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OriginalGriff wrote: Me? I blame MS for adding "features" instead of fixing bugs, removing "good stuff" and replacing it with cr@p; all because it fits the "market vision" instead of being what the users actually wanted ...
Thank you. I may be a bit conservative, but I always liked to build and expand my libraries. At some point I had more work with rewriting or replacing stuff that I had based on something on their ever growing red list than with the task at hand.
Give me a good C++ compiler on Linux and I can merrily go on forever without having to live with Microsoft's idiocy or hopping through ever more hoops whenever they feel like it.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
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CodeWraith wrote: Will McDonald's declare war on unhealthy fast food? (Actually they try to make us believe just that for years now)
You know other food companies have done the same for years now. Consider breakfast cerials, like cherios or honey puffs (it's actually caramelised sugar, not honey). They promote their products as "very low in fat" and having pretty much all of the vitamins you need for a day and call it healthy, just keeping quiet on the fact one serving loaded with 10x the sugar you would need for a week.
White bread, is healthy coz it's low fat and has 10% of the RDA of something.
"Skim/low fat milk is healthy" they say, not mentioning there is only a whopping 2 grams of fat in a whole glass of ordinary milk as well as way more vitamins/pro-biotics than skim (which they then fortify with unabsorbable replacements) - that's a whole 1/8 gram of fat in your tea/coffee (for the weird that drink it white).
All advertising is bullshit: does changing your brand of washing powder give you a more enjoyable life? Does drinking a different brand of juice make you a better surfer? Does a particular brand of toothpaste help you make more beautiful friends [that seem to always wear tiny bikinis/bathers] (of course not using will help lose friends but that's beside the point)...
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Ok. You distrust McDonald's and advertising in general. Very well!
I just hope that you trust the Mafia, Google or Apple on the other hand.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
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CodeWraith wrote: I just hope that you trust the Mafia, Google or Apple on the other hand.
One of the three - maybe, at a push! (Sorry Google, sorry Apple).
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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That's the kind of logic I can live with. If you can't beat them, join them. 
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
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So you didn't think when uSoft aggressively tried to shove Windows 10 down your throat that there wasn't going to be a price to pay?
There's no such thing as a free lunch.
Don't let your mind wander too far.
It's too small to be let out alone.
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Guess why I still have Win 7 and what will happen once it's not worth the trouble anymore...
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
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Same here, I'll keep 7 like I did XP, until there's no drivers available for the hardware I have.
Don't let your mind wander too far.
It's too small to be let out alone.
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Did you buy the upgrade from Win 7 / 8 to 10? I got it for free.
Is Windows 10 bullying you to buy an Upgrade? It doesn't on my pc.
Can't see what your problem is.
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On the contrary. I tricked them into denying me the upgrade when they were doing everything to get you on Win 10.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
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Don't confuse the hater with facts.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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Dear fanboi,
not giving a damn != hate
I assure you, you would understand the difference if you were not such a little fanatic. What do you call yourself? Mickeysoft MVT (Most Valued Taliban)?
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Nice for you. You're welcome.
I remember you well enough. Even if i tried again to explain it to you like a mother would to a retarded child, you would still not get it. We have been there already. Now go and play the troll elsewhere.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
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Wow, you are sensitive.  
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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CodeWraith wrote: I hope that's snoring I hear
It may be, as Kent posted this yesterday in the The Insider News[^].
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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So you can confirm that there are still trees left in Canada?
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
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Youbetcha!
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Forget the joke icon? Win 10 was a free upgrade. For sure, there was some bullying involved but at least they weren't asking for money. btw, MS is now giving away products that they used to charge for: VS, SQL Server Developer to name a couple. Even the cost of a full Win 10 Pro license is around half of what they charged for Win
That said, I really liked Win 7...at one time declaring it the very best OS I'd ever used. I skipped Win 8 completely and used Win 7 until just a couple of years ago when Win 10 became available.
So I've been on Win 10 for over 2 years now and now declare it to be the very best OS I've used.
My only real problem with Win 10 is the unattended restarts for which there seems to be no solution. It has cost me a bit of re-work where I had left things open/unsaved overnight only to be greeted in the morning with the seaside cave scene. (you're in a cave by the ocean...or, 'oh crap, what did I leave open?')
What I'd like to see is MS using some common sense before forcing a restart on Win 10...something like 'OK, the logged in user has files open...let's delay the restart and let the user know' or a simple easy to find setting for disabling automatic restarts period. Sorry, didn't mean to turn this into a rant!
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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William, PM, as comic Irish priest is criticized (9)
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Yep - well done.
You're up tomorrow!
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I'd have to hand in my passport if I'd missed that one...
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Umm, any chance you could explain it...(I am being slow this am)
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William PM; William Lamb, former Prime Minister.
as = as
Ted = Iconic Irish priest = Father Ted, of the eponymous Channel 4 sitcom. and if you have never heard of it, then you're in for a treat.
Lambasted = Criticized
I basically has "as-ted", guessed "Lamb-as-ted", then googled for prime ministers named William Lamb.
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