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My first love was also Pascal, but I haven't seen her in a long while...
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Yea, very similar for me. Was doing BASIC on a TRS-80 as a kid, moved into some Z-80 assembly, then hit Pascal when the original Mac 128k was released. Borland was good, but I really liked Turbo Pascal.
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Why get rid of something that works? I have a first-gen iPad, and I don't want a new one as the one I have works perfectly fine for what I use it for.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
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until your favorite app is upgraded and will not be backward compatible!!!
I'd rather be phishing!
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Brisingr Aerowing wrote: the one I have works perfectly fine for what I use it for.
Stopping your table from rocking?
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Brisingr Aerowing wrote: Why get rid of something that works?
Because only if they put something which does not work, they can pretend to work to convince you that something is working.
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There are times when progress is there for it's own sake (Windows 8, anyone?) and there are times when progress should be welcomed. He's still using WordStar by choice? Oh, dear - that's like using Notepad for C# rather than Visual Studio. It works...but...you miss out on a lot of useful stuff that really does make life easier.
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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If you read the article it does make sense though. For a given value of sense.
He actually states that he doesn't want nor need any auto-correction or spill chicken Ann that what he rights is watt he wants.
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: He actually states that he doesn't want nor need any auto-correction or spill chicken Ann that what he rights is watt he wants.
Auto correct is not mandatory I fear he just doesn't know how or want to use the newer system for some reason.
Along with Antimatter and Dark Matter they've discovered the existence of Doesn't Matter which appears to have no effect on the universe whatsoever!
Rich Tennant 5th Wave
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bool isAuto = false;
AutoCorrect = isAuto ;
CheckSpellingAsYouType = isAuto;
CheckGrammarAsYouType = isAuto;
AutoCapital = isAuto;
AutoIndent = isAuto;
AutoSpace = isAuto;
AutoParagraph = isAuto;
AutoLineHeight = isAuto;
AutoStyle = isAuto;
Auto.....
foreach(SetupProperty sp in this.Settings)
{
if (sp.PropertyName.Contains("Auto"))
{
sp.Value = isAuto;
}
}
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Prexactly
Along with Antimatter and Dark Matter they've discovered the existence of Doesn't Matter which appears to have no effect on the universe whatsoever!
Rich Tennant 5th Wave
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Chris Quinn wrote: I used to be an avid Wordstar user, but it must be 20 years since I had to use Ctrl+A!
On the MSDOS realms, hardcore coders and crafty writers live dangerously by the ways of EDLIN [^] 
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I also used to do Edlin.
After a while we got a text editor called MultiEdit, which was so much better. One of our Unix programmers asked if there was a version of Multiedit for Unix - I said, no, but I can get you a copy of Vi for DOS!
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I can remember the time when I was more into hardware than software and used to use 286 PCs for CAD and the like. Entirely DOS based. We asked for a word processor or text editor and the sysadmin asked "What do engineers need an editor for? What's wrong with Edlin?"
Needless to say when we heard that one, we went and found some piece of freeware off the front of a magazine...
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Right on dude!
Fight the power!
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On the computer that he used for browsing he probably uses AOL?
Along with Antimatter and Dark Matter they've discovered the existence of Doesn't Matter which appears to have no effect on the universe whatsoever!
Rich Tennant 5th Wave
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I know people who think they need to go through AOL to browse the internet.
It is the only interface with which they are familiar. 
The report of my death was an exaggeration - Mark Twain
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I'm on-line therefore I am.
JimmyRopes
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Aunty said "And he said that he hated spell-checking programmes because they were unlikely to recognise a lot of the words in a fantasy novel."
Or pick the write won...
Should that not be programs? (The former is television/radio broadcasts etc.) Reading all the usage and definitions would suggest it should be the later: http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/programme[^]
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Wordstar has (or had) a spellchecker available called Spellstar.
Most word processing software with built in spell/grammar checking allows you to switch it off, so this argument is spurious
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So an article about spill chicken didn't pick up the mistake. 
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It's certainly not the one you'd generally pick there. I'm not sure it's actually wrong. The difference comes from British vs American and the American version is usually used for computer software because so much of it came from there. It may be an intentional two fingers to that.
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What a pretentious oik.
He could just switch off the auto correct features.
I think it more likely he does it so he can say he does it.
I bet it annoys his publisher!
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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Dalek Dave wrote: What a pretentious oOik.
I had to correct your capitalization. Remember, you must like my change to not be pretentious.
Jeremy Falcon
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Remember the WordStar key sequence to quit a document without saving?
It was Ctrl-K, Q, Y
Any other keys hit and the document would not be lost.
Reason I remember this so well?
My kitten walking across the keyboard has fixed it in my memory for all (my) time!
To this day, I still wonder if I hadn't shouted "Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooo" would he have hit the 'Y' with that last paw? 
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