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might be? 
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Could be a Targaryen. 
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde
Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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Had to look that one up, gives new meaning to the phase "it's like kissing your sister". 
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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True red neck dumbassery!
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I thought their moonshine was used as racing fuel. I guess you can't go the other way.
Marc
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"Methanol can make people feel inebriated, but a very small amount of methanol can be toxic, Seger said."
So drink in large quantities only! 
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Methanol. This goes by the name of 'hooch' in my country India.
There have been several 'hooch tragedies', where a set of people have consumed hooch, and have therefore lost their life. They say that methanol is easily confused for ethanol.
No first hand experience, though 
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On the website gizmoto.com today, there is a posting of a very dated picture of a computer room from 1959:
This Woman Was a Bored Button-Pusher Before Jane Jetson Was Even Born[^]
Aside from the sheer size of the beast and the fact that all of the personnel are wearing suits, the thing that really hits me is the fact that the modern smart phone has several times more computing power and more storage than you see in that entire room! And the cell phone runs on a small battery, instead of a specially installed, conditioned power system!
Yes, ladies, I know. The picture also shows the men standing around while the lone woman is doing all of the work.
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Lord, grant me the serenity to accept that there are some things I just can’t keep up with, the determination to keep up with the things I must keep up with, and the wisdom to find a good RSS feed from someone who keeps up with what I’d like to, but just don’t have the damn bandwidth to handle right now.
© 2009, Rex Hammock
modified 28-Jan-16 15:10pm.
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I love the term "computer console". The whole thing took up the space of a large table. Now, a small phone, if that.
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Not to mention that the console would not have looked misplaced on the sets of the original Star Trek series.
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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Where I work we are about to start equipping new starters with mini pcs.
When I saw one of the HP mini pcs I was really impressed by how we will be able to cram what we currently have in some towers into such a small box.
Seeing the mini pcs I would not be surprised if in 10 years a desktop computer was the size of my Samsung Galaxy S4.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Thanks! Seems like I am 10 years behind
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Quote: Seems like I am 10 years behind
Please wait up! I will try and catch up with you. I am about 5 years behind you.
How do we preserve the wisdom men will need,
when their violent passions are spent?
- The Lost Horizon
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I'm really looking forward to this becoming a reality. I know that the tech currently exists, but it is still version 0.9. Won't be long, though.
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend; inside of a dog, it's too dark to read. -- Groucho Marx
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What do you mean?
You can already buy them[^].
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I would love to replace my laptop with just a phone. But without paying a great deal of cash, buying a phone powerful enough to work as my primary computer is just not a reality. Sure, I can have my phone screen presented presented on a larger monitor, but right now, most apps won't scale up nicely nor will the phone be powerful enough to handle the more intensive apps.
There is a "cool factor" in being able to plug your phone into a large monitor, but I don't think the ecosystem is mature enough to be fully useful across most phones and apps.
I think it is coming soon, and I think this is a great first step.
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend; inside of a dog, it's too dark to read. -- Groucho Marx
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The biggest problem isn't that they aren't powerful enough, it's rather that they're using an ARM processor, so most applications made for a PC you can't use yet.
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True enough.
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend; inside of a dog, it's too dark to read. -- Groucho Marx
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Why is it my first thought was that she seemed to be reaching over to complete the Ctrl-Alt-Del sequence?
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The origin of Ctrl-Alt-Del and a rather uncomfortable moment with Bill Gates[^].
My understanding is that the conversation after the clip went along the lines of "I'm funny how? I mean funny like a clown, I amuse you?".
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Some of us actually worked in places like that, and yes my phone now has more capability than the mainframes I worked on, and no I don't long to return to those days.
However, too many people think the computer age began in 1981 when IBM announced the first PC. Commercial processing had been in existence for 30 years by that time.
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I started working as a programmer in 1971 and spent a lot of time in the "computer room" pushing buttons on consoles slightly smaller than the one in the pic. As underpowered as those computers were compared to my iPhone, I have a strange bit of nostalgia about those days. Blinking lights, tape drives, assembly language...memories.
And you're totally right about many people thinking the computer age began with the introduction of the PC. They have no knowledge of computer history.
Edward
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It is not just computer history that they do not know. While they know who the "first tier" characters of American history, such as Washington, Lincoln, and such, they draw a blank when it comes to the second tier. Just ask them who John Jay was, or try Martin van Buren or James Garfield or ... Well, you get the idea.
Our nation was build by a strange bunch with radical ideas. Just read the second paragraph of the Declaration of Independence[^]. This is stuff we should have learned in elementary school and high school. 
Enough with the soap box, already....
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Lord, grant me the serenity to accept that there are some things I just can’t keep up with, the determination to keep up with the things I must keep up with, and the wisdom to find a good RSS feed from someone who keeps up with what I’d like to, but just don’t have the damn bandwidth to handle right now.
© 2009, Rex Hammock
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Jalapeno Bob wrote: is the fact that the modern smart phone has several times more computing power and more storage than you see in that entire room!
I could not find any direct comparables but I am rather certain that several benchmarks are going to be quite a bit more than "several".
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