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After 10 long years, Microsoft is finally — mercifully — putting Windows Vista out of its misery. On April 11, the software giant will cease to support the decade-old operating system. It will be missed by everyone needing to support their grandparents' computers
Maybe they can downgrade to Windows ME?
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12 years to late.
Bypassed Vista and ME, did I miss anything?
Someone's therapist knows all about you!
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With Vista, you missed the chance to say "NO!", when it offered to install all the "WOW!" cr@p, and thereby end up with a pretty decent OS (better than XP).
Those who complain about Vista are those who -- for God only knows what insane reason -- clicked "Yes, please! Make my life a misery!".
Vista was great; all you had to do was obey Nancy Reagan, and just say "no".
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: Vista was great; all you had to do was obey Nancy Reagan, and just say "no".
I probably didn't give it a chance but just heard to much about it. I think I may have downloaded a version at one time but don't remember for sure.
Someone's therapist knows all about you!
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I still have a Vista machine running -- and when I say "running", I mean it has been running solid for what must be seven years (since I moved to this house, and only ever being rebooted for updates).
It's even on my KVM (which is a bit of an honour, among my machines), so I can switch to it easily.
Without the misguided "Let's try to be like apple!" cr@p, Vista's solid as a rock.
Funnily enough, the laptop I'm typing this on is win 8.1 -- but I stripped out all the "Let's try to be like android!" cr@p, and again ended up with a good operating system.
My biggest hope is that they'll one day try to be like microsoft.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I upgraded my 11 yo vista laptop to W7 a few months ago. It didn't get Wevened when it came out like the rest of my systems because my brother never got around to claiming his free upgrade to W7 that came with his bought just before it came out laptop. Having a matching OS on one system was convenient for talking him how to fix something. After that eventually stopped being a concern (he went to the dork side and installed Ubuntu), I wasn't using it for anything and as an emergency loaner for family I didn't particularly care much either.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging 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
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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That is OK if they don't support it any more. Those Windows updates just broke stuff or added junk ware anyway
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Years ago, my oldest daughter bought a laptop with Vista on it. It worked just fine (until she dropped it, though I think that was after I put Windows 7 on it. Took me days to fix that.)
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OMG! What am I going to do?!!! My Vista machine is going to explode any minute now!
Actually, I have had Vista running with no problems for several years on one of my machines. I have never felt the urge to update it to Win7 even though all my other machines, apart from a couple of XPs, and a Windows Server 2008 (and a DOS 6.22 virtual machine) are on Win7 (and I plan to keep them there for as long as possible).
I will update this machine when it's hard drive finally goes to The Great Spindle in the sky.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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The singularity is that point in time when all the advances in technology, particularly in artificial intelligence (AI), will lead to machines that are smarter than human beings. Just keep guessing. You might be right once.
modified 16-Mar-17 16:46pm.
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By 2029, computers will have human-level intelligence
That isn't saying much.
Marc
Latest Article - Merkle Trees
Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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Too right, I'd settle on finding some human intelligence right now.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: You might be write once.
I know, right?
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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Yeah, I was using that new Microsoft transcription service. Fixing.
TTFN - Kent
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Oh dear.
You've just become a microsoft statistic.
It's in the ms cloud, now; there's no escaping it -- the minute it's hacked, the whole world will know!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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2029?
Impossible.
The world ended in 2012, so it's out of the question.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Why does anyone take seriously a man who has been so wrong, so often for so long?
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Microsoft is soon rolling out a new feature to Xbox One and Windows 10 PCs, introducing the ability to automatically transcribe in-game voice chat in real-time. Because they need preserving?
I'm guessing there won't be many kid-sister-safe ones
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Because they need preserving? It is a training for them to write down in txt all what can be caught by the microphone for later evaluation
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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This will... Oh, you know the rest.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Having heard some of the crap that goes over in-game voice chats, this could backfire.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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The Oracle executive chairman on Wednesday described Amazon and Microsoft as defeated rivals in cloud computing—at least when it comes to the quality of their technology. If you can't beat them, say you can (and run off)
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Where's the lawsuit? Can't be Oracle news without a lawsuit...
Sudden Sun Death Syndrome (SSDS) is a very real concern which we should be raising awareness of. 156 billion suns die every year before they're just 1 billion years old.
While the military are doing their part, it simply isn't enough to make the amount of nukes needed to save those poor stars. - TWI2T3D (Reddit)
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The quality of the technology in the Edsel was absolutely out of this world!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I wish I'd read: At the end of the speech, Ellison blurted out "And I own an island, so screw you."
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