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So there is hope for me - in five years time...
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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Microsoft has been dropping hints that Windows powering the Xbox One would be meaningful, but we've been waiting to see the type of close integration that the company has teased time and time again. Games on a PC?! Say it ain't so!
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Computer security experts have exploited a flaw in the app used to remotely control the Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV that makes the popular family SUV an easier target for thieves. I hope those hackers had valid driver's licenses, or they'll be in trouble!
'Yeah, let's hook it up to the Internet. What could go wrong?'
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By changing how some light beams rotate, the researchers from the National Institute of Physics were able to slow down light in a vacuum. "186,000 miles per second: Not just a good idea. It's the law!"
And apologies to those offended by non-SI units. 3x10^8m/s just seems like a boring number.
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SI rules 
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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Kent Sharkey wrote: National Institute of Physics were able to slow down light in a vacuum.
This happens all the time. You go into a meeting and t..i...m...e.....s...l......o.....w.....s.
It's because the meeting is a vacuum. hint: what do vacuums do? 
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I always thought it was because of all of the dense objects in the room...I mean managers
-NP
Never underestimate the creativity of the end-user.
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Quote: And apologies to those offended by non-SI units. 3x10^8m/s just seems like a boring number.
You can write it 300 000 km/s, that's one of the beauties with the metric unit.
(Try to go from yards to miles.  )
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See? That's just what's so boring about SI. Why just move a decimal place when you can try to remember just how many yards in a chain? Or ounces in a gallon ( US and/or Imperial)? It's just. So, so exciting! I think we could move to the FFF system - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[^] for even more excitement.
Alas, only three countries still share in the excitement, dooming the rest of us to easy conversions. 
TTFN - Kent
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Here in the Philippines it is actually even more "exciting", because they mix both metric and the US system.
In some stores you by a cable by the yard and in others by the meter.
My favourite is the paper sizes.
The following are commonly used:
Short (Letter)
A4
Long (Folio)
Legal
A3
Both me and my printer are confused.
And as an oddity, McDonald's is the better option because the major competitors are Jollybee and Wendy's.
Must be unique in the world that McDonald's is the preferred choice. 
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Quote: The fantastic result doesn’t violate any law of physics;
Now I'm relieved...
The only thing left is to find some use for the late-light they created...
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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They should just measure the speed of light in a conference room. Light slows down, everything slows down, in direct correlation to the C-level of the people occupying the room.
Marc
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How did they come up with the bright idea to try it, anyways? Would someone enlighten me?
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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A former senior finance manager for Oracle claims the software maker fired her for not inflating revenues in its cloud services division. "I don't understand what we would do differently in the light of cloud computing, other than market ... you know, change the wording on some of our ads."
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Why am I not surprised by this? Oracle just needs to go away. Like into outer space. Heading directly for the sun. That should add enough hot gas to extend the sun's lifespan about a trillion years (or more).
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Brisingr Aerowing wrote: directly for the sun
Sorry to tell you that things went the other way round: with its inflated revenues, Oracle was able to buy the SUN...
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Julia should be on the radar of everyone from traders and operations executives to IT managers, developers and data scientists and really anyone who wants to expand their job options as electronic trading takes over and the industry as a whole becomes more technology-centric. To varying definitions of "importance" and "growing"
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I have a confession to make.
Julia wasn't on my radar.
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I wrote a script in Julia which wrote this message.
It's on the radar.
By the way, Julia had better be another JavaScript compiler like typescript and dart because that is what we need. More JavaScript compiler languages and more JavaScript libraries and more JavaScript code built in JavaScript for JavaScript by JavaScript...JavaScript...JavaScript...
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A good debugger would be nice too.
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George Jonsson wrote: A good debugger would be nice too.
Dynamic typed script languages don't need a debugger. They just work!
Marc
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I had no idea.
I must start to write more scripts then.
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