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It's not the technology; It's the people.
To extend it a bit ... I often say to friends and colleagues:
We may consider our selves as unlucky because we missed the Golden Age of Pericles but for sure we are cursed because we are living the Golden Age of D!ckhead.
It's comforting to know that other people feel it, even if they express it in a totally different way (sometimes like a dogma).
Thanks Dave
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I could give you just as long a list of applications that are desperately in need of offloading some UI to the client. And then again we've all seen the apps where everything is client side and you just beg them to just render it in one go on the server and just give you the info you want.
It's not about the screwdriver. It's about how you hold it while banging in those nails.
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Chris Maunder wrote: It's not about the screwdriver. It's about how you hold it while banging in those nails.
I completely agree until it's a screwdriver and not a hammer. My problem is with the people who use hammer everywhere.
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A car, nearly completely made of Lego (needed some support)
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In the vid, you can see the individual cylinders providing propulsion...very neat
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My eyes hurt because car's picture looks like pixelated.
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Sorry, seen that too, afterwards. Still, the amount of work that went into that is amazing, never mind the idea that it actually worked/stayed together. I would guess that there is more than a bit of epoxy holding stuff together.
Ken
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What a waste of time
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Why do you feel it is a waste of time?
It was a waste of time posting your comment....
And least they learned something in the process and produced something tangible to test their engineering capabilities.
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What happen if it hits a human
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It has a top speed of about 1 mph. If it hits a human it will like stop.
If it hits a human, it was probably the human not paying attention and deserved to be hit!
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محمد م. محمد wrote: What happen if it hits a human
Lego parts everywhere on the street. Suddenly being a bodyman becomes a much more time-consuming job.
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dandy72 wrote: Lego parts everywhere
What a waste of time to collect them back again...
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Not to mention this thing is spreading like wildfire all over the Internet. They are getting a lot of attention and you never know where that can lead. Not a waste of time at all.
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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Not to mention it's some impressive engineering to get it to run on compressed air!
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Imagine what it could do if it ran on Hamster Power
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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I like it, maybe one day i have the Money to buy me a cool car... made of lego
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Amazing!
But...he's lucky he doesn't live in Britain.
He'd be done for:
1) No seat belt
2) No road tax
3) No MOT (or certificate of roadworthiness from the DVLA)
4) No number plate
5) Probably no insurance...
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Where they not students?
So they were probably under the influence of 'things'...
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OriginalGriff wrote: 2) No road tax
It will be road tax exempt - 0% CO emissions.
OriginalGriff wrote: 3) No MOT (or certificate of roadworthiness from the DVLA)
It'd need a IVA[^], but as it's 'new' there'd be no requirement for an MOT.
speramus in juniperus
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In 10 minutes, the day will be done, and with it, the year. Almost...
We planned to have a huge luncheon tomorrow, return Monday for a half day, then out for 2 days for Christmas. I took a couple of days' vacation time to be off from then to the end of the year. But this morning we got a memo from the Tribal Chairman - the Council has declared Monday an additional holiday! So tomorrow we're still having lunch - I'm making a Prime Rib - then taking a half day off. Since I'll be spending most of my time in the morning preparing the luncheon, I'm effectively done for the year with work about 10 minutes after I click 'Post Message' below! Yay!!!!
PS - Just got paid today, and I'll get paid again before I return at a total cost of 3 vacation days. Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus!
Will Rogers never met me.
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Merry Christmas, Roger. Enjoy your break (and the ribs).
It's almost lunch time on Friday here so a few more hours and I too will be celebrating the end of a rather difficult year at work.
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So I'm working with MySQL. First time in years. Don't much like the MySQL Workbench so I installed the TOAD freeware editor and it is fine though still a little heavy at times.
And then I recalled that I'd written a small app some years ago that would allow me to get a quick view of a schema and run some queries, amongst other things.
So I found a zip file that looked good and, lo and behold, out popped a working app and works pretty well.
So the next thing is to bring it up to date.
Can I find the source code? Can I hell. No idea what I did with it. The only saving grace is that it works and is usable. I can't be asked to re the thing so I guess I'll use it as is.
I just wonder where that damned code got to.
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
me, in pictures
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ILSpy can decompile it if you wrote it in .NET
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