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Mark_Wallace wrote: You're not English
I was raised and schooled in the UK so, pretty much, I am. I even have a British accent.
Mark_Wallace wrote: Sorry, but I see absolutely bugger-all to do with aliens. I'm not even going to bother visiting the other page.
You should if you want a chuckle.
Besides, it's much easier to shout Aliens and the Paranormal than to seek out a proper explanation and much more fun.
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R. Giskard Reventlov wrote: I even have a British accent.
YOU'RE AN ALIEN!!!
BURN THE ALIEN!!!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Alien does not exist. Alienware does.
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Vincent Maverick Durano wrote: Alienware does [exist].
So you say, but the only reports of its existence I've seen have stated that their exclusive habitat is the basements of mothers, which are places no-one in their right mind would ever go anywhere near.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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This one's been well and truly debunked.
IT's a metal tooth from the digger used in the excavation. It's not 250,000 years old. It's just a few years old and oxidised.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Bigger question is why you still allow links to The Sun 
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cheers
Chris Maunder
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With due respect isn't The Sun the centre of the solar system, and if we disallowed that its quite possible that the tangerine people would get uppity and take over the world.
Dang i think its started.
Regardz
Colin J Davies
The most LinkedIn CPian (that I know of anyhow) 
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Hey Colin. How have you been, old friend?
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I like these attempts to prove that there are aliens; gives the Drake-equation some credibility.
The government is keeping them a secret of course, and no signals that amateurs could decipher. There must be men-in-black operating, otherwise it could not be kept a global secret 
Life may be abundant, but we are proving every day that intelligent life does not yet exist in the known universe.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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I have religiously been a Internet Explorer devotee despite the onslaught of many a new browser. But alas, I have seen the light after repeated hiccups and crashes with IE over the past week. So having just removed all all vestiges of IE from my desktop, taskbar and menu, I am a lost soul as I feel my years of blind faith have been unrewarded by Microsoft. Oh well, easy come, easy go! Here is my parting message for Microsoft.... 
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So which browser are you now worshipping?
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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Chuckle!
But since you asked...I've installed Firefox, Chrome and Safari to play with over the next few months.
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Ian Bell, #2 wrote: Firefox, Chrome and Safari
You can do much better than those "mass-appeal" junkers -- Opera and Maxthon, for starters.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Given my years of 'mindless' dedication to IE, I expect any browser to be better. Any chance you can quickly summarize the advantages of Opera and Maxthon over those I referenced?
Cheers,
Ian
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I've got maxthon open, so:
- For starters, it's got everything that all the other browsers have, so you won't miss any bells and whistles.
- It's faster than the others (except Opera when using the Opera servers)
- It integrates standards faster than the others
- You get to choose which rendering engine to use, so if a page won't display, you can just change the rendering engine (the mobile version gives you even more choices, like IOS/Android/desktop modes).
- Their sync features are pretty much how they should be. I can start reading something on my tablet, continue reading it on my phone, if holding the tablet becomes inconvenient, and finish it off at home on a desktop/laptop.
- AdBlock+ is built in.
- Not sure whether to class this is a plus or a minus, but it stores cookies in a database, which means you need to use a database editor to get at them (free ones are available[^]). That looks kind of minus-ish, but that also means that you can run queries, rather than have to grind your way through them.
- They are genuine innovators. They are the guys who made the MyIE shell, all those years ago, which gave IE4 most of the functionality offered by "modern, innovative" browser makers.
The latest version (which I haven't installed yet; I always adopt "late" -- i.e. at the right time) is supposed to add yet more innovation, like proper password management/generation and Shadow email.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I'd not heard of Maxthon until your response. I will definitely take a look at it.
Thanks,
Ian
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Firefox is the officially supported browser within my company. I have some issues with FF, mainly how long it occasionally takes it to start up, as well as how long it takes to break/move a tab out in a new window.
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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Ian Bell, #2 wrote: Safari
Have you moved to a Mac, or are you using the incredibly out-of-date, no longer supported, and thoroughly insecure Windows version that Apple released in 2007 and disowned in 2012?
Apple apparently kills Windows PC support in Safari 6.0[^]
"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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Working in Windows, thankfully, if what you say it true...
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You should try Edge then 
modified 19-Nov-18 21:01pm.
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My significant other is telling me she enjoys working with Edge. I will have to give it a try.
Thanks
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Ok, so I dumped cable TV (TWC) and have been trying a few alternatives so I'm not hostage to those greedy barstools. (I've found most of the live news I like on YouTube).
At the moment it's Amazon Prime. Apart from one or 2 decent films, it's not worth the money. Will move on to Hulu next.
The exceptions:
TV series called FleaBag. Elephanting brilliant. Only 6 episodes - 3 hours total.
Film called Blackout. Got to see that one.
They have some Amazon only content (Man in the High Castle, for instance) but that wouldn't be enough to keep me interested and most of the films are b-movies or very old.
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Cut the cable a couple of years ago, now.
Amazon Prime: sucks - so much of what you want is pay-extra.
NetFlix: Good if your primary interest is movies
HuluPlus: Good if your primary interest is TV
HuluPlus will have the TV episodes the next day. NetFlix recently got control of a show I watch (actually, the entire lineup from a network). You'll not see the current season's episodes until well after the entire season is over.
HuluPlus: commercials on TV shows (unless you pay extra), but their movies have all been commercial free.
My current interface is via Roku - a real ass of a company - but with the largest variety of stations to connect.
My cable bill TV bill is now ca. US$8/month, which pays for HuluPlus.
Depending upon your connection method, you'll have more media than you can ever know what to do with. Mrs. Wife, who was skeptical at first, not only has adapated, but sees the merits in having almost everything you watch already recorded for you.
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W∴ Balboos wrote: NetFlix: Good if your primary interest is movies
This bit isn't really true anymore. The amount of Netflix-produced TV series is getting insane at this point. Everyone knows about the big ones ("House of Cards", "Orange is the New Black", Marvel stuff), but there are literally dozens of other shows being released.
As far as a response to the original post, I currently just have an HD antenna hooked up to my XBone and a Netflix account. When combined with various web clips and going to the pub for any live sporting events I would like to watch, I have everything that I require from an entertainment standpoint.
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde
Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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