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MarkTJohnson wrote: And using a Windows VM inside a Mac will drive you nuts between all the different alt, control, command key combinations.
Had the same sort of problems with my recent adventure with an Ubuntu VM under a Mac because the former mostly used the same shortcuts as my PC. Mostly I suffered the same reasons you did, lost time due to the Mac being a Mac was as least a learning experience. Setting up the dev environment again after the IT guy finally got me a loaner PC would've been pure waste.
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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For LABView - and even then it's not enough!
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I tend to use everything exception Windows Explorer full screen, often because I have multiple copies of that open to different folders and drag files between. I also don't use console/powershell windows full screen. Oh, and calculator, because why would you.
Everything else, VS, Outlook, browsers, games, office apps etc. I use full screen with one on each of 2 or 3 monitors, and task switch between instances/apps via the keyboard.
That's probably just me though. I'm usually in the minority.
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Quote: Hello Windows Insider,
With the release of the Windows 10 Creators Update, we’d like to send a special thanks to developers like you.
Whether you posted to the Feedback Hub, or explored a feature or two on a Windows 10 Insider Preview build, your participation continues to help shape Windows for billions of people.
Of course, there’s always room for an even better version of Windows — and we’re already at work on our next major update. Be sure to check out the latest Insider Preview build for an early look at some of the great things that we’ll be co-creating with Windows Insiders.
[...]
Thanks, as always, for being a Windows Insider.
The Windows Insider Team
It is clear they didn't saw my comments, otherwise they would realize that Windows 10 is the second in line I used only in test phase and never intend to use it for real...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: we’re already at work on our next major update God, No!
Please stop! Please!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Be prepared![^]
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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So:
0. The ability to make shortcuts, like you can with every messaging app -- not needed; I want an OS and my own apps.
1. That bollocks they were talking about earlier, which is the modern day equivalent of flashing text.
2:Quote: It's unlikely that we'll see full Windows 10 running on phones in the fall however, so don't be holding your breath for that. Because it's unlikely you'll even see a windows phone!
3:Quote: a feature that Insiders have been asking for ever since OneDrive placeholders got removed from Windows 10 "Insiders" meaning "marketing morons within ms itself".
4. The ability to connect speakers specifically for spyware a feature that no-one in their right mind uses.
5. More useless bloat promised for the future.
6. Tabs everywhere, which developers could already have used, if they wanted to (QED Xplorer2, Q-Dir, etc.)
... And no notification of which genuinely useful functionality they're either going to cut or break, this time around.
I can't wait.
... For Linux to become less command-line orientated.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mmmm ... Cortana enabled devices ... mmmm.
Obligatory XKCD: Listening[^]
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I disabled that wonderful "feature" faster than you can say "siri".
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: Of course, there’s always room for an even better version of Windows — and we’re already at work on our next major update
Well initially that sentance raised hope, buuuuut confirmed they in fact have no intention of making windows better, instead their focus is 100% on further bloating it.
Time ms faced the foregone fact the pc is less and less becoming a consumer platform, even in business. Development is the only area the pc still seriously dominates, yet they are nackering developers for the sake of an unsavable shrinking consumer market share.
Sin tack
the any key okay
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Lopatir wrote: Time ms faced the foregone fact the pc is less and less becoming a consumer platform, even in business
Hence windows 10IoT (which includes the old desktop OS).
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So useful, windows 10 in my toaster.
Either have to wait 10 minutes for the update before can cook the bread,
or if you're too fast pushing wait 10 minutes for it to pop up (not including use of the fire extinguisher at the 3 minute mark).
But seriously that's my point, they can do the windows 10 features on the devices,
but leave the damn pc alone (i.e. in 100% control by the owner) because it's the development platform for the devices' softwares. (and yes, 'softwares' is the correct word to use.)
Sin tack
the any key okay
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And it needs a 32 GB disk to install on.....
And its called embedded? WTF is big enouigh to embed that in!
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Please... don't bash Microsoft so easily...
Of course you need a toaster with a built in SSD...
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Lopatir wrote: their focus is 100% on further bloating it
If it's not broken, it doesn't have enough features!
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Since I've lost track of who was supposed to post last Friday, or Monday, or yesterday - and clearly they have as well - I'll re-boot it. Good luck chaps and chapesses!
The German is despatched inside, but he doesn't agree(9)
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Dissenter
The in German = DER
Is dispatched = IS SENT
One inside the other = DISSENTER
Slogans aren't solutions.
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A successful reboot - you are up tomorrow!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I'm staying neutral on the question of "das."
Slogans aren't solutions.
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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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Go on - put the boot in!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Don't rock the boat!
Slogans aren't solutions.
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Has anyone heard of tynker? Tynker.com
Is this a good way for kids to start learning programming?
Within you lies the power for good - Use it!
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Scratch -- same candy, different wrapper.
I found the UI for Scratch to be nearly unusable (positioning blocks to click into place was such a PITA) and while the concept is interesting, at the end of the day I think it's a horrible way to teach programming.
Since you ask -- teaching programming to kids should be about creative ways to get from point A to point B, rather than using some archaic BASIC-like syntax to glue things together. In other words, teaching programming should not be taught by computers!
Marc
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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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