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My first time playing...had to see what all the rage is about. 
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"Hope is contagious"
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The Windows 11 "taskbar" is disgusting. It should be at the left of the screen, with real icons, with text, progress, etc. They downgraded my developer PC to a bloody iPhone.
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"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'm watching this series while I spend my endless hours on the trainer trying to maintain fitness during the endless frigid months between Toronto unfreezing, and weeks later, freezing again.
For those who haven't seen it (and honestly: avoid if you can) it has the classic "Cute cop / nerdy programmer" team up. Nothing unusual there, including the endless scenes along the lines of:
Her: I need [incredibly esoteric piece of data that would require a serious amount of access, data mining, analysis, bandwidth, and full security access]
Him: I'm on it
Computer: lots of beeps as he types
Him, seconds later: I have the [plans to the nuclear weapons / complete genome of the person standing next to her / the full backstory including kindergarten photos and psychologists notes of the bad guy]
Never one do you see the guy swear at his IDE for locking up, or have to wait for a long query to execute only to get a timeout, or to find that the latest update to Chrome screwed up that clever regex he was using to parse HTML. Though no boy genius would ever use regex to parse HTML, right?
I get that it pushed the story along and it's certainly fun to dream, but I think they are missing such an opportunity for comedy if they included just a tiny bit of our lives.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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I'm watching Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D now and in one episode I watched last night the nerdy "engineer" had to boot up a Commodore (I think) to get the "servers" to recover after an attack. I saw 5 1/4 " floppies in use.
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Marvel is awesome.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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The stories are very poorly crafted.
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Who cares? They're still fun.
Software Zen: delete this;
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: I saw 5 1/4 " floppies in use.
The young'uns in the group are asking "what are these 5" 1/4 that he's talking about?" 
PIEBALDconsult wrote: boot up a Commodore
It's the only computer with HPI (Hamster Programming Interface)...
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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He's clearly got Hacker Typer[^] helping him ... 
"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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That's my new favourite site
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Chris Maunder
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Is that the series with X-Files's Cancer Man as the bad guy? Not a character spin-off...I mean the actor who portrayed him, William B. David.
I remember watching the series only for the sake of seeing what he was up to. Was also curious to see him in another role.
What a waste of time. I'm unfortunately just the right (wrong?) type of OCD so if I start watching a TV series, no matter how bad, I have to see it to the end. That one is firmly in that pile.
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As for the 'missed humor' opportunity - I hear ya, it'd be fun to see even if just once. There's just so many ways they could do it.
In a similar vein - I still remember watching Angel (the Buffy spin-off), where the good guy's running in a parking lot, jumps into his car (a convertible, so he literally jumped into the driver's seat), and after fumbling around with his key not fitting in the ignition...realizes he's in the wrong car, and his (practically identical) is sitting a few rows away.
Made him waste many precious seconds going after the bad guy, but it's the sort of thing you're completely NOT expecting in a moment like this. OTOH, this is not atypical of Joss Whedon's type of humor.
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Yeah. Cancer man was such a great character.
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Chris Maunder
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I need to introduce you to a friend of mine. He's a retired psychologist, early 70's, and spends 4-6 hours on the trainer 3-4 times a week.
On a $5,000 carbon-fiber bit of kit.
Software Zen: delete this;
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That is awesome. That's where I want to be when I'm that old. What a legend.
Gary R. Wheeler wrote: On a $5,000 carbon-fiber bit of kit
So he went for the budget model!
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Chris Maunder
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We're in Ohio. He uses the trainer from November through February usually, or if we still have snow or ice.
Whenever he gripes about the weather outside, I tell him "Physician, heal thyself." 
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lol.
In Toronto we're still on trainers. In April.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Full security access is the easiest part of the plot. The password is the name of evil mastermind's cat, all in uppercase.
Nothing succeeds like a budgie without teeth.
To err is human, to arr is pirate.
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Did you ever saw someone entering a good password in a movie 
I remember a space movie someone asking the password to engage the attack, the password was 1 2 3 4 5.
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Spaceballs.
I have the same combination on my luggage btw
Time is the differentiation of eternity devised by man to measure the passage of human events.
- Manly P. Hall
Mark
Just another cog in the wheel
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Once one a Micrsoft seminar 'security' the first question to the audience was "who of you is using his birthday as unlock code on his mobile phone".
25% of the audience raised there hand.
The speaker replied:
we have a lot of work to do, as it is already unsafe to use your birthday as unlock code, but telling in public your are using it.....
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