of Mac boyz n Galz. I put my head thru the door to be greeted by silence.
Independent and noisy every time for me.
veni bibi saltavi
modified 19-Mar-16 9:02am.
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: I put my head thru the door to be greeted by silence.
Your reputation precedes you. 
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: I put my head thru the door
Well there's your problem. Criminal damage is rarely greeted with enthusiasm!
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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That must've hurt. They probably went silent from the crashing and your screams.
Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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What a guy. Just spent the night drinking with him! I'll update with details on Monday.
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You spent the night with Frank and you are going to give us details after the weekend is over? I'm not so sure I want to hear about these details with "Frank".
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If this is a set up for a joke you'll be in trouble! I once met Ali - he punched me.
veni bibi saltavi
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: I once met Ali - he punched me.
Well, you were told three times that that roped-off area wasn't a bus stop, but you wouldn't listen!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Is there a reputation status where you also see other people's WIP articles? I have a question about one of mine.
I know there is a forum for article writing not really visited by many.
"You'd have to be a floating database guru clad in a white toga and ghandi level of sereneness to fix this goddamn clusterfuck.", BruceN[ ^]
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lw@zi wrote: I have a question about one of mine.
What is the question?
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Just posted in article writing forum[^].
"You'd have to be a floating database guru clad in a white toga and ghandi level of sereneness to fix this goddamn clusterfuck.", BruceN[ ^]
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I think I've seen someone else simply posting the link to his WIP-preview to allow others to see it.
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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Don't care: it's slooooooow ... Record for fastest data rate set[^]
1.25Tb/s
1,250,000,000,000 bits per second.
Think about it for a moment.
I get 320Mb/s between my PC and my NAS, I get 1,550Mb/s from my SSD to my HDD (I suspect write buffering here, the HDD write speed is nothing like that)
I get 40Mb/s from the internet... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Hmmm... that is quite a lot of pr0n.
Life is too shor
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I think that says a lot more about your internet connection that it does about mine...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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My Internet transfer rate is slower than yours: 30 MB/sec. I can pay $15 a month extra for a 70MB/sec connection, but I refuse to do that. 30MB/sec is good enough for me. I can even stream Netflix movies at that speed.
Whenever I get impatient with download speed, I remind myself of my first "fast" Internet connection: That was when I upgraded from a 9600 Baud modem, to a 56,000 Baud unit. And I thought that that was fast! 
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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I can only reiterate my belief that new users of the Internet should be forced to spend the first year on a 56k dial-up connection like wot we did. It might just make them think about what they really want from it instead of diving into the time-wasting shallow world of social media!
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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Why not forcing people to live in a cave with fur rags and flintstone? 
NB: I started with a 1200 baud modem
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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Why not indeed? I'm in favour of anything that rids us of this ghastly, overweening sense of entitlement that plagues us! It's high time that we were all reminded that there is a difference between a privilege and a right! Let them eat dirt!
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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Arrrrggghh! Nooooooo!
Can you imagine just how much of your bandwidth Windows 10 would steal just for updates?
And just how long to D/L Visual Studio? 3.7GB @ 56Kb s-1 is over a year...so they'd never get it finished...and couldn't ask stupid questions in QA...
You may be on to something here... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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56k?!?
Luxury!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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You're correct. It is too slow.
80% of that bandwidth will inevitably be taken up by Netflix streaming, 18% by spam and the remaining 2% will be our traffic.
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Jimmy died in Buriram, Thailand, earlier this year. ![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
I was finally able to locate someone who confirmed he had passed.
I had been in touch with him from time to time after he shared with me in mid-2014 that he had lung cancer. I last heard from him in November, at which point he told me the cancer was now at Stage 4, and it was clear there was no treatment possible, and that he anticipated dying in a month or two:
"I know approximately when I will die and am amazed at the things I think about knowing the end is near."
He is survived by wife, Pu; they do not have children. I do not know much about Jimmy's life., or whether he has any children. Our e-mail contacts were infrequent, and mainly about technical things and expat life, and our experiences with cancer.
yours, Bill
«The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you.» Soren Kierkegaard
modified 21-Mar-16 4:59am.
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for Jimmy and his family
BillWoodruff wrote: and our experiences with cancer
so far, and hopefully it continues to be so for a long time, you're doing better than poor Jimmy
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