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Edge will be sorely missed.
... By every bite of disc space that the damned rubbish wasted.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Have no fear, they'll find a way to screw it up.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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I had to check the date on this one...
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
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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Hurray, yet another browser to use up all our memory and constantly crash.
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A new study suggests abuse and mistreatment by those at the top of an organization do not necessarily lead to abusive behavior by lower-level leaders. When offered leadership opportunities, prior victims of workplace abuse are more likely to treat their own subordinates better by learning from the bad behavior of their bosses. Which definitely explains why there are so many great bosses out there, right?
I guess the "could" is the most important in that title.
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Study finds people have free will.
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Definitely the most important word in that title.
Thankfully, I have pretty good bosses now. I am also thankful that it has been a while since my boss(es) were not good. The last time was at a horrible company and I was rather amused when I found out that division had been closed. It was so bad they perpetually had open personnel requisitions that they couldn't fill. At one point they got rid of their director of HR but it was obvious to everyone else why she couldn't talk anyone into working there.
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It depends on the type of "bad".
Many reasons that people are not good bosses are personal (illness, unhappy family life, general impatience or bad temper, poor social skills, etc.), which don't filter through.
Bosses who are bad because of psychopathy, however, reward people who behave the same way they do (total self-absorption, zero empathy, inability to accept anyone as an equal, etc.), whilst ignoring people with the traits that actually make a business successful, so as they say, "scum rises to the top".
A frighteningly large proportion of CEOs and other high-ranking people show very clear indicators of psychopathy, which is not really surprising, because the main aim of many with the disease is to achieve power over others, at any cost (at any cost to the others, of course; most psychopaths are personal cowards, unless they can make a big show of heroism, gaining glory for themselves from it).
So sure, bosses who are incompetent for personal reasons aren't infectious, but psychopathic bosses build a culture where psychopaths thrive.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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With the help of some clever machine learning techniques and a handy supercomputer, NVIDIA has cooked up a way for AI to chew on existing videos and use the objects and scenery found within them to build interactive environments. Reality is over-rated?
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Amazon seems to be rolling out a new "Part Finder" tool to check the compatibility of PC parts. On some PC component product pages, a widget at the top lets you select the brand and model number of your existing rig to check if the part is compatible. Find out if the 'goesinta' matches the 'goesouta'
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"Sorry, but that part does not meet our the requirements. Try a much more expensive one."
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Newegg needs to implement something like this. It's problematic to select an appropriate CPU for a motherboard and be confident that you selected an appropriate part.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Microsoft has been toying around with the idea of making Windows a lighter operating system for a while, and there have been a couple of attempts at doing so. After Windows RT and Windows 10 S, the company is reportedly working on "Windows Lite", but there's a catch - it may not even be called Windows. Fingers crossed for 'Bob 2.0'
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Fingers crossed for 'Bob 2.0'
Or a Clippy-AI 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Microsoft trying to figure out name of future failed product so blowback is limited.
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How about "Lunette". It's Windowy.
Unless you Google it....the first few results won't be window-related.
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Bur what about the ICON!!!!!
And the COLOUR SCHEME!!!!!
The NAME, the ICON, and the COLOUR SCHEME are THE MOST IMPORTANT ELEMENTS OF ANY SOFTWARE PRODUCT!!!!!!!!!
That's why the geniuses at ms are ignoring trivial* things like customer requirements, product quality, and bug reports: they're spending all their time an effort on the most important elements.
* My apologies to Kiwis for using really hard words
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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"Windows Dad Says His New Laptop Is Broken v3"?
v3 because a chromebook he bought without reading what was on the box was v1 (which came with a bonus feature of eating 25% of dataplan in its first 2 hours - he's a trucker got it on the road and it doesn't understand metered plans), and "Windows Ten Five" was v2; and with no apparent way to get out of Windows 10 Stupid mode without creating an MS Store account the odds of him ever figuring out and fixing it on his own were just about nill.
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
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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A big design effort across the company Gotta rearrange those deck chairs now! (/sigh)
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"I just found a fatal error in Windows"
"Does it affect the icons?"
"No"
"Then it doesn't matter."
(Conversely, if a bug was discovered where the new icon wasn't being displayed, Microsoft would probably announce a three month freeze in all development to fix that one problem.)
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Sure, redesign the icons and the GUI will still be awful.
I think they should give us the option to have the W7 GUI in W10. In my opinion their GUIs have been in a steady and steep decline since W7. I'm not sure I worded that right so I'll restate it: I really like W7's GUI and XP also and I don't like any of the newer ones at all.
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Rick York wrote: I think they should give us the option to have the W7 GUI in W10
You have that option.
It's called Classic Shell [^].
I feel sad for people who don't already have it installed.
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Yes, I have that but it's not quite the same. The GUI is still butt-ugly even with CS installed.
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hate the new office icons. really can't tell what half of them mean.
edit: actually, it's mainly the 'quick access toolbar' in excel...
modified 5-Dec-18 16:06pm.
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Things that make me go "Hmmmm". As the slow moving train wreck of continuous updates plods toward the Bridge Out sign, we get this. I suppose its the Office team, but still.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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