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... and I just realized by checking my email this morning that I apparently ordered five copies of Windows 10 and three XBoxes during the night.
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That's a perfectly normal side effect.
Don't worry about it, unless an order for PS4's creeps in.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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I think an accepted order for a PS5 would be even more creepier.
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No, they know people want one of those, and they have loads of old stock to dispose of ... 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Yep, this probably explains why they put a free Clippy poster in the order.
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I had my shot too. I woke up with a cardboard box full of Windows Vista CDs on my doorstep. Must've been a prototype vaccine.
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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Vista, CDs, that is wrong on so many levels 
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Only start to worry if you sign a partition to bring back Clippy.
// TODO: Insert something here Top ten reasons why I'm lazy
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yacCarsten wrote: sign a partition
Been working with disks much lately? 
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I have an image of Clippy popping up on your screen with
"It appears that you meant to say 'petition'. Can I help you with that?"
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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You realize this means you'll also be able to go back to your 6 meter social distancing.
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Yes, the 2 meter was a bit too close to my taste.
Actually, I did not get the vaccine (it was only for the Microsoft plot joke) and will probably not get it before July - France is *a bit* late on track.
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GWBasic predated windows. VB4 was mostly just GWBasic with a code generator. The code generator for Windows had gotten fairly good by that time. When they got to VB6 they had added a lot of object oriented features. Where did VB5 stand in this evolution. Was it closer to 4 or 6?
So many years of programming I have forgotten more languages than I know.
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I’d say it was closer to 6. 3 and 5 stand out for me as the best versions of VB (others can add the joke they desire here). 4 was an OLE-ification, and 6 was the attempt at web. (And 5 was the addition of classes)
TTFN - Kent
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I did a lot of GWBasic then jumped into C++ 4 and a lot of embedded work. Never did much VB until 6 and then it was mostly VBA for Excel and other programs. VBA is mostly VB6. After that it has been .NET and C#. I have skipped over a lot of small steps in my career.
I am asking this question because I am just finishing up converting a VB4 program to a WPF and C#. Now they are giving me a VB5 conversion. I am kind of wishing I had screwed up the VB4 conversion.
So many years of programming I have forgotten more languages than I know.
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Whole parts of my brain just opened up, creaking and dusty, at the mention of GWBasic.
Good memories...
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Do not forget the cobwebs. I glad yours were good. When I started in on the VB4 upgrade I found the memories painful.
So many years of programming I have forgotten more languages than I know.
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Exactly. Let sleeping dogs lie. Don't revive those poor abused brain cells.
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Good memories?
Cheers,
विक्रम
"We have already been through this, I am not going to repeat myself." - fat_boy, in a global warming thread 
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5 was closer to 6
Real programmers use butterflies
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So maybe the reason 7 8 9 is that they were not as close as 5 and 6.
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In another universe they never developed .NET They have versions of 7, 8, 9 ... That universe is often know as DLL Hell.
So many years of programming I have forgotten more languages than I know.
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