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  • M Michael Dunn

    when Xerox PARC was demonstrating its windowing GUI to Steve Jobs. when the Windows 95 team finally said "this it the build we're shipping" Do you have any monumental moments in computing history that you wish you could have seen in person? --Mike-- "I'm working really, really fast at the moment, so a 3 minute outage becomes, due to time dilation, a 5 minute outage." -- Chris Maunder, relativistic system administrator Ericahist | Homepage | RightClick-Encrypt | 1ClickPicGrabber

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    Trojan2K
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    ...When Bill Gates sold his Soul to Mr. Burns :-D

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      ...When Bill Gates sold his Soul to Mr. Burns :-D

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      ...and had some spare cash lying around when Microsoft shares first hit the market. Debbie

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        weird requirements! The walking-on-hands-thing... um, I wonder if I shoudl even try...


        "Der Geist des Kriegers ist erwacht / Ich hab die Macht" StS
        sighist | Agile Programming | doxygen

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        peterchen wrote: um, I wonder if I shoudl even try... Definitly don't think about it. Wipe all memory of this from your mind. Regardz Colin J Davies

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        • G Giles

          To be there when the Lotus Notes team said its ready to go, so I could have shot them all, and burned the building down. ;)


          "Je pense, donc je mange." - Rene Descartes 1689 - Just before his mother put his tea on the table. Shameless Plug - Distributed Database Transactions in .NET using COM+

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          Rage
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          Giles wrote: To be there when the Lotus Notes team said its ready to go, so I could have shot them all, and burned the building down. :laugh: Awesome ! ~RaGE();

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            To be there when the Lotus Notes team said its ready to go, so I could have shot them all, and burned the building down. ;)


            "Je pense, donc je mange." - Rene Descartes 1689 - Just before his mother put his tea on the table. Shameless Plug - Distributed Database Transactions in .NET using COM+

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            Daniel Turini
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            Giles wrote: To be there when the Lotus Notes team said its ready to go, so I could have shot them all, and burned the building down. I would gladly provide you a nuke :) ORACLE One Real A$#h%le Called Lary Ellison

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            • M Michael Dunn

              when Xerox PARC was demonstrating its windowing GUI to Steve Jobs. when the Windows 95 team finally said "this it the build we're shipping" Do you have any monumental moments in computing history that you wish you could have seen in person? --Mike-- "I'm working really, really fast at the moment, so a 3 minute outage becomes, due to time dilation, a 5 minute outage." -- Chris Maunder, relativistic system administrator Ericahist | Homepage | RightClick-Encrypt | 1ClickPicGrabber

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              Paul Watson
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              The moment God created salesman. Thats the moment I would like to witness, and then be able to unload a couple .44 rounds into that first born salesman. *twitch*

              Paul Watson
              Bluegrass
              Cape Town, South Africa

              Roger Wright wrote: Personally, I'm seeking a red-headed, double-breasted mattress thrasher

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                Giles wrote: To be there when the Lotus Notes team said its ready to go, so I could have shot them all, and burned the building down. I would gladly provide you a nuke :) ORACLE One Real A$#h%le Called Lary Ellison

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                Giles
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                Daniel Turini wrote: I would gladly provide you a nuke So what if we are a little late, lets just do it now. :-D


                "Je pense, donc je mange." - Rene Descartes 1689 - Just before his mother put his tea on the table. Shameless Plug - Distributed Database Transactions in .NET using COM+

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                • P Paul Watson

                  The moment God created salesman. Thats the moment I would like to witness, and then be able to unload a couple .44 rounds into that first born salesman. *twitch*

                  Paul Watson
                  Bluegrass
                  Cape Town, South Africa

                  Roger Wright wrote: Personally, I'm seeking a red-headed, double-breasted mattress thrasher

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                  Jorgen Sigvardsson
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                  Paul Watson wrote: and then be able to unload a couple .44 rounds into that first born salesman. Why not kill the source? :evil-grin: -- Now we live in a world of uncertainty Fear is the key - to what you want to be You don't get a say, the majority gets it's way You're outnumbered by the bastards till the day you die...

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                  • P Paul Watson

                    The moment God created salesman. Thats the moment I would like to witness, and then be able to unload a couple .44 rounds into that first born salesman. *twitch*

                    Paul Watson
                    Bluegrass
                    Cape Town, South Africa

                    Roger Wright wrote: Personally, I'm seeking a red-headed, double-breasted mattress thrasher

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                    peterchen
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                    But then, we'd have missed Dustin Hoffman's fabulous performance in "Death of a Salesman". did you get my e-mail, regarning the CPP update? We need a name for that thing, you know?


                    "Der Geist des Kriegers ist erwacht / Ich hab die Macht" StS
                    sighist | Agile Programming | doxygen

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                      Daniel Turini wrote: I would gladly provide you a nuke So what if we are a little late, lets just do it now. :-D


                      "Je pense, donc je mange." - Rene Descartes 1689 - Just before his mother put his tea on the table. Shameless Plug - Distributed Database Transactions in .NET using COM+

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                      Jim Crafton
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                      Amen to that - bring on the hatchets and flame throwers and let's kick some Lotes ass! Down with Lotes!!!! Lotes == Lotus Notes ¡El diablo está en mis pantalones! ¡Mire, mire! Real Mentats use only 100% pure, unfooled around with Sapho Juice(tm)!

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                      • M Michael Dunn

                        when Xerox PARC was demonstrating its windowing GUI to Steve Jobs. when the Windows 95 team finally said "this it the build we're shipping" Do you have any monumental moments in computing history that you wish you could have seen in person? --Mike-- "I'm working really, really fast at the moment, so a 3 minute outage becomes, due to time dilation, a 5 minute outage." -- Chris Maunder, relativistic system administrator Ericahist | Homepage | RightClick-Encrypt | 1ClickPicGrabber

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                        When Jobs decided to make apple a closed system. Then I would laugh at him.:laugh:

                        ..........Zack.......... Developer Extraordinaire && Full Time Geek

                        "Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups." - George Carlin "I will stand on my side of the fence, reguardless of the circumstances or the consequence." - Monoxide GCS\P\SS d- s-:- a-- C++$ U--- P--- L- E- W++ N o K-? w+++ O++ !M-- V PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5+ X+ R++ tv++ b++ DI++ D+++ G+>G++++ e* h- r++ y+

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                          On a purely selfish note, I would have liked to have been around when automated boat loaders were commonplace in wafer fab facilities. They introduced them at my old workplace just as I was defecting to software development. Loading manually, and timing the load was a PIA. More than once I saw people taking a sneaky look around and whamming the boats in at a speed that was *not* recommended. Of course, I would never have done that. Debbie

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                          Ryan Binns
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                          Debs wrote: Of course, I would never have done that. :rolleyes: Of course... ;P

                          Ryan

                          "Punctuality is only a virtue for those who aren't smart enough to think of good excuses for being late" John Nichol "Point Of Impact"

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                            Amen to that - bring on the hatchets and flame throwers and let's kick some Lotes ass! Down with Lotes!!!! Lotes == Lotus Notes ¡El diablo está en mis pantalones! ¡Mire, mire! Real Mentats use only 100% pure, unfooled around with Sapho Juice(tm)!

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                            Why do I have this image of Lotes being developed in a Transylvanian castle, the system booted up on a dark and stormy night.... The tigress is here :-D

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                              :laugh::laugh::laugh: So sad cameras weren't invented yet, I would have loved to see pictures of such a scene :-D


                              We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900-1944)

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                              Richard Jones
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                              "Zog lose again!Aaarrghh!" "Bad blue screen" BashBashBash! "Zog go hunt. Less stressful." Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963)

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                                "Zog lose again!Aaarrghh!" "Bad blue screen" BashBashBash! "Zog go hunt. Less stressful." Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963)

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                                :laugh: Paul ;)

                                That's better! It looks like radioactive waste now. - Ryan Binns

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                                  When Jobs decided to make apple a closed system. Then I would laugh at him.:laugh:

                                  ..........Zack.......... Developer Extraordinaire && Full Time Geek

                                  "Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups." - George Carlin "I will stand on my side of the fence, reguardless of the circumstances or the consequence." - Monoxide GCS\P\SS d- s-:- a-- C++$ U--- P--- L- E- W++ N o K-? w+++ O++ !M-- V PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5+ X+ R++ tv++ b++ DI++ D+++ G+>G++++ e* h- r++ y+

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                                  Matt Newman
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                                  That would be a good laugh! Matt Newman
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                                    when Xerox PARC was demonstrating its windowing GUI to Steve Jobs. when the Windows 95 team finally said "this it the build we're shipping" Do you have any monumental moments in computing history that you wish you could have seen in person? --Mike-- "I'm working really, really fast at the moment, so a 3 minute outage becomes, due to time dilation, a 5 minute outage." -- Chris Maunder, relativistic system administrator Ericahist | Homepage | RightClick-Encrypt | 1ClickPicGrabber

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                                    Martin S Stoller
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                                    To have been at the side of Lady Augusta Ada Lovelace when she "wrote" the first program of the modern age to calculate Bernoulli numbers. PS: My first post in CodeProject... Yippee! :-O -- mars@littlelifeforms.ch --

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                                      To have been at the side of Lady Augusta Ada Lovelace when she "wrote" the first program of the modern age to calculate Bernoulli numbers. PS: My first post in CodeProject... Yippee! :-O -- mars@littlelifeforms.ch --

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                                      He's finally come out from the shadows ;) cheers, Chris Maunder

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                                        He's finally come out from the shadows ;) cheers, Chris Maunder

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                                        Martin S Stoller
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                                        :omg: Caught redfaced in the act! How embeareskin' (sic)! Have a nice day, y'all! (Mine is just about to end...) -- mars@littlelifeforms.ch --

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                                          The moment God created salesman. Thats the moment I would like to witness, and then be able to unload a couple .44 rounds into that first born salesman. *twitch*

                                          Paul Watson
                                          Bluegrass
                                          Cape Town, South Africa

                                          Roger Wright wrote: Personally, I'm seeking a red-headed, double-breasted mattress thrasher

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                                          Turtle Hand
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                                          i discovered a year ago the impact salespeople have on my livelihood. if they don't sell product, the company doesn't have revenue. if the company doesn't have revenue, i don't get paid. i am grateful for good salespeople, and i admit they are different than developers. they tend to be generalists and very competitive, willing to cheat to win. where developers are more specific and know cheating in code won't make the software work. Josef Wainz Software Developer

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