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Agreed. He's the Chuck Norris of code.
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And what would that make me? 
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
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'n'slash
I'd rather be phishing!
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If it is any consolation to you, I'm a just a hack, as well. We have our purpose in this world, too (saying this helps me sleep at night). 
...compared to Sacha and WPF. I have to give myself "some" credit.
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Do I detect a bromance going on here, John?
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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Nah, just publicly recognizing a better programmer.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Here's[^] a collection of vintage guitar catalogues for you.
Served with some matching pedals[^].
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
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Awesome!  +5
/ravi
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Wow, those are some beautiful guitars
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Ok, actually yesterday, but that's not important...
Got a new laptop... Lenovo Y50 with an i7... Seems like a nice rig so far, but it's also my first direct experience with Windows 8.1 (All of my other machines either run Win7, Ubuntu, or Android).
Now, I don't mind the start screen... I'm sure I'll get sick of it soon, but so far I haven't tried doing any serious work on that machine (It's mostly for vacations and LAN parties)... So I can tolerate it for now. It would be utterly useless if it was a desktop, but it's a laptop with a touch screen, so it has a slight purpose.
What REALLY bugs me, though... I'm in the middle of a game, putting the GPU through its paces, and an overlay comes up saying my machine has downloaded updates and will restart in 15 minutes. The only options I'm presented with are "Restart Now" and "Close"... So I hit Close and assume I can just reboot later...
Ten minutes later... There's that overlay again... 5 minutes left! Wait, I can't postpone it? This is when having the nearest hammer more than 15 feet away was fortunate.
So yeah... Windows 8.1... You'll restart when we TELL you to restart!
(I found you can manually create a specific registry key to disable this behavior... Starting the next time you reboot... So hopefully it won't happen again, or I might have to perform unlicensed surgery on the OS)
I'm sure I'll find more things I hate about it soon enough... But that's enough for one post.
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Is it compatible with Win7?
Geek code v 3.12
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- r++>+++ y+++*
Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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I'm not convinced Win8.1 is compatible with anything.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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The PC I was thinking
Geek code v 3.12
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- r++>+++ y+++*
Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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No, no - I'm pretty sure Win8.1 isn't compatible with PCs... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I thought so!
Geek code v 3.12
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- r++>+++ y+++*
Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Ian Shlasko wrote: Windows 8.1
I'm sorry.
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When this comes up you can go to services and turn off the Windows Update service to stop it. Keeps counting down but doesn't do anything when it hits zero.
It turns itself back on an hour or so later but that's another matter.
As somebody who has been defending Windows 8 since it came out as not that bad, really, this is the one feature that I cannot defend!
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Disable the Windows Update and BITS (background intelligent transfer) services and reboot.
As well - you can have Windows 8.1 boot up to the desktop instead of the "win playstation side". I've been running it all year - and I can't remember the last time I was on the "play side".
As an added bonus, having the Windows updates service disabled (and BITS), you save yourself the headache of MS patches totally trashing your machine as per what's been going on lately. In my experience, it's better to patch a few days after the patch went out.... and doing so manually.
Google on having Windows 8.1 boot to desktop:
https://www.google.ca/?gfe_rd=cr&ei=CGOQVL_RNovB8gfdjoCoBQ&gws_rd=ssl#q=boot+window+8.1+to+desktop[^]
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Hold on man 10s' a commin.
And we can complain anew then too.
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Yep, waiting for that one...
Hopefully Win10 will be like Win7...
Vista reworked everything to add new capabilities and stability, but had a horrible GUI... Win7 fixed it.
8.0 reworked everything to add new capabilities and stability (?), but had a horrible GUI... Win8.1 tried to fix it, but failed miserably... Maybe Win10 will fix it properly.
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Ian Shlasko wrote: Hopefully Win10 will be like Win7...
Vista reworked everything to add new capabilities and stability, but had a horrible GUI... Win7 fixed it.
This seems to be Microsoft's MO, these days.
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No Start button. 'nuff said.
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I think you mix something up.
a) Windows 8.1 has a start button (only the first Windows 8 release was missing one -- at least by default)
b) The only ones complaining about a missing start buttons are usually fanboys of X or haters of MS / Windows
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c) Those of us who haven't found the option to reinstate the Start button yet.
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The start button is available (and instated) from the beginning in Windows 8.1. Therefore I assume you are talking about something different (either OS or functionality).
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