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Maybe its time to change the job when each Monday you wake up, realize you have to go to work and wish for a world apocalypse, so you can stay in bed a little longer and skip work.
Microsoft ... the only place where VARIANT_TRUE != true
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Most people switch the company off at night, and on weekends, but I'd say it will vary with the the job.
«OOP to me means only messaging, local retention and protection and hiding of state-process, and extreme late-binding of all things. » Alan Kay's clarification on what he meant by the term "Object" in "Object-Oriented Programming."
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The US exists because Britain isn't man enough. This is nothing new. 
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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It's true. British males leave feeling men to the Americans. 
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Russia Today - the world's only unbiased news source.
Hail Vlad - manliest of men.
Alberto Brandolini: The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.
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Is code project made with code? https://www.madewithcode.com[^]  
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Code Project is build on the back of slave hamster population!
And that's the terrible truth! 
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I've recently upgraded my home desktop (actually desk - I installed the computer in the desk!) to Win 8.1. Now that I've uninstalled most of Apps, disabled the Metro crap and installed ClassicShell it's hardly different to what I'm used to (I'm happy about that). I can't help feeling that I must be missing some point though - I can't imagine when, on a desktop, I'd want to run an 'App' rather than run a program from the desktop the normal (proper?) way.
Does anyone run Metro apps on a desktop? If so, which ones and why? It just feels to me like you are trying to run your desktop in 'kiosk' mode - why would you want to do that?
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No, not really. When the kids are on the computer, it can come handy, since they cannot click on something else or close the window, but apart from that...
I am a big fan of the tiles for launching programs, though.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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The only thing that bugs me about the Metro apps is the lack of features compared to the desktop versions they were meant to replace.
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That's exactly the reason it feels 'kiosky' to me - its like Windows is saying "I'm capable of much more than this, but I'm only LETTING you do THIS much"...
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It seems the Metro apps are scaled to run on the ARM/RT system.
Why, here I am with an 8 core CPU and 32 GB of RAM, and the stupid Reader App won't let me open more than 5 PDF documents.
Even if they are only one page each. And nothing else is running on the PC. 5 measly documents. Grrrr.
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I don't think the Metro apps were ever intended to replace desktop apps. They provide something different/new which is intended to be more appropriate for a touch screen. But they don't replace the desktop.
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I run two apps regularly.
The News App is very decent, it fits so well, cant imagine it to be a desktop app, ever.
The second is the Music App, especially because you can clip it to a side of the monitor.
God is a Sphere!
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Kyudos wrote: Does anyone run Metro apps on a desktop?
I also used to shy away from the metro apps when I first started out on Windows 8 but now run a few regularly.
Weather, News, Health & Fitness, Calendar, mZip, Book Bazaar Reader, VLC (Metro), My Notes, Maps, Alarms, Music, Calculator, Reading List, Video. To name a few.
Like anything else they are strange at first but once you learn to use them they become the new regular way of doing things.
And no I do not need a start button, the start page is a better way of doing things.
Once you lose your pride the rest is easy.
I would agree with you but then we both would be wrong.
The report of my death was an exaggeration - Mark Twain
Simply Elegant Designs JimmyRopes Designs
I'm on-line therefore I am.
JimmyRopes
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JimmyRopes wrote: And no I do not need a start button, the start page is a better way of doing things.
Each-to-their-own I guess, but I'm afraid I'm in the 'text-driven' camp  I never used the 'desktop' the way I see some people use it - hundreds of icons! I typically have a link to the computer, the network and the recycle bin (although I don't use that either). I have browsers on quick launch and that's it (at home anyway, at work I have a few more links, but not many). It's why I still despise the ribbon - menus are just so much more efficient (for me) - and I prefer the 'old' style multi-column start menu.
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Click.[^]
Rage against the narrative.
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Eggbert Bartholomew Bligh wrote: Rage against the narrative.
So let's talk about my royalties here
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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Install the guest additions (Start the VM, then press Right Ctrl + D) , then open the VM properties, go to General > Advanced > Drag'n'Drop > Choose an option. Shared Clipboard is there as well.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
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The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
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I installed allready this VBoxGuestAdditions, but no success.
Clipboard works (bidirectional), but means only copy&paste some text. Drag&Drop I Need to check, maybe an UAC thing....I don't think...I think it is simply not supporter.
Just tried VMware-Player (one can really create a virtual machine with player, notes from VMWare do "exclude" this option)... Drag&Drop works perfect
Bruno
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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As others mentioned, you have to load the guest editions.
Now, I know your VM in W7, however, in my experience with Ubuntu, I was never able to get copy and paste to work. IIRC, it worked in the 32 bit Ubuntu version. Don't know though if that problem has been fixed.
Isn't VMWare free too?
BTW, I almost never use the VM's "screen" directly -- I found it much more efficient to remote in with remote desktop, PuTTY, and WinSCP. Go figure. 
Marc
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