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On Facebook, there are these "memes", One I particularly
like is, "Being a good programmer is 3% talent and 97%
not being distracted by the internet". So now, it looks
like that task will be even harder . I thought that
Microsoft was good for business. All this imposed
distractions, reminded me on how Huxleyan (i.e. Brave New
World) our existence is becoming .
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Thanks for the heads up, Richard! 
Will Rogers never met me.
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It is very simple...
If Microsoft rules the OS market - and it means the it able to sell OS to the majority (and developers are a minority) - it will force developers to work with Microsoft's OSes...Like it or not...
So when Microsoft states that it listening to users it does not mean you!!!
(And for that matter Windows is not an OS only for along time - and the OS role is less relevant for Microsoft with every release...)
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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Hmmm... app development time... wonder how much $$ I could make injecting a system level dll to defeat the live tiles?
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Great analysis and reporting on that. Thanks for the info.
Also you said,
Richard Andrew x64 wrote: Windows 10 is nothing but a huge invasion of privacy and a marketing device to push crap on you.
We will all use it though. We will.
I'm serious and joking and I don't know if it's funny or not. Probably not. 
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Richard Andrew x64 wrote: They make such a big deal that this version was created with the feedback of users, but it turns out that it's everything a user would NOT want.
I take it this is the first build of Windows 10 you've installed, then.
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Dear System Admin nerds
Coders get cranky with you when they supply you with installation packages that they have tested, you then tell said coders to test in the "company's" software delivery system.
This gets tested and it fails - coder then spends time trying to figure out why.
Coder then discovers Software isn't getting installed in the expected location.
Coder has conversation with "admin" type dude to find out why - coder then discovers installer has been edited to change installation path/name to suit the new (unheard of) rules/installation policy.
Coder gets cranky and tears "admin" a new one about "communication". Particularly when coder had to fix said software (in a rush) in the first place due to a change that admin made earlier wot broke software for many important users.
Bryce (aka - cranky coder)
MCAD
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Sounds like a Monday, Bryce... Good luck with that. 
Will Rogers never met me.
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Having worked with a lot of 'admins' in Africa before; I feel your pain.
My plan is to live forever ... so far so good
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bryce wrote: Coder then discovers Software isn't getting installed in the expected location.
Hmmm...well, to be honest, if some software doesn't let me install in a location of my choosing, I'd get rather peeved...
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Wonders never cease: [^].
"Each of the gold smart watches costs more than £13,000 at the Chinese Apple store. The average monthly wage of Beijing residents is around 5,793 RMB (£610) according to a Beijing Municipal Statistics Bureau in 2014."
«I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center» Kurt Vonnegut.
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Hurrah for the son!
He is a champion of the cause, fighting against inequality like few dared before him! 
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Message Removed
modified 31-May-15 20:56pm.
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That's a first? An inquirer in QA tagged his question with "NoEffort" himself. Apparently it also has a positive ring to it. Or was it an anticipated confession? His question: "How to implement 5 stars Rate System?!"
Like a 4 star system, just one star more?
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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I think it's all related to the site settling down after the move as I don't recall seeing that tag when I first spotted the question.
Strangely, like OriginalGriff before me, I posted a comment (currently 1 hour ago) before the OP posted his question (currently 32 minutes ago) 
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Definitely ![Beer | [beer]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/beer.gif) or possibly two 
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So let's have a drink yesterday? 
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We were there, feel free to have dropped by
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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Sascha Lefèvre wrote: Like a 4 star system, just one star more?
Good answer, and all the querent deserves. Well done!
Will Rogers never met me.
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InsideFootball interview[^]Guinea-Bissau FA president Manuel Nascimento Lopes: "I'm a Christian and this is blasphemy,"
Elsewhere the church of England's site is quoting "Church of England decline accelerates, while other faiths grow" ... presumably it's this Blatterlam (or is it The Blatterians?) that's growing whilst pointing out the obvious is just "blasphemy".
Probably Sepp-sis[^]
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For example:
Quote: "A cat always lands feet first. Toast always lands butter side down. A cat with toast strapped on its back will hover above the air in a state of quantum indecision." ~Unknown
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<SheldonCooperMode>
Hmm. That depends on the ratio of the mass of the toast and the mass of the cat. Or is it an inverse-square relationship?...
</SheldonCooperMode>
Software Zen: delete this;
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lol! 
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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