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My Dad had shelves full of the original SF pulps - and I started reading them almost as soon as I could read at all.
My problem is that I can never remember which authors wrote what (which is great if I want to re-read a story!)
Best Authors? I loved Asimov's robot series most of all (mainly because Dad was a Cybernetic Engineer I think) I adored Stanislaw Lem's short stories. Iain M Banks probably tops my list - I shed a tear when he died.
these days I go to the library, and just grab SF books I don't recognise off the shelf (they are kind enough to stick a 'planet' sticker on them in my local library) and read 'em.
I also listen to audio books in the car while commuting - but the choice is severely limited (indeed the one I am listening to now has a narrator with a speech impediment (or really bad false teeth))
MVVM # - I did it My Way
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Man, you're a god. - walterhevedeich 26/05/2011
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(That's an 'M')
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Aged 11. Started with "Dr Who and the Zarbi" and several Andre Norton novels ("Sargasso of Space" is the only one that I recall now), then moved on to "The Infinite Worlds of Maybe" by Lester Del Rey.
After that was introduced to E.E.Doc Smith and the "Lensman" series, and went from there to Asimov.
modified 10-Jan-14 4:47am.
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From Article: An Oklahoma man... ...got into a drunken family fight.. ...the men got into a fight while drinking together when St. Clair made offensive remarks about his wife.
Sounds like a normal Friday or Saturday night to me.
The comments are hilarious.
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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The dude is being held without bond in Pottawatomie County
"Pottawatomie" ... peculiar name for a county given the instance of the "atomic wedgie".
None-the-less, condolences to those in their loss.
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Dafuk? 
Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.
- Mitchell Kapor
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Who has seen this TV show?
I can't stop loving it; main actress is really fascinating.
Women are composed of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen; men are also composed of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen, but in such proportions that force respect.
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Smart and intelligently written, and the main actress is very good.
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Looking forward to new episodes in April on BBC America 
Steve
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I C(++) therefore I am
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Yes, Saturday, April 19th.
I wish I have a time-travel machine ^^
Women are composed of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen; men are also composed of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen, but in such proportions that force respect.
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Yes it's good. If anybody hasn't given it a go they should.
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Not Quite a Programming Question, so I'm asking in the forum that has the most eyes. If I should move it elsewhere, please let me know kindly. 
I have an article I'd like to write out and post, about a database toolkit. I haven't done so because I still use Visual Studio 2008: our codebase is exclusively in VS 2008, it works well, and my company has seen no need to spend thousands of dollars to upgrade. Worth doing, or is VS 2008 too outdated for such an article to be taken seriously?
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Yes, upgrade to 2010, but don't go so crazy as to convert to 2012 or 2013!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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2012 and 2013 open 2010 solutions without converting 
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There is no likelihood of upgrading to a newer version of Visual Studio at this time. My question was about whether or not new articles written with VS 2008 are worth posting.
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Gregory.Gadow wrote: articles written with VS 2008
Which visual studio control are you using?. I can't seem to find an article writing control in the VS 2008 toolbox!
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If i had to upgrade from VS 2008 now, i would go straight to VS 2013. The only upgrade worthy doing is one that skips VS 2012.
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It the article is well done I can't see a reason not to publish it - for sure VS 2008 not a reason.
If you publish code from 2008 will be no problem to open it in any VS - so go for it!
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Personally
There are articles on CP that are written with .net 1.1
I have recently referenced an article that was in dot net 2.0 and applied the techniques to a dot net 4.0 application.
So yes if the technique is still relevant I would write the article.
Every day, thousands of innocent plants are killed by vegetarians.
Help end the violence EAT BACON
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Agreed - I answered a QA question yesterday / today that was .NET 2.0, so there are still developers who are limited to that: VS2005 IIRC.
Never underestimate the power of stupid things in large numbers
--- Serious Sam
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When I went to VS 2005, my code wouldn't compile because it used an outdated delegate mode that worked great in 2004. Of course this was from a class using 500 MH CPUs and I had no clue about VS levels while taking the class. I think this is the kind of thing that might upset some readers and what the original question was about. Of course I say, let the readers squawk. (Well it works on MY machine!)
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Gregory.Gadow wrote: Worth doing, or is VS 2008 too outdated for such an article to be taken seriously?
I've upgraded projects from 2008 to 2012 without issues, and I don't think readers will have issues with that either. I suspect that, as I do, we still have VS2008 lingering on our systems.
So, I think that the VS version of the solution is minor compared to the topic and quality of the code and article. Hope that helps.
Marc
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If the points and concepts of the article can pertain to newer versions of Visual Studio, then why not just go ahead and write the article. Even if it is VS 2008 specific, it might still be found interesting or useful by the CP Community anyways. So in short, go for it!
"I've seen more information on a frickin' sticky note!" - Dave Kreskowiak
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Worth doing - I answered a QA question yesterday / today that was .NET 2.0, so there are still developers who are limited to that: VS2005 IIRC.
Never underestimate the power of stupid things in large numbers
--- Serious Sam
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