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OriginalGriff wrote: Though of the day is cancelled for today, due to the need to take Herself to the Dentist for a routine checkup...
Who are you and what have you done with OriginalGriff? Everybody in the world knows that there are no dentists in the UK (or at least no visible signs of any UKians using the services of one).
I'm retired. There's a nap for that...
- Harvey
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Well, it's just going to be a thoughtless day, then.
«I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center» Kurt Vonnegut.
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Gee, that is a thought provoking statement
Mongo: Mongo only pawn... in game of life.
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Given that I spent a couple of hours in meetings this morning, that is remarkably apt.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Don't bite off more than you can chew..
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OriginalGriff wrote: She really doesn't like dentists, Me too. That's why I have most of my dental work done under anaesthesia. Costs a bit more, but I don't feel a thing.
Clickety[^]
/ravi
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Getting my wife to go to the dentist is like pulling teeth.
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I feel sorry for dentists. Whenever I see them, they are looking down in the mouth.
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They're waiting for cuspid to hit them with an arrow.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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if its as bad as you're saying - I'm going to say she needs a trip to a shrink to discuss the issue.
(awaiting the flaming)
Bryce
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I understand
Regards,
Palash
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Palash Mondal_ wrote: I understand And it only took 13 hours?
You have just been Sharapova'd.
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Yup, if only I had opened CP much earlier it would have been less than that :p
Regards,
Palash
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Well, my 'in bocca al lupo' to her.
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At least she's going/gone! I refused the chair for nearly 20 years based on abject fear caused by a feckin stupid torturer. As a result I have had to face up to 3 teeth out, 2 root canals and another 12 teef to be filled!
veni bibi saltavi
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I'm feeling a bit sad today... my pet mouse, Elvis, died earlier.
he was caught in a trap[^]...
I'll get my coat and start walking...
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As long as you missed his blue suede shoes...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I'm too suspicious to click on that link.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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I agree, that is sad!
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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So, this Banker Exec goes deer huntin’ for the first time.
Just off the road, he sees a deer, fires, hits and it goes down.
A Fish & Game Conservation Officer (CO) just happened to be nearby.
Banker shot a female and not male like he’s s’posed to.
So, the CO writes him a ticket & takes the deer.
Banker Exec shows for his court hearing.
Judge asks, “Why did you shoot the wrong animal?”
“Well, Your Honor,” replies, the Exec, “I’m a Banker. A buck and dough are the same to me.”
/* To Comment, //or not to Comment
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Expen$ive !
I like the specs of the new Surface Book, and Surface Pro 4 ... of course, that like is not based on actually getting my fingers on one, yet. Being both cheap and diligent in terms of hardware purchases, I would always wait at least several months after some new epiphany arrives, and look for in-depth reviews on Toms' Hardware, AnandTech, (yes, even CNet) etc., as well as any first-person accounts here on CP.
Given I believe that Win 10 is still in beta, and will be until spring, 2016 (minimum), and (for now) appears to have been designed with intransigent (not removable) intrusion into my privacy in terms of: user-activity being monitored and reported to Sauron is neither explicit, or de-fangable ...
Well, pause is.
And, I think about the fact that here (in northern Thailand) the displays of the Surface 3 in the super-stores always look rather plain-and-puny compared to the displays of small-form-factor computers from Samsung, Acer, Lenovo, etc. ... So few people ever seen tickling the MS devices' keyboards or mouse-pads (which, of course, is very much an outcome, here, of said devices being more expensive, as well as not looking "cool").
While zing, fizz, and eye-candy shock-and-awe, don't float my boat, my one session where I actually played around with a Surface 3 Pro left me with a "never buy that one" dismal feeling.
Yet, as someone who develops (or, at least goes through the motions in retirement of developing) for Win, I wouldn't mind the idea of buying a small form-factor, portable, machine from Sauron.
And, that will never happen until I see value and quality for money-spent in an MS device compared to other companies' devices. For me, with rapidly diminishing eyesight (thanks, old age), that means quality of screen display; for me, as speed-typist (thanks, mom for forcing me to go to typing school when I was 11 years old after my teachers told her my hand-writing looked like Aztec pictographs written by someone drunk), that means touch-and-feel responsiveness of the keyboard. For me, as wanna-be hermit who would happily wear an indivisibility cloak (stops divide-by-zero attempts cold) as well as an invisibility cloak (internet-socially speaking), that means an OS that does not put ads in a start menu, and moon-light as yet another facet of Sauron's all-seeing eye.
If Sauron doesn't whip-blend-and-puree its OEM-partners in demonicity into bankruptcy one way or another, perhaps the one really good thing about MS putting out devices is that it will drive said partners to produce better machines at lower prices ?
Would that be too much to ask ?
cheers, Bill
«I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center» Kurt Vonnegut.
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BillWoodruff wrote: zing, fizz, and eye-candy shock-and-awe, don't float my boat, Have you seen their tour busses.
While I like the convenience of a tablet, Samsung, I could not relate that to development other than testing for that platform. I will always want 2 screens and as much grunt as possible in the development box, preferably a desktop.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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