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Organised games, one bloke, and the craft of fair play (13)
"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
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You are up Monday!
Organised games SPORTS
one bloke MAN
and the craft SHIP
of fair play
SPORTSMANSHIP
"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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Or not.[^]
I don’t care.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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I have herd that music before!
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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Well it definitely got more interesting bizarre the further you got into it! And they do T-shirts! 
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On a serious note, I am still failing at understanding why Minecraft was such a success. Now that we have almost photographic 3D quality in video games, people spend countless hours in assembling ... little cubes -- what a waste of time *shakes head* mankind is really bizarre, I am probably born on the wrong planet...
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I am not so sure that nearness to visual reality always matters.
I used to be a big flight sim fan and noticed that commercial flight sims were much of the time less visually realistic than some computer game flight sims.
I think what counts is what could be termed as "immersion", that is how immersed you become in the universe of the game, realistic graphics don't always help in the feeling of immersion.
It's a bit like how huge TV screens don't make a massive difference for me, as long as I am immersed in the movie the size of the screen is not too important.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
modified 9-Oct-20 4:33am.
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Minecraft is a sandbox without the mess... a virtual set of Legos in a way. I'm not aware of any premium visuals game that offers the same level of creation freedom.
Sure, it's not visually impressive (unless you do the raycasting stuff) but it was never meant to be.
It really is enjoyable to play, especially with kids, and doesn't sell itself on trying to make you believe its world is real. Just hop in the dang sandbox and build your castle already! 
modified 9-Oct-20 8:24am.
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I agree with you, but Minecraft takes it to such a degree that I find it off-putting.
I mean, by now they could create a sandbox like it and have it look good at the same time. To me that would make it a lot more enticing. I do like sandbox games (heck I'll admit to playing first two Sims games back in the day, for its building ability)...but graphically, Minecraft looks even older than that.
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Fus Ro Dah!!
Sorry, that was a reflex.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Cows are ok but this Ants vs. Carnivorous Plants - YouTube[^] was in the sidebar and was very fascinating.
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
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Recently my old Dell Inspiron laptop, (some 10+ years old), started to throw in the towel: WiFi failed, Bluetooth failed, Hard drive showed erratic errors. So I decided to retire it to the great laptop heaven in the sky.
I ordered a new Dell XPS 15 inch screen and it arrived with loads of crapware installed by Dell. The operating system appeared to be spread over six partitions - yuck! Ever present on Dell products was McAfee stuff that is difficult to get rid of. Double yuck!
What was I to do? The answer: A clean install.
Using Diskpart I ran "clean" on the disk, converted it to GPT and running a Dirkpart script repartitioned the main drive to a modest 4 partitions. Then I installed Windows 10(2004) on the machine. NICE! All the pre-installed garbage gone!
The only issue: The machine came with fingerprint recognition. Windows 10 did install the latest driver for the fingerprint device, but so far I cannot get it to work. Not important. Will figure it out in due course.
I may be a masochist, but I love doing clean installs. There must be something wrong with me.
My time doing a clean install:
Booting a Windows PE flash drive and running a Diskpart script to clean the systems disk and repartition it: No more than 5 minutes.
Installing Windows 10 (2004): Maybe 10 minutes.
Updating Windows 10: Possibly 30 minutes, depending on the speed of your machine.
Installing all apps: Well, forever? It depends on your needs.
IMPORTANT:
Stay away from Diskpart unless you know what you are doing. For example: Running the Diskpart "clean" command on a drive will knock it back to the virgin state it was in when it first left the assembly line. It won't even now whether it is a GPT or MBR drive. All partitions and data will be gone forever! Diskpart has no "Are you sure?" prompts. Commands are executed without prompts immediately.
I am not wrong. I am just different!
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I just got a new Asus laptop with all the various crapware, and I'd love to do a clean install, but I'm scared that there will be something in the standard image that I wouldn't be able to get separately.
So I am stuck with McAfee. 
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Get an image of the whole drive with macrium or aomei of the current status and you have your fallback solution for the
Richard Andrew x64 wrote: I'm scared that there will be something in the standard image that I wouldn't be able to get separately.
If you manage to get it separately... screw you bloatware!! 
If not... restore the image and continue with
Richard Andrew x64 wrote: I am stuck with McAfee. 
That's what I always do when I get a new device or doing a (from time to time) clean install anyways.
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Cp-Coder wrote: The only issue: The machine came with fingerprint recognition. Windows 10 did install the latest driver for the fingerprint device, but so far I cannot get it to work.
Dell has a downloadable program that scans your (Dell) computer, and recommends the correct Dell-blessed drivers. My google-fu isn't working too well today, so I don't have a link.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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You are right! I found the utility on the Dell website that installed the correct driver and fingerprint recognition is now working great! 
I am not wrong. I am just different!
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I have had similar experiences with Dells. It really is about time manufacturers offered an option of hardware plus OS (Windows or Linux) for developers.
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Once you build your own machine, you never want to go back.
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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I get pleasure from disabling stuff in the Startup Tab: "har, har ... trying to get past me ... Noooo!".
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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You made it too difficult. Do a custom install deleting the partitions with the Windows 10 Retail ISO and then download, install and run the Dell Command | Update. On the first run, make sure you review the optional updates and tell it to ignore Dell Digital Delivery unless you purchased optional software such as Adobe. Once this is done then go to Microsoft Update for updates.
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Cp-Coder wrote: I may be a masochist, but I love doing clean installs. There must be something wrong with me.
IMO there's something wrong if you don't do a clean install. Those who fall into that camp either:
a) don't have the technical know-how
b) don't know any better
I don't know why you're doing anything with WinPE to deal with the partitions. "Burn" the OS ISO to a USB stick and let it own the entire disk. It's recreate the minimum set of partitions it needs and carry on.
Cp-Coder wrote: All partitions and data will be gone forever!
If the laptop's brand new, isn't that the point?
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I seriously consider buying an electric 4-wheel moped from Paxster[^]. The one pictured is white, but the second (and only) alternative is bright red. Of course I will go for the red version! My huge Ford Transit box car is bright red, and for obvious reasons named 'Robert'.
Postman Pat came (at least to Norway) after I left the target audience. That is why I ask: Did Postman Pat's car have a name? One that I could use for my car? Hopefully a name that could go along with 'Robert'. I really would like a name directly associated with the bright red color! Or if the car didn't have a name, what would be a proper name for it, in Postman Pat style? (And if possible, with direct or indirect references to the red color.)
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I wonder how it does off-road. 
Laughing at this typo -- "unessecary" . 
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