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Because it feeds the ego of the person who made it?
I have to agree - they are mostly garbage, and worse you can't copy and paste code from them!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I agree too. I am just doing som Flash stuff (animating in flash) from Lynda.com - while it is great to see the animations being done, having to continually stop the video to try out the stuff is a pain - and there's only a 10 second 'go-back because I missed something' button.
Although at least with Lynda there is a transcript I can read.
What I find really, really annoying is when something happens on screen, the author makes no mention but, if you listen carefully, he's pressed a key to change mode or something. V frustrating when you're following along & it doesn't do what the version on the video is doing!
The ideal is a mix of text, images, animations, video - so I can read the instructions, information and background, watch it being done if I want, and see simple images or videos of what is to be achieved, if I want.
I have noticed that the younger generation (whipper snippers that they are) go straight for a video tutorial, though - probably because they're too flamin' lazy to read, though!~
Still - I have just managed to animate a waving flag - so it isn't all bad 
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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You two just made me to burn the negatives of my upcoming video-book... 
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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My word!
You made it on real film? Welcome to the Digital World! 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I made it on virtual film...But abandoned when understood how bad I am with all this video thing - now I try to find the time to write it in plain English, without over-acting it...
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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_Maxxx_ wrote: ...whipper snippers...
Do you mean whipper snappers? A whipper snipper is used to do the edges of the lawn.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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_Maxxx_ wrote: probably because they're too flamin' lazy to read, though!~
This is how we really are, may be because we have been reluctant to read any kind of written stuff since we're children.
And may be because we have been taught that pictures(videos these days) say more than words.
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Al Chak wrote: I understand schemas and code of 10 languages.
but are you a master of any of them?
If you can understand and grok 10 languages, then Shirley, you do not need a tutorial. 
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super-master in 3
master in 4
ex-writer in 2
and creator of 1
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Well, I'm still using windows 7 pro in my laptop, it works well, but I've noticed that I'm loosing HDD space progressively.
Today I've seen a new folder in my C:\ root named $Windows.~BT.
It looks like this has to do with Windows 10 update.
I'll be ready to update in one month or so, but not now, and my problem is that now I do have only 6 GB of free space in my main disk and this folder is taking around 7GB itself...
I guess that those 7GB have been downloading little by little on the background...
My question is: can I move that folder to my secondary HDD without starting to download everything again? is there any way to ask politely the system to stop trying to download windows 10 until I'm ready for it?
Thank you all! 
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When you update KB3035583 on your OS and 'reserved' yourself a copy of Windows 10, you actually agreed to download it to your computer to make it ready for installation...As you have a full year for free windows 10 it was a bit unnecessary...
Try this:
1. Remove KB3035583 via Windows Update
2. Clear the remaining folders
As you are on Windows 7, where KB3035583 is optional, you will be able to install it whenever you ready, or just do the install manually (from internet or DVD)...
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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The best part of it is that I did not reserved my copy (as if they would run out of it)...
I'll try that Peter!
Thank you!
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You may had configured your Windows 7 to get optional updates the same as recommended...In that case the update was installed and activated in one run...
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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I don't know if I did that, probably not, but who knows...
Thank you for your recommendations!
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Is Ben gay?
PS. For the idiot who is marking my posts as Spam: In the US, Ben-gay is a cream for body pain relief.
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Interestingly, this just got picked up by the automated spam detector - I approved it - so it may be that they are getting marked as spam from there.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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The automated Spam Detector certainly doesn't down vote posts, as my messages have been.
With enough down votes, I think my name flags a red alert for the Spam Detector.
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No, but it may do when someone says "this is spam" and it goes to the shredder?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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It's way too early to any thought...
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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Vivic wrote: cream for body pain relief
I wonder why Ben would need that 
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So you are Ben and your product is successful you have mass distribution and tv spots throughout the 60s and 70s then WHAM! Your product name becomes basically slander in some circles, spam on CP and well all that it is today.
Maybe old Ben can twist it all to his marketing advantage.
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It's even worse in Dutch... Ben gay literally means "Am gay" and gay only has one meaning here and it isn't "happy" 
I never heard of it by the way.
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Vivic wrote: Is Ben gay?
Where you do think he gets the cream from?
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Of course, the reason you are getting down-voted may have to do with your (unknowingly) offending someone from another country with a statement they interpret as a slur on their national heritage, civic pride, etc.
For example, you may not know that Bengay is the American rip-off of the proprietary French ointment, Benguet, a source of great national pride.
The original Benguet is made only from pigs who have died rooting truffles, and whose bodies have been stuffed with aubergines in the first twenty-fours after death. Their fat is rendered and then simmered in creme brulee for at least three days before further processing.
Authentic French Benguet, prepared in the traditional manner, using only native Algerians to perform the final, proprietary, manufacturing procedures, is fabulously expensive, and considered an aphrodisiac as well as anodyne, vermifuge, analgesic, abortifacient, soporific, etc.
cheers, Bill
«I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center» Kurt Vonnegut.
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