At home, I'm a relatively "fat, dumb, and happy" user. I install updates when the application in question says there's one available, but I don't sit down at my desk after a long hard day a work and troll the support websites for all of the various applications on my computer looking to see if there are new versions/patches available.
Which is a long way of saying, "probably not". Mozilla hasn't advised me of a new update since I did the Win10 upgrade a couple of weeks ago. So unless it does it automatically, no I don't have "the latest patch" from whenever.
I did the upgrade to 10 (finally!), and now Firefox doesn't come back from sleep properly anymore. It gets weird visual glitches that look like refresh issues, and none of the tab gadgets are visible (or clickable). I pretty much have to kill it and restart it every time I wake my PC. Hopefully the "supported" version won't do that.
Except he doesn't own the copyright to the short anymore, Sandler's production company who made the 2015 Pixels film does.
In which case, they also have the right to submit the takedown notice for it. If they don't want what is now their 2010 movie distributed on that service, it probably ought to be their right to remove it.
it also suggests a corrected view which is largely incorrect.
I suspect you are referring to the corrected maxim: "adding more people to a late project makes it later". Chuck an implied "always" in there, and you are right. However, he didn't say that (otherwise it would have been a damn short book). In fact, he went over exactly what the issues you have to look out for are, particularly with the combinatorial explosion in communications overhead. Its those factors specifically you have to manage for, not some amorphous weasel concept like "risk".
Really, I'd highly suggest reading the book, if you haven't. Particularly a recent addition with the retrospective appendices.
Did German typewriters used to do that too? As mentioned, the original intent of that key back in the typewriter days was to "lock" the device into shifted mode so that key didn't have to be held down. That looks like a total hack to me.
When one goes and repurposes ("hacks") a function to do something other than its original design intent, they shouldn't really be surprised (or complain) when a later redesign leaves their hack high-and-dry.
More realistically, I'm sure if English keyboards get redesigned more sensibly, it wouldn't stop Germans (or anyone else) from using their current Swiss German keyboard layouts to produce their special glyphs. I'd consider renaming it too, but if Germans still want to call it "CAPS-LOCK" even though it does nothing of the sort, that would be their business too.
I couldn't get past the first sentence. It's a 20-sided, and it's die, not dice. If you're going to talk to us nerds...
I'll go out on a limb here, and say that you should probably stay far away from any upcoming D&D movie. For example, I guarantee you it will feature a magic user firing off spells with abandon, with nary a nap between them.
I am a WoW player and will sometimes jump into Dragon Age. I also played the SWBF Alpha which ran just fine. My system is an 8 core AMD CPU with a Radeon HD 7900 on an Asus ROG motherboard.
This sounds really close to my rig's hardware (and typical software).
I was running Windows 7 before and attempted to do an in-place upgrade initially but it failed despite trying many different things. I ended up installing clean from an ISO and have been on the fast ring ever since.
My installed OS is 8.0 home (recently upgraded to 8.1 from the app store), and the exact same thing happened to me. In-place upgrade fails no matter what I try. So I used their tool to create an ISO. However, it asks for a license key and won't take my Win 8.0 key. How did you get past that?
That one isn't quite on the same level, just because its actually an OK message encoded as an error message, so when you get it you aren't blocked from what you are trying to do. Its stupid, but without the level of frustration inherent in "something happened something happened".
This rollout is an *upgrade*, so you don't get a product key until after you've upgraded your existing install. You can then extract the product key from your registry and perform a clean install on your PC.
...which I can't do because the upgrade app crashes right after download. Like it apparently does with a lot of other people. The installer supposedly works, but you need a key. Nice little catch-22 there.
Only if you install it from ISO. If you update from that media creation tool, it won't ask for the key.
If I update from that media creation tool, it crashes near the end ("stopped working" IIRC). I looked online, and this is a common problem with the tool with no known fix. The only known work-around is to install from the ISO. Where my key doesn't work. All this from a freshly installed 8.0 64-bit Home freshly upgraded to 8.1 with all MS patches installed. Nothing unusual about this setup at all, other than how typical it is.
...which brings us back to the GP: Don't waste your time with this until MS gets their shit together.
Don't try to upgrade from Windows Update. Just don't. It'll fail. Something is borked with the download process. It'll probably be fixed in a week (or even today, maybe), but for now, to be on the safe side,
...don't bother, unless your time is worthless to you.
just go to this link - https://www.microsoft.com/en-u... [microsoft.com] and download the ISO. Then burn it to a DVD or install it onto a USB drive of sufficient capacity, and away you go. Not sure if it would work if you mounted it to a virtual drive, but worth a try.
If you do that, the first thing it does is ask for an activation key. Your windows activation key from your original Windows media is likely to not be accepted. My 8.0 key wasn't.
Although, there is one really interesting thing you can do. Instead of creating an install ISO, take the option to just upgrade straight. Do this from a non-admin account (you know, the way you are supposed to run things for system safety). This will produce what is being argued to be the most amusing error dialog in human history, which reads in big letters "Something Happened", and then under that in smaller letters the clarification: "Something Happened". Years from now, you can tell your grandchildren you personally got this dialog.
But if you aren't aching to participate in the meme, save yourself some aggravation and wait until MS gets their act together.
I don't know what size tablet he was trying to use, but I do know that when your screen space is really limited, having a huge percentage of it taken up with interface elements is beyond annoying.
On my home desktop at 1280x1024x3, yeah its no big deal.
Essentially, they redesigned that bit of the interface around the only part of it that was still useful in the modern age: the program search feature..
...still needs work. Here's what I saw this morning on twitter from Jeff Atwood (of CodingHorror / StackExchange fame)
errr.. is there any way to use MS Edge browser in fullscreen mode on tablet? I see a lot of wasted toolbar space here.
Richard Gregg @odgregg 10h10 hours ago
@codinghorror No. And even F11 doesn't go fullscreen
Jeff Atwood @codinghorror 10h10 hours ago
@odgregg:( so much screen space wasted, toolbar at bottom, 2 toolbars at top. Bad regression now I see what @drpizza was on about
Richard Gregg @odgregg 10h10 hours ago
@codinghorror @drpizza Yeah, edge definitely seems only 2/3rds there so far. Web notes should have been lower priority
On both Windows and Linux, it's a pretty handy key.
On Windows 8 (I haven't tried 10 yet), its pretty much required, unless you do something goofy like place an icon for every program you might ever want to use on your desktop. Its the "help me find a program" key. If you'd rather search your hard-drive manually, its still much quicker to bring up file explorer with Windows-e rather than hunt down a picture of it on your desktop (closing any possible obscuring windows) and click that.
The Capslock key inherited the position occupied by the Shift-Lock key. Some keyboards still mark it as shift-lock. In the old mechanical typewriters, the shift lock actually moved the entire framework holding the rack of all the levers that held the letters. It required considerable force to push.
...and you could tell from the look and feel of the shift key that it was down. And using the shift key automatically unlocked the shift lock (on many keyboards at least).
If you really want to have that key, it probably ought to go back to that: some kind of mechanical lock on the shift key. Perhaps a smallish button actually physically on one corner of the left shift key.
OTOH, my fascist firewall blocks blog posts such as Callaway's, so I really appreciate the hop through an unblocked source. I take it from context that article covers some stuff that isn't in the blog post, as well.
I happened to attend a statewide convention for the Democratic party in Oklahoma this weekend. We had at least one speaker, a former Democratic governor, consistently refer to the party as "the Democrat party". I think it would be fair to say he meant no insult by it. I guess that's just how the party's name is said where he comes from.
Now perhaps that's because he lives in a rural area in a very red state, so everyone around him is hostile to the party. However, I get the sense from rather a lot of people that this is just how they think it is said, regardless of intent.
I'm not saying that's right and you have to accept it, but language is something achieved by rough consensus. At some point you may find yourself fighting the tide with a bucket.
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At home, I'm a relatively "fat, dumb, and happy" user. I install updates when the application in question says there's one available, but I don't sit down at my desk after a long hard day a work and troll the support websites for all of the various applications on my computer looking to see if there are new versions/patches available.
Which is a long way of saying, "probably not". Mozilla hasn't advised me of a new update since I did the Win10 upgrade a couple of weeks ago. So unless it does it automatically, no I don't have "the latest patch" from whenever.
I did the upgrade to 10 (finally!), and now Firefox doesn't come back from sleep properly anymore. It gets weird visual glitches that look like refresh issues, and none of the tab gadgets are visible (or clickable). I pretty much have to kill it and restart it every time I wake my PC. Hopefully the "supported" version won't do that.
Except he doesn't own the copyright to the short anymore, Sandler's production company who made the 2015 Pixels film does.
In which case, they also have the right to submit the takedown notice for it. If they don't want what is now their 2010 movie distributed on that service, it probably ought to be their right to remove it.
Of course, we know that's not what's happening; this is rote behavior by uncaring people resulting in unfortunate collateral damage.
It's just as wrong, but it isn't based on specific intent.
Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.
it also suggests a corrected view which is largely incorrect.
I suspect you are referring to the corrected maxim: "adding more people to a late project makes it later". Chuck an implied "always" in there, and you are right. However, he didn't say that (otherwise it would have been a damn short book). In fact, he went over exactly what the issues you have to look out for are, particularly with the combinatorial explosion in communications overhead. Its those factors specifically you have to manage for, not some amorphous weasel concept like "risk".
Really, I'd highly suggest reading the book, if you haven't. Particularly a recent addition with the retrospective appendices.
...not to be confused with the great Mythical Man-Month, which is a completely different technical myth that never seems to die.
Did German typewriters used to do that too? As mentioned, the original intent of that key back in the typewriter days was to "lock" the device into shifted mode so that key didn't have to be held down. That looks like a total hack to me.
When one goes and repurposes ("hacks") a function to do something other than its original design intent, they shouldn't really be surprised (or complain) when a later redesign leaves their hack high-and-dry.
More realistically, I'm sure if English keyboards get redesigned more sensibly, it wouldn't stop Germans (or anyone else) from using their current Swiss German keyboard layouts to produce their special glyphs. I'd consider renaming it too, but if Germans still want to call it "CAPS-LOCK" even though it does nothing of the sort, that would be their business too.
I couldn't get past the first sentence. It's a 20-sided, and it's die, not dice. If you're going to talk to us nerds...
I'll go out on a limb here, and say that you should probably stay far away from any upcoming D&D movie. For example, I guarantee you it will feature a magic user firing off spells with abandon, with nary a nap between them.
I am a WoW player and will sometimes jump into Dragon Age. I also played the SWBF Alpha which ran just fine. My system is an 8 core AMD CPU with a Radeon HD 7900 on an Asus ROG motherboard.
This sounds really close to my rig's hardware (and typical software).
I was running Windows 7 before and attempted to do an in-place upgrade initially but it failed despite trying many different things. I ended up installing clean from an ISO and have been on the fast ring ever since.
My installed OS is 8.0 home (recently upgraded to 8.1 from the app store), and the exact same thing happened to me. In-place upgrade fails no matter what I try. So I used their tool to create an ISO. However, it asks for a license key and won't take my Win 8.0 key. How did you get past that?
One of the options you are presented with when you run that "crappy tool" is creation of install media (aka: "an ISO").
Not that taking that option is likely to help you, for reasons I went over in other posts. Crappy tool indeed.
That one isn't quite on the same level, just because its actually an OK message encoded as an error message, so when you get it you aren't blocked from what you are trying to do. Its stupid, but without the level of frustration inherent in "something happened something happened".
This rollout is an *upgrade*, so you don't get a product key until after you've upgraded your existing install. You can then extract the product key from your registry and perform a clean install on your PC.
...which I can't do because the upgrade app crashes right after download. Like it apparently does with a lot of other people. The installer supposedly works, but you need a key. Nice little catch-22 there.
Only if you install it from ISO. If you update from that media creation tool, it won't ask for the key.
If I update from that media creation tool, it crashes near the end ("stopped working" IIRC). I looked online, and this is a common problem with the tool with no known fix. The only known work-around is to install from the ISO. Where my key doesn't work. All this from a freshly installed 8.0 64-bit Home freshly upgraded to 8.1 with all MS patches installed. Nothing unusual about this setup at all, other than how typical it is.
...which brings us back to the GP: Don't waste your time with this until MS gets their shit together.
Don't try to upgrade from Windows Update. Just don't. It'll fail. Something is borked with the download process. It'll probably be fixed in a week (or even today, maybe), but for now, to be on the safe side,
...don't bother, unless your time is worthless to you.
just go to this link - https://www.microsoft.com/en-u... [microsoft.com] and download the ISO. Then burn it to a DVD or install it onto a USB drive of sufficient capacity, and away you go. Not sure if it would work if you mounted it to a virtual drive, but worth a try.
If you do that, the first thing it does is ask for an activation key. Your windows activation key from your original Windows media is likely to not be accepted. My 8.0 key wasn't.
Although, there is one really interesting thing you can do. Instead of creating an install ISO, take the option to just upgrade straight. Do this from a non-admin account (you know, the way you are supposed to run things for system safety). This will produce what is being argued to be the most amusing error dialog in human history, which reads in big letters "Something Happened", and then under that in smaller letters the clarification: "Something Happened". Years from now, you can tell your grandchildren you personally got this dialog.
But if you aren't aching to participate in the meme, save yourself some aggravation and wait until MS gets their act together.
Question: do you use the product key from a previous version of windows?
Nope. I tried that with my Win 8.0 key, and it won't take it.
(I know its the right key, because I had a hard drive crash this past weekend, so I had to reinstall 4 days ago)
AKA "Billie Jean" lights. People kept telling me The King of Pop was ahead of his time, but I didn't believe them.
I don't know what size tablet he was trying to use, but I do know that when your screen space is really limited, having a huge percentage of it taken up with interface elements is beyond annoying.
On my home desktop at 1280x1024x3, yeah its no big deal.
New Browser code from Microsoft written from the ground up? Time to go look up details on Microsoft's Bug Bounty program.
From what I'm gathering, you may need to wait a while. Its still so raw that a lot of it is Not Even Wrong yet.
Essentially, they redesigned that bit of the interface around the only part of it that was still useful in the modern age: the program search feature..
Certainly if all it took to "kill IE" was a higher-quality browser, IE would have had its dead carcass chunked into the Indian Ocean years ago.
...still needs work. Here's what I saw this morning on twitter from Jeff Atwood (of CodingHorror / StackExchange fame)
errr.. is there any way to use MS Edge browser in fullscreen mode on tablet? I see a lot of wasted toolbar space here.
Richard Gregg @odgregg 10h10 hours ago
@codinghorror No. And even F11 doesn't go fullscreen
Jeff Atwood @codinghorror 10h10 hours ago
@odgregg :( so much screen space wasted, toolbar at bottom, 2 toolbars at top. Bad regression now I see what @drpizza was on about
Richard Gregg @odgregg 10h10 hours ago @codinghorror @drpizza Yeah, edge definitely seems only 2/3rds there so far. Web notes should have been lower priority
Just curious, what OS are you using?
On both Windows and Linux, it's a pretty handy key.
On Windows 8 (I haven't tried 10 yet), its pretty much required, unless you do something goofy like place an icon for every program you might ever want to use on your desktop. Its the "help me find a program" key. If you'd rather search your hard-drive manually, its still much quicker to bring up file explorer with Windows-e rather than hunt down a picture of it on your desktop (closing any possible obscuring windows) and click that.
The Capslock key inherited the position occupied by the Shift-Lock key. Some keyboards still mark it as shift-lock. In the old mechanical typewriters, the shift lock actually moved the entire framework holding the rack of all the levers that held the letters. It required considerable force to push.
...and you could tell from the look and feel of the shift key that it was down. And using the shift key automatically unlocked the shift lock (on many keyboards at least).
If you really want to have that key, it probably ought to go back to that: some kind of mechanical lock on the shift key. Perhaps a smallish button actually physically on one corner of the left shift key.
OTOH, my fascist firewall blocks blog posts such as Callaway's, so I really appreciate the hop through an unblocked source. I take it from context that article covers some stuff that isn't in the blog post, as well.
I happened to attend a statewide convention for the Democratic party in Oklahoma this weekend. We had at least one speaker, a former Democratic governor, consistently refer to the party as "the Democrat party". I think it would be fair to say he meant no insult by it. I guess that's just how the party's name is said where he comes from.
Now perhaps that's because he lives in a rural area in a very red state, so everyone around him is hostile to the party. However, I get the sense from rather a lot of people that this is just how they think it is said, regardless of intent.
I'm not saying that's right and you have to accept it, but language is something achieved by rough consensus. At some point you may find yourself fighting the tide with a bucket.