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The tech giants are eager to rent out their AI breakthroughs to other companies. Welcome to 1984 ... in the Cloud!
Tin foil optional
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I clearly remember the time PC was promoted and mainframes were slandered...Am I too old? Or the fashion-carousel spins too fast?
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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"There is a season (turn, turn, turn)"
TTFN - Kent
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The police had copies of the man’s fingerprints from a previous arrest and the lab was able to scan them to make 2D and 3D replicas. This is why I never let people photograph my hands
Apologies if this is a dupe - I did look, but it sounds familiar.
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Yup, it's a repost.[^]
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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"From my cold, dead hands" sounds appropriate 
modified 19-Nov-18 21:01pm.
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In german passport the poiting fingers are stored. So I better use another finger for securing my phone if I got one of these "modern wunders" 
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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And discover that his cell phone was even more boring than his life.
Oh, we were talking about another guy, not me. And I'm feeling better.
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That means one in five computers are now running the latest and greatest operating system from Microsoft, according to Net Applications. I still don't get that 1.2% sticking with Vista. Stockholm Syndrome?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: 1.2% sticking with Vista
Maybe embedded or ATM machines. Although, usually those are XP. Or your Grandma
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Yeah, probably not ATMs as you mention. I guess you're right - grandparents and others who never get visited by someone who can update them
TTFN - Kent
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More likely laptops which have no or flaky drivers.
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Or which can't be upgraded (even to win8) due to the OS CPU requirements.
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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I see vista come though here once in a while. The last one was last week but in that instance it was a static zapped mb on a dual core toshiba from the iron age. The customer has her data but that's one less.
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And how many of those machines were because Windows effectively updated itself. I never intended to update to Windows 10 when I happened, and the same is true for a friend of mine. I would like to know what percentage is because of this.
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95% ?
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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Kent Sharkey wrote: I still don't get that 1.2% sticking with Vista. Stockholm Syndrome?
Probably those who are still waiting for the reboot after they selected to downgrade to XP.  What many of us who have some slight iota of computer savvy don't always keep in mind: Nearly all users (when speaking about these sorts of numbers) are in the group who sort of know what button to press to see their emails, and nothing beyond that.
I definitely wonder just how many of the 20% is due to auto-upgrades, how many didn't want it in the first place, who actually thinks it's "better" than before, what portion is due to new computers comming with W10 preinstalled, and how many of those would gladly revert back to W7/8/8.1 (if they "knew" how). Methinks that would reduce the 20% somewhat.
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Some slow Vista machine arent getting an update.
But I am very curiois WHY THE HACK this crap isnt dumped 
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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Kent Sharkey wrote: I still don't get that 1.2% sticking with Vista.
How much time do you want to spend working on a 10 year old laptop that's probably just going to sit around as a headless system unless it's needed as an emergency loaner to a friend/family member?
If it's still alive 6 months from now I'll probably attempt a win7 upgrade, or failing that some light weight flavor of linux. (My brother tried to do a clean install of W7 on it 2 years ago when he had it but failed due to lack of official driver availability. I know how to scavenge for compatible drivers from 3rd party sites online; but it's a PITA which is part of why I'm waiting.)
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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Fair enough. I have to remind myself that my visceral dislike of Vista (and ME, for what it's worth) aren't reason enough to upgrade.
TTFN - Kent
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Nope. Especially not when - to do the upgrade - I'd need to touch it more than I did in the yearish interval between when I restored an image from backup after getting it from my brother and today. 
While using it as a distributed computing node I've been hoping it'd die of old age before Vista EOLs. So far it's managed to zombie on though. 
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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DevOps, ASP.NET Core, random numbers, and more With a special guest appearance by Rudyard Kipling (sort of)
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For next month the Rudyard Kipling should be the poem "If" pertaining to test driven development:-
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too:
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Yup, and "Tommy" for our long suffering sysadmins.
While it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "Tommy, fall be'ind",
But it's "Please to walk in front, sir", when there's trouble in the wind,
There's trouble in the wind, my boys, there's trouble in the wind,
O it's "Please to walk in front, sir", when there's trouble in the wind.
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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A team of researchers at MIT has developed a device designed to give home owners a better picture of how much power their individual appliances are eating up. If only there were some meter attached to the power line that would help?
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