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Why did you have to say you missed* the rain[^]?
Thursday and Friday were total wash outs and a lot of roads have been damaged around here with drains bursting and the roads collapsing on top. The biggest I know of is a good 5m long taking out the main highway near where we live. I now have to try and find a back-up, back-up route for school as this morning was another marathon 3 hour round trip!
Today looks sunny though and, if Mrs Wife fancies it, it may be good enough for a late afternoon swim in the Med. Swings and roundabouts, innit.
Hows your Sunday?
* yes I know it should be 'bless[ed]' but this was funnier [not]
veni bibi saltavi
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Quick! Drop a house on some old woman, steal her shoes and click the heels together three times, while saying "there's no Gin like Gordons".
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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And he'll end up in a Gibson[^]?
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 will see your Toto, and raise you an Annie! Eurythmics[^]
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Far too whimsical and calm! Try someone dropping a lake on your head for a sense of the scale 
veni bibi saltavi
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I think "this[^] is even more to the point. 
(WARNING: lousy music, but appropriate)
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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Ah, that'll be next door but one! 
veni bibi saltavi
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: Hows your Sunday?
Yesterday was sunny, 60's, and my gf and I took a lovely walk by the Hudson River.
This morning, there's 3 inches of snow on the ground!
Marc
Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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No snow here, it's in the high teens today after the weekend of biblical rain. Some locals say you can have 4 seasons in a day here.
veni bibi saltavi
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: Hows your Sunday?
Oh, just peachy.
As well as a lovely meal, backdropped by photos of spaghetti wiring, I have recreation of all my virtual drives to look forward to, because windows, for very wise reasons, obviously, decided that I didn't need them.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Nice title...took me a second to realize which Toto you were referring to! BTW, I remember a few years back Dave Auld posted a video to that song. 
Nagy Vilmos wrote: Hows your Sunday?
It was one degree over freezing this morning, will be low '70sF by afternoon. The job of the day is to crawl around in the attic and run new cable for TV in an upstairs bedroom that sees company maybe 10 days/nights a year...otherwise the kids fight over the other room that already has a TV.  I just do what I'm told! I'd rather be coding!
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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I miss rain.
Been 30+ days without rain here. Forests burning.
I want rain.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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How about installing Linux and MonoDev? Apple, Google, Mickeysoft: Put them in a bag and beat the bag with a club. You will always hit one who deserves it.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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lol Microsoft is still gonna win cuz they 'buying out' Linux soon! hehe. Just kidding
But did you notice the other news[^] ? They are getting involved more there, towards Linux/open-source. They might escape from your bag!
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.
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No. They are too desperate to crawl into the same bag where the others already are waiting. This way the Muggles are going to get the companies they deserve and the companies are getting the customers they deserve. They will probably have a hard time to sneak their MuggleControl (C)(TM) mal- and spyware into open source.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Why doesn't ms do something for its core users, for a change, rather than for people who fanny around on other operating systems, or on devices other than desktops/laptops?
Their whole strategy seems to be built around stealing users from other markets, but in doing so, they're losing the biggest market share in the biggest market of all of them.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
modified 20-Nov-16 6:39am.
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Microsoft slipped out of the stage long ago. Apple & Google have been enjoying the limelight & glory for so long now.
I'd always love to see equal competition. To have an equal competition, other parties need some entry first. Microsoft has really slipped into this "other parties" category. The whole product trend buzz that you see now, right from Audrino-IoTs, iphones , Macs, Android, Apps, Chrome to Node.js, AWS. MS looked totally irrelevant with their counterparts. Almost all of their products were thrown out of competition. ie From Windows Phone, Windows Desktops, Internet Explorer, & even Azure (Few years ago). Even the tiny little MSN messenger was not spared. It was like a genocide.
MS entered most arena as an underdog and many cases died as an underdog. Remember Zune? there's many more to quote. They failed to make the buzz. We could blame it to the big fat leaderships of Balmer & partners like Stephen Elop. They never understood what user & market wanted and seemed to follow their bureaucratic legacy. They lost it all ultimately.
Mark_Wallace wrote: Their whole strategy seems to be built around stealing users from other markets
Now all of a sudden nobody can build a new eco-system from scratch and expect the user to jump to. They can't also go back to their products that never clicked. In fact, They did try to do something on their own like the Windows Phone. Nothing worked out.
So now, I feel they are trying to work together with other platforms than to work all alone & establish something only to fail again. Working well with current platforms of other market leaders guarantee their survival & relevance for now. Once they managed to float around , may be they'll start pushing for more individualistic products & make genuine user base.
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.
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But they Didn't fail with the desktop and laptop! They ruled the frugging world!
But now they're starting to lose even that market, because they're too busy tilting at windmills.
E.g. apple is making gains in the desktop/laptop general-use market, because ms is too busy trying to steal graphic designers from apple (which not only ain't gonna happen, but is a comparatively trivial market).
The only aspect of themselves that ms has shown, over the past few years, is that they want to be *Cool!*, so they've been chasing ridiculous ideas, particularly in UI design, since vista.
But the 450,000,000,000 secretaries and office workers of the world* don't give a flying frug about the OS UI! They just want to open their docs, spreadsheets, and e-mails -- and then use them with something approaching the efficiency that ms made unachievable in 2007.
"Cool" doesn't get the work done.
"Cool" doesn't get the bills paid.
"Cool" is not for the working environment.
* If you look at all the hours they claim, you'll see that there must be at least that many
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: But they Didn't fail with the desktop and laptop! They ruled the frugging world!
Well this ended right after Windows 7. Please check about the struggle they've been going through trying to do one significant release after Win7. Windows 8, Windows 8.1 & even Win10 are put in the "Not-so-successful" bucket. Windows 8 in "Failed" bucket. I think Win10 has got some potential to shine. May be. And as a whole, the PC biz is nose diving for the last 3-4 years. It's not only a problem for MS but also for Intel. Yes , Macs have exploited this erosion in PC sales. The sales charts clearly tells us there's a stark decline in PCs & a gradual, steady increase in Macs.
(Intel might enjoy some success with their core ix processors in Macs, don't know how long this goes)
Did you notice one subtle matter here? It's not actually a problem just with the OS. It's the device as a whole now. I feel the days are gone we look for new OS on the same machine.
Most home consumers don't care what OS is inside as long as they look attractive and intuitive.
Just an UI theme updates & some "cool" tools added is good enough to make them believe their OS is updated. I guess MS might soon give up the concept of charging money for OS upgrades forever.
Making good OS is needed but putting them on right devices, in a neat way looks more important now. Apple capitalized it so well with a flashy OS and an attractive hardware.
Now with new surface devices, did you see MS making some gains? Surface Pro 4, has won good reviews & sales reports were also up. I guess the new Surface devices with neat Win10+ OS might make a come back?
"Cool" it's always said in a context. Depends on the guy who's saying it. For me, Getting jobs done neatly, cost effectively is COOL.
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.
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Why did Kamikaze pilots wear helmets?
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Contains the splat?
New version: WinHeist Version 2.2.2 Beta I told my psychiatrist that I was hearing voices in my head. He said you don't have a psychiatrist!
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Amazingly enough, there actually is a good answer.[^]
Marc
Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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I think it was so Kamikaze and non Kamikaze's could not be distinguished by the enemy.
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