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Looks nice.
This[^] is pretty similar to what we had
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If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
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Very dark roasted, I only see black 
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Rindrouladen with german spätzle, in my case without the "rot-Kohl" but with butter-veggies.
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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I plan on taking the "NY State Approved Driver Safety Training Course", a six-hour online adventure. However, it will lower my car insurance rates for three years (several hundred dollars).
With coffee.
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W∴ Balboos, GHB wrote: the "NY State Approved Driver Safety Training Course", a six-hour online adventure.
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City? 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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You're going to need that coffee. I did similar courses a couple of times to get tickets dismissed, and they're positively mind-numbing. There might be 10 minutes of material where you learn something. The idea is that you deserve to be punished, one way or another. And if you're tempted to skip ahead and just do the test at the end of the current section, one that any moron could pass, forget it. Some of the questions will be stuff like, "What color was the car in blah blah blah scene?", just to prove that you suffered through it.
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Not that mind-numbeing, actually. differently designed than yours.
NY State requires a minimum 5hr 20min course, whether online or live. The screens are timed and you cannot just skip through screens - you must stay until its particular timer says you're done. Now, admittedly, it could be done in under an hour and I had plenty of pauses to fill with other online activities whilst the timers ran down. An exam, afterwards and periodic identity checks (these, of course, easily circumvented but equates to purgery).
(pause)Just submitted my exam, passed, the rest is automatic.(/pause)
Anyway - the setup would make your skipping of screens impossible, and, as long as you're there, you may as well read them. They even had some videos, mostly anecdotal and featuring the victims of foolish behavior (or, when fatal results interfere, actors). I haven't any points to get rid of but it would remove '4', which is >/= all but the most serious violations. Driving while intoxicated cannot be erased by this and you cannot keep a credit balance. I like the 10% off on my vehicle insurance.
Unfortunately, taking the course does not really imply anything like retention of the information, or for that matter, a desire to retain it.
Mostly, I pick up tidbits. I learned, for example, not to hit the breaks for a pothole: it's better for the tires, etc., in terms of actual impact intensity. Of course, if I actually was able to see it ahead of time I'd drive around it.
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Hi All,
My user name changed should be enough to indicate I have left/been kicked out of the pub. I now have a paying Gig, I did post about it (had quite an interesting chat with Dave Auld about it, linked to his industry). I have not yet felt confortable about logging into CP while on Company time (mind you of the infrastructure guys is playing Fortnight (or some run and gun game) others are zoning out to YouTube. So I might risk it next year. In the mean time to ![Green Alien | [Alien]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/alien.gif) and all Happy Chrsitmas, Honnakur, Holidays and the rest. Thanks for being there, 
Glenn
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had that same experience about a year ago. It all works out. and every team is different yet the same as you are already noticing.
Congrats on the new gig. Wishing you well this Christmas season.
At least you are putting on the good impression. But Code PRoject will probably be looked well upon. Unless they come into the lounge that is.
To err is human to really elephant it up you need a computer
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Well in my first interview they said 'Oooh you have an article on Code Project, it well liked' so they know of the Code Project... 
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So how could they complain if they found you here again?
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Umm, they didn't, the Embedded Software guy knew CP and saw a link on my CV. 
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I looked up your article[^], and it's very popular indeed!
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Glad to hear all is well. Know that you can always connect here and get your daily insults.
Regardless of any beliefs, I hope you have a merry Christmas day.
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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Congratulations on your new job.
No worries, the lounge will still be here when you pass the "test" period and can surf again
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Usually laser printer over inkjets...
PS: is a very valuable working resource. They should be glad to see you here (maybe not in the lounge, unless you send programming questions there too).
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My main role seems at the moment to be getting bits of kit through Qualification Testing which is not as easy as it seems, most of our stuff has to be subsea (Water proof, Pressure resistant) and there is practically every where is the hospital's phone number that can treat 'high pressure tissue damage'!
will come into play when I have to fix busted software.
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I have always had this strange notion, or perhaps "feeling" is a better word that Christmas Eve should be a good day. A day where hopefully, if you're lucky, all the shopping, present wrapping etc is done, you don't have to work (again, if you're lucky) and can relax doing "Christmassy" things and just maybe, start a little moderate drinking not too far after lunch.
My experience over many decades has proved this to be, in my case at least, a fallacy.
This year, I made the conscious decision I won't promise any elaborate dishes that will require most of the day to prepare only to result in ultimate disappointment. My only challenge would be to clone the other half's HDD onto SDD to quickly whack into place in her laptop on Christmas morning.
So, I briefed her, I would defrag, disc cleanup etc in advance at times to suit her. Then - make sure she has a copy of everything in say, her email, saved somewhere just in case. I would then do my thing and clone the drive on Christmas Eve.
So, ready to start. "Oh, hang on, I've got a few things I want to do on it first ..."
In the words of the old text based adventure games - time passes...
Right, so I can finally start. I think I'll use "belt & braces" and create a restore point just in case. No probs there.
Next, over to my PC to run SyncToy to backup all her files onto my machine. No, that won't work because, as usual, my computer can no longer get access to her laptop over the network. This is not unusual as virtually ever Windows update breaks it.
I check the usual causes in Network and Sharing and nothing looks amiss there. It tells me I don't have permission, so I check the Sharing and Permissions on her machine and yes, I do have permission.
Life's too short for this on Christmas Eve. So, I go to plan B. This failure almost always only happens in one direction i.e. my machine can't access hers, but hers can normally access mine. And it does. So, I download Sync Toy to her machine and backup all her files to mine.
Install True Image - or at least try to. At this point Bit Defender wakes up and starts chewing up disc and CPU like it's having a good old Christmas gorge on a Yule Log. Still, eventually it is satisfied and gives up and I get the cloning underway. Obviously this will result in some sort of disaster later at around the 99% - 100% mark but for now at least, life should be pleasant.
"There's something wrong with the garage door." I hear.
Handle hanging out one side, refusing to open from the outside, she tells me. "If you shut it you'll have to go to the other (vehicle) door to open it from the inside."
Now, in true festive fashion, the temperature has plummeted. I look at the car thermometer which tells me it's a balmy 5 degrees. This I think is the equivalent of a man being asked "Does my bum look big in this?" It has given the "correct" answer, rather than the "true" one. I suspect rather colder. Now, I know this figure constitutes sunbathing weather people such as temperature hardened Canadians but for us Brits, after a mild spell, it is a shock to the system.
So, cant get the lock off as my hands are very cold and the screws are thoroughly rusted in. Manage to get the inside part of the lock off and re-connect everything, in rather a bodged fashion but at least the door has a handle both sides and can be opened and shut.
I retreat indoors for a chance to get warm but that plan has been quashed too. Having recently had some decorating finished, herself now decides the house stinks of paint and has helpfully opened all the doors. So I am now sitting at my PC, still with my coat on, wondering what festive joys are still awaiting me on this relaxing, pleasant day.
Ho ho elephanting ho!
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Rich Leyshon wrote: Ho ho elephanting ho!
Do not google "Ho ho Kevin Bloody Wilson" ... or at least turn the volume down first ...
Have a festive Yuletide, and enjoy the little victories!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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I don't have Kev's Kristmas album, but got enough suitable tunes of his for the occasion including the charmingly festive "Santa Claus you ****" and the one that seems to fit now, "Absolute **** of a day"
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