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charlieg wrote: With 3 kids, you ought to know better 
but I understand.
Sure do. But it's nice to dream
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MidwestLimey wrote: cried somewhat upon boarding the return flight
Obviously the kid remembered, from the first flight, what a miserable flying companion you are and was dreading the return. By all means, drug yourself into oblivion and give the kid a break, then let the wifey drive home. If you take enough of the stuff, you won't care what side of the road she prefers. If other drivers have a problem with that, let them deal with it.
Will Rogers never met me.
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Roger Wright wrote: Obviously the kid remembered, from the first flight, what a miserable flying
companion you are and was dreading the return.
On both journeys he was sat with my wife. You could be on to something ...
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Might I suggest a sinus decongestant, rather than an antihistamine?
I have minor chronic allergies, which results in congestion and specifically a problem with pain in my ears due to cabin pressure. My ears don't "pop" very well (if at all) and let the pressure normalize. If your little one has this problem, a decongestant like Sudafed an hour before your flight (and every four hours during) might help. The down side is that some decongestants act as something of a stimulant. Talk to your pediatrician and see what they suggest.
Software Zen: delete this;
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a take on someone else's "pun"
Windows 8
Windows 8.1 (8 + 1 = 9)
Windows 8.1 Update 1 (8 + 1 + 1 = 10)
Windows 10
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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To make the adjustment more sensible, I say we just remove the number 9 from the face of the planet. It sucked anyway.
Jeremy Falcon
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Let's all switch to base-8 math. Screw you -9-!!!
My plan is to live forever ... so far so good
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Since we've already used the digit '8' surely you mean base 9? 
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In base 8 there is no number 9, same as there is no number 2 in binary.
My plan is to live forever ... so far so good
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In base 8 there is also no 8. Hence, since we've already had Windows 8 base 8 doesn't work.
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The topic discusses the number 9. In my view the number 8 is irrelevant in this context. But we can start using base-9 math if it will make you feel better.
My plan is to live forever ... so far so good
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DJ van Wyk wrote: But we can start using base-9 math if it will make you feel better.
Well, he's right, the point of using base-8 was to remove the digit 9. Base-2 makes more sense since it is already an established base system extensively used and it doesn't have a 9 either. Computers don't have a 9 in their operating system, but that doesn't stop them from printing 9. We programmers seem to like base 10 so the program adjusts it to suit us dumb clucks on the other end of the screen.
What, you can't tell at a glance what 10110001001101 is?
If you can, wow, I'm impressed. I admit it, I can't. I can tell at a glance what 9 base 10 is in binary. In base 8, 9 (9 in base ten, hex, etc.) is 11.
Back to that long number 2^10 is 1024, so 1024+2048+8192+64+8+4+1=11,341 (That was assuming the string of 1's and 0's were a base 2 number.) I calculated the numbers on the left in my head but the final number used the calculator. Too lazy to drag out pencil and paper or finger math from memory. Shoot, I mention finger math and I remember it) I also can't write out the decimal number without looking up on the web what comes up after a trillion, but I know it's a hundred and one of them. I'd also have to look up the British names too, but I think a trillion is the first that diverges from American standard names.
Anyway, base 9 is the only base number that would display 9 as 10.
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DJ van Wyk wrote: The topic discusses the number 9. In my view the number 8 is irrelevant in this context.
To be precise, the topic never discussed 9 except in the explanation of getting from version 8 to 10. The elephant in the room is that Microsoft's versions go from 8 to 10. Base 8 isn't a good explanation for that because then it should go from version 7 to 10 in that case. However, there isn't a really good explanation for Microsoft's naming conventions. Remember Windows 99? Well, if you're 15 or less, you wouldn't. (Maybe even 20 or less.) But that'd be a good explanation for the introduction of Windows 14, not 10.
Even the "explanation" lists version 10 twice in the series, so this really should be version 11 by its logic.
The best explanation is that Microsoft's naming convention is erratic and inconsistent. Don't expect it to make sense.
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Sorry, I don't remember Win 99, I do remember 96. I also remember Win 2000. So at one point their release names were associated to the year of release.
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he probably means base 10, as in 8 + 1! 
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Wait until Visual Studio (15)9 comes out, all octal and hex references will have been removed to enforce the MS paradigm.
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So, when there will be base-9 notation support? 
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Gosh, I hadn't thought it through that far. I'm sure it will be included in the VS (15)9 release - but perhaps someone with more free time than sense could bang a VS toolkit add-in together so we could get some early practice....
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9 is, amusingly, a 4 anyway.
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I thought it was because they wanted to avoid the possibility of Apple commercials with a frantic Hitler
yelling "Windows!!! Nein!!! Nein!!! Nein!!!"
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Now that[^]... is the real reason!
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I think the interwebs may have figured out the true reason, yes. Seems all to believable (and those code search results make it more believable). 
TTFN - Kent
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