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The lack of documentation of Windows' updates is a baffling move on Microsoft's part. Have you seen the tools they'd have to use to put those on the Microsoft web site?
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They already wrote it and released it. It's called 'OneNote'.
Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell
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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You might think the conversation about ad blocking is about the user experience of news, but what we're really talking about is money and power in Silicon Valley. And titanic battles between large companies with lots of money and power tend to have a lot of collateral damage. Before you read this blurb, here's a commercial: "Yay, CP!"
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Imagine that; a really private inbox might cost a buck.
To tout that as the death of the web..
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Hmm. Sounds like a "sky is falling" mantra. I've heard this before. Mainframes are dead! Long live the Mainframe!
Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell
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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I suspect we'll start seeing ad-block detection proliferating on sites, so only by disabling the ad-blocker can you actually view the content.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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I've seen sites try to break themselves if I block their ads. I also blocked the crap they used to try breaking the site for me.
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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They'd be better off trying to find a revenue model that isn't based on the assumption that elephanting my experience for the benefit of 3rd parties actually gives those 3rd parties a benefit instead of adding them to my avoid or boycott lists.
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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Microsoft wants to solve compatibility issues with API detection technology. Because UDDI worked so well
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Today marks the initial release of Mobilize.NET’s Silverlight bridge, which helps Windows Phone Silverlight app developers bring their WP Silverlight 8.x apps to the Windows 10 Universal Windows Platform (UWP). It's not coming back. Just rewrite... to something
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The first Android app credited to "Apple Inc." has arrived Apple's writing software for Android? They've obviously decided to surrender.
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The better programmer or designer doesn’t always have a higher the salary. So, how can you make sure that you’re getting paid what you’re worth? "Always sunny in the rich man's world"
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"Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach. Those who can't teach, manage"
How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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... Those who can't manage, teach management. Those who can't teach management,do. Those who can't,...
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Brent Jenkins wrote: "Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach. Those who can't teach, manage"
I'm putting that on a bumper sticker and pasting it to the back of my car.
I drive a very wide car.
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That's not 512 applications, by the way - that's 512 items in total, including apps, folders, files and shortcuts. I'm not sure what's more sad: that this limit exists, or that someone has that many items on their Start menu
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that's 512 more than i need
sincerely
no wanton fer winten
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That is pathetic. What's even more disgraceful is that Windows 10 Pro is $300 - $130 more than what I paid for genuine Windows 8.1 Pro and has less features AND has more bugs. I think I'm done with Microsoft and their sh*t products.
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Evil Iceblock wrote: less features AND has more bugs
Put your marketing head on.. You mean "simpler with cutting edge enhancements"
How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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Lol, actually, what I meant was "sh--ter than sh-t but better than 8.1."
I think that is all it would take to entice most people to upgrade from 8.1 to 10 lol
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Evil Iceblock wrote: "sh--ter than sh-t but better than 8.1."
I think there should be a campaign to rebrand Windows 8/8.1 as Windows BE (Ballmer Edition)
How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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Crapplications that install a dozen or more items make it quite possible to hit the limit. My work PC has ~560 folders and shortcuts on its W7 start menu. Since W10 is folder free I think I'd be clear; but dangerously close to the limit. In particular, the ones written by duhvelopers that are ignoring a decade of MS guidance and putting uninstallers and a half dozen documentation shortcuts on the desktop deserve to be stomped into the mud by a herd of elephants.
I'm curious what my home pc's menu looks like; if I remember I'll do a second count there too. Like at work it's an old profile that's accumulated a lot of stuff over the years.
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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Dan Neely wrote: My work PC has ~560 folders and shortcuts on its W7 start menu.
Agreed ... e.g. I install AutoDesk's Revit (i.e. that one single program) which places around 60 shortcuts in 10 folders in W7's start menu (most of them just silly cr@p like readme files, settings & version migration tools, etc.).
But, it's still sad isn't it? Both that this might mean W10's start mean-U reaches its limits with just a handful of proggies installed, as well as that some proggies use up so many items in that mean-U.
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Dan Neely wrote: I'm curious what my home pc's menu looks like; if I remember I'll do a second count there too. Like at work it's an old profile that's accumulated a lot of stuff over the years.
Forgot 8.1 doesn't have an equivalent list; and restoring a 7 backup image in a VM is way too much work.
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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