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Yeah but without Play Services you are not taking advantage of the tracking and monitoring services generously foisted on you by Google. MS is not the only slurper out there!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Mycroft Holmes wrote: MS is not the only slurper out there! Sadly true.
The "big three" seem more concerned with running our lives than providing good service.
What makes google more annoying is that android is basically just a linux distro. At least apple and ms have their own products -- which may be becoming more and more worthless (the latter far more hastily than the former), but they're still built in-house.
Oh, for a flavour of linux that's had a few hundred windows developers work on it*...
* Good ones, mind. There are plenty of cr@ppy windows devs, too.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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If you buy potatoes because you have too many leeks, and leeks because you have too many potatoes, is it a Vichyssoise cycle?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Are far fetched French puns Bourgognesome?
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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You must have cabbage for brains.
Mongo: Mongo only pawn... in game of life.
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Now I know what your puns are merde of.
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That was pretty ouitty!
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Hmmm...
Anglesey eggs.
Good idea. Pass me my chef hat.
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OriginalGriff wrote: If you buy potatoes because you have too many leeks, and leeks because you have too many potatoes
... you are a f***ing idiot?
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What, so if you have too much of something, you buy more of it, rather than buy something else?
Fair enough. I'll grant that you've given a fair definition of what a f***ing idiot is.
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Still smarting about the cafe frappe eh?
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Munchies_Matt wrote: Still smarting about the cafe frappe eh? You must be, because you keep bringing it up, Mr. "I've googled, so I'm an expert!"
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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That's calling a spud a spud!
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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I'm debugging some legacy VB code to figure out why a report is crashing, and encountered this fragment of SQL code:
e.TerminalType *= f.TerminalType
The last time I encountered a left outer join specified in that way was probably 20 years ago.
Marc
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The thing I hate most about syntax like that is that if you're not familiar with it it's near impossible to google.
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F-ES Sitecore wrote: if you're not familiar with it it's near impossible to google.
It's because at that time we didn't have google... Nor internet... I think we did have colour TV though
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Mika Wendelius wrote: I think we did have colour TV though
With a remote control that was attached by a long wire
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That's why you have kids. Back then, they were the remote control.
if (Object.DividedByZero == true) { Universe.Implode(); }
Meus ratio ex fortis machina. Simplicitatis de formae ac munus. -Foothill, 2016
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Exactly, and hair metal. I remember having hair metal back then. These days it's only plain metal
modified 7-Nov-16 13:28pm.
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Pretty sure hair metal was still around about 10 years ago.
<pointless-anecdote>
When I was in high school I'd take some old PC speakers and blast it in the corridor.
One morning the French teacher who was a proper English lady asked me to turn it off because she had a headache. I didn't know what a hangover was at that age, but I'm pretty sure that was the real reason.
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Marc Clifton wrote: The last time I encountered a left outer join specified in that way was probably 20 years ago.
Makes sense. That's also about the last time VB was considered a good idea.
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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Nah - we thought it was rubbish back then too.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Hear! Hear!
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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