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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: I can not activate my version unless paying ($200) for a brand new license...
You make it sound like ransomware 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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That's the word! Exactly!
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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"ransomware" with Google Translate "Detect language" => "Haitian" 
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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But, if we didn't have to pay for it, we would not have a moral basis to disrespect it with.
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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Windows 10 uses the Kodak model. The camera was cheap but the film and processing is what made their profit.
Now, about those in-app purchases...
BTW has anyone tried to dual boot Win 10 with Win 7. The file systems don't like each other and you end up corrupting both. This happened with the preview version and with the release version. I suspect Win 8/8.1 might not suffer from this.
I may not last forever but the mess I leave behind certainly will.
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I bought a new PC with 8.1 home recently just for the purpose of installing W10 for development work and signed up for the insider program which installed W10 pro. I didn't revert to 8.1 before doing a clean install on the 29th (just burned the release iso to dvd and ran it) and voila, I still have a live licenced W10 with pro upgrade FOC, so no complaints here, worked better than expected - maybe you didn't have a qualifying version of 7 or 8.x to start with, Microsoft always said only these versions get a free upgrade if they took up the offer within a year - if not reinstall your old 7/8 and retry, if still no luck send an email to them - a PIA but better a few hours waiting than $200 - GL
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To Microsoft, you're a cash cow, say moo.
Most companies, especially the large ones, are viewing their customers as cash cows to be milked of money. That's the whole point of "Windows as a service", to milk their cash cows for money more effectively than the way they've been doing things in the past, when they merely made and sold things.
We can program with only 1's, but if all you've got are zeros, you've got nothing.
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Not me, because I am not interested in it and I shall not be using it.
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Or maybe not...
So I downloaded VS 2015 Community Edition to replace my preview version with...
A file in the ISO - apparently - was damaged (only on, so it may be a problem of the packaging...), so when the installer got there it asked me three choices...
1. Skip - not an option, as it may result in a not-working product...
2. Look for the file at another location on my computer - I have no...
3. Download the package from the internet - the only possible solution...
So what's the problem, you ask? Beyond this point, the installer will download EVERY package from the internet, regardless it defected or not...
I wonder who wrote that, who tested that and who approved that? For sure it was a combined effort of carelessness...
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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Never download the ISO, there come many problems with it. I have always tried downloading the online installer. Suits me, I can chose which one to download.
Hey, as a tip: You can choose Custom and select the items you want to install and ignore you don't want or are not going to work with.  Maybe a good hand for the bandwidth, I'd say.
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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I can't see a reason why not to use ISO - I do it for years, and the reason, that I have to install several machines and the multiple download is just a waste of time...
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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Perhaps you should. ISOs are offline, better in speed because you don't have to wait for the network latency.
But my point was that you always get the fresh copy of product, ISOs may give you enormous notifications for update once you have finished installing the product.
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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I always download the ISO, and compare the SHA1 hash to the SHA1 hash provided by Microsoft. This allows me to install it as many times as necessary.
I use VMs for a lot of my projects, and having the ISOs on hand can be a great time saver when setting up a new image.
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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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: who tested that
Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: As one of many who was there for the preview test
Looks like it was you.
Once you lose your pride the rest is easy.
In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you. – Buddha
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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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Is your dvd-burner defect? 
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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What DVD burner? I use ISO as virtual disk...
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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Quote: I wonder who wrote that, who tested that and who approved that?
Didn't you know about quality of "cheap hindu coders"? )) Viola! Now A WHOLE MICROSOFT is a hindu gang who hides behind famous company! Leave of Gates and Ballmer is not a "pity retire event", IT'S THE END of IT giant and hell knows how long MS will stay under Nadella management - doubt it will be long.
Win10 is again a big fail - after failed 8 and 8.1; So "desktop" division loose more and more. Even paid "Solitaire" won't help their agony.
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"Then you give that money to the IRS and your ex-wife and your kid's private school education."
Marc
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I thought there was the article at the bottom about Don McLean and American Pie was also quite interesting
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How often are you reading an ebook on a tablet or kindle, and would like to send highlighted text to someone? Same, for me even more, when I hit a code sample on my Kindle, I would like to just tap and send to my PC.
I think I would be able to manage on my own, to send code blocks identified (contained in) a div with a data-can-share attribute, somehow extract the code, and send it to somewhere more useful. At the moment I'm looking for ideas, as all I can think of is email or IM (a special receiver in Visual Studio eventually). My first thought was Skype, but now MS is killing the Skype API, and I'd rather not invest in the old COM based on.
But right now I'm just looking for ideas and feedback on this idea from you guys.
No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly. - Oscar Wilde
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Sounds like a cool idea ! But, would you have legal issues with copyrighted material, and/or technical issues with copy-protected material, like a Kindle DRM protected file ?
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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Yes, I would have legal issues, but example code allowed to be pushed to another device would have to be marked as such by the publisher, for technical reasons, but these could suffice for legal.
No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly. - Oscar Wilde
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