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Just about everything, really.
I first met it in dial up days, with Half Life. Steam spent so much time updating itself - before it even got to updating the game - that I never got to play it until I bought an XBox 360.
It slows your computer, it crashes, it insists on a net connection at all times, it spends forever updating itself (even now) it won;t even let you own the copy of the software you bought - as in you can;t even sell it if it's not a good game for you because once you install it, it won't install anywhere else.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not anti DRM, or pro piracy, but the Steam attitude is "You are a criminal, I will stop you" which is wrong - particularly when I paid money for the game...
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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Much as I love my PC, I play games on the PS4.
BF4 is my Jeux du Jour.
I am a pretty mean Sniper.
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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Dalek Dave wrote: I am a pretty mean Sniper.
We know. One simples grammatical mistook and of ewe go, snipe, snipe, snipe...
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Dalek Dave wrote: BF4 is my Jeux du Jour.
So what then is your Jeux de Nuit? 
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I suspect we may not want to know.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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I'm firmly committed to gaming on the PC - many games support mod's, and options simply not possible on the consoles.
Plus, a decent PC has performance which mightily outclasses even the latest consoles.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Cornwall has now been restored to 19th Century Technology[^]. Well done Cornwall, well done.
Seriously, it is a great achievement to get the lien repaired and opened so quickly.
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: get the lien repaired
I'd hate to see the solicitor's bill. 
I assume you meant "get the lion repaired" - the poor chap hasn't been right since his cage was flooded.
"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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Twas early in the morning and I hadn't had my coffee. 
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"£35m"
On the other hand, it was only a fraction of the cost of a single mile of HS2...
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I have just discovered Scratch.
Brilliant training tool for kids.
Makes everything easy and logical and you get instant results.
Such a great way to start the younglings in coding.
I never had this, I had to plod through reams of boring stuff that was badly explained and had no immediate impact.
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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This is pretty freaky  . I had never heard about it until a few hours ago. I was reading an article about the new ".NET Native" compiler and at the bottom of the page was a link to 25 fun things to do with a raspberry pi[^], which I checked out - Scratch was mentioned as #12...
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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You're probably behind the times cuz your kids aren't at school - a lot of schools (at least in Oz) have started to use it
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I helped my niece with a project in Scratch and ever since have recommended to adults who want to start programming to start with Scratch.
It's a great introduction to programming concepts and IDEs.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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It's great, I've recommended this to quite a few friends when their offspring express an interest in computing.
And of course, the fact that it (at least until recently) was designed and implemented in Smalltalk is another huge plus.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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It's a pitty I can only find them in English. Would like to get my kid started on this. Maybe I will build my own 
To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems - Homer Simpson
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Our heads are round so our thoughts can change direction - Francis Picabia
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Amazing! I may as well make some games.
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UK gov spends 200 quid per laptop to extend 'support' from MSFT for a year.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/microsoft/10741243/Government-pays-Microsoft-5.5m-to-extend-Windows-XP-support.html[^]
That's 5.5 million pounds in total. (They have had 7 years to upgrade to Win 7 though).
"The end of commercial support for Windows XP does not mean it will stop working, simply that Microsoft will stop releasing security patches for the operating system, so any security holes that are discovered after that time will be vulnerable to exploits and malware"
How will security holes be discovered if MSFT halt support? No one else will be reporting them, since they cant get support, so its only the likes of the UK gov who will be able to report any, and MSFT isn't going to release any new code anyway!
5.5 million down the drain then....
Shame, I would have given them the same level of support for half that. Oh well.
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I had a previous job where an entire team of consultants were hired to replace an existing system (which I was supporting).
The consultants got new PCs, huge budgets for new software and servers, and spend a year and a half delivering absolutely nothing.
I told my director (after they had all left/been released/etc) that I could have done what they did for half the money, in half the time... but the difference was, at the end of it all, they would at least have 1 happy employee left.
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The UK government wasting money on an IT project? Well that's a first. 
"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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Yeah, NHS data base and air traffic control come to mind....
"The whole idea that carbon dioxide is the main cause of the recent global warming is based on a guess that was proved false by empirical evidence during the 1990s." climate-models-go-cold
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Microsoft (and some people who upgrade laptops for a living) are claiming naughty men have been saving up security holes in XP for when it is out of support so they can exploit them with no danger of them being closed.
MSome men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Nice. 
"The whole idea that carbon dioxide is the main cause of the recent global warming is based on a guess that was proved false by empirical evidence during the 1990s." climate-models-go-cold
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Ringo has a hole in his pocket. Or at least half a hole.
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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