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Laugh away.
One day, maybe tomorrow, maybe ten years from now.
There will be a tap on your shoulder that you never expected.
And when you turn ... The men of the 3rd Foot and Mouth regiment[^] will show you what they've got!
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As a child, our refrigerator had a spring loaded latch on the door; newer ones seems to have a magnetic seal.
My older brother told our younger brother to stick his finger in the latch; when the younger brother did that, the latch snapped and hit his finger.
Much yelling ensued...
Our Dad said to the older brother, "Some day, I'll even the score with you for him...."
I reminded my older brother of that periodically until our Dad passed...
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Where is the mind bleach?
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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Mind Bleach[^]
There are other 'options' than just "nature"...
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Sounds like a Monty Python sketch.
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Tim Carmichael wrote: new management styles [...] Kanban
Kanban isn't exactly "new". We ran screaming away from it at the office years ago.
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Has anyone else noticed that Firefox is lagging pretty bad?
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Never mind, just noticed that I had an update pending, and it went from 32-bit to 64-bit... Seems better now.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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phew, thought it was just me/my machines
...funny thing is it stared lagging about the time it started nagging to update (again again again, ffs mozilla, getting as bad as chrome which needs to check for updates every 10 minutes even when not in use.)
and ffs, what is with this hyper accelerated release sh*t, it's a complete royal pain in the ass - even when problems are found it's about 3 versions later before they maybe sometimes get to it.
No wonder people don't trust software, the "industry leaders" are killing it all.
lawyers move over, it'll be software devs first against the wall when the revolution starts.
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The big question is...
...Do you have an SSD or HDD in the machine where you are seeing the lag?
These modern times with SOFTWARE TAKING OVER OUR MACHINES (updates whenever they want, etc) (who's yelling?  ) require an SSD.
Win 10 has done this to me and my entire family on various machines and FF has definitely done this in the past and Chrome too. All our machines have been upgraded to SSDs.
HDDs are now dead tech, due to bad choices of over-utilization of I/O by Software Devs. 
Okay, I'm going off a bit, but really the I/O stuff is crazy. SSD required.
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Have you tried switching it off and back on a couple of times?
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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Windows 10 Mobile tried to attract users by letting them run the same "universal apps" on both their PCs and handsets, but the concept failed to catch on.
Are they suggesting UWP is no longer a thing?
(of course that's assuming UWP was ever a thing to begin with)
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dandy72 wrote: Are they suggesting UWP is no longer a thing?
I'm wondering the same thing. This is kind of crazy news -- and the news about the Surface gone in 2019 also.
Maybe,since they are going with Edge on all devices they are thinking Progressive Web App tech.
Even if they didn't mean to completely kill UWA they did.
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dandy72 wrote: Are they suggesting UWP is no longer a thing?
It'll be universal on windows 10, and now that there's 3 (or is it 4) different types/editions whatevers of w10 (which was also promised not to happen) with subtypes to come that'll be a lot of platform.
seems nads really is betting everything on azure, and with competition growing (prices will drop) too bad ... [snip] [soapbox]
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Lopatir wrote: It'll be universal on windows 10, and now that there's 3 (or is it 4) different types/editions whatevers of w10
If only it were that easy.
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...and of course they still have the "N" versions that nobody pays attention to. Did I forget anything?
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Apparently there's a "K" version, which is specific to Korea (in some manner).
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dandy72 wrote:
Are they suggesting UWP is no longer a thing?
Confusing. UWP will still exist for Windows Store apps - won't it?
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I can only imagine UWP will go on, it's just that Windows 10 Mobile will no longer be part of the platform UWP apps are expected to be run on.
But who knows...Microsoft hasn't been able to clearly communicate what it is they want us developers to be targeting since (IMO) Windows 8 was introduced, no doubt because they're still trying to figure it out themselves and making it up as they go along.
I miss the WinForms days - honestly.
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Only for those who invested in writing apps for it: for the rest of us it's a relief that our platforms won't have to be compromised so badly by the need to support poor-quality mobiles in future.
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OriginalGriff wrote: poor-quality mobiles
Are you talking about the hardware, or the software?
I can only speak for personal experience, but it seems to me like it's a lot easier to find underperforming hardware running Android than Windows phones. Granted I've only had Android tablets (not phones), but they've all been noticeably sluggish, stop responding altogether or spontaneously reboot. I've seen zero improvement in that regard with my Android 4.3, 4.4 and 6.0 tablets. (Don't get me started on OS upgrades actually being made available...)
OTOH, it took a Microsoft support engineer to point out to me that my Lumia 640 was actually considered a rock-bottom device with little RAM for the OS to work with, because I've very rarely run into some operation that seemed to take an unreasonable amount of time to complete. The UI's always remained fast, fluid and responsive, and I've never had to touch anything twice because I thought it hadn't registered the first time around.
As someone who doesn't look for/install all sorts of crapware, I still consider WP10 to be a perfectly fine OS, and I'd rather keep using it than the crash-prone and downright "glitchy" Android devices I've had the misfortune of been subjected to.
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dandy72 wrote: OTOH, it took a Microsoft support engineer to point out to me that my Lumia 640 was actually considered a rock-bottom device with little RAM for the OS to work with, because I've very rarely run into some operation that seemed to take an unreasonable amount of time to complete. The UI's always remained fast, fluid and responsive, and I've never had to touch anything twice because I thought it hadn't registered the first time around.
I totally agree.
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And yet even Bill Gates and the head of Windows 10 had both switched to Android a while ago ...
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He, no doubt, has more use for a phone than I do.
To put things into perspective, I only bought my first phone less than a year ago, and that's only because it was cheap and upgradable to Windows Phone 10. It has no SIM card, and I don't plan on getting one.
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I'm using a Lumia 640 LTE, and I fully agree with your assessment based on my personal experience.
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