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I saw the Climax Blues Band at Liverpool University in 1977!
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I'm an optoholic - my glass is always half full of vodka.
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I now have latest Windows and I can finally type all those Emojis! π€·ββοΈπππ₯ͺππ₯ππ΅οΈββοΈ
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So,
This is how a civilization adopts a logographic written language.
Year 1600: Yond is a most wondrous idea! thee shouldst bid me m're about t!
Year 2000: That is a great idea! You should tell me more about it!
Year 2018: Dat is a gr8 idea! u should tell me more about it!
Year 2400: ππ‘π£π
Best Wishes,
-ππ€΄
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Nailed it! Maybe Ancient Egypt was in fact a fading advanced civilisation?!
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Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers β progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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Me too π₯π₯π₯π
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Super Lloyd wrote: I now have latest Windows and I can finally type all those Emojis!
33 years since Windows 1 came out, Microsoft has finally made a useful OS.
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Wow, that was quite quick!
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Woo hoo - π is pretty bland compared to
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Mmm...
But we got.. Unicorns! π¦π¦π¦π¦
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You know it only works if the person who's reading your post is also running Win10, right?
/ravi
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Nah, I didn't, haha!
But hey, all good people do!
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Ravi Bhavnani wrote: You know it only works if the person who's reading your post is also running Win10, right?
That's not true.
There is work being done to standardize the emoji[^] within the Unicode standard[^].
All of those emoji are working just fine on my iPad (iOS v11.3.1) with only a slight difference in the iconography.
Best Wishes,
-David Delaune
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You're right. But it doesn't (yet) work on my Win7 Chrome.
/ravi
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Ravi Bhavnani wrote: But it doesn't (yet) work on my Win7
You only have 1.5 years left before your OS reaches EOL. Are you planning on going straight from 7 to 10? Or will you adopt 8.1 next?
Best Wishes,
-David Delaune
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I think I'll move directly to Win10 (bypassing Win8/8.1), but I expect I'll continue to use Win7 for a while after EOL. It will be support for .NET (and its variants) and VS20xx that will dictate when I move.
/ravi
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Reading the below 'Interesting how innovation changes' thread made me think about how much faster computers are now, and how they compare to supercomputers of the past. So I had to google and found: current high-end pc vs 1980s super computer - PC/Mac/Linux Society - GameSpot.
If anyone knows of a chart showing supercomputer gigaflops vs average desktop gigaflops over the years, give a link! I am too young for punched cards, but my first TRS play toy had 16 KB of memory I believe, and a tape drive. In college we ran a finite element analysis program on fairly good commercial Dells that ran at around 350 MHz if I'm not mistaken, and took about 8 hrs to run a standard simulation! Times have changed!
Oops - I was wrong - I had TRS-80 MC-10 - Wikipedia with 4KB!
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There's this: [^], but that could get expensive.
I try and distract myself by watching talent shows from eastern European countries on utube, like: [^] ... hint: jump to 5:40.
Β«... thank the gods that they have made you superior to those events which they have not placed within your own control, rendered you accountable for that only which is within you own control For what, then, have they made you responsible? For that which is alone in your own powerβa right use of things as they appear.Β» Discourses of Epictetus Book I:12
modified 18-May-18 17:25pm.
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Well, that escalated quickly ...
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Quote: Other barbers there said they didn't know the stylist's name or how to reach him. The first rule of Hair Styling is: you do not talk about Hair Styling.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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This is getting weirder and weirder...
Quote: Other barbers there said they didn't know the stylist's name or how to reach him.
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What was that? Andy Kaufman reincarnated in Eastern Europe?
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You'd have thought that "Boaty McBoatface" would have shown people that asking the internet to vote on anything is probably a bad idea.
But no ... Estonian Town Gets Cannabis Leaf as Its Emblem[^]
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