They might also have issues because of the way Microsoft Office changed from software that customers bought once and used for years, into the subscription model where customers have to keep paying for it. Fixing an older version of the software isn’t something Microsoft is likely to do. The fact that there are so many long-standing unresolved issues with software in the Office suite says a lot about their commitment to customers.
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Twitter bot that mashes two flags together to create a new country, and occasionally controversy.
https://mobile.twitter.com/FlagsMashupBot
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British Army does not Excel at spreadsheets: Soldiers’ newly announced promotions are revoked after sorting snafu
Red faces abound within the British Army after an Excel spreadsheet cock-up led to a number of soldiers being wrongly promoted.
A screenshot of an internal email sent around the Royal Logistics Corps (RLC) and posted on Facebook revealed the snafu, which The Register has been told happened after someone in the RLC personnel management branch incorrectly sorted a spreadsheet of successful and unsuccessful promotion candidates.
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Proving that there’s no new form of computer-enabled cock-up, back in 2003 a Canadian electricity generation firm made a similar Excel error that cost it $23m once somebody realised the nature of the copy-and-paste error. Be careful with your spreadsheets out there.
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First alligators, then dogs, now Basil Fawlty is trying to standardise social distancing measures
Reg Standards Bureau No less a character than John Cleese himself has mounted a challenge to the supremacy of the Register Standards Soviet after the funny walks man suggested that he himself was an appropriate measure of social distancing.
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Unfortunately, Cleese’s enthusiastic comparisons contradict the official Register Standards Soviet unit of measure for social distancing, namely the Osman, as we announced back in March. Despite attempts by upstart Americans to do things such as introduce alligators into the mix, we stand firm and repel this dastardly attempt to tread on our turf.
Search for ‘things of value’ in a bank: Iowa cops allege this bloke broke into one and decided on … hand sanitiser
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I’ll stick with Smoots.
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Do they take requests? I have a few:
- Austria + Australia = Austriaustralia
- Iceland + East Timor = Ice Timor
- Lesotho + Serbia = Lesbia
- Portugal + Poland = Portland
- Sweden + England = Swingland
- Uzbekistan + Uzbekistan = Uzuzbekibekistanstan (RIP Herman Cain)
- Nepal + Ohio = I’m not sure what it is but at least we know its flag is a concave pentagon
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Nothing to see here.
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I disagree!
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I know that bridge well. I used to jog across it daily. The Harvard Bridge is 364.4 Smoots or 318.9 @DonatellaNobodys long, plus or minus one ear.
Rumor has it that both Harvard and MIT wanted naming rights to the bridge. Harvard is a couple miles down Mass Ave from there, which in Boston area terms means on a different planet, but they still wanted to name it the Harvard Bridge. MIT civil engineers analyzed the bridge and… wanted to name it the Harvard Bridge.
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I lived in Cambridge 15 years - every time I went over that bridge I chuckled. Always made sure to show it to visitors.
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And before someone suggests a SQL database, you can get some nasty sorting problems with SQL, especially if you didn’t pay attention to the default sort order when creating tables.
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How did you spend your time at university? Pizza, booze, sleeping? This Oxford student is snooping on satellites
FYI, if you didn’t already know: readily available satellite TV electronics can be used to sniff and inspect satellite internet traffic.
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Berger: “In the beginning, we were very careful about facts. And then several years later, we were writing about space aliens, Bigfoot, and Bat Boy.”
Dick Kulpa (Artist, 1987-2003): I came in with an ultrasound of my daughter. He said, “That’s a galaxy shaped like a human fetus.” That became our page one.
lol Must have been an awesome place to work!
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Anyone else here ever see Bat Boy The Musical? That was a fun one.
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Hasbro removing Tr*lls doll from stores amid complaints that button is inappropriately placed
I can’t even…
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