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Because it's not just a video player; even if that's 99% of what it's still used for.
The cluster elephant is a full fledged language runtime like VB6 or javascript.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Chris Maunder wrote: It's so bad that browser manufacturers are actively blocking it[^].
Well, I've been doing that for years now. I don't have flash installed except as a browser plugin. And every browser that has a flash plugin installed is configured to "click to play". I haven't installed the JRE either... And haven't missed it so far.
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Microsoft is fleshing out further its Visual Studio '15 tailored installation experience by adding more than a dozen workloads for specific development tasks. It only installs what I want? Brilliant!
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Quote: It only installs what I want? No, it only installs what they think you should want!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Forogar wrote: No, it only installs what they think you should want!
No, it only installs what you are supposed to want!
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First step let me choose the location it installs all those parts...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Does it install Windows 10 first if it isn't the currently in use OS?
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You should've just linked directly to the MSDN post. All ZDNy et did was to delete all the details and dumb down the language.
On the Road to Release: Redesigning Visual Studio Installation | The Visual Studio Blog[^]
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Recycling plastic can be difficult, but maybe we could squeeze something else out. Fill 'er up. With pop bottles.
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OT - Ars Technica attempted to download multiple files automatically... Not nice at all...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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W3C has early draft of specification for authentication standard that works across browser platforms, prevents phishing. Coming to a browser near you... by 2050 (maybe)
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New emoji are typically proposed by the Unicode Consortium and approved for the next version of the spec without much fuss, but a rifle emoji proposed for Unicode 9.0 apparently ran into opposition from two major members of the consortium: Apple and Microsoft. The Second Amendment doesn't protect your "whacky" FaceBook chats
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“We are not building an operating system for just a single device, when I think about even Windows 10, the way we conceptualized it is, we are building an operating system for the user across all the devices” Service... without a smile
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t is a service, that is how I think of it. Windows update is probably the biggest service we have because it touches 1.5 billion machines every day
So in other words, Windows 10 is a service whose purpose in life is to update 1.5 billion (I question that number) machines every day, with, erm, itself??? Gads, if I wrote a service that did that, I'd be fired. I certainly wouldn't brag about it.
I (or someone here!) better trademark OSAAS - OS As A Serice before Microsoft does! And its variants, like OS As a Software Service.
Marc
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Or ODGPME OS as the greatest piece of malware in existence.
I don't object to windows 10 but the arrogance with which it is thrust upon the market annoys the hell out of me.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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As an OS it should pass, but as a service it is the worst service I ever saw...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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For the second time this year, physicists at the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational Waves Observatory (LIGO) are giddy with excitement. "Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times, it's enemy action."
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How do they know it's not the same waves?
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Different distance, and different masses of black holes.
Plus, the name tag.
TTFN - Kent
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Surf's up?
New version: WinHeist Version 2.2.2 Beta I told my psychiatrist that I was hearing voices in my head. He said you don't have a psychiatrist!
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These black holes are just pulling our legs.
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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I dun went put on my tin foil hat to shield myself from them. Thanks for the warning, dude.
Kitty at my foot and I waAAAant to touch it...
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That was just Donald Trump stomping through the neighborhood...
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Google’s new parent company Alphabet has found itself faced with a lawsuit this week, which claims that the tech giant stole the idea behind its Wi-Fi-emitting balloon network, Project Loon. Step 1: attach balloon to router Step 2:??? Step 3: Profit!
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