Terry O`Nolley wrote: Irony is very specific and is one of the most overused/misused words in language. So much so that I would be surprised if the definition wasn't expanded to include it as a synonym for coincidence some day. And it is, of course, your job to jump in, point this interesting tidbit of information to all and everyone, and not contribute positivly to a topic. Congrats on performing a double-twist-threadjack. What does our contestant win, Bob? Why folks, he wins a lifetime supply of drubbings and lutefisk!

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The irony of you arguing about the usage of a word with a big happy smiley face on your sig is ironic in and of itself, and is of no doubt, pure coincidence. As is that nobody but yourself seems to give a damn, while the rest of us just enjoy ourselves at your overbearing expense.

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Hmm, you sound like you belong with this fun-loving group of people: Movie Physics I can suspend disbelief with the best of them, but any movie I go to see should have a coherent plot that works within the boundaries of the movie itself. Matrix 1 had this, Matrix 2 did not. If we're going to compare sequels that were differnt from 1 to 2, then Alien and Aleins is a fine example of two very different movies set within the same realm, with each standing alone.

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David Wulff wrote: How about ironic coincidence Oooooh, me jealous, didn't think of that first.

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Terry O`Nolley wrote: That would be an example of a coincidence - not irony...... Sorry, no, you're wrong: co·in·ci·dence: the occurrence of events that happen at the same time by accident but seem to have some connection [emp. mine]. iro·ny: usually humorous or sardonic literary style or form characterized by irony. There did not seem to be any connection between talking on a CELL PHONE and driving into a CELL PHONE STORE (that is, one does not give rise to the other). It is, however, IRONIC that the woman did so. If, for example, she was running from the police and crashed the car into the building where Bush was giving a speech, then yes, that could be considered coincidence.

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JoeJoeMa wrote: the matrix series are eye candy Far too true for the 2nd movie, but the first did have more philosophical ideas that were mostly lost on the general drooling public who were there just to see Neo dodge bullets. Case in point is the stupid road scene.

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WEST BRIDGEWATER, Mass. -- An Abington, Mass., woman, driving and talking on her cell phone, died after her car plowed into a cell phone store in West Bridgewater. Rest of the bit at Boston Channel 5. It's been a good week for Darwin already...

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Just assume it's going to suck and have no plot to speak of, much like Matrix 2. That being said, skip it and rent both 2 and 3 when they come out on DVD so at least you can have a chance to figure out what the hell they are trying to show (other than they have "cool special effects" and can't write dialog for their life).

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Vikram Punathambekar wrote: starts cleaning guns Better start working on your Gun Kata to deal with all the Matrix fanboys.

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I still use Eudora 1.51. Sometimes the best things are the orignal ones.

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$35 for chipboard? That's pretty expensive. I would charge him $30 for it and tell him it was on sale.

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l a u r e n wrote: how i can tell outlook that its really ok Install something less prone to eating your harddrive. Seriously, you use Outlook, with all the security issues it has, and you still want less?

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RSS. Then, as your needs grow/change or the "standard" output changes, you can pipe the XML data into a converter and serve up that. The end client will never know.

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Without RTFA, is this the same as the one where the Israli weapons dude was going to put little bits of bacon in each bullet? Actually, both Hebrew and Islam faiths forbid the consumption of pork or pork products. I suspect that the real reason is that pigs are carriers of parasites that require it to be cooked fully, and doing so without a thermometer (hard to find 2,500+ years ago) meant anyone eating pork wound up really sick, or dead. So it became taboo, and then became Scripture Law. There we go, Todd's Sermon of the Day. Wh00t!

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Exceeelent. Who wants to start one like this in Ohio? I know some people who are shit-hot at this kind of thing.

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Well, it's supposed to get really warm this weekend in Hill Country. And the poor folks at PDC are getting barbequed. Drool, slurp "Um, are humans dark or white meat? And do they go with red or white wine?"

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Paul Oss wrote: Does anyone have any opinions as to how to satisfy a corporations desire to fight real piracy vs. annoying the living crap out of legit users (like myself in the Intuit case) and causing them to wander elsewhere for their next purchase? Show them the result of customers leaving because of this kind of attitude, and they'll get off their high hobby horse real fast. Best way to fight piracy: provide exceptional value for the money (and this includes support, documentation, product updates, and the product ACTUALLY WORKING RIGHT THE FIRST TIME).

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Microsoft SQL Server Performance Tuning and Optimization - lots of good tips. In any case, I think you're wrong in that "only operates on one table". You might be confusing the row-level-locking mechanism, which acts as a mutex for the row data. Transactions are the equivilant of try-catch-throw, and provide a nice rollback functionality. However, if you're really worried about performance, batch up the operatations and carry them out inside of a single transaction (this also has other issues of course). You might also want to benchmark with and without on a copy of the database and see what, if any, impact it has. I sounds to me like the "Crazy boss" has had issues in the past where database updating errors were not being caught and the database tables got corrupted.

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Ah, yes, the man who trademarked "frownies".

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Christopher Duncan wrote: a world where everything exists within a browser. Bindows. If the browser would compile to native code, then we're all set. Come on, you sucked up to DotNet and C# quickly enough, why are you resisting this now?

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