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On the subject of Dave, albeit it a different Tory Dave, is he returning? I would have thought the reasons he is not here now would apply even more so once he gets the job?
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I believe he has eschewed us in favour of the more cerebral life of facebook[^] 
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I know what he did. I also understand why he did it. But what I was saying was that the why he did it would mean he will be absent for long after the election too.
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Blocked @ work : adult content.
/edit : this is not my line, the picture is indeed blocked by the company firewall.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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"I don't know if I can keep a straight face while that choirboy is down there doing that"
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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Here we go:http://www.wired.com/2014/11/eniac-unearthed
While we think 'the world' of Americans, they really must resist being so inbred; the World's First Computer was Collossus at Bletchley Park, or even Charles Babbage's 'Difference Engine'.
There there. Eniac was America's First Computer.
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Worlds first computer was Z3 as i remember it 
But basically the ENIAC was the worlds first electronic computer 
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Have you read the comments, look like they are all having an argument and justifying it and as expected it doesn't take long to turn into a name calling session.
Humans... 
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The British - the World's first Americans.
Unless you ignore the other Europeans who got there before us, and any indigenous populations.
Alberto Brandolini: The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.
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Keith Barrow wrote: indigenous populations
Even they came over on the B Ark.
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This also.
Alberto Brandolini: The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.
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Nice to know we're all descended from prehistoric hairdressers, account executives, and telephone sanitizers, huh?
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It took me half an hour to get that reference. In my defense I can only say I read it in Italian and not in English, still... shame on me!
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I'm tired of the British always trying to steal American glory.
If it were up to this American we'd of never introduced tea to the British Isles.
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Sometimes I bet you wish you never discovered us in the first place.
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I thought you were discovered by the spanish
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Hmm, lets see.
Z3 was the world's first working programmable, fully automatic digital computer. (1941)
Colossus is the world's first electronic digital computer that was programmable. (1944)
Eniac is the first electronic general-purpose computer. (1946)
Are everyone satisfied now?
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Um...maybe not.
I'd be tempted to throw the Jacquard Loom[^] into the picture: programmable, digital, working (and still in use in some places) - invented in 1801 - and kick started the Industrial Revolution.
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I thought "computer" was the keyword. 
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You can program it, it has input and output - heck, it's even got a graphics display(if a bit low resolution, unless it is working with really fine silk).
What does a computer do that this doesn't? (Apart from play Doom )
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I was going to say that you can't use it for calculations, but I know it would hit back on me. You probably could play Doom on it, even if very slowly.
So, what's the definition of Computer?
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Jörgen Andersson wrote: So, what's the definition of Computer?
A machine that makes humans waste their lives arguing about semantics.
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Must resist upvoting...
Failed again.
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I don't know!
Google defines it as:
"an electronic device which is capable of receiving information (data) in a particular form and of performing a sequence of operations in accordance with a predetermined but variable set of procedural instructions (program) to produce a result in the form of information or signals."
But Wiki says:
"A computer is a general purpose device that can be programmed to carry out a set of arithmetic or logical operations automatically. Since a sequence of operations can be readily changed, the computer can solve more than one kind of problem."
And I have to say that the google definition is closer to my ideal! But...the "electronic" bit would exclude the Jacquard Loom - and also the Babbage Difference Engine. Removing that would remove Ada Lovelace from the role of "first programmer" and I'm pretty sure she deserves that title!
So my feeling is that the Google definition (sans one word) fits a computer well - and also the loom.
You have to remember that all out modern computers are based on devices which worked solely from punched cards - which started life as a data storage media, which were derived from the loom!
As usual, the "Search for Beginnings" is complicated...
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