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Kent Sharkey wrote: Oh look: a stylus. Think different
As a drawing tool, YES (to use the iPad as a wacom replacement), as an input device, not really an advancement.
I'd rather be phishing!
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$169 for a freaking keyboard! and they laughed at MS for the price of the Surface keyboard (then proceeded to copy it).
Almost everything in this years presentation is already being done by their competitors, the gloss seems to be slipping since Steve "If you see a stylus, they blew it" Jobs died.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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N.Y. Times: [^].
The Nabobs who can't/won't do business now in China ... they'll be there.
Wonder what Bill G. and President Xi will talk about ?
"In Seattle, Mr. Xi is also set to meet the Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates at his nearby lakeside estate for dinner before heading to Washington to meet President Obama."
«I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center» Kurt Vonnegut.
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The following riddle is claimed to have been written by Einstein as a boy. Your daily chance to feel superior (of the day)
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I think Leslie may have already solved this many times. 
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I care not for Leslie (actually that site meme irritates me beyond words), but of course if you'd care to find a post and prove it, I'll drop that item from tomorrow's newsletter (and you'll win a virtual medal).
TTFN - Kent
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Gosh, clever.
Forums weren't selected though, but whatever, fine. Removed to save your poor sensibilities from seeing something more than once.
TTFN - Kent
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No, leave it in: there must be at least one geek who has never seen it.
p.s. looking forward to receiving my medal. 
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Done 
Used Excel for practical reasons, but needed only a sheet of paper and a pencil.
Reductio ad absurdum.
Do I win a chocolate medal ?
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
modified 8-Sep-15 20:18pm.
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ppolymorphe wrote: Do I win a chocolate medal ?
You win a chocolate-coated manhole cover
(Extra points for identifying the reference)
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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I guess that being french will not help me.
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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The reference is from a short story by Larry Niven, What Can You Say About Chocolate-Covered Manhole Covers?. It can be found in his book All The Myriad Ways, and also on Google Books.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Thanks for explanation
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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I used same approach as one for Cheryl's birthday[^] problem and solved really quickly. Where is my award?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: only 2% of the world can solve
That's maybe because the rest found it boring to concentrate on the options for 10-20 minutes to solve a riddle that not entertaining at all...
(I got it in 12:35 with a sheet of paper and pencil)
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Meh. I got bored with that sort of puzzle about 20 years ago.
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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Hints 10-15 map to A-F.
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Mads Torgersen, C# language program manager at Microsoft, has recently outlined a proposal for the introduction of option types for references in C# 7. And then we can add optional options using the ?? syntax
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A few months back we announced a partnership with Unity. This makes it easier for game developers to use the rich capabilities of the Visual Studio IDE for building Unity games and to discover the tools for Unity from within Visual Studio. "Come play my game Ill test ya"
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With more than 400 million desktop installations in its pocket, it was only a matter of time until Adblock Plus became available on mobile devices. Because you've got more important things to look at (cat videos!)
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cat videos > /dev/null?
Geek code v 3.12 {
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If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
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A next-generation query language for document databases extends SQL to work with semi-structured data SELECT clue FROM concepts WHERE me_get_it=false
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