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Mycroft Holmes wrote: I understand the need for an excuse to take the family for a drink and a feed but 27 years is a bloody long time ago.
It might be, but I'll be back mid October for 20 years since my little Sister died also from Melanoma.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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Mother, and sister? You had best stay out of the sun, might want to consider wearing SPF 10000000 even while indoors.
Sorry to hear of your looses, terrible way to pass.
Common sense is admitting there is cause and effect and that you can exert some control over what you understand.
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Anyone here following the progress of the new Atari[^] game machine?
Anyone looking to purchase one?
I put myself onto the waiting list! 
On the site they say,
Killer Atari Classic Games. Hot New Indie Titles. Open Linux OS.
Join the Revolution.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Looking into my shelf, I see a Atari 400, 2 600XL, an 800XL, 2 1040 ST and a Mega STE. Enough old Ataris to play with. 
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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I only have an Atari 600 XL and a 1040 ST, and for the 600 XL I only have 2 cartridges: Chess and "Star Raiders" 
Star Raiders - Wikipedia[^]
modified 24-Mar-18 1:47am.
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Star Raiders is a great old game. If you want more, you can download entire libraries of disk images for the 8 bit and 16 bit Ataris. The real problem is attaching old 5.25 and 3.5 disk drives to a PC and actually format the disks and write away the images.
Anyway, here you can get some stuff: The World's Finest Atari Database : games, demos, utilities for 2600, 5200, 400, 800, xl, xe, st and falcon[^]
As an alternative you might get yourself some more modern replacement for the disk drives which is based on SD memory cards or some other kind of flash memory.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Thanks for the link, if only I was younger then ... 
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The first step is to stop thinking about ow old you are and what others may or may not expect you to do. Pirates don't care very much about such things.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Harrrtari, wise words
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Tell that to my back.
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Is that your version of 'talk to the hand'?
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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No, more like saying that parts of my body doesn't necessarily stop thinking about how old I am just because I do.
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I'm feeling so much better already
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Nice, but I don't think I will order one as you can play old games on your PC with an emulator too 
Besides I'm getting too old for gaming 
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RickZeeland wrote: getting too old for gaming
pleeeaze, it's: too wise for gaming
Signature ready for installation. Please Reboot now.
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Don't bother with that stuff - cancel the order.
This [^] is retro, yet, has been updated as recently as Jan 2018.
It also has a community. It's a free download (no need to play online)
It's available for most O/S.
Special half-price sale in progress: Free!
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This SMBC comic[^] is great given the recent Machine Learning contest. Bayes ftw 
modified 23-Mar-18 17:26pm.
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I'm going to have to ask you for a larger sample.
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I think you are looking for R Programming Language[^]
You're welcome.
I'm retired. There's a nap for that...
- Harvey
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...if SQL had macro functionality (kinda like C++) that would help reduce the amount of repetitive bullcrap we have to deal with? For instance, this is part of an answer I posted in the C# forum.
SELECT MIN(substring([ID], PATINDEX('%[0-9]%', [ID]), 1+PATINDEX('%[0-9][^0-9]%', [ID]+'x')-PATINDEX('%[0-9]%', [ID]))) AS MinID,
MAX(substring([ID], PATINDEX('%[0-9]%', [ID]), 1+PATINDEX('%[0-9][^0-9]%', [ID]+'x')-PATINDEX('%[0-9]%', [ID]))) AS MaxID,
[Fruit]
FROM [#fruits]
GROUP BY [Fruit]
It would really nice if I could create a macro with the contents of the repeated code:
substring([ID], PATINDEX('%[0-9]%', [ID]), 1+PATINDEX('%[0-9][^0-9]%', [ID]+'x')-PATINDEX('%[0-9]%', [ID]))
Something like this:
declare @justNumeric MACRO = <substring([ID], PATINDEX('%[0-9]%', [ID]), 1+PATINDEX('%[0-9][^0-9]%', [ID]+'x')-PATINDEX('%[0-9]%', [ID]))>
Which would reduce the first query to this:
SELECT MIN(@justNumeric) AS MinID,
MAX(@justNumeric) AS MaxID,
[Fruit]
FROM [#fruits]
GROUP BY [Fruit
This couldn't possibly have an adverse effect on SQL's error reporting incapabilities (Syntax error near ','), so I'm not concerned with that.
Am I just an optimistic dreamer?
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
modified 23-Mar-18 13:01pm.
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You could create .Net assembly for that C# code and call it in the SQL.
My brain works. Hah!
The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.
Paul Valery
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