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Meta paid $14.3 billion for a stake in Alexandr Wang's Scale. Meta has poached a guy from Apple who told them he can do AI, by paying him $200 million to change desks. Ilya Sutskever's company is valued at $32 billion and Mira Murati's Thinking Machines is valued at $10 billion. Neither has a...

Last year I started to play the guitar. The intention has drifted in and out of my mind for years. So I thought as I was 80 I'd better be getting on with it. I've had an acoustic guitar for years and hardly ever picked it up. I've given it to various family members but they kept giving it back...

All that time ago and the BBC were distorting the original story. Now totally custom and practice at the BBC. Presumably the BBC are busy 'training' their own AI to avoid any human error by missing to change something that should comply with the BBC rules of truth and propaganda. Satire has had...

There is similar situation in Thailand. There everyone speaks English with an American accent. I can only think that they spend all their time learning English by watching films made in the USA. Some companies (the terrible Virgin Media being one) subcontract support to Asian countries and...

Maybe the Americans would benefit if they learnt to spell correctly? Always a constant irritation to the English.

If you had two totally separate tables how many fields would be different from one to the other? Add it, or them in to one of them and just use one table. Nothing wrong with a field that can only be "S" or "U".

I was never involved with QuickBooks, only SAGE, Pegasus, one other specialist system for construction. Plus a couple of CAD systems. But I avoided directly posting into any of them. Basically on the principle that if anything went wrong ( i.e. operator error being most likely) Then I'd have to...

In the mid 70s Kojak was on TV over here. Then there was one of those ludicrous police situations when they were all supposed to be working late because they loved their jobs, working hard and catching naughty people. Kojak turned to Stavros and said "hey Stavros, go and get some pizza" We are...

Exactly correct Doc! Reliably comes up with brilliant solutions but sometimes forgets, or omits. That's me:)

Not a bad summary of me actually.

For years Access has been software's perennial creaking gate. So many have claimed for so long that Access was dead. Although usually people who either didn't like Access, MS or had never used it. It's OK for prototyping is often said. Like someone has time to create a working system in one...

In the past I have used Access FE & BE on Terminal Server over four remote sites. But only with no more that 80 concurrent users

Whilst everyone tries to keep fit in body, according to new research by the UK Beer & Wine Lobby Group, alcohol fine tunes the brain. As you drink alcohol it will naturally kill off brain cells. During this process the weakest cells are obviously removed. Leaving only the strongest and best...

See abebooks.co.uk - abebooks.com etc. You will find undamaged and perfectly good Access books at way less than new. It is a fact that many language books aren't actually read cover to cover. Pick up a few at little cost. Don't buy any with less than 800 pages because they will probably not...

Hey Doc, fortunately the title of this does include for a worst joke. So 10/10 on that:)

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Small companies react quickly, or not at all. More often not at all. If he doesn't need it then then forget it. If next month/year he has the need you'll receive a call. If he can find your number. In the days of posting flyers, you could expect 3 to 5 responses from each 100. A response isn't...

They say; commeth the hour, commeth the man. But in the West all we can see are idealists, dreamers, fanatics and committees. As an example; Van de Leyen is the best that the whole of Europe, 27 countries and 450 million people, can come up with. Then we have Starmer and there are simply no...

That and Ukraine are a real mess. Both evolving solution-less nightmares. I cannot see a solution but neither can I understand the mentality, or aspirations of these people. Surely they can see what the end game will be? It is more than obvious that many countries, UK, Canada, USA, the EU where...

There is of course the (some may say caustic) opinion/expression that all people are thieves if they think they can get away with it.