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Funny story. In the poshest mall in Toronto, there are an Apple store and, wait for it, a Microsoft store, quite close to one another.
In the Apple store, acres of overpriced but functional hardware, overseen by movementarians, who, let's face it, are fighting off the fans with sticks.
In the Microsoft store, a gallant attempt at imitation.
And there, in the middle of the store, an RT device.
Asking not to be turned off.
Because it's installing updates.
D'Oh. Illusion shattered. You couldn't make this stuff up. 
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I always reboot my development machine after updates.
Like nuking the site from orbit, it's the only way to be sure.
Software Zen: delete this;
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I can't remember last time I rebooted! ^^
Not even at night, just go to sleep....
Maybe this is Windows 8 effect?
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oh the horror, Suffice it to say every computer will need rebooted once in awhile. I love the Apple iPhonantics who say their phone never needs rebooted and then a day later or I have to reboot. I have one of those phancy iOS devices it gets itself rebooted about once a month on lite usage.
My android Note2 yeppers it gets rebooted at least once a week. I use it constantly.
My Linux server at home? once in a great while. but then again it isn't used much.
My work Windows 7 butt kicker I use for 10 hours a day hard. Once a week.
My personal windows 8 surface pro2. once every other week or so. again lightly used but more than the iOS device.
so suffice it to say I believe that depending upon usage you probably reboot any operating system depending upon usage at about the same rate.
All of my machines have rebooted at very improper times. The only good thing I see about this is Windows at least gives me the option of saying. "Notify me but don't download and don't apply until I tell you too". Seriously any half serious computer geek should always get this option and take it. my Note doesn't allow this. My iPad just about doesn't on occasion. Sooo, for that reason alone I do prefer the windows machine. But seriously they all kind of suck at this.
To err is human to really mess up you need a computer
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There seemed to be a noticeable reduction in the number of restarts required when it first came out, but that then seemed to climb again.
Maybe it's the nature of the bugs being found and fixed...
cheers
Chris Maunder
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The premise in the article you linked may be correct in that files that need updates may be in use. But the solution is wrong!
It's about time Program patch managers learned the decades-old lessons from graphics programming and animation: use double buffering! I. e. install a shadow copy of the patched program in the background and just switch to it whenever the time is 'right' - i. e. 'right' for the user!
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If I ever murder anyone it will be the elephants who come up with those 'one weird trick' ads.
They are second only to the people who put up the face of some desiccated crone in the ads.
I'd seriously put these people in jail for being stupid.
Good thing for them I don't run the world.
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Just driven four 12 year old girls, none of whom I'm related to*, who had been drinking energy drinks, through a forest.
Didn't understand anything they said, as well as the constant chatter (turns out they can all talk at the same time as each other without losing comprehension) they were all texting each other simultaneously. Lots of giggling.
Got to go and get them back in 3 hours, can't imagine it being any better.
* you could say one of them is my common law step niece.
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Quote: Just driven four 12 year old girls, none of whom I'm related to ... through a forest.
Are the police aware of this? Is it true that psychos eventually want to get caught and therefore confess to their crimes?
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
modified 16-Apr-14 15:20pm.
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They were busy.
Drove past a search and rescue operation setting up in a car park.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Hope you waved at least.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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chriselst wrote: They were busy.
Drove past a search and rescue operation setting up in a car park.
Not looking for 4 missing girls, I hope. 
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chriselst wrote: They were busy.
Drove past a search and rescue operation getting setting up in a car park in anticipation of what would come .
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I thought you gave up kidnapping little girls after the last conviction and court ordered shock therapy.
Will Rogers never met me.
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chriselst wrote: Got to go and get them back
Why? 
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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chriselst wrote: Just driven four 12 year old girls,
Did you use a shephards crook or a whip?
Did you have a dog to help?
4 * 12 years old != 48 years old
chriselst wrote: Didn't understand anything they said,
You old fogey
chriselst wrote: turns out they can all talk at the same time as each other without losing comprehension
Sounds like our scrum meetings. Oh. without losing comprehension...
chriselst wrote: Got to go and get them back in 3 hours
3 hours in the forest seems minor punishment - leave 'em a day or two...
chriselst wrote: can't imagine it being any better.
I first read that as akin to "It doesn't get better than this!"
chriselst wrote: you could say one of them is my common law step niece.
"One of them is your common law step neice"
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chriselst wrote: Just driven four 12 year old girls, none of whom I'm related to*, who had been
drinking energy drinks, through a forest.
<suspicious look=""> You're not Belgian by any chance are you?
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At what point does the expense of trying to retrieve this flight outweigh the benefit of finding it?
Last I heard it was in water far deeper than any of our robots can descend - how many millions will be spent trying to salvage that which cannot be salvaged? It seems to me that as a species we're hesitant to admit when nothing more can be done. Quit now, take 1/2 the money you save and give it to the families and move on already.
Sheesh.
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Its more about finding out what happened to prevent it happening again, finding the plane may save your life next time you fly.
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UsernameNotDefined wrote: Its more about finding out what happened to prevent it happening again, finding the plane may save your life next time you fly.
That would make sense if there was any possibility that this was some type of malfunction.
At this point it is pretty clear that it was a deliberate act by a member of the crew/passenger.
The cost is expected to be in the range of hundreds of millions of dollars.
I think they want the on board tape because our governments are staffed by snuff film aficionados..
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Another likely scenario was that there was a fire which possibly started in the nose wheel bay. Early reports seemed to indicate the pilot was returning to a different airport.
If the crew was overcome by smoke the plane would continue on that course until it run out of fuel. Remember nobody can access the flight deck since 9-11.
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At what point did I stop giving a sh*t?
About half an hour after it went missing.
The saturation coverage it's getting in the UK media you'd think there was nothing happening closer to home to be worried about.
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Quote: About half an hour after it went missing.
The saturation coverage it's getting in the UK media you'd think there was nothing happening closer to home to be worried about.
I have a solution. Don't watch the news.  Works for me. I never get upset about news items.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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That's a fair point. I don't watch the news or read newspapers but I do check the headlines on a website or two most days. Make sure nothing that'll have a major impact on my life is happening.
So far nothing has.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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