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That's not that stupid!
The news this morning was covering someone getting a new word world record for Bungee Dunking[^]
Now, that's stupid!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Quote: Mr Berry (pictured) is among 600,000 people idiots around the world who will attempt to secure their places in the history books whose only possible claim for fame is based on doing something completely idiotic.
I want to take over as editor of the Guinness book.
I'd save them a fortune by changing 599,450 entries to "An idiot did something stupid".
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Just to troll that biscuit guy, as soon as he jumps, they should change position of tea cup. People have so much time and money.
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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That is a lot of looking! Did you look at the road too? 
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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Is that mandatory? 
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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Depends on how much you hate your job!
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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The autoveloxes are more dangerous than useful IMHO because they force the driver to put too much attention to the speedometer to the detriment of the attention on the road. My (only) car accident happened precisely because I reacted half a second too slowly - I had to watch the speedometer to be sure I was under the limit - to a car which suddenly stopped in front of me.
Of course if the idiot in the other car had used the indicators in due time instead of suddenly braking because she just remembered she had to stop at the gas station (on the other side of the road) probably it would have been better...
DURA LEX, SED LEX
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--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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That's okay, my new car has a built-in 0-60MPH timer.
Now that's something that will get you in trouble, and is highly distracting as well. I'm in so much trouble when gas goes back up 
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
- Benjamin Disraeli
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lw@zi wrote: I spent entire ride (17 minutes) calculating deviations
If you are ever in Chennai, please let me know and I'll take the train.
You're Danish, right? Changed your display name? Back in India from SA?
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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Vikram A Punathambekar wrote: You're Danish, right? Changed your display name? Back in India from SA?
Yes,yes and yes.
Vikram A Punathambekar wrote: If you are ever in Chennai, please let me know and I'll take the train.
I might be there early next year. Planning for bike ride till Kanyakumari.
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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[Guide] How to Remove All Built-in Apps in Windows 10 - AskVG[^]
Marc
Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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Does it actually uninstall them?
It looks like it just removes the shortcuts, leaving the entire app as "residue".
If so, it's a Hell of a ridiculously complicated and time-wasting way of deleting shortcuts -- which puts it right in line with microsoft's policy, for the last few years.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Remove-AppxPackage[^] uninstalls the app for the current user, but leaves a "provisioned" version of the app on disk, and doesn't affect other user accounts on the same computer.
Remove-AppxProvisionedPackage[^] removes the "provisioned" version of the app. From what I've heard, you can use it to completely screw your system, to the point where you have to reinstall Windows if you want to reinstall the apps - especially if you go anywhere near the Store app.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Richard Deeming wrote: From what I've heard, you can use it to completely screw your system, to the point where you have to reinstall Windows if you want to reinstall the apps - especially if you go anywhere near the Store app.
It's funny how hearing things like that about windows no longer surprises me.
And depressing.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Instant Color TV (1962)[^]
I had never heard of this hoax before. Did this fool people in the US and other parts of the world or was it mostly just in Sweden? Anyone remember this?
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
modified 16-Nov-16 15:20pm.
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Actually, a method of transmitting viewable color to B&W Televisions was proposed and somewhat tested. It had to do with perceived color by rapidly stroking the various regions on the screen to give the sensation of color. (You may have seen this, for example, on spinning B&W patterns).
I cannot say why it wasn't pursued - I'd guess inducing headaches may have been amongst them.
How to make a Black and White television show color | Physics Forums - The Fusion of Science and Community[^]
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Well actually...
... there is something called composite artifact colors.[^]
This was used to bring a hint of color into monochrome computer graphics. It was in fashion for a time on the 8 bit Ataris or the Apple ][. A long time I thought that these were just ugly monochrome graphics modes until I finally heard that the programmers tried to make use of this effect on purpose.
Edit: Oh no! In the Wiki article they mention the TRS-80 color computer! It had a Motorola 6847 graphics chip that produced those beautiful artifacts. Guess what graphics chip I have here for the little computer I'm building?
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Can I use nylon stockings to convert W10 back to W7? 
Marc
Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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Marc Clifton wrote: Can I use nylon stockings to convert W10 back to W7?
Because the nylon blurs the screen making it harder to use, it actually converts a windows machine to linux. You'll have to command line everything.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Can't make W10 get better,
but can convert W7 to W10 virtual machine by removing the keyboard.
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Wow, that article brings back some memories.
Around 1968 we used black pantyhose as anti-glare on CRT screens that were set into benchtops. I don't recall any colour artifacts, but it was very effective in breaking up reflections.
In the same general era, my sister-in-law had a blue/pink/green overlay on her B&W tv. I found it disconcerting.
Cheers,
Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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We were told to convert to color only had to replace a tube; had visions of this being something akin to a small piece of hose pipe.
Later we did upgrade, and got the latest model complete with a remote control - attached to the TV by a wire. That was really innovative as if you lost the remote could follow the wire back from the TV - why don't they do that these days?
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lopati: roaming wrote: remote control - attached to the TV by a wire
We got one of those. Ours was just a channel changer. You still had to turn the TV off and on at the TV.
Mongo: Mongo only pawn... in game of life.
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Peter_in_2780 wrote: blue/pink/green overlay on her B&W tv
I remember wanting one of those. But hey, I was a kid, what did I know.
I do remember watching the moon landing on a color TV. Why? I do not know as the camera was black and white.
Mongo: Mongo only pawn... in game of life.
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xkcd: TV Problems[^]
Late (as seems the norm these days, hope there's nothing going wrong with Randall) - but worth waiting for!
Yeah. I understand how ... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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