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I know, I was just being facetious (it's one of my superpowers).
Software Zen: delete this;
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That was tortuous tortoise tomfoolery.
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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Someone needs to pull their head in and hide - and it ain't me.
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As familiar with computers as my parents were (and still are), I would have hacked and then spied on them them. Too bad we did not have any internet back then. 
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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They were banned in Germany a few days ago[^].
I can't see any other option than to ban them; they will never be safe enough -- the cloud is no place to store such personal data from young children.
It wouldn't be a great hardship to rig a doll with an old smartphone, where you can at least take care of security matters yourself.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: I can't see any other option than to ban them; they will never be safe enough -- the cloud is no place to store such personal data from young children.
And yet we've had smartphones for a long time, and facebook. Why does anyone care about privacy when they choose to post their whole lives online and carry around a tracking device?
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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RyanDev wrote: when they choose to post their whole lives online and carry around a tracking device?
I don't, and nor do other intelligent people.
And people take better care of their children than they do themselves.
Next question.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: Next question.
Why is 6 afraid of 7?
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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To the data gatherer's:
Don't worry - they won't take away their cell phones.
Or their "smart TV" - who just might be watching back.
Etc.
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I may get a new machine this year and I came across this lot^. The prices look quite good so I thought I'd share and I also wondered if anyone had used them.
veni bibi saltavi
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I don't have a feel for PC prices in the UK, but I had a look at their Intel based machines. I am convinced you could get a Dell or HP in the US with comparable performance at a considerably lower price.
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Unless you need something heavily customized, I don't see that they are such great bargains.
In Israel, you can get an i7-6700 based system with 16GB RAM, a 2TB HDD, and a DVD burner from Dell for less than UKP 1,000 (including Win10 Pro). I can't imagine that computers are that much more expensive in the UK.
EDIT: should have answered the OP 
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
modified 21-Feb-17 9:42am.
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I nearly bought one from them 18 months/2 years ago and the prices seem to have gone up massively since then. I'd shop around a bit.
Slogans aren't solutions.
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I don't see the point to buying a pre-assembled PC when it costs less than half to build it yourself.
if (Object.DividedByZero == true) { Universe.Implode(); }
Meus ratio ex fortis machina. Simplicitatis de formae ac munus. -Foothill, 2016
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I bought a machine from them a number of years ago and I was very pleased with it. It was a Win7 system updated over time to Win 8. The only problem was, when I came to install Win10, I discovered that the system ID wasn't valid. It didn't matter with Win7/8, but after installing Win10, I couldn't do very much with it, so I had to buy a pukka version.
My latest machine was built by a Birmingham company, Box.co.uk. You can specify exactly what you want in it from a large selection of components and therefore build it to a price you're happy with. Somewhere on here there is a post of the config I started with and then finished with after great help from you guys.
My old machine took 15 minutes to open VS2015, the new one no longer than 20 secs.
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I rave about a fork's component to roam like this. (9)
Sorry for the lateness (again), it's been a mad few days.
One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I don't know.
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ITINERANT
I rave = I RANT
around part of a fork = TINE = I - TINE - RANT
Slogans aren't solutions.
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Well that didn't take long... well done, you're up tomorrow.
One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I don't know.
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Nice. 
The hidden assumption that you are making is that dog breeders are intelligent. 
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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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: The hidden assumption that you are making is that dog breeders are intelligent.
Exactly
Jeremy Falcon
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Two pictures worth a million words.
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