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I'm maybe late, but better late than never.
Happy birthday. ![Rose | [Rose]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
Bruno
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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Thank you so much 
You ain't late at all. Just done celebrating it with my family and some friends.
It ended well I'd say 
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Happy Birthday!
Brittle1618 wrote: No one wishing me on my special day, it just feels... it doesn't feel good at all 
Oh, you're single? get married[^]
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Thank you so much
And thanks for your suggestion too
I must feel awesome buying gifts for each other, I guess
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Don't feel too badly. My own mother forgot that today is my birthday... Happily, all my friends at TheFirearmsForum remembered it. 
Will Rogers never met me.
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I'd enjoy knowing what you may be planning (imagining) what you'll buy/upgrade-to in the next year.
I anticipate that sometime in 2016 I will get a tablet, probably one of the newer jumbo-sized wonders (that choice influenced by declining vision), and, definitely, a new monitor.
I doubt I'll upgrade my current main-beast (Z97-D3H, i5-4670K, based) this year, although I will definitely bump the memory up to 32 gigs when/if DDR3 @1600 memory takes another significant step-down in price. Yeah, you can tell, I'm not a gamer.
I wouldn't mind an MS Win "Book," but, the price is way too high for me to consider.
Going to sell my (once high-end) lap-top, and not get another one. Just don't need it.
Software ? No plans for "work;" for "hobby: try out (possibly buy) the GuitarToMidi conversion software from JamOrigin, when/if they get it upgraded to support alternate tunings.
Windows 10: maybe around June, when it might be no longer a "beta in drag as release," and, when its intrusive user-monitoring is de-fanged.
While all this could change should a "client" fall from the sky, and I was offered some interesting work, I doubt that will happen, and I don't need that to happen to over the "basics," and am not looking for that. I got novels to finish
cheers, Bill
«Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.» Benjamin Franklin
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Merry Christmas Bill!
The tablet - I got Herself a Samsung Galaxy Tab S (10.5") instead of the newer S2 (9.7") because it's easier for her to see as well (she has problems with my 7" tablet) and it's a cracking display - if it fitted in my pocket like the Nexus 7 I'd be tempted myself! 
Well worth a look, especially as the new one is out and that should push prices down.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I'm going for an upgrade from says they're waterproof but aren't really walking boots to actually are waterproof walking boots. Think that's about the extent of my ambition!
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Any particular boots in mind? I've been cycling through rainstorms and walking large distances a lot lately, and I'm also in the market for waterproof walking boots.
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Not yet. I got my last really good pair by chance from a market stall in Norwich well over 20 years ago so the current range is all a bit of a mystery to me still (as evidenced by the pair that I now need to replace). The annoying thing is that I would still have the aforementioned wonders if I hadn't somehow contrived to lose them in my last move a couple of years ago!
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I'm planning to get a Surface Pro 4 as soon as I get back to the US. from vacation in Bolivia.In the meantime I still have my SurfACE pRO 2 AND 3.
aSB FAR AS OTHER ACTIVITIES, i'VE BEEN PUTTING APPLICATIONS IN AT SEVERAL UNIVERSITIES TO SEE IF THEY NEED A PROFESSOR. wE'LL SEE HOW THAT GOES. i'M oK WITH CONTINUING MY CONSULTING, BUT i'D LIKE TO TEACH AND CONTINUE MY RESERARCH EFFORTS, TOO.
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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Well you definitely should, since your caps lock is obviously broken
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No plans to upgrade my dev box (Brix i7, 16G, 500G SSD, 4" x 4" x 2" footprint), my Google Nexus 7 (1st gen) tablet or my circa 2012 HTC Desire C Android (4.0) phone. I was tempted to upgrade the phone, but received a Google Nexus 5 phone from work (for development) that I get to take home.
That said, I've been eyeing this beauty[^] (Electro-Harmonix B9) for a while, but common sense tells me I prolly won't spring two hundred bucks for this (admittedly cool!) toy.
/ravi
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Happy New Year, Ravi-ji,
The Brix i7 really does look cool; can you keep your coffee warm by putting the cup on top of it ? The thought occurs to me that I could stick at least eight of those inside the gargantuan CoolerMaster 912 HAF case I bought from an expat leaving the country for a song ... not that I'd know what to do with them
The toy I am lusting for is also musical, and about the same price as your fantasia; a stick-on-the-back-of-your-acoustic-guitar device that produces reverb/tremolo, etc. without pick-up, or amplifier: [^]. Larry Mitchell's demo shows it off on nylon-string guitar: [^].
cheers, Bill
«Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.» Benjamin Franklin
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Happy new year, Bill-ji!
The Tone Wood Amp looks very interesting. A novel idea, for sure! Here's ADM[^] giving it a whirl.
Re: the Brix, no it runs pretty cool. I rarely hear the fan. 
/ravi
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The brix is noisy. Quiet when idling or browsing, but fan revvs up when you watch video, and if you have any apps that really load it, sounds like a jet taking off.
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If someone releases a smartwatch that
- lasts more than a day
- works with the iPhone
- has sensible functionality
- isn't stupid expensive
- doesn't try and look like a "classic" watch (what is the point of that?)
then I'll grab it.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Psst... no one wears watches anymore, granddad.
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What say? Speak up, sonny!
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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2 and 4 is a tough combo.
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For the same reasons (except number 2) I am considering a Pebble watch. It works with iPhone according to their site. It uses e-ink which I find preferable to the LCD\OLED offerings.
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No plans computer-wise, but if Pentax ever actually releases their much-delayed full-frame DSLR, I'll be happy.
One of my Christmas presents is a disk for my latest acquisition -- a used HP Itanium server -- upon which I plan to install OpenVMS once I return home from dirty stinking L.A.
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I'd like to get myself a late-model laptop with all the trimmings (for development purposes, naturally!  ), but I can't really justify it in terms of increased productivity etc.
My plans currently include upgrading my daughters' computers to something they can run Visual Studio 2015 on (one wants to learn programming, and I presume that sibling rivalry will drag the other one along).
At present, I would not take Windows 10 even as a gift. When it stabilizes (and has a UI that doesn't remind me of Windows 3.x), I may change my mind.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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