OriginalGriff wrote:

puts me off so much opera as well - the female stars (aka "The Fat Ladies") generally didn't either.

Joan Sutherland Destroys the World in 3 Notes! - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5f5KMQaAac&feature=related[^] :) :)

thanks amazing that the same country that produced this, also produced that vile creep, Sarkozy. if you've not heard Tony Bennett & Gaga doing Lady is a Tramp, do so - I was gobsmacked

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-7/disable-aero-shake-in-windows-7/[^]

stops him interfering with the people who are busy working

yiangos wrote:

Then again, in unix world, the sequence "#!" is usually pronounced as "hash bang", so go figure

in my world '#!" was usually "crunch bang" - something to do with a brand of breakfast cereal I think. So C# is "C crunch", if it had been 'C@", then I'd have called it "C snail", ... I've had interviewees tell me indignantly, triumphantly even, that it's "C sharp" not "C crunch" :zzz:

Most of us can't even find the big picture ;) What will be the effect of gender imbalance I wonder. Put excess males in the army & send them off to war, else they may cause trouble at home.

paul_brogan wrote:

Sequal arguably, was the first query language brought out by IBM in 70/80's if memory serves

Almost, but not quite, it seems that SEQUEL and SQL were not always one and the same. "At the time IBM didn't believe in the potential of Codd's ideas, leaving the implementation to a group of programmers not under Codd's supervision, who violated several fundamentals of Codd's relational model; the result was Structured English QUEry Language or SEQUEL. When IBM released its first relational database product, they wanted to have a commercial-quality sublanguage as well, so it overhauled SEQUEL and renamed the basically new language (System Query Language) SQL to differentiate it from SEQUEL." - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_DB2 So, does "Sequal" refer to System Query Language, or to Structured English QUEry Language Perhaps it should be pronounced "Codds Wallop" :D I worked on a system 38 for a while, then the client downgraded to a System/3 or was it an AS/400, no matter I deserted ship to return to the warm arms of Digital.

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Xiangyang Liu 刘向阳 wrote:

Ok, S minus Q minus L, I still don't know the answer! :)

maybe J- or -J :^)

Soulus83 wrote:

how do you call C#? "Ci-pound??"

I call it "see crunch", if it were "C!", I'd call it "see bang" before noon and "see shriek" after noon , "C@" would be "see snail" .... :laugh:

SinghUlarity... wrote:

Don't worry, another 10 years and everybody would be speaking Chinese (Mandarin /Cantonese bleh

Nuh, the Politburo knows the rest of the planet ain't going to learn Mandarin or Cantonese. So they've got everyone over there learning English, Spanish etc That way they can take over while we're asleep :laugh:

Andrew Leeder wrote:

I think I read somewhere that there are more English speakers in China than there is England.

But I don't think its true, I think its less than 20m. There are more English speakers in India ~120m, and Nigeria ~80m, than in the UK ~58m According to no less an authority than the immediate past prime minister of UK&NI, China is planning to have all people between under 25 speaking English by 2025.

surely you mean for phone support it IS a requirement that you do NOT know English Then it doesn't matter what else you know or don't know, or even if you know some unknown unknowns.

Now we know what BOB was really meant to be - Bubbles On Board

thanks

Did you try this http://support.microsoft.com/kb/290301[^] it's worked for me a couple of times - but not every time. Revo Uninstaller Free has also worked for getting rid of Office 2007 & MS Live components.

Pete O'Hanlon wrote:

There was a time (many years ago) when the MSDN help was superb. Subsequent releases have made the product worse.

Industry trend - pathetic presentation, meaningless content - post modernism. rubout is well worn - my kb has keys for copy/cut/paste, they are shiny.

None yet - at this stage they can only crawl

"we shall patiently bear the trials that fate imposes on us" -- Anton Chekhov Uncle Vanya

I'd like to know why C# doesn't have a comefrom, with or without Intellisense

"we shall patiently bear the trials that fate imposes on us" -- Anton Chekhov Uncle Vanya

I use my right foot for audio transcription control, not sure my left foot could cope with doing the spatial control. But I have a keyboard with a scroll wheel, back, forward, close, and edit (mark, cut, paste, copy) buttons (not keys, they don't repeat), clustered at the left end of keyboard, and a trackball at the right end above the number pad, so I rarely use the mouse or even the trackball in text intensive tasks. I use the mouse for web surfing, not sure that eyeball tracking would work for that. I'm often surprised at how many people aren't aware of the context menu button. On real keyboards it's usually wedged between the right alt & ctrl keys - I often see people grab the mouse just to do a right click.

"we shall patiently bear the trials that fate imposes on us" -- Anton Chekhov Uncle Vanya

I don't recall ever hearing anyone say SEAQUOLL, but if they did I'd be thinking that someone has discovered a marine going one of these[^]. There's a member of the BBC World Service football commentariat who refers to Milan as MeeeeeeLAN, it sounds awful, can't remember his name, if he says more than twice I turn him off.

"we shall patiently bear the trials that fate imposes on us" -- Anton Chekhov Uncle Vanya