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OOPS! Wild mouse click for next page. I did not intend to mark this as Abuse. Please could one of the moderators please undo my mistake. Thanks.
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New Scientist on-line: [^]
"When a doctor declares a person dead, some of their body may still be alive and kicking – at least for a day or two. New evidence in animals suggests that many genes go on working for up to 48 hours after the lights have gone out.
This hustle and bustle has been seen in mice and zebrafish, but there are hints that genes are also active for some time in deceased humans. This discovery could have implications for the safety of organ transplants as well as help pathologists pinpoint a time of death more precisely, perhaps to within minutes of the event." If your mouse, or zebrafish, has just died, please refrain from playing heavy-metal, rap, punk, hip-hop, etc., music for 48 hours in respect.
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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BillWoodruff wrote: mouse ... punk
Have you been watching "Rock And Roll High School" again?
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Hi Piebald, I'm sorry to say I have not seen that flick; did I miss much ? However, if you watched "Animal House" and "American Graffiti" back-to-back, you'd get close to some of my high-school, and early college, experiences. But, my generation (high-school class of '61) was not "under the shadows" of the Vietnam war, and other major cultural dislocations (school de-segregation, counter-culture, drug use), that those two movies, set a few years later, kind-of anticipate, or dance around.
Did we have rock-and-roll; well, how about Bo Diddley, Buddy Holly, Roy Orbison, Ike and Tina Turner, Gene Vincent, and, of course, Elvis, and Ray Charles, and The Platters, Clovers, Coasters, Drifters ? The first time I heard the Ramones (which was the last so-called punk-rock music I ever listened to), I thought: "well, white boys sure can't do Bo Diddley" 
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
modified 22-Jun-16 4:23am.
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Once again I find myself in the position of needing to call BS on a blog post and deconstruct it: Yes, it is possible to be a good .NET developer, and here’s why. The state of .NET development (and developers), volume far too many
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The original blog post was full of 'I know better than everyone else and my word is law'.
People like that make me want to scream.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!
Mr. Ashton needs to pull his head out of his arse and look at the bigger picture.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Brisingr Aerowing wrote: Mr. Ashton needs to pull his head out of his arse and look at the bigger picture.
Yep! I found myself agreeing with the comment that asked whether such a godawful post really required such a good quality rebuttal.
I had to look up "derpy" which seems to be Ashton's favourite word - apparently it comes from My Little Pony. 'Nuff said!
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It's a variant on 'derp', said by a person when they make a rather stupid mistake or miss something obvious.
Honestly I don't use it much, although I have had places where it was needed.
I was at a friend's house, and his little sister was watching MLP, and ended up getting rather confused by the rather disjointed plot line, and then wanted to do something else. The show didn't make sense at all, although that station later stated that their equipment had malfunctioned and was sending parts of shows in a random order. I wonder how that happened.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Brisingr Aerowing wrote: It's a variant on 'derp', said by a person when they make a rather stupid mistake or miss something obvious.
I can honestly say that I've never used that word or any variant thereof not have I ever heard anyone else say it!
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It's common on a number of forums, usually ones related to gaming.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Brisingr Aerowing wrote: usually ones related to gaming
Ah, so 10 year olds or middle aged men living in their mother's basement
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If you're sick of using vacuum cleaners, dishwashers, and washing machines, OpenAI's plans for a robot to take care of the housework could be good news. The Jetsons was not a documentary, Elon
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It is obvious that Musk didn't clean any houses in the last few decades...The cleaning process needs no brain!!!
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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Today's workforce expects technology--like video conferencing tools--to be cutting edge. The best enterprises will stay ahead of the curve and deliver. Microsoft thinks it has a plan that will help. You mean like the ones where it takes 15 minutes to hook Windows up to the projector?
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That's why the word 'thinks' is in there.
"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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Kent Sharkey wrote: Microsoft: Better meetings require better technology
Are they going to replace my management chain with robots?
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Ummmm. Are they planning to "abandon" Skype.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: takes 15 minutes to hook Windows up to the projector
Gimme the model - I will buy any day a projector can be connected from Windows under 30 minutes and 120 curses...
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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The best meeting is not to have a meeting at all. That requires no technology.
Conversely, I have only once encountered a company that actually has video conferencing services and decent hardware to capture voice. Even the satellite manufacturer company that I've worked for, whose slogan is "connecting people all over the world" (or something like that), is in the stone ages when it comes to remote work and video conferencing.
Marc
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On Tuesday, Amazon began announcing settlement payments to customers who bought e-books between April 2010 and May 2012. According to my spam folder, I'm a millionaire many times over!
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The thing about amazon credit is that you have to print it out before you want wipe your backside with it.
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A recent Canonical announcement about Linux packaging shows how the press gives a pass to open source proclamations, no matter how unbelievable I believe it
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The press also believe that windows 10 is not a virus  
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Oh lovely.
Ars Technica[^] - one of my favorite sources for no BS tech reporting - pointed out that flatpack is only one of two new packaging tools and predicted a rerun of rpm vs deb; but missed the gross overstatement of support and attempted vendor lockin that canonical was trying for. One of their commentators managed to capture the ultimate issue far better than I could:
Danrarb commented:
Linux choice. The cause of and solution to all of its problems.
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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A new compiler for analog computers has been developed, a program that translates between high-level instructions written in a language intelligible to humans and the low-level specifications of circuit connections in an analog computer. The work could help pave the way to highly efficient, highly accurate analog simulations of entire organs. For when 1s and 0s just aren't enough
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