How many of you are ready to run out and upgrade to Windows 8?

[Ed Cryer]

What do rhetorical questions have to do with anything?

They don't expect an answer, but if one comes, well, that could be a
rhetorical reply.

Q: Is the pope Catholic?
A: Ten to eleven.

Ed

 

[Mike Barnes]

What do rhetorical questions have to do with anything?

Good question. What's the answer?

 

[J. P. Gilliver (John)]

In message <[email protected]>, charlie <[email protected]>
writes:
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I'm not "ready to run out and buy" Win8. It's included in an annual MS
subscription I pay for, which includes multiple ops systems and
various office versions. The cost of retail one copy of each for a
workstation and server exceeds the subscription cost by a considerable
amount.
Sadly, the subscription was "free" until I retired.

Interesting; how much _is_ that subscription (or is that confidential)?

Also: why are you continuing (or rather, starting) to pay it now you've
retired - in other words, (why) do you think you need it?

Retired as from salaried employment (2005)
I still do some occasional consulting and OEM/VAR work.

I presume _that's_ why you (now) consider it worthwhile to keep paying
the sub.; fair enough.
[]

At one time, I developed and debugged code for imbedded military apps,
and automated testing of military systems and modules. The present and

[Should you be telling us that (-:?]

past windows extensible dynamic help system is, in part, based on a
series of comments and suggestions I made at an MS meeting over a
decade ago. I assume no responsibility or take credit for what things
finally morphed into.

(-:
[Sad tale of sparks deleted; hope the next attempt is more enjoyable.]

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

They don't expect an answer, but if one comes, well, that could be a
rhetorical reply.

Q: Is the pope Catholic?
A: Ten to eleven.

Ed

Watch it, Ed. That's two LOL's in a row from you.

And both of them have a religious theme. Whatever happened to separation
of Church and Usenet? Isn't that in the Constitution?

Oh, never mind, you seem to be in the UK, so what do you care about
constitutional issues?

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

Good question. What's the answer?

That's it: the answer is "Good question"

 

[charlie]

In message <[email protected]>, charlie <[email protected]>
writes:
[]
I'm not "ready to run out and buy" Win8. It's included in an annual MS
subscription I pay for, which includes multiple ops systems and
various office versions. The cost of retail one copy of each for a
workstation and server exceeds the subscription cost by a considerable
amount.
Sadly, the subscription was "free" until I retired.

Interesting; how much _is_ that subscription (or is that confidential)?

Also: why are you continuing (or rather, starting) to pay it now you've
retired - in other words, (why) do you think you need it?

Retired as from salaried employment (2005)
I still do some occasional consulting and OEM/VAR work.

I presume _that's_ why you (now) consider it worthwhile to keep paying
the sub.; fair enough.
[]

At one time, I developed and debugged code for imbedded military apps,
and automated testing of military systems and modules. The present and

[Should you be telling us that (-:?]

past windows extensible dynamic help system is, in part, based on a
series of comments and suggestions I made at an MS meeting over a
decade ago. I assume no responsibility or take credit for what things
finally morphed into.

(-:
[Sad tale of sparks deleted; hope the next attempt is more enjoyable.]

[Should you be telling us that (-:?]
Not a big thing - - Information on a Resume is more or less public
knowledge. Telling what code, what it did, and where it's used might be
a minor issue.

One quick and dirty one, written in sort of desperation wasn't really
code. It adapted a well known terminal program and a data base program
to an interesting laptop use. (25 year rule applies)

You took the laptop to a well known but now somewhat obsolete fighter,
and plugged it in to a malfunctioning electronic system. The modified
terminal program allowed the laptop to communicate with the system, and
the database program interpreted the output, then looked up codes in the
data base. That in turn produced a human understandable output.
The same software had the basic ability to also do some things that I
suppose might still be closely held.

The Military and my employer had reservations, simply because use of the
program could reduce or eliminate the need for sophisticated automatic
test stations. Guess who built the test stations.