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38 posts • joined Monday 19th October 2009 08:25 GMT

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Re: Bob moment.

You forgot about Microsoft Songsmith didn't you?

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Joke

Re: Am I the only person...

So what you saying is your boring me now?

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Re: IT's what happens when you don't listen to your customers

Nip down to your local Wm Morrisons - some of their own label branded product packaging (ceral bars / health biscuit snack bars etc) look like the Windows 8 interface.

Would you buy one if it were boxed like that?

Moot point I think.

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Re: intergalactic civilizations

ZPM's anyone?

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Re: The Usual Silliness

And so is stepping outside in the sunshine and that "nuclear industry" kills more people per annum.

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Should be the other way round...

They ballsed the messaging up when they made BES work exclusively with MS SQL as a backend (why didn't they not offer an open source db alternative so each enterprise didnt need an expensive kludge for BB messaging sat on their network?).

On the other hand, a lot of (business) end users LIKE the BB keyboard instead of a finger smeared screen - the keyboard is much more accurate and quicker to type on.

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but..

Nicolaus Copernicus might have begged to differ.

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Just imagine..

..live demos of songsmith

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you could take a look at

linphone - http://www.linphone.org/

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Does anyone remember...

pacwars? - A fantastic early network game that ran on Netware 386?

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@ ArmanX - Where would you place...

the e.coli observable evolution experiments for the last 23 years?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._coli_long-term_evolution_experiment

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That would be...

...a YES vote for AV then?

"Don't be a . Every fcuking person on the planet is an atheist. You are too.

It just happens that i/we are atheists about *your* god. You are an atheist of every *other* god from history."

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Minecraft???

Surely it is hattrick.org?

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Funnily enough...

http://www.sportingfare.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/london-2012-shit.gif

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and ...

isn't this more to do with religious rather than political differences?

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Actually...

Don't these guys read right to left, top to bottom in which case it says OZZI

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indeed

Maybe DC sees an opportunity for the GB Boys and Girls in the Weightlifting, Wrestling & Taekwondo medal stakes since those are the only sports the Iranians have won Olympic medals in?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_at_the_Olympics

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i agree

the choices should not be sooner or later but later and much later with a maybe thrown in for good measure

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you have never visited...

goldfishbook.com?

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better still...

it will save the taxpayers dollars to keep and feed them.

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Heart

Have to mention #2

Back to Nature from the film Walkabout is one of my favorite tunes by the great man.

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Remember Bourne?

"That's worrying, because almost anything can be used as a weapon."

Bourne used a rolled up magazine in one movie to smack an opponent...

Planes could get very dull indeed without reading material been allowed on flights

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Patches?

Being a windows phone, it might be patching itself...

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maybe...

...they were refering to the environmetal awareness panels you can hurl yourself through when it all gets a bit too much?

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Does anyone know if...

...this batch addresses the alledged 2 unpublicised elevation of privileges as used by stuxnet?

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ksplice

Not even when the kernel is updated if you use ksplice

http://www.ksplice.com/

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Think Virtual Machines

Think less time doing av scans on all those virual machines when then can use one underlying chip.

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Stop

more like...

27 days if it was windows and i think **most** people would notice that.

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They are getting smarter...

At theast they retreated to the safety of their van before they blew it up which is more than can be said for these two http://darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin2009-09.html

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Spoken like a true Ex Notes R4 victi--er user

It's moved on since the late '90's - why don't you do the same?

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RE: Bless the BCS

Reminds me of the illiteracy campaign once run in the States.

Posters were put up with the slogan - If you can't read this - We can help.

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@sT0rNG b4R3 duRiD - They are in the boneyard

Stick this in Google Earth 32° 9'4.92"N 110°50'11.27"W

F14's are in there too. Interestingly the AIM-54 missiles that the F14 carried were fire and forget, the onboard computer could track over 200 targets, work out which were the biggest threats and advise which to launch against. The missle did the rest being capable of out running anything in the sky in terms of speed (with the exception of the x-15), able to pull 9g in a turn and had the longest range of any missle in service. In contrast, the current F18's missle system requires that the plane keeps flying towards the incoming target to keep it 'illuminated'.

This appears to be a backward step but then again the US probably considers the F18 superior to anything it enemies can send up against it so why waste millions of dollars on missiles that can look after themselves. the end result is just the same.

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the church needs to get microsoft on the case

.. and get some good old FUD going..

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only $29.99 in the USA

Except in Nabraska?

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@Jeremy Chappell

Yup - Frontbridge springs to mind as a shiny example of this process.

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@Perhaps Microsoft is there for another reason...

Probably Marketing.

Or maybe MS have been invited along to see how project management should be be done and how products can be delivered within time scale without major issues?

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@Cantankerous Old Buzzard

The spam filering is possibly:

FOSE - Forefront Online Security for Exchange, formally known as

MEHS - Microsoft Exchange Hosted Services, formally known as

Frontbridge - before MS bought the company.

Frontbridge used to be good but then went downhill fast - then the rebranding started...

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@Cantankerous Old Buzzard

The antispam system is likely to be

FOSE - Forefront Online Security for Exchance, formerly known as

MEHS - Microsoft Exchange Hosted Services, formerly know as

Frontbridge, before Microsoft bought it

It used to be good but then it went downhill fast - hence the rebrands.