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W∴ Balboos, GHB wrote: On TV they have their idiocy at two levels. One is improper English or even use of the wrong word. This is exacerbated by the fact that they now rely upon talking heads for (by way of example) the news broadcasts. Once upon a time they actually hired people with a grasp on what's going on.
This is why I am ecstatic that Ms. Norah O'Donnell was promoted to "Uncle Walter's" Chair of Journalism. Finally, one of the major networks has promoted someone of Walter Cronkite's caliber to the pinnacle of their broadcast news.
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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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Funny you should say that.
I realize it's the scripts given her, but the CBS network news became too much "mommy" news - by which I mean a combination of excess human interest and comments that were poor.
Of course, it might not be the writers.
I moved over to NBC Network News (Lester Holt). He's being embarrassingly used for prolonged teasers and commentary in the preceding half-hours local news.
So I stream.
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There are lots of causes and they are piling up on each other now. It seems to me that using horrendous grammar has become stylish. It's become so bad that dictionaries are now adding ridiculous words and alternative definitions. For example, literally is now a synonym for figuratively. WTF?
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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OK, it is official; the world has figuativelyliterally gone nuts.
INTP
"Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence." - Edsger Dijkstra
"I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks. " - Daniel Boone
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One factor to consider is survivorship bias. That is, you are exposed to a select sampling of formal writing from a century ago. There may also be a bias in the material. When I read biographical material or histories, there are plenty of examples of bad grammar and spelling in the actual diaries and/or letters of people.
Another factor is confirmation bias. There are plenty of examples of bad grammar and spelling in news reports from a century ago (though I suspect there is a correlation between time-to-publish and errors. In other words, newspapers would have more errors than magazines, which would have more errors than books.)
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You have a very good point there; about my bias. The point I am getting at is that in my lifetime the written word has gone down hill. The advent of modern technology has both helped and hurt us, when it comes to writing. I've have seen 'he' and 'her' used in a paragraph referring to the same individual. My least favorite issue is when a sentence makes no sense at all, you have to go back to decipher it to figure-out what they were trying to say. (usually due to lack of commas)
INTP
"Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence." - Edsger Dijkstra
"I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks. " - Daniel Boone
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The "he" and "her" - or rather, "she" - issue (which I have seen a number of times too) though is surely a deliberate attempt to be "politically correct" rather than a simple misuse of language. It is of course ludicrous and clumsy, and even worse than the proliferating official style guides that prohibit either of those words, recommending "them" instead.
He's literally so cool she's hot; it's sick how bad she is.
The use of complete opposite meanings in (youth) slang is maybe part of the "rebelliousness" of youth, though it seems a fairly recent phenomenon. I certainly can't remember - or imagine - any such use 50 years ago!
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...in VS 2019 v16.6 and strangely can't find the "Button" control in the toolbox, really Microsoft!!
Exception up = new Exception("Something is really wrong.");
throw up;
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Buttons? Who needs buttons when we got ICONS ?
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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u must be very brave to do such things...
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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I checked this and you're right.
Right click the Toolbox window and select "Reset Toolbox".
It should show up now 
The reset messed up some icons on the Toolbox, but a second reset fixed that too.
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Nope, still not there...
Exception up = new Exception("Something is really wrong.");
throw up;
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Weird, that worked for me.
I'm out of ideas then 
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Didn't you know, buttons have been replaced by velcro!
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Last I heard on one of an MS' Win?-team teaser pre-announcements ... in response to a message I posted ... was Nov, 2020 for something as usable as WinForm Controls.
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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Zoom murder: A son stabbed and killed his father during a meeting, police say - CNN[^]
The response from the competition was swift and fierce:
- Microsoft: This would never have happened if they used Skype. Mainly because it rarely works.
- Apple: Police would have been able to catch the suspect 15 minutes earlier if they'd used Facetime instead, because Apple products track your every move.
- Google: They should have used Google Meets. It's been in beta for only 10 years.
- Signal: Stupid kid. If he'd used Signal, this wouldn't have even made the news.
/ravi
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oops sorry about the news. But the responses are funny.
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Why did CNN reach out to Zoom? Are they suggesting that the Zoom application could have done something to stop the son?
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Ravi Bhavnani wrote: Apple products track your every move
You're gonna shatter some people's world with a statement like this...
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So, Amityville horror isn't just a movie.
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I was thinking of writing a 6502 processor emulator in C#, but the trouble is that every ROM I could get to test it with it is protected meaning I can't just download it from somewhere, at least not legally. I need an old Apple ][ or Commodore 64 ROM. Even an old NES game or two would work. Without that, all I've got are homebrew ROMs and I don't know that I can rely on them for my testing.
Why is this stuff still protected? Nobody cares about Commodore 64s or Apple ][s anymore. I can kind of see the NES restrictions because they still have some value, but really, the market for the ROMs of the former computers is slim to none.
Real programmers use butterflies
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honey the codewitch wrote: Why is this stuff still protected?
Because quite a bit of IP law is an ass?
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Real programmers use butterflies
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This reminds of something that happened in the late 1980s. Where I went to college there was a very old mainframe. Several years after graduation some friends decided to write an emulator for it in C, of course. Eventually they got it to work and were able to load and run old programs for it. The amusing part is they ran some performance tests and they found their emulator on an IBM PC-AT with an 80826 ran faster than the actual mainframe did. That PC ran at 5MHz I think. I think the mainframe was a Control Data but I am not sure.
With the speed of today's hardware, your emulator is likely to be faster than those old 6502-based systems.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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