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Take an upvote for bringing back fond memories of my college years as an engineering student. We did all calculations on a slide rule. It was in the 60s, just before the first electronic calculators appeared. 
How do we preserve the wisdom men will need,
when their violent passions are spent?
- The Lost Horizon
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Can you play Angry Birds on it? 
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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No, that's why it's so good!
veni bibi saltavi
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Old school… awesome.
My first term in college we learned to use slide rules. I'm so glad that calculator prices went down after that.
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Right, we can stop this my bloody old thing still works malarkey here and now!
I bought one of these babies[^] when they first came out, it was the bleeding edge dog's! I still have it and use it, if not every day, regularly! It works really well and I even managed to write some logic games for it; saved to dead trees.
The point is that it does what it was designed to do. There was no interweb connectiveness back than and so it doesn't support TCP/IP or any other communication protocol BECAUSE IT DID NOT NEED TO! You can't save anything, except 'copy to paper' and the graph drawing was always good for a laugh. That said, I use it and still love it.
WinTen was a minor jump compared to 8, but it works and it supports all the gizmos we need today and a few that are of about as much use as a BACON sandwich at a bar mitzvah. I could easily switch to Linux whateva, but I really can't be arsed; I've worked in Windows from v1 - now there's a dog even Battersea would put down - through every iteration. I was even forced to use Vista to test our then product and that hurt, but not as much as trying to get ANYTHING running on Windows 1.0!
veni bibi saltavi
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A wonderful piece of kit
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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That's nothing.
I still have my slide rule (Bar Mitzvah present, 39 years ago) running in perfect order.
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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Pah! That was far too advanced.
I still have my Ecobra Rietz NR R141[^] - which I had in school - and I've never even needed to change the batteries!
Mind you, it's pretty much impossible to get Word or Excel to run on it...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Welcome to the Lounge
For lazing about and discussing anything in a software developer's life that takes your fancy except programming questions.
And you're complaining we're being silly? 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote:
Mind you, it's pretty much impossible to get Word or Excel to run on it...
Lay it on the floor.
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I have an fx-8000G, and everytime I want to use it it's out of battery.
So I end up using calc.exe or my wifes fx-82 solar.
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Put new ones in, they seem to last a year or two for me depending on usage.
veni bibi saltavi
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Last's half a year at the best, three CR2032.
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Wow! I only had (and still use) this[^].
Mongo: Mongo only pawn... in game of life.
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I have one of those too, and a damn fine calculator it remains.
I'll let you know when I've finished the port of Doom 
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Windows 10 Home doesn´t have gpedit?! Is there anything about windows 10 that is isn't a steamy pile? I'm dual booting a few year old Asus G70...its stupid how much faster Linux Mint is. Grumble Grumble.
EDIT:
Since this is apparently not 10 specific, ill just complain about the reason i needed it in the first place. It is apparently the easiest way to disable windows defender from eating 70% CPU when its not actually doing a scan. This thing obviously just needs trashed.
CPallini wrote: You cannot argue with agile people so just take the extreme approach and shoot him.
:Smile:
modified 2-Feb-16 5:12am.
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It's a restriction of the Home edition (and has been since 8 or 8.1, I think).
Have a look here: gpedit - Google Search[^]
But as several of them recommend: take a good system image first (I use AOMEI Backuper - the free edition works very well).
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I saw all of that, I just find it completely ridiculous. I didn't know it was also a limitation on 8, i never used it enough to notice.
CPallini wrote: You cannot argue with agile people so just take the extreme approach and shoot him.
:Smile:
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I guess they have to take something out to make the "Home" edition less attractive than "Pro" and justify the additional cost! 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I wish Asus would have offered the pro/ultimate/whatever version on their gaming series at the time. Do not know if thats still the case.
CPallini wrote: You cannot argue with agile people so just take the extreme approach and shoot him.
:Smile:
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Group policy on Home edition? It wasn't there for Win 7/8 too...
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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It was there on my 7 that I upgraded from.
CPallini wrote: You cannot argue with agile people so just take the extreme approach and shoot him.
:Smile:
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A Home edition? It must have been a manual install...
Starter, Home (Basic and Professional) came without it originally...
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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No idea, i dont remember installing it, but who knows.
CPallini wrote: You cannot argue with agile people so just take the extreme approach and shoot him.
:Smile:
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