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You too may be a big hero,
Once you've learned to count backwards to zero.
"in german or in english I know how to count down,
Undt I'm learning Chinese," says wernher von braun.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Could Microsoft's love for Linux be extending into Windows 10 territory? A newly leaked session title from Microsoft's upcoming Build 2016 developer conference has us Microsoft watchers speculating. Even Microsoft realizes this is The.Year.Of.Linux!
Or maybe this is just their way of sneaking the Win10 install on Linux folk
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After months of work, the FBI finally has a way into the San Bernardino iPhone. In a court filing today, prosecutors told the court the new method for breaking into the phone is sound, and Apple's assistance is no longer required. Turns out his password was 12345 after all.
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I would imagine Apple already knows about that technique (and probably many more with different success percentage)
I'd rather be phishing!
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Not only do they most likely know about it, but probably found a way to fix it for the most part. The phone that they were trying to get into was an older model anyway.
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"Hey Frank, have you seen Dave's new ride? Yeah, it's one of those Lamborghini Veneno's."
Recently heard around a water cooler at Apples' headquarters.
"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
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Free upgrade offer lasts another four months; then Microsoft will have to decide whether to keep giving 10 away or call the deal done. One billion devices still just a little farther
Or is it further? Help me out here, Anglo-pedants
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That's a little disingenuous given that 25% of the number of Win10 installs were done last week without the system owners' active consent.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
modified 29-Mar-16 5:51am.
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Anglo-pedant to the rescue!
"Farther" should be used when talking about actual physical distance.
E.g. "Going East from here, Singapore is farther than London."
"Further" should be used for metaphorical distance or depth.
E.g. "We shouldn't take this any further; the matter is decided."
"Further" can also be used (in poor English, in my opinion) as a verb.
E.g. "Let's further this discussion tomorrow!"
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Ah, so in this case I should have used further? Thank you!
TTFN - Kent
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when to use further and farther - Google Search[^]
Quote: Farther refers to length or distance. It is the comparative form of the word far when referring to distance. Further means "to a greater degree," "additional," or "additionally." It refers to time or amount.
So you should have used "further".
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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That's for February 2015 to February 2016. If you change the graph to look at the last three days, Win10 gets 20.1%; for the last seven days, it's 18.43%; and 17.13% over the last 30 days.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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My mistake. Yes, it seems like it has shot up in the last few months
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5% are those installed it by choice...but there is an other 15% (and growing) who got it as surprise and do not know how to roll-back...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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GitHub today announced that its Atom text editor last month had more than 1 million active users. Usage is three times what it was when all of Atom become available under an open source MIT license and the software hit version 1.0, GitHub Atom community manager Lee Dohm wrote in a blog post. Emacs and vi were in the corner, laughing
And Notepad thought that was really precious
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We as humans like stories of "eureka moments" and lightning bolt inspiration much better than tales of preparation, steady work, and getting it right on attempt number 2,944, following 2,943 failed attempts. "The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!', but 'That's funny ...'"
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The figure appears in a report by Oracle's damages expert, which Google strongly contests What a coincidence, that's the figure I'm seeking too (but I don't think either of us will get it)
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$9.3 billion. pfffttt! Google made more than that from the advertising flashed up on the site while reading the article anyways. 
Google could solve this problem handily. How? Simple. Buy Oracle...
My forthcoming book, Launch Your Android App, is available for pre-sale at Amazon.com -- releases on April 1, 2016 (no joke). 
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Kent Sharkey wrote: What a coincidence, that's the figure I'm seeking too (but I don't think either of us will get it)
Me too  
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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Popular OS X and Linux BitTorrent client Transmission is coming to Windows. It’s not quite ready for prime time, but gHacks spotted the first Windows build on the official repository. But it’s already better than any other Windows BitTorrent client out there. Which you'll only use for good purposes, right?
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Quote: good purposes,
For a given value of "good".
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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