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Good one
Bryian Tan
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I didn't get it either - mind you it is early here and I'm still only half way through my first coffee. For the record due to a late night red wine accident my keyboard at home now has several latching keys which only release after a random period of 1-5 seconds...
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Just got an email, advertising HDD's.
And one caught my eye: Seagate BarraCuda and a picture of a 10TB HDD.
The price? £41.99 (or $52.12 at todays exchange rate)
"I'll get four and upgrade the NAS!" I thought, quickly clicking on it.
No, no ... "from £41.99" it says.
That price gets you a 500GB. 10TB are £427.98 each. Elephant.
No thanks.
Grrr...I hate small print...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: I hate small print... Yeah...
Fortunately, small prints on contracts forbidden by law already, we all wait the day it fill be that way in adverts too...
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: small prints on contracts forbidden by law already
Small print on contracts is forbidden in Israel, not necessarily world-wide.
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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Of course - I'm from Israel ...
And actually there is a law about small letters in printed advertising, but it is an absolute small (not smaller than 2 mm) and not a relative, so a designer still can hide some important info... (and this too, in Israel)
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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The big red flag IMO isn't the too-good-to-be-true price, it's the fact that it's a Seagate.
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HGST or GTFO as far as I'm concerned. I wouldn't trust Seagate to make copier paper.
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No upvotes for Dilbert? Come on guys!
Mind you - I do have some sympathy for Dilberts current predicament, tomorrow I have a review of my 'Team Management Profile' followed by session 1 of the 'Leadership and Management Development Programme'.
What did I say wrong?
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Caught up with Friday's daily news, then?
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Friday is weekend! I do all the reading for Friday and Saturday at Sunday morning...
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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Seen on a T-shirt: Come to the dark side; we have cookies.
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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Yoda: Dark the dark side it is! Very dark!
Kenobi: Stop complaining and just make yourself another toast.
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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...with the dark toaster...[^]
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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Bacon Sizzling - Bacon Makes Everything Better[^]
Found using The Useless Web[^]
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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That site is f***ing useless! :P
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Not as useless as this one[^]... or should I say, these two?
Can you believe that someone actually thinks that that's worth paying two domain fees for?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I really wonder what the owner of those two domain was smoking at the time.
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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woo... there are dark corner of the web I never saw before, hahah!
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How many people here have heard of Link Grammar[^] (before this post, of course).
I am working on a C# wrapper for it for a document editor program I am building with DevExpress controls, and it is taking quite a while, as the API is absolutely massive (and I am writing all the P/Invoke stuff by hand).
If anyone is interested, I can put it up on Github as its own repository.
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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Yes I am interested. Please post it on Github.
<sig notetoself="think of a better signature">
<first>Jim</first> <last>Meadors</last>
</sig>
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Never heard of... But you made me curious to check it with Hebrew...
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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Brisingr Aerowing wrote: as the API is absolutely massive
Once you get familiar with DevExpress' way of doing things (particularly how certain properties are exposed deep inside a hierarchy) it gets easier. I've found that most of my common questions have already been answered on their online help system (though it can take a bit of google-fu to find the right answer) and their help is pretty responsive to new questions (though they tend to link you to some already answered but not quite the same question answer.)
At the end of the day, I tend to wrap their controls in my own classes that expose the behaviors that I want in a more sane way, which really helps get a new project up and going once I've got the common functionality under control (pun intended.)
As to Link Grammar - wow, a huge home page, but how the heck do you do something practical with it? I'd love to see an article on that!
Marc
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