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Now we're talking. Handsome too, although you wouldn't know that.
Meet me in Tesco's on Cheapside in 5.
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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There is no Tesco on Cheapside. There is a rather nice pub[^] I can be in in, checks watch, 45 seconds. 
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*** Nagy Vilmos inaccuracy report ***
Unit 5 Cheapside London Greater London EC2V 6BJ England. From the TESCO WEBSITE. I know because its where I buy Jaffa cakes.
Pub looks half decent, but its in a place called 'Horsell', wherever that is.
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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You never said which Cheapside! 
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Another great article where there are too many words.
What I find amusing is having witnessed programmers proudly strut "we're a successful agile team" while the project is failing around them.
Funny that. You can be successful at agile development and still fail at product development.
Marc
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agile started with the logical fallacy of "successful developers do this, so if we force everyone to do that, they will be successful." It then became a way for lazy managers and lazy developers to pretend they knew what they were doing. Interestingly, the original Agile Manifesto is quite good; but it is talking about highly competent, self-driven developers in competent organizations.
This was driven home to me a few years ago when I worked at a company with two distinct teams working right next to each other, one which did agile by the numbers and ours, which had stand ups and that's about it. I was on the latter and our stuff was always done on time with very few bugs. The other team was constantly late and there stuff very buggy. Since their cubicles were next to mine, I noted that they spent a huge amount of time on the bureaucracy of Agile. It also became obvious how artificial and staid Agile was--ironic given that it's supposed to be, well, agile. (A friend of mine worked for an agile company; it finally got so silly, the CEO called an end to it. The positive change in productivity and morale was stunning.)
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How quickly from the time you installed Windows could to get it to break or give errors( from runtime to registry ) ?, excluding really dumb stuff like deleting system32 and of course Vista, cause that was instant 
Include which windows you where using.
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I'm old enought to remember Windows breaking during install, typically as disk[^] 2 for me.
Alberto Brandolini: The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.
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I once got a BSOD during the installation of Windows Vista. So you don't have to go back far for that 
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Windows 7
After playing The Sims 3 for 2 Hours -> Blue Screen.
Works nearly every time 
if(this.signature != "")
{
MessageBox.Show("This is my signature: " + Environment.NewLine + signature);
}
else
{
MessageBox.Show("404-Signature not found");
}
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HobbyProggy wrote: playing The Sims
Well there's your problem!
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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OriginalGriff wrote: Well there's your problem!
I know, but sometimes i feel like playing it 
if(this.signature != "")
{
MessageBox.Show("This is my signature: " + Environment.NewLine + signature);
}
else
{
MessageBox.Show("404-Signature not found");
}
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Hahaha I can see that happening
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Are you sure it's not a safety thing, A friend of mine once had to go to casualty because of badly swelled arm after 4 hours straight of 'Age of Empires' 
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glennPattonPUB wrote: after 4 hours straight of 'Age of Empires'
I used to do that all the time! Your friend must be extremely delicate..
Whether I think I can, or think I can't, I am always bloody right!
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I'm sure this will come as a surprise to you, but I don't generally try to break Windows deliberately.
There are two reasons for this:
1) It takes too long to clean up and reinstall when you break it properly, and I have better things to do with my time.
2) Windows (pre Win7) was far, far too capable of breaking itself without any input from me.
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Haha Yes that's not the idea to break it deliberately, but to let Win break itself.
And I've never heard of anyone saying that cleaning up or fixing windows was better than reinstalling
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On my old laptop, installing Ubuntu over the pre-installed WinXP made the trick immediately.
THESE PEOPLE REALLY BOTHER ME!! How can they know what you should do without knowing what you want done?!?!
-- C++ FQA Lite
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*nix FTW.
A mate of mine was one of the tech support bods at Edinbugh Uni, there was a server there that had been running over 10 years straight (1992 -2002, when my mate left). No one knew what it was and they were too scared to switch it off. Total sum maintenance - one scary day when they took the side off to vacuum out the accumulated dust in case it became a fire hazard.
Alberto Brandolini: The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.
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Install only Windows, no other crap.
Try again, compare the results.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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I am not sure about Windows, but I once bought a glass top coffee table (not exactly like this[^], but close).
I brought it home, set it up and wanted to vacuum around the table. The vacuum cleaner hit one of the table legs and the glass plate closest to the floor shattered 
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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Ah, yes. The 'Broken Windows' fallacy.
Actually, if it stops breaking, their profits should decline if the fallacy is in fact true.
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Historically, this has virtually always been down to badly behaved drivers, something that MS can't do anything about. (Apart from write their own)
If you create a computer that you can plug practically anything into and get 3rd parties to write crap drivers which operate in Kernal mode it's what happens.
Alternative is Apple - Computers for Airheads™.
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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