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#153224 01/10/06 10:52 PM
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I have adopted your scheme and now use it extensively. But it would have been preferable if instead Bill Gates had created an algorithm that warns you, for instance, when your contribution is going to time out or that you will lose it if you attempt to return to the thread for some reason before you are through composing it


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#153225 01/10/06 11:15 PM
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I don't think Bill Gates has anything to do with it.

#153226 01/11/06 12:58 AM
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Bill gates is merely an avatar for all software designers

It's symbolic, a flight of fancy


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#153227 01/11/06 02:31 AM
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> Bill gates is merely an avatar for all software designers

That's whiskey talk.

#153228 01/11/06 02:29 PM
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Dale, here's a word for your Brit slang collection: whinge.

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Quote:

Dale, here's a word for your Brit slang collection: whinge.




Oh is that how you spell it.

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