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Are patents requiring magic allowed.

(Seriously; they should require that an invention be actualized within, say, a year of the patent application. Used to that you had to bring a model of a patent to the patent inspector.)

That’s what I always thought had to be the case. I think switching back to those requirements would definitely put a kink in the patent trolls.

TTFN - Kent

Sure, but the US patent office wouldn't allow it, because then things would go back to the old way, with 90% of patents only being taken out by non-Americans (who are willing to do some actual work, rather than just talk big).

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Going to need good padding for all that liftoff vibrations.
Working in environmental and vibration testing, that sounds like more business for us

Why am I picturing Johnny Weissmulle swinging from vine-to-vine with the famous undulating Tarzan Call playing?

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Visual Studio blog[^]:
Have you ever found yourself debugging a .NET project or memory dump only to be confronted with a No Symbols Loaded page?

"When I start to break it all down it's becoming perfectly clear to me"

ZDNet[^]:
Once you get past the confusing name, the latest Windows 10 feature update has a lot to offer. Here's what administrators, developers, and the rest of us can expect, plus details on how you can preview version 2004.

Grief

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check out the release of Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL2), which incorporates a major architecture change

You'll find that it will allow you to run some of the many, many, many Linux programs that you want to run.

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you can change the dull defaults, Desktop 1, Desktop 2, and so on, to more meaningful names. Press Windows key + Tab, then click New Desktop, and click the label above the desktop's thumbnail to change the name

So only when you create a new desktop. Gotcha. It's a pretty much useless function, even if you can do it at any time; being able to only do it when you create a desktop obviously makes it indispensable.

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In Task Manager, you can now see the GPU temperature for discrete graphics cards without having to install a third-party utility. Likewise, the Performance tab now shows the disk type (SSD, USB, and so on) for storage devices.

Because the Task Manager is almost the best place for that. Not perfmon, oh no. Who would ever look in a program called "Performance Monitor" for performance information? It's obvious that the place to look is a program that displays tasks.

It's a shame they're getting rid of Notepad, because it would have been absolutely perfect to put it as an option on the Notepad Edit menu.

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The new version also extends the option to automatically restore open apps after a restart

Because collisions and crashes and half-hour disc thrashes during boot-up are what you really need, for a great start to the day. Didn't Mary Poppins do a song about that?

However, the best quote is:

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Windows 10 users will finally get an option that Mac users have had for years.

In place of "Mac", put "Linux", "Control Panel", "Dexpot", "Sandboxie", or any one of the myriad other programs that have done what the "new features" do for years, only better.

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"Another new virtualization-based feature in version 2004 is an extension of the Windows Sandbox feature that made its debut in version 1903. Windows Sandbox is a simple virtual machine that allows you to test software in a safe environment, isolated from your working environment."

But can I put the Windows update in the sandbox? Big Grin | :-D

I am on my way to Virtual Machines. 95% of my work can be done within them, they are portable and allow me to be hardware agnostic. This is very important to me, since. Microsoft in it's somewhat dysfunctional thought process considers it a good idea to fold in driver updates now. For those of us who work on laptops, this is almost always a very bad idea.

The only downside to using VMWare is forgetting that VMWare will trail OS releases a few months. Always backup your Windows VMs before upgrading to the next OS release.

Charlie Gilley
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Bleeping Computer[^]:
36-year-old Larry Dean Harmon from Akron, Ohio, was charged with laundering more than $310 million worth of Bitcoin cryptocurrency while operating the dark web Helix Bitcoin mixer between 2014 and 2017.

Good to see more proof of all the honest folk working with bitcoin

Kent Sharkey wrote:
Good to see more proof of all the honest folk working with bitcoin

31 of the 18,213,787.5 bitcoins in existence. The US$ has still more attractive for not-so-honest people.

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Eddy Vluggen wrote:
31

I think you may be off by a decimal point or three, there.

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Just a few; but doesn't change much. So, tell us again how we criminals and drug pushers? Smile | :)

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Hey, if you're OK with making money from the deaths of children, go for it -- just make sure that I'm excluded from any gleeful discussions of your profits.

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Mark_Wallace wrote:
Hey, if you're OK with making money from the deaths of children, go for it

Aw, I am. I don't mind if friends buy stuff from China and refuse to whine about it.

..but you are very vocal about claiming that BC-owners are criminals. I'm a criminal without any bitcoins; the word was that only criminals owned US$ and gold before BC. Most of the criminal transactions are in US$, since almost everyone accepts them. People only move to other stuff because the US$ isn't a store of value (which it once was).

The physical Euro was made by a company that creates cluster-bombs. It is kinda hypocritical to invoke the children in the current situation. Sex tourism bloomed before the BC, and is traded in dollars.

Still, you insist, it is due to bitcoins. As if the stuff never happened before the virtual currency.

You don't care about children. You care about your aversion to bitcoins, and abuse the children to add weight to your words, without any proof.

And no, I don't like BC; if anything, I'd advise to buy real money - gold.

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Eddy Vluggen wrote:
you are very vocal about claiming that BC-owners are criminals

This one guy who has been convicted trafficked more than 2% of all bitcoins (not 31 of them), and he is just one of dozens.

Bitcoin was just a little novelty, before it started being used for money laundering, which drove its selling price up. Hardly anyone bought bitcoin before that, and everyone who invested in it was well aware of why its price had gone up, so are morally and ethically complicit.

Eddy Vluggen wrote:
the word was that only criminals owned US$ and gold before BC

Whose word is that? AFAIK, the gold standard was around for a long time, before the dollar became the standard for international trade, so where you get this bit of history from, I have no idea -- maybe DD was on wikipedia, again.

Eddy Vluggen wrote:
The physical Euro was made by a company that creates cluster-bombs.

Legally and lawfully. The vast majority of ethical problems with weapons occur during their usage, not their manufacture.

Eddy Vluggen wrote:
Sex tourism bloomed before the BC, and is traded in dollars

So did lots of things, but maybe you've heard the expression that two wrongs don't make a right?

In fact, you can stack up as many wrongs as you like, but the stacking won't make any of them right.

Eddy Vluggen wrote:
you insist, it is due to bitcoins

I haven't insisted anything of the kind.

I have, a few times, stated the unarguable fact that the reason bitcoin became so expensive is because it is used by drug traffickers/cartels/whateverTF-they're-called to launder their profits from human misery.

That is, without any doubt whatsoever, an unarguable fact. If you would rather I lied than spoke truth, let me know. I won't, but I'll at least listen to your preference.

And don't troll me by demanding that I use my time to provide you with proof. There's an Internet at your fingertips that's got all the proof you could possibly need.

Looking into the one guy who was handling 2% of all bitcoin ever "minted" would be a pretty good start, for that. If you want to act like someone has done something wrong, look in his direction, not mine.

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Better sell, guys.

If the criminals pull out, the value will drop to pennies per dozen.

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OnMSFT[^]:
The team behind the Microsoft Bing search engine is always looking to improve on the search experience for end-users.

Like, "Would you like me to do this search on Google so that it finds something?"

Well, my current question would have to be "Does microsoft have a ****ing clue, any more?"

It'll probably follow up by asking me if I'd rather play a non-violent game, like happy families.

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modified 16-Feb-20 21:22pm.

Has it improved any since this? If not, what's the point of this new change, other than to annoy you more before giving useless info?

The forgotten roots of science | C++ Programming | DWinLib

The two most common follow up questions will be:

"Really?"

and

"Are you that much of a pervert?"

The Register[^]:
On this day 25 years ago, Borland Software trotted out version 1.0 of the Delphi application development product, making the announcement at the Software Development '95 event in San Francisco.

I prophesize it will go places

Mind you, I haven't heard much from VB lately, maybe it did kill it?

Kent Sharkey wrote:
Mind you, I haven't heard much from VB lately, maybe it did kill it?

Still in demand here, so no.

After the name changed to Inprise, Delphi was killed; it was unfriendly for hobbyists, expensive, and not worth the money. There's not much Delphi around these days, and it's not because the language is bad - it is because their marketing is.

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Eddy Vluggen wrote:
There's not much Delphi around these days, and it's not because the language is bad - it is because their marketing is.

The idiotic decision not to have a free version is the main reason for its demise.

You'd think that people who owned a visual language based on Pascal (which itself became incredibly popular because it was free, and used in schools) would have got the hint about excluding hobbyists and students.

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Mark_Wallace wrote:
The idiotic decision not to have a free version is the main reason for its demise.

hence, "expensive"; I'd have paid 20 euro's, just not the price they were asking for a non-full version.

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