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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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      • G Giles

        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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          Zachery
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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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            • J Jim Crafton

              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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              Lost User
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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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              • K KaRl

                :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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                  Lost User
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                  :laugh: Paul ;)

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

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                  • Z Zachery

                    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
                    Sonork: 100:11179 "Two things have come out of Berkley, Unix and Acid, we do not belive this to be a coincidence"
                    Linux sucks twice as fast and 10 times more reliably, and since you have the source, it's your fault. -Ca1v1n Post best viewed with lynx

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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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                      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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                        Chris Maunder
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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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                          • 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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                            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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                              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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                              Paul Watson
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                              Strange though how that very closedness and therefore exclusivity is a big reason for many Mac users sticking with Apple. They like that they are few and far between, an elite few that have supposedly seen the light that we have not. Also lets not forget that Apple and it's management are hardly threadbare street urchins struggling to survive. I have to admit if I had to pick between 1 trillion dollars and being touted as the devil (MS) or 100 billion dollars and being loved for my eccentricity (Apple) then I would pick the later for my company :)

                              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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                                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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                                Paul Watson
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                                :-D You can ask around, you won't find a developer here on CP that stands up for management as much as I do. I know all to well that I need them and they need me and that my salesman-at-heart boss is the reason for Bluegrass having weathered the IT throws. I was just ranting because that same boss subtley asked if I would consider delaying my holiday to finish a project that has already had three weeks cut out of the budget... :)

                                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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                                • P peterchen

                                  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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                                  Roger Wright
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                                  peterchen wrote: "Death of a Salesman". Truly an awesome movie!:-D

                                  "The Lion shall lie down with the Lamb;
                                  but the Lamb will not get much sleep..."
                                  Lazarus Long

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                                  • L Lost User

                                    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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                                    Giles
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                                    Now you mention it, it kind of fits. Some mad proffesor pushed his 'Creation' out into the world. Pinky - "What are we going to do tonight Brain?" The Brain - "What we always do, try and take over the world!!!!"


                                    "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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                                    • M Martin S Stoller

                                      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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                                      peterchen
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                                      Typical - first day here, and he immediately stumbles about the local god :rolleyes: Welcome to the club!


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

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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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                                        Jim Crafton
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                                        LOL :) ¡El diablo está en mis pantalones! ¡Mire, mire! Real Mentats use only 100% pure, unfooled around with Sapho Juice(tm)!

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