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It's starting to be quite the cracker! Longest rally 50 something shots. Some pretty ferocious hitting on display.
Wout
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Wall of text! Didn't bother to ready, but we'll see if he's another armstrong in 20 years I guess.
Wout
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The jist is his links to that Spanish Doctor who was recently in court and his cycle of injury/ returns stronger/injury/returns stronger. Didn't fully understand it but when players are injured they are allowed an injection of oxygenised blood cells, it appears nadal is abusing this by faking injuries. Also he regularly misses drugs tests , apparently you don't get in trouble until you miss three in a row. So he misses two in a row and then takes the third. It's a very interesting read, with links to support, shame about the formatting, as you point out.
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The Pledge[^]
Great film, cerebral not action, and with some brilliant performances from an all star cast.
Nicholson is mad of course.
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur.
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I never heard of it either but it made Roger Ebert's[^] list as #252 all time greats.
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Dalek Dave wrote: an all star cast
The only all star cast worth a darn was in "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World".
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Amen on that!
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With both Jack Nicholson and Benicio Del Toro, you can't go far wrong.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Nicholson is utterly daft or drunk, but brilliant nonetheless, and that's reason enough to recommend it. Do you suppose he's secretly Irish? That would explain so much...
Thanks for the review, Dave; I hadn't heard of the flick, but I'll be certain to pick it up if I see it. 
Will Rogers never met me.
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It is a good film. Caught it a long time back, but couldn't remember the name.
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His response[^] to an online petition.
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TTFN - Kent
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Not sure about poet, blunt is more like it. A programmer-poet would have written the response in code 
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On the Penguin OS most finest
Prepare your nads to be minus
If you're part of non-fandom
And criticizing /dev/random
You're going to be neutered by linus
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Windows 8 is the resurrected version of Microsoft Bob. The only thing missing is the Fisher-Price logo.
- Harvey
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(disclaimer, I'm not a linux user/developer, I've installed linux once not long after it was released, a long, long time ago; and I've not followed the linux drama)
Linus is a bully; He did something technically quite wonderful when he first build linux and release that to the masses, but he's not the person to be put in front to market it (even to developers);
People like Miguel De Icaza (gnome, ...) did more for the Linux brand than Thorvals ever did.
Linux (kernel) will die from a internal civil war when he either quits or die of old (r)age.
(I have the same feeling about Stallman, a bitter old man, notwhistanding his computing skills)
I'd rather be phishing!
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Maximilien wrote: Linus is a bully; He did something technically quite wonderful when he first build linux and release that to the masses...
In that regard, he is a little like Jobs, in that he was somewhat of a visionary and was able to get other people to build on what he had done, and there is a significant empire there now after all these years. One difference though is that his product was always free. I think if he charged for it he would be a rich guy, perhaps on the order of Jobs or even Gates.
FWIW, Shuttleworth is somewhat doing it the other way around.
Windows 8 is the resurrected version of Microsoft Bob. The only thing missing is the Fisher-Price logo.
- Harvey
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I think Bjarne Stroustrup would be a more appropriate comparison.
When you look at conferences/keynotes done by Stroustrup, you see that he is as passionate about is language as is Linus is about his OS, but the way he present the product and the way he surrounds himself with great people that will continue the legacy (Herb Sutter, Scott Meyer, Alexandrescu, ... )
But maybe I'm not just as interested in Linux as I am about C++.
I'd rather be phishing!
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Interesting discussion. You are probably comparing apples with bananas. It seems Linus is like Gates without the money. Stroustrup is the real visionary.
Peter Wasser
Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
Frank Zappa
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You seem to disagree with me but add to my point. I considered Linus Torvalds[^] to be similar to Steve Jobs[^] because both visionaries were bullies with their followers. Bjarne Stroustrup/[^] doesn't seem to carry the bully gene.
Windows 8 is the resurrected version of Microsoft Bob. The only thing missing is the Fisher-Price logo.
- Harvey
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Maximilien wrote: Linux (kernel) will die from a internal civil war when he either quits or die of old (r)age.
I think you're absolutely right there. The various Lini will go on, but the core might just shatter at that point. Also relevant was this item[^] from the Insider a week or so ago (yes, I'm plagiarizing myself, why do you ask?)
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TTFN - Kent
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Wow, he's cranky. Seems a bit over the top to me.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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From Excel 2010, when hiding the PERSONAL sheet (that holds the background macros etc for me) and closing excel:
"Do you want to save the changes you made to the Personal Macro Workbook? If you click Yes, the macros will be available the next time you start Microsoft Excel."
And the buttons?
"Save" "Don't Save" "Cancel"
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Quote: If you click Yes
Well, clearly that part does not apply to you and can be ignored.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Yeah - but which one ignores it? 
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Keep Clam And Proofread
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√(-1) 23 ∑ π...
And it was delicious.
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