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I believe I understand what you are saying but I think it is illusion. Not really much difference inside in this day and age. All mass produced. From what I've seen inside you are mainly paying for perceived prestige and marketing. I haven't found Apple products any more reliable. Sometimes even less - power supplies, video chips, etc. giving up the ghost. If the specs are what you need go for it but brands and price alone mean nothing. As in smoke and mirrors.
I remember in the old days when people went on about reliable hard drives and I looked at my large stack of crashed drives...pretty much equal numbers of all brands. Much more like slot machines at the casino. I've done a lot of data recovery over the years. Kept some drives going while blowing a fan over ice to cool it.
My $395 on sale Acer laptop is chugging along fine after 15 months. If you are happy with what you have that's good. My sense of worth does not depend upon some piece of hardware but rather on what I have done.
Best to all, Mike
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Wizard of Id[^]
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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from the prying eyes of the FBI.
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I was in traffic passing the stadium while the Offaly / London gaelic football match was in progress on Saturday.
A man and his five year old son were walking by at the same time, when the match ball came over the stadium wall, bounced twice near them and was caught expertly by the little boy. Both father and son continued walking with junior clutching the ball as if he'd had it all along.
Good job they have spares at these things!
Ger
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Ger Hayden wrote: Offaly 0-17, London 1-07
So who won?
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The little boy certainly did.
As for the game itself, Offaly. The scores to the left of the "-" are conventional goals, but they didn't score any. The score to the right is a point which comes from a shot over the bar, similar to a Rugby drop goal. Three of them equate to a conventional goal. So with everything converted to points the score becomes 17 to 10...
Ger
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Offaly (17 - 10 = a goal is worth 3 points)
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Of course. They are, after all, Offaly good at the game!
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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200 subs
503,814 views!
1,057,668 minutes watched
That is a lot of bored people.
Ok, so it is no record breaker.......but not bad for a channel that has hardly any content and isn't really targeting anything!
Still, $15/month is $15/month in any man's pocket!
I expect once I load up a couple of my C63 videos I found on my harddisk from 4 years ago, that might generate a few more views and $'s.
I watched them before I came offshore and hearing the noise again put a smile back on my face! I miss that car...
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Congrats, I can feel the love from here.
New version: WinHeist Version 2.2.2 Beta I told my psychiatrist that I was hearing voices in my head. He said you don't have a psychiatrist!
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I just got an email from some "administration".
It was sent to Sam, Sander, Sander, Sandra, Sanne...
And it was completely empty. No subject, no body, no attachment.
I liked it better when spam messages promised me gifts from princes and inheritances from unknown aunts
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Well if you didn't keep changing your name so often they wouldn't get so confused!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I went from my previous name to Sander Rossel, that's an average of once every 5.5 years
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Spammers are easy to confuse!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Well it got you to log in to CP and post a comment, didn't it? Clever, them hamsters!
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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But where are Sam, that other Sander, Sandra, and Sanne?
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It was probably a single-pixel white .tif image with a payload in one of the tags and taking advantage of some image display vulnerability in the email program or graphics library...now your system is pwnd.
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It must've been from Microsoft, the tif probably put Windows 10 on my machine
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Don't give them any ideas!
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I notice there's a ton of jobs for full-stack web devs and web devs in general. I am currently in a web dev program but the truth is, I truly love C#. I want to be a C# developer but I'm having a tougher time finding chat rooms, hang outs, meet ups, etc... with C# developers. I'm having a very easy time finding these things with Javascript and front-end devs. I want to meet some developers who primarily program with C# and collaborate... I know GitHub comes to mind but a lot of the software there seems to be too complicated for me to just jump right into. I have a tough time understanding the huge projects on there when I have no experience with them.
Is C# something I can realistically make cutting-edge applications with at this point? Xamarin is out of the question for me right now because Im on Windows 7 and the emulator I can use is too slow. Are desktop apps dying or can I really still make some killer stuff with C#? Do you know of any communities I could get into to pair code with some C#? Thanks.
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