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I put WoW on a laptop without issue. I don't see how this has anything to do with the laptop itself or Windows 10. (Of course, if it's something big, I make sure the laptop is on a wired connection.)
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I was only mentioning WoW because it took so long to download - 58gb in 6 hours.
I was only mentioning Win10 because I decided I have every right to hate Win10.
I didn't want the laptop on a wired connection. The wireless stuff is segregated from the wired subnet in the interest of security.
The laptop itself is pretty nice, and would be an even better experience running Linux.
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Sister came over and she ran through some WoW play. Her old laptop was giving here 18fps with moderately low detail turned on, and the new laptop gives her 60fps with everything on High. She's happy, so mission accomplished.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Hey, what happened to the other JSOP? He would have just used the laptop for target practice.
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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Oh, I have her old one, and just for that purpose.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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#realJSOP wrote: it took six hours to download WoW. Just... wow
I USED TO HAVE AN OLD ,ODEM, TOO!
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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The humble favicon[^]
17 different sizes and over 2 dozen ways to specify a specific use case for a favicon.
For an icon. That will appear in the browser tab (and a couple of other places, sure).
I'm just glad we don't have this many front end Javascript frameworks.
Oh, right. I see...
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Github is down here, so I cannot enjoy your linky!
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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Strange: "IsUp.me" says Github is up, but I can't get in either.
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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16x16x16, the only size that matters.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Oh gawd: 3D browsers, with 3D JS frameworks ... the horror, the horror ... 
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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16 pixels wide, 16 pixels high, 16 colors.
Not 3D, no animations. Just a static picture for quick identification (as intended, before the marketing-department started to "design" icons).
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Just display it with your 3D printer.
Next we'll need a 3D touch screen!
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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3D YouTube videos might be a touch slow frame rate ... 
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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There is nothing wrong with Web Development!
The problem is with those fancy developers, who think that UI/UX matters and get involved with icons/colors/images and other black-magic...
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge". Stephen Hawking, 1942- 2018
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UI "design principle" comes to mind. If something takes time, add an animation.
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I wouldn't say that. The web development world seems pretty messed up to me. Endless frameworks, all of them hobbled by the limitations of the browser environment and DOM. Most folks just using Bob or Jane's module manager to download a hundred modules that they know nothing about (and actually may not even know or care that they are downloading) and then letting us run that code on our systems.
Explorans limites defectum
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It seems I have to stick the  icon more frequently...
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge". Stephen Hawking, 1942- 2018
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Chris Maunder wrote: favicon
That's where you problem begins - and where it could end. Why not just an icon - even a favorite other-image with an on-click event. Or any such diversion form being drowned in this metamorphosized bloat-ware.
Remember: You are the boss! Remember the awesome feeling of power when you determined that Bob should be naked! Recapture the moment!
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It's not about the work involved.
It's about the fact that it's gone from a single file which had multiple image sizes in it to needing a stupid amount of files and inclusion methods.
Browser vendors making up standards as they go along, OS writers deciding they want to do things their own way.
1 single file is all that's ever needed. Just one.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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My guess would be that it's some combination of vendors not wanting to rely on a Microsoft file format, and mobile browsers not wanting to download every possible image size over a slow / metered network just to display one of them.
Possibly with a hint of xkcd 927[^] as well. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Responding to the Insider's Snark:
Quote: Oh, I think you could come up with a few more items than that
There are exactly 3 things needed to capture everything wrong with web development:
0) HTML
1) Javascript
2) CSS
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing 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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Seems like everyone has started to catch up to what I have been saying for years...
Microsoft's WebForms was the zenith of web development capability. True, it did have its issues but it was in the process of being refined and optimized when the entire community decided to change course and start with this MVC bulls**t.
Everyone said that this new way was the right way to build web applications! Considering that the web, even as it still is today, was never designed to host such complexity in the first place, there was and never will be a right way until the underlying topology and protocols change that are more suited to a standardized form of development.
To date, I believe Russia is the only nation developing a modern internet infrastructure, while everyone else is pissing their monies away on stupid conflicts...
Steve Naidamast
Sr. Software Engineer (retired)
blackfalconsoftware@outlook.com
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WebAssembly (wasm) is what is right with web development. I have been developing wasm with Blazor (HTML and C#, no JS or JS libraries/frameworks). No browser incompatibilities (that I have found). Not even CSS is needed. Better performance, quicker time to market, better unit testing and step-through debugging. All around makes web app development so much better, at least for me. YMMV.
Lots of languages (except JS) support wasm. My preference is Blazor, but the important thing is wasm in place of HTML/JS/CSS.
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