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Let me get my bathrobe...
Quote: Oh no, my young Jedi. You will find that it is you who are mistaken, about a great many things.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Your colleague has a 10% chance of being right. Not overly great odds, but I've seen worse.
"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." - James D. Miles
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A millennial who checked this info on his iFone.*
* you do realize that this post is on the internet. If it's correct than all the other posts in the are wrong.
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I don't believe a word you just said
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Sorry? Which word was that?
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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I think I would agree with your colleague... in a way. But I would have to translate the statement to it's real meaning first...
90% is a pretty common go-to number when you are trying to say "a lot of" in percentage form. Give it a try and run a few fake conversations through your mind. If you want to say a lot, you will probably pick 90% (or maybe 99% if you REALLY want to emphasis a lot). So we easily translate that to "a lot".
Then take "the internet", in general conversation people are not really referring to the exact definition of the internet in terms of "a global system of interconnected computer networks" (wiki steal). Most the time we just mean "the stuff we do online". For example, reading news, or socialising in forums, etc. But it varies from person to person. One person might be a Facebook fanatic, another only reads articles on trusted news sites. So "the internet" can mean different things to different people.
So I think what is really being said is:
A lot of the stuff I see on the internet is wrong
...and to that I would have to agree. There is so much crap that people make up and post as facts, and people just believe it. Social media has brought us a world where people can say whatever they want, and not have to provide proof that it is real. It doesn't matter that 10% (a few) of people call them out on it, because the 90% (a lot) of people that believe it is a pretty good result.
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Forogar wrote: 90% of everything on the Internet is wrong porn.
FTFY.
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Here is another fact for you: 68% of online statistics are made on the spot!
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90%[^] of all adages are wrong.
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...between today's smaller "SUV"s and hatchbacks?
for sure the latter certainly came with much better music
Also worth ranting:
1. how do today's SUV's actually do the "S"?
-- Most cant unless you want to count carrying a football or frisbie in the hatch.
2. isn't every vehicle effectively able to do "U"?
-- (the Top Gear ...vomit, sorry... Grand Tour cast proved that many times.)
3. and why not?[^]
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I'd say a few pieces of plastic, a couple of inches in height and a few miles per gallon.
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Yes, well "they"'ve stared calling cross-overs SUVs and we must not let them do that.
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Quote: we must not let them do that. The fact is "they" can do what they like. The only risk they take is that no-one will buy them.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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What get's me about these micro SUVs etc is the AWD systems on them... my thumb is larger than the majority of their rear axles.
Maybe I should just put some air shocks on a Pinto station wagon
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Today's witty comment on this in the daily news was:
By returning the results from another search engine?
True story, Microsoft used to do this back in tha day. Google caught them by injecting some fake results into their search results and sure enough those fake results were turning up in Bing!
Funny stuff. Speaking of search engines, what does everyone use? I use Google just cuz I'm conditioned to. Who has the best search results these days?
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I'm partial to DuckDuckGo.
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+1
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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I'm partial to DuckDuck, but roasted.
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The WebCrawler.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Fever905 wrote: Google caught them by injecting some fake results into their search results and sure enough those fake results were turning up in Bing!
Not exactly a new idea:
Trap street - Wikipedia[^]
Fever905 wrote: Speaking of search engines, what does everyone use?
Another vote for DuckDuckGo.
"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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Fever905 wrote: Who has the best search results these days? The one that finds what you are looking for.
"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." - James D. Miles
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AltaVista
jk, I Bing it.
Side note, If MS is using Google, how come the results are returned more quickly? I would think it would be slower with two parties tracking your every step.
“The palest ink is better than the best memory.” - Chinese Proverb
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I haven't checked this recently, but years ago, when I was searching for something in MSDN, the search engine never returned anything relevant to my question. Switch to Google, ask the same question, and it would instantly return the correct document in MSDN! Is this still the case, or have they learned how to perform a search since then?
Will Rogers never met me.
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I like to keep my systems drive neat and uncluttered, partly because I take an image of the drive from time to time as a backup. (I don't use System Restore.) In order to achieve this:
1. I keep my data on a separate internal drive (D:\).
2. I redirect temporary files to a folder on the data drive.
3. I don't use System Restore. It is not 100% reliable and the shadow copies take too much space.
4. Hibernation is turned off. In my case it is unnecessary and takes up too much disk space.
5. I run Ccleaner on a daily basis to get rid of cookies and other junk left behind by Edge.
6. I run Disk Cleanup regularly on the systems drive.
7. Whenever there is an update on Windows, I get rid of the files from the previous version on the systems drive.
And yet:
I like to do a new clean install of Windows and all apps about once a year. I did one three days ago. I cleaned the systems disk, repartitioned it and installed Windows 10 version 1909 - the same version that was running just before the clean install. I installed the exact same applications that I had running previously. When all was done and everything restored to the same state as previously, the systems drive had 24 GB more free space than it did before the clean install.
I have noticed before that disk space is slowly eroded over time for no apparent reason. What is eating the free disk space?
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Leprechauns. Since Millennials never look up from their mobiles, no-one is chasing rainbows to get their pots of gold - so they have been retrained as byte eaters. Individually they don't eat much, but as the breed inside your SSD the group consumes more and more. Think yourself lucky you don't have Banshees - they eat used space as well as free.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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