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I think it's hilarious that Microsoft wants me to "reserve" my upgrade to Windows 10.
Are they afraid they are going to run out of upgrades?  
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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No. They just afraid they run out of support staff for all the people upgrading
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It's the oldest trick in the world: Boosting sales by suggesting urgency and a limited supply.
"Now, for a limited time only..."
How can there still be people who fall for something like this?
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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Last two in stock, one for you, the other for me.
All others go elsewhere 
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No need.
The advertisers are obviously incompetent because they tell me that the supply is inadequate.
The logistics dept is incompetent because they allowed the situation to be equally bad everywhere at the same time.
Production is incompetent because they were not able to prevent the shortage in the first place.
Management thinks that incompetence is some kind of privilege only reserved for themselves.
How good do you expect their engineers to be?
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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I think it was just a bad choice of word. "Request" or "Receive" or "I'll take it" would have been just as good, easy to understand why they need to do it though.
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Good thing is that we (perhaps, me and others in the India locale) won't have to worry about the stock at all. Microsoft would provide a discount for us to purchase it, because almost 90% of systems use KMS!
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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Maybe they'll start the download upgrade for reserved 1 day before ?
I'd rather be phishing!
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Speaking of the upgrade, I hope it will have the option for a clean install. For now, I'm ignoring the reservation nonsense.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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From what I understand, you have to upgrade first, register and then do a clean install. I'm planning on using this as an excuse to get an SSD, so using this method will work just fine since I'll be doing a reinstall anyway.
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Its called marketing; it looks like they are trying to improve the market-share of Ubuntu.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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The most obvious reason it that it tells Microsoft you want it automatically downloaded.
I suspect another reason is that so Microsoft can figure out how much bandwidth is needed and how to best balance it.
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Quite obvious ways to create a three-bar menu, but, personally I prefer the Unicode one. It works like a charm in Windows Presentation Foundation.
<TextBlock FontSize="26" HorizontalAlignment="Right" Margin="0, -4, 5, 0" Width="23" Cursor="Hand">☰</TextBlock>
*Above code is from my own under development application.
https://css-tricks.com/three-line-menu-navicon/[^]
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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I like the trick, but I still don't like the "three bar menu".
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I love unicode in WPF. I've done some mathematical stuff, and being able to use infinity (∞), and Greek letters is really nice.
Also, Visual Studio supports unicode, so you can have variables called β.
modified 12-Jun-15 17:47pm.
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Please, I just ate dinner. Don't be posting about WPF or CSS, or I might puke it all back up. 
Marc
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It's called a "hamburger menu".
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It's called a "split menu".
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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When we were digging around for ideas we found a ton more references to "hamburger menu" than "split menu". That's why we went with that name.
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You had me going there for a while. I thought I had made a mistake and was in the WPF forum.
I then realized that I was in the lounge and your discussion was in the wrong forum.
Once you lose your pride the rest is easy.
In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you. – Buddha
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Yesterday our beloved management released a minor restructure proposal. Nothing too major at this stage.
Now I've been working for about 35 years and at everyone of these restructures or strategy meetings they always come out with these stupid quandant graph that always have me (us) in the bottom left corner and showing we need to be in the top right corner.
Now I know I not perfect but it appears I've spent my whole working life in the bottom left quandant and never been shown anywhere else and these stupid graph seem to be rolled out at a drop of a hat.
If I see another one of these stupid graphs I'm going to scream.  How gullible do they think people are.
Strangely, the junior staff seem to lap it up. Aaah but in ten years time hehe
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What you need to do is overlay the graph with a horizontal axis of salary and vertical axis of, say, "days of paid vacation".
Then you point out the correlation between salary and vacation days with whatever is supposed to be in the top right corner.
And to make the point clearer, have everyone plot their salary and perk package, including the f***ing managers and the point out that since leadership is already in the upper right corner, but the rest of the peons are not, there must be something wrong with leadership skills.
Marc
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The sad part is, I was a manger for about ten years, but I never used these stupid graphs and 101 management techniques.
Maybe that's why grinds so much. I'm getting a bit old and cynical because I've seen it all and all the stupid politics they love to play. Its the reason I got out it.
Hence the graph you suggest might not be the best... I still get my managerial pay and perks. Although I lose my company car(but they do buy me out) in October!
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Ah, reality.
That does not work with managers very well. They apparently believe that reality is defined by the stream of hollow phrases that comes out of the dry gray sponges between their ears. Even when reality comes back to bite them into their rear parts, they still believe that nobody notices the small differences between their speeches and what's going on.
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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CDP1802 wrote: Even when reality comes back to bite them into their rear parts, they still believe that nobody notices
I dug up about 8 years of budgeting info last week and and innocently asked a manager if they wanted that plotted against performance. Somebody is going to get a serious ass chewing.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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