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| 22 Feb 2004 |
dreaming of products |
'digital picture frame.' - just bolt an old laptop....
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| 20 Feb 2004 |
business ethics and .... |
You can look at it 2 ways; either the squeaky whee....
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Fair enough. I guess we'll be findin' 'n' fixin' ....
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Don't be funny |
For some screenshots used in a manual I once put t....
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| 13 Feb 2004 |
Best Windows Program.... |
Probably this one - http://www.ibiblio.org/Dave/Dr....
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| 10 Feb 2004 |
Two blank spaces aft.... |
Now, how does everyone feel about hypens, em dashe....
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| 06 Feb 2004 |
Which Bugs to fix? |
It's quite simple.
Well, first you fix the one ....
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| 02 Feb 2004 |
definition of "Kille.... |
Spreadsheet.
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Using shame to stop .... |
credit card .... PalmReader (Palm's ebook softwar....
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If you really wanted to shame them, you could have....
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Forget shame.
Use their credit card number as t....
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| 01 Feb 2004 |
Cluetrain Manifesto |
Bored: Look for it at your unloved books reseller ....
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| 31 Jan 2004 |
"Top grades and a tr.... |
I read an account of a MIT professor who didn't au....
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Cluetrain Manifesto |
That odd, I could have sworn I typed odds.
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...and now the dot com bubble has burst, what are ....
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| 29 Jan 2004 |
Signs Your Company H.... |
Me: 'A table is like a file right?'
I worked a ....
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| 26 Jan 2004 |
About Face 2 |
Can't comment on About Face v2.0, but the original....
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| 25 Jan 2004 |
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The Palm Pilot probably owed its success to lack o....
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| 24 Jan 2004 |
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If Dennis Atkins thought the Amazon reviews were f....
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| 23 Jan 2004 |
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'About Face' says here's what you should do. Menu....
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Go back and get his other book - 'The inmates are ....
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| 19 Jan 2004 |
Chris Crawford Game .... |
Gareth McCaughan: ...say, an 8-bit microcontroller....
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Daisy-chaining USBs |
Those printer/scanner 300-in-1 + steak knives comb....
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| 16 Jan 2004 |
20-minute skill sess.... |
T.J: I'll see your puny Win-M and crush it with th....
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| 07 Jan 2004 |
Licensing Software t.... |
Dave: We've used the hard drive serial number for....
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| 22 Dec 2003 |
Programming bottom-u.... |
An analogy is building a car.
Top-down - here's....
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| 21 Dec 2003 |
Voice Recognition - .... |
That's all right, I just thought I'd make a crap j....
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| 19 Dec 2003 |
Programmers creating.... |
Anders: So, don't let programmers design the inter....
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The most annoying us.... |
So long as you do oi oi oi as well.
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Voice Recognition - .... |
I've always blamed Star Trek for promoting voice r....
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Jilian: You often encounter lousy voice user inter....
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| 18 Dec 2003 |
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Julian: I build speech applications for a living, ....
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It tend to agree with most of what people have sai....
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| 17 Dec 2003 |
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i like i: do you have a link for that army system?....
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Voice recognition generally sucks. You'll get you....
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Allowing users to cr.... |
Ah searching for 'phone numbers, that's a little d....
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| 16 Dec 2003 |
Why programmers shou.... |
Nobody is really suggesting programmers man the ph....
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Myron: We also have the same approach for our mark....
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Allowing users to cr.... |
I've never found the need to restrict data entry i....
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John Ridout: There is a standard for everything.
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Crystal Reports |
Zaldy, what database back-end do you use? (p....
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Failed entrepreneur .... |
What, a woman wearing a picture of Jesus lie? ....
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| 15 Dec 2003 |
Caution on Bayesian .... |
You'll notice the spammers are trying to poison or....
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Allowing users to cr.... |
Just an aside, let the user enter whatever-the-hel....
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Opportunities Revisi.... |
Please provide link to superior product (we all wa....
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Crystal Reports |
I've disliked Crystal reports for a long time, sta....
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Failed entrepreneur .... |
She doesn't send out 'bigger penis' emails because....
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| 13 Dec 2003 |
Programmers' Opinion.... |
mph: You can tell excel to make graphs and then sa....
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Software will eat it.... |
Good to see there are still some <BLINK>Nets....
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| 12 Dec 2003 |
What does it mean? |
It means 'We got 100 resumes. We only look at the....
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| 10 Dec 2003 |
useit.com |
Good one John. A bit of light humour to brighten ....
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| 07 Dec 2003 |
The real enemy of pr.... |
> Stephen, you're talking out of your ass.
That....
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| 03 Dec 2003 |
Usability vs. FUncti.... |
Odd logic. Don't come work for me.
The functio....
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Workaround to Bayesi.... |
The filters eventually eliminate b;u;y; vi!ag.r.a ....
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All the screws lined.... |
Race cars often have the gauges twisted so they al....
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Intrinsic fatal erro.... |
The calculator is a good example of the needs of d....
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| 02 Dec 2003 |
Any Programmers Agre.... |
Dunno about the 'hiring mates' stategy. Something....
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Stupid specific inte.... |
pinhead, yes 27, 28 & 29 may all be grounds, and b....
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| 01 Dec 2003 |
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Since several other pins are ground as well, you c....
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| 26 Nov 2003 |
The bookshelf |
I'll second 'Code Complete', 'Programming Pearls' ....
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Stupid Users |
Bingo - magic buttons.
More precisely, design y....
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| 25 Nov 2003 |
When Good Metaphors .... |
Tables. Yeah, you're right. People like tables.
....
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| 24 Nov 2003 |
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I wonder how many people are happy with WordPad.
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Alice - take note.
n/a - Hmm. I use Word for mo....
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Useability:: Backwar.... |
You know Alice, the place for 15-year old, basemen....
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Stupid Users |
Alice: If, on the other hand, you're UI starts wi....
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| 23 Nov 2003 |
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This comes up a lot.
The correct answer is - St....
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GUI design (Linux) |
I have developed applications with different inter....
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Obscure acronyms |
Gee, nobody mentioned TWAIN - Technology Without A....
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| 19 Nov 2003 |
What's your document.... |
How about - 'Keep it short?'
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A list of domains to.... |
Bad idea, Evgany.
If someone is looking for www....
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| 17 Nov 2003 |
wawa |
When I worked at attaching whatchamacallits to wid....
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Software development.... |
I thought Evgeny was back!
Not to be, just anot....
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'What in "credit sec.... |
I find 'Mother / Father / Producer / Boss / God / ....
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Interesting Work |
I make clocks.
Big ones, little ones, odd ones.....
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| 16 Nov 2003 |
cool companies in me.... |
Melbourne weather is usually described as having a....
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| 10 Nov 2003 |
Installer that doesn.... |
Sam;
It sounded like you were looking for somet....
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While you're at it, find one with a 'just bloody i....
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| 07 Nov 2003 |
They call me NERD!!! |
Getting a credit card check digit calculation to r....
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| 03 Nov 2003 |
I Still Don't "Get" .... |
'I didn't mean EDI. EDI is junk.'
What's wrong ....
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SW Mgmt Part 2 - Des.... |
Ya know, when I saw the title, I thought the topic....
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| 31 Oct 2003 |
Which way is "forwar.... |
You forgot...
_ Person drunk
- Short person l....
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Computer aided patte.... |
Forget the 'dot matrix' idea, and the plotter as w....
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MarkTaw, if you think about it, you've just invent....
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Since it's been about 1988 since I've seen them, i....
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Every one who says take a plotter and put a knife ....
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| 30 Oct 2003 |
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You cut shapes out of paper using a 'cookie cutter....
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Is Electronics &.... |
Almost forgot, Wouter, the guy who wrote JAL, show....
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mackinac, I'm not dismissing analog, just pointing....
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| 29 Oct 2003 |
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The PicAxe chips are good fun too.
These days e....
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Programming is no mo.... |
7 years sounds about right.
Most IT stuff lasts....
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| 24 Oct 2003 |
Here comes the monoc.... |
...and if it was 1980, you'd be complaining about ....
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How can people say M.... |
Adding to Patient PC Users comments, double-click ....
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Well, it's says 'User Friendly' on the box, doesn'....
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Where to find IT con.... |
Just ensure you can fire them quickly with little ....
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Excel as an applicat.... |
Ah Stephen, why so bitter?
I used to have the s....
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| 20 Oct 2003 |
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Excel is not for everyone or everything, but it is....
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| 19 Oct 2003 |
What coders can lear.... |
Noname;
Your comments are perfectly valid, and ....
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Echidna: > Australia has 240 V AC in domestic appl....
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| 18 Oct 2003 |
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Just saw Bored's comments - Plumbing is a filthy, ....
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Over-zealous licencing is always bad news.
You ....
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Said 'I'... Everyone has the ability to own and u....
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Excel as an applicat.... |
I develop Excel applications for a living, from si....
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| 06 Oct 2003 |
Where do all the cra.... |
Sturgeon's Law was originally '90% of everything i....
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| 03 Oct 2003 |
should stupid people.... |
I was waiting for the old 'you only use 10% of you....
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| 02 Oct 2003 |
What's Happened to J.... |
Heh, nice one Philo.
Hmm.
I guess IT workers....
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Dave,
So show us YOUR resume, one page, bullet ....
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| 26 Sep 2003 |
Very long term stora.... |
Ask the Long Now Foundation ( www.longnow.com ) !
....
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| 13 Aug 2003 |
should I begin the p.... |
If she's been there for 14 months, and you've give....
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| 10 Aug 2003 |
What *is* that icon .... |
Actually, .GIF does support more than 256 colours.....
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Is EDI still a hot t.... |
EDI spec annoying?
When you're trading stocks o....
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| 23 Jul 2003 |
sniffing a program's.... |
There are quite a few packet sniffer tools around.....
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| 16 Jul 2003 |
Scripting Languages? |
Tcl might be worth a look. It has regular expressi....
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| 15 Jul 2003 |
ASP and encryption |
Peter Gutmann's cryptlib is a very high quality cr....
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| 10 Jul 2003 |
Picking a DIFFERENT .... |
Intercal.
http://catb.org/~esr/intercal/
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| 02 Jul 2003 |
Solution for spammin.... |
I've found the single most effective filter for sp....
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| 01 Jul 2003 |
What color is the sk.... |
Tom, I believe the opposite of 'rejoicing' is 'wai....
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| 28 May 2003 |
Computer ID |
I believe that Windows machines have an id which i....
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| 24 May 2003 |
Amazed at uninformed.... |
Don't confuse 'knowing about' and 'knowing'.
I ....
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| 23 May 2003 |
Evil and truly evil |
Regarding centralised error handling, my point is ....
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Bugs in A = B / C, if anyone is still here!
Fai....
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Good point, your enviroment does play a major part....
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| 22 May 2003 |
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As odd as it may seem, my current project is progr....
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Unexpected errors.
'Error 552323552. Vogon con....
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(Grr, inconsistent UI... I curse you, TAB key :-)
....
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| 21 May 2003 |
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The GOTO is easily removed by using a status flag.....
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| 06 May 2003 |
Unique file ids for .... |
Thanks for the replies. Philip, I agree that hashi....
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Thanks for the replies so far. Actually, I imagine....
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Eric
I'm pottering around with an NT program to....
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| 05 May 2003 |
Unique file ids for Windows
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| 05 May 2003 |
Interesting Tangent:.... |
For pity's sake, NO!!!! It's bad enough that the N....
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| 10 Apr 2003 |
Moore's Law is comin.... |
I don't know if Moore's Law is coming to an end, b....
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