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I know that marketing over matter is an important ingrediant to success of a modern business but How in Hell does Microsoft manage to stay ahead of the rest?
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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I assume they did the same as AOL: convinced grandmas that they _are_ the internet.
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I appreciate, that MS develops user-friendly applications - but you can't deny that M$ misuses its monopoly in operating systems to force their own proprietary "standards". Many applications only run under a special Windows-Version.
Java
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From my old man:
Don't wait for the iron to be hot to strike. Hit the bloody thing and keep hitting it till it gets hot.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote:
Don't wait for the iron to be hot to strike. Hit the bloody thing and keep hitting it till it gets hot.
Sounds a bit like my Dad, in the past his favorite quote was:
Do unto others before they do unto you
He's become more mellow in old age though
John Hudson
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http://www.rainbow-innov.co.uk[^]
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My father's advice:
I don't know why you kids are running, I've got the car keys.
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Carl Lambrecht wrote:
I don't know why you kids are running, I've got the car keys.
Obviously you come from a more refined neighbourhood, on Merseyside where I used to live the kids would just rewire the ignition
John Hudson
Chris Maunder standing in front of mirror remarks: Nothing says "you're not normal" more than the little things.
http://www.rainbow-innov.co.uk[^]
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Or the great:
If you love somebody, you can let them go. If they love you, they will come back. If they don't; hunt them down and kill them.
When it comes to maths and me, the wheel's going but the hamster's dead.
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Ben Ashley wrote:
hunt them down and kill them.
John Hudson
Nick Rowan enforcing Law and Order in the Lounge: Oi! Don't start on me now, I'm just the UN Peacekeeping force.
http://www.rainbow-innov.co.uk[^]
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...putting a beer in the freezer to cool it and pulling it out 2 hrs later. Solid.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote:
...putting a beer in the freezer to cool it and pulling it out 2 hrs later. Solid.
A bottle of beer in the freezer for exactly 1 hour and 15 minutes creates the perfect beer slushy.
-Nick Parker
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...my brother, taking the solid beer out of the freezer, and microwaving it until slushy. And then using it to unnerve the people playing quarters.
Your sincerity about keeping the soapbox organized and civilized is so obvious. I solute your effort.
-- Anonymous, 10/18/03
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I'm reading the book 'Faster than the speed of light' by Joao Maghueijo, which lays out his theory of a variable speed of light. I've been reading this book everywhere - in elevators, walking along the street, in subways.
So Friday night I'm sitting in the subway train reading voraciously, occasionally looking up to catch air and let the brain spin back down to normal when this quiet spoken middle aged asian gentleman next to me grins at me and says "good book". "Very good book" I agreed. We tentatively started mentioning bits we liked the best - and within a minute we were into a full scale discussion on Cosmology vs Budhism and the value of speculation vs. theory based on empirical results. I come from a background in Mathematical Physics where I was taught to let go physical reality and images in order to free the mind of preconceived ideas and allow the mind to embrace the mathematics in order to perceive a reality outside everyday experience. He comes from an Eastern upbringing which teaches that speculation without an empirical basis or method of testing will invariably lead to dead ends instead of truths.
We soon came to a compromise that allowed for potentially testable speculation based in reality but not necessarily directly relatable to any specific physical process. At the next subway stop he got up, bowed slightly and walked away grinning.
It was the happiest 10 minutes of my Summer.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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...or maybe they aren't tomato plants after all.
I was just out on the balcony admiring the rain when I glanced down at a neighbours balcony and noticed a nice crop of leafy green plants.
No wonder Canadians seem more laid back than their southern neighbours
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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If large red balls appear on the plants, then they are tomatoes.
If brilliant yellow flowers appear, then I'd get to know your neighbours better.
Chris Meech
"what makes CP different is the people and sense of community, things people will only discover if they join up and join in." Christian Graus Nov 14, 2002.
Oh and for those that ask programming questions in the lounge. Seek the truth here[^].
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I'm over here for at least a couple of years and figured the most sensible thing for me to do is spend whatever free time I have seeing as many places as possible.
So - suggestions welcome.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote:
So - suggestions welcome.
Well, if you want to make it to the Mid-West, stop in Iowa[^] (can you find the binary on our state website?), I'm sure Heath and I (and others) would be able to meet with you and we could have CP get-together.
-Nick Parker
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Plenty of places in and around the Bluegrass State (KY). There's Mammoth Cave, the Corvette Museum (both kind of close to Bowling Green), the Horse Park (Lexington), plenty of others.
Not far away are the great Smoky Mountains (Tennesee/N. Carolina).
"When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity." - Albert Einstein
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Have you been to the west coast much? Washington, Oregon, and California are all worth visiting.
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Lake Tahoe[^] - was just there this weekend for a wedding. Beautiful.
I've also heard that Lake Louise[^] is stunning.
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White Sands New Mexico, Carlsbad Caverns... check those out...
Eric Nuckols
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Erm, Bullhead City? Take lots of pictures and tell your friends that it is the moon. They'll never know the difference.
But truthfully, the Grand Canyon is definitely worth the trip, even if you have to go through Kansas to get there.
"Your village called - They're missing their idiot."
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I see you enjoy rock climbing...
Come on out to the West Coast of your (temporary) adopted country! Squamish has hundreds of exciting climbs, for every level of climber - primarily trad cracks and slabs. About 4 hours' drive inland, Skaha Bluffs in Penticton has a ton of clip 'n' go sport routes - easy, moderate and hardman.
Come see our mountains, our greenery, our beaches. Our tomato plants
Regards,
Kevin Swanson
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I like you am from OZ, Perth to be exact, live in Ohio and have become shamelessly addicted to the seasons, including snow. I pray for lots of snow each year. Maybe that is a result of childhood snow deprivation. You know all that brilliant sunshine, clean beaches, pure air, fantastic surf and so on has an effect on one. It's a hard life we live down under.
Anyway. I also recommend Florida, hot like OZ, with beaches (I do admit missing the sea) and it has the Kennedy space center. For a techine that is quite a buzz and it is close to Disney, which is as good for adults as for children.
P.S. Do you have an opinion on whether it is better for VB6'ers moving to .NET to focus on VB.NET or C#?
Nigel
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StrattonN wrote:
ant sunshine, clean beaches, pure air, fantastic surf and so on has an effect on one. It's a hard life we live down under
I hear ya. Had to go back there for 3 weeks and it was pure Hell :P
StrattonN wrote:
Anyway. I also recommend Florida
I've been there a couple of times now and to be honest it just scares me. They're a strange bunch down there
StrattonN wrote:
Do you have an opinion on whether it is better for VB6'ers moving to .NET to focus on VB.NET or C#?
C# is a better language, but VB.NET will be more comfortable for you. The new features in .NET 2.0 will make VB.NET more like C# in terms of power and flexibility.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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