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"What do you mean, they're reading my e-mails? Get me the number for the Internet postal service right away!"
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Rarely do I encounter someone in this industry who openly acknowledges being overpaid, but when it happens the conversation is not what you might expect. Not me (that's for sure)
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To wit the punch line to a joke:- "No sir, you pay me $5 an hour to hit the machine - $95 to know exactly when and where to hit it..."
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exactly - I've been in a lot of positions where a trained monkey could do 99% of the job, 99% of the time - what you're paying me for is the other 1%'s 
'g'
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You're paid? 
speramus in juniperus
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I got 7 magic beans today. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging 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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Microsoft is trying its best to convince developers to make apps for the Modern UI of Windows 8. This week, the company announced that developers will now have a little more control over when those apps will be published in the Windows Store. Convincing people to download them is still your responsibility
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When we moved - 15 years ago! - from COBOL screens to Windows 3.11 our customers were furious. They missed the good old ways of interacting with the application. Now no one wants to go and do it again - so we move to web on all platforms...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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Consternation and angst reign after the famed physicist suggests there are no black holes from which light can't escape to infinity. Very dark grey holes, however, do exist
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That kinda freaked me out a little, but I guess he's talking about Hawking radiation and the evaporation of black holes. So the logic would be "There is an apparent event horizon which stops light leaving, but black holes emit energy and so slowly shrink, and so eventually the event horizon shrinks and disappears, which means things can escape black holes. Except they "escape" as Hawking Radiation which reduces the likelihood of having a loved-one return from a black hole fairly significantly.
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Chris Maunder wrote: but black holes emit energy and so slowly shrink, and so eventually the event horizon shrinks and disappears, which means things can escape black holes.
That's assuming that the energy they emit surpasses the energy that they absorb. If so, and the event horizon disappears, then everything will escape eventually.
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Thank you, that makes this make more sense.
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TTFN - Kent
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Beyond all the dark things I'm happy to see that there is hope after all...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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news.com is like a black hole that sucks up all information and radiates nonsense.
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Windows 8.1 Update 1 may be headed for a March 2014 release and could include some under-the-hood changes to reduce memory and disk space requirements for cheaper tablets. Save the date, host an install party!
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Kent Sharkey wrote: and could include some under-the-hood changes to reduce memory and disk space requirements for cheaper tablets
So when I buy a 64GB tablet I actually get something close to 64GB of space I can use?
Or am I just being silly?
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You get something closer to 64 GB of space. But that won't help for long because ya know, Updates 'n' Stuff.
Veni, vidi, caecus | Everything summarizes to Assembly code
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It's the same with other OS's tablets and even desktops! For instance, my ASUS Transformer Prime 32gb Tablet has only 27gb available because of all the space used by the OS and the preinstalled apps.
That 1TB drive is reduced in size with the install of the OS and other software.
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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ahmed zahmed wrote: It's the same with other OS's tablets
Ummm... it was particularly bad on Windows 8 tablets.
Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. ~ George Washington
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And?
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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...and I think that was what Chris was referring to. 
Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. ~ George Washington
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To which I basically responded with "so what?"
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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Snore....
Wow and my desktop storage is reduced by 200gb or more when I install windows and a few applications
Whoop-de-do!
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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If your desktop shipped with 64% of its total capacity used by the OS and a couple bundled applications you would think differently.
But we already know this - you're just being difficult.
Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. ~ George Washington
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