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Mike Hankey wrote: from you grandfather is cool
Yep. Happy to have it. Especially when he died 50 years ago. The sucky part is that I have no one to pass it on to.
You can lead a developer to CodeProject, but you can't make them think.
The Theory of Gravity was invented for the sole purpose of distracting you from investigating the scientific fact that the Earth sucks.
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Wes Aday wrote: ... I have no one to pass it on to.
Wanna adopt me?
I'm retired. There's a nap for that...
- Harvey
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H.Brydon wrote: Wanna adopt me
Uhm.... er... hmmm... the son I never wanted? 
You can lead a developer to CodeProject, but you can't make them think.
The Theory of Gravity was invented for the sole purpose of distracting you from investigating the scientific fact that the Earth sucks.
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Find out who your closest relative is and bequeath it to them in your will. Make sure to write down the story behind it. Your grandfather must have cousins or something.
When all else fails, find your local (gun) museum and see if they'd like it.
Another option is to adopt Mike.
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My consolations and congratulations !
cheers, Bill
« I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief » Immanuel Kant
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always have a pair of clean underwear on hand and always fight zombies with clean hair.
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Slacker007 wrote: fight zombies with clean hair
How can the zombies see the clean hair when everyone knows that if you wrap your towel around your head, they can't see you either. 
You can lead a developer to CodeProject, but you can't make them think.
The Theory of Gravity was invented for the sole purpose of distracting you from investigating the scientific fact that the Earth sucks.
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If you have a list of things that you always forget to buy, you'd best add shampoo to it.
Negative habits (where you habitually don't do something) are as hard to break as the common or garden variety.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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It's been over 5.5 years for me and I still can't get rid of her stink. Sadly, when it stinks, it stinks.
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I have a Samsung ATIV S Windows 8.0 phone. The last update I got was a patched 8.0 firmware update. However 8.1 has been out for some time now, and I know other people (such as my wife with her Nokia 1020 phone) have received the 8.1 update.
I have tried asking my carrier (Bell in Canada) and all they could do was refer me to Samsung. No answer from Samsung at this time. 
Is there anyone out there with the Samsung ATIV S phone that has received the Windows Phone 8.1 update?
- Andreas
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My Nokia Lumia 928 hasn't updated yet either. I just checked and it tells me that no updates are available. I also checked the 'Store' and unlike a PC, there is no upgrade to 8.1 feature.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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The update has to come through your cell carrier, who gets it from the phone manufacturer (who tweaks the update for the phone-specific hardware). So it won't be available as a store app/upgrade.
I imagine now that Nokia is a MS product this will be pushed through quicker than for other phone manufacturers. However it has been something likes 6 months now...
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Good to know.  I'm not too worried about it. The 8.0 version does fine, though I have had this thing a little over a year now, and don't utilize many of the features/functions available. For example, I just sent my first email from the phone last week. One of my favorite features is the camera, for reading fine print, or grabbing serial/model numbers, wire configurations, etc.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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I actually like both the phone and V8.0 - but I am also working on some new phone apps, and would like to do this with 8.1. And I am also interested in Cortana and integrating apps with that.
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Meet Nixie, a finalist in the Intel "Make it Wearable" contest: [^].
And, good luck getting one of those through airport security !
« I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief » Immanuel Kant
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Cool concept, ugly wrist band! Now if they would incorporate it into a Propeller cap[^] that would be another matter.
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.0 Beta
Have you ever just looked at someone and knew the wheel was turning but the hamster was dead?
Trying to understand the behavior of some people is like trying to smell the color 9.
I'm not crazy, my reality is just different than yours!
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I'm at work on Saturday, copying some data to a thumb drive for a trip to The Home Office that I forgot to copy yesterday. It's said "About 15 minutes remaining" for the last 10 minutes.
Oh great.
Now it says "About 16 minutes remaining"  .
Software Zen: delete this;
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I don't find any reason for calling it a bastard in that case! 
Favourite line: Throw me to them wolves and close the gate up. I am afraid of what will happen to them wolves - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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muahahaha... they never did really fix that. I don't know what algorithm they use, but it's like they base it on file count not total data...
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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It is not an error so there is NOTHING to fix.
You build a house, lay three bricks on monday. Lay four bricks on tuesday. Averages out to 2.5 bricks. Given that 1000 bricks be needed, one can calculate the days required.
Now, wednesday you only do one brick. Elaborate, how will that affect the total planning?
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: lay three bricks on monday. Lay four bricks on tuesday. Averages out to 2.5 bricks
I will call this "Windows Explorer averaging".
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You take the evidence gathered from earlier experience and use it to base an estimation on.
Sound familiar?
It is an "evidence based estimation".
--edit
Yeah, I am having trouble with basic math today
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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The point is, you can't really blame Explorer for something it (or anything or anybody else) cannot predict quite accurately. I mean, who knows beforehand how many bricks you'll lay on Thursday, Friday, Saturday...? Maybe if everything goes fine you do 20 per day but then you get sick on Friday and can't continue until Monday...
The only thing you can blame Explorer for is that it shows the estimated remaining time at all and you forget it's just an estimate, which can be a highly dynamic variable. If everything goes well, the estimate is just fine, but if something goes wrong (corrupted file, etc.) it loses all of its meaning. It should just show the percentage and progress bar, because it's the best indicator to see if the copying process got stuck.
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That's where opinions vary. For time-consuming and long-running operations the progressbar would take an awfull lot of time to increase a percent. It would not give any indication whatsoever on its relative speed, nor whether it is actually still alive (or just crashed and running an never-ending loop).
FIorian Schneidereit wrote: if something goes wrong (corrupted file, etc.) it loses all of its meaning
It doesn't; it uses the longer task to calculate a new average.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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It's likely to be inaccurate, no matter which way you calculate it.
Bigger files copy at a higher speed than small files, so two very large files will copy a lot (a LOT!) faster than a thousand smaller files with the same total size.
The trouble is that you don't want to be running the kind of incredibly complex calculations required for accurate estimates at the same time as you're copying the files.
Could it be better? Sure.
Could it be much better? Not worth it.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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