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* Posts by twburger

11 publicly visible posts • joined 15 Nov 2010

Malaysia Airlines mystery: Click here for the TRUTH

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Re: It's obvious!

Yes, everything is eventually found behind the sideboard or the stove.

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Cannabis can CURE CANCER - cheaply and without getting you high

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AN vs. A - Why So Off Topic?

Those adamantly arguing about the proper use of the indefinite article AN prior to a word starting with H are totally baked, aren't you?

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Oz gummint looks into seniors’ cyber-safety

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Awesome

It's nice to know people still learn and explore after grade school (and have and use common sense).

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Hands on with the Windows 8 fondleslab

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RE: Hot hot heat

I was thinking the same. How do you cool an i5 in a fan free (fanless?) system. The weight noted might be an explanation - the entire case is an aluminum/magnesium/copper heat sink.

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Yes it will - It will make MS Profits

It will work at least as well as Vista did. Vista was excellent for making people buy Windows7.

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Vista Never Ran Well - TRUE

And this is why my HP 6830s business class laptop (well - lugable, folding desktop) is running Ubuntu instead of Vista Business.

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Apple pilfers rips off student's rejected iPhone app

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Coincidence

<sarcasm>

It's merely a Coincidence. Apple would never steal an idea just because they could get away with it (and was provided with all of the source code).

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Assange: Facebook a ‘spying machine’

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Facebook is Watching

Lat year I came to the same conclusion. I advise everyone not to use Facebook. Facebook is taken too lightly.

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US lawmakers eye internet 'kill switch'

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So are mine

We have the same type of idiots running things here in the Great White North. At least we already have universal health care.

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My lost Cobol years: Integrating legacy management

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Good Point

Having programmed financial systems in both C and COBOL you make an excellent point. The amount of frakking work it took to ensure complete number accuracy in C was mind numbing and involved an enormous testing effort. In COBOL it was cookie cutter.

I do disagree on one point: The COBOL clause ending period caused me more headaches than the C semicolon.

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'Super-secret' debugger discovered in AMD CPUs

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Yeah!

My next development workstation will be AMD based. This will make writing hardware drivers so much easier.

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