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MCE's had at least one foot in the grave since W8. Arguably, since the cluster-elephant with the free MCE keys handed out before W8 launched and the 8.1 update*, it's been laying down in the bottom of the hole. (The continued lack of BR support being someone thumping away with a hammer.)
- In response to the "ZOMG Media Center is a paid component now" outcry (it was forked out of the main OS because it cost MS several dollars in licensing fees when PCs were increasingly not having an optical drive at all) MS agreed to give anyone who asked a key that would let them have MCE for free. Which worked great until 8.1 came out and it turned out that those keys flunked activation and that there was no way to back out of MCE to a standard OS install.
 Supposedly if you kept calling the human activation help line you could eventually get someone who was aware of the problem (it wasn't on the script, meaning that 99% of the phone monkeys were clueless) and who could fix it. But well over a year later the automatic upgrade process was still fubar. 
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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I'm sure someone will figure out a way to stop and disable the automatic updates for the people who care about it. Could be as simple as:
net stop wuauserv
sc config wuauserv start=disabled
Or won't this work on the Home edition? 
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A recycling center in Silicon Valley is amazed that someone would toss out a rare first-generation Apple computer. It is currently seeking the woman who did it. I guess Apples really are overpriced
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Researchers of the Technische Universität Darmstadt and Fraunhofer SIT have investigated Cloud databases and established: developers wrongly use authentications for cloud services thereby threatening millions of user accounts which become susceptible to attack. "And there's a happy little cloud"
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During Build 2015 Microsoft very briefly showed an augmented reality dog as part of their HoloLens presentation. It now seems as though the pixel pup could represent a flagship HoloLens brand. They're all fun and games until you need to clean the hololitter box
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Wait until Clippy shows up 
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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In Java there are no free functions, which simplifies lookup rules and code organization. Many C++ style guides have adopted the “only classes” style, prohibiting free functions. But C++ is not Java. I'm sorry if that news startles you
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There's no accounting for taste, including style guides. But actually he's comparing apples and oranges here. Java, and also C#, simply have no choice, "everything is a class" is not a rule but a principle for them because they are inherently object-oriented languages. C++, on the other hand, is... something else.
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namespace global
{
public:
bool foo, bar, baz;
};
using global;
int main ()
{
foo = false;
return 0;
}
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Developers are moving past proprietary databases to open source upstarts -- often under the radar of IT management They tend not to have web pages to "help you understand our pricing"
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A database engine is (partly) a device for hiding the complexities of sequential access hard disk drives from developers - and since we have all moved to solid state random access we no longer need to be protected.
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Duncan Edwards Jones wrote: and since we have all moved to solid state random access we no longer need to be protected.
That's like saying because I've had a vasectomy I now need to be protected. 
Marc
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A vasectomy is only 99.99% effective. A friend of mine was the 1:10000 who spontaneously reconnected while healing; leading to the 5th of two planned kids. 
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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But just who exactly are the millions of professional developers that visit our network each month? We recently conducted a survey of over 450 CodeProject members to garner greater insight into that very question. "C'mon tell me who are you"
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Looking at those numbers I see that devmedia has a very MS centric audience compared to the industry as a while...
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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In a flexibly scripted programming language like JavaScript, everything is an object. Developers can code and push new features faster, enabling end users rather than making them wait months for an update under a more traditional sever-side development model. "Try it, you’ll like it"
Note: Normally I'd fix that typo in the subject line (and it is for the newsletter), but I think the message is valuable enough to leave it as is.
modified 31-May-15 13:39pm.
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What the hell does "everything is an object" have to do with the rest of that opening paragraph? That immediately tells me the piece is written by a non-tech journo dropping random soundbytes wherever they can.
No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly. - Oscar Wilde
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Quote: Client-side JavaScript brings developers closer to the glass.
Is this the glass of koolaid, or an upper story window I'm supposed to hurl myself through?
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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A team of engineers have created tiny acoustic vortices and used them to grip and spin microscopic particles suspended in water. "It's sonic! Totally sonic! I'm...sonicked up!"
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A major software reseller in the U.S. has begun taking preorders for Windows 10 OEM software, in the process leaking prices and the apparent availability date of the software. Surprisingly, Microsoft is actually raising OEM prices in this cycle. But, I thought it was free?
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Google this morning unveiled the creation of one of its better ATAP projects — Project Jacquard — a conductive fabric that can communicate with digital devices. The technology is small and lightweight, and it just might help connected clothing officially come of age. "'Cause every girl crazy 'bout a sharp dressed man"
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A hoverboard rider recently soared into Guinness World Records after flying a record distance on the futuristic, flying skateboard. "Hey McFly, you bojo, those boards don't work on water!"
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But UN says government-ordered decryption is OK if done on a "case-by-case basis." Well, that's settled then. As we all know: all governments automatically obey the UN
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And we all know that all governments are benign... 
#SupportHeForShe If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
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
Only 2 things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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Kent Sharkey wrote: As we all know: all governments automatically obey the UN
They do. They UN-obey them.
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