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I'm particularly looking at you, C++.
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More than just my code. I have games that I still like to play that worked fine in XP and now in Win7 I have to use VirtualBox to run an XP system so I can play them. Very annoying.
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Or use a CPU that can support the word size you want. Like all Intel and AMD processors can, because that's built into the hardware.
And use an OS that will allow 32-bit and 64-bit libraries to coexist. Like EVERY FUCKING OS BUT WINDOWS.
Um, since about half the vendors of the software I use are still only shipping 32-bit apps, why would I be "thankful"? 32-bit is not "legacy," expect it to hang around for quite some years as there are few benefits for most apps from switching.
For any app that doesn't use anywhere close to 2 gigs of RAM, the only benefit of a 64-bit app is a slightly optimized ISA. (More registers means less stack thrash.) And the downside is a bigger heap footprint from larger pointers.
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Well, be grateful Google's leaked the truth - I always knew Kim and friends were really hostile extra-terrestrials pretending to be of social benefit of some kind. Moving to Mars is clearly a military strategy with little scientific value. Now we just have to convince the Federation of the truth - oh it's too late, they're everywhere. We should have listened to Benjamin Maxwell. Never mind, at least we can go to Martian rock concerts. I've heard they no longer dilute their liquor there... (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wounded_(Star_Trek:_The_Next_Generation))
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Why do people always say "Sydney, Australia"? Granted there's also a Sydney in Nova Scotia and possibly others floating around somewhere, but I'd've thought it was pretty clear (unless otherwise specified) that we're talking about the Australian one. If you google "Sydney" the first page of results is about Sydney (city), New South Wales (state) and/or Australia (country), and Wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney assumes you mean the city that Yanks and others think is the capital of Australia.
Also, I think "Sydney, Australia" sounds funny. Although we Australia has a smallish population, its geographical size is pretty big (granted smaller than the us by some 800,000 square miles, but big nonetheless). Saying "Sydney, Australia" is a bit like saying "Los Angeles, USA".
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Air-Conditioning refers to the process used to change the temperature. These days, reverse-cycle air-conditioners will do their job frontwards and backwards to do both heating and cooling. This is Air-Conditioning. OTOH a system that heats using a gas fire or some sort of electrical heater (yeah, ok, bad word....so sue me) is often not referred to as AirCon - but is instead called Central Heating, or just heating.
I haven't read it and it might disagree with what I say, but Wiki has an article about it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Conditioning
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Collation, for one.
It doesn't say you can't run any combination of 32-bit and 64-bit Office components side-by-side, but there are clearly certain combinations that won't work if you also install Skydrive Pro. There's nothing WTF-y about it.
Er, because it doesn't work on a 64-bit OS. And for very solid technical reasons. Frankly it was hacky enough to make passing 16-bit pointers to 32-bit kernel functions possible at all and extending that to 64-bit was never, ever going to work.
Well written code won't need re-writing anyway, just recompiling for an appropriate CPU.
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When someone says "he arrived in Sydney", it's definitely ambiguous. Maybe they're talking about a female.
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Never, ever, ever, ever install 64-bit office products -- all kinds of weird compatibility issues, not to mention they're less stable. Macros don't work right, VSTO gets weird... Just seriously, there is no reason to ever do this.
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Life was easier when I was a cat.
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During a vacation in Singapore I had to turn on the air-conditioning during the night, or else it would have been too hot. But on the other hand, I had to use a blanket, or else it would have been too cold (the bed was directly in the draft of the AC). Sounds stupid, yes. But just sleeping without a blanket would have been too hot. :/
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If he's already got Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2013, then why is he trying to install Office again anyway?
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I like the idea of the post.
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I did not state anything about not maintaining the code. I continue to make minor changes from time to time. That is quite a bit different from having to rewrite the code in another language.
OTOH, sometimes, I do not have to modify the code for years.
Sincerely,
Gene Wirchenko
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I really do not care about the "solid technical reasons". Microsoft has broken my utilities and my workflow.
There is no solid, technical reason why XPMode does not run on Win 7 Home which is what my laptop came with.
Their funeral. It just makes it easier to switch since I have no guarantee that my code will continue to run on a Microsoft OS.
You are assuming that the language has not changed (including deprecating features used). Better test, too: the newer version of the compiler (if such exists) may have bugs that the code hits.
Sincerely,
Gene Wirchenko
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Hey look! They have Common Core in Australia!
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re 64 bit, there is likely a fix here: http colon slash slash blog.codefluententities.com/2011/01/20/microsoft-access-database-engine-2010-redistributable/
32 bit office is the standard, and is almost always the only thing you need.
However if you want a 64 bit application to connect to an MS Access database, you need to install the MS Office 64 bit ODBC Access driver. I have needed this myself.
To do that, you CAN install the 64 bit driver, but each time you open MS Access (32 bit), it somehow reverts the driver or something.
So the link above describes a little registry hack you can do to avoid that problem.
This wouldn't be a problem if MS Office 32/64 side-by-side installations were properly supported.
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More info on the hack: http colon slash slash social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/abf34eea-1029-429a-b88e-4671bffcee76/why-cant-32-and-64-bit-access-database-engine-aceoledb-dataproviders-coexist
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Can't do the url thing, as the forum says its spam.
Perhaps you can help everyone out here and adjust the link? All I did was change the starting colon slash slash into words. The rest of the url works fine if you copy-paste it into a browser.
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Been there. Done that. TWO years ago.
http://combatdba.com/2011/11/20/ill-just-leave-this-here-2/
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