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I was at a self-serve checkout at the supermarket[^] the other week. It was near closing time and one of the terminals was having a fit. In the middle of scanning my stuff and sharing smirks with a mate, we noticed that it had what appeared to be Windows98 running on the terminal. 
"When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down 'happy'. They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life." - John Lennon
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Not really strange as my company, which sells fully automated quality inspection machine for food products, still has and supports Windows 2000 control units. We still develop the UI in VB6.
Don't change what is not broken - we changed to winXP in late 2010 and now we are approaching Win7 with several leading projects due to pressing requests from customer so big you can't say no (think of the food industry and names will come to you. There are VERY little firms out of our reach).
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If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
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No, of course not. If it still did what I wanted, I'd be using DR-Dos 6 along with Superstor, ViewMax and WordPerfect 
The joker in me couldn't resist a giggle at the fact the only malfunctioning machine betrayed its aging OS and the cynic in me couldn't help but wonder if the cost of licensing really was entirely irrelevant to the process.
While incredibly foolish for an organization of their size, I've seen similar practises in a company that paid many millions of dollars a year to the parent company simply for the right to be associated with the name of said parent - in practise, often amounting to little more than an extra logo on the letter-head.
The thing I find interesting about truth and fiction is that fiction must conform to what seems reasonably possible. Truth on the other hand, suffers no such impediment!
"When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down 'happy'. They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life." - John Lennon
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enhzflep wrote: The thing I find interesting about truth and fiction is that fiction must conform to what seems reasonably possible. Truth on the other hand, suffers no such impediment!
You would be a fine Dungeon Master indeed 
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If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
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Aside, 2015 also marks twenty years since some of us started programming in Java.
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There are some black days in the history as well. 
Ravi Khoda
Humanity is the best religion and smile is the best medicine.
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Not some, but many 
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"Windows 95 was Microsoft's big push into the world of graphical user interfaces for its operating system. Previous versions of Windows required users to provide input predominantly by using the keyboard, with a mouse click only here and there. Windows 95 introduced Microsoft users to a world where everything was point and click"' with the mouse was used as much as possible and the keyboard only used where necessary."
The author seems to be blissfully unaware of Win 3.X and WinNT. 
/ravi
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Recently I was competing for coding challenges on CodeFights[^] (if any one of you knows it) and you get to solve 3 puzzles, with a bug in it in a matter of 3 minutes. Wrong answers give you -25 each, skipping doesn't add or negate and solving the bug provides you points based on how fast you were.
We here in Pakistan have to face a lot of loadshedding problems, for an hour there is no electricity (and since I have not applied the modem to UPS supply we have) so, the internet goes out for an hour.
Last night, I was up for a challenge with another user, and all of a sudden internet was disconnected due to electricity shortage. I thought I had lost that challenge, for sure!
Right when I got connected to the network, I found out that the person on my peer, was an idiot. I will leave the rest of the story untold and spoiler free, have a look at what happened[^].
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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Ready, set, win! 
As a side note, CodeFight looks interesting!
Might give it a go when I am tired of Blizzard games! 
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Indeed it is interesting, plus it doesn't show me the "Help us promote by watching this video" thing.
A clean site, and since I am a one-day user, I don't have enough experience with it, but I reached to the 5th grade so I may let you know of the view from above top. 
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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Super Lloyd wrote: Might give it a go when I am tired of Blizzard games!
Lucky you with a monogamous relationship, I have three other paramours that get my attention when one tires me. Bioware, Bethesda and SquareEnix...
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If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
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I used to have Bethesda and Bioware.
But I just can't seem to hook into their games now! 
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Super Lloyd wrote: tired of Blizzard games!
I don't see when this will happen. Get ready for Diablo's start of season 4 this Friday
Microsoft ... the only place where VARIANT_TRUE != true
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Man, I am soooooooo ready!
Bring it on already!!! 
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Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan wrote: I found out that the person on my peer, was an idiot.
Are you sure the person wasn't just being nice, and not ripping off your points when your internet dropped?
They posted LOL (maybe when your internet went down) then you posted 24 minutes later ...
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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Just interested in what folk out there are using to provide (printed) reports to their customers.
I mean here reports that your application produces for your user - like if the user is using your application and wants to print out invoices for each of *their* customers.
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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Assuming you are referring to apps you are building then generally electronically via Reporting server (via the reporting server itself or by placing the rdl file in the application.)
In one case we used the native .net print preview control.
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SSRS both server and local reports.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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SSRS and a report control I wrote that displays reports in a datagridview.
Interestingly enough most of the users use the datagridview version.
In terms of invoices I use iTextSharp to produce pdf invoices.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Last time I did this it was clean CSV or XML export to allow third party tool to be plugged in.
veni bibi saltavi
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Crystal Reports. Quite powerful, but also painful and annoying in some cases.
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Jacquers wrote: Crystal Reports
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Grrrblblllgrblgrbl... 
Thanks for ruining an, up til now, perfectly good day! 
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I've used the usual Crystal Reports and SSRS, but I quite liked DevExpress's Reporting software (https://www.devexpress.com/products/net/reporting/[^]).
I've also used a product from Docentric which works with placeholders in Word and XML/XPath (http://www.docentric.com/[^]).
How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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I wrote a Generic Reporting "application" - actually a bunch of PHP/JavaScript - that takes SQL to create an input/request form and then generates the report per user specs. There are something like 375 reports running on it at last glance (DBA heaven of some sort).
Actually - it's great because I don't have to make reports - just a mechanism for them to be generated and the mechansim to generate that.
Feature Creap has taken it's tole, with possibilities to pre-populate the report with exisiting data, have reports cascade into other reports, internal dependencies and dynamic generation of the query screens. Excel dumps, Word Dumps (rare). SMTP mail generation.
Reports can generate input which can request reports which can generate input . . .
All I have to do is make sure it's always backward compatible and essentially unbreakable. The unbreakable part isn't too bad in that my users are Developers. They get to suffer with the rabble, below.
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