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Somewhere around 2000 I remember reading about two different research groups that both created long term solar cycle models (none of the older ones attempted to go beyond one cycle ahead). Both did good postdiction of the 20th century and predicted that the most recent peak would be delayed and smaller than normal. One of the two had a similar prediction to this one that the few after would be even smaller; the second that the peak after this one would be closer to normal and the one after that would be normal.
Unless the back to business as usual model's been found to have a fatal flaw (that was never covered by any of the press I've seen), I'm going to take a wait and see attitude until we have some idea what the next peak will look like.
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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On my tablet, I'm importing a lot of contacts - it's a long story - and it seems to have locked up on one of them. So...tap the "importing Sue..." notification in the messages bar and it gives me the option to cancel the import:
Cancel Import of Sue blah blah.vcf?
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________ _________
| Cancel | | OK |
-------- ---------Now, does the "Cancel" button cancel the operation, or does the "OK" button cancel it?
Needless to say, "Cancel" cancels the cancel, and "OK" does a cancel.
What's so difficult about "No" and "Yes" buttons? Huh?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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No, you are right 
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OriginalGriff wrote: Now, does the "Cancel" button cancel the operation, or does the "OK" button cancel it?
Yes?
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Yes | No | Maybe 
How do we preserve the wisdom men will need,
when their violent passions are spent?
- The Lost Horizon
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Ignore it and the problem will go away on its own. Eventually. Maybe.
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Similar to what I heard during my first visit to the US about fifteen years ago -
"It ain't not work". Will it work? Will it not? Not sure (to me).
"It ain't not happen". Will it happen? Or not?
Have never visited the UK, so am not sure of this usage there. But, the English taught in India (in my childhood days, more than 35 years ago) didn't have such usages.
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When you hopefully finally visit us here in the UK, you will find that we do indeed speak the English you learnt 35 years ago. I visited the US many times during my time with IBM and I very quickly came to the conclusion that they speak American in the US. It bears as much resemblance to English as Brazilian Portuguese does to Portuguese. They both have the same derivative language but time has taken its toll on the way it is spoken today.
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Great. I thought so too.
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"I ain't going nowhere". Are you going anywhere or not going anywhere?
and
"Midnight ain't no time for laughing, when you say goodbye". Is midnight a good time for laughing or it ain't??
I caught these lines in 2 of the songs of one direction.
modified 22-Jul-15 7:52am.
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Got it. Quixote, Cervantes .. downloaded. Will do.
Gotta run now. Bye.
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I have a coworker who is brilliant (seriously), but he has this annoying habit of using negative logic:
if (!TestNotPassed)
// it worked!
I have to be very careful when reading his code.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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I've seen this with previous colleagues as well.
Found it véry annoying. I had the impression they want to look clever and construct code that was hard to read so they would appear more techy like, or something.
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Actually, you have to be very not not careful.
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It still beats Abort/Retry/Fail...
I'm retired. There's a nap for that...
- Harvey
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| Cancel | OK | 
That was the first mistake!
Proper way is
| OK | Cancel |
!!!
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I'm a little surprised it wasn't
| Cancel | | Cancel |
With the first one cancelling the cancellation, and the second cancelling the operation. Except in Arabic countries where the buttons should be reversed.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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shouldn't the Ok button (or the yes) be on the left and the Cancel button (or the no) on the right ? 
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Perhaps "Abort" on the left, and "Like" on the bottom?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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no follow button then? 
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They're borrowing techniques from game developers, it's really just the illusion of choice and both will cancel it anyway.
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Clearly there needs to be 3 buttons: Abort, Retry, and Fail
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Why not use: [Import] [Cancel] ???
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What? Change the caption on a standard dialog button? Are you mad?
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