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Vincent Maverick Durano wrote: Which do you prefer?
Neither, I'm smarter than that.
"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." - James D. Miles
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Are you asking which I prefer in terms of
a) being stuck next to a person who vaped or smoked when in an elevator / 15hr plane flight / dentists chair
b) Whether I prefer having smoke or vape blown into my face as I try and leave a building
c) Whether I prefer cigarette packets or vape packets strewn on my front lawn
d) Whether I prefer big tobacco minimising the risks of smoking or the risks of vaping[^]?
Where's the "neither" option?
Frankly I've had enough very close friends die of cancer and heart disease and I just get it. I understand addictions very well. I also understand what dying slowly is like.
I just don't get it.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote: Are you asking which I prefer in terms of
The question was actually for:
* people who vaped or smoked
* for people who smoked and vaped
* for people who quit smoking and do vaping
* for people who experienced smoking
* for people who quit
Perhaps I should have clarified it in details 
Chris Maunder wrote: Where's the "neither" option?
That's the one missing.
Chris Maunder wrote: I've had enough very close friends die
I've had enough relatives died too, and that's why I quit. But the number 1 reason why I quit was because of my kids.
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Vincent Maverick Durano wrote: the number 1 reason why I quit was because of my kids
I take my hat off to you.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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I am trying to simplify my serializer (Galador.Reflection: .NET Serializer, an IoC / IServiceResolver and FastType[^]) developement by making it a .NET Core lib.
It should, then, work "everywhere" right? (as they say)
Well, steps 1, my library requires .NET Standard level 1.6
Now according to this nice chart[^]
I could see that .NET Standard 1.6 should work just fine in a Xamarin-Android project. And indeed, oh suprise!  It does just compile! (when I reference my lib in a Xamarin - Android project)
I have yet to check (i.e. run the app) that .NET Core made System.Emit works on Xamarin, that would be like super awesome!   
On the other hand, on the desktop .NET Standard 1.6 requires.... .NET Framework.... 4.6.3, which is... not yet released!   
Oh well.. I guess I would just keep waiting then! 
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They've added that feature for backward forward compatibility!
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yes, they are very forward looking nowadays!
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Cain and two Romans mixed up in the plot? One aims to please in the party.
(10)
modified 3-Aug-16 4:14am.
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I hate to write this word but POLITICIAN (anag.)?
You have just been Sharapova'd.
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Yup - and lord that was quick. I guess they've been in the news a bit recently
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Yep, just those two.
You have just been Sharapova'd.
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You just had to go and install smoothly so the only thing I could rant about was the length of time to do the actual install. Set it away late last night - woke up to a fully functioning anniversary update. So far, everything is still working; no issues to report.
This space for rent
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Ho ... really?
Checking... downloading now...
It is damn slow indeed!!!
Damn you Windows Update!
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I just set it off downloading, and when I looked it had reached 89%. I go back a few minutes later to see a "something went wrong" message with a button to try again.
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I'm an optoholic - my glass is always half full of vodka.
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You have my sympathy.
This space for rent
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And all is right with the world again.
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Windows is now telling me it isn't activated and it also won't let me edit anything in the registry!
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I'm an optoholic - my glass is always half full of vodka.
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote: no issues to report.
Any actual improvements?
That's what I do. I drink, and I know things. ~ Tyrion Lannister
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No sign of it being available here so far. The only update I've had is a Windows Defender definition update.
"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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All they had to do to make me happy was go and revert the code that made connecting to VPN so annoying, yet they didn't.
And yes, it took longer to install the update than it took to install it as an original install. Crazy.
Struggling to see anything different. Then again, I don't use Cortana and I don't use Edge.
They really should have called it Windows 10.1 and given it a pretty new wallpaper. Then it would be blindingly obvious it's a Big New Thing (yeah, Apple. I'm raising my eyebrows at you).
"Anniversary Edition". Just when I think the naming gurus at Microsoft can't get any worse.
(Yeah, I'm having a post-upgrade-letdown day where the excitement and dopamine and all worn off and left me with nothing but old coffee grinds)
cheers
Chris Maunder
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The real secret to this was that MS only updated the last update date as the anniversary update.
Having managed to get that right, you give them Kudos . . .
. . . actually, now that I think of it, that's one of the smartest moves they've made in years!
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I upgraded from the ISO on MSDN (ran setup.exe to upgrade, rather than doing a clean install) and the upgrade was completed well within an hour. Mind you, the machine being upgraded is a pretty snappy i5 with 16GB of RAM and an SSD.
It probably would've gone a lot faster if the ISO itself hadn't been sitting on an old and slow Atom-based machine that happened to be very busy at the time (both disk and CPU still sitting at 100% as I'm writing this in fact).
I had been running a number of Insider versions on a VM for months, so there was no real surprise, but one thing I didn't expect is that it removed the DisplayLink software I had (essentially a driver) as it's apparently no longer needed for my USB3-to-VGA adapter.
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Crikey! Australia is Moving Six Feet North![^]
Quote: Every year the Australian continent drifts about 2.7 inches north because of the slow sliding of the Earth's lithosphere. It's hardly enough to trip you up, but it can throw off any computer system that relies on pinpoint map accuracy.
At this rate, within a few tens of millions of years "Down Under" will become "Up Over"
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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Tie me Kangaroo country down, sport, tie me Kangaroo country down...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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