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In the south of the UK it never really started, Sun Mon-Thur, rain Fri-Sun. I like the sun.
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I was just telling my son and DIL that yesterday the temps here have definitely cooled in the last few days and I had to go get winter clothes out of storage yesterday.
Fall is in the air.
And we're heading to the mountains to camp a week from tomorrow, got a felling that campfire is going feel good at night. Glad I bought a down mummy bag last season.
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maybe he meant "suck" ? 
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Quote: maybe he meant "suck" ?
Maybe? Yes, I'm sure he meant it sucks.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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How to Tell the Difference Between Nerds and Geeks[^]
[Nerd]
YES, I AM A NERD
Bookworm, I’m studious
From my cerebral cortex to my gluteus
Back in Kindergarten
I aced my college entrance exam
Now, I’m no rocket scientist –
Oh wait, I am
When I pour my Alpha-bits
I get nothing but straight A’s
My retainer and headgear connect
To a back brace
I've got a pocket-protector protector protector
I broke my glasses on purpose so I could tape ‘em together
Run back to Reddit
And type stuff no one will see
You’re a geek
That means you’re just a hipster wannabe
[Geek]
That’s right, I’m a geek
I’ve got brains, and a personality
I wear my glasses sincerely
And my T-Shirts ironically
There’re some things you can’t learn in a class
Or else I’d sign you up for “Intro to How Not to Be a Social Outcast”
You’re just so early Twenty-Thirteen
I was the cool form of uncool before uncool became a thing
I use an app to pair pork with the perfect Bordeaux
Too bad there’s no app to neutralize your B.O
While you’re lost in Second Life letting your fingernails grow long
I’ll be syncing up my iPhone, tablet, TV and your mom
[Nerd]
Sure, grooming’s not my thing
But I don’t care
I look so good in chain-mail
That it’s not Renaissance Faire
[Geek]
Doesn't LARP stand for loser and reject party?
I’d rather cosplay with hotties
Than play fake army
I tried Dungeons and Dragons once
And I died . . . of boredom
But I’ll still kick your Assassin’s Creed post-mortem
Mario Party’s the only one you get invited to
Your life is like Skyrim
An endless quest of solitude
[Nerd]
Ooo, you beat Angry Birds
You’re not a gamer ‘cause you battle your friends with words
You click on cute icons
I execute commands
Do you really need a “genius” to teach you Garage Band?
[Geek]
I landed the first ROFLCOPTER
And took in orphans when I was 12 ‘cause I’m an early adopter
I can wear Google Glass without looking like a dweeb
Okay, maybe not, but I can Yelp us some good pho to eat
[Nerd]
You need 16 gigs of RAM to watch a Steve Jobs Doc?!
I keep an actual ram in my PC!
His name is Spock
[Geek]
I’m a new console
Your face is birth control
I troll Brony sites
You look like an actual troll
[Nerd]
I’m fluent in C++
[std::cout << “You just suck! \n”;\]
Can your iPhone auto-correct your dumb haircut?
[Geek]
Hold on a second
Let me tweet this info-graphic I made
That illustrates the fact you’ll never get to procreate
[Nerd]
I just haven’t met a woman of a high enough caliber
The only dates you have are on your Google Calendar
[Geek]
You’re losing this battle
Your foam sword won’t help
In the future you’ll randomly access this memory
And crap yourself
[Nerd]
Did I mention I built a dancing robot?
[Robot]
No one gives a Shatner about your skinny jeans
Do you even know what URL means?
[Geek]
You don’t know what you’re Tolkien about
(I assume in Elvish)
Much wind pours from your mouth you cowardly dog!
You are ugly, and your mother dresses you
Go kiss an Orc
[Nerd]
You know
[Both]
You are a classic example of the inverse ratio between the size of the mouth and the size of the brain!
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No responsible adult here today, so away I went, just then some came in the door 
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Who's on Win8.1 and what do you think about it?
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Me!
I like it so far, seems a little faster (although I just uninstalled/deleted about 102 GB worth of miscellaneous junk, which may be part of it). The start button turns blue and has a 'shine line' (what is the actual name for that?) go across it. There are new apps (incl. Skype. I removed that right away). The UI font is different (looks bigger and more spread out). Battery life seems better (although that may be the uninstallations/deletions again).
Also, My Computer is now This PC, and shows several personal folders (documents, music, etc.) as well as drives and other devices.
Keep Clam And Proofread
--
√(-1) 23 ∑ π...
And it was delicious.
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Me!
Way faster than Win 8, and everything Works äs smooth as it used to on 7.
You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the tallest guy in the NBA is Chinese, the Swiss hold the America's Cup, France is accusing the U.S. of arrogance, Germany doesn't want to go to war, and the three most powerful men in America are named "Bush", "Dick", and "Colon."
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I'm on 8.1 and have some issues.
First is that my browser seems to lock up, a lot. I can't restart the normal way so I have to do a hard reset.
Second is every time my computer starts, I get a "Could not initialize BTStack" or something to that effect. Apparently this is an issue with the blue tooth stack.
Third, start button, yeah its there, but it's like a tease. I want my start menu back.
Fourth, I use my computer for things other than stuff that should be full screen, I hate working full screen. I have to jump through hoops to use my computer like a normal computer.
The control panel is hard to get to. It forced me to use my MSN account for logging on otherwise it wouldn't let me download from the store (it changed to this in 8.1).
I really can't stand it, and just don't have the time to downgrade to 7, luckily 8 is only on my portable dev machine that I only use in the field. 7 is on my main dev machine and I enjoy it 100 times better than 8. I can't stand the Metro UI, live tiles, etc on my computer. Tablet sure, computer no.
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The move to forcing you to sign into apps has been creeping in a bit and I totally understand their intention, but please don't force us to use a Live login.
The start menu: yes, I heard and saw the band-aid approach. Kinda pointless, but there are plenty of start menu apps to fix this.
The full screen (or half, 2/3 screen) is also a killer for me. I run a 27" monitor. Full screen? I think not.
I live in hope there's a killer feature that someone will mention that will make it all good again.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Using it for 3 months since it became available via MSDN, don't hold your breath for that killer feature Chris.
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The features in 8.1 are double that of 8
if you can't find them you are not looking hard enough
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Oh, one other big one...
Visual Studio 2013 RC is not compatible with Windows 8. How do you like that? Brand new development environment can't even run on the newest OS. Also see my comment further down about Windows 8 removing support for DVD playback.
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8.1 is an upgrade to 8
it's the newest OS - your argument is flawed.
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Ok, since you want to get into semantics, VS 2013 will not run on Windows 8, or Windows 8.1.
When installing it says something to the effect that "This operating system is not supported by this version of Visual Studio".
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I am running vs 2013 on windows 8.1
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Are you saying it's not compatible with 8.1? I running VS 2013 RC on Windows 8 with no problem.
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2010/2012 works just fine, when I went to install 2013 it told me that VS was not compatible with that version of Windows...
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I have both VS 2012 and VS 2013 installed. My VS 2013 install worked without a hitch, on both my desktop running Windows 8 and my laptop running Windows 8.
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Not completly true.
"Windows Store app development requires Windows 8.1 RTM, which is available to MSDN and TechNet subscribers. Visual Studio 2013 RC does not support Windows 8.1 Preview or Windows Server 2012 R2 Preview. To develop on Windows 8.1 Preview or Windows Server 2012 R2 Preview, download Visual Studio 2013 Preview."
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Chris Maunder wrote: I live in hope there's a killer feature that someone will mention that will make
it all good again
What, like the "shutdown" command.... 
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