Windows 10 Anniversary UPDATE

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Windows 10 Anniversary update. ou can get it now. Just right click on your desktop. Click on Personalize. Click on Themes. Click on Theme Settings. Click on Get more themes online.

Have no idea why they put us to so much work!

[dave]

Probably because it saves them work and therefore cost. It's like buying a new car and the manufacturer ships you the body, but you have to put the doors and wheels on. Why would anyone put up with that? Because that's the way it's always been. And since this system might save upwards of 20% of their cost, both the software and hardware manufacturers have no incentive to come to our aid.

[dave]

Alan, I was thinking about your signature: "We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass. Karl Marx."

Of course, Marx had a rather limited view of the world. But I remember the headstrong and narrow thinking union president at the school where I taught. He was excellent in what he did for the union because of those characteristics. I don't know how good of a teacher he was, but something told me he would not be a very apt conversation partner to sit by the side of the stream when the fish weren't biting and discuss the world, the heavens and our purpose in life.

And so Marx was a fit champion for the working man of the 19th century, until he began to think all of society could function according to his scheme. It's true that in his time labor consisted mostly of rote procedures and most of them could be done by anyone. Thus, one man's hour might indeed be worth any other man's hour. But that's probably no longer true in the workplace, although it may be becoming so. (Automation: different topic.)  And it certainly isn't true in the greater world of many men and women wish to navigate today. There are expert workers who have prepared long and hard to enhance their labor. There are jobs today, as opposed to over a hundred years ago, where natural ability counts and may be differentiated among workers. In short, the world of labor today matches Marx's view only in the sense of "us" and "them." Which is an important, because labor and management will always have common goals but different routes to their accomplishment.

"Time is everything, man is nothing," is not something I'd expect to hear from a person with the right view of humanity. "I am not time's carcass."  I am time's crowning jewel.