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Glad to see that they did not stuff Leslie and sent him into the air as well.

And now you also reminded me that I still have to scrape grass and insects off my T-Rex. It would not be much fun if it was covered with feathers or fur.

The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here

This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.

"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."

If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.

"Cannot connect to website".

Is it FB?

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Mark_Wallace wrote:
FB

Unfortunately...

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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

The comments on that page are insane.

I don't get it at all - most people don't have a problem slaughtering and eating animals (which is fine), but they get all worked up if someone stuffs a roadkill and let it fly? Unsure | :~

Wow, here's a lady talking about how it's not cool to stuff dead animals. I'm going to like her post Thumbs Up | :thumbsup:

and then may be I can order the beef schnitzel for lunch. WTF | :WTF:

modified 2-Aug-16 1:32am.

Rajesh R Subramanian wrote:
I don't get it at all - most people don't have a problem slaughtering and eating animals (which is fine), but they get all worked up if someone stuffs a roadkill and let it fly?

I believe most cultures would consider this 'defiling a corpse'. Take from that what you will.

Legally, at least in The States, I think you're in the clear unless you're trying to fly someone's Grandma. Most cases of 'defiling a corpse' involving animals tend to also involve necrophilia, so it seems you can probably get away with most anything involving an animal's corpse. Then again, I think this may be the first time someone has used an animal's corpse in this way, so who knows (legally speaking) where this one falls?

Now that's a true sailcat! Well done! Big Grin | :-D

Will Rogers never met me.

This man needs to change his drug supplier.

«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008

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Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
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

...not a programming question!
A strange bug seemed to have crept into Iris's Win 10 lappy over the last week or so: Live mail would only start once a day, and Chrome would sometimes not start at all. And shutting it down was very slow - like several minutes. As an addition oddity, the Group Policy service was not being started.

Finally sussed it - I think - as being a problem with "fast startup" which seems to conflict with some apps: Chrome and Live mail particularly.
So if you are noticing this, it might be worth changing the setting:
Settings...System...Power & sleep..."Additional Power Settings"
"Choose what the power buttons do"..."Change settings that are currently unavailable"
Uncheck "turn on fast startup" and save the settings.

Result - all the problems above went away. Weird, but true...I think it's to do with not being a "real" startup like "restart" is, but a halfway hibernate which means that problems don't get cleared properly.

I can't say I noticed any real difference in startup speed, but it's an SSD in there anyway, so it isn't exactly slow!

Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...

I never saw that problem with weven.

Anyone see it with weven?

I didn't.

How about XP?

I never saw it with XP, either.

Anyone see it with XP?

I certainly didn't.

Win '98?

No?

'95?

Not? Really?

How about 3.11?

Well, how boring.

Lucky for you, you've got the Best Windows Ever!*

* can I has my wu mao now, plz?

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Perhaps it was just updating ?

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"If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010

W∴ Balboos wrote:
updating

heh. I'd assume that dates are involved (but not in the sticky toffee pudding way).

What happened is: because of the partial shut-down, timestamps on the files being reopened did not match the timestamps of the copies sent to the US jackboot forces, so they froze everything while they downloaded copies of the HDD.

Something like that, anyway (but perhaps a little closer to 127.0.0.1).

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New age luddite lemming much?

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Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
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

Seriously, there's nothing luddite about detesting and/or distrusting winio.

Besides, do you have any idea how much unnecessary computer technology I carry about my person?

Luddite really, really != me.

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Just trying to get yer dander up! I can see it worked. Poke tongue | ;-P

Really though, every windows version has had its flaws. So what? Win 10 is no worse than any others, and in my estimation, is way better than all previous versions. Which is a lot like saying Win 10 is the worst windows version ever except for all the other versions.

Which I can say with some "authority" since I've been using Win 10 since it was in beta. And I've liked it ever since.

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Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
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

TheGreatAndPowerfulOz wrote:
Just trying to get yer dander up! I can see it worked.

Jeeze, you've gotta stop trying to read between the lines, at least until you've had training in it*.

TheGreatAndPowerfulOz wrote:
Win 10 is no worse than any others

It's a lot worse, actually, especially if you're not a US subject.

* I charge uncompetitive rates for such training -- I'm the apple of pounding things into people's brains

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Mark_Wallace wrote:
Jeeze

LMAO! As if!

Mark_Wallace wrote:
actually

No, actually.

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Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
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

TheGreatAndPowerfulOz wrote:
LMAO! As if!

You're sounding an awful lot like a troll, right now.

I confess that I do find that annoying. Not the trolling -- I've been handling that effortlessly for thirty years -- but the fact that you should know better.

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Sorry for that. Not meant to be trolling. You're right, I should know better.

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Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
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

I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

Mark, you've been trolling about Windows 10 for months now. Nobody can say a damn thing about it without you jumping down their throat. Some of like Windows 10, have never had a problem with it and are a little tired of rants, many of which are pure ignorance.

There's a Hell of a difference between trolling and expressing an honest and considered opinion.

Unless you're saying that no-one is entitled to an opinion that disagrees with your own, of course, in which case, your honest opinion may be a little too deeply ingrained.

If you have something good to say about winio, I'd like to hear it, but, so far, all the "good things" I've heard about it are no more than repetitions of the wumao "It's the best windows ever!"

Better security?
Quite the opposite. Allowing a (foreign, in my case) corporation to take ownership of your property is the complete antithesis of good security (good security means keeping doors closed and locked, not opening them to strangers)-- not to mention that the best way to ensure the security of your machine is by using third-party software, not through the wumao-promoted windows updates.

Faster?
Not true. Not even remotely true. Hell, if you want fast, do everything from the command line; that'll show you how fast this "miraculous" OS is.

More productive?
Most certainly not true -- unless you consider that being given loads of emoji for use in facebook and twitter is an improvement in productivity.

Give me something!

Tell me something about winio that unarguably makes it "the best windows ever!"

Calling disagreement trolling just don't cut it -- and do yourself a favour: don't call me a troll. I know how to play-act, but I'm no-one's moron.

All I ever get in response to my complaints is wumao garbage. No-one has ever put forward a definite, provable (give me proof, and I'll believe it) argument.

What is better about the completely ****ing useless OSK that comes with winio?

What is better about the amount of data they upload about you (to foreign soil)?

What is better about the ridiculous baby-block interface?

What is better about forced updates?

Etc.

Etc.

Etc.

Everything I have complained about is Real, and I have given intelligent arguments for everything I've complained about (couched in p!ss-take phrasing, perhaps, but I'm me, after all).

"Some of like Windows 10, have never had a problem with it" is not an intelligent response to intelligent complaints (especially since "never" began only a year ago).

Don't give me wumao statements, don't give me fanbois statements, don't even Think about using the word "troll".

If you want me to believe you, give me solid, intelligent arguments.

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OK.

1. Cakewalk, who produce audio software, have found Windows from 8 onwards has kept improving disk throughput and recommend it for audio production.

2. Improved startup speeds.

3. Even on an update install, I found W10 took less disk space after installation.

Real, measurable improvements.

"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.

Rob Grainger wrote:
1. Cakewalk, who produce audio software, have found Windows from 8 onwards has kept improving disk throughput and recommend it for audio production.

That's only because delayed write is far more effective, now that everyone has multiple cores (and more developers are getting used to multi-threading).

Rob Grainger wrote:
2. Improved startup speeds.

Through the same kind of buggy, unstable caching used for hibernate. Give it a while, and start-ups will probably get worse and worse -- and, like hibernate, I imagine fast-start will be the cause of a whole bunch of new problems.

Rob Grainger wrote:
3. Even on an update install, I found W10 took less disk space after installation.

OK, I'll grant that one, but it's only because they've optimised graphics and animations a lot (not for us, but for phones -- mobile first, and all that). After the hundred-odd gig of graphical guff they added for vista, reducing it by a lot can't have been too hard -- but I certainly don't see that as a good reason to use winio; I've got way more disc space now than I ever had with Vista.

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