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🎶🎶🎶
Well Stevie said to Xerox
"Boys, turn your heads and cough."
And when no-one was looking
He ripped their interfaces off
Stole every feature that he had seen
Put it in a cute box with a tiny little screen
Mac OS 1 ran that machine
Only cost five thousand bucks
🎶🎶🎶
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
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Curved window corners! Exciting.
But what, I wonder, is the rationale for centering the task bar icons, especially the Start button. I can see no logically better-than-before reason for that (particularly the Start button) apart from "shiny, new, different".
This means that the Start button location will change depending on how many icons there are in the task bar. So you will not be able to reliably find it in the bottom left hand corner of the screen. I know that from a remote tech support perspective, this will unnecessarily complicate things. From a usability perspective it will also require a look-and-find-before-clicking process instead of automatically moving to the bottom left hand corner.
Oh well, the need to fiddle with the familiar and successful is unstoppable, it seems.
Let's hope that centred positioning of the Start button is an optional feature, rather than enforced.
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Rounded corners! The level of innovation here is just mind blowing! 
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Maybe this was their takeaway from being told to fold their stuff until it's all sharp corners and shove it up their ...!@F@.bp8S#@#$$ CARRIER LOST
Software Zen: delete this;
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Cool. So everyone gets to have the old look back again..
At least the 'center all the crap on the taskbar' thing is an option..
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Centering the Start button and pinned icons is ![Elephant | [mastadon]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/elephant.gif) ing stupid, assuming this is real. That means that the Start button changes position all the time. Dumb.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Stealing Apple's dock 5 years after Apple itself are turning it more and more into a Windows taskbar just makes no sense.
Are they going to add Launchpad next?
Having commonly used apps at your finger tips is great. Having them centered and having the list grow and shrink as apps are launched and closed will drive every OCD user out there bonkers. And why go to the trouble of cleaning up the taskbar if the start menu is now just a murky mess?
That's it, I'm going back to DOS.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Want an NFT of the original source code for the web? You'll soon be able to get your chance. Now you can compile your very own web
I *really* thought/hoped we were done with that whole NFT thing. /sigh
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Oh, Funge it!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Are these the original bits (using the original magnetic fields!) used to store the original copies of the files? Given that these files have been copied more than once to various media, what makes them more valuable than any other (fungible) copy of the same files?
At least with the Tulip Bubble of the 17th century, you got a tulip bulb. Here, you don't even get that!
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Full Vanilla Doom Engine Runs on the RF Module of an IKEA TRÅDFRI Lamp. "Bork! Bork! Bork!"
Loads of asterisks on this one, but still pretty impressive (IMO).
Also a highlight for me was the barest mention of YMODEM. {fluttery sigh}. I miss those days.
Edit: replaced with an article about it (the original seems to have gone away)
modified 15-Jun-21 11:59am.
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That link is not working for me.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Seems to have disappeared. Replaced with an article about it.
TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: YMODEM
"Now there's a name I haven't heard in a long time... A long time."
Software Zen: delete this;
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XModem, YModem, Oh kiddies, choke on that! 
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I see your YMODEM and I raise you Kermit 
Mircea
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I remember using command-line Kermit a long time ago. It was also one of the file transfer protocols supported by ProComm, a full-screen MS-DOS communications and terminal emulator program I used a lot back in the day.
As they say, good times .
Software Zen: delete this;
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I started telecommuting when telecommuting was not a word. ProComm with Kermit/XMODEM/YMODEM/ZMODEM was the tool of the trade to log into company's BBS at a blazing 9600 bauds.
Now I'm stuck with this 500M fiber link and drooling for 1G. Boy, aren't we spoiled!
Mircea
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Mircea Neacsu wrote: Boy, aren't we spoiled!
Indeed we are. In the late 1980's I worked for a defense contractor. We had a microVAX-II running VAX/VMS 3.something. Our terminals in the office generally ran at 9600 baud, except for yours truly. Since I was the system manager for the beastie, I solemnly decided that I needed to run at 19.2K. The machine had a 2400 baud modem connected to a phone line. I would call in over the weekend to work occasionally.
We even had the "breakin evasion" feature enabled on the phone line. There was a password protecting the modem connection you had to enter before you got the login prompt. You had only three chances to enter the modem prompt correctly. After that it would continue to prompt you, but ignore what you entered even if you entered the correct password. At the time there were over 70 VAX/VMS systems in the area (Wright-Patterson Air Force Base), so there was a thriving hack community trying to break in.
Software Zen: delete this;
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NVIDIA is dropping support for Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1 drivers starting in October. 2021, as they focus on supporting Windows 10 and later versions of Windows. I'm sure those people are worried about staying up-to-date
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I'm not going to create an account on BC to reply there, but the reason they're doing it nowish is that later this year they're releasing another long term support branch for their drivers (with 3 more years of security/bug fixes; but no new features) and then pruning the list of legacy items being supported (600/700 series GPUs are also being retired) in their development branch.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
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Test projects give you a way to exercise your code to see if it works but they're also part of your project's "permanent record." If all you want to do is try something out with some throwaway code, C# Scripting in Visual Studio might be a better choice. Who needs a compiler?
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Gartner released new predictions about technology products and services, specifically who will build them and the impact of AI and the pandemic. Is it too much to hope for that, "you build it, you support it"?
Oh wait - it's a Gartner prediction.
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Or is 80% of tech useless?
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