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I know, I know!
Build a smart, IoT enabled plate to keep this jam sandwich on, so that the plate can send real-time updates to my smart phone on how much bread is remaining, and if the bread needs a little more jam, etc.
Right? Riiight?
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It should also sense my appetite, any remaining ingredients too. Right?
Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere
- Albert Einstein.
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The Russians have already hacked it--the heating coils, when a small current is applied, vibrate to air pressure waves, allowing them to listen in on any conversations within a 6 foot radius of the toaster. 
Marc
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Indeed, some people might deny it though. That's the problem. 
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Amazon Echo already has that covered 
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They're way too late. I first saw The Object-Oriented Toaster in 1998 (or thereabouts).
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 saw what I think is the same version of this (except for the processor version cited) in the 1980s, and I believe it originated within Digital Equipment Corporation ("DEC"). It was in an email message that came from TURTLE::STAN, who I think was Stan Rabinowitz. If it didn't come from his keyboard, it at least passed through his disk space.
I'm retired. There's a nap for that...
- Harvey
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You are probably correct. I first saw this in a dump of alleged humour sent to me by an ex-DEC employee.
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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Rajesh R Subramanian wrote: from your smart phone
And can you put the slices in too via that app?
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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Does it allow you to load the bread a week in advance and monitor it to warn me if it's going green, so I can load it in advance so I don't have to get out of bed until it's ready?
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Comes with free membership of a botnet, I suspect.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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When it comes to programming languages, Smalltalk is about as old as it gets: It was first developed in 1969, with the first stable release coming out by 1980 Doesn't a renaissance require it to have been something before?
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Smalltalk was the best choice of language at the time when it was introduced, If fact it was very popular when MVC was introduced at the part of GUI developemnt. But then getting quickly died and swallowed by Java and .Net languages. Being expense has also add factor for being failed.
So should it worth to renaissance again?
I don't think so, the competition is so high right now with languages such as
Java, .Net. Javascript,... being multiple platforms, Web... would add more factor too.
Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere
- Albert Einstein.
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Well, there's always Essence# A Smalltalk-based Language for .NET
And like Smalltalk, it appears, well, dead.
Marc
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Let it die, let it die,... 
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Microsoft has introduced a new show to its Channel 9 video platform aimed at teaching and showing off Microsoft’s products and services. The new show is called .Game and aims to teach people how to develop games using .NET. .Not .a .fan .of .that .branding
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Thanks to elevation data of the moon from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, coupled with detailed NASA topography data of Earth, we have the most accurate maps of the path of totality for any eclipse to date. For your August 21 planning needs
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It's amazing how much effort and data it took to figure out where our own moon is, when they can tell you every tiny little detail about stuff that's squintillions of light years away, in only five minutes and with data comprising a couple of dozen photons.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Having done some undergrad research projects in astrophysics, I can tell you they don't have a whole lot of data. They're just to draw so much information out of the little bit of information they do have.
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Kaladin wrote: They're just to draw so much information guesswork and fantasy out of the little bit of information they do have.
Tell it like it is...
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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During a recent calibration exercise, NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured a remarkable view of Earth and its moon from a distance of 127 million miles (205 million kilometers). I can see my house!
OK, maybe Chris' place in Oz.
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Libel case brought by lawyer who represented Hulk Hogan in Gawker lawsuit. I hope they didn't reply via email
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Ummm yeah, he claims that he invented email in 1978. I was a computer user then, and sent what would be the equivalent of email (with a different name) back in, I think, 1970 (and if not then, then no later than 1972). I was not an inventor of the technology; I was a user. It was a user to user message system which I believe was developed locally on our IBM /360-65 mainframe at the University of Manitoba (and networked to other machines). I also later (?) used a system called Plato (?) circa 1973 or 1974, I think from the University of Minnesota, which had a similar messaging system, which was more networked.
This guy might have invented the term "e-mail" but he didn't invent what it was.
I'm retired. There's a nap for that...
- Harvey
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Today's computers often use as many as four different kinds of memory technology, from the hard drive to the memory chips, each with its own strengths and weaknesses. Let me guess: 5-10 years away?
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