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Hell, install any HP printer driver and you get 14 apps for graphics editing, custom e-mail templates, search toolbars, ordering supplies online, etc... It all sucks but its not new.
Caveat emptor!
Contrary to popular belief, nobody owes you anything.
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Yeah! And try uninstalling any part of that and your HP printer stops working and you cannot re-install anything - even including non-HP printer drivers without reinstalling the O/S!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Mike Mullikin wrote: Hell, install any HP printer driver and you get 14 apps for graphics editing, custom e-mail templates, search toolbars, ordering supplies online, etc... It all sucks but its not new.
Samsung goes even further than that: you can't download individual drivers for their laptops anymore. You have to install some management software that they use to distribute them. The catch is the management software disables Windows Update. On every reboot. And if you delete the applet that does the disabling, the management service downloads it again for you.
Link to story[^]
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The foundation's annual bulk release of technologies features Docker tools and Java IDE improvements. 65 million lines of code, and probably double that in XML configuration files
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Mars represents the work of 79 open source projects and 65 million lines of code.
This[^] comes to mind.
Marc
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We've known for some time now that Microsoft will offer Windows 10 as a free upgrade during its first year of availability, to those with a Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 PC. "How much monies for leg of lamb?"
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...and the clever ones simply go for a 50 euros Windows 7 Pro OEM/COA license on eBay and use the free upgrade offer instead of paying about 200 bucks for retail Windows 10 Pro.
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To Microsoft, Windows XP is like a gift that keeps on giving. "That ain't workin', that's the way you do it. Money for nothin'"
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"The Navy relies on a number of legacy applications and programs that are reliant on legacy Windows products. Until those applications and programs are modernized or phased out, this continuity of services is required to maintain operational effectiveness,"
This is largely B.S.
They're either stupid or lazy or both.
And I am typing this on XP and am reminded each day
why it's the best OS MS did.
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Ron Anders wrote: the best OS MS did.
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Nothing against XP, I used it myself for many years and I wouldn't bash it just because it's old, but according to my experience, Windows 7 plays in the same category and it is just as well of a system as XP. Things only got worse with 8 and it's not getting particular better with 10, especially for people who don't care for all the cloud stuff it feels like a lot of features added with no real benefit and a crippled experience. So after six years, Windows 7 is on a good way to become the next XP, the only sad thing is that it's treated like an orphaned child while it would deserve better.
Back to the Navy: I think they are both stupid and lazy, just like the other contractors. They knew for a very long time that support for XP is eventually going to end, and instead of investing the money preventive into modernizing their systems and applications beforehand they sat around and did nothing. But sitting things out is never good tactics, it eventually all falls down on you and hit you harder than it should. In this case, it's the waste of tax money.
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I agree with you, except that I think Win 8 & Win 10 are even better and more stable and secure than Win 7, which is more stable and secure than Win XP.
#SupportHeForShe If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
Only 2 things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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Oh, I agree with you, too. But tell that usage and adoption statistics... 
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I blame the ignorant media masses for the lack of adoption. And I blame the response of the ignorant media masses on Microsoft for forcing a jarring and glaring UI change on the unwashed masses. Where was all their vaunted UX research? Surely it would have told them not to do it. Ultimately it was Balmer's fault. What an egotistical asshole.
#SupportHeForShe If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
Only 2 things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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Ron Anders wrote: And I am typing this on XP and am reminded each day
why it's the best OS MS did.
That is actually funny that the XP is now seen as the best OS ever... Do you remember when (un)famous SP2 was released and the hell broke loose when half of the software stopped working including some widely used titles from top shelf vendors? 
Fun time I would say, fun time 
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"My software never has bugs. It just develops random features."
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On Tuesday, the Navy's Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR) closed a $9.1 million contract with Microsoft
In other words, our tax dollars just lined Microsoft's pockets.
I wonder what the *nix community thinks of that.
Marc
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Quote: I wonder what the *nix community thinks of that
Probably insanely jealous as usual.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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No, just terribly uncomfortable
Imagine your hero in the movie connecting his/her USB-keyboard to a nuke just to have it BSOD, explode, and have you out of the movie-theatre just five minutes after the movies started.
The sequal to that movie? Well, war is declared, but before it can be declared the PC has to reboot. Don't turn off your computer, installing update 1 of 146.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Continuous delivery brings big business benefits to application development – it’s time to give the database the same benefits, says Simon Galbraith, chief executive and co-founder of Redgate. But those big database diagrams look so nice on my wall
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RedGate make some excellent tools and they really do make database schema comparison and migration a lot easier - but it is still a really difficult problem.
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Programming languages definitely go out of style, but they rarely die. I need a line about something refusing to die (that isn't from Hotel California)
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I think there's something peculiar about me that I haven't died. It doesn't make sense but i refuse to die.
Judy Garland
Guess she took matters in her own hands!
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.1 new web site.
I know the voices in my head are not real but damn they come up with some good ideas!
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Funny that they left BASIC out of the list. And some (not I) would argue C++ belongs there too.
#SupportHeForShe If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
Only 2 things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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TheGreatAndPowerfulOz wrote: C++
Why not plain old C?
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Sure, but it's a MOAL -- Mother Of All Languages, at least "C" like languages.
#SupportHeForShe If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
Only 2 things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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