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Rambo : First blood
Every day, thousands of innocent plants are killed by vegetarians.
Help end the violence EAT BACON
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Babe
"WAKE UP, NEO."
"THE MATRIX HAS YOU..."
"FOLLOW THE WHITE RABBIT".
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Dirty Dancing
speramus in juniperus
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Silvio & Ruby.
Veni, vidi, vici.
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"Sonny & Cher - The Aftermath"
(yes|no|maybe)*
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I have a great job right now - putting together a recommendation for a new laptop for me. It needs to be able to do 4 hours of REAL work, not this "light use fluff", have high res, enough space for multiple versions of VS, and a VM or two, and be portable.
I have my eyes on the 512Gb SSD version of this:
http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/ideapad/yoga/yoga-2-pro/[^]
Any other recommendations? As I'm the main GUI writer in the small company I work for, I want to have touch and hi-dpi on one of my machines, just to make sure our software will play nicely with them - and I miss my laptop from 5 years ago that had 1900 x 10something...
The price of the Yoga above is making my boss wince a little, but not refuse, so no $3000 swiss made gold plated ones please...
Iain.
I am one of "those foreigners coming over here and stealing our jobs". Yay me!
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It doesn't look like it has touch, which is a point against - not a deal breaker though. I'll see if it's available here for my list.
Iain.
I am one of "those foreigners coming over here and stealing our jobs". Yay me!
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It does have touch....
Does the second word in the opening title not give it away, or the whole section on the touch capabilitites....
The touch Ultrabook™ with stunning...
Incredible
Touch
Technology with a human touch
Zenbook UX301 is wonderfully tactile, but that goes well beyond just the feel of its sleek, smooth and durable glass design. Windows 8 is designed with touch in mind and a dedicated ASUS Human Computer Interface team help make it even more intuitive to use with features like a responsive multi-touch display, and a large touch pad with multi-touch support. The backlit keyboard with automatic brightness control also means you'll always have a clear view of the keys, so you can stay productive, even in complete darkness. So whichever way you like to work, Zenbook UX301 has you covered.
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That'll teach me to not just immediately press the "specs" button, and scroll down instead.
Defo on the investigate list then.
Iain.
I am one of "those foreigners coming over here and stealing our jobs". Yay me!
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Is there a place where a programmer can find side programming jobs? I thought that is what sologig.com used to be but it doesnt appear to be that way now.
CleaKO
"Now, a man would have opened both gates, driven through and not bothered to close either gate." - Marc Clifton (The Lounge)
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Thanks, I will check these out.
CleaKO
"Now, a man would have opened both gates, driven through and not bothered to close either gate." - Marc Clifton (The Lounge)
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I actually find a fair amount of work on Craigslist. In each city there are Computer Jobs and Computer Gigs sections.
Jobs is full time & short term stuff, while Gigs seems to be quick work.
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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Thanks, I will check these out.
CleaKO
"Now, a man would have opened both gates, driven through and not bothered to close either gate." - Marc Clifton (The Lounge)
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I hear Mickey D's* is hiring.
*McDonald's
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Ugh, sounds awful. It would do in a pinch but I am not there yet.
CleaKO
"Now, a man would have opened both gates, driven through and not bothered to close either gate." - Marc Clifton (The Lounge)
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Thanks for the feedback. I am looking for some extra money and would hate to go get work at some random place for x number of hours a week when I have skills that I can put to use that compliment what I already do day to day.
CleaKO
"Now, a man would have opened both gates, driven through and not bothered to close either gate." - Marc Clifton (The Lounge)
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From the news:
<quote>Dark matter is currently one of the greatest mysteries in the cosmos — an invisible substance thought to make up five-sixths of all matter in the universe. The scientific consensus right now is that dark matter is composed of a new type of particle, one that interacts very weakly at best with all the known forces of the universe, except gravity.
I know where to look. It usually sits on a sofa, can watch reality and casting shows the entire day and can produce a telephone bill near the budget of an African state. It gains mass by devouring enough buiscuits to feed the same country and can only be prevented from completely folding space-time around itself by implying that it ts fat.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
I hold an A-7 computer expert classification, Commodore. I'm well acquainted with Dr. Daystrom's theories and discoveries. The basic design of all our ship's computers are JavaScript.
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Dark Matter is one of those things that are used instead of saying "I don't know" -- some people have so much ego in place of intelligence that those words cannot come out of their mouths.
"Oh, our current calculations show that there should be more mass in the universe, but we can't see it, and we don't think we've got our calculations wrong, so, rather than admit that we could in any way be wrong, just tell everyone that there's a bunch of Dark Matter, and try to make it sound as sciencey-whyencey as possible."
Of course, if there is even one black hole in the universe, then the total mass of the universe shoots up to infinite, so the only problem is that there aren't any black holes -- but no-one will admit that those calculations could be wrong, either.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Wrong, and wrong.
- if it were just one calculation then your argument might have legs, but there are several independent observations and calculations that only make sense if dark matter exists. See here for more explanation.
- No black hole has to have infinite mass (why would it?).
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