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My first PC (i.e. the first computer I personally owned) was an Amstrad 1640: 640K of RAM! 2 off 360K floppies! EGA graphics! 8Mhz 8086 processor! USB slots: None! 
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Mine is one of these.[^] I'm have been working on a new modernized version recently. It could have up to nine processors and up to 16 mb RAM/ROM.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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So that's what a Bob egg looks like!
Well, we've answered the question of which came first between Bob and the egg, but...
... Which came first, the CP or the egg?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Happy Birthday CP!
Here's to another 17 years - and remember: next year you can start drinking! ![Beer | [beer]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/beer.gif)
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Damm... you beat me to it 
I should have typed three letters less
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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It was the ellipsis that slowed you down!
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OriginalGriff wrote: you can start drinking
Hmmmmmmm... Better not. It can effect QA badly...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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If it were for the QA... Bob would have already started to drink... and in a massive way 
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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I duuno - if you had to pass a sobriety test in order to post there it might improve it...
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Happy de Burp day Bob!
Rules for the FOSW ![ ^]
if(this.signature != "")
{
MessageBox.Show("This is my signature: " + Environment.NewLine + signature);
}
else
{
MessageBox.Show("404-Signature not found");
}
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Happy birthday ![Beer | [beer]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/beer.gif)
Lots of bytes still to come 
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OriginalGriff wrote: and remember: next year you can start drinking!
Ah, I remember my 17th birthday...
... But that's only because I wasn't drinking. I don't remember many since then, so, by that reckoning, I'm in my mid twenties.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I don't remember my 17th ... A friend of mine was banned from his local pub (of two years) for celebrating his 18th birthday in there. 
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OriginalGriff wrote: I don't remember my 17th
Don't worry... we understand, it is a looooonnnnggg time ago  
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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A lot of sheep water under the bridge.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I had a similar experience - 18th birthday in a pub I'd been going to since I was around 15. Funnily it was the one place where at the time they said you couldn't drink under age
The night got progressively worse and we ended up in a Biker pub; safe but a lot of vodka was hampering all cognitive functions. At kicking out time, we staggered off in directions of various homes. I was woken, around 4am, by two pc's because I wasn't allowed to sleep on the pavement in case I fell off. I staggered into the house just as my dad was getting up. He laughed, gave me a beer and suggested I might want to have a sleep for the rest of day.
veni bibi saltavi
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OriginalGriff wrote: 17 years
How many is that in hamster years?
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Oooo! Don't ask questions like that!
They can start breeding at around 3 weeks (and have a litter every month after that), but they don't often live more than three years... The CP servers must burn through them at a phenomenal rate1!
1: Because if it didn't, Canada would be knee deep in them by now, instead of knee deep in Tim Hortens clones...
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Sadly Bob has TWO more years, unless he skips over the province border. In Ontario they have to stay sober until they're 19!
veni bibi saltavi
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OriginalGriff wrote: Here's to another 17 years
Ah, but remember those are Internet years. By that measure, CP is 4.79x103,974 years old...
Software Zen: delete this;
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Type : "Define: Ergonomics" in google.
It says:
The study of people's efficiency in their working environment.
1950s: from Greek ergon ‘work’, on the pattern of economics .
I was almost considering this word as something totally physical. Grasping it from the names like,
"Ergonomic Keyboard" , "Ergonomic Mouse" etc. I thought it's totally about the design.
The real meaning of it sounds something else. It's just about people's efficiency!
Great usage :
Once I got a perfect Ergonomic mouse I started playing more games at work. 
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.
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That definition is very poorly expressed; it makes it sound like time-and-motion study. I'd skip that dictionary, in future.
Ergonomics is intrinsically about design, in that the tools you use (including desks, chairs, etc.) are adapted to be used with as little as possible wasted effort (i.e. inefficiency). That can only happen by design.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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It's a melding of two words.
Ergo - greek-ish, and means Therefore
Economics - the money handling money making stuff.
So, Ergonomics is simply a short way of saying 'laissez faire economics'
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You didn't break it down far enough. Ergonomics is actually the study of the plight of the married man.
Ergo - Late Middle-English/Latin : Therefore
Nom - Colloquial Low-English/American : To eat
Ics - Colloquial Neologism/Kyleism : Bad/Gross food (ICK!)
I am ergonomic; I'm married, therefore I eat gross food.
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