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Microsoft and their threats.
They used to be nice to us.
I wonder what ultimately they're going to do to y'all once they feel they have sufficient victims to loose a few when they drop the bomb.
My windows 10 technical preview sat dormant on a forsaken laptop here in the shop.
I was Tib-ing (Acronis backup) my dev laptop so I grabbed the win 10 TP laptop and when I started it I was presented with:
c:\windows\system32\winload.exe is expired.
Ah ha.
That's a way to hook you into recurring revenue now huh.
I'll see my way out....
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In other news, David Bowie is dead[^]. 
"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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Damm... I knew I had read something about, but I saw the other message a bit newer about the list of processors and thought... this is my opportunity
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Nelek wrote: That gives still over a year to learn linux.
Already started. Bought a new laptop about a month ago. Day one, wiped the OS and installed Mint, and have been slowly learning my way around it.
And with JetBrains announcing a new C# IDE in the works, about the only thing I'll need a dedicated Win box for in the future might be the occasional game.
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When it comes to programming, our assumptions give us blind spots. "You know what happens when you assume, right?"
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Like the assumption that the customer is always right? 
Marc
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DARPA: Today’s best brain-computer interface systems are like two supercomputers trying to talk to each other using an old 300-baud modem You want me to plug that cable in WHERE?
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Starting today, Windows Insiders will get access to a new commitment option in Cortana for Windows 10. Hey Cortana: MYOB
*Totally* not like they were complaining about with Google. *TOTally* not like that at all.
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Quote: You can also disable this feature if you don't want Cortana scanning your email for phrases.
By "feature" they mean Cortana as a whole, right?
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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That would be my guess (and solution) too.
TTFN - Kent
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The secret to devops success begins with an open, flexible, and lazy approach to systems and code. Well, I've got the lazy down. Do I really need to work on the other eight?
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Indeed, as they say, "laziness pays off immediately".
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When the USA Freedom Act passed last June, it put an end to the country’s National Security Agency’s (NSA) mass surveillance program in which it collected millions of phone records of citizens’ calls over 14 years.
But the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) believes that isn’t enough to protect people’s privacy, because those records still exist in various NSA databases. The non-profit is calling on a secret court to consider ways to delete this trove of data without destroying evidence that proves the NSA snooped on citizens. EFF: Protecting your past, present and future.
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Good luck with that.
Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Sprint cuts customer service jobs, says customers won’t notice a difference | Ars Technica[^]
No comment needed, the mockery writes itself.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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There problem wasn't/isn't the number of customer service agents, it's the service...it sucks!
People are going to other carriers because they have better plans and better service...period!
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Quote: says customers won’t notice a difference
Because it's already so bad... 
Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Zero times anything is still zero (or NaN  )
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
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20 November, 1970: Once the computers got control, we might never get it back. We would survive at their sufferance. If we're lucky, they might decide to keep us as pets.
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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And we still try to make them smarter than we are... I really hope we don't manage to reach our goal.
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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To truly brew a perfect cup, it's not enough to know what kind of beans you're working with. You also have to know about the chemistry of the water. Science: making your life better since 1620*
*Give or take
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What! water is water, comes out of a tap and you drink it.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Don't drink the water here. Seriously.
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Really, I know I can't drink it in most of Asia but I would have thought the States had decent quality water!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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