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by scholia 10y ago
LOL. I certainly won't continue if you just imitate me with more inane bullshit in your reply.
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by scholia 10y ago
You're insane if you think it's an advertisement. If you can't see that, I don't think I can help you do so.
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by scholia 10y ago
Evidence?
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by scholia 10y ago
Good points ;-)
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by scholia 10y ago
This is idiocy. Freecell was originally sold as part of a games pack for Windows, and Candy Crush Saga is a highly-rated game that's otherwise available from the Windows Store. Thousands of people have downloaded it. The Good Times vid
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by scholia 10y ago
The Ribbon is a much better UI because it takes up less room, makes more features more accessible, and provides much better discoverability. To appreciate the pros and cons, I'd suggest going though the full account of the development
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by scholia 10y ago
You never asked for Solitaire or Freecell either. And you never asked for Notepad or Calculator or whatever. Did you have mini-hysterics about Solitaire being bundled, and did you waste hours worrying about it or removing it? What about the
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by scholia 10y ago
> The ability to edit text _does_ ship on windows - notepad. Windows also ships with WordPad, which is a simple word processor.
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by scholia 10y ago
It isn't. You could easily check that in Task Manager or Process Explorer and/or Glasswire or whatever. Most of these things take up a trivial amount of disk space -- some of them are just placeholders -- so they're not worth
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by scholia 10y ago
> The best keyboard-only UI (although ribbons were a big step backwards in that regard - very hard to discover now) Use the Alt key. For example, open Word and press Alt to show the keyboard commands. If you want the keyboard commands
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by scholia 10y ago
Why didn't the dude just spend them himself? Too many fakes for that to be a viable option?
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by scholia 10y ago
It's more complicated than you seem to think -- and the reality also includes IBM. However, I was simply responding to the top-of-the-page cliche that it was "the company that bankrolled SCO in their lawsuit", which otherwise
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by scholia 10y ago
> the company that bankrolled SCO in their lawsuit "In early 2003, Microsoft started paying SCO what eventually grew to $16.6 million for a Unix license, according to regulatory filings. Only longtime Unix fan Sun Microsystems pre
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by scholia 10y ago
Linking to TechRights on tech is like linking to Infowars on politics when there are obviously better sources... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual_Ventures
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by scholia 10y ago
Interesting piece. The move to exploit dirty energy while destroying the environment is clearly the centrepiece of Trumpism, as I said above. Whether Bannon is actually planning some sort of "final solution" is open to question. T
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by scholia 10y ago
Not sure where the conspiracy is. However, Trump says climate change is a Chinese hoax and bullshit. Trump's advisor Myron Ebell says the environmental movement is "the greatest threat to freedom and prosperity in the modern world
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by scholia 10y ago
The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The LA Times, the Guardian etc... plus AP and Reuters. They all have trained journalists, sub-editors, and fact checkers. They all correct errors when they make them.
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by scholia 10y ago
* > still actively denied by numerous interests more concerned over their trillions of dollars of accumulated wealth and power than over the fate of the planet they live on and the souls they share it with.*( Interests that are now contr
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by scholia 10y ago
> I'm saying someone else would fill Facebook's role whether it's evil or not. Do you disagree? History says you're right. There were many similar sites before Facebook existed, including Friendster and Google'
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by scholia 10y ago
Wouldn't that be easily solved if all the other services offered a "log in with Facebook" feature and routed messages to other people who also logged in with Facebook? I assume there's a gaping flaw in this idea that I c
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by scholia 10y ago
When Google Gets It Wrong: Direct Answers With Debatable, Incorrect & Weird Content http://searchengineland.com/when-google-gets-it-wrong-direct...
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by scholia 10y ago
That's the very long view. There are probably better civilizations on other planets ;-)
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by scholia 10y ago
> it looks like Windows 10 still has far less market share than Windows 7. On Statcounter numbers, Windows 10 has more usage than Windows 7 in the USA and the UK. That's unheard of for a new Microsoft OS, where most people don&#x2
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by scholia 10y ago
It seems to me that one crucial factor is what you might call "the destruction of the gatekeepers". In politics, you had systematic lying that was intended to deceive people, and lies led directly to Brexit in the UK and Trump&#x2
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by scholia 10y ago
How do you cope with the fact that a large slice of the population seeks out bad things and refuses good things? The obvious examples are US news sources such as Fox News, Breitbart and Infowars [1]. However, it could also apply to fast foo
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by scholia 10y ago
> whether bundling of security and UI updates was the way things were going Clearly, it is... > and whether giving up control over the update process is acceptable to everyone Clearly, it's not. But the adoption rates for Win
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by scholia 10y ago
And I would be happy to write it if I felt confident about some method of measuring memory use. I could use something like Process Explorer, but a dedicated utility would be handy, if you can think of one.
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by scholia 10y ago
> but you couldn't AD join a Surface Sorry, my mistake. Many thanks for the correction!
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by scholia 10y ago
> Are you seriously claiming that the US DOD and major financial institutions let Microsoft install arbitrary updates and reboot their systems whenever they feel like it? I find that impossible to believe. They are among the organizati
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by scholia 10y ago
With Firefox, I got to over 600 tabs on my 2011 Dell desktop (Core i5-2500) with 4GB of RAM. Because of "lazy loading", I'd guess that only about 40 or 50 were actually loaded. RAM use varies from about 1GB to 2.5GB. It slows

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