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An era ends. [^]
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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It's too early to say that an era end...
Interesting time ahead for Cuba, we shall know in a year or 2 how it's gonna be....
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Just heard Leslie Neilson is feeling a bit off colour!
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They are celebrating in Miami!  ...and crying in Cuba.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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The backup clue I had in case today's was not solved... just for fun:
How fighter jets are dispatched to a jester fight? (9)
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Why the "Jester fight" bit?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Anagram (scrambled) of fighter jets
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Brain: startup sequence beginning...
***OUT OF CHEESE ERROR***
*** REDO FROM START ***
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I think this may be triggered by the famous Times crossword clue:
Gegs (9,4)
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I first met it on Drop The Dead Donkey!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Why do we tell a computer to shut down, and people to shut up?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Why do we tell a computer to back up, and people to back down?
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Why do we tell a computer to Directory.EnumerateFiles("some directory"), and people to look for that file, no not in that directory, wait you're going to fast, you have to double click, you're in the wrong Program Files, that's the wrong folder, it's right under your cursor, no now you've missed it, that's not what I was looking for, let me try it, just let me hold your mouse for a second, no I won't wait any longer, WELL IF YOU KNOW IT SO WELL FIX YOUR OWN DAMN COMPUTER!!!  ?
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it refers to the relative position of the sub-portion of the target of the operation  ?
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Hmmm... I have often told my computer to shut up 
There is a person out there who refuses to believe me when I say, that an "alarm going off" means it is making noise. I do struggle to explain the logic behind that.
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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Why do we turn the air conditioner up when we want it to cool down?
"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." - James D. Miles
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To load goods onto peoples trailers (long time ago after school manual part time job) had one guy who would always tell the drivers, "OK, go ahead and back up."
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OriginalGriff wrote: Why do we tell a computer to shut down, and people to shut up?
Cute. Shut up - Wikipedia[^]
The phrase is probably a shortened form of "shut up your mouth" or "shut your mouth up".
I'm such a spoilsport.
Marc
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I think you mean Waldo...?
[Edit]
My bad. I guess he goes by both names.
I was expecting Wally (from Dilbert)
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