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Windows 8.1 booted in about the same amount of time, but Win10 is much faster at running programs and seems to be a lot more stable, which is a bit of a surprise, considering Microsoft's tendency to release such buggy products.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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An old man went to his teenaged grandson's bedroom.
He said; "You spend all your time up here playing computer games. You should be out there, living life, seeing things, doing things, finding out what life is all about.
When I was your age, when I was 18, I went to Paris. I went to the Moulin Rouge. I drank all the booze and refused to pay for it. I took all the women and I beat up the bar man. That's what life is all about. Having adventures."
He went back a few days later and the boy is sitting there with his arm in a sling and a black eye.
"What happened?," asked the old man.
"Well, I went to Paris. I went to the Moulin Rouge. I drank all the booze and refused to pay for it.I took all the women, then three bar men beat me up and threw me out."
"Oh," said the old man. "I'm sorry to hear the, who did you go with?"
"I went with me mates. Who did you go with?"
"The sixth panzer division."
-- modified 4-Aug-15 17:33pm.
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Duncan Edwards Jones wrote: "The sixth panzer division."
Tall tales, grandpa. The sixth division never was anywhere near Paris.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Grandpas always tell tales 
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All three of mine never got around to telling stories.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Rolled mine back to 8.1 after two days of trying to get it to work.
Sad that it wouldn't install Visual Studio 2015 without errors. Errors that led to a few hours of continuous automatic repairs that repaired nothing.
I did, however, finally get VS, Vegas, SoundForge and Sonar installed. No idea how.
And then noticed there was a lag between any mouse click and the expected action.
Might be my fault, of course. I didn't check the system requirements. Maybe it needs more than 16 gb of ram and a few terabytes of hard drive. I'm sure the i7 processor is just too feeble for it, too.
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I have 24 GB RAM and a quad-core (8 logical cores) i7 CPU. I notice no delays in mouse clicks or movements, nor any error installing or uninstalling anything.
I have had no issues whatsoever, even the initial upgrade went smoothly (and took less than 30 minutes to fully complete!).
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Brisingr Aerowing wrote: I have had no issues whatsoever
 I can only hope, I will still wait a few months before venturing into 10 territory.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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What was the price of your 10 update ?
I'm still on 7.
Should I bypass 8 ?
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C-P-User-3 wrote: I'm still on 7.
Should I bypass 8 ?
No, you should be made to suffer, like the rest of us... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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My Win10 cost me nothing. Or cost me the same teeny percentage of my income tax as it did yours. :p
Free, for practical purposes. And worth every penny.
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Be assured, Sir Knight, that we, waiting in the rear until victory is certain, greatly treasure your daring and self-sacrifice !
cheers, Bill
«I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center» Kurt Vonnegut.
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As a follow-Up with respect to THIS[^] earlier thread, I bought the Sharp Aquos[^] based on price, looks, a few specs, and the two big ones: it's an Android and it's on Sprint.
Now for the consumer alert.
I put an SD card into this phone.
In order to view the files on that card, I must first get google's permission
^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H
I mean, I have to download an app from google that will allow me to access those files.
Somebody please tell me that I'm wrong, and that they guy at the store who told me that was misguided.
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According to this[^] there is no preinstalled file manager. You can download one from an App Store.
What the guy likely meant that you need to get one from Google Play (or another app store, like Amazons'), not that is has to be from Google.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Thank you.
A lot
Now I see that I have voice mail telling me that I am automatically enrolled in a "free" 30 day "trial" of a product and service that I don't want.
I have some questions for Sprint tech support tomorrow morning.
I hope I haven't made a mistake.
Bright point: The audio quality of this thing is very good.
So, they annoy the customer (to an extreme) with a "free trial offer", while the audio quality is very good.
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Oh gorgeous, you can't change the battery.
It's permanently embedded.
The other smart phones on their webpage warned you about this in advance.
Please tell me I'm wrong here also.
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When did you last change the battery instead of the whole phone? 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: When did you last change the battery instead of the whole phone?
About six weeks ago.
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Do I absolutely HAVE TO use Google Chrome as the browser to get apps for this thing ?
There's this thing called Opera[^] (The browser, not the talk-show billionaire) which I personally adore.
Me, and I believe about 3.2% of the rest of the internet, if my statistic is correct.
If not, it doesn't matter, since more than 70% of all internet statistics are made up as the guy is typing.
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Erm...no?
Google Play: "Opera browser"[^] or, just follow your link, and click "Mobile"
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Did that.
Followed the links
Still trying to figure out how to get a piece of software loaded onto my Sharp Aquos from Sprint.
Looks like my paradigm of software and cellphones is no longer valued by those who want my money.
i.e., it is neither free, nor for sale. The cost is actually acquiescence to several hours a day of unrequested, unwanted, intrusive interruptions from endlessly streaming future sources of distractions; most typically, advertising.
More to the point, you can't download and install like you can on a PC.
You must provide your personal phone ID to the (generally, hostile) software vendor so that he can sell your personal information to advertisers who will then reduce your effectiveness to your boss and your company's customers by continually distracting you throughout your day.
This will, in turn, add needless anxiety and tension to your day which will result in a plethora of related health problems, the number one item being poor sleep (from which, in the opinion of a thousand doctors, most medical problems are rooted).
Or, more to the point, in the past 15 or 20 years, the entire mindset of the entire software industry has changed from competing to provide a good product, to one of hostility toward the paying customer.
I just have to wonder if this Sharp Aquos from Sprint is the only example of this. I seriously doubt it.
So,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
There is no more software delivered without your phone number.
Am I understanding Sprint and Google properly ?
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Food at the Orange County Fair[^]. A few choice selections: Chocolate Covered Pork Rinds, Totally Fried Peanut Butter Pickle, and Krispy Kreme Chicken Sandwich (oh, I hope that's cranberry and not jam). As well as deep fried everything (including cereal and Kool-aid) and whatever-onna-stick (Dibbler would be pleased). 
TTFN - Kent
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I thought the Scots were keep on deep-frying things. How the hell do you deep fry coffee? Or Kool-Aid? 
And what genius came up with "Deep-Fried Slim Fast Bar"?
"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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Judging from the Google results, deep fried Kool Aid is a donut hole whose batter had Kool Aid mixed into it. I'm guessing you could do the same with coffee.
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