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The command line is not outdated technology. In fact, it is still vastly superior to the point and click interface. See the immediate window in the VS-IDE, see Powershell, see Telnet. A trained user is also an order of magnitude faster typing the switches than someone navigating all kinds of Windows with expensive (and buggy!) controls.
The only machine that does not come with a command-line is called a "games console".
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: The only machine that does not come with a command-line is called a "games console".
Or a Mac -- but even they have a command line now don't they? I stil lhaven't seen one on my Droid yet either.
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It's not installed, so you have to do that yourself[^].
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: Or a Mac
I prefer real meat.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Pretty sure Mac's have had a command line or terminal option for a VERY long time. Maybe even from the beginning (1984). 
UPDATE: I stand corrected. Some hard core Googling indicates that the terminal app didn't exist until OS X (1999).
Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. ~ George Washington
modified 12-Sep-14 17:07pm.
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I'm pretty sure my father's Mac II  did not -- or maybe he just never let me get anywhere near it. I thought it was added when they went with OSX (or whatever it's called).
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See my edit above. You are correct.
Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. ~ George Washington
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Is the complaint only with the install/uninstall or it is generally usage of Oracle?
So, has anyone developed a GUI interface for Oracle as a community project?
I've used Oracle in the past, but not enough to really care one way or the other; wrote the queries I needed by hand and modified them only on occasion.
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I wrote an Oracle GUI in my last but one job - but sadly I left it behind (in the same way as one leaves a used diaper behind) when I no longer needed it.
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Some more whimsical than others.
Quote:
- 4 lawyers = 2 paralegals
- 2 untruths = 1 paralyze
- All perjured testimony in a gov't coverup = 1 scandalize
- 33.8 oz of a case of soft drinks = 1 liter of the pack
- 1 first-date kiss = 1 peck
- 1 french kiss = two tongues of fun
- Ratio of an igloo's circumference to its diameter = 1 Eskimo Pi
- 2000 pounds of Chinese soup = Won ton
- 1 millionth mouthwash = 1 microscope
- Speed of a tortoise breaking the sound barrier = Mach Turtle
- Time it takes to sail 220 yards at 1 nautical mile per hour = Knot-furlong
- 365.25 days of drinking low-calorie beer because it's less filling = 1 lite year
- 16.5 feet in the Twilight Zone = 1 Rod Serling
- Half of a large intestine = 1 semicolon
- 1000 aches = 1 megahurtz
- Weight an evangelist carries with God = 1 billigram
- Basic unit of laryngitis = 1 hoarsepower
- Shortest distance between two jokes = A straight line
- Time between slipping on a peel and smacking the pavement = 1 bananosecond
- A half bathroom = 1 demijohn
- 453.6 graham crackers = 1 pound cake
- The first step of a one-mile journey = 1 Milwaukee
- 1 million microphones = 1 megaphone
- 1 million bicycles = 2 megacycles
- 365.25 days = 1 unicycle 2000 mockingbirds = 2 kilomockingbirds
- 10 cards = 1 decacards
- 1000 grams of wet socks = 1 literhosen
- 1 millionth of a fish = 1 microfiche
- 1 trillion pins = 1 terrapin
- 1 trillion bulls = 1 terrabull
- 1 million billion picolos = 1 gigolo
- 10 rations = 1 decoration
- 100 rations = 1 C-ration
- 10 millipedes = 1 centipede
- 3 1/3 tridents = 1 decadent
- 10 monologs = 5 dialogs
- 5 dialogs = 1 decalog
- 2 monograms = 1 diagram
- 4 nickels = 2 paradigms
- 2 wharves = 1 paradox
- 100 Senators = Not 1 decision
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At uni we developed the pint scale:
Volume 1 Pint = 1 pint (of beer)
Time 1 Pint = 20 mins - an average of how long one of our friends took to drink a pint in an afternoon session
Distance 1 Pint = 1 mile - How far said drinker could walk in 20 mins/1 pint.
This also gave the rather gratifying result that average walking speed was 1 pint pint-1 (1ppp). Metric system be damned!
Alberto Brandolini: The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.
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Bassam Abdul-Baki wrote: 1000 aches = 1 megahurtz
That is 1 kilohertz!
Bassam Abdul-Baki wrote: 1 million microphones = 1 megaphone
1 million microphones = 106 * 10-6 phone = 106 - 6 phone = 100 phone = 1 phone
Bassam Abdul-Baki wrote: 1 million billion picolos = 1 gigolo
Neither of the the two interpretations of billion will satisfy that:
X * 106 * 10-12 los = 109 los
X * 106 - 12 = X * 10-6 = 109
X = 1015
Your definition of billion is 1.000.000.000.000.000? Interesting!
"I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"
Ron White, Comedian
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I have something similar to that (from the 80s?) -- my favorite is: 1 millihelen = the amount of beauty required to launch one ship.
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That was whimsically delicious.
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Remember the frustration created by Windows Vista? Windows 7 saved the day. The user experience of Windows 8 may not be as bad as Vista but is not as positive as Windows 7 either. Is Windows 9 going to save the day?
TOMZ_KV
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For Microsoft's sake, I damn well hope so... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Even 5 years ago, no one would expect to see today's Microsoft.
TOMZ_KV
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What running around madly like a headless chicken with little or no idea of what it's going to do about the competition?
No, you're probably right.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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It is a historic moment for Microsoft shifting from software to devices & services. Windows phone has not been doing well so far. Apple experienced the transition years ago and did well.
TOMZ_KV
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I can see where they would want to: but they made the usual MS mistake of ignoring existing users.
If they had run "devices" and "software" as separate divisions instead of trying to force incompatible environments together into one it could all have been very different. And probably a lot more successful.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Microsoft was able to recover in the past. See how it goes this time with Windows 9.
TOMZ_KV
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Tomz_KV wrote: Apple experienced the transition years ago and did well.
There were a couple important differences with Apple:
1. Apple was ALWAYS a hardware company.
2. Apple had hit rock bottom in sales, market share, profits...
Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. ~ George Washington
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Good points. Microsoft is doing hardware now: Surface tablet & Windows phone. It is a question if Microsoft is able to catch up.
TOMZ_KV
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Don't think of them as bad and good... Think of them as Beta and RTM.
Windows Vista was a Beta product, and Windows 7 was the RTM version.
Windows 8 is the next Beta, and Windows 9 will be the RTM.
Microsoft has just gotten a little confused in recent years... They can't tell the difference between an end user and a beta tester anymore.
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So we'll never have a real Windows. 
TOMZ_KV
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