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Could be a useful destress tool!
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Not near enough visual effects for that - no blood, no dead bodies, no explosion - it is like a scientific tool... 
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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Shall we play a game?
(1) Tic Tac Toe
(2) Chess
(3) Global Thermonuclear War
>_
I need a perfect, to the point answer as I am not aware of this.
Please don't reply explaining what method overloading is
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I like the "almost accidentally detonated in 1961" entry - didn't know about that.
(that was just a squeak before my time so I would have missed it / been safe anyway  )
Sin tack
the any key okay
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Another scenario[^], courtesy of Dong Feng-5 ?
Imperialism, even at sea, will have its cost.
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Good thing this isn't wired in for real. I would just just launched on Redmond, or where-ever that director of dumbassery lives.
re: The Lounge[^]
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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Apologies for hijacking the post but I was just panning round the map when I was attracted to the area of the US from west of Washington DC in a south westerly direction down to Birmingham, Alabama. That area can only have been created by water erosion, but can you imagine the amount of water that would have been required. They were very turbulent times at the end of the last Ice Age.
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: Consolas is filth
That one made me LOL!! Strong reaction to a font. This is how technology affects us. 
There are raster fonts to choose from. 
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Yes, I use Raster Fonts 7x12.
Of course, I'm sure Microsoft can mess even those up.
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: Microsoft can mess even those up
Microsoft is quite amazing at messing up anything. 
An aside: Today I was watching an old (2010) Ted talk where this guy was introducing all this stuff that Maps were going to link in and everything was going crazy about the functionality.
Blaise Agüera y Arcas: Augmented-reality maps | TED Talk[^]
Only 3 minutes long or so.
Then I noticed, this was a Microsoft guy.
Then I thought, wait, why haven't we heard of this fantastic tech that was going to push Microsoft maps to the top?
Everyone I know uses Google Maps (and some of course use apple maps).
So, why don't we know about this stuff that caused the crowd that day to give a standing Ovation?
Answer (you probably guessed it too)
All because Microsoft didn't have a hardware platform (phone) that would make the stuff ubiquitous as Google and Apple have.
Big fail!
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As soon as I read that title, I knew what it meant.
I'm guessing this is tech people pushing ideas that are supposedly cutting edge but are actually just stupid functionality that real users don't want anyways.
I will read those articles because I feel like that all the time.
I recently talked asked coworkers, "Why wasn't Windows 7 just good enough? It did everything I needed and worked with hardware and everything was great? Why learn 8 and especially 10? "
The answer, we all know, is that it was good enough.
However, product companies cannot say that and have to keep causing people to upgrade.
Just like styles.
Oak cabinets were great in the 80s and white cabinets were out (here in US).
Now it's the opposite? Why? Because cabinetmakers need to sell more cabinets and replace perfectly functioning cabinets. 
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Are you running the pre-release evaluation version of Creator's Update? I am running it - latest version 170721-2122 - and I use Consolas extensively. Haven't noticed anything screwy about it yet.
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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I believe I'm running full-on Creators update.
It is Version 1703
Build 15063.540
productid 00326-10000-00000-AA839
Whatever that all means. 
Also, the screwy thing is that it was just that initial run of the console window, after I set it specifically I no longer saw the problem any more.
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I don't know if windows 10 the default was already changed, but in Win 7 is...
console settings[^]
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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Thanks,
I thought it was that it had chosen some other default too, but when I initially checked it was _supposedly_ set on Consolas 12.
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You are welcome
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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raddevus wrote: ...but I was curious what font it was originally set to...
My Windows 10 machine is using Consolas 16.
"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." - James D. Miles
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Too big, waste of real estate. ![Badger | [badger,badger,badger,badger...]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/badger.gif)
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Thanks, I thought it defaulted to a Consolas font also and mine seemed to set to Consolas 12 so I thought it should've rendered properly.
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Hi,
There are some security improvements to Windows 10 (Creators Update) surrounding how the operating system handles font installation, rendering and font-trust. Looks like you possibly discovered an edge case that may occur when the console is launched and the old font is removed. This may have occurred because of stale font cache[^] following your system update.
It is extremely difficult to harden the win32k GDI subsystem... especially surrounding font rendering. There are a lot of changes to the operating system surrounding fonts.
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Best Wishes,
-David Delaune
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Thanks for replying with a specific idea that may have created the problem.
I'm always interested in the root cause for what made these things happen.
I'm curious how you knew that specific issue.
Are you still working with Microsoft?
Or are you just basing it past experience from your work there?
Just curious. Thanks again.
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