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Comment Re:But But This is Anti Homeless! (Score 1) 210

by MillionthMonkey on Thursday July 30, 2015 @04:59PM (#50218039) Attached to: San Francisco's Public Works Agency Tests Paint That Repels Urine

It's cheaper than either cigarettes or alcohol, especially in places where it's available "medicinally", like SF.

Yes, I've been to those places because THC suppressed epileptic seizures I used to have (but only for several hours while it was in effect- it's an extremely expensive anticonvulsant and insurance doesn't cover it). Legal pot is particularly expensive. On what basis is pot cheaper that liquor or alcohol? Per "dose" (whatever that is for any of those three)? Cigarettes and liquor never tempted me to cut up my ATM card.
Plus, you can't survive on a 100% Taco Bell diet... just eating the pot would be more nutritious.

Comment Considering an upgrade, but need more information (Score 2) 485

by MillionthMonkey on Thursday July 30, 2015 @04:07PM (#50217483) Attached to: A Naysayer's Take On Windows 10: Potential Privacy Mess, and Worse

Does it run Minesweeper OK?

Comment Steam is fine (Score 1) 170

by stonecypher on Thursday July 30, 2015 @04:02PM (#50217425) Attached to: Windows 10 App For Xbox One Could Render Steam Machines Useless

I can get XBox games on my PC right now, for the most part. They're in Microsoft store, they're on Origin, et cetera.

I go to Steam because it's easy to find funky stuff and there's always a sale.

The XBox app won't change that.

Comment Re:500 Ohm Potentiometer on Amazon (Score 1) 210

by MillionthMonkey on Thursday July 30, 2015 @03:54PM (#50217331) Attached to: San Francisco's Public Works Agency Tests Paint That Repels Urine

Yeah, my grandmother has to buy all her stuff on Amazon now that RadioShack is gone.

Comment do unto others... (Score 1) 210

by Thud457 on Thursday July 30, 2015 @09:36AM (#50213757) Attached to: San Francisco's Public Works Agency Tests Paint That Repels Urine

Pisonme-pisonu - isn't that a animal from Doctor Doolittle ?

Comment Re:But But This is Anti Homeless! (Score 2) 210

by MillionthMonkey on Thursday July 30, 2015 @04:33AM (#50212569) Attached to: San Francisco's Public Works Agency Tests Paint That Repels Urine

Have you ever bought pot? The stuff is expensive. And if you're homeless, munchies are the last thing you need.

Comment Re:Yeah (Score 1) 255

by MillionthMonkey on Wednesday July 29, 2015 @05:21PM (#50209411) Attached to: Microsoft Edge On Windows 10: the Browser That Will Finally Kill IE

Don't badmouth Windows 10 users- about half of them are going to be in your QA department.

Comment Re:One question (Score 1) 90

by MillionthMonkey on Wednesday July 29, 2015 @05:17PM (#50209391) Attached to: Replacing Silicon With Gallium Nitride In Chips Could Reduce Energy Use By 20%

Fallium nitrade is a main ingredient in energy drinks and health beverages. They all supply 100% of the U.S. RDA of gallium.

Comment Re:Page loading has always been far slower with ad (Score 1) 394

by Thud457 on Wednesday July 29, 2015 @10:59AM (#50204521) Attached to: Advertising Companies Accused of Deliberately Slowing Page-load Times For Profit

doing a good job, and not being an asshat

But that's beyond most people's abilities.
Plus, paying for advertising is easier.

Comment 10 is one better than 8 (Score 1) 317

by Thud457 on Wednesday July 29, 2015 @09:48AM (#50203901) Attached to: Windows 10 Launches

9? But this one goes to 10!

STONEHENGE!

Comment Re: How is this different from Microsoft's... (Score 1) 149

by Billly Gates on Tuesday July 28, 2015 @10:54PM (#50201615) Attached to: .NET 4.6 Optimizer Bug Causes Methods To Get Wrong Parameters

It is installed by default in VS

Comment Re: The joys of youth (Score 1) 149

by Billly Gates on Tuesday July 28, 2015 @09:32PM (#50201231) Attached to: .NET 4.6 Optimizer Bug Causes Methods To Get Wrong Parameters

that was part of vista, and server 2008 when they declared automated testing was bettet. So no we suffer, because apparently all the hard work that went into 2003 wasnt worth it.

2012 is a joke of a server.

Funny. On server 2012 R2 I can reverse AD schema deletions, go powershell only and or turn GUI on or off, use desired state configuration powershell templates, use DCs as VMs, and many many almost countless things I can't do on server 2k3.

Is it really true you need a 1990s modem plugged into a 2k3 server just to turn VPN on and then unplug the modem before it is ready??

Comment Re:The joys of youth (Score 1) 149

by Billly Gates on Tuesday July 28, 2015 @09:28PM (#50201211) Attached to: .NET 4.6 Optimizer Bug Causes Methods To Get Wrong Parameters

If you're a dev, you shouldn't be chasing versions. Find a stable version, stick with it through your project. SE already has enough of that "stuff changing out from under me" feel without adding to the issue.

This mindset is why I still have to support companies that refuse to migrate from IE8. Thanks.

There are currently 2 common mindsets.

1) find a stable version and prevent yourself from ever getting anything better and any upgrade is sure to break tons of stuff

or

2) upgrade versions every time a new one comes out so you get the benefits of incremental improvements, sure stuff breaks, but the next patch will fix it in a matter of days/weeks

On April 8th 2014 the joyful day of XP/IE6 death, which should be considered an international holiday, I think a lot of companies realized that the days of use a "Stable version" for decades is over/no longer realistic.

Now I am not saying "just start upgrading everything always" because the worst thing you can do is try to step out in front of the subway car of continuous integration/continuous improvement after letting a project mature on "stick with the stable version" mentality; but I am saying... the half-assed "stable version" meets patch tuesday bullshit that microsoft is doing will continue to bite you and everybody else in the ass until that entire tech stack stops doing that crap and starts doing the continuous integration thing for real. Chrome does it, every app on your phone tries to do it, "cloud" products do it (that is one of the reasons execs love "cloud").

Microsoft might as well be mailing floppies for how broken and relevant their process is.

Speak for yourself! I can't consider learning HTML 5 until 2020 when 7 goes EOL as too many of the users have standardized on IE 8 HTML throughout the whole decade. I have 2 apps we support which are IE 6 only and can't be upgraded and not our call to upgrade it( client owned)

Comment app level corruption? (Score 1) 149

by Billly Gates on Tuesday July 28, 2015 @09:25PM (#50201193) Attached to: .NET 4.6 Optimizer Bug Causes Methods To Get Wrong Parameters

I just installed 8.1 with VS 2015 this weekend.

Is this serious enough where I need to re-image as things like my Intel RST raid driver all depend on 4.5 runtimes or does this only hit code being compiled?

Comment Re:How is this different from Microsoft's... (Score 1) 149

by spongman on Tuesday July 28, 2015 @03:26PM (#50198759) Attached to: .NET 4.6 Optimizer Bug Causes Methods To Get Wrong Parameters

i just ran this on my i5-3570K running win7:
>timecmd "systeminfo | find 'System Boot Time'" systeminfo | find 'System Boot Time' Results of execution:

Exit code 2 Time of execution 10.121

that's 10 seconds.

i just had to reboot to install about 6-weeks-worth of updates.

it never crashes.

you're doing it wrong.

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