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Quote: Those were the days my friend
We thought they'd never end
We'd sing and dance forever and a day
We'd live the life we choose
We'd fight and never lose
For we were young and sure to have our way
La la la la...
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I remember those days well!
/ravi
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Me too! A little more than a year before that magazine, as a senior in college, I remember being awed by the power of what I believe was a 486-30 MHz as it crunched numbers for Finite Element Analysis of a piston head deflection model. Whoot whoot! The speed! (Hours.... Now, would take seconds at most.)
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David O'Neil wrote: it crunched numbers for Finite Element Analysis of a piston head deflection model. Whoot whoot! The speed! (Hours.... Now, would take seconds at most.)
does that mean the engines now also run ["hours" -> "seconds"] 3600 times faster?
... go out and smoke a Varon - that'd be some whoot whoot.
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Byte Magazine[^] that's the one I used to wait anxiously to grab from the book store shelf.
Everyone has a photographic memory; some just don't have film. Steven Wright
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I shredded a box of old quotes and invoices from that era.
We were making money hand over fist. Margins were outta sight.
$75.00 for a knockoff ide cd rom drive. Not writable, you had to be a king for that!
And the computer quotes 
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I remember buying those to get the accompanying CD and all the freeware/shareware it came with 
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If XKCD can't persuade you: xkcd: Listening[^]
The perhaps this can: Pet shaming[^] 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Yet most people have had smartphones for many years. 
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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... which don't listen to everything you say (unless the NSA asks them to) just in case you give it a command to wake up and do something ... like order 2 tonnes of creamed corn.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: which don't listen to everything you say
Some phones are voice activated which means, yes, they do listen to everything.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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Okay, try saying "Ok Google" in front of any recent Android phone 
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Samsungs Bixby is forever trying to get me to upgrade all my apps to work with Bixby, not bloody likely. I hope like hell Google is not turned on by default.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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CNN wrote: It took the state Senate less than a minute Tuesday to pass the "Sunshine Protection Act."
I knew it, sunshines are always protected.
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That's bad news, that extra sunshine will surely aggravate global warming.
Think of the children ... send in the the protesters now!
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I'm firmly with Florida. I've been wishing the UK would do that for many years (or at least settle on something half an hour between GMT and BST to use all year round).
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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The UK did, under Harold Wilson's Premiership.
It was called British Standard Time (thus retaining BST).
The lighter evenings significantly reduced the number of injuries and fatalities incurred by children returning home from school.
However, the Daily Mail decided that this did not outweigh the, very few, injuries and fatalities incurred by paper delivery boys in the darker mornings.
Darling Harold, ever the gutless wonder, caved in.
Hence GMT & BST remain.
(Those Ooop North claimed that BST in winter was an inconvenience, but they've always been Dark and Satanic.)
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I knew the idea was floated back then but I didn't realise that it was ever implemented.
Thank God we have the Daily Mail to save us from the evils of road safety and vaccinations!
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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Scares the living daylights out of me 
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kmoorevs wrote: Also, anybody else have issues pasting links, or anything else...it seems to always cutoff the first two characters.
I reported that months ago.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Thanks, yeah I noticed it starting about the same time...makes it hard to get a link in correctly.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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