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If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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On their 404 page, look at the title...
http://www.google.com/glass/start/how-it-feels/[^]
I think most of us have a mother or someone low tech that just loves to not let go of the one key when releasing shift after an exclamation mark!!!!!!!11
Jeremy Falcon
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LOL!
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
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Brisingr Aerowing wrote: LOL!!1
FTFY!!1
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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I know what I want for my next anniversary. Enjoy[^] - and see if you can spot all the Easter eggs before reading what's there.
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Quote: A fully functional Millennium Falcon.
How that? The Millennium Falcon never was fully functional...
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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Yeah, I want it too 
[Flags]
public enum Bool {
True, False, ForSure, Maybe, ProbablyNot, Depends, NotDecidedYet, Undefined
}
private interface IStealth { }
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OK, that's understandable. Now what's has to do with it all the mechanical stuff on the right?
Veni, vidi, vici.
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Pete, I think if you look closely at the young lady doing some kind of cross between a push-up and a yoga asana, you will see that she is, evidently, double-jointed (hint: look at her arms and elbows). The photo suggests hyper-laxity of the elbow-joint.
It is well known that those owning double-jointed persons frequently die of unusual causes, as well as heart-attacks.
While there's nothing wrong with fantasies (praise be), I suggest you reconsider her as a possible gift, unless, of course, that's your wife's choice, in which case ... well ... after all ... she must be obeyed.
cheers, Bill
“I speak in a poem of the ancient food of heroes: humiliation, unhappiness, discord. Those things are given to us to transform, so that we may make from the miserable circumstances of our lives things that are eternal, or aspire to be so.” Jorge Luis Borges
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I've been married too long or I'm far too much of a geek. I had no idea what you were on about so I went back to that page. I hadn't noticed that young lady - my eyes having been drawn to the rather large picture opposite.
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Thinking about my earlier post about software still running, unchanged, several years later has made me realise that we live today in a world where everyone assumes that without a constant stream of patches and corrections that software will somehow just stop doing it's job properly.
XP comes to mind. I am using it on a couple of PCs at home I using as file servers. They work fine; they have a dozen external drives attached to each one and they backup to each other every night and serve video, music, ebook, install and other files as required with no fuss and no error. They no longer connect to the internet for updates and have not yet exploded! I was going to change them to either Windows 7 or Windows Server 2003 but I decided I didn't need to. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
I have several old, utility programs that still work fine, some of them have copyright notices that start "19..." never mind "200...". I don't need to update them, they still just work.
Do you have a problem with a culture of constant update where updates are largely unnecessary and probably driven entirely by marketing?
Windows 8 comes to mind, along with seemingly endless versions of iPhones, etc.
Note: The title of this post may be a little exaggerated, but you get the idea, I hope.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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I'm pretty much with you on the phone - but mine is a ten year old HP http://www.gsmarena.com/hp_ipaq_hw6515-1312.php[^] which I got when my iPaq organiser died as it meant I didn't have to carry two devices to get the GPS / Organiser / spreadsheet / my written apps I wanted (this was well prior to iPhone and loads before iPad).
Still works, still has multiple week battery life...but I might junk it for a simpler one as I carry my Nexus 7 with me everywhere now and only use the HP as a phone!
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Oh, I never needed that much functionality - I'm surrounded with computers (desktop/laptop from office and desktop at home) and when I'm moving I'm driving. So I need the phone part and the meetings only (I have 25 slots for that, that can serve me for about a month)...
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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X460 served my parents till death. Got replaced with a similar Nokia, but that is too complex, with too small too crafted icons, too many ways on the start screen.
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Oh, it's a flip-phone. Excellent for being dramatic.  
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A good example of old software that works are games, I have a 22 year old Sega Megadrive and a bunch of games that still work just fine, like FIFA '95, the only football game I'll ever need.
However people like new shiny things, sure marketing and constant updates generate more cash for manufacturers but I think most people get bored with what they have. Why else would EA also create FIFA 96, FIFA 97, FIFA 98, FIFA 99
FIFA 2000, FIFA 2001, FIFA 2002, FIFA 2003, FIFA 2004, FIFA 2005, FIFA 06, FIFA 07, FIFA 08, FIFA 09, FIFA 10, FIFA 11, FIFA 12, FIFA 13 and FIFA 14 and still generate sales, even though the actual gameplay hasn't changed in 20 years (and how could it?)
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I think games are a different matter than other regular type of software.
gameplay should have improved especially with better AI!
graphics will also change and improved with new versions.
I'd rather be phishing!
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The same goes for most software though, interfaces are updated to keep them fresh and minor improvements are made along with a few new features. The only real difference is that you can always count on the graphics in games improving, where as desktop software is often just a sideways move to make it more fashionable.
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I think that Microsoft's message that XP was a '13 year old', 'Operating System' is marketing genius - they made 'User Interface' synonymous with 'Operating system' in the minds of the public, but it's just snake oil.
The big Operating System change was / is going from 32 bit to 64 bit. The rest is menus and utility programs, and some new APIs.
XP isn't really old, and Windows 8 isn't all new, just a way for their Marketing people to say 'Buy this New Thing'.
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If its hard drive had not passed out, I like to think I would still have my WinXP computer from 2004 serving audio and video files.
I managed to keep it clean and responsive during eight years, without a single reinstallation. And I clearly plan to keep my actual one this long.
Maybe the phenomenon you're describing has something to do with 'planned obsolescence' (not sure of this translation, though).
[Flags]
public enum Bool {
True, False, ForSure, Maybe, ProbablyNot, Depends, NotDecidedYet, Undefined
}
private interface IStealth { }
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Forogar wrote: Do you have a problem with a culture of constant update where updates are
largely unnecessary and probably driven entirely by marketing?
Yes.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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I'm definitely a fan of progress.
Windows OSes: I have no great love of XP. Always thought Win2K was a better OS. After 18-24 months XP always seemed to "slow down" requiring a re-install. XP's security issues are infamous. Windows 7 is top to bottom a WAY better OS. I'm an Apple guy at home and my employer has outfitted me with a Windows 7 machine so I have no experience with Win 8. From what I hear - I'm not missing much.
Smart Phones: I came late-ish to smart phone nirvana. Until about 3 years ago all I had was a free flip-phone. Then my employer got me a BlackBerry. It was nothing to write home about.  Messaging was good but internet and apps were abysmal. Three months later the company switched to iPhones (I got a 4S). Amazing difference! Changed my world - the way I organize my life, the way I travel - the whole shebang. Two years later they upgraded me to a 5S. Nice incremental update. Faster, better screen - touch ID is good. Pays to stay fairly current but the folks who MUST have the latest iPhone (or Samsung S#, Note#, Nexus#, etc...) on the day it comes out (at any price) are mental.
I guess what it comes down to for me is: Steady progress is great but every step is not always positive or required by everyone.
Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. ~ George Washington
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