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It will be interesting to see just how many users MS lose purely on the basis of their updates policy.
They would, I'd suspect, have had as many complaints about it as they did with the over-the-top UAC fiasco on Vista which they were happy to hasten on its way, but they just don't seem to be responding on this one.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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Look - they know their customers.
They'll keep sucking it up because they don't know what else to do, except, perhaps saying "what can you do?".
As the customer base gets younger (i.e., new user generations) they become ever less aware that things don't have to be the way they are. Even if they did figure it out, they'd not put in the effort.
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Yes a lot of people will just live with it, but there are many who won't. The strength of Windows has always lied in its ubiquity and as that becomes diminished ...
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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W∴ Balboos wrote: my next upgrade will absolutely be Linux
Good Move!
I was happy on win 7, had it set up the way I wanted (for dev, moving around etc)
few client machines on win10, tried it, it's not designed for devs, it really isn't. idiots yes, devs no
- I know it can be done but not the way I want it. I'm old, I'm allowed to be fussy.
well hardware getting old (tech year, not people years), new hardware, particularly CPU's don't do so well on win7
then I found ubuntu (lubuntu), and the result: NO WAY I'M GOING BACK TO WINDOWS (worth shouting about)
thank you ms, thank you intel too (for cutting w7 support), thank you both for sending me to Linux.
Linux definitely is an upgrade, w10 IS NOT.
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It is.
But next time, do it on your own computer?
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Actually, it's a new manifestation of OCD - anyplace I see a keyboard. A free service offered to all (you don't even have to ask) - if it isn't backed up then it'll likely never really missed.
No plans, for the present, that I visit Wales, so relax and take a deep breath.
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modified 9-Apr-19 11:31am.
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Even more satisfying is "Shift + Delete". 
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I personally like this one: Ctrl+OpenWindow+Send+CloseWindow followed by Ctrl+Alt+DrinkCoffeAndSmile
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Agreed. Our file server had <40GB free (out of ~4TB) a couple weeks ago. Deleting a little over 1 TB of cruft felt similar to the sensation of switching from tighty-whities to boxers.
Software Zen: delete this;
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The first British built Concorde[^] made its first test flight 50 years ago today (the French one did it on the 2nd March)
And now today, we can cross the atlantic in just under three hours!
Oh. No, that's what we used to be able to do it in. It's twice that nowadays. 
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Never throw anything away, Griff
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Not just Concorde but, jets in general are slightly slower nowadays than they were some 20+ years ago, from what I understand it's to do with fuel economy and probably man made global warming - although Munchies_Matt knows much more about that than I do 
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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GuyThiebaut wrote: Munchies_Matt knows much more about that than I do
Now we have to move it to the Soapbox.
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We do seem to be going backwards.
I mean, we had a Moonbase in 1999[^], we went to Jupiter in 2001[^], and I'm worried we might not have warp drive by2063[^]
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Never throw anything away, Griff
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OriginalGriff wrote: we had a Moonbase in 1999
Thanks for reminding me! I still have my 3D printed parts[^] for something that needs some paint and assembly.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Yeah but Spock has a beard in the universe where all those things happened!
Socialism is the Axe Body Spray of political ideologies: It never does what it claims to do, but people too young to know better keep buying it anyway. (Glenn Reynolds)
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He wrote the first edition of his book in 1946, and we are still waiting for essential parts of it to be accepted by US culture.
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It is because of fuel economy and hence running costs..
Modern jets use turbo fan engines which are a lot more economical but are a larger diameter than tradition jet engine of yesteryear. You just need to look at the diameter of an engine from a old photo of a Boeing 707 compared to a modern jet.
The large diameter engine is vastly superior on fuel and hence running cost, but are bit more of a drag. Thus reduced speed.
A Fine is a Tax for doing something wrong
A Tax is a Fine for doing something good.
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I don't want to brag, but 1944 we already had flight times to London under 23 minutes, but did not make it over the pond yet. The service aboard was said to be nonexistant and the landings were very rough.
Back to the topic: The Concorde was the last dinosaur of the 'at all cost or nothing' way of thinking. It sipped away too much fuel and needed too much maintainance for too few passengers to be anywhere near economic. And let's not forget the safety problems the aging birds were developing.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Read the link: both Quote: British Airways and Air France were able to operate Concorde at a profit, in spite of very high maintenance costs, because the aircraft was able to sustain a high ticket price.
In fact, they became profitable by asking passengers (mostly corporate bigwigs) how much they thought their company paid for the flight, and then putting the price up to that! 
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Yes, of course. A prestige object like that still is only sustainable for a time. Taking a step back and making flights generally more economic and sustainable (not that we are good enough to go on like that forever) is progress, while not being so spectacular.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Also 50 years since we first walked on the moon.
Where's my low-gravity retirement home?
Where's my flying car?
Where's my personal jet-pack?
Where's my personal communication device that doubles as a computer? ...oh, never mind that one.
What else haven't we got?
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Man, this is not 'lost and found'.
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Why be so negative and focus on what we haven't got?
Let's take a look at some of the exciting things that we have got:
0) Cat videos - we've got actual videos of actual cats, goddammit, how cool is that?!?!?!
1) Er, okay, I'm struggling a bit now ...
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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Forogar wrote: Where's my flying car?
My response to that question is always the same:
How well does your lazy neighborhood 18 year old look after his current vehicle?
Now do you want him flying it over your house? 
Socialism is the Axe Body Spray of political ideologies: It never does what it claims to do, but people too young to know better keep buying it anyway. (Glenn Reynolds)
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That is the main reason, death tolls would at least double if grow exponentially
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