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R. Giskard Reventlov wrote: too strange
For someone who's supposed to be an alien? 
"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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Haha - good, but I meant as an actor; way too camp and that lisp was bloody annoying.
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I don't recall Tom Baker having a lisp? 
"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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Sorry; very distracted by actual work this morning. 
Pertwee!!!
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I really disliked Matt Smith in every way. I like Peter Capaldi; it brought the series back to life for me. (My youngest daughter gave up on it with Matt Smith, though that has as much to do with Moffat's lousy producing. I've encouraged her to give the Capaldi episodes a try.)
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Personally, I think he's 'rocking' it (pun intended) in series 9. The story lines were a bit weak in series 8, and I think Capaldi didn't really come fully into the part quite yet. But so far, these first few have been awesome, and Capaldi is really getting into it now. He even said he didn't feel comfortable in the Tardis last series, and they redesigned it to fit him better. Even bringing back the round panels, which is awesome.
It just took him a little while to make the part his own, but I think so far he has succeeded in series 9.
I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone - Bjarne Stroustrup
The world is going to laugh at you anyway, might as well crack the 1st joke!
My code has no bugs, it runs exactly as it was written.
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I thought the shades were horrible. Capaldi is a fine actor but he is struggling to find "his" Doctor. Tenant and Smith nailed it out of the gate, building recognizable character traits immediately. IMHO Capaldi has not. I'm not sure if that's his issue or the producers.
I think his stories have been, for the most part, sub-par. It's time for some fresh blood behind the camera.
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I'm getting used to him but I'd still prefer seeing any of the three preceding actors in the role. I wasn't crazy about Capaldi in his first season because they seemed to play on his character's confusion. Now that the Doctor's become more sure of himself it feels less like he's stumbling around.
I'm not a programmer but I play one at the office
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Or maybe not..
Bumper sticker: I (heart) MY HAMSTER
Mongo: Mongo only pawn... in game of life.
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That would be Chris... 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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Bob?
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Do flying saucers have bumpers?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Damn I been looking for a 57 Chevy.
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Ihope you aren't the fellow who wanted to blow up a car, but burned his lips on the tail pipe...
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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No it was the twin brother different mother.
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Screw you Jobs, Dennis Ritchie[^] did it better!
The worst thing here is that I remember all the noise when Jobs died [mostly cheering here] but it all drowned out the reaction to Ritchie's death, a man who, in my bloody good opinion, did so much more for the world then the Polo Necked One.
veni bibi saltavi
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To be fair, it probably wasn't cheering because y'know, death for someone who didn't cause humanity harm shouldn't have been lauded.
His success was mostly for tomy-ising tech and then selling it. In that regard, he was one of the best salesmen ever seen and that means so much more public facing than most scientists til their deaths.
Jony Ive has continued the trend in his own way except he's not able to hide the stupid decisions so easily (see comments re: why you wouldn't want a bigger battery in an iPhone).
At least when people remember Dennis, they'll remember him in a more relevant and truthful way (Jobs was NOT coming up with innovations).
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How easy it is easy to throw mud on cultural icons, particularly when they are dead.
And, how tasteless.
«I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center» Kurt Vonnegut.
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Indeed, but he's right. Both of you are.
Let me add a few logs to the fire.
Bill Gates so far given away $28 billion for charitable purposes.
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I don't have a problem with being considered tasteless. Accuracy and compassion is worth so much more.
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No, I have been consistent in my distaste for Jobs and the approach he took for a long time. Apple is not consumer friendly, never were. Jobs genius, and it was, was in telling people that by getting less and being tied in more they were actually getting a better service. For years I have found it incredible how people buy into the Apple brand knowing they are going to be shafted; all be it with an aesthetically designed shaft.
In many ways Microsoft have many of the same faults, but at least with them I can choose what to use once I have taken their OS.
For full disclosure - I drooled over the Apple ][e, now use Winten on most of the computers and Android on the phones and tablets.
veni bibi saltavi
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But for the typical non-techie consumer they are evidently happy with the Apple ecosystem (the higher prices and lock-in) or they wouldn't have gone for it. And even quite a few MS-centric techies seem keen on Apple hardware these days. Just look at all those conference presentations using Mac laptops.
Nagy Vilmos wrote: In many ways Microsoft have many of the same faults, but at least with them I can choose what to use once I have taken their OS.
MS are more open now and were never really locked in as such. They just tended to make it easy to work with just their applications but wouldn't force you to, say, only write Windows applications in C++. 
Kevin
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Sorry, but I'm with Bill W. on this. Steve Jobs built one of the most successful businesses of all time. And Dennis Ritchie didn't. So making comparisons like this are really a bit off.
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IMHO, on the positive side, both of them created a number of jobs around the world; they made the way for the livelihood of more than a billion of us:
- Ritchie on the intellectual side, and
- Steve on the business and infotainment side.
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For what it's worth, if you had asked me who I would liked to have met personally, then my immediate answer would have been Kerningham, Ritchie or Stroustrup. If it must be Apple, then perhaps Steve Wozniak, just to have a nice talk about what soldering together your own hardware was like.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Didn't know he passed. IMHO he did a lot more for the industry then Jobs.
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