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That's how reliable they are
I think I've seen a few laptops. Maybe. Or maybe my brain is just confusing some old Sonys.
TTFN - Kent
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I've seen articles about them; generally written at big tradeshows. They don't sell them in the US though; so even when they look awesome it doesn't do us much good (and there've been a few over the years I really wanted).
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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This is true for all laptop makers. There seems to always be at least one proprietary piece of hardware, often from a third party, which the manufacturers simply don't want to spend money on updating and so don't. This goes way back, even on desktops and cellphones.
The only solution is to stop buying hardware.
The irony is that "generic" laptops/desktops/cellphones tend to not have this problem because the assemblers don't bother trying to be fancy.
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New measurements suggest that our galaxy is on the slimmer side, at a mere 700 billion times the mass of the sun. It's all the nougat
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Well, this electoral year is prompting many to leave a mass exodus.
FTFMyself
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One thing is clear: Milky way is light, it swims also in milk.
I was harmed my half-childhood with this ad
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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Those who have a strong foundation in math will have the best jobs of the future. "It behooves us to place the foundations of knowledge in mathematics."
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Why would I want hooves?
(Not to be confused with camel toes.)
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The fact that economists doesn't know much math and they still make a ton of money, kind of disputes that statement.
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Nah.. it's all to do with the fact you don't need to be knowledgeable to be rich!
Unfortunately us, CPians, might say...
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I just have a thing for bashing the lack of math skills in economists.
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Ha, well, carry on then!
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I think, therefore I am underpaid.
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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I gave up reading after the third time it stopped me reading to prompt me to sign up to read more.
"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 couldn't even read it on my phone because one of the pop-ups was in the way and the "close" button was somehow always under their top menu (I could see the button if I scrolled really quick)
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In the future zombie apocalypse, maths will be f***all use to you. Running ability and good shotgun technique far more important.
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Microsoft is working with Blockstack Labs and ConsenSys on a blockchain-based identity system. Hi. I'm 690c19e6-e302-42d5-8006-bdfee98a3884. Pleased to meet you.
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Laptops from Dell, HP, Asus, Acer and Lenovo all had at least one vulnerability that could result in complete compromise of system, Duo Security report says. Your completely unsurprising news item of the day
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That's why always backup (just in case), format, re-install and backup another time
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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I'm waiting for a long compile to finish and fell 'deep' into pondering why I've only ever written PowerShell scripts, but not C++/C# console apps, for exclusive use in my many Visual Studio pre/post build events. Writing/debugging C++/C# console apps is considerably much easier than for PowerShell scripts and, aside from having established a seemingly 'bad' habit , I am now 'baffled' by my choice of doing things the 'harder' (i.e. PowerShell) way. I'm curious to know, given a choice, how many here use write C++/C# apps (instead of PowerShell scripts) for use in their pre/post build events?
modified 31-May-16 18:11pm.
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Yes.
Here's one example:
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Using the Utility from Visual Studio
I designed this utility with the idea that it would be used in a pre-build event for a Visual Studio project. Open the project's property page, select the Build Events tab, there is a box for pre-build command lines. One of the shortcomings of that is that (by default) pre-build events run with the project's release\bin or debug\bin subdirectory as the working directory; you'll need to take that into account. The following command is an example of how a GenOmatic file in the project's directory may be referenced in a pre-build event:
GenOmatic ..\..\MyEnum.xml
" -- GenOmatic[^]
I have several others that I use as well.
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I had a rather large winforms application (70+ projects, 2+ million loc) that needed to have some XML transformations run, tests run, needed to be obfuscated, signed, packaged using InstallShield, and finally uploaded to a web server. I automated it all with a simple c# console application. I could have done everything in Powershell instead, but was just more familiar with c# at the time.
Senior Software Engineer / Automotive Hacker
"the fabric is down again...."
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What is this doing in news forum ?
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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By your count, how many discussions here meet the criteria of "The Insider News is for breaking IT and Software development news"?
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