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You dirty rat!
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Prepositions are extremely troublesome - maybe the last thing you learn to get right when learning another language. Closely related languages may use surprisingly different prepositions, and everyone thinks that their preposition is the only one that tells what is really going on. What's the time? Ten to eleven? Ten in eleven? Ten on eleven? Where do you go to school? in school? on school?
In lots of cases, two++ alternate prepositions are both correct, but with different meanings. In Norwegian, you can go "på" (on) some school, in the sense "the school you attend", and go "til" (to) school, in the sense be on your way to the school buildings.
I was preparing some course materials, in English, and in one PPT I was uncertain about my choice of preposition. I asked the English lady in our group. She rejected my choice, and told the right one. This was overheard by the American guy, who said No, no - you must use xxx! (I don't remember who had which proposal). This made so much noise that the Australian guy came to give his contribution, which was a third proposal. Those three people, all native English speakers had a real dogfight (although verbal only) about which preposition to use, neither of them accepting the two other proposals. The only thing they could agree on was that my proposal was totally wrong.
So they would all complain about my proposal. Or complain on it. Or complain with it. Or whatever preposition would be right in their respective Englishes.
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Dialects make things even more complicated. The truly amazing part was seeing two people having a chat, one of them from Hamburg (northern Germany) and othe other from Munich (southern Germany). Both the local dialects can be hard to understand and sound totally different. Yet both were somehow able to understand what the other was saying.
And here we have an example , how Bavarians do not speak:
Sheldon The Bavarian[^]
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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A book called "Big blunders in international marketing" tells about a joint project between a British and an Amercan company that wasn't very successful; they had significant problems in communication and cooperation. Before one of their meetings (this was in the days of physical meetings...), it was asked that the cooperation problems "be tabled" at the meeting.
However, at one side of the Atlantic, "to table something" is to lay it down on the table face down, don't look at it, don't bring it up. On the other side of the pond, "to table it" is to lay it out on the table for everybody to see, and seriously consider. So the one group repeatedly tried to bring up the problematic questions - they had agreed to have the air cleaned, hadn't they? The other group did their best to evade these questions - they had agreed postpone those issuses until some other time, hadn't they? So after the meeting the relationships beween the groups were even worse than before...
(I don't have the book at hand, and cannot remember for certain if it was the Americans who put the isssues face down and the Brits who wanted them face up, or the other way around - I guess you Americans and Brits know. The point of the story is unaffected by it.)
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I haven't noticed Nagy Vilmos in quite some time. Did he run out of Gin or just move on to other pursuits?
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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The poor sap got a job where he is expected to actually work rather than booze all day.
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A fate worse than death in other words! 
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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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain
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Shares in Gordons fell dramatically on the news.
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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So now is the time to buy shares in Gordons and then hack a bank?
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Is a chili dog a Mexican Hairless in Alaska?
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Icy you've bean thinking about this for a while. It gives one paws.
* Watch-out where the huskies go . . . don't you eat that yellow snow *
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Let Donnie the Trump build his wall and nothing from Mexico will ever get to Alaska again, so this is really no question. Don't make a groan pitbull out of a chihuahua.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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And would a hot dog be an Alaskan husky in Mexico?
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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and wiener schnitzel is a sausage dog that's been run over?
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VS 2017 15.9.7 update is ready for me to download and install.
Should I do it?
50/50 chance that I may want to put my head through a wall when this is all over. 
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why? Is there anything really important in it that you absolutely must have?
particularly if you are developing apps for your company/clients: are they on the very latest version too?
if it's just for your own playing around sure go ahead,
but if you want to do anything serious [for other people including open source] stick to what's most used.
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We try to stay as current as possible with the incremental builds for VS. I was just being funny.
I am going to update.
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Quote: We try to stay as current as possible with the incremental builds for VS.
Why?
Newer in not always better. And most often filled with bugs.
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Sure, why not save time and just put your head through a wall, but open the window first.
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Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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FYI - I installed that version and had no problems. Wasn't bad. (Disclaimer: YMMV  )
Also, why aren't you on 2019?
Actually, you should probably wait because the interface has been "modernized" and it isn't the greatest. 
You can do a side-by-side install if you don't mind eating up a ton of extra space on your drive though. I only moved to 2019 because you cannot do .NET Core 3.x without upgrading.
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raddevus wrote: why aren't you on 2019?
It's still in preview.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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ZurdoDev wrote: still in preview.
I know. Better get it soon, before it's obsolete. 
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raddevus wrote: Also, why aren't you on 2019?
The current release date for VS 2019 is March, so what's available is a preview, nothing I'd use for production work.
I don't upgrade in the middle of a project, and rarely before the first service pack is released.
Riding the bleeding edge used to be fun, but I suffered enough blood loss to be light headed. These days I let others do the bleeding ... 
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Give them a few days and see if they push out a new version to fix any problems in the update
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