[QUOTE=Dubslow;430464]In many ways, modern American English is much closer to the British English of the 1700s than modern British English. Among other things, our accent/pronunciation is much more similar to your 1700s pronunciation. You're the ones who've since evolved away from it :smile:[/QUOTE]
Yup. For good reasons.

The same reasons why Spanish is influencing American much more than it is English.

[QUOTE=Dubslow;430464]In many ways, modern American English is much closer to the British English of the 1700s than modern British English. Among other things, our accent/pronunciation is much more similar to your 1700s pronunciation. You're the ones who've since evolved away from it :smile:[/QUOTE]I thought that was only true for southern accents.

See the root canals of Holland
 

Had my first root canal today - revenge of the chocolate easter bunnies I've mercilessly demised during my life, no doubt. I was told in advance that the modern version of these is a low-discomfort hi-tech one-hour procedure, even when done thru an existing crown as in my case - well it took ~90 minutes, anesthetic wore off ~4 hours ago, some tenderness but not bad at all, just need to be careful to chew on the opposite (non-habitual, as evidenced by the relative lack of tooth wear/decay) side. The real pain is financiotemporal ... between the regular dental visit whose x-ray first indicated the likely need for the procedure ($200), the root canal itself (~$1400 - and I did solicit quotes from 2 separate endodontists, which ended up differing by a whopping $2), and the needed followup at my regular dentist's to drill out the temporary top-filling and re-do the top of the crown, I'm looking at 3 lost mornings (of the kind that leave you wrung out for the rest of the day) and a roughly $2000 dental bill. No insurance, all out of pocket. That easter bunny's got a vengeful streak a mile wide...

I woke up this morning to find my computer shut down. At first, I hoped that there had been a power interruption, but when I got it started, and ran P95 and two instances of mfaktc, it shut down. At this point I realized that there was a hint of "magic smoke" around. Feeling the GPUs led me to think that GPU 0 had gotten hotter than it should have for the brief time mfaktc ran. I pulled that card (EVGA GTX 580), and moved the secondary 580 to the first slot. When it came back to Windows, Norton Internet Security ran a 40 MB update. A quick scan by it, and Malwarebytes did not turn up anything beyond tracking cookies.

It seems to be running OK with just the MSI 580. Removing a 250 W heat source sure has it running cooler and quieter. Since it seems that the problems may have involved the EVGA card, I'll have to consider reviving a GTX 570 I have around somewhere. On the other hand, this incident pushed me into something I had been considering, which was to cut back to one GPU for the warmer seasons.

[QUOTE=sdbardwick;430469]I thought that was only true for southern accents.[/QUOTE]
I think it was particularly true of isolated populations before the days of radio. Appalachia, in particular, was said to retain something close to Elizabethan era pronunciations. I think mass media has probably blurred such distinctions considerably.

Two for the price of one.
 

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and my gout has flared up again.

I have some similar bad news: one of my machines at work recently went kaput. I'm not sure what happened; all I know is that it "broke" according to one of my colleagues. Let's hope it's not the worst-case scenario of a hard drive failure; I'd hate to lose two and a half years of results.

repeat after me:
"I will back up my data!"
"I will back up my data!"
"I will back up my data!"
etc.

(i didn't find the suitable one, but replace the text as you read, to the one above :razz:)
[YOUTUBE]2_3LVh48J_g[/YOUTUBE]

(grrr.... is it "back up", or "backup"? at least, one says "backing up the data" and not "backuping the data"... hmmm)

Oh, we have one here on the forum too! But also wrong text...
:google:

Or well... [URL="http://photobucket.com/images/i%20will%20not%20suck%20dick%20in%20class"]this may be better[/URL] (NSFW), but here the text is [U]totally[/U] wrong, some people should be allowed to do whatever they like... :blush:

So, a client called me this morning. Seriously consternated (a bit like constipated, but different).

"One of my machines upgraded itself to Windows 10 without my permission last night. Now my cash registers don't work! I can't even print price labels."

He probably lost something like $10,000 in sales before I was able to talk him through the down-grade path.

Possibility of recovering this loss from Micro$oft? The curve quickly approaches zero....

M$ is up to its [URL="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-36367221"]dirty tricks again[/URL]

[QUOTE=paulunderwood;435161]M$ is up to its [URL="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-36367221"]dirty tricks again[/URL][/QUOTE]

Still...

Another client wanted to upgrade all of their people with new hardware. After it turned out that the purchase price of the OS (in order to run AutoCAD) was almost the same price as the hardware, they decided to only upgrade half of the office with new kit.

Many people blow sunshine up Bill Gate's ass for his philanthropy. What few take into account is just how much damage he's done to the advancement of computing.