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Well Dave, sorry, I didn't mean to hurt your feelings... sort of tongue in cheek.... but frankly, MS should not let external hardware affect this. If they cannot make it stable, they should remove the feature.
Sleep has had issues since Xp times, but I've never bothered to look into what exactly it is that MS does going into sleep. I have identical external hardware between two locations - same USB expansion, same external monitor, etc. This minimizes my waking up issues, but even so, I always have some thread in the nt kernel running away with cpu. Allegedly it's a driver somewhere, but this same problem has plagued users since Windows 8.
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“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Okay, I'll play - what's the difference? I'm sleeping a laptop - the hardware is not changing...
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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The difference is real hardware versus an application. What makes you think that real hardware is as easy as a VM that is optimized to run with virtual drivers?
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I'm not arguing, but again, and I plead some ignorance here, what would be the technical difference between a "real" driver vs. a virtual driver? Sure VMware can pause the machine - but I would think the same concept applies to Windows 10. Technically, Windows 10 is an application.
I'm trying to understand the distinction you are making....
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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The fact that software will answer as programmed, where Windows is waiting for hardware.
And "technically" Windows is what user-applications are built upon. We use the WinAPI, Windows provides it.
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It works on my machine :P
I regularly use hibernate / sleep and most of the time it works as advertised.
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charlieg wrote: all of us know when we put Windows <anything> into sleep mode, it's a hit/miss proposition, mostly a miss.
Um ... no?
I don't have a problem: my Surface goes into sleep mode every time I close the lid - and wakes up exactly where it was every time I want to use it again. As did my WookieTab (though that had some problems with WiFi from time to time, the Surface doesn't).
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I never had any problems with sleep mode 
Well, except, Windows somehow forgets on which monitors my applications were running.
They're all on my main screen when I start back up.
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charlieg wrote: And all of us know when we put Windows <anything> into sleep mode, it's a hit/miss proposition, mostly a miss.
Is this part of the joke?
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
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Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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 yes.
What actually happened is that I had shutdown my laptop (forgetting the VM was running). When I rebooted, I came back to the VM which had automatically paused itself. I was shocked at how fast it came back up - I'd never done it before.
As for the NVidea driver, go try a Radeon card if you want real pain and suffering...
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've been noticing more and more that websites are setting their font size to something a blind man could read. Particularly sites with API documentation, but not exclusively.
I find myself setting the zoom factor in Chrome to 75% or even less, simply so these pages don't SCREAM at me, like that.
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OK.
I'd rather be phishing!
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WHAT EXACTLY ARE YOU TRYING TO SAY, MARC?
Sorry, I had to take the bait.
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Sorry, what did you say?
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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The persons programming the sites are getting older?
Most sites I have to get about a foot from monitor and squint.
Technician
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2. One who does precision guesswork based on unreliable data provided by those of questionable knowledge.
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Hmm yet another theory is that they are getting younger and they are used to shout …
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so they can say less but make it look like more - cheaper.
comes from marketing methods (lots more reasons) and delivery paths
these days even manuals need to conform to something your average simian can skim on a mobile phone between fartbook updates.
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I wonder if it's based on sites that adjust their layout according to client form factor - mobile, desktop, etc. I've noticed lots of sites that appear to be originated on mobile and then moved to desktop. They don't adjust the typography, which means fonts tend to be too large.
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At least in the US, several companies have lost law suits about their websites not being ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) compliant. While the act does not specify a font size, courts have ruled in favor of vision impaired users. So think sites are going with larger font sizes to keep from being sued.
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Well, that's an interesting aspect and reason to go for the louder fonts, however, not many visually impaired users gonna use the development related websites. Also, most of the site developers might not be aware of the ADA.
You can have all the tools in the world but if you don't genuinely believe in yourself, it's useless.
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Gandalf_TheWhite wrote: not many visually impaired users gonna use the development related websites
Um, I beg your pardon? 
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP.
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How did you miss 'Not Many' & 'Development Related websites'
If it otherwise please share the data.
You can have all the tools in the world but if you don't genuinely believe in yourself, it's useless.
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What ticks me off even worse is the really small gray text that is intended to be seen as secondary info, but that is so freakin small, I have to bring the site's scale up to 120% to read it. CP. Just sayin...
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