As a consumer family, during 2014 we bought several used Win 7 i5 Lenovo T410 and T510 from a simply-lovely and adorable eBay vendor. $200-$250 price class.

The ones with video GPUs chips went to the kids. They're extremely happy, so the laptoos must be good enough. They use them daily. I got The Beast, and added an SSD and BluRay player drive. I'm very happy too.

It's been a great year for used computer hardware. The available used hardware with Win 7 is great. YMMV.

Merry Xmas!!

We were wondering about that. Now several of us have stumbled across this item. So, report to HR tomorrow morning for your exit interview.

Are you actually the hiring manager in this situation, or just highlighting how foolish it is for OP to offer so much detail in his/her submission?

HR is on holiday tomorrow. Can we do it on Monday?

BBC World Service . BBC Radio 4 .

Those two alone are more than sufficient to fill your time and fill your brain.

99M loc for dealing with timezones. Before it was a library call.

Java was apparently introduced in 1995, and thus has not quite been around for "decades". Close, but 19 years is not quite "decades". LOL

Presumably somebody didn't write 100M lines of code on Day 1.

Puh, we had one NAND gate carved from wood and some delay lines crafted from buffalo guts. With some early work in quantum annealing, we calculated the name of God to 50 places.

Especially when your email address has been signed up to dozens of mailing lists as some sort of perverted revenge via spam. I can't log in because I didn't create the account. The developer is doubly at fault for allowing an account to be created without confirming the email address.

My revenge is training Gmail that email from such senders is Junk and Spam. Eventually Gmail dumps them automatically, hopefully for everyone.

Duh, Mercedes Finance will happily lease you a nice, clean used Mercedes. Especially if it meets their Star Certified criteria. My first MB was leased from new for three 3-year lease terms; obviously terms 2 and 3 were a used car. My next MB was used and leased for three years. In all cases the lease terms were clear and fair, and the interest rate very competitive. Right now my car loan is with them and under 1%.

I'm sure that other reputable brands have similar programs.

The content (and ad) provider will provide a page of advertisement first, then count to ten, then release the content. User can choose to watch the ad, or (with ad blocking technology) a blank screen for ten seconds.

This is already being done with videos.

Flowcharts are stupid. Simple systems can be internalized (kept in your mind, perfectly), and complex systems are too complex to graph to any human scale size or useful purpose. These two categories do not overlap. They apply recursively all the way down. Waste of time, no value.

Flowcharts are waste of time.

But diagrams can be very helpful. The important thing to remember is that "a complete map" will be too noisy to be useful.

A diagram can describe a few parts of a complex system quickly and easily.

Flowcharts are a great documentation and vizualization tool, if used properly it greatly reduce time required to understand system processes and behaviour.