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EXTRA MARKETING?
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The only thing I can figure out from that lot is that 'Home parts' and 'Spare moth' are a mutual anagram. The rest of it fills me with horror! 
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You are half way there.
You have done the spadework that lays the foundation without boiling the ocean.
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I think I have the second word from the anagram: APHORISMS, but I can't work out the first...
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There's no T in "Aphorisms" so I can't give you that.
We'll have to wait for the other shoe to drop now that the ball has been down this court before we should begin to see light at the end of the tunnel?
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Mixed metaphors ?
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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Yay - you win.
(I guess everyone else will be kicking themselves now the shoe is on the other foot)
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Yep. 
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Today I learned mixed metaphors are actually a thing.
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I once had a manager who over used every metaphor in the book. I used to doodle the metaphors as he spoke them in meetings - made for some really "Terry Pratchett" like images.
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I read this the other day, when it was originally published. Wasn't that impressed by the arguments then either.
This space for rent
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Pssst! Windows is a proprietary system, Microsoft can do as they please.
veni bibi saltavi
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Pssst! Only if they want to get the same sales they did for Vista and Win8...
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Like I ever paid for an OS!
veni bibi saltavi
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Even giving it away for free, they can't get everybody to take win 10!
Operating system market share[^]
Win10 12%, Win7 52% - nearly 8 months after release...says a lot, really.
And with XP at 11%, Win 10 has only just overtaken that! 
I was surprised to see 1.66% still using Vista - I assume that's kiosks and such like.
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I notice that you neglected to note from the same site that two full years after W7 was launched 50% of users were still using XP. There has always been a major lag in transfers to a new version of Windows. The current one is no different or worse than any previous one. To match W7 the target figure would be around 33% in 18 months time. Let's take a look then.
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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There is one big difference: this time it's free. More than that even: it's being "pushed" at people, so to not upgrade is harder than to upgrade in many cases. That skews the figures quite a bit, I'd have thought.
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OriginalGriff wrote: this time it's free.
Only to home users.
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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Aren't you paid for something similar? 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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SteamOS 
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UWP does need some adjustments for PC gaming, and MS has admitted as much (the universalness resulted in PC mode inheriting settings that're too consolish from the xbone), but overall it is the right way to go for most software.
Tim Sweeney is missing the point; the PC platform needs fixing | Ars Technica[^]
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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Sometime soon | CommitStrip[^]
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
modified 10-Mar-16 8:53am.
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I have a very low level of pedantry, but even though, please fix that thread title of yours...
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