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I'm applying for Irish citizenship - got to start living the caricature.
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Wear a T-shirt reading "Official Government Meteorite Target"?
They can never hit anything
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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They certainly never hit targets... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Indeed - it's a prophylactic.
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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That's the stuff coming from Chit-hole planets 
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Are they looking for soap?
Don't let your mind wander too far.
It's too small to be let out alone.
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Devil and holy man share the proof (13)
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Demonstration.
Devil - demon
Holy man - st
Share - ration.
Andy B
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That's the one! You're up tomorrow....
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Better dust off my thinking-cap then, it's ages since I last set one.
Andy B
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Shold have refreshed. 
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Yep - but you've just been pipped to the post I'm afraid
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Any surprises in these numbers: per-cent of revenue spent on research of major-majors: [^] ? Spoiler: the number for Apple surprised me.
Graphic link taken from a very interesting article in the Wall Street Journal, [^] : "The Antitrust Case Against Facebook, Google and Amazon," published Jan. 16.
Note: I don't subscribe to WSJ, but, I often can read the full-text of articles; sometimes they limit what they allow me to read, but, there's never any notification of the usual type : "You have reached your limit of ... for the month of ..." fyi: I am almost always hooked up by VPN to a server in the US when I access the site.
«... thank the gods that they have made you superior to those events which they have not placed within your own control, rendered you accountable for that only which is within you own control For what, then, have they made you responsible? For that which is alone in your own power—a right use of things as they appear.» Discourses of Epictetus Book I:12
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I may understood it wrong, but what I've got of it that Apple holds 54% of the mobile market?
Something is very wrong with that number (and probably with all the others) as every site I know of reports an under 15% share for Apple in mobile market...
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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perhaps including ipad (vs android tablets).
Signature ready for installation. Please Reboot now.
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Apple IS the leader of tablet market - with ~25%... The math does not fit...
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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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: Something is very wrong with that number
Look at the last pie chart, the red and black area are the same while the percentage of the black one is twice the one of the red one.
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Bad GFX design, FB's share's the white chunk at the bottom...
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Quote: If you searched for a toaster online in the mid 2000s, Google would probably have taken you to comparison shopping sites such as Nextag. They pioneered features such as showing consumer ratings in search results, how popular a product was and how prices had changed over time, recalls Gary Reback, an antitrust lawyer who represented several competitors against Google.
But when Google launched its own comparison business, Google Shopping, those sites found themselves dropping deeper into Google’s search results. They accused Google of changing its algorithm to favor its own results. The company responded that its algorithm was designed to give customers the results they want. “If consumers don’t like the answer that Google Search provides, they can switch to another search engine with just one click,” Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt told Congress in 2011.
I remember sites Nextag. They were universally awful, horridly slow to use, hideously ugly, and better than half the time I made the mistake of clicking a link after their server finally got around to responding I'd get a "We have no partners with an X to sell you" page. I rejoiced as they were slowly buried, initially via ads/etc for commonly available products, then finally dumped for good when all they had left was we can't find it either pages for obscure ones that lingered as cancer in search results for years.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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It will take some world-class parsing, but if you save the word doc as XML (a SaveAs option) you could convert it. Put hard page-returns so you can identify where you want to break up your pages.
There will much global replacement of elements and attributes, but with the skill you obtain you can make a commercial version for sale (and since it targets a M$ product, every update from them will require buying an update (or subscription) from you!)
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| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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W∴ Balboos wrote: every update from them will require buying an update (or subscription) from you!
That's a great idea.
I've written the app and placed it in the App Store, Google Play and for download via Microsoft Store.
It was easy to do using JavaScript.
Sheesh, I'm already starting to make money. $$$$$$$$$$.
Thanks.
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