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OriginalGriff wrote: Microsoft, do me a favour. Sit down with Chrome and a couple of Android devices and look at how well they all work together...
When has microsoft EVER done anything the way anybody else does it?
Even if it's an ISO standard when has microsoft still not done it different? [while nearly always claiming it is 'fully standard*' .... * with microsoft enhancements]?
And finally ask yourself when has microsoft ever done something better^ than anyone else?
^ for the ms lemmings I wrote 'better' not 'more popular' - big difference
actually I'll be fair, visual studio ain't bad - but lately for mine seems ms are trying very hard to break that too "correct that anomaly."
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That's what is so frustrating: when they do things well, they are absolutely brilliant.
Look at VS - the best IDE on the planet, even if it's seemingly getting a little flaky, it's still miles ahead of the rest.
Excel? The best spreadsheet going.
Windows for Workgroups? Genius! It made networking an office so simple you didn't need a network admin (try that with Novel and see how far you didn't get).
But they forget what works, and go with what some idiot fresh out of marketing school (1 week course, no fails, free donuts) thinks is new and exciting. Gah! 
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Preach!, Brother! I'm in the choir! 
Add Office as a whole to the 'things of brilliance' column. Especially with Access, and being able to open, edit, and print documents and spreadsheets via VBA from it. You can run a small to big-sized business with it if you wanted to, although other DBs are better options at the big end. But you could if you wanted to!
All it would take for me to try Edge again is to add the option for the right-click "Open in new tab" selection to immediately go to that tab. There's a thread in MS's boards asking for that to be reinstalled since IE had it. Over two years old and of course they haven't done anything about it. 
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Lopatir wrote: And finally ask yourself when has microsoft ever done something better^ than anyone else?
Word, Excel, VisualStudio, Publisher. Even Windows is still miles ahead Linux for desktops.
And I'm not a fanboy, I just tried most of the alternatives and know where to bet my money (and livelihood) on.
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word, excel, publisher
- ms didn't invent these, there were better (and remember I said "better" not "more poular")
and then ms gave us the ribbon - which actually slower than menus, so worse than before
vs
- I said was OK, but also noted they are breaking that too.
"windows is miles ahead of linux"
?? nope, again you confuse "more popular" with better because it isn't.
- as an "operating system" there are serious shortcomings in windows that don't make it a very good o/s, network stack is a kludge (actally it's not even a proper network stack - the way it's faked up makes it way slower than others which is why it'll never be used in high performance servers), file system fails basic multiuser requirements (again making it the last-if-ever choice for high demand/availability servers), drivers are attached to the booting environment rather than loaded dynamically meaning it has poor hot-swap ability (though they hacked someting up for disks by double-double buffering at the cost of more speed), no standardization of device interfaces so need to code separately per interface type, no proper separation of kernel from userland (hence the millions of viruses vs the few for others). and then there's partly building userland applications into the o/s? wtf! that should never happen.
as far as "operating systems" go windows is really badly designed, based on the bad design of win2k (which itself inherited many poor choices from win 3.1) it's layers of hacks on kludges on what is essentially a single thread insecure pipeline.
- and if you mean the user interface, sorry, linux and apple win there too - those are FULLY configurable to how the user wants it too - windows will never win that battle. just look at the menu on win-10 - they've even broken their own crap to something much worse.
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Yes.
Doesn't support even my newest tablet (Android 6).
That put an end to that.
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After your "glowing" review, why would I want to? 
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Is this why we keep getting questions in QA, "I'm making a browser ..."?
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You think they all work for Microsoft? Could be...
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Why in Great Ghu's unspeakable name would I want to pollute my lovely new Samsung Galaxy S9+ with anything even remotely connected with the Edge browser?
I despise that arrogant piece of what-my-dog-leaves-in-the-back-yard. The SOB replaces my file associations to invoke Edge every time some Microsoft moron forces it to open. Bastards.
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Interest but poorly written article. One would expect better from Purdue University. Maybe.
Super cheap earth element to advance new battery tech to the industry
But what got me was this comparison:
To make the powder, they used an ultrasound—the same tool used for monitoring the development a fetus—to melt sodium chunks into a milky purple liquid.
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Oh noes! I don't want to fly with baking powder! Lithium Polymere sounds much cooler. If at all, I want Dilithium Polymere batteries. 
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His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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This is what happens when non-native English speakers, such as Chinese, Koreans or Americans, attempt to speak casually in a scientific environment.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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That will be a quick recharging baby.
They buy shoes, then they wear them! They make them sound old! Dairy! Dairy!
modified 20-Oct-19 21:02pm.
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Assault and battery?
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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That month I mast have been slepping. I totally missed that month's issue of Popular Electronics[^]. Or maybe my parents had cut my allowance for some reason and I could not afford to buy it.
Look at the cover! Boards, LED address and data displays, a hex keyboard! That must be the Microprocessor Product Development System they mention in the headline above.
But why is it so familiar? The board on the right is the same as my Elf II's memory board. The one at the top is the Elf's I/O board. The board in the front has the Elf's hex keyboard , it's (slightly expanded) displays and new pushbuttons to control the processor modes instead of the Elf's toggle switches.
Buttons for processor modes? That already tells me what processor sits on the CPU board in the middle. Good choice. The whole thing is a only slightly modernized Elf II.
This article (on Page 61) could actually still be relevant to my modernized Elf. I wanted to do away with the hex keyboard, LED displays and mode switches (or buttons). This Microprocessor Product Development System also has a simple power-on reset (plus reset button), but has all the keyboard, display and mode selection stuff on a separate optional board.
I like that. Why not be modern as the default and retain the option to plug in this hex keyboard/display/mode buttons board and do things the traditional Elf way? I'm sure I can still eliminate some of the ICs. Does anyone know a good (and still available!) hexadecimal driver for 7 segment LED displays?
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.
modified 20-Sep-18 6:36am.
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What a blast from the past.
Several years ago when I got back into electronics I started getting test equipment and I found the Heath Tri Power Supply listed on page 77 on ebay for I believe $25. I kept it for a couple of years until a friend of mine saw what I was doing and got interested so bought a good surplus BK 1660A and gave my friend the Heath.
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Why not use an old power suppley? As long as it works. The capacitors could dry out over time and then short out, but that's about the only harm that could come from the age of the power supply.
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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My friend is a couple of years older than me and he had a lot of free time so he drank. When he showed an interest in electronics I gave him the poser supply hoping it would help fill his time. He's been sober since I gave him the power supply but now he's addicted to electronics.
So it was worth the investment!
Everyone has a photographic memory; some just don't have film. Steven Wright
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Anything to get him away from drinking!
I took a look at the Heath ad any your power supply. They also had a dual trace 10 MHz oscilloscope for only 650 bucks! What a deal! Count in inflation and that would be at least 2000 $ today!
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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And I got a Rigol digital for about 1/2 the price it was then.
Everyone has a photographic memory; some just don't have film. Steven Wright
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Far out of my reach at that time. 5$ allowance every week and parents that could not believe that I started to pry ICs from every old circuit boards I could get my hands on. They complained that I should not dig around in the trash.
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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CodeWraith wrote: They complained that I should not dig around in the trash.
Hell that's where all the good/affordable stuff is.
Everyone has a photographic memory; some just don't have film. Steven Wright
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