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I'm with Virgin media too and was somewhat miffed when I got that letter.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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So this year, I am doing a competition where we are given an app concept that we must build. It's a small competition and I like to see who I am up against so I decided to do some research on past winners. To my suprise Last year's national winner (that's U.S.) was absolute crap. His app had no set color scheme, there was poor contrast between controls and backgrounds, majority of the app were UIWebViews (wtf why not just use a hybrid solution) that loaded poorly done web pages. The app was nearly 80mb in total.
But that's not all. Looking at his GitHub repo, alot of his code was copied and pasted from Appcoda.(an iOS development tutorial site) He didn't even remove the copyright in the comments -_-. The other half was written by his friend (who as far as I can tell received no recognition.
This is sad. While the competition is for high school students, this is pathetic. I may sound cocky, but I feel like I might be winning nationally this year.
i cri evry tiem
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Sounds like he's highly employable then.
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Hi James,
Wish you all the best.
Prasad P. Khandekar
Knowledge exists, man only discovers it.
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Thanks, I got till the very beginning of February, so time is making me nervous, but my team and I are doing well so far.
i cri evry tiem
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This sounds like really poor judgment on the organizers of the competitions part.
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The guy must be a pro in bullshit-bingo
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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Sounds like this is your chance to show them how it's done.
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Well, I've had to suffer through my third Win7 install in the span of two months (three different computers). This one was my laptop. It's taking an awful long time to get Windows Update to do anything. Even with a wired 1gb ethernet connection, it took FOUR HOURS before it started downloading updates (after I clicked he "download updates" button).
I'm thinking I could blame this on global warming, since Obama is blaming everything else on it.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
- You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
- When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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You need more horsepower.
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I don't believe in global warming, but climate change, that is happening here in the UK right now.
I'm dreaming of a white Christmas Summer holiday...
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Sir, your mixing Obama up with Sanders
i cri evry tiem
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p.s. I believe this should be moved to the soapbox b/c it may get heated.
i cri evry tiem
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James_Parsons wrote: it may get heated
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Would this be due to Global Warming?
Someone had to say it, sorry!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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I think you might be on to something. I know that there are several large data centrals here in Sweden, some placed far north and according to what I've concluded myself sources it's to reduce cooling costs. But this years winter has so far proved very warm and they probably has shut down the ac because why not it's winter and the season should do its job which results in overheated centrals.
So it'd guaranteed that its global warming that's at fault here.
Soon these data housings will be placed in the arctic to reduce their environmental impact but it will only result in the ice melting around these installations and speeding up climate change but don't tell anyone. We don't want the environmentalists to figure out that the internet is becoming a factor in global warming or they will impose environmental taxes on porn internet traffic.
http://time.com/46777/your-data-is-dirty-the-carbon-price-of-cloud-computing/[^]
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: Win7
Well, there's your problem. You really think MS are going to make it easy on refractory recalcitrants when their brand new shiny toy is waiting in the garage?
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Sound like you need more than a single core laptop and a faster antivirus scanner.
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Does turning off your virus software, etc., help any? I have found this to be the case, on occasion.
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Blaming Mexicans or any other bully-able group like Trump doesn't bring the soothing feeling of vindication anymore?
it ain’t broke, it doesn’t have enough features yet.
modified 20-Oct-19 21:02pm.
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I got sick and tired of downloading the same updates over and over on all my physical and virtual machines through my 5mbps internet connection, and set up a small VM to run WSUS (Microsoft's in-house patch deployment system) so I have one central server hosting all the updates locally.
It saves me a lot of bandwidth and grief - I especially like seeing the patches transferring over to my machines at LAN speed.
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How does one perform this magical incantation?
(I don't have any version of Windows Server)
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
- You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
- When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: I don't have any version of Windows Server
Unfortunately I don't think there's any way to get it running on a non-server OS. You don't even have something that gives you access to it such as MSDN?
WSUS is one of those built-in server roles like any other - and probably one of the easiest ones to configure. I had been curious about it for years, but finally decided to learn about it about a year ago--I just read some quick walkthrough from somewhere, and it was up and running well within an hour, and it's definitely worth the disk space you have to set aside for it, IMO (< 40GB in my case, for all the update categories I checked).
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Nah - my MSDN expired, and it's too expensive for me to renew.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
- You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
- When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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