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Ha! Guess what I did last night? Installed a clean version of XP Pro on an ageing Dell laptop. Runs like a charm! True story.
/ravi
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You're not still running Windows Update? Must have a great Internet connection 
TTFN - Kent
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I am. Wiped the machine clean and installed from scratch + all updates. An oddly satisfying experience, followed by half a bag of Tostidos Rounds and spicy salsa, which really hit the spot at 2:00am. 
/ravi
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Graf built a huge, powerful “gun” in his backyard that’s capable of shooting small payloads in a suborbital trajectory. "I know what you're thinking. 'Did he fire six shots or only five?'"
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Quote: This is your opportunity to fire potentially inappropriate or amusing items into space!) Should it reach its funding goal, the cannon testing should begin in May and run through September.
Can I pre-book a flight for my ex? 
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Saddam Hussein was trying to build one to launch weapons toward other countries.
Look what happened to him!
Is Canada ready to be invaded? 
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Oh, we're safe. We don't have any... oh.
We're in trouble now.
TTFN - Kent
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Saddam wasn't successful because he had a disagreement with his chief engineer about whether the weapon should have a pointy or round nose.
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Quote: Seriously, what is freaking wrong with you guys?!? This is your opportunity to fire potentially inappropriate or amusing items into space!
Earth already full of trash?! So we start send it out to space...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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But you can't do that. You could maybe shoot an object into space (if it doesn't burn up or lose all its momentum to aerodynamic heating), but you can't end up in orbit. You have to raise your periapsis somehow.
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well spotted.
I guess you'd have to shoot up a rocket. How much payload is left now?
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And if you read the article instead of just Kent's headline, you'd've seen: "Graf’s Kickstarter campaign is intended to fund a six shot test to ensure the cannon is functioning properly. The funds will also allow him to create a motorized rocket within the cannon’s bullet to push those objects into orbit once in space" 
The size of a rocket needed to shift something from an earth intercepting parabola (or a one way deep space trajectory) into a stable orbit would be much smaller than that needed to reach orbit first. If I'm bored I might play with numbers later today after work.
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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The only visible components are the board, chips, memory card and camera. "Even the white bits were black"
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Kent Sharkey wrote: The only visible components are the board, chips, memory card and camera.
I have enough trouble finding my phone when it's solid. The last thing I want to do is try to find my transparent phone!
Marc
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The next step is fully virtual - the phone itself is in the cloud. Bliss.
Peter Wasser
Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
Frank Zappa
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Unless they have made a serious breakthrough in physics, it will have a really crappy battery time.
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Quote: January 30, 2013 1:00 PM
...may be available by the end of 2013.
Aren't we a little bit late with this one? 
"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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You know how it is when the new year hits: you're still writing the previous year on cheques? Totally works the same with news items.
TTFN - Kent
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What, 40 days not long enough for you to get used to the change of year?
"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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Has it been that long already? Damn, I should do something with that Christmas tree.
TTFN - Kent
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When critics described Windows 8.1 as a step backwards, I disagreed: Responding to customer complaints is never wrong, I argued, and the new version of the OS made it more acceptable on the many different types of PCs and devices on which Windows now runs. With Update 1, however, I'm beginning to question the validity of this new direction, and am now wondering whether Microsoft has simply fallen into an all-too-familiar trap of trying to please everyone, and creating a product that is ultimately not ideal for anyone. "It's better to burn out 'cause rust never sleeps. The king is gone, but he's not forgotten"
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Hey hey my my,
Rock and Roll will never die.
but windows might?
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No, Microsoft started with a product that is ultimately not ideal for anyone, then tried to convince us that it would please everyone.
This is how marketing works, you know.
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: This is how marketing works, you know.
And this is the company that has never been all that good at marketing. 
TTFN - Kent
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