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Thank you for giving me the opportunity to tell the story.
At the time I was going to write a whole blog post about it, but I was just too busy helping to sort out other things, and well it just became one of those things that slipped to the back burner.
I find apples attitude in the modern era strange to say the least.
Let's take the current state of web-development, and Apples push back on pretty much everything they didn't play a hand in, the only W3C recommendations they are happy to run with in the Safari Browser are the ones they played a large part in defining, they site "security concerns" for not adding what everyone else is adding, yet all the other main browsers and platforms have implemented pretty much all of these API's with little to no problems.
And if you want a real eye opener, read the court transcripts from the recent epic games vs Apple court case. Don't get me wrong, NONE of the big companies to day are squeaky clean, but compared to the state of Apple right now, the rest are starting to look like angels.
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Inexcusable behavior, I agree! But then, I've long despised them.
Back in 1978 my company encouraged employees to give up our pencils and try computers. They created a special payroll deduction plan to enable us to buy Apple IIc computers and accessories; mine came to about $2600, paid over a year. When I bought it I didn't realize that, if I wanted to do anything with it, I'd have to write my own apps. I was new to programming, and did not realize that the 6502 implemented subroutines differently. I was used to using CALL/RTN on an 8080 or Z80 platform, and there was no CALL in the 6502 instruction set. Then I checked the hardware itself and found that Apple had mapped the middle of the 64k memory space to the video display, making it unusable for my programs. I had a JMP instruction to get across the video section, but no RTN to get back. Grrrr... I later learned that the cpu had an equivalent for CALL (JSR - Jump, saving return address), but I was so pissed at this stupid hardware layout that I sold the thing. I've never considered owning an Apple anything since. I know they make some excellent products now, but I'd still take a pencil and paper over an Apple product. 
Will Rogers never met me.
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Bernie sent me this... push to add drama! - YouTube[^] If they wanted it to go viral, it worked!
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Ah Belgium, always such a lovely country to visit! 
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The button clearly doesn't work. Did they forget to wire the Click event?
Luc Pattyn [My Articles]
If you can't find it on YouTube try TikTok...
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Oh Noooooooooooo....
This is un-beer-able!  The drama! 
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I’ve seen this a few times. Never fails to make me laugh.
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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I saw that years ago, and it never gets old! Thanks for posting it!
Will Rogers never met me.
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Why don't you take the whiskey to them, maybe they can enjoy a moment too? 
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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Do they do fractional distillation by cooling? You can convert your 40% alcohol whiskey to 60% ... or even higher!
Best of all - you don't need to supply the ice!
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Already thought it was chilly when we passed Bremen on our holiday
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Cp-Coder wrote: If they will chill my whiskey for me
I've seen a restaurant ad that listed "whiskey soup, with H2O croutons"  as part of their lunch menu.
Since the freezing point of ethanol is 159K, these guys could serve you liquid H2O with whiskey croutons.
Of course, I don't know how easy or safe it would be to drink. The whiskey croutons are cold enough to possibly freeze the liquid H2O before you could drink it.
Software Zen: delete this;
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It normally takes me 6 to 8 hours to do a clean install with all apps of any Windows system, but 11 caught me by surprise. No, it was not the fault of Windows that it took some 20 hours of blood sweat, tears and speaking in tongues. It was my inexperience with installation of two IDEs: IntelliJ Idea that I use for JavaFx projects and Android Studio that I use for Android Kotlin projects.
I also installed Visual Studio but since I have done VS dozens of times, it was a breeze. But I have only done IntelliJ once before. Same for Android Studio. Make no mistake, both these IDEs installed and ran like a breeze, until I tried to build and run some thirty little projects that I have done over time. That is when I got some error messages that took time, research and patience (not my strong suit) to figure out.
By the time I got everything to work, it was some two days and part of the nights gone! But the enormous sense of accomplishment made the long hours worth while!
And in the process I learnt a great deal about those two IDEs that will probably be very worth while in the future. Now I will take a strong coffee, thanks! ![Java | [Coffee]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/coffee.gif)
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Do I feel a detailed CodeProject article coming?
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Spooky
The less you need, the more you have.
Even a blind squirrel gets a nut...occasionally.
JaxCoder.com
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Isn't the image for "Trick and Treat" wrong? shouldn't it just be the squiggle for the mouth, without either eye?
Keep Calm and Carry On
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It is missing the "Trick NOT Treat"
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Say what? NOT is a unary operator...
Software Zen: delete this;
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Even before I posted, I knew someone might notice that, but I though that "Trick AND NOT treat" does not sound as good so, I posted that and hoped that readers would imply the AND like many times many people imply words in phrases.
I guess I will not be able to use the "Theses are not the droids your looking for" trick on you 
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Software Zen: delete this;
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I caught that, too. Why not
TRICK OR NOT TREAT
?
You will be tricked and never receive a treat.
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