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I am posting this so that others may help if they wish.
There is no connection between myself and the hospital, it is merely something I do every year and would like to let others help if they wish.
Here[^] is the Luton and Dunstable Hospital Amazon Wish List for those children spending Christmas stuck in hospital.
For those who may be willing to help, please do so.
Alternatively, see if your local hospital has a similar scheme.
All the gifts are low cost, and if you are going to be spending hundreds of pounds on stuff anyway, what is a few pound extra to bring a smile to a child's face?
Thanks to all those who will help.
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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A timely reminder to the rest of the community. 
Veni, vidi, abiit domum
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Good one. Happy to contribute.
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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Nice one DD
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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/ravi
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Best of luck Dave, as an uncle to a guy who has spent many a holiday in the hospital due to illness, I'm all for this sort of thing. It sucks beyond belief to be stuck in a hospital, especially for Halloween or Christmas.
To piggyback off of your plea, I usually donate to Child's Play Charity.[^] They also have a map on the site that lists all the hospitals they work with and links to their wish lists. Plus if your local hospital doesn't have a list with them, it isn't a bad idea to mention its existence to the hospital. They usually are happy for anything they can get.
Like em or hate em, the Penny Arcade guys did a good thing with this one. They used to be a 100% to the kids, but now it seems they do have some administrative fees (about 6% according to the site) which does peeve me off a bit. Fortunately you can go directly to the hospital wishlist and go from there.
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I noticed within my "promotions" folder in gmail an email that looked suspicously like an ad. It resembles an email however has no option to reply and a small "(ad (i)) next to it to indicate that it is indeed an ad. It doesn't really bother me, the promotions folder is simply ignored in most cases but it goes seem a little bit sneaky of Google, anyway a 2 second bit of Googling brought me to an article on the subject.
http://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-slams-google-for-disguising-gmail-ads-as-email-calling-it-gspam[^]
Simon Lee Shugar (Software Developer)
www.simonshugar.co.uk
"If something goes by a false name, would it mean that thing is fake? False by nature?" By Gilbert Durandil
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Interesting, but that privacy issue is valid for probably most of the web mail providers
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure. Colin Powell
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Tjose of us of a certain age...[^]
It sums up my childhood.
I loved the RM 380Z, and it was Darwinian getting into the computer room.
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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I also started on a z80. And I could code Bresenham's algorithm without looking it up. Both the line and the circle version.
It doesn't matter that it's not the 70s anymore, you can still become more than just an other copy & paste programmer.
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Ahh, the RM 380Z. How I loved that machine. *nostalgic sigh*
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The 380Z was, for a long time, my 'dream machine'. We had one at school and you could book 20 minute slots during the day. If you were early on Monday, you could book a whole after school session [1 hour max]. It helped that the booking sheet was kept by my form teacher in the form room and our class was the first one into the room each day. I normally had at least one afternoon with the coveted 380Z; even when the Beeb's came in I was faithful.
speramus in juniperus
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I was a BBC man (child/teenager). It was *so* good. BBC Basic @ 2MHz could outstrip QBASIC or whatever nonsense it was running at @ 8Mhz with 640K of RAM.
And then the Archimedes arrived which decimated every competitor. It wasn't possible to be a geek and not adore this machine - it could do so many things previously impossible. And it says something that the Microprocessor lives on even if Acorn doesn't.
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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My gf is a developer and she want to buy a new laptop for surfing and development, mostly vs2010 and vs2012. Do you think that surface will be ok for this kind of job or she would better get a normal laptop?
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I think that depends on the power required and things like which keyboard you use.
Might be better off with a decent small ultrabook.
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Surface pro, the dockingstation and an additional Monitor ? i´d recommend that 
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Hi Dave, in that video, the person is using a Surface 2 RT. I don't know what capabilities for .NET programming are available in RT, but I suspect a Surface Pro would be a better choice for someone wanting to program.
bill
Google CEO, Erich Schmidt: "I keep asking for a product called Serendipity. This product would have access to everything ever written or recorded, know everything the user ever worked on and saved to his or her personal hard drive, and know a whole lot about the user's tastes, friends and predilections." 2004, USA Today interview
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Hi Bill,
Yes I was aware that the video was an RT version, I was just showing that once you hook up a screen, keyboard, mouse, hdd you have a very versatile piece of kit. Yes, the Pro would be better.
cheers,
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Menelaos Vergis wrote: My gf is a developer and she want to buy a new laptop
Why don't you let her decide what is a good machine for the kind of development she is doing.
I'd rather be phishing!
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How can you install Visual Studio on a tablet ? Is there a Visual Studio app ?
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
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Surface Pro 2 is more than a tablet - it's the one that runs the desktop properly.
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OK, so basically, it is a notebook with touchscreen.
/edit. Good God, $899 ??!!
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
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Or, an ultrabook as they are now being classified.
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Yes, that is what I meant actually.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
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