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Indeed. Like the title says (by one count).
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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And if you take a third source[^] which looks at gaming PCs, W10 is solidly in 2nd place and will probably overtake W7 entirely within 2 to 5 months. (2 or 3 months for W10-64 to overtake W7-64, 4-5 for W10-all to overtake W7-all.)
Version Share Monthly Change
Windows 7 64 bit 37.40% -1.02%
Windows 10 64 bit 30.24% +2.56%
Windows 8.1 64 bit 17.32% -0.97%
Windows 7 8.23% -0.35%
Windows XP 32 bit 2.27% -0.10%
Windows 8 64 bit 2.25% -0.14%
Windows 10 1.10% +0.05%
Windows 8.1 0.44% -0.02%
Windows Vista 32 bit 0.33% -0.02%
Windows 8 0.19% -0.01%
Windows Vista 64 bit 0.19% +0.02%
Other 0.05% 0.00%
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
modified 2-Dec-15 11:16am.
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Not surprising. Gamers typically want the fastest hardware possible, which usually translates to the newest hardware. Most of the newest hardware is only available with Win10.
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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It's mostly upgrades. We might buy a new GPU for our desktop every year or three; but overall system turnover is much lower. A gaming laptop is usable for 3 or 4 years (at progressively declining quality settings) before being fully obsolete. Other than GPU swaps a desktop can last 5-10 years before needing replaced (a Core 2 Quad is still fast enough not to have a significant impact on gaming performance) because something failed. Vista/W7/W8 also showed much faster uptake on Steam than from general web users as well. (Although in Vista's case it had a lot to do with our needing a 64bit OS before most people, and XP-64 just being a re-skinned server 2k3 which had perennial driver problems.)
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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Agreed, but this source represents a rather narrow point of view - it's basically just what Steam users use, isn't it?
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Yes. I'm not aware of any other dataset that's skewed toward enthusiast users and away from work machines and web only users on race to the bottom machines though. I'd be interested in seeing what various tech or software development sites see, especially on a day to day basis (to see weekdays vs weekends mostly and see the work machine impact); but I'm not aware of any that do so at present. Arstechnica used to publish some site specific data (but IIRC just browsers); but stopped doing so a while ago (even before pulling the plug on the monthly browser share article in general).
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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Your subheading in the email newsletter for this news item made me spew my drink all over my monitor. Hadn't done that in a while.
"Mission Accomplished"
Gold.
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*grin* Always happy to help my fellow humans get a bit of cheer! 
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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The decision follows the foundation's move in 2012 not to focus development resources on Thunderbird Throw it on GitHub and ignore it, like everyone else does?
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Share Your Idea is a website and forum where developers can submit ideas – answering the question, “what experiences do you want to see on HoloLens?” Yeah, they can't figure out what to do with AR either
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‘Share Your Idea Give us your idea for free’ campaign
MS is a poor company that can't afford to pay for good ideas, poor of them. 
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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Designing C# 7, Build a Cross-Platform UX with Xamarin.Forms, Introduction to Spark for .NET Developers and so much more. You're (all) the third to know
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For everyone who's eager to learn more about C# 7, in addition to the article I can recommend an interesting video on Channel9[^] where Mads Torgersen demonstrates some of their ideas on a whiteboard.
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From the article "Essential .NET - Designing C# 7" by Mark Michaelis:
public class Person
{
public readonly (string firstName, int lastName) Names;
public Person((string FirstName, string LastName)) names, int Age)
{
Names = names;
}
}Uh oh !
«I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center» Kurt Vonnegut.
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Even if you corrected the type, that's one ugly piece of code! 
"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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public readonly (string firstName, int lastName) Names; // a tuple
public Person((string FirstName, string LastName)) names, int Age)
Remind me never to hire Mr Michaelis. Which is it (lastName), and int or a string?
And why is Names plural?
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: And why is Names plural?
Well, first name is a name, last name is a name, hence... 
Don't be so harsh on this guy, I bet it's just an accident. Writing code without the help of statement completion and squiggles is hard these days. But, yes, bad example. I think it's more useful for things like (TResponse response, TState state), or to get rid of out.
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Adobe renamed its Creative Cloud software Flash Professional to Animate as it downplays Flash, which is under fire in many camps, and pivots to HTML5 with its messaging. Flash Professional was already used for HTML5 animations. News Flash! Adobe solves 100% of Flash security problems
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a turd by any other name still smells as foul
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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"Cosmologists should be more skeptical of dark matter" [^].
"The sobering fact is that either 96 per cent of the Universe is unknown to us or we are completely wrong about the way we think the Universe works. Either way, cosmology is far from finished: we have a lot to work out." An interesting brief essay that questions the entire current scientific mainstream "quest" for dark energy/dark matter. I found the mention of Francis Bacon's (1620) epistemological paradigm, the four "idols of the mind," fascinating.
Aeon, Stuart Clark: "Stuart Clark is an astronomy journalist and the author of several books about space, both non-fiction and fiction, including The Unknown Universe (2008). He writes the blog Across the Universe for the Guardian."
«I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center» Kurt Vonnegut.
modified 30-Nov-15 22:20pm.
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The physicist predicts densities of up to 1 billion times greater than normal. That would explain why it's been so obvious all these years
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"may" is such a wonderful word in reporting since you can follow it with anything.
Huge clumps of dead souls may lie just beyond the moon!
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This release enables async/await by default for ECMAScript 6 (ES6) targets. It also adds support for polymorphic 'this' typing, proposed ECMAScript 2016 exponentiation syntax, and ES6 module targeting. your with for debugging async pleasure Now
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...Compiles to javascript for runtime and debugging in the browser. Yup. Still turtleselephants all the way down.
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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Pretty much everything I love in Perl 5 is still part of Perl 6, but almost everything I hate is gone too. My bar for "fun" is set a little higher
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