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I'm not so sure. I see other people here putting ice in their coffee and blowing on it to cool it off.
I bet the temp's just set too high
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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My Keurig has the brewing temperature preset at 192, but it can be lowered to 187. Perhaps your model has such a feature.
"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." - James D. Miles
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I have zero control over it. I'm sure there's no shortage of sick & twisted folks here who enjoy havin their lips raw from the heat, which is probably why it's so blasted hot.
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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Wuss
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Apparently you are working at the perfect company.
it ain’t broke, it doesn’t have enough features yet.
modified 20-Oct-19 21:02pm.
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Yup. Me too. Mine
I'm sippin on piping hot White Chocolate Macadamia from a good old Kerig I. It's 14.4 degrees out with 1.5 ft of fresh powder and the sun is out.
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Englishmen around the world who would throw away their tea if it fell beneath 88C currently rofl at wimpy Americans while reflecting that this is why they can't have nice things like a proper cup of tea when they visit USA! USA!! USA!!!
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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Late to the party, but, here is my view.
I want my coffee hot, not warm.
We have a Keurig machine; I make my coffee black - no creamer, no sugar.
I can drink it in under 10 minutes and go back for another cup.
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<Obligatory open-source-evangelist reply>
Then you should get rid of the coffee machine and install Linux!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I read an article about Windows 10 upgrades and the FUD concerning possible subscription schemes. I compounded that mistake by reading the comments where some random idiot out in the web-a-sphere was decrying all the 'sheeple' who've bought into the Office 365 scam.
Besides hating the term 'sheeple', which seems to be a millennial term for 'anyone who participates in anything that is wildly successful', I found myself taking exception to his millennial math skills which demonstrated that the Office 365 annual charge of $99 was off the charts.
Basically, he said that $99 per year was ridiculous because he has a copy of Office 2000 on his laptop that he's been using for 16 years and if he had that via a subscription that would have cost him nearly $1600.00 so far. So much for assuming he's a millennial, this retard is clearly suffering from the effects of toxins released by his neckbeard.
The reality is I spend $99 per year for a subscription but it buys me 5 licenses. That not only includes an entire suite of software but 1TB per person of cloud storage and additional programs and services (email, etc). At $20.00 per license per year over the course of 16 years I'd actually spend FAR LESS per license than what dumbass spent on his license (+Access).
Look, I'm one of the first people to go tell a company to go die in a fire when they start to exploit customers (See: Adobe) but this guy was really off the mark. What makes me upset is that I've been in this game long enough to see Microsoft really reduce the cost of great software - what I have on my home computer today is so much more powerful at a fraction of the cost of software available just a few years ago.
If you want to hate Microsoft load up Linux and Open Office and go play with yourself.
Stop hating on products you clearly don't use or understand.
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MehGerbil wrote: If you want to hate Microsoft load up Linux and Open Office and go play with yourself.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Not to mention that due to inflation $99 today was about $60 in 2000.
There are two types of people in this world: those that pronounce GIF with a soft G, and those who do not deserve to speak words, ever.
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I have to say, I don't like the "subscription" model for software - and Libre Office works (for me) at least as well as Office 2010 did (once I added Live Mail instead of win 10 Mail to replace Outlook)
And it doesn't cost me a thing every year...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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You can get some better deals with a subscription, you also get more frequent updates / bug fixes as they become available instead of hoping a patch is made for your version of the software or waiting for the next major release.
I'm thinking mostly of Adobes 'Photography' plan, which is ~£9 a month and gets you Lightroom (previously about £90 for the standalone version) and Photoshop (CS6 being sold for £600). If you where ever thinking of getting Photoshop then there is a clear saving.
You can also cancel a subscription, so you can have access to software for a small fee use it for a month or two and then cancel.
It's not going to work for everything, but there are definitely benefits to it.
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In general, I don't like subscription but it all depends on your usage scenario. People often write as though their particular scenario is shared by all users.
Kevin
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Good points - when I first started .NET I had to buy a license, I now have free access to the community versions when at home.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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If he had been paying the subscription price for 16 years, he would indeed have paid $1600 by now, but since he doesn't need the newest whiz bang features of the latest Office iteration, he has saved a substantial amount of money by NOT paying an annual subscription. Another point to ponder is that he may be the only person in his household that even needs to use it, so the 5-license benefit is not so tangible (or beneficial) for him.
Furthermore, I am probably one of the few people on the planet that refuses to trust my data to "the cloud" (with your tormentor also belonging to that group), especially when I have a sufficient backup system in my own house, or if I don't need to access said data from wherever I happen to be.
As much as you may like to think your preferred model fits (or should fit) everyone else, that's most certainly not the case.
Looking at it, how many things have turned to a subscription based model? Quite a few, and it's only getting worse. What's really a hassle is when your credit card somehow gets compromised, forcing you to cancel it and get a new one, only to have to go back to your ever-growing multitude of paid subscriptions and reset the goddamn credit card that's used to pay them. I HATE that.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: What's really a hassle is when your credit card somehow gets compromised,
Hell, not even that. Credit cards expire every X years (at my bank X=3), forcing you to go make changes even if it never got compromised. I just had mine expire recently and had to go to probably 15 different websites to change nothing more than the expiration date or lose access to my stuff.
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: What's really a hassle is when your credit card somehow gets compromised, forcing you to cancel it and get a new one, only to have to go back to your ever-growing multitude of paid subscriptions and reset the goddamn credit card that's used to pay them. I HATE that.
Sounds like a business model waiting to happen: Register all your paid services/subscriptions, then when the card gets compromised or expires, you update its details once, then let these guys go out to each service you've previously registered to deal with the update.
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Just a web site begging to be hacked.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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I realized I was posting it that any such site would have the biggest bullseye imaginable painted on it. I was certainly not volunteering to do it. 
But if it had half-decent security, would it be any worse than the system we have right now?
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: As much as you may like to think your preferred model fits (or should fit) everyone else, that's most certainly not the case.
Oddly enough that was the entire point of the post.
His math to discredit a successful model clearly doesn't hold across the board.
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MehGerbil wrote: compounded that mistake by reading the comments where some random idiot
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MehGerbil wrote: If you want to hate Microsoft load up Linux and Open Office and go play with yourself.
Stop hating on products you clearly don't use or understand.
You sure told that random idiot.
Too bad he's never gonna get to read your otherwise pretty good rant.
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I use office 2013 and visio 2016 at work, and I quite simply cannot express to you how much I hate those useless, time-wasting, bug-filled cr@ppy programs.
All of my machines at home have office 2003 on them -- the last version before it all went to Hell.
I paid the right price for those licenses, and I can, as the person you so harshly deride for having an opinion contrary to yours says, use them for as long as I like.
365 users, on the other hand, will be paying through the nose for ever and ever, not only for their vastly inferior and productivity-murdering version, but for the privilege of having all their documents put at risk/held to ransom, and for the total dearth of privacy that they get as part of the deal.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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