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I didn't see where they said that all that money was only in the US... I remember that in Spain too.
I suppose the 3.8B is worldwide
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?
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That's why I said "but let's roll with it". I didn't want to try to track down how many quarters are in circulation world-wide...and then take the different currencies into account. I'd still be adding variables to the equation if I wanted something accurate.
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dandy72 wrote: That's why I said "but let's roll with it".
Sorry, didn't understand it that way. Non-native here. My apologies and thanks for teaching me a new expresion.
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?
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Non-native here either, but getting plenty of exposure and always willing to learn.
No need to apologize.
All it meant in this context is "let's ignore that detail and use those numbers anyway".
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dandy72 wrote:
All it meant in this context is "let's ignore that detail and use those numbers anyway".
I understood it once you pointed the sentence out. Then it was obvious but I didn't see that in the first time.
dandy72 wrote: always willing to learn.
The only day lost is the day in which you don't learn anything new.
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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dandy72 wrote: every quarter was collected 40 times.
Sounds about right. In 1978 there was no Internet (accessible to regular people) and we only had about 3 tv channels, one local book store. There wasn't much to do so you may as well convert all your money to quarters and hang out at the local arcade. 
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During that era, it was possible to design a game cabinet's hardware and software with a one-man effort.
Today's AAA game requires a big team compared to a small team in 90s.
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David O'Neil wrote: Leslie
I haven't noticed her visit here in a long time.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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It sounds familiar, but I won't click on it.
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Do developers spend beach holidays surfing the net?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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with the right equipment they sometimes will deep dive too
after many otherwise intelligent sounding suggestions that achieved nothing the nice folks at Technet said the only solution was to low level format my hard disk then reinstall my signature. Sadly, this still didn't fix the issue!
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And spammers go on fishing holidays.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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OriginalGriff wrote: Do developers spend beach holidays surfing the net?
That didn't work out so well for Sandra Bullock. 
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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They shore do!
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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Often they're tide to their work, but in a wave of enthusiasm they may get away foam it.
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OMG! "surfing the net" that expression is sooo nineties! Back in the day we used a 14400bps dial-up modem to connect to Compuserve to catch the waves! Those were the days when you could actually see an image forming in your screen while it was (slowly!) downloaded. 
Anyways all that talk about surfing and waves has put me in the mood for some Beach Boys!
Surf's up dude!
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I learned my first BASIC through a 110 bps modem - my school couldn't affort a high speed 300 bps modem.
But that was in the fall of 1975.
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...like right clicking on a link in a Word document and the popup menu still calls it a "Hyperlink" 
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many years ago, back in the early days of even MSDOS some unix folks created unix [like] commands for DOS: grep, ls, diff, even ed/sed and one guy even wrote a half descent sh (bourne).
guess what microsoft are doing today!
nothing for us to get... something they are very ...excited about
living in the past is just one of their things.
after many otherwise intelligent sounding suggestions that achieved nothing the nice folks at Technet said the only solution was to low level format my hard disk then reinstall my signature. Sadly, this still didn't fix the issue!
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The ms developer's response to the ticket that someone put in for that says that it's already broken, so they're not going to fix it.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I remember back in middle school in the 80s working with HyperCard to set up custom stacks on the school's Macs (goofy things like choose your own adventure games, etc.). And they called them Hyperlinks back then too.
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AFell2 wrote: And they called them Hyperlinks back then too.
Yes, exactly! The 1980's! And at that point, HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) was new or unheard of. But now?
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But hypertext was a well known concept. Ted Nelsons book was published in 1974. Every now and then I bring my copy of the book to work to show to young, new employees the ideas of almost fifty years ago. They are amused, and a little bit impressed.
Some are fascinated when I point out Ted Nelson's two different hypertext scenarios: The one that survived, where text is is the vertices (nodes); edges (links) are without content. In the second one, vertices are mere selection points; text is found on the edge between two selection points. You consider text from one vertex to the second to the third and so on as one continous, coherent chain of text fragments to be read as a whole.
The two approaches obviously are suited for different uses. In a network of independent nodes you cannot easily store much data between the nodes. The text-in-the-edges approach is mainly suited for one coherent text body, that can be read along an arbitrary number of paths. When I write a personal letter (I am old enough to remember the days when that was a common thing...), writing one sentence gives me two different associations, two lines of thought, and I wish I could follow both in the following sentence. I am forced to string them out sequentially. In printed books, footnotes are a slight suggestion of the concept, but you can't follow the footnote path very long (*), and you divert from the main track, you are not given two+ equivalent alternative paths.
Most people never considered alternatives to text-in-the-nodes. Presentation of an alternative sets them thinking: Everyone knows the situation where you want to follow two lines of thought from the same point; they certainly see the usefulness of the alternative that lost. So let us bring it back again!
(*) Except for some authors that excel in writing footnotes to footnotes, present major plots in footnotes etc. Some books may be read either way - e.g. "Spoon River Anthology" may be be read as a continous path from one person/epitaph to another one, crisscrossing through Spoon River, even though it textually is a text-in-nodes structure.
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But what's that weird save icon?
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