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Amazon Fire Stick? They should have just named it Amazon Torch 
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Here is a good old one: April Fools: Math Class Shadow[^]
(re: WebTV Comedy channel[^]) Wanna see more of today.
Btw, friends of mine reported some good news regarding Win10 upgrade. Running smooth/fast in Parallels on Mac, and in PC Tablets, though many experienced some sort of video driver issues.
PS. ...and, btw, don't let the first Launch Failure[^] to discourage you! Stay calm and keep trying... 
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modified 30-Jul-15 9:00am.
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Having tried to install it all day (and failed every single time), all I can say is:
Windows 10 appears to BE the joke... 
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Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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Johnny J. wrote: tried to install it all day
Now I understand why the installation-counter at Microsoft runs so fast - increments every time someone starts a download. Who cares what happens after that!
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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It's not that fast.
At a rate of 16 installations/second, they will have about 500,000,000 installations per year. This is half of their target.
EDIT: Beaten to the post by Dan Neely http://www.codeproject.com/Messages/5100373/Re-Microsofts-Windows-upgrade-counter-shows-instal.aspx[^]
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
modified 30-Jul-15 9:08am.
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C'Mon, don't let the first Launch Failure[^] to discourage you
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That was exactly what it was like... 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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You see, ur not alone in this great Universe
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Frankly, I was thinking of MacBook Pro, but it's kinda a "Lamborghini on the Desktop" while all I need is just a decent workhorse (PC notebooks/ultrabooks), like most of my business clients are using.
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The MacBook Pro is very good, I wouldn't dream of using a Windows machine as my everyday device these days. They are pricey but you do get a well built machine at the end of the day.
The new MacBook looks interesting and the MacBook Air's are a lot cheaper than the Pro's (and just as well built). I think the MacBook Air's are actually cheaper than the Surface Pro 3.
How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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MacBooks (both Pro and Air) are, indeed, of exceptional quality. Still, PC stuff gives you more "bang for your buck". Surface Pro 3 is kinda overpriced, but other brands (ASUS, Dell, etc) exist with better offerings regarding Price/Performance ratio. So, PCs are expected to be around for pretty long time...
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There's always some compromise with a PC though, always something left out or downgraded to keep the price down. I wouldn't say you get more "bang for your buck".
Any Windows laptop below £1,000 is going to have some issues. In my experience I've had to spend a lot more cash on a PC (by buying in upgrades) to get it closer to Apple's level but it's near impossible to match the screen quality (and no version of Windows supports high DPI screens properly, as I recently found out).
How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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Well, personal experience could differ from the institutional one. Statistically, running business on PC is less expensive than using Macs, so in corporate world PCs still dominate the market. As I said before, Macs are metaphorically sort of “Lamborghini on Desktop” (or Maserati, Maybach, Bentley, etc), but general Taxi service is typically running on some ordinary “workhorse” like Toyota Camry or Ford Escape. Adding to the picture: I’ve personally built several hundred PCs (using both Intel/AMD), and gonna tell ya - if it’s done right in a first place, then it works for years.
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I think that there's also a resistance in many workplaces to accept Macs. In my current contract (at a large multinational) the IT guys won't allow Macs on the network, only because they don't know how to manage them. Having said that, I can't see them moving from Windows 7 for many years to come either.
Because a lot of us have used PC's for a long time, we're comfortable with them. Many people don't like to move from their comfort zone. To take your car example, I wouldn't say that Macs are like Lamborghini's - they're more like Audis. The trouble is we're all used to driving around in Citroens. Cheap and cheerful but expect to have to fiddle with them (a lot) to keep them running smoothly! 
How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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'Citroens' made me thinking: if I ever had seen any of 'em IRL...
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I had a brand new C3 in 2006, had nothing but trouble with it from two weeks in. Owned a Peugeot and a Renault in the past, all had electrical problems.
I tend to stay away from French cars these days
How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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... there's kinda a techno-breakthrough in autoworld: Flatula Backfire [^] ...
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modified 30-Jul-15 11:47am.
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Installed for me on the second attempt - the first failed with a cryptic HRESULT error.
You could always try Microsoft's tool[^] to create your own installation media.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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this might help though it is old,
"Windows: Work Is Never Done On Windows Systems."
"The nice thing about Windows is, it doesn’t just crash, it displays a dialog box and lets you press “OK” first"
Ravi Khoda
Humanity is the best religion and smile is the best medicine.
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ravikhoda wrote: "The nice thing about Windows is, it doesn’t just crash, it displays a dialog box and lets you press “OK” first"
LOL. Exactly!
I guess I'm lucky anyway, though: Every time it has failed, it has been able to successfully roll back to Win 8.1 (for what it's worth).
A friend of mine was less fortunate. He got Win 10 installed, but after the install, explorer.exe didn't work, so no desktop, no taskbar, no start button etc.
But at least Powershell worked, so who needs explorer? 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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You need to wait for the joke as I am waiting for that upgrade to understand that it is past 29th already. 
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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... waiting 
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Just watched Face Off again.
Can't seem to figure out...
Who's the villain?
Cage? or Travolta?
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Let me try to get a grasp of this: You watched Face Off before? And now you watched it again? 
WHY ON EARTH WOULD ANYBODY DO THAT?????? 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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