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  • J Jim Crafton

    code-frog wrote:

    If you have anything 3 years old or older you have a dinosaur.

    I personally disagree with this. You buy the software you need to do a job. It's a tool. If it continues to work for you, and help you do you job, how, after a mere 3 years, does that make you a dinosaur (or the software a dinosaur)? I have Office 2000. I have seen absolutely NO reason to upgrade it. Ditto for Windows 2000. They both work great, and nothing in the current Office (or Windows) version appeal to me enough to buy them. So I guess I'm a dino too. :) And I suspect that's the same for a whole lot of other people as well. The software industry wants to sell people on this obsessive to need to upgrade stuff every year that I think is just totally un-realistic. ¡El diablo está en mis pantalones! ¡Mire, mire! Real Mentats use only 100% pure, unfooled around with Sapho Juice(tm)! SELECT * FROM User WHERE Clue > 0 0 rows returned Save an Orange - Use the VCF!

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    code frog 0
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    Jim Crafton wrote:

    I personally disagree with this.

    That's good and for you that's fine. You should disagree. I have a doctor who's a client who's running the latest Oracle database server. He needs optimum performance and the fastest resources he can get. His 3 year old server isn't a great choice. He know's it. I know it.

    Context is everything. Your context is fine for you. Joe's context is fine for him. Don't go telling the whole world three years old is fine. In many cases you will be wrong. In every case all parties involved will need to make that decision.

    Some assembly required. Code-frog System Architects, Inc.

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    • M Marc Clifton

      Jim Crafton wrote:

      where the office workers have some sort of dinosaur head on their shoulders.

      That's pretty insulting, and pretty stupid. First off, it's insulting to the customers. Second, it's insulting to Microsoft, because it implies that Microsoft's products are so archaic that, no, not even a cave man or neandertal head is appropriate--we need dinosaurs. Makes me want to use a MAC. It's also insulting to science, as man did not evolve from dinosaurs, but something that was left over after the dinosaurs went extinct. And finally (and this deserves a separate notation all together), it's insulting to the ID people, because of course, man didn't evolve (yeah, yeah, poetic license. Go with the flow). Man just is. But is the ID man intellegent enough to not use Microsoft products? Ah, there's the question! Marc Pensieve

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      Most proponents of ID still accept Microevolution as truth. It's just the Macroevolution that they have problems with.
      I went out there, in search of experience,
      To taste and to touch and to feel as much
      As a man can, before he repents...
      -The Wanderer, Johnny Cash & U2Signature Area - Any changes made to the current sig will be saved

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      • M Maximilien

        Evolution goes against Intelligent Design ... there is no evolution, Office was created by an act of god. :|


        Maximilien Lincourt Your Head A Splode - Strong Bad

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        As I said to Marc, most proponents of ID believe that macroevolution is bogus...but still accept that microevolution is true.
        I went out there, in search of experience,
        To taste and to touch and to feel as much
        As a man can, before he repents...
        -The Wanderer, Johnny Cash & U2Signature Area - Any changes made to the current sig will be saved

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        • J Jim Crafton

          LOL! :) So does that imply he just gave up, quit programming, went out and got married and began rock climbing? :) It kind of makes you wonder who designs the ads, and how they get approved. ¡El diablo está en mis pantalones! ¡Mire, mire! Real Mentats use only 100% pure, unfooled around with Sapho Juice(tm)! SELECT * FROM User WHERE Clue > 0 0 rows returned Save an Orange - Use the VCF!

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          James Gupta
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          LOL! So does that imply he just gave up, quit programming, went out and got married and began rock climbing? It kind of makes you wonder who designs the ads, and how they get approved. ¡El diablo está en mis pantalones! ¡Mire, mire! Real Mentats use only 100% pure, unfooled around with Sapho Juice(tm)! LOL no hes still in the office - just slightly different effects, implying he now has a life - his wife is not pissed with him, he has a hobby etc because he can get programming done faster and more efficiently hehe (apparantly)

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          • M Maximilien

            Evolution goes against Intelligent Design ... there is no evolution, Office was created by an act of god. :|


            Maximilien Lincourt Your Head A Splode - Strong Bad

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            William Penington
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            I thought it was the Devil who was evil.:laugh: William Penington

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            • J Jim Crafton

              Tell you what, when they give Jenna Jameson a starring role, maybe I'll get interested... :) ¡El diablo está en mis pantalones! ¡Mire, mire! Real Mentats use only 100% pure, unfooled around with Sapho Juice(tm)! SELECT * FROM User WHERE Clue > 0 0 rows returned Save an Orange - Use the VCF!

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              JimmyRopes
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              Who is Jenna Jameson? I'm on-line therefore I am. JimmyRopes

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                Who is Jenna Jameson? I'm on-line therefore I am. JimmyRopes

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                Jim Crafton
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                Google is your friend, but I wouldn't do the search at work :) ¡El diablo está en mis pantalones! ¡Mire, mire! Real Mentats use only 100% pure, unfooled around with Sapho Juice(tm)! SELECT * FROM User WHERE Clue > 0 0 rows returned Save an Orange - Use the VCF!

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                • J Jim Crafton

                  Tell you what, when they give Jenna Jameson a starring role, maybe I'll get interested... :) ¡El diablo está en mis pantalones! ¡Mire, mire! Real Mentats use only 100% pure, unfooled around with Sapho Juice(tm)! SELECT * FROM User WHERE Clue > 0 0 rows returned Save an Orange - Use the VCF!

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                  Kythen
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                  Bah! Who needs her when you have the far more respectable duo of Jewel Staite and Morena Baccarin? :-D

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                  • K Kythen

                    Bah! Who needs her when you have the far more respectable duo of Jewel Staite and Morena Baccarin? :-D

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                    Jim Crafton
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                    I'm afraid to google for them at work - can you fill me in as to who they are? ¡El diablo está en mis pantalones! ¡Mire, mire! Real Mentats use only 100% pure, unfooled around with Sapho Juice(tm)! SELECT * FROM User WHERE Clue > 0 0 rows returned Save an Orange - Use the VCF!

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                    • J Jim Crafton

                      I'm afraid to google for them at work - can you fill me in as to who they are? ¡El diablo está en mis pantalones! ¡Mire, mire! Real Mentats use only 100% pure, unfooled around with Sapho Juice(tm)! SELECT * FROM User WHERE Clue > 0 0 rows returned Save an Orange - Use the VCF!

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                      They are a pair of lovely actresses from Firefly. (All links are work-safe IMDB pages) Morena Baccarin[^] plays Inara Serra Jewel Staite[^] plays Kaylee Frye Gina Torres[^] isn't bad either! :)

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                      • K Kythen

                        They are a pair of lovely actresses from Firefly. (All links are work-safe IMDB pages) Morena Baccarin[^] plays Inara Serra Jewel Staite[^] plays Kaylee Frye Gina Torres[^] isn't bad either! :)

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                        Jim Crafton
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                        Ahh, OK I remember, if I had to pick, Gina Torres is SMOKIN'! :) ¡El diablo está en mis pantalones! ¡Mire, mire! Real Mentats use only 100% pure, unfooled around with Sapho Juice(tm)! SELECT * FROM User WHERE Clue > 0 0 rows returned Save an Orange - Use the VCF!

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                        • J Jim Crafton

                          Google is your friend, but I wouldn't do the search at work :) ¡El diablo está en mis pantalones! ¡Mire, mire! Real Mentats use only 100% pure, unfooled around with Sapho Juice(tm)! SELECT * FROM User WHERE Clue > 0 0 rows returned Save an Orange - Use the VCF!

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                          Oh, that Jenna Jameson! I'm on-line therefore I am. JimmyRopes

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