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So it looks to me like the real issue lies in the YMMV factor.
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
- Benjamin Disraeli
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Drivers problems if you buy a new computer... 
New Hardware is not being supported in Win7 anymore (probably because windows is paying to make manufacturers help them to port users to win 10, or not paying them for win7 drivers to which manufacturers say "screw you", at the end of the day is still a business and no profit means no work)
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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that's just crap, new hardware is being supported in 7, drivers are out there.
Sure windows update ignores them but every vendor is putting out windows 7 drivers on their own site. You think vendors are going to cut off over half their market because ms asked them?
It's not even wise to use windows update for drivers except for perhaps the most common equipment, they always run behind the manufacturers updates. (Even some intel drivers wu can be 2 - 3 versions behind.)
Signature ready for installation. Please Reboot now.
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What pissed me off is that Redmond appears to have pushed out an update that broke one of my VMs. A critically needed please stop crashing VM. Of course, this update was one of those "would you like to update?" Not now MS, not now. Okay, I'll wait till you're not watching.
Of course, I didn't connect the dots until I went over to reddit. The VMware group over there has far better support than the communities on vmware.com, others griping as well.
Last night, MS again knocked on my laptop to update something and "tada!!" it all works now.
Oh wait, office is broken. Hmm, dig around, it's not the first time. In fact, I think the Office team is so used to being hosed by OS updates, they've written their own little utility to put all the pieces back together. While reading, one of the useful idiots from MS posts "we're sorry you're having trouble, but software is complicated."  It occurs to me that I think MS has an AI answering user rants in the forums.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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charlieg wrote: It occurs to me that I think MS has an AI answering user rants in the forums.
Really? I think it would be cheaper to have a stupid human doing it.
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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Really.... and here's why - every response is formed into some mealy mouthed whine of concern. And the answers are so general and vague.... but I said it mostly as a joke.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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i.e., Bangkok ... And I missed it: [^], [^].
Wish I had gone just to enjoy the wonderful, positive, energy that Thais emit/induce when they are collectively involved with something they care about. But, at this point (health reasons), fascinating, feral, Bangkok is not for moi.
p.s. a Naga [^] (Thai: phyanaak) is not a dragon, but a river serpent, considered in Thai/Buddhist cosmology as rain-maker, and protector of Siddhartha => Buddha during his achievement of enlightenment.
«... thank the gods that they have made you superior to those events which they have not placed within your own control, rendered you accountable for that only which is within you own control For what, then, have they made you responsible? For that which is alone in your own power—a right use of things as they appear.» Discourses of Epictetus Book I:12
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Too Much
If it's not broken, fix it until it is.
Everything makes sense in someone's mind.
Ya can't fix stupid.
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No brief description of content == no-see-um
«... thank the gods that they have made you superior to those events which they have not placed within your own control, rendered you accountable for that only which is within you own control For what, then, have they made you responsible? For that which is alone in your own power—a right use of things as they appear.» Discourses of Epictetus Book I:12
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Right. Because I'm new here and no one know me
If it's not broken, fix it until it is.
Everything makes sense in someone's mind.
Ya can't fix stupid.
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Kevin Marois wrote: Right. Because I'm new here and no one know me
... No, it's not about you, personally, but, if you think that, try: [^].
Not knowing you means I also do not know who knows you, or who you know: of course, I could say the same thing about myself, if I had someone to say it too 
«... thank the gods that they have made you superior to those events which they have not placed within your own control, rendered you accountable for that only which is within you own control For what, then, have they made you responsible? For that which is alone in your own power—a right use of things as they appear.» Discourses of Epictetus Book I:12
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Did you click the link?
If it's not broken, fix it until it is.
Everything makes sense in someone's mind.
Ya can't fix stupid.
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Hi Kevin,
I never click links that do not make clear in some way what the content is ... unless: the post title is explanatory, or, the link is a post, or in a post's thread, where the context and content make it very clear it's possibly relevant to something I'm interested in.
I'm flexible, however: if I see a thread has a lot of responses, and people I respect are saying interesting things, that may motivate me to open some obscure link,
cheers, Bill
«... thank the gods that they have made you superior to those events which they have not placed within your own control, rendered you accountable for that only which is within you own control For what, then, have they made you responsible? For that which is alone in your own power—a right use of things as they appear.» Discourses of Epictetus Book I:12
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WAY too much!!!  thanks for that...
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Small amounts of lettuce added to large amounts of cheese, bacon, and beef are a well-known cause of heart attacks.
Ban Lettuce!
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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Rest in peace, Ursula K Le Guin[^]
And if you don't know any of her work, find it, and read it!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif) LeGuin's "Left Hand of Darkness" (1969) was a revelation to me in many way. I heard her speak at Berkeley circa 1975; in "Dispossessed" she wrote:Quote: It is our suffering that brings us together. It is not love. Love does not obey the mind, it turns to hate when forced. The bond that binds us is beyond choice. We are brothers. We are brothers in what we share. In pain, which each of us must suffer alone, in hunger, in poverty, in hope, we know our brotherhood. We know it, because we have been forced to learn it. We know that there is no help for us but from one another, that no hand will save us if we do not reach out our hand. And the hand that you reach out is empty, as mine is. You have nothing. You possess nothing. You own nothing. You are free. All you have is what you are, and what you give.
«... thank the gods that they have made you superior to those events which they have not placed within your own control, rendered you accountable for that only which is within you own control For what, then, have they made you responsible? For that which is alone in your own power—a right use of things as they appear.» Discourses of Epictetus Book I:12
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Agreed, a brilliant book.
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The Earthsea Trilogy together with The Left Hand of Darkness were great reads - she leaves behind a treasure trove.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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This
If it's not broken, fix it until it is.
Everything makes sense in someone's mind.
Ya can't fix stupid.
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Can you combine it with a Claymore?
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Do you mean a Scottish Claymore or a M18 Claymore mine?
(I think that the former is cooler, but I doubt that your garbage collection service accepts human bodies.  )
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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Looks it it's going be pretty intense - the boss says I might nave to get my arson gear! 
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Do you have a day job?
If it's not broken, fix it until it is.
Everything makes sense in someone's mind.
Ya can't fix stupid.
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As long as you don't get hosed...
Keep your friends close. Keep Kill your enemies closer.
The End
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