Thanks for your insightful comment. Of course we disable those. These apps are not part of Suggested Apps (those only cover suggestions appearing in your Start Menu). They're instead part of the "Microsoft Consumer Experience", which can only be disabled in Windows 10 Enterprise (or Education), not in Pro.

Apparently MS believes Pro users to be quite different from Enterprise users. There used to be other ways to disable the installation of this crap, but MS has removed these over time. I welcome any solutions that actually work.

The even more ridiculous thing is that this happens even on the Pro version. The one that's supposed to be for doing work. And those "policies you can set that disable these apps from automatically installing"? Yeah, they don't work anymore. As a result every employee gets Candy Crush and the like installed on every machine. Absolutely insane.

The Carboniferous period is the source of 90% of our coal though. Coal formation during that time was 600 times the 'normal' rate. Apparently because the wood got buried and compressed instead of broken down into carbon and oxygen. The bacteria that could break it down evolved later.

Source: http://phenomena.nationalgeogr...

My main complaint with Apple's new features of the past years has been that most have limited reach.

Things like Apple Pay are still not available in The Netherlands (where I live), years after release. Siri took years to arrive and is still far more limited than in the US. Other features are constrained to the Apple ecosystem, ignoring the fact that most users own and interact with various platforms. I've never felt a need to explore stickets in Messages, because barely anyone I know still uses Messages.

"unable to easily read their favorite webpages"
Oh, that's allright then.

I pity the sysadmins working overtime tonight.

"The battery should last for approximately 1,000 presses. When the device battery runs out of charge, there is no way to recharge or replace the battery."

Exactly. Also, at the current, increasing, consumption rate reclaiming those large blocks would only add a few months to the exhaustion deadline. Most likely it will take more time to free them than it takes to use them up.

IPv4 is simply too small, no matter how we hand out the addresses. It's time to switch to IPv6. Those few blocks won't make a difference.

It's a good excuse to drag the fire pit and the grill around to the front of the house and invite the neighbors to do the same. Then spend the night watching what fireworks people set off (illegally) in the neighborhood and what we can see of the municipal display over the intervening houses and trees. The fireworks viewing is accomplished while drinking various libations and eating grilled meats, etc. and sitting around a roaring fire.

Note: I haven't melted the fire pit yet but there's still time.

Cheers,
Dave

I love that they found time to name the drone ships in true Iain M. Banks' Culture style: “Just Read the Instructions” & “Of Course I Still Love You”

I took my first programming class in 1976. We used punch cards on an IBM mainframe. Somebody have a link to a job req. for a "digital native?" I could have some fun.

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Dave

Driver: "Open the door, car."

Car: "I can't do that <insert name here>. You're too stupid to let behind the wheel."

Problem solved.

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Dave

About 600 feet downhill from here in Parker (official elevation 5,900 ft.) but more like 700 ft. downhill from our house according to my GPS. I figure I spend enough time in the mountains (~10,000 ft. to ~11,000 ft.) that it balances out me visiting folks in flat land.

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Dave

... that's just enough to cover my property taxes so I said about what was anticipated.

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Dave

I guess you mean stars can survive for a long time due to the balance between the centripetal force exerted by the black hole (pulling the star towards the center of its orbit) and the centrifugal force exerted by the circular motion of the start around the black hole (apparently pushing the star away from the black hole but actually just inertia trying to make the star follow a straight path).

Simple: it wouldn't be any fun or a challenge. Still no dings in the skid plate.

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Dave