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Jeremy Falcon
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Edge, that is. I just received the pdf for the preliminary design of a 35 mile 69kV power line and tried to print. Edge declared itself the default pdf viewer/printer application and attempted to open the file. After about 10 minutes it finally showed a preview to me, but when I tried to print the document (33 C-size pages) it froze for 15 minutes, then declared it couldn't calculate the size of the job, then stopped completely, showing me a black screen.
Silly Microsoft; you're d$%^ed invasive browser can't do everything, nor should it! 
How do I get it off my computer? Grrr... Even if I could, that would probably break something else.
PS - Installed Acrobat and it printed immediately without a hitch.
Will Rogers never met me.
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Your "Microsoft QA Engineer" badge is in the mail.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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I have a memory from a dew decades ago where MS was working very hard at integrating the operating system into their browser and claiming that the browser was integral to the entire system, etc. Funny how things go around again and the same old crap is starting. I suspect some enterprising Microsoft haters out there have come up with ways to turn off Edge, but I also think most of the "mandatory updates" just turn it all back on.
Charlie Gilley
βThey who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.β BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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I don't know if this is still the case, but I found the graphics rendering in PDFs was way better when they used their own rendering engine in Edge vs the chromium version. Much sharper, cleaner. I noticed this when I was doing some SW development for a company in the printing industry, and previewing what a print job would look like.
I guess I can understand the reason for moving to chromium, but that doesn't mean MS didn't do some things better...
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Andreas Mertens wrote: but that doesn't mean MS didn't do some things better...
Shhh. That's not P.C.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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I remember stress testing about 8 programs to print PDF. We had a 2000 page report.
I tried to print 10 copies in parallel on a βpausedβ printer so that it would get stuck in the spooler. (So I could just delete the paused jobs)
That one file eliminated 6 candidates.
The 2 remaining products had totally different licensing models which brought us down to one product very quickly. We had a great relationship with that vendor until we eliminated all printing from the product. Reasonable price and easy to work with.
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That's OK, "BitCoin will go to $500,000 in 2024", says so and so ... so you can get all your money back.
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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Please remember that a lot of youth who was claiming NFT to be greatest thing ever which will change the world, has attention span small enough to already forget that NFTs exist.
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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I wouldn't count myself a youth but I had already forgotten NFTs existed. 
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I sold some of my "comic art" in grade school for a dime ... I think it's value kept pace!
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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As opposed to 100% last year? Seems to be an improvement.
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I find I can bear this disaster with tremendous fortitude.*
* And snigger while I read it ...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Quote: "This daunting reality should serve as a sobering check on the euphoria that has often surrounded the NFT space,"
This daunting reality should serve as a sobering reminder of how stupid people can be.
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Truth. 
"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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Maybe you should explain to others what a NFT is.
Real physical gold doubled it's value in a few years. Basic math.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
"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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According to Lamar in GTA V, it stands for "Non-![Elephant | [mastadon]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/elephant.gif) -able Token".
I'll go with that.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Ration keeper has a stake in the company (11)
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Shareholder
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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The easy theme continues - you are up Monday as a result! 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Normal service will resume on Monday 
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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