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It still seems M$ want Apple's market share. I am friends with a lot of big Linux/Unix users who are anti-PC but they have all been left with the feeling that a touch screen works for a phone/tablet not a desktop and having one OS to rule them all will leave it big and unwieldy as it has everything for all uses, I mean when do you need an Ethernet port when using your mobile, equally when do you need GPS for your desktop (Monday mornings...), I am of the opinion of horses for courses. Whats the hive mind say...
[Update] does any do dev work, not testing, coding on anything aside from a laptop/desktop????[/Update]
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glennPattonWork wrote: Whats the hive mind say..
It's lunchtime.
speramus in juniperus
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Mmm, sarnies... 
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Home made Mulligatawny with bread just out of the oven - in 3, in 2, in 1 ...
speramus in juniperus
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My Mmmm was slightly sarcastic the bread is stale, needed a new loaf last night and forgot it. Sarnies little dry - rusk like! 
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I regularly use my Surface Pro and Surface Pro 2 for development, testing, documentation, etc. When at home I plug them into a larger monitor, but I like the touch screen.
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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Oh, you sir are the first I have heard of...I must admit typing on a touch screen is an art I need to practice give me a klacky keyboard any day!
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I don't usually type on the touch screen, I use the Touch keyboard for the Surface. I have the regular Touch for one and the backlit Touch for the other.
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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"Chart three woods as a measure in the kitchen."(11)
Quite hard, but you have had time off and need the practice.
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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Chart = TABLE
three woods (golf) = SPOONS
TABLESPOONS - used as a measure in the kitchen
Regards, Stewart
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Oops... 
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a measure in the kitchen - TABLESPOONS?
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A normal measurement in recipes in the UK at least, along with the teaspoon. Not undifferent to using "cups" to measure flour, as the Merkins do, be we don't.
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Keith Barrow wrote: be we don't
really ? - most baking recipes Ive ever used (and they are many) wether 'Merkin, Brit, or Aus have used cups or part thereof for flour - a tablespoon of flour otoh you might use in a casserole etc
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I have never seen a British Cookbook use Cups as a measure.
International ones, yes, but alongside other measures (Tablespoon or grams or ounces etc).
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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The 'gram' or Napoleons revenge on civilisation...
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The Frogs had the right idea.
A couple of episodes ago in David Dimbleby's excellent documentary about his journey around the coastal waters of the UK, he showed a chamberpot at a museum. Inside it was a small bust of Napoleon's head inviting you to choose whether you pee over it or dump on it. Priceless. 
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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Hmmm, the Metric System was to standardise quantity of stuff for the French army... 
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That seems rather pointless. I doubt it was used very much.
Seriously, I recommend Ken Allder's book The Measure Of All Things which describes the two expeditions in revolutionary France to triangulate the measurement of the meter.
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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I know, I have read it (actually my first post here was about it way back...) Also I lend it to someone and haven't seen it since!
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All the British ones I've seen use Pounds & Ounces (& normally give metric equivalents, depending on their age).
Not that there anything wrong with cups, does away with the need for scales.
[Edit]
Example from Auntie's site:
fluffy American pancake[^]
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I remember trying to do with out scales and using the Jamie Oliver 'Hand full, bosh!' method, didn't work! scales are your friends, use them!  [edit] mind you, man points if you don't![/edit]
modified 3-Dec-13 6:35am.
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It was more a case of using a cup to measure, rather than clarting on with scales. Can eyeball some things, but cakes go badly if you try. That said the MIL can eyeball cake mix, so I guess experience plays a hand....
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Hi Everybody,
I´ve been chosen to help (together with all newbies from this year) organize this years christmas party in our company since basically no one else wanted to.
Drinks and food are allready coverd by the budget and are organized. Just need some inspiration about the entertainment, we´re about 60 people attending and the organization team came up with ideas like "Who am i" game? and powerpoint roulette.
So my question is what do you guys do for entertainment at christmas parties at work?
Hmm i wonder why its doing that......ARGHS NO STOP, ROLLBACK ROLLBACK...F*** That's how i learned to "Always Backup"!!
Dogs are man's best Friend,
Cats are man's adorable little serial killer
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