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Mark_Wallace wrote: screwed over is VS -- but that's only because it's what they themselves use
Are you sure about that? And I could name a few screwed-up things in VS. Like when you're typing away and suddenly there's a dialog that essentially says, "This dialog will go away when the background task completes". Argh!!! WTF!!??!! If it's a background task, why're you in my face about it?
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I'd bet a month of your income (not mine, of course) that if this was something that the NS developers encountered, it would be fixed Prio 1.
You're not an MS dev, so they don't give a assign it the same priority.
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That could very well be.
Another though that is sure to be encountered by everyone: Sometimes while debugging one likes to examine this or that variable and expand the value by hovering over it and clicking the right icon. Sometimes that expansion never completes and the debugger goes into lalaland. If you try to detach or otherwise recover from the state, the debugger gives a rather cryptic message about not being able to detach because "not all function whatchamacallits have completed". The only solution is to kill DevStudio. Very aggravating.
Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell
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
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Mark_Wallace wrote:
Tables in Word are bug-ridden nightmares to begin with...
I guess everyone has their take, but since I was introduced to Word tables 23 years ago, they've been the greatest thing since sliced bread. Solved countless problems as a result. Yeah, it's sad that when one or two things go (seamingly) wrong, it paints a negative picture for the whole lot.
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I'm not saying that tables aren't useful; just that bugs in MSO tables have remained unfixed since I've been using Word -- and Word 2 was my earliest version.
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There's always WordPad. Or Libre Orifice. 
Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell
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
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When I'm at work, it's not my choice --and Word 2003 works fine, for me.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Agreed, the 2003 version of Office is superior compared to more recent releases.
It's a pity that nowadays working in Windows in general, feels like being stuck in the sewers and waiting for someone to flush, i.e. you never know when Microsoft's gonna hit you with another "improvement".
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Precisely.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Has it never occurred to you to, you know, just give up computers? Take yourself off to the Himalayas or a desert somewhere there's no electricity? You obviously hate everything everybody in computing does and all this bile can't be good for you. 
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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I already live in a forest, in an area where cows and sheep outnumber people: without computers, I'd have to trade for a padded cell.
I just can't get behind the moronic "if it's broke, we won't fix it, but if it works, we will!" path that MS has been going down, for the past decade.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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The best version of Word, as I saw it, was Word 6, which was around in 1996. Simple, and functioned well.
And then Word 7 came ... and things started going down, I feel.
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It is a tragic thing to outlive your fans.
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Was he your fan?
Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell
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
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Hhahahahahahaha!
That's so cruel! 
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I'm reminded of 'Sing Me Back Home', what a great song. ![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
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RIP Merle
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Oh no! Just this easter holiday I visited my parents and after I had setup their old record player we revelled in listening to their old records. One of them was a collection of Grand Old Opry best of featuring Merle. He will be remembered!
So sad!
Here's to you Merle Merle Haggard, I think I'll just stay here and drink.[^]
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A classic. Would love to hear the Grand Ole Opry albums...when country was country not the crap they're playing now a-days.
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Mike Hankey wrote: when country was country not the crap they're playing now a-days
Amen brother! 
"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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Mike Hankey wrote: when country was country not the crap they're playing now a-days.
I can relate to that sentiment! There was even something called Country here in Germany that could only be called utter crap at its best, benevolently speaking that is. 
"I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"
Ron White, Comedian
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Hear! Hear!
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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