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Pushing your own taxi, wow did you get a fare discount? 
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Yes. I had to pay half the price and got a receipt for the full amount which I got back because it was a business travel
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Good job, reminds me of the time, too many years ago, when I used to get paid for travel time.
As soon as I got on the flight I switched my watch to the destination time, it was then Sunday for the whole flight = a lot more double time pay
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I don't have much travels anymore too 
But that was a little bit special because it was the November Storm of 1995 - Wikipedia[^] and I was on board a research vessel around Gotland.
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I remember that storm.
I was a student then. We had an Indian student from Bhopal (the western side) living in the same house, she was doing an internship at the time.
After realizing the buses didn't go she walked to her job (4 km) just to realize she was the only one there.
Her boss was so delighted to have someone around, being able to answer the phone while actually being able to checkup on stuff, that he gave her the following Friday off.
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HobbyProggy wrote: I hope some day people learn to drive in snow.
Step 1: Don't drive. 
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Is it just me or is the method in which you need to update SSMS ridiculously inane.
You get a notification within the app that it's out of date. The third one this month. So you click the link thinking it will initiate an in-app update. It's just a console app, after all.
But no. You are sent to a website where you choose the download you need, you download it, find it, double click it, and then get a notice that it can't proceed because SSMS is open. Your only option is to close and restart the installer.
So you close SSMS, relaunch the updater, wait, then click the Close button on the "we're finally done" screen and relaunch SSMS. And, of course, delete the app you just downloaded because it's littering your desktop.
And the point of the update? No idea. It looks and acts exactly the same. There's not even a "Fixed the icon to use the correct shade of chartreuse" or something update summary paraded in front of you so you feel good about that 5 mins of wasted time and the 1hr of recollecting your thoughts.
Can someone remind me just how much I pay a year for the privilege of using SQL Server? 
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote: Can someone remind me just how much I pay a year for the privilege of using SQL Server?
Because you finally get panignation support, that's only been available in other RDBMSes for decades, but still. You finally get that! Lucky you.
Jeremy Falcon
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And it rocks my socks.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Strange, there was about 6 weeks between 17.3 and 17.4. So how do you get 3 updates of SSMS in 1 month.
If you are talking about VS2017, then I agree.
In Word you can only store 2 bytes. That is why I use Writer.
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Are you suggestion I tone down my exaggerations and embellishments when having a rant?
I'm not sure I can do that.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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I suggest that if you rant you better know the facts, otherwise ranting goes about nothing.
In Word you can only store 2 bytes. That is why I use Writer.
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oo-kaay.
Well, thanks for missing the entire point of my rant.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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You are welcome
In Word you can only store 2 bytes. That is why I use Writer.
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Chris Maunder wrote: And the point of the update? No idea. It looks and acts exactly the same. There's not even a "Fixed the icon to use the correct shade of chartreuse" or something update summary paraded in front of you so you feel good about that 5 mins of wasted time and the 1hr of recollecting your thoughts.
A lot of the time I think what you're getting is compatibility with the latest random twiddle in the azure DB import/export blob formats.
Certainly I've never noticed anything else change from one update to the next beyond the cryptic fail message i was getting going away and the process working again. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Chris Maunder wrote: And the point of the update? No idea.
You mean you don't waste another five minutes reading the changelog[^]? 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Simmons - fuchsia.
Maunder - chartreuse.
Who's next? 
Cheers,
विक्रम
"We have already been through this, I am not going to repeat myself." - fat_boy, in a global warming thread
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They're gone. I just updated my favicon list for 2018 and here's the latest incarnation of crap we have to keep track of:
<head>
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<!-- don't use a generic generator for images, we're artists after all -->
<link rel="icon" href="/favicon.ico?v=1.0" /><!-- old way 16x16, 32x32, 48x48 -->
<link rel="icon" sizes="128x128" href="/favicon.png"><!-- Android Normal Resolution -->
<link rel="icon" sizes="192x192" href="/favicon-hd.png"><!-- Android High Resolution -->
<link rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="57x57" href="/touch-icon-iphone.png"><!-- iPhone 1-3GS -->
<link rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="76x76" href="/touch-icon-ipad.png"><!-- iPad and iPad mini -->
<link rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="120x120" href="/touch-icon-iphone-retina.png"><!-- iPhone 4-8 -->
<link rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="152x152" href="/touch-icon-ipad-retina.png"><!-- iPad and iPad mini 2nd gen -->
<link rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="167x167" href="/touch-icon-ipad-pro.png"><!-- iPad Pro -->
<link rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="180x180" href="/touch-icon-iphone-6-plus.png"><!-- iPhone X, 6-8 Plus -->
...
</head> And yeah I comment my HTML. It gets stripped out anyway. Don't judge.
Jeremy Falcon
modified 17-Dec-17 21:48pm.
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Speaking of favicons, I noticed a few days ago after the 'feature update' for Winten that my IE tabs no longer show an icon...even for CP.  I've been too busy to try and fix it...maybe this week.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Oh yeah - that kills me.
Seriously: how hard is it just to have us produce a 256 x 256 icon for use across all devices. Resizing images is kinda a solved problem.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Totally, I mean I get it. 8k displays and 16x16 won't exactly work. But yeah, 152x152 isn't even a power of two. WTF apple. Like we if did a PoT 256x256 like you said, we could just scale the sucker anywhere from 32 to 512 and have it look good. But no, we have 152. 
Jeremy Falcon
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It's so good to hear other people complain about this.
truly inspiring.
I was grumbling and mumbling to myself as I was generating images for the iOS app I released into the apple store.
I couldn't believe all of the sizes I had to produce : one was 167 x 167 and they call it 83.5 X 2X I have no idea what that means. I ended up having to create 16 different sizes of icons for the app store. Loads of fun. 
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Yeah - 83.5pt x 2X is a bit silly.
Apple's guidelines[^] ask for a 1024 x 1024. Surely they can just scale that bad-boy and we can be done, no? I'm sure phone users on a slow EDGE connection wouldn't mind downloading half a Mb of image just so their 16x16 icon in the browser tab looks good.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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It's like the browser wars are back. And history repeats itself.
Jeremy Falcon
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