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Well, what a surprise... but, hey, you got the upgrade for free, isn't that something? 
In case of Solitaire, this particular one was already stuffed with ads when it was turned into an app in Windows 8, so this is not really news. More bothering than the ads is the fact that you never knew what new bugs the next update would bring (according to the ratings, a lot of people - including myself - got problems with sound effects and rendering glitches), sometimes it worked perfectly but the next update broke it again.
And the DVD player... what a joke.
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With how fast they were trying to kill Windows 8, I'm surprised they didn't pay YOU to upgrade. Or simply make it mandatory.
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Well, it's free, so YOU are the product, why would they pay YOU? 
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Well.. In the eyes of a caveman business person, there is only one way to improve a project/product. That is to throw money at it. There is absolutely NO other way to upgrade a product (hiring good workers, what's that?).
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The Solitaire thing is moronic in an exec should get sacked fashion, but the DVD player is business as usual.
The DVD player wasn't part of the standard 8.0 package either (I don't recall if the initially free download ever turned paid or not); for the same reason it's not in the standard 10 package. It costs several dollars in licensing fees to legally implement playback and computers are increasingly coming without an optical drive; at this point I'd say it's probably only included by exception. VLC lives as a free DVD player only because none of its backers are companies with enough money for the DVD licensing association to find them worth suing.
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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Overlapping, outdated systems cost money, hobble innovation and confuse users. 5 execs share strategies for simplifying your tech stack. Yoga lessons for everyone?
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After a plan to eliminate use of sun.misc.Unsafe in Java 9 drew heavy criticism, Oracle crafted a workaround to keep the API functional. "Everybody's taking the chance. Safety dance"
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Takipi’s Java Deathmatch proved to be challenging and fun. Alex Zhitnitsky has collected the stats from over 20,000 participating developers and shares a selection of the results. Are you the fifth? (Or do you take it?)
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I bet none would answer the following correctly:
"In what ways is C# better than Java?"
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All ways?
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Wrong.
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Wrong wrong!
Two Wrongs don't make a Right but three Lefts do!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: "In what ways is C# better than Java?"
Yes.
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(I don't actually know Java.)
modified 5-Aug-15 16:59pm.
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I had to give myself a crash course in it... And the more I use it, the more I appreciate C#...
Useful things Java has that C# doesn't:
* Anonymous classes (With more than just properties)
* Diamond syntax (List<integer> x = new List<>();)
* Good package/dependency management (Sorry, I've found Maven much more useful than NuGet)
* ... that's all that comes to mind...
Useful things C# has that Java doesn't:
* Generics (See: Type Erasure)
* Property syntax (See: Javabeans)
* Events
* WPF, and all the magic that comes along with it
* A base framework that actually covers common use cases, instead of requiring third-party dependencies for any non-trivial task
* Don't have to screw around with class paths and compiler parameters. The compiler is actually designed to work with an IDE, so it JUST WORKS.
* ... I could go on, but you get the idea...
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Same here. One day my boss said, "We're going to rewrite that utility in Java; Java is the way of the future!" So I learned Java and rewrote the utility in Java. It worked fine but it was a pain to get it there. Then we decided to rewrite it in C# ...because... "C# is the way of the future!" So I learned C# and have never looked back! Way better!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Are you the fifth? (Or do you take it?)
Can I drink it?
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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Open-source software has been a growing phenomenon for more than two decades, but in recent years it has risen in importance in a whole new way: as a key to rapid innovation for startups and corporate giants alike. "If you love something, set it free."
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In my (obviously both limited and anecdotal) experience outside of certain high footfall areas like operating systems, nobody really wants to contribute to open source...they want someone else to create the complete package ready-to-go.
Is that everyone else's experience, or am I just on the wrong technologies/sites/groups?
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Seems that way to me as well. There are a few very well-trafficked open source projects that get plenty of contribs... and then there's the rest.
The very picture of the "long tail" phenomenon.
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Researchers outline how hackers can attack your smartphone to steal your fingerprint on a "large scale" -- without anybody noticing. Mental note: stop eating greasy foods while using touch screen
Yes, yes. They're not pulling it off the touch screen. You try being funny and topical 10-12 times a day. 
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Quote: Mental note: stop eating greasy foods while using touch screen
I prefer stop using touch Screen while eating greasy Foods and also while do other funny things 
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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fyi: the RyuJit related bugs were reported here by Kent on July 27: [^], and there's an easy registry change that will disable RyuJit.
The other bugs occur only in F#.
«I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center» Kurt Vonnegut.
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