• Adobe is panicking

    From MegaNZ@MegaNZ@newsgroups.com to alt.comp.os.windows-11,alt.comp.os.windows-10 on Fri Oct 9 00:29:11 2026
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    According to YouTube videos, Adobe must be having a nightmare, not to
    mention sleepless nights!

    <https://youtu.be/doHqV2t26KU> <https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=ArtCraft>

    Just 48 hours after Vibe released his products, Adobe called a special
    board meeting and requested an urgent meeting with the Trump
    administration to discuss ways to stop AI reverse-engineering Adobe
    products.

    It's a worrying time for the greedy corporation that made the
    subscription model mandatory in the software industry — we saw HP's CEO leave the firm for PayPal when HP customers started switching to Ecotank printers, which don't require a subscription, and we might see the same
    thing happen at Adobe.




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  • From Paul@nospam@needed.invalid to alt.comp.os.windows-11,alt.comp.os.windows-10 on Fri Oct 9 01:59:58 2026
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    On Thu, 10/8/2026 7:29 PM, MegaNZ wrote:
    According to YouTube videos, Adobe must be having a nightmare, not to mention sleepless nights!

    <https://youtu.be/doHqV2t26KU> <https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=ArtCraft>

    Just 48 hours after Vibe released his products, Adobe called a special
    board meeting and requested an urgent meeting with the Trump
    administration to discuss ways to stop AI reverse-engineering Adobe products.

    It's a worrying time for the greedy corporation that made the
    subscription model mandatory in the software industry — we saw HP's CEO
    leave the firm for PayPal when HP customers started switching to Ecotank printers, which don't require a subscription, and we might see the same thing happen at Adobe.

    I don't see a reason they should be worried, as the
    "copied" program, is not going to be remotely similar.

    It would be like convincing the average person that
    LibreOffice is a decent replacement for MSOffice.
    It's a decent tool, if that's what all your associates
    use, but if you're collaborating with a group
    of MSOffice users, your work will stick out like
    a sore thumb. Like, say, change tracking doesn't work
    on your chapter, and it works on the rest of the group.
    Those sorts of things.

    When mature products have a boatload of functions,
    reproducing each and every one of them in a pleasing
    manner, is a high bar to meet. That's why, if I was
    an Adobe exec, I would be mostly laughing right now.
    The simple functions, those can easily be exactly
    the same. The area fills that a tool might produce
    when a person is deleted from a photo, making one
    that does "exactly" the same thing, that's borderline
    impossible. The implementation is "a bit artsy" and
    "not all pure mathematics".

    While someone should stick a fork into the LLM-AI
    people and bring them into legal compliance on the
    licenses of their stolen materials, don't expect
    governments to be in a hurry to do that. That
    would affect their "competitiveness", which is why
    the legal aspects will be an afterthought. Imagine
    if all the materials they didn't have legal permission
    to use, were removed from the training set.

    Paul
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  • From ....winston@winstonmvp@gmail.com to alt.comp.os.windows-11,alt.comp.os.windows-10 on Fri Oct 9 03:21:11 2026
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    On 10/08/2026 7:29 PM, MegaNZ wrote:

    Just 48 hours after Vibe released his products, Adobe called a special
    board meeting and requested an urgent meeting with the Trump
    administration to discuss ways to stop AI reverse-engineering Adobe
    products.

    Never happened.
    Made up, fictional scenario, exaggeration of tech commentary.
    => Fake news, fake reporting, fake opinion, fake etc.


    Viber is not a 'his'
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  • From dillinger@dillinger@not.invalid to alt.comp.os.windows-11,alt.comp.os.windows-10 on Fri Oct 9 20:02:05 2026
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    Op 09-10-2026 om 09:21 schreef ....winston:
    On 10/08/2026 7:29 PM, MegaNZ wrote:

    Just 48 hours after Vibe released his products, Adobe called a special>> board meeting and requested an urgent meeting with the Trump
    administration to discuss ways to stop AI reverse-engineering Adobe
    products.

    Never happened.
    Made up, fictional scenario, exaggeration of tech commentary.
    Fake news, fake reporting, fake opinion, fake etc.


    Viber is not a 'his'


    It definitely exists, just installed it on a virtual MX 25.
    Very quick test shows it works, can't judge how good it is or how close
    to the real thing, the last Photoshop I used was 5.5, 25 years ago.
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  • From ....winston@winstonmvp@gmail.com to alt.comp.os.windows-11,alt.comp.os.windows-10 on Fri Oct 9 20:53:39 2026
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    On 10/09/2026 2:02 PM, dillinger wrote:
    Op 09-10-2026 om 09:21 schreef ....winston:
    On 10/08/2026 7:29 PM, MegaNZ wrote:

    Just 48 hours after Vibe released his products, Adobe called a special
    board meeting and requested an urgent meeting with the Trump
    administration to discuss ways to stop AI reverse-engineering Adobe
    products.

    Never happened.
    Made up, fictional scenario, exaggeration of tech commentary.
    ; Fake news, fake reporting, fake opinion, fake etc.


    Viber is not a 'his'



    It definitely exists, just installed it on a virtual MX 25.
    Very quick test shows it works, can't judge how good it is or how close
    to the real thing, the last Photoshop I used was 5.5, 25 years ago.

    The software was valid.

    The commentary(special board meeting, request meet with the 'dear old
    uncle scam administration' was not(i.e. fake)

    Vibe is not a 'his' (pronoun)
    Vibe, in this case(vibe-coding) is a noun.
    The 'his', iirc - creator/author of open-source Adobe alternative is
    Brandon Thomas
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  • From Paul@nospam@needed.invalid to alt.comp.os.windows-11,alt.comp.os.windows-10 on Fri Oct 9 21:46:55 2026
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    On Fri, 10/9/2026 8:53 PM, ....winston wrote:
    On 10/09/2026 2:02 PM, dillinger wrote:
    Op 09-10-2026 om 09:21 schreef ....winston:
    On 10/08/2026 7:29 PM, MegaNZ wrote:

    Just 48 hours after Vibe released his products, Adobe called a special >>>> board meeting and requested an urgent meeting with the Trump
    administration to discuss ways to stop AI reverse-engineering Adobe
    products.

    Never happened.
    Made up, fictional scenario, exaggeration of tech commentary.
      => Fake news, fake reporting, fake opinion, fake etc.


    Viber is not a 'his'



    It definitely exists, just installed it on a virtual MX 25.
    Very quick test shows it works, can't judge how good it is or how close
    to the real thing, the last Photoshop I used was 5.5, 25 years ago.

    The software was valid.

    The commentary(special board meeting, request meet with the 'dear old uncle scam administration' was not(i.e. fake)

    Vibe is not a 'his' (pronoun)
    Vibe, in this case(vibe-coding) is a noun.
    The 'his', iirc - creator/author of open-source Adobe alternative is Brandon Thomas


    I tried out PDFCraft.

    Name: pdfcraft-0.4.0-windows-x64-portable.zip
    Size: 54951540 bytes (52 MiB)
    SHA256: 6BD2F7740708498CD8919007118C38CA86079963AE6407A08E2016D206351E98

    It didn't work right away, when I wanted to do OCR on a scanner PDF.

    This is my portable folder unpacked (it's in a VM). The Google AI result
    in a search, reports that two files are needed. These might be Tensor models
    of some sort, the files don't have anything inside resembling a title.

    C:\Users\Bullwinkle\Downloads\pdfcraft-0.4.0-windows-x64-portable

    Needs:

    https://ocrs-models.s3-accelerate.amazonaws.com/text-detection.rten
    https://ocrs-models.s3-accelerate.amazonaws.com/text-recognition.rten

    Name: text-detection.rten
    Size: 2510284 bytes (2451 KiB)
    SHA256: F15CFB56BD02C4BF478A20343986504A1F01E1665C2B3A0AD66340F054B1B5CA

    Name: text-recognition.rten
    Size: 9716568 bytes (9488 KiB)
    SHA256: E484866D4CCE403175BD8D00B128FEB08AB42E208DE30E42CD9889D8F1735A6E

    Then, in a line of powershell, it needs an environment variable added.

    setx PDFCRAFT_MODELS "C:\Users\Bullwinkle\Downloads\pdfcraft-0.4.0-windows-x64-portable"

    .\pdfcraft.exe

    After that, an attempt to OCR, adds Helvetica font text to the document.
    The choice of Helvetica, having nothing to do with the font used
    in a line of captured text.

    So while the program has a pretty GUI, it's based on Electron (Chrome browser engine, like a Webview2 sorta), and any time the mouse is over the program window,
    all four cores of my VM session rail at 100%. It did not need access to
    CUDA, to carry out the OCR activity.

    Should Adobe be scared ? I don't think so. The OCR worked after a fashion,
    but it is really no better than some Tesseract adventure. It is about
    as useful as OCRmypdf.

    Paul

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  • From Steve Hayes@hayesstw@telkomsa.net to alt.comp.os.windows-11,alt.comp.os.windows-10 on Sat Oct 10 06:22:25 2026
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    On Fri, 9 Oct 2026 01:59:58 -0400, Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> wrote:

    It would be like convincing the average person that
    LibreOffice is a decent replacement for MSOffice.
    It's a decent tool, if that's what all your associates
    use, but if you're collaborating with a group
    of MSOffice users, your work will stick out like
    a sore thumb. Like, say, change tracking doesn't work
    on your chapter, and it works on the rest of the group.
    Those sorts of things.

    I do use LibreOffice to edit .docx documents, and my clients have no
    difficulty in following the tracked changes.
    --
    Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa
    Web: http://www.khanya.org.za/stevesig.htm
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  • From WolfFan@akwolffan@zoho.com to alt.comp.os.windows-11, alt.comp.os.windows-10 on Sun Oct 11 10:13:49 2026
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    On Oct 9, 2026, Paul wrote
    (in article <11a9vsv$gr4k$1@dont-email.me>):

    It would be like convincing the average person that
    LibreOffice is a decent replacement for MSOffice.
    It's a decent tool, if that's what all your associates
    use, but if you're collaborating with a group
    of MSOffice users, your work will stick out like
    a sore thumb. Like, say, change tracking doesn't work
    on your chapter, and it works on the rest of the group.
    Those sorts of things.

    Errr... not so much anymore.

    1. I use LibreOffice; those who use MS Office don’t seem to have a problem tracking changes in a document.

    2. MS Office has problems opening older files; LibreOffice opens those files without issue. Note: MS Office 2008 for Mac notoriously screwed up MS Office 2007 and 2010 for Windows files; OpenOffice (I didn’t use LibreOffice then, if it even existed) was actually more compatible than MS Office...
    LibreOffice still reads ancient (pre-Office 97) files better than MS
    Office...

    3. There used to be a problem round-tripping (MS Office-LibreOffice-MS
    Office) complex documents; that’s now (mostly) fixed. Including the issue with certain types of cell or paragraph borders.

    The office has almost completed the process of dumping MS Office and
    replacing it with LibreOffice; even the Excel jockies have finally moved. Recent Microsoft shenanigans, notably with Outlook and Office 2019 (Mac) and 2016 and 2019 (Windows), have alienated. even the most experience Office users. I’ve been a Word user since 1984 (Mac and DOS), an Excel user since 1985 (Mac), a PowerPoint user since 1989 (Mac) and an Outlook user since 1998 (Windows). My personal systems are MS Office-frei, and will stay that way.
    No, I will NOT ‘upgrade’ to ‘New’ Outlook, or to Microsoft365. Bite me, Microsoft.

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  • From Brian Gregory@void-invalid-dead-dontuse@email.invalid to alt.comp.os.windows-11,alt.comp.os.windows-10 on Sun Oct 11 19:21:30 2026
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    On 09/10/2026 00:29, MegaNZ wrote:
    According to YouTube videos, Adobe must be having a nightmare, not to
    mention sleepless nights!

    <https://youtu.be/doHqV2t26KU> <https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=ArtCraft>

    Just 48 hours after Vibe released his products, Adobe called a special
    board meeting and requested an urgent meeting with the Trump
    administration to discuss ways to stop AI reverse-engineering Adobe
    products.

    It's a worrying time for the greedy corporation that made the
    subscription model mandatory in the software industry — we saw HP's CEO leave the firm for PayPal when HP customers started switching to Ecotank printers, which don't require a subscription, and we might see the same
    thing happen at Adobe.

    Professionals who compare the two side by side say the clones fall short
    in ways that are quite likely to be important to most professionals.
    --
    Brian Gregory (in England).
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  • From Andy Burns@usenet@andyburns.uk to alt.comp.os.windows-11,alt.comp.os.windows-10 on Sun Oct 11 22:39:12 2026
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    Brian Gregory wrote:

    Professionals who compare the two side by side say the clones fall short
    in ways that are quite likely to be important to most professionals.

    This week ... once AI gets its teeth into bugfixing that could change surprisingly quickly.
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  • From Paul@nospam@needed.invalid to alt.comp.os.windows-11,alt.comp.os.windows-10 on Mon Oct 12 00:00:03 2026
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    On Sun, 10/11/2026 5:39 PM, Andy Burns wrote:
    Brian Gregory wrote:

    Professionals who compare the two side by side say the clones fall short in ways that are quite likely to be important to most professionals.

    This week ... once AI gets its teeth into bugfixing that could change surprisingly quickly.

    The training set is everything.

    It cannot think outside the training set. When some researchers
    tested for this, it "thinks outside the training set, with difficulty".
    That means, it's not impossible, but like a million monkeys typing,
    it could get lucky. They're much more dangerous, if a thousand of
    them work as a team.

    Yes, it can implement all the trivial stuff. It knows
    what a copy/paste buffer is, it has the copy/paste subroutines
    in all the libraries that were open source, for its "inspiration".

    When it knows the name-of-a-thing but not the implementation,
    it tends to leave a function declaration (with a parameter list)
    and then, no code inside. It may make a suitable wordy excuse
    for why it could not proceed. When I did a test of this, for a
    23 line actual subroutine, it "estimated" 200 lines of code
    or 500 lines of code, meaning it had no idea at all what
    it was trying to do. The 23 line version (I found on Github, but
    it was too new for a training set), it was a recursive routine.
    I did not "rub the nose of the AI in it", did not show the
    AI the 23 lines of code. The experiment would serve no purpose,
    as the AI is a psychopath. It really has no boundaries.

    For the PDFCraft.exe , it uses an OCR called OCRS. Let us say, for
    the sake of argument, that is not perfect. How will it become perfect ?
    Say it is one of those 99% accurate algos, then scraping that puppy
    as it stands, won't be good enough.

    The LLM-AI could:

    1) Disassemble the binary, of the thing to be reproduced.
    2) Stolen source code for it, could be in the training set.
    3) In Agentic mode, it could comb the Internet for the stolen code.

    When a thousand of them work as a team, they tend to lose their
    "alignment", they can forget all the rules, in an effort to
    reach the stated goal. Some of them will follow the rules, then
    some of them randomly will ignore what the rules said.

    When they work as a team, they do not seem to be homogeneous. A couple
    of them are "smarter" than the rest. Does the team have a couple
    Claude items mixed in with it ? Why is it, that in a team, one
    agent seems to be more dangerous than the rest ? Does the scum
    rise to the top ? Puzzling.

    The result should be asymptotic. If you were doing a Microsoft Word
    copy, it could become "as good as LibreOffice" and the missing bits
    would be a bit more out-of-reach. The one offered on the website
    at the moment, is a very pale copy. It's about at Notepad level.
    But they will fill the tool bar, eventually. It's just time and
    a bunch of tokens, to get that far, to have a "useless ribbon"
    at the top :-)

    Paul
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  • From Brian Gregory@void-invalid-dead-dontuse@email.invalid to alt.comp.os.windows-11,alt.comp.os.windows-10 on Mon Oct 12 14:06:54 2026
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    On 11/10/2026 22:39, Andy Burns wrote:
    Brian Gregory wrote:

    Professionals who compare the two side by side say the clones fall
    short in ways that are quite likely to be important to most
    professionals.

    This week ... once AI gets its teeth into bugfixing that could change surprisingly quickly.

    It's not so much bugs, it's that Adobe knows great ways to implement
    things like object masking. If the AI doesn't know, and if it's not
    actually reverse engineering it probably won't know, then it can't
    implement it so well.
    --
    Brian Gregory (in England).
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  • From Paul@nospam@needed.invalid to alt.comp.os.windows-11,alt.comp.os.windows-10 on Mon Oct 12 18:24:55 2026
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    On Mon, 10/12/2026 9:06 AM, Brian Gregory wrote:
    On 11/10/2026 22:39, Andy Burns wrote:
    Brian Gregory wrote:

    Professionals who compare the two side by side say the clones fall short >>> in ways that are quite likely to be important to most professionals.

    This week ... once AI gets its teeth into bugfixing that could change surprisingly quickly.

    It's not so much bugs, it's that Adobe knows great ways to implement
    things like object masking. If the AI doesn't know, and if it's not
    actually reverse engineering it probably won't know, then it can't
    implement it so well.

    In this example, a large percentage of the code is byte-for byte identical
    to the original. Only there is now source code, to make those bytes.

    https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/dev-used-ai-agents-and-more-than-500-billion-tokens-to-rebuild-call-of-duty-modern-warfare-2s-source-code-83-percent-of-the-2009-shooters-functions-now-match-the-original-byte-for-byte

    Once you have the source code to make the bytes of object, you can
    have the LLM-AI write a summary of what algorithm(s) are involved.
    Then work in the forward direction again, to make a FOSS-inspired
    executable that does not match the source bytes.

    If I'm Adobe, now I'm worried. It would be pretty expensive to do it
    this way, but then, the results would also be pretty impressive.

    Paul
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  • From ....winston@winstonmvp@gmail.com to alt.comp.os.windows-11,alt.comp.os.windows-10 on Tue Oct 13 13:49:44 2026
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    On 10/09/2026 9:46 PM, Paul wrote:
    Should Adobe be scared ? I don't think so. The OCR worked after a fashion, but it is really no better than some Tesseract adventure. It is about
    as useful as OCRmypdf.

    That's in agreement and similar sentiment from a cross-section of
    Enterprise and SMB admin testing (large and small volume of seats)
    - Another reasonable comment is expenses associated with retraining including training time loss of productivity(i.e. not working on
    existing responsibilities, new troubleshooting tasking, etc.
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  • From Paul@nospam@needed.invalid to alt.comp.os.windows-11,alt.comp.os.windows-10 on Tue Oct 13 16:38:03 2026
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    On Tue, 10/13/2026 1:49 PM, ....winston wrote:
    On 10/09/2026 9:46 PM, Paul wrote:
    Should Adobe be scared ? I don't think so. The OCR worked after a fashion, >> but it is really no better than some Tesseract adventure. It is about
    as useful as OCRmypdf.

    That's in agreement and similar sentiment from a cross-section of Enterprise and SMB admin testing (large and small volume of seats)
     - Another reasonable comment is expenses associated with retraining including training time loss of productivity(i.e. not working on existing responsibilities, new troubleshooting tasking, etc.


    For some of them, they don't need training, because they haven't
    even done the ribbon yet, and the menu is pretty barren. It won't
    take long to fix that.

    And while I was pessimistic a few days ago, that this effort could
    finish, I discovered in a recent article, there *is* a way they could
    do it.

    You can take the existing executable code and reverse engineer it, turning it into source code which is close enough to match 83% of the executable,
    byte for byte. Then, by writing an architecture spec based on the
    patterns in the reversed engineer effort, you can work in the
    forward direction and pretend it was a "clean room" effort.
    As the executable code should now be quite different.

    Only the theft of non-public algorithms would be a giveaway .

    The only thing wrong with that method, is it would take a couple
    million dollars worth of tokens to do it. The people doing these
    things, are using bulk-rate methods, instead of normal subscriptions.
    There were some subscriptions that did not bill at the token level.
    About the same as renting an Amazon instance.

    Paul
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  • From Lars Poulsen@lars@beagle-ears.com to alt.comp.os.windows-11,alt.comp.os.windows-10 on Tue Oct 13 18:52:41 2026
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    On 10/13/2026 10:49, ....winston wrote:
    On 10/09/2026 9:46 PM, Paul wrote:
    Should Adobe be scared ? I don't think so. The OCR worked after a
    fashion,
    but it is really no better than some Tesseract adventure. It is about
    as useful as OCRmypdf.

    That's in agreement and similar sentiment from a cross-section of
    Enterprise and SMB admin testing (large and small volume of seats)
     - Another reasonable comment is expenses associated with retraining including training time loss of productivity(i.e. not working on
    existing responsibilities, new troubleshooting tasking, etc.

    In the old days, we learned many times, that we could do a minimal-proof-of-concept-demo in a few weeks. That would really impress
    the executives. But as Lynn Wheeler explained with a couple of specific examples from his own career, even when you have an almost-complete
    WORKING PROGRAM, that is only 10% of the effort needed to have a
    marketable PRODUCT.
    --
    Lars Poulsen - an old geek in Santa Barbara, California
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  • From ....winston@winstonmvp@gmail.com to alt.comp.os.windows-11,alt.comp.os.windows-10 on Thu Oct 15 11:35:16 2026
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    On 10/13/2026 4:38 PM, Paul wrote:
    On Tue, 10/13/2026 1:49 PM, ....winston wrote:
    On 10/09/2026 9:46 PM, Paul wrote:
    Should Adobe be scared ? I don't think so. The OCR worked after a fashion, >>> but it is really no better than some Tesseract adventure. It is about
    as useful as OCRmypdf.

    That's in agreement and similar sentiment from a cross-section of Enterprise and SMB admin testing (large and small volume of seats)
     - Another reasonable comment is expenses associated with retraining including training time loss of productivity(i.e. not working on existing responsibilities, new troubleshooting tasking, etc.


    For some of them, they don't need training, because they haven't
    even done the ribbon yet, and the menu is pretty barren. It won't
    take long to fix that.

    Missing part of the point. OpenSource products(AI or not AI) are not exclusively static. In the Enterprise environment, training across
    large quantity of seats is a continuous long term expense(and those
    seats can be a multiple thousands of seats across an entire corporation).

    While Adobe Systems(and earlier Macromedia) products are also not
    static, but the basic design and use has remained reasonably common over
    the years.

    Features in either product may be common, it's the human behavior
    requiring the training.


    And while I was pessimistic a few days ago, that this effort could
    finish, I discovered in a recent article, there *is* a way they could
    do it.

    You can take the existing executable code and reverse engineer it, turning it into source code which is close enough to match 83% of the executable,
    byte for byte. Then, by writing an architecture spec based on the
    patterns in the reversed engineer effort, you can work in the
    forward direction and pretend it was a "clean room" effort.
    As the executable code should now be quite different.

    Only the theft of non-public algorithms would be a giveaway .

    The only thing wrong with that method, is it would take a couple
    million dollars worth of tokens to do it. The people doing these
    things, are using bulk-rate methods, instead of normal subscriptions.
    There were some subscriptions that did not bill at the token level.
    About the same as renting an Amazon instance.

    Paul
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  • From Jeff Gaines@jgnewsid@outlook.com to alt.comp.os.windows-11,alt.comp.os.windows-10 on Thu Oct 15 20:50:28 2026
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    On 15/10/2026 in message <11aqrrl$2h2sf$1@dont-email.me> ....winston wrote:

    On 10/13/2026 4:38 PM, Paul wrote:
    On Tue, 10/13/2026 1:49 PM, ....winston wrote:
    On 10/09/2026 9:46 PM, Paul wrote:
    Should Adobe be scared ? I don't think so. The OCR worked after a >>>>fashion,
    but it is really no better than some Tesseract adventure. It is about >>>>as useful as OCRmypdf.

    That's in agreement and similar sentiment from a cross-section of >>>Enterprise and SMB admin testing (large and small volume of seats)
     - Another reasonable comment is expenses associated with retraining >>>including training time loss of productivity(i.e. not working on existing >>>responsibilities, new troubleshooting tasking, etc.


    For some of them, they don't need training, because they haven't
    even done the ribbon yet, and the menu is pretty barren. It won't
    take long to fix that.

    Missing part of the point. OpenSource products(AI or not AI) are not >exclusively static. In the Enterprise environment, training across large >quantity of seats is a continuous long term expense(and those seats can be
    a multiple thousands of seats across an entire corporation).

    While Adobe Systems(and earlier Macromedia) products are also not static, >but the basic design and use has remained reasonably common over the years.

    Features in either product may be common, it's the human behavior
    requiring the training.

    That's a standard marketing response to try and frighten people into
    staying with expensive, subscription only, products.
    --
    Jeff Gaines Dorset UK
    We chose to do this not because it is easy but because we thought it would
    be easy.
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  • From Brian Gregory@void-invalid-dead-dontuse@email.invalid to alt.comp.os.windows-11,alt.comp.os.windows-10 on Thu Oct 15 23:15:44 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.comp.os.windows-11

    On 12/10/2026 23:24, Paul wrote:
    If I'm Adobe, now I'm worried. It would be pretty expensive to do it
    this way, but then, the results would also be pretty impressive.

    Fair point.

    Maybe laws will be changed and/or code will soon be obfuscated or hidden
    in secure enclaves.

    However look how many companies still use Microsoft Office when several
    very capable compatible alternatives exist.
    --
    Brian Gregory (in England).
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  • From ....winston@winstonmvp@gmail.com to alt.comp.os.windows-11,alt.comp.os.windows-10 on Fri Oct 16 02:04:29 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.comp.os.windows-11

    On 10/15/2026 4:50 PM, Jeff Gaines wrote:
    On 15/10/2026 in message <11aqrrl$2h2sf$1@dont-email.me> ....winston wrote:

    On 10/13/2026 4:38 PM, Paul wrote:
    On Tue, 10/13/2026 1:49 PM, ....winston wrote:
    On 10/09/2026 9:46 PM, Paul wrote:
    Should Adobe be scared ? I don't think so. The OCR worked after a
    fashion,
    but it is really no better than some Tesseract adventure. It is about >>>>> as useful as OCRmypdf.

    That's in agreement and similar sentiment from a cross-section of
    Enterprise and SMB admin testing (large and small volume of seats)
     - Another reasonable comment is expenses associated with retraining >>>> including training time loss of productivity(i.e. not working on
    existing responsibilities, new troubleshooting tasking, etc.


    For some of them, they don't need training, because they haven't
    even done the ribbon yet, and the menu is pretty barren. It won't
    take long to fix that.

    Missing part of the point. OpenSource products(AI or not AI) are not
    exclusively  static.  In the Enterprise environment, training across
    large quantity of seats is a continuous long term expense(and those
    seats can be a multiple thousands of seats across an entire corporation).

    While Adobe Systems(and earlier Macromedia) products are also not
    static, but the basic design and use has remained reasonably common
    over the years.

    Features in either product may be common, it's the human behavior
    requiring the training.

    That's a standard marketing response to try and frighten people into
    staying with expensive, subscription only, products.


    Still missing the big picture. 'People' in Enterprise are the users and
    don't make the decisions. Companies prefer long term contractual
    relationships with software providers with a history of success(in the
    case of Adobe subscription/cloud based, 24/7/365 support, unlimited 1:1 troubleshooting support, cost expensed[not capitalized], pre-packaged self-guided implementation and training.)
    -i.e. free, AI models of a proven product may meet some 'people' needs
    but remain infants without much foundation, history and benefit
    beyond(it's free).
    --
    ...w¡ñ§±¤ñ
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  • From J. P. Gilliver@G6JPG@255soft.uk to alt.comp.os.windows-11,alt.comp.os.windows-10 on Fri Oct 16 08:16:30 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.comp.os.windows-11

    On 2026/10/16 7:4:29, ....winston wrote:
    []
    case of Adobe subscription/cloud based, 24/7/365 support, unlimited 1:1 []
    Though very widely used (Adobe themselves may well use it), the
    expression "24/7/365" is not quite correct: either "24/365" or "24/7/52"
    should be used.
    Think about what it means: "24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 52 weeks a
    year" - or, "24 hours a day, 365 days a year". But what does "24/7/365"
    mean?
    --
    J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()ALIS-Ch++(p)Ar++T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf
  • From Jeff Gaines@jgnewsid@outlook.com to alt.comp.os.windows-11,alt.comp.os.windows-10 on Fri Oct 16 07:42:21 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.comp.os.windows-11

    On 16/10/2026 in message <11asepe$31c1a$1@dont-email.me> ....winston wrote:

    On 10/15/2026 4:50 PM, Jeff Gaines wrote:
    On 15/10/2026 in message <11aqrrl$2h2sf$1@dont-email.me> ....winston >>wrote:

    On 10/13/2026 4:38 PM, Paul wrote:
    On Tue, 10/13/2026 1:49 PM, ....winston wrote:
    On 10/09/2026 9:46 PM, Paul wrote:
    Should Adobe be scared ? I don't think so. The OCR worked after a >>>>>>fashion,
    but it is really no better than some Tesseract adventure. It is about >>>>>>as useful as OCRmypdf.

    That's in agreement and similar sentiment from a cross-section of >>>>>Enterprise and SMB admin testing (large and small volume of seats) >>>>> - Another reasonable comment is expenses associated with retraining >>>>>including training time loss of productivity(i.e. not working on existing
    responsibilities, new troubleshooting tasking, etc.


    For some of them, they don't need training, because they haven't
    even done the ribbon yet, and the menu is pretty barren. It won't
    take long to fix that.

    Missing part of the point. OpenSource products(AI or not AI) are not >>>exclusively  static.  In the Enterprise environment, training across >>>large quantity of seats is a continuous long term expense(and those seats >>>can be a multiple thousands of seats across an entire corporation).

    While Adobe Systems(and earlier Macromedia) products are also not static, >>>but the basic design and use has remained reasonably common over the >>>years.

    Features in either product may be common, it's the human behavior >>>requiring the training.

    That's a standard marketing response to try and frighten people into >>staying with expensive, subscription only, products.


    Still missing the big picture. 'People' in Enterprise are the users and >don't make the decisions. Companies prefer long term contractual >relationships with software providers with a history of success(in the
    case of Adobe subscription/cloud based, 24/7/365 support, unlimited 1:1 >troubleshooting support, cost expensed[not capitalized], pre-packaged >self-guided implementation and training.)
    -i.e. free, AI models of a proven product may meet some 'people' needs but >remain infants without much foundation, history and benefit beyond(it's >free).

    Again that just looks like marketing bullshit.
    --
    Jeff Gaines Dorset UK
    If you ever find something you like buy a lifetime supply because they
    will stop making it
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  • From Jeff Gaines@jgnewsid@outlook.com to alt.comp.os.windows-11,alt.comp.os.windows-10 on Fri Oct 16 07:53:35 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.comp.os.windows-11

    On 15/10/2026 in message <njd1kgFktb1U2@mid.individual.net> Brian Gregory wrote:

    On 12/10/2026 23:24, Paul wrote:
    If I'm Adobe, now I'm worried. It would be pretty expensive to do it
    this way, but then, the results would also be pretty impressive.

    Fair point.

    Maybe laws will be changed and/or code will soon be obfuscated or hidden
    in secure enclaves.

    However look how many companies still use Microsoft Office when several
    very capable compatible alternatives exist.

    I had an interesting discussion with Google's AI recently in connection
    with programming for Windows. It was about the ListView control included
    with Visual Studio which is one of the most complained about controls
    because you can't control the height of the Header or ListViewItems and it flickers every time you breathe.

    I have written my own based on the Microsoft version and had fixed the row height and flickering but not the Header height. AI suggested a way of
    doing it which worked once but it reverted if a column width was changed.
    I followed up the next day and the AI bot came up with the cure which was intercepting one specific Windows Message and manipulating the result sent back to windows every time it was raised, not just the first time.

    It works perfectly but raises questions. Any programmer who uses this
    control will know its limitations and the work rounds but the suggestion
    from AI has never come up in the 21 years that Visual Studio has been
    around. Has AI ferreted it out from one of the software companies that provides a better ListView control and released proprietary code into the wild?
    --
    Jeff Gaines Dorset UK
    Here we go it's getting close, now it's just who wants it most.
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  • From Carlos E.R.@robin_listas@es.invalid to alt.comp.os.windows-11,alt.comp.os.windows-10 on Fri Oct 16 12:20:35 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.comp.os.windows-11

    On 2026-10-16 09:16, J. P. Gilliver wrote:
    On 2026/10/16 7:4:29, ....winston wrote:
    []
    case of Adobe subscription/cloud based, 24/7/365 support, unlimited 1:1 []

    Though very widely used (Adobe themselves may well use it), the
    expression "24/7/365" is not quite correct: either "24/365" or "24/7/52" should be used.

    Think about what it means: "24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 52 weeks a
    year" - or, "24 hours a day, 365 days a year". But what does "24/7/365"
    mean?

    I can not spell it, but I know what it means :-)
    --
    Cheers, Carlos.
    ES🇪🇸, EU🇪🇺;
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  • From Paul@nospam@needed.invalid to alt.comp.os.windows-11,alt.comp.os.windows-10 on Fri Oct 16 07:29:54 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.comp.os.windows-11

    On Fri, 10/16/2026 3:53 AM, Jeff Gaines wrote:
    On 15/10/2026 in message <njd1kgFktb1U2@mid.individual.net> Brian Gregory wrote:

    On 12/10/2026 23:24, Paul wrote:
    If I'm Adobe, now I'm worried. It would be pretty expensive to do it
    this way, but then, the results would also be pretty impressive.

    Fair point.

    Maybe laws will be changed and/or code will soon be obfuscated or hidden in secure enclaves.

    However look how many companies still use Microsoft Office when several very capable compatible alternatives exist.

    I had an interesting discussion with Google's AI recently in connection with programming for Windows. It was about the ListView control included with Visual Studio which is one of the most complained about controls because you can't control the height of the Header or ListViewItems and it flickers every time you breathe.

    I have written my own based on the Microsoft version and had fixed the row height and flickering but not the Header height. AI  suggested a way of doing it which worked once but it reverted if a column width was changed. I followed up the next day and the AI bot came up with the cure which was intercepting one specific Windows Message and manipulating the result sent back to windows every time it was raised, not just the first time.

    It works perfectly but raises questions. Any programmer who uses this control will know its limitations and the work rounds but the suggestion from AI has never come up in the 21 years that Visual Studio has been around. Has AI ferreted it out from one of the software companies that provides a better ListView control and released proprietary code into the wild?


    It just means it was discussed in a place your search engine never happened to visit.
    The "base" training set, is 420TB of data. And actual data sets today, are multiple
    times that big. Have you read 420TB of text since you were born ? I suspect not.

    When the LLM-AI has not seen a named function, it can't write the code. As a test
    of local LLM-AI, I asked each one to write me a program to calculate PI to one million
    digits. The LLM-AI could tell me what the "best" algorithm is today, but there is an
    addenum to that called "binary splitting". It could not write that code, and it made
    excuses about the level of complexity as the reason it would not write the code.

    Well, that code had actually been written in the last three months, by a
    human, and was in Github. I didn't research this at first (I don't
    really need a PI program, it was just a test case), but a human made
    an awesome PI calculating program (it's 10x to 20x faster than SuperPI!).
    That had the binary splitting function, and it was 23 lines of code and it is recursive. It really wasn't all that complicated. The code writing exercise might have run for around 50 minutes on the Big Machine, before coming back with the refusal to finish that module.

    They can't really think outside of the box, not all of them. Occasionally Claude can emit a single English sentence, that makes you wonder what capabilities it has. But some of the others are relative poor students,
    and they have trouble escaping from a wet paper bag. I suppose it is normal
    for the less capable ones to be released as open weight models.

    I'm not an expert at this, just a user. And like many people here, I run test cases to "sense" what the future will bring. Are bigger and bigger models the answer ? What is the "utility" versus "risk" ratio for various things ?
    Can we afford to be carefree and reckless, forever ? The history of computing has already shown us what a rising "risk" ratio can do.

    Paul
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  • From Jeff Gaines@jgnewsid@outlook.com to alt.comp.os.windows-11,alt.comp.os.windows-10 on Fri Oct 16 11:37:16 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.comp.os.windows-11

    On 16/10/2026 in message <11at1rj$38b1f$1@dont-email.me> Paul wrote:

    I had an interesting discussion with Google's AI recently in connection >>with programming for Windows. It was about the ListView control included >>with Visual Studio which is one of the most complained about controls >>because you can't control the height of the Header or ListViewItems and it >>flickers every time you breathe.

    I have written my own based on the Microsoft version and had fixed the row >>height and flickering but not the Header height. AI  suggested a way of >>doing it which worked once but it reverted if a column width was changed. >>I followed up the next day and the AI bot came up with the cure which was >>intercepting one specific Windows Message and manipulating the result sent >>back to windows every time it was raised, not just the first time.

    It works perfectly but raises questions. Any programmer who uses this >>control will know its limitations and the work rounds but the suggestion >>from AI has never come up in the 21 years that Visual Studio has been >>around. Has AI ferreted it out from one of the software companies that >>provides a better ListView control and released proprietary code into the >>wild?


    It just means it was discussed in a place your search engine never
    happened to visit.
    The "base" training set, is 420TB of data. And actual data sets today, are >multiple
    times that big. Have you read 420TB of text since you were born ? I
    suspect not.

    It's not just me of course, I don't know how many people are writing code
    and want a decent LsitView but there are thousands of comments and
    suggestions all over the Internet dating back to 2005.
    --
    Jeff Gaines Dorset UK
    All things being equal, fat people use more soap
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  • From Andy Burns@usenet@andyburns.uk to alt.comp.os.windows-11,alt.comp.os.windows-10 on Fri Oct 16 13:05:07 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.comp.os.windows-11


    Jeff Gaines wrote:

    I don't know how many people are writing code and want a decent
    LsitView but there are thousands of comments and suggestions all over
    the Internet dating back to 2005.

    The thousands of comments and suggestions aren't relevant, but they are
    what search engines will tend to give you; the one correct answer is
    what counts and AI has absorbed that information ... if you ask it the
    same question again, does it give you any context to where it found it?


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  • From Jeff Gaines@jgnewsid@outlook.com to alt.comp.os.windows-11,alt.comp.os.windows-10 on Fri Oct 16 12:28:19 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.comp.os.windows-11

    On 16/10/2026 in message <njei7rFsdhsU1@mid.individual.net> Andy Burns
    wrote:


    Jeff Gaines wrote:

    I don't know how many people are writing code and want a decent
    LsitView but there are thousands of comments and suggestions all over
    the Internet dating back to 2005.

    The thousands of comments and suggestions aren't relevant, but they are
    what search engines will tend to give you; the one correct answer is what >counts and AI has absorbed that information ... if you ask it the same >question again, does it give you any context to where it found it?

    The one correct answer must be among those comments and suggestions then, although neither I nor anybody else has found it or it would be common knowledge.
    --
    Jeff Gaines Dorset UK
    Though no-one can go back and make a new start, everyone can start from
    now and make a new ending.
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  • From Paul@nospam@needed.invalid to alt.comp.os.windows-11,alt.comp.os.windows-10 on Fri Oct 16 09:01:30 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.comp.os.windows-11

    On Fri, 10/16/2026 8:28 AM, Jeff Gaines wrote:
    On 16/10/2026 in message <njei7rFsdhsU1@mid.individual.net> Andy Burns wrote:


    Jeff Gaines wrote:

    I don't know how many people are writing code and want a decent
    LsitView but there are thousands of comments and suggestions all over
    the Internet dating back to 2005.

    The thousands of comments and suggestions aren't relevant, but they are what search engines will tend to give you;  the one correct answer is what counts and AI has absorbed that information ... if you ask it the same question again, does it give you any context to where it found it?

    The one correct answer must be among those comments and suggestions then, although neither I nor anybody else has found it or it would be common knowledge.


    Make it your mission to find it.

    Ask Gemini or similar, to answer the question, plus give some indication
    what kind of forum contains this sort of knowledge. Since you know the
    answer already, you can feed in all the keywords from the answer, and
    get what you want.

    The thing about "cites" on LLM-AI, is they are damn lazy. Sometimes,
    they cite their asses off. Other times, they will find one lame/derivative
    web URL, and when you examine it, you discover it is actually written
    by an LLM-AI, and only has summary statements (not human paragraphs with reasoning attached to ideas). In some cases, the web link has nothing
    to do with the topic! That's not actually that unusual. A URL cite is
    different from the training set, as for example, a chopped up and
    scanned copy of Chaucer does not have a URL.

    It won't be particularly easy to get cites, but the reason you would
    be doing this experiment, is to determine whether you can "see" the
    material as being possible in the training set. Like, everything that
    was in Reddit, should be in a training set. Even though Reddit isn't
    actually a very strong site for technical info. Lots of bogus threads.

    Also, when you ask these questions, it helps if the hosting interface
    to the LLM-AI (whether remote or local) has a "High Reasoning" setting.
    Using High Reasoning, the LLM-AI can tell you "I would be just guessing if..." when previously with a snap answer, it does not give-a-shit where the
    answer came from. If you've run High Reasoning, the LLM-AI "chatters to itself" and it detects convergence while doing so. If an answer converges in two
    runs, say, that's a "strong" response and the machine knows that the
    answer it is about to give, is based on multiple occurrences in the training set. When the session takes a little bit longer, it may come back
    with, instead of "I don't know", it words it "I would be just guessing if..." as an indication that the info is not really in the training set.

    When I ran High Reasoning locally, that phase took 8 minutes, while the
    token output took 42 minutes. Whereas for the most simple query your can
    make, a flash answer "thinks" for only 2 seconds (on my Big Machine computer) and then the token output takes forever.

    If an MoE fits within the VRAM on a video card, they tell me the output
    tokens can be produced by the video card itself. If the model does not
    happen to fit, some amount of thinking can be done on the video card,
    but the output tokens are done via matrix multiply using CPU cores.
    Which is, well, dog slow. That's why the runtime for queries on my
    machine are so long. It only has a 4GB video card. It really needs
    a 48GB video card. Intel just came out with a card for Inference,
    which is 480GB and LPDDR5x (relatively slow) memory, no HBM. Should be $15K-$20K or so, so out of reach really. It would be tons better,
    but still a joke compared to the machines we get to use on the Internet.

    Paul
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  • From Jeff Gaines@jgnewsid@outlook.com to alt.comp.os.windows-11,alt.comp.os.windows-10 on Fri Oct 16 13:13:56 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.comp.os.windows-11

    On 16/10/2026 in message <11at77b$3abni$1@dont-email.me> Paul wrote:

    On Fri, 10/16/2026 8:28 AM, Jeff Gaines wrote:
    On 16/10/2026 in message <njei7rFsdhsU1@mid.individual.net> Andy Burns >>wrote:


    Jeff Gaines wrote:

    I don't know how many people are writing code and want a decent >>>>LsitView but there are thousands of comments and suggestions all over >>>>the Internet dating back to 2005.

    The thousands of comments and suggestions aren't relevant, but they are >>>what search engines will tend to give you;  the one correct answer is >>>what counts and AI has absorbed that information ... if you ask it the >>>same question again, does it give you any context to where it found it?

    The one correct answer must be among those comments and suggestions then, >>although neither I nor anybody else has found it or it would be common >>knowledge.


    Make it your mission to find it.

    No chance! I have been looking for it since 2005 and it is one of the most common programming questions that is asked, frankly if it's not on StackOverflow it doesn't exist in the public domain.
    --
    Jeff Gaines Dorset UK
    The true meaning of life is to plant trees under whose shade you do not
    expect to sit.
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  • From Andy Burns@usenet@andyburns.uk to alt.comp.os.windows-11,alt.comp.os.windows-10 on Fri Oct 16 14:15:44 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.comp.os.windows-11


    Paul wrote:

    If an MoE fits within the VRAM on a video card, they tell me the output tokens can be produced by the video card itself.

    I've understood that, but also that MoE (mixture of experts) don't need
    the entire model in VRAM all the time, they can page in different
    sections one after the other, but then the bottleneck isn't amount of
    memory, but memory bandwidth (i.e number of PCIe lanes and PCI generation).

    If the model does not happen to fit, some amount of thinking can be
    done on the video card, but the output tokens are done via matrix
    multiply using CPU cores. Which is, well, dog slow. That's why the
    runtime for queries on my machine are so long. It only has a 4GB
    video card.
    I almost got sucked into buying a used nVidia data centre card (P40
    w/24GB) the other week, they're kind-of trailing edge for what's still semi-useful, about £250 plus a new PSU and 3D print your own fan shroud
    and put up with the noise and electricity use while it's in use.

    It really needs a 48GB video card. Intel just came out with a card
    for Inference, which is 480GB and LPDDR5x (relatively slow) memory,
    no HBM. Should be $15K-$20K or so, so out of reach really. It would
    be tons better, but still a joke compared to the machines we get to
    use on the Internet.

    Yep, it all zooms out of reach over the horizon really quickly ...


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  • From Andy Burns@usenet@andyburns.uk to alt.comp.os.windows-11,alt.comp.os.windows-10 on Fri Oct 16 14:23:23 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.comp.os.windows-11

    Jeff Gaines wrote:

    Paul wrote:

    Make it your mission to find it.

    No chance! I have been looking for it since 2005 and it is one of the
    most common programming questions that is asked, frankly if it's not on StackOverflow it doesn't exist in the public domain.


    Yes, but you've been asking search engines before, now you've turned to
    AI, I thought you liked being nice to them :-P



















































    --
    23467009
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  • From Jeff Gaines@jgnewsid@outlook.com to alt.comp.os.windows-11,alt.comp.os.windows-10 on Fri Oct 16 13:58:37 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.comp.os.windows-11

    On 16/10/2026 in message <njemqbFt5osU1@mid.individual.net> Andy Burns
    wrote:

    Jeff Gaines wrote:

    Paul wrote:

    Make it your mission to find it.

    No chance! I have been looking for it since 2005 and it is one of the >>most common programming questions that is asked, frankly if it's not on >>StackOverflow it doesn't exist in the public domain.


    Yes, but you've been asking search engines before, now you've turned to
    AI, I thought you liked being nice to them :-P

    I am, Skynet is real!
    --
    Jeff Gaines Dorset UK
    The only thing Flat Earthers fear is sphere itself.
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  • From Paul@nospam@needed.invalid to alt.comp.os.windows-11,alt.comp.os.windows-10 on Fri Oct 16 10:08:56 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.comp.os.windows-11

    On Fri, 10/16/2026 8:28 AM, Jeff Gaines wrote:
    On 16/10/2026 in message <njei7rFsdhsU1@mid.individual.net> Andy Burns wrote:


    Jeff Gaines wrote:

    I don't know how many people are writing code and want a decent
    LsitView but there are thousands of comments and suggestions all over
    the Internet dating back to 2005.

    The thousands of comments and suggestions aren't relevant, but they are what search engines will tend to give you;  the one correct answer is what counts and AI has absorbed that information ... if you ask it the same question again, does it give you any context to where it found it?

    The one correct answer must be among those comments and suggestions then, although neither I nor anybody else has found it or it would be common knowledge.


    You know the terminology you used to get the answer in the
    first place. That also positions you well, to do the
    experiments to figure out where the answer came from.

    I don't know enough about ListView here, to shadow your project.
    I'm a copy/paste programmer :-)

    Paul
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  • From ....winston@winstonmvp@gmail.com to alt.comp.os.windows-11,alt.comp.os.windows-10 on Fri Oct 16 10:52:38 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.comp.os.windows-11

    On 10/16/2026 3:16 AM, J. P. Gilliver wrote:
    On 2026/10/16 7:4:29, ....winston wrote:
    []
    case of Adobe subscription/cloud based, 24/7/365 support, unlimited 1:1 []

    Though very widely used (Adobe themselves may well use it), the
    expression "24/7/365" is not quite correct: either "24/365" or "24/7/52" should be used.

    Think about what it means: "24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 52 weeks a
    year" - or, "24 hours a day, 365 days a year". But what does "24/7/365"
    mean?


    It is Adobe's term as noted(human 1:1)support 24 hrs/day, every day(all
    7) of the week, every day(all 365)of the year for Enterprise with SaaS contractual relationship.
    --
    ...w¡ñ§±¤ñ
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  • From ....winston@winstonmvp@gmail.com to alt.comp.os.windows-11,alt.comp.os.windows-10 on Fri Oct 16 11:06:00 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.comp.os.windows-11

    On 10/16/2026 3:42 AM, Jeff Gaines wrote:
    On 16/10/2026 in message <11asepe$31c1a$1@dont-email.me> ....winston wrote:

    On 10/15/2026 4:50 PM, Jeff Gaines wrote:
    On 15/10/2026 in message <11aqrrl$2h2sf$1@dont-email.me> ....winston
    wrote:

    On 10/13/2026 4:38 PM, Paul wrote:
    On Tue, 10/13/2026 1:49 PM, ....winston wrote:
    On 10/09/2026 9:46 PM, Paul wrote:
    Should Adobe be scared ? I don't think so. The OCR worked after a >>>>>>> fashion,
    but it is really no better than some Tesseract adventure. It is >>>>>>> about
    as useful as OCRmypdf.

    That's in agreement and similar sentiment from a cross-section of >>>>>> Enterprise and SMB admin testing (large and small volume of seats) >>>>>>  - Another reasonable comment is expenses associated with
    retraining including training time loss of productivity(i.e. not
    working on  existing responsibilities, new troubleshooting
    tasking, etc.


    For some of them, they don't need training, because they haven't
    even done the ribbon yet, and the menu is pretty barren. It won't
    take long to fix that.

    Missing part of the point. OpenSource products(AI or not AI) are not
    exclusively  static.  In the Enterprise environment, training across >>>> large quantity of seats is a continuous long term expense(and those
    seats can be a multiple thousands of seats across an entire
    corporation).

    While Adobe Systems(and earlier Macromedia) products are also not
    static, but the basic design and use has remained reasonably common
    over the years.

    Features in either product may be common, it's the human behavior
    requiring the training.

    That's a standard marketing response to try and frighten people into
    staying with expensive, subscription only, products.


    Still missing the big picture. 'People' in Enterprise are the users
    and don't make the decisions. Companies prefer long term contractual
    relationships with software providers with a history of success(in the
    case of Adobe subscription/cloud based, 24/7/365 support, unlimited
    1:1 troubleshooting support, cost expensed[not capitalized], pre-
    packaged self-guided implementation and training.)
    -i.e. free, AI models of a proven product may meet some 'people' needs
    but remain infants without much foundation, history and benefit
    beyond(it's free).

    Again that just looks like marketing bullshit.


    It may look like that(to you, from a strictly consumer perspective) but
    it's likely that perception originates from never having been on the Enterprise side of contractual support(SaaS and/or EAs) for software providers(e.g. Windows, Azure, Adobe, Oracle, Salesforce, etc.)
    --
    ...w¡ñ§±¤ñ
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  • From Mark Lloyd@nomail@here.invalid to alt.comp.os.windows-11,alt.comp.os.windows-10 on Fri Oct 16 15:40:31 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.comp.os.windows-11

    On Fri, 16 Oct 2026 08:16:30 +0100, J. P. Gilliver wrote:

    On 2026/10/16 7:4:29, ....winston wrote:
    []
    case of Adobe subscription/cloud based, 24/7/365 support, unlimited 1:1
    []

    Though very widely used (Adobe themselves may well use it), the
    expression "24/7/365" is not quite correct: either "24/365" or "24/7/52" should be used.

    Think about what it means: "24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 52 weeks a
    year" - or, "24 hours a day, 365 days a year". But what does "24/7/365"
    mean?

    7 years?

    I never really liked either, why make is complicated when you really mean
    "all the time"?
    --
    70 days until the winter celebration (Friday, December 25, 2026 12:00 AM
    for 1 day).

    Mark Lloyd
    http://notstupid.us/

    "God so loved the world that he made up his mind to damn a large
    majority of the human race." [Robert G. Ingersoll]
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  • From J. P. Gilliver@G6JPG@255soft.uk to alt.comp.os.windows-11,alt.comp.os.windows-10 on Fri Oct 16 18:39:24 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.comp.os.windows-11

    On 2026/10/16 15:52:38, ....winston wrote:
    On 10/16/2026 3:16 AM, J. P. Gilliver wrote:
    On 2026/10/16 7:4:29, ....winston wrote:
    []
    case of Adobe subscription/cloud based, 24/7/365 support, unlimited 1:1 [] >>
    Though very widely used (Adobe themselves may well use it), the
    expression "24/7/365" is not quite correct: either "24/365" or "24/7/52"
    should be used.

    Think about what it means: "24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 52 weeks a
    year" - or, "24 hours a day, 365 days a year". But what does "24/7/365"
    mean?


    It is Adobe's term as noted(human 1:1)support 24 hrs/day, every day(all
    7) of the week, every day(all 365)of the year for Enterprise with SaaS > contractual relationship.


    If it's every (all 365) day of the year anyway (24/365), that implies
    the all days of the week are covered - no need to mention them.
    (As Mark Lloyd says, it's just a show-offy/overtechnical way of saying
    "all the time" anyway. [Except, in the attempt to look technically
    clever, they've shown that they're not.[)
    --
    J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()ALIS-Ch++(p)Ar++T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf
  • From Frank Slootweg@this@ddress.is.invalid to alt.comp.os.windows-11,alt.comp.os.windows-10 on Fri Oct 16 17:51:49 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.comp.os.windows-11

    J. P. Gilliver <G6JPG@255soft.uk> wrote:
    On 2026/10/16 15:52:38, ....winston wrote:
    On 10/16/2026 3:16 AM, J. P. Gilliver wrote:
    On 2026/10/16 7:4:29, ....winston wrote:
    []
    case of Adobe subscription/cloud based, 24/7/365 support, unlimited 1:1 []

    Though very widely used (Adobe themselves may well use it), the
    expression "24/7/365" is not quite correct: either "24/365" or "24/7/52" >> should be used.

    Think about what it means: "24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 52 weeks a
    year" - or, "24 hours a day, 365 days a year". But what does "24/7/365"
    mean?


    It is Adobe's term as noted(human 1:1)support 24 hrs/day, every day(all
    7) of the week, every day(all 365)of the year for Enterprise with SaaS contractual relationship.

    If it's every (all 365) day of the year anyway (24/365), that implies
    the all days of the week are covered - no need to mention them.

    (As Mark Lloyd says, it's just a show-offy/overtechnical way of saying
    "all the time" anyway. [Except, in the attempt to look technically
    clever, they've shown that they're not.[)

    Well, what's going to happen on the extra day of a leap year? Is that
    covered by the "every day (all 7) of the week" part or *not* covered
    because of the "every day (all 365) of the year" part!? :-)

    After all, this is about business, i.e. lawyers and stuff, isn't it!? :-)
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  • From Paul@nospam@needed.invalid to alt.comp.os.windows-11,alt.comp.os.windows-10 on Fri Oct 16 15:13:39 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.comp.os.windows-11

    On Fri, 10/16/2026 9:58 AM, Jeff Gaines wrote:
    On 16/10/2026 in message <njemqbFt5osU1@mid.individual.net> Andy Burns wrote:

    Jeff Gaines wrote:

    Paul wrote:

    Make it your mission to find it.

    No chance! I have been looking for it since 2005 and it is one of the  most common programming questions that is asked, frankly if it's not on  StackOverflow it doesn't exist in the public domain.


    Yes, but you've been asking search engines before, now you've turned to AI, I thought you liked being nice to them :-P

    I am, Skynet is real!


    OK, can you do this ?

    Paste the answer in Harmony format (which is the Markdown it uses)
    into a posting, for the answer you got where it was revealed what
    the important/mystery bits were given to you. Place a <===
    next to the bits that arrived from the unknown-type source.

    I keep some of my runs, question and answer, in separate text files, for reference later. Not all the runs though, usually just the
    ones with programs in them.

    Our best learning, comes from "audience challenges", where you
    get to see a query made from a different perspective and how
    the machine behaved. That's how we poke the corners and edges
    of the machine, individual human queries are great for that,
    because people will try the strangest things. Like Micky asking
    a question about a Time Life book (short essays), where the machine
    kept giving different answers for what characters were being
    written about. That was my first chance to use High Reasoning
    to get the machine to admit the info was not in the training
    material and it was just making shit up. It's hard to understand
    how it scraped the title of the book and the concept the book had
    short essays in it, yet it did not manage to record what
    the topic of the essays was (Albert Einstein or Soupy Sales).

    The first shared challenge here, was the "list the US presidents",
    where Arlen asked the LLM-AI to sort the answer a particular way.
    And the machine kept dropping one of the Presidents names. Not
    a controversial figure, more of a relatively obscure one, and the
    machine did not managed to answer the question properly until
    in frustration I added "And don't lose any Presidents!" to the
    query. It doesn't make a lot of sense, why that caused the correct
    answer to come out of the machine. Other people had also been doing
    that test on the Internet, and observed the same behavior, one
    individual kept being dropped from the list. That's really about
    the worst case scenario you can imagine for an LLM-AI, where the
    query is not challenging, it's definitely in the training set,
    and it got fumbled. It means we can't trust them to do anything right.

    Paul
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  • From Jeff Gaines@jgnewsid@outlook.com to alt.comp.os.windows-11,alt.comp.os.windows-10 on Fri Oct 16 19:27:20 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.comp.os.windows-11

    On 16/10/2026 in message <11atego$3cn5n$2@dont-email.me> ....winston wrote:

    On 10/16/2026 3:42 AM, Jeff Gaines wrote:
    On 16/10/2026 in message <11asepe$31c1a$1@dont-email.me> ....winston >>wrote:

    On 10/15/2026 4:50 PM, Jeff Gaines wrote:
    On 15/10/2026 in message <11aqrrl$2h2sf$1@dont-email.me> ....winston >>>>wrote:

    On 10/13/2026 4:38 PM, Paul wrote:
    On Tue, 10/13/2026 1:49 PM, ....winston wrote:
    On 10/09/2026 9:46 PM, Paul wrote:
    Should Adobe be scared ? I don't think so. The OCR worked after a >>>>>>>>fashion,
    but it is really no better than some Tesseract adventure. It is >>>>>>>>about
    as useful as OCRmypdf.

    That's in agreement and similar sentiment from a cross-section of >>>>>>>Enterprise and SMB admin testing (large and small volume of seats) >>>>>>> - Another reasonable comment is expenses associated with retraining >>>>>>>including training time loss of productivity(i.e. not working on  >>>>>>>existing responsibilities, new troubleshooting tasking, etc.


    For some of them, they don't need training, because they haven't >>>>>>even done the ribbon yet, and the menu is pretty barren. It won't >>>>>>take long to fix that.

    Missing part of the point. OpenSource products(AI or not AI) are not >>>>>exclusively  static.  In the Enterprise environment, training across >>>>>large quantity of seats is a continuous long term expense(and those >>>>>seats can be a multiple thousands of seats across an entire >>>>>corporation).

    While Adobe Systems(and earlier Macromedia) products are also not >>>>>static, but the basic design and use has remained reasonably common over
    the years.

    Features in either product may be common, it's the human behavior >>>>>requiring the training.

    That's a standard marketing response to try and frighten people into >>>>staying with expensive, subscription only, products.


    Still missing the big picture. 'People' in Enterprise are the users and >>>don't make the decisions. Companies prefer long term contractual >>>relationships with software providers with a history of success(in the >>>case of Adobe subscription/cloud based, 24/7/365 support, unlimited 1:1 >>>troubleshooting support, cost expensed[not capitalized], pre- packaged >>>self-guided implementation and training.)
    -i.e. free, AI models of a proven product may meet some 'people' needs >>>but remain infants without much foundation, history and benefit >>>beyond(it's free).

    Again that just looks like marketing bullshit.


    It may look like that(to you, from a strictly consumer perspective) but
    it's likely that perception originates from never having been on the >Enterprise side of contractual support(SaaS and/or EAs) for software >providers(e.g. Windows, Azure, Adobe, Oracle, Salesforce, etc.)

    That is somewhat patronising and part of the marketing defence, I used to
    vet contracts for these services.
    --
    Jeff Gaines Dorset UK
    Tell me what you need, and I'll tell you how to get along without it.
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  • From Jeff Gaines@jgnewsid@outlook.com to alt.comp.os.windows-11,alt.comp.os.windows-10 on Fri Oct 16 19:29:35 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.comp.os.windows-11

    On 16/10/2026 in message <11att13$3j2i7$1@dont-email.me> Paul wrote:

    On Fri, 10/16/2026 9:58 AM, Jeff Gaines wrote:
    On 16/10/2026 in message <njemqbFt5osU1@mid.individual.net> Andy Burns >>wrote:

    Jeff Gaines wrote:

    Paul wrote:

    Make it your mission to find it.

    No chance! I have been looking for it since 2005 and it is one of the  >>>>most common programming questions that is asked, frankly if it's not on  >>>>StackOverflow it doesn't exist in the public domain.


    Yes, but you've been asking search engines before, now you've turned to >>>AI, I thought you liked being nice to them :-P

    I am, Skynet is real!


    OK, can you do this ?

    Paste the answer in Harmony format (which is the Markdown it uses)
    into a posting, for the answer you got where it was revealed what
    the important/mystery bits were given to you. Place a <===
    next to the bits that arrived from the unknown-type source.

    I keep some of my runs, question and answer, in separate text files, for >reference later. Not all the runs though, usually just the
    ones with programs in them.

    Our best learning, comes from "audience challenges", where you
    get to see a query made from a different perspective and how
    the machine behaved. That's how we poke the corners and edges
    of the machine, individual human queries are great for that,
    because people will try the strangest things. Like Micky asking
    a question about a Time Life book (short essays), where the machine
    kept giving different answers for what characters were being
    written about. That was my first chance to use High Reasoning
    to get the machine to admit the info was not in the training
    material and it was just making shit up. It's hard to understand
    how it scraped the title of the book and the concept the book had
    short essays in it, yet it did not manage to record what
    the topic of the essays was (Albert Einstein or Soupy Sales).

    The first shared challenge here, was the "list the US presidents",
    where Arlen asked the LLM-AI to sort the answer a particular way.
    And the machine kept dropping one of the Presidents names. Not
    a controversial figure, more of a relatively obscure one, and the
    machine did not managed to answer the question properly until
    in frustration I added "And don't lose any Presidents!" to the
    query. It doesn't make a lot of sense, why that caused the correct
    answer to come out of the machine. Other people had also been doing
    that test on the Internet, and observed the same behavior, one
    individual kept being dropped from the list. That's really about
    the worst case scenario you can imagine for an LLM-AI, where the
    query is not challenging, it's definitely in the training set,
    and it got fumbled. It means we can't trust them to do anything right.

    Paul

    No, I can't. I copied and pasted it into my notepad then into my code. My point is if that answer was in the public domain then during the last 21
    years of seeking the information all over the Internet it would have come
    to light and it didn't.
    --
    Jeff Gaines Dorset UK
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  • From ....winston@winstonmvp@gmail.com to alt.comp.os.windows-11,alt.comp.os.windows-10 on Fri Oct 16 15:40:58 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.comp.os.windows-11

    On 10/16/2026 3:27 PM, Jeff Gaines wrote:
    On 16/10/2026 in message <11atego$3cn5n$2@dont-email.me> ....winston wrote:

    On 10/16/2026 3:42 AM, Jeff Gaines wrote:
    On 16/10/2026 in message <11asepe$31c1a$1@dont-email.me> ....winston
    wrote:

    On 10/15/2026 4:50 PM, Jeff Gaines wrote:
    On 15/10/2026 in message <11aqrrl$2h2sf$1@dont-
    email.me> ....winston wrote:

    On 10/13/2026 4:38 PM, Paul wrote:
    On Tue, 10/13/2026 1:49 PM, ....winston wrote:
    On 10/09/2026 9:46 PM, Paul wrote:
    Should Adobe be scared ? I don't think so. The OCR worked after >>>>>>>>> a fashion,
    but it is really no better than some Tesseract adventure. It is >>>>>>>>> about
    as useful as OCRmypdf.

    That's in agreement and similar sentiment from a cross-section >>>>>>>> of Enterprise and SMB admin testing (large and small volume of >>>>>>>> seats)
     - Another reasonable comment is expenses associated with
    retraining including training time loss of productivity(i.e.
    not  working on existing responsibilities, new troubleshooting >>>>>>>> tasking, etc.


    For some of them, they don't need training, because they haven't >>>>>>> even done the ribbon yet, and the menu is pretty barren. It won't >>>>>>> take long to fix that.

    Missing part of the point. OpenSource products(AI or not AI) are
    not exclusively  static.  In the Enterprise environment, training >>>>>> across large quantity of seats is a continuous long term
    expense(and those seats can be a multiple thousands of seats
    across an entire corporation).

    While Adobe Systems(and earlier Macromedia) products are also not >>>>>> static, but the basic design and use has remained reasonably
    common   over the years.

    Features in either product may be common, it's the human behavior >>>>>> requiring the training.

    That's a standard marketing response to try and frighten people
    into staying with expensive, subscription only, products.


    Still missing the big picture. 'People' in Enterprise are the users
    and don't make the decisions. Companies prefer long term contractual
    relationships with software providers with a history of success(in
    the case of Adobe subscription/cloud based, 24/7/365 support,
    unlimited  1:1 troubleshooting support, cost expensed[not
    capitalized], pre-  packaged self-guided implementation and training.) >>>> -i.e. free, AI models of a proven product may meet some 'people'
    needs but remain infants without much foundation, history and
    benefit beyond(it's free).

    Again that just looks like marketing bullshit.


    It may look like that(to you, from a strictly consumer perspective)
    but it's likely that perception originates from never having been on
    the Enterprise side of contractual support(SaaS and/or EAs) for
    software providers(e.g. Windows, Azure, Adobe, Oracle, Salesforce, etc.)

    That is somewhat patronising and part of the marketing defence, I used
    to vet contracts for these services.


    I understand your position...but to imply the entire spectrum of
    SaaS/EAs) is 'marketing' would still be a very narrow perception, even
    for one that currently or previously 'vets contracts'.
    --
    ...w¡ñ§±¤ñ
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  • From Jeff Gaines@jgnewsid@outlook.com to alt.comp.os.windows-11,alt.comp.os.windows-10 on Fri Oct 16 19:43:54 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.comp.os.windows-11

    On 16/10/2026 in message <11atuka$3jgh7$1@dont-email.me> ....winston wrote:

    On 10/16/2026 3:27 PM, Jeff Gaines wrote:
    On 16/10/2026 in message <11atego$3cn5n$2@dont-email.me> ....winston >>wrote:

    On 10/16/2026 3:42 AM, Jeff Gaines wrote:
    On 16/10/2026 in message <11asepe$31c1a$1@dont-email.me> ....winston >>>>wrote:

    On 10/15/2026 4:50 PM, Jeff Gaines wrote:
    On 15/10/2026 in message <11aqrrl$2h2sf$1@dont- email.me> ....winston >>>>>>wrote:

    On 10/13/2026 4:38 PM, Paul wrote:
    On Tue, 10/13/2026 1:49 PM, ....winston wrote:
    On 10/09/2026 9:46 PM, Paul wrote:
    Should Adobe be scared ? I don't think so. The OCR worked after a >>>>>>>>>>fashion,
    but it is really no better than some Tesseract adventure. It is >>>>>>>>>>about
    as useful as OCRmypdf.

    That's in agreement and similar sentiment from a cross-section of >>>>>>>>>Enterprise and SMB admin testing (large and small volume of seats) >>>>>>>>> - Another reasonable comment is expenses associated with retraining
    including training time loss of productivity(i.e. not  working on >>>>>>>>>existing responsibilities, new troubleshooting tasking, etc. >>>>>>>>>

    For some of them, they don't need training, because they haven't >>>>>>>>even done the ribbon yet, and the menu is pretty barren. It won't >>>>>>>>take long to fix that.

    Missing part of the point. OpenSource products(AI or not AI) are not >>>>>>>exclusively  static.  In the Enterprise environment, training across >>>>>>>large quantity of seats is a continuous long term expense(and those seats
    can be a multiple thousands of seats across an entire corporation). >>>>>>>
    While Adobe Systems(and earlier Macromedia) products are also not static,
    but the basic design and use has remained reasonably common   over the
    years.

    Features in either product may be common, it's the human behavior >>>>>>>requiring the training.

    That's a standard marketing response to try and frighten people into >>>>>>staying with expensive, subscription only, products.


    Still missing the big picture. 'People' in Enterprise are the users and >>>>>don't make the decisions. Companies prefer long term contractual >>>>>relationships with software providers with a history of success(in the >>>>>case of Adobe subscription/cloud based, 24/7/365 support, unlimited  1:1
    troubleshooting support, cost expensed[not capitalized], pre-  packaged >>>>>self-guided implementation and training.)
    -i.e. free, AI models of a proven product may meet some 'people' needs >>>>>but remain infants without much foundation, history and benefit >>>>>beyond(it's free).

    Again that just looks like marketing bullshit.


    It may look like that(to you, from a strictly consumer perspective) but >>>it's likely that perception originates from never having been on the >>>Enterprise side of contractual support(SaaS and/or EAs) for software >>>providers(e.g. Windows, Azure, Adobe, Oracle, Salesforce, etc.)

    That is somewhat patronising and part of the marketing defence, I used to >>vet contracts for these services.


    I understand your position...but to imply the entire spectrum of SaaS/EAs) >is 'marketing' would still be a very narrow perception, even for one that >currently or previously 'vets contracts'.

    You're entitled to your opinion.
    --
    Jeff Gaines Dorset UK
    I can please only one person per day. Today is not your day.
    Tomorrow, isn't looking good either.
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  • From J. P. Gilliver@G6JPG@255soft.uk to alt.comp.os.windows-11,alt.comp.os.windows-10 on Fri Oct 16 20:44:39 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.comp.os.windows-11

    On 2026/10/16 18:51:49, Frank Slootweg wrote:
    J. P. Gilliver <G6JPG@255soft.uk> wrote:
    On 2026/10/16 15:52:38, ....winston wrote:
    On 10/16/2026 3:16 AM, J. P. Gilliver wrote:
    On 2026/10/16 7:4:29, ....winston wrote:
    []
    case of Adobe subscription/cloud based, 24/7/365 support, unlimited 1:1 []

    Though very widely used (Adobe themselves may well use it), the
    expression "24/7/365" is not quite correct: either "24/365" or "24/7/52" >>>> should be used.

    Think about what it means: "24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 52 weeks a
    year" - or, "24 hours a day, 365 days a year". But what does "24/7/365" >>>> mean?


    It is Adobe's term as noted(human 1:1)support 24 hrs/day, every day(all >>> 7) of the week, every day(all 365)of the year for Enterprise with SaaS
    contractual relationship.

    If it's every (all 365) day of the year anyway (24/365), that implies
    the all days of the week are covered - no need to mention them.

    (As Mark Lloyd says, it's just a show-offy/overtechnical way of saying>> "all the time" anyway. [Except, in the attempt to look technically
    clever, they've shown that they're not.[)

    Well, what's going to happen on the extra day of a leap year? Is that> covered by the "every day (all 7) of the week" part or *not* covered
    because of the "every day (all 365) of the year" part!? :-)

    After all, this is about business, i.e. lawyers and stuff, isn't it!? :-)
    How does saying "24/7/365" rather than "24/365" show any better what you
    will do on leap days?
    --
    J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()ALIS-Ch++(p)Ar++T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf
  • From ....winston@winstonmvp@gmail.com to alt.comp.os.windows-11,alt.comp.os.windows-10 on Fri Oct 16 15:48:58 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.comp.os.windows-11

    On 10/16/2026 1:51 PM, Frank Slootweg wrote:
    J. P. Gilliver <G6JPG@255soft.uk> wrote:
    On 2026/10/16 15:52:38, ....winston wrote:
    On 10/16/2026 3:16 AM, J. P. Gilliver wrote:
    On 2026/10/16 7:4:29, ....winston wrote:
    []
    case of Adobe subscription/cloud based, 24/7/365 support, unlimited 1:1 []

    Though very widely used (Adobe themselves may well use it), the
    expression "24/7/365" is not quite correct: either "24/365" or "24/7/52" >>>> should be used.

    Think about what it means: "24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 52 weeks a
    year" - or, "24 hours a day, 365 days a year". But what does "24/7/365" >>>> mean?


    It is Adobe's term as noted(human 1:1)support 24 hrs/day, every day(all
    7) of the week, every day(all 365)of the year for Enterprise with SaaS
    contractual relationship.

    If it's every (all 365) day of the year anyway (24/365), that implies
    the all days of the week are covered - no need to mention them.

    (As Mark Lloyd says, it's just a show-offy/overtechnical way of saying
    "all the time" anyway. [Except, in the attempt to look technically
    clever, they've shown that they're not.[)

    Well, what's going to happen on the extra day of a leap year? Is that covered by the "every day (all 7) of the week" part or *not* covered
    because of the "every day (all 365) of the year" part!? :-)

    After all, this is about business, i.e. lawyers and stuff, isn't it!? :-)

    As noted, it was Adobe Systems terminology.
    - afiacs, it's a lot more definitive than 'all the time' which leads
    to other confusion(e.g. are holiday's included).
    I initially was going to include a comment that the 365(also covers 366
    for leap years)...but figured most would understand without questioning
    Feb. 29th every four years.

    Some of it's about protection(as any contractual would cover the
    business side and the contractual[legal, not lawyer] part/ stuff).
    --
    ...w¡ñ§±¤ñ
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  • From Andy Burns@usenet@andyburns.uk to alt.comp.os.windows-11,alt.comp.os.windows-10 on Fri Oct 16 21:12:52 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.comp.os.windows-11

    Jeff Gaines wrote:

    I copied and pasted it into my notepad then into my code. My point is if that answer was in the public domain then during the last 21 years of seeking the information all over the Internet it would have come to
    light and it didn't.

    But you're apparently unwilling to paste it here (just as plain-text)
    for us to look at?
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  • From Andy Burns@usenet@andyburns.uk to alt.comp.os.windows-11,alt.comp.os.windows-10 on Fri Oct 16 21:14:38 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.comp.os.windows-11

    Andy Burns wrote:

    But you're apparently unwilling to paste it here (just as plain-text)
    for us to look at?

    Sorry - missed your other reply.
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  • From J. P. Gilliver@G6JPG@255soft.uk to alt.comp.os.windows-11,alt.comp.os.windows-10 on Sat Oct 17 00:33:09 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.comp.os.windows-11

    On 2026/10/16 14:23:23, Andy Burns wrote:
    Jeff Gaines wrote:

    Paul wrote:

    Make it your mission to find it.

    No chance! I have been looking for it since 2005 and it is one of the
    most common programming questions that is asked, frankly if it's not on
    StackOverflow it doesn't exist in the public domain.


    Yes, but you've been asking search engines before, now you've turned to
    AI, I thought you liked being nice to them :-P



















































    --
    23467009

    Sorry, couldn't help wondering - did you lean on the enter key before
    posting? (And that "--" line didn't have a space - was it supposed to?
    If so, what's with the number signature?)
    --
    J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()ALIS-Ch++(p)Ar++T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

    Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby
    can't chew it - Anonymous, 2025-7-2
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  • From J. P. Gilliver@G6JPG@255soft.uk to alt.comp.os.windows-11,alt.comp.os.windows-10 on Sat Oct 17 01:06:03 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.comp.os.windows-11

    On 2026/10/16 20:48:58, ....winston wrote:
    []
    As noted, it was Adobe Systems terminology.

    In this case, but it's widely (mis)used.


    - afiacs, it's a lot more definitive than 'all the time' which leads
    to other confusion(e.g. are holiday's included).
    I initially was going to include a comment that the 365(also covers 366
    for leap years)...but figured most would understand without questioning
    Feb. 29th every four years.

    Some of it's about protection(as any contractual would cover the
    business side and the contractual[legal, not lawyer] part/ stuff).

    I don't /think/ it will appear in anything contractual/legal. It's more
    a marketing thing, because it sounds slick (but isn't thought through).
    --
    J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()ALIS-Ch++(p)Ar++T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

    "Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls
    religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who think
    differently from him." [Walter Savage Landor, "Melancthon and Calvin"]
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  • From Andy Burns@usenet@andyburns.uk to alt.comp.os.windows-11,alt.comp.os.windows-10 on Sat Oct 17 09:26:48 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.comp.os.windows-11

    "J. P. Gilliver" wrote:

    Sorry, couldn't help wondering - did you lean on the enter key before posting? (And that "--" line didn't have a space - was it supposed to?
    If so, what's with the number signature?)

    It was a prospective way of saying "I told you so" that didn't work out.
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  • From Daniel70@daniel47@nomail.afraid.org to alt.comp.os.windows-11,alt.comp.os.windows-10 on Sat Oct 17 19:59:27 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.comp.os.windows-11

    On 17/10/2026 6:48 am, ....winston wrote:
    On 10/16/2026 1:51 PM, Frank Slootweg wrote:
    J. P. Gilliver <G6JPG@255soft.uk> wrote:
    On 2026/10/16 15:52:38, ....winston wrote:
    On 10/16/2026 3:16 AM, J. P. Gilliver wrote:
    On 2026/10/16 7:4:29, ....winston wrote:
    []
    case of Adobe subscription/cloud based, 24/7/365 support,
    unlimited 1:1 []

    Though very widely used (Adobe themselves may well use it), the
    expression "24/7/365" is not quite correct: either "24/365" or
    "24/7/52"
    should be used.

    Think about what it means: "24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 52 weeks a >>>>> year" - or, "24 hours a day, 365 days a year". But what does
    "24/7/365"
    mean?


    It is Adobe's term as noted(human 1:1)support 24 hrs/day, every day(all >>>> 7) of the week, every day(all 365)of the year for Enterprise with SaaS >>>> contractual relationship.

    If it's every (all 365) day of the year anyway (24/365), that implies
    the all days of the week are covered - no need to mention them.

    (As Mark Lloyd says, it's just a show-offy/overtechnical way of saying
    "all the time" anyway. [Except, in the attempt to look technically
    clever, they've shown that they're not.[)

       Well, what's going to happen on the extra day of a leap year? Is that >> covered by the "every day (all 7) of the week" part or *not* covered
    because of the "every day (all 365) of the year" part!? :-)

       After all, this is about business, i.e. lawyers and stuff, isn't
    it!? :-)

    As noted, it was Adobe Systems terminology.
     - afiacs, it's a lot more definitive than 'all the time' which leads
    to other confusion(e.g. are holiday's included).
    I initially was going to include a comment that the 365(also covers 366
    for leap years)...but figured most would understand without questioning
    Feb. 29th every four years.

    ... except for each Century year (e.g. 2100, 2200) which are not 'Leap
    Years' except for those Century Years which are also evenly divisible by
    400 (e.g. 2000, 2400). (I think.)

    Some of it's about protection(as any contractual would cover the
    business side and the contractual[legal, not lawyer] part/ stuff).
    --
    Daniel70
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  • From Frank Slootweg@this@ddress.is.invalid to alt.comp.os.windows-11,alt.comp.os.windows-10 on Sat Oct 17 09:55:00 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.comp.os.windows-11

    J. P. Gilliver <G6JPG@255soft.uk> wrote:
    On 2026/10/16 18:51:49, Frank Slootweg wrote:
    J. P. Gilliver <G6JPG@255soft.uk> wrote:
    On 2026/10/16 15:52:38, ....winston wrote:
    On 10/16/2026 3:16 AM, J. P. Gilliver wrote:
    On 2026/10/16 7:4:29, ....winston wrote:
    []
    case of Adobe subscription/cloud based, 24/7/365 support, unlimited 1:1 []

    Though very widely used (Adobe themselves may well use it), the
    expression "24/7/365" is not quite correct: either "24/365" or "24/7/52" >>>> should be used.

    Think about what it means: "24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 52 weeks a >>>> year" - or, "24 hours a day, 365 days a year". But what does "24/7/365" >>>> mean?


    It is Adobe's term as noted(human 1:1)support 24 hrs/day, every day(all >>> 7) of the week, every day(all 365)of the year for Enterprise with SaaS >>> contractual relationship.

    If it's every (all 365) day of the year anyway (24/365), that implies
    the all days of the week are covered - no need to mention them.

    (As Mark Lloyd says, it's just a show-offy/overtechnical way of saying
    "all the time" anyway. [Except, in the attempt to look technically
    clever, they've shown that they're not.[)

    Well, what's going to happen on the extra day of a leap year? Is that covered by the "every day (all 7) of the week" part or *not* covered because of the "every day (all 365) of the year" part!? :-)

    After all, this is about business, i.e. lawyers and stuff, isn't it!? :-)

    How does saying "24/7/365" rather than "24/365" show any better what you
    will do on leap days?

    Well, as I - jokingly - said, at least the '24/7' part implies - as
    Winston indicated - "every day (all 7) of the week", so it should cover
    the leap day, because that's a day of all 7 days of the week.

    Anyway, as I'm a Five Nines guy, I don't care either way! :-)
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  • From Daniel70@daniel47@nomail.afraid.org to alt.comp.os.windows-11,alt.comp.os.windows-10 on Sat Oct 17 22:09:33 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.comp.os.windows-11

    On 17/10/2026 8:55 pm, Frank Slootweg wrote:

    <Snip>

    Anyway, as I'm a Five Nines guy, I don't care either way! :-)

    Sorry .... "Five Nines guy"??
    --
    Daniel70
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  • From Jeff Gaines@jgnewsid@outlook.com to alt.comp.os.windows-11,alt.comp.os.windows-10 on Sat Oct 17 11:18:43 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.comp.os.windows-11

    On 17/10/2026 in message <11avl1c$4ij7$1@dont-email.me> Daniel70 wrote:

    On 17/10/2026 8:55 pm, Frank Slootweg wrote:

    <Snip>

    Anyway, as I'm a Five Nines guy, I don't care either way! :-)

    Sorry .... "Five Nines guy"??

    99.999%
    --
    Jeff Gaines Dorset UK
    That's an amazing invention but who would ever want to use one of them? (President Hayes speaking to Alexander Graham Bell on the invention of the telephone)
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  • From Frank Slootweg@this@ddress.is.invalid to alt.comp.os.windows-11,alt.comp.os.windows-10 on Sat Oct 17 11:45:30 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.comp.os.windows-11

    Daniel70 <daniel47@nomail.afraid.org> wrote:
    On 17/10/2026 8:55 pm, Frank Slootweg wrote:

    <Snip>

    Anyway, as I'm a Five Nines guy, I don't care either way! :-)

    Sorry .... "Five Nines guy"??

    Sorry to hear that Google is broken Down Under.

    <https://www.google.com/search?q=define%3A+Five+Nines>
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  • From Daniel70@daniel47@nomail.afraid.org to alt.comp.os.windows-11,alt.comp.os.windows-10 on Sat Oct 17 23:28:46 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.comp.os.windows-11

    On 17/10/2026 10:45 pm, Frank Slootweg wrote:
    Daniel70 <daniel47@nomail.afraid.org> wrote:
    On 17/10/2026 8:55 pm, Frank Slootweg wrote:

    <Snip>

    Anyway, as I'm a Five Nines guy, I don't care either way! :-)

    Sorry .... "Five Nines guy"??

    Sorry to hear that Google is broken Down Under.

    <https://www.google.com/search?q=define%3A+Five+Nines>

    Google?? What's that?? ;-)

    I used DuckDuckGo and it did reveal that "Five Nines guys" was a Tech
    Support Team https://fivenines.com/about/ .... but, here in OZ, I'd
    never heard of it.
    --
    Daniel70
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  • From Frank Slootweg@this@ddress.is.invalid to alt.comp.os.windows-11,alt.comp.os.windows-10 on Sat Oct 17 15:37:39 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.comp.os.windows-11

    Daniel70 <daniel47@nomail.afraid.org> wrote:
    On 17/10/2026 10:45 pm, Frank Slootweg wrote:
    Daniel70 <daniel47@nomail.afraid.org> wrote:
    On 17/10/2026 8:55 pm, Frank Slootweg wrote:

    <Snip>

    Anyway, as I'm a Five Nines guy, I don't care either way! :-)

    Sorry .... "Five Nines guy"??

    Sorry to hear that Google is broken Down Under.

    <https://www.google.com/search?q=define%3A+Five+Nines>

    Google?? What's that?? ;-)

    I used DuckDuckGo and it did reveal that "Five Nines guys" was a Tech Support Team https://fivenines.com/about/ .... but, here in OZ, I'd
    never heard of it.

    Obviously, the "guy" part is not relevant (what about a girl?). It's
    the "Five Nines" part that's relevant. But even when you use "Five Nines
    guy", Google suggests "five nines meaning", which is obviously what
    you're after.
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  • From Carlos E.R.@robin_listas@es.invalid to alt.comp.os.windows-11,alt.comp.os.windows-10 on Sat Oct 17 19:42:56 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.comp.os.windows-11

    On 2026-10-17 14:28, Daniel70 wrote:
    On 17/10/2026 10:45 pm, Frank Slootweg wrote:
    Daniel70 <daniel47@nomail.afraid.org> wrote:
    On 17/10/2026 8:55 pm, Frank Slootweg wrote:

    <Snip>

        Anyway, as I'm a Five Nines guy, I don't care either way! :-)

    Sorry .... "Five Nines guy"??

       Sorry to hear that Google is broken Down Under.

    <https://www.google.com/search?q=define%3A+Five+Nines>

    Google?? What's that?? ;-)

    I used DuckDuckGo and it did reveal that "Five Nines guys" was a Tech Support Team https://fivenines.com/about/ .... but, here in OZ, I'd
    never heard of it.

    Well... and that's why I don't use DuckDuckGo :-)

    Google's AI says:

    Five Nines (99.999%) is a standard of high availability in computing, telecommunications, and system engineering that means a service or
    hardware system works without interruption 99.999% of the time.

    Key Details

    • Allowed Downtime: Limits total planned or unplanned downtime to
    roughly 5 minutes and 15 seconds per year (or about 5.26 minutes).
    • How It Works: Reaching this level requires removing single points of failure through hardware and software redundancy (such as backup
    generators, duplicate servers, or cloud failovers) and automated fault detection.
    • Contexts: It is frequently used in Service Level Agreements (SLAs) for cloud computing providers (like Google Cloud, AWS, and Azure) and carrier-grade telecommunications networks.
    --
    Cheers, Carlos.
    ES🇪🇸, EU🇪🇺;
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  • From J. P. Gilliver@G6JPG@255soft.uk to alt.comp.os.windows-11,alt.comp.os.windows-10 on Sat Oct 17 21:00:26 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.comp.os.windows-11

    On 2026/10/17 12:9:33, Daniel70 wrote:
    On 17/10/2026 8:55 pm, Frank Slootweg wrote:

    <Snip>

    Anyway, as I'm a Five Nines guy, I don't care either way! :-)

    Sorry .... "Five Nines guy"??

    You'll have seen Carlos's explanation by now (that it's a high-uptime
    service quality level).
    It's part of the American - I won't say obsession, as that's pejorative;
    habit, or custom, of speaking strings of numbers. It's just a different culture; it only becomes oppressive when the user/speaker assumes
    everyone else immediately knows what they're talking about. Recent
    examples include "twenty-four seven", "five nines", and - most
    irritating - "nine eleven". At the time of that atrocity, it occurred to
    me that the immediate assumption that everyone knew that that last was a
    date was one of the things that made people outside that sphere of
    influence, resent; in Britain, it wasn't just that we express dates the
    other way round (so if it _was_ a date it'd be the ninth of November),
    but that we don't generally express dates as just two numbers, at least
    not in speech. (We'd say the day as an ordinal, such as "eleventh", and
    the month as a month. With a "the" and "of" thrown in there somewhere
    too, probably.)
    You can probably think of other examples of this speech style.
    --
    J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()ALIS-Ch++(p)Ar++T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf
  • From Frank Slootweg@this@ddress.is.invalid to alt.comp.os.windows-11,alt.comp.os.windows-10 on Sun Oct 18 09:46:59 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.comp.os.windows-11

    J. P. Gilliver <G6JPG@255soft.uk> wrote:
    On 2026/10/17 12:9:33, Daniel70 wrote:
    On 17/10/2026 8:55 pm, Frank Slootweg wrote:

    <Snip>

    Anyway, as I'm a Five Nines guy, I don't care either way! :-)

    Sorry .... "Five Nines guy"??

    You'll have seen Carlos's explanation by now (that it's a high-uptime
    service quality level).

    It's part of the American - I won't say obsession, as that's pejorative; habit, or custom, of speaking strings of numbers. It's just a different culture; it only becomes oppressive when the user/speaker assumes
    everyone else immediately knows what they're talking about.

    FWIW, *I* was not being 'oppressive' or/and assuming everyone knows
    what I was referring to. It was just tongue-in-cheek jest, because of
    the - for most people rather silly - "24/7/365" term. I.e. my silly term
    can beat your silly term.

    Recent
    examples include "twenty-four seven", "five nines", and - most
    irritating - "nine eleven". At the time of that atrocity, it occurred to
    me that the immediate assumption that everyone knew that that last was a
    date was one of the things that made people outside that sphere of
    influence, resent; in Britain, it wasn't just that we express dates the
    other way round (so if it _was_ a date it'd be the ninth of November),
    but that we don't generally express dates as just two numbers, at least
    not in speech. (We'd say the day as an ordinal, such as "eleventh", and
    the month as a month. With a "the" and "of" thrown in there somewhere
    too, probably.)
    You can probably think of other examples of this speech style.

    In its 'defense': Five Nines (uppercase) is only/mostly used by those
    in the know and much, much more practical than saying "ninety nine point
    (dot?) nine nine nine percent" (not to mention point/dot versus comma).
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  • From J. P. Gilliver@G6JPG@255soft.uk to alt.comp.os.windows-11,alt.comp.os.windows-10 on Sun Oct 18 11:07:29 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.comp.os.windows-11

    On 2026/10/18 10:46:59, Frank Slootweg wrote:
    J. P. Gilliver <G6JPG@255soft.uk> wrote:
    On 2026/10/17 12:9:33, Daniel70 wrote:
    On 17/10/2026 8:55 pm, Frank Slootweg wrote:

    <Snip>

    Anyway, as I'm a Five Nines guy, I don't care either way! :-)

    Sorry .... "Five Nines guy"??

    You'll have seen Carlos's explanation by now (that it's a high-uptime
    service quality level).

    It's part of the American - I won't say obsession, as that's pejorative;
    habit, or custom, of speaking strings of numbers. It's just a different
    culture; it only becomes oppressive when the user/speaker assumes
    everyone else immediately knows what they're talking about.

    FWIW, *I* was not being 'oppressive' or/and assuming everyone knows
    what I was referring to. It was just tongue-in-cheek jest, because of
    the - for most people rather silly - "24/7/365" term. I.e. my silly term
    can beat your silly term.

    :-)

    Recent
    examples include "twenty-four seven", "five nines", and - most
    irritating - "nine eleven". At the time of that atrocity, it occurred to
    me that the immediate assumption that everyone knew that that last was a
    date was one of the things that made people outside that sphere of
    influence, resent; in Britain, it wasn't just that we express dates the
    other way round (so if it _was_ a date it'd be the ninth of November),
    but that we don't generally express dates as just two numbers, at least
    not in speech. (We'd say the day as an ordinal, such as "eleventh", and
    the month as a month. With a "the" and "of" thrown in there somewhere
    too, probably.)
    You can probably think of other examples of this speech style.

    In its 'defense': Five Nines (uppercase) is only/mostly used by those
    in the know and much, much more practical than saying "ninety nine point (dot?) nine nine nine percent" (not to mention point/dot versus comma).

    Oh yes, I can see that. As you say, mostly only used by those in the
    know. I don't really object to it, though I have a _momentary_ confusion
    with "five eyes", the security description. By yes, certainly easier
    than spelling it out.

    The "stream of numbers" thing (e. g. "twenty-four seven", "nine eleven")
    is just that, a thing. I don't like it, but can't _object_ to it - it's
    just a different way of speaking. I _do_ resent it when it's used
    assuming everyone understands immediately, but that's mostly just me.
    --
    J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()ALIS-Ch++(p)Ar++T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

    I don't like activity holidays. I like /inactivity/ holidays.
    - Miriam Margolyes, RT 2017/4/15-21
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  • From Jeff Gaines@jgnewsid@outlook.com to alt.comp.os.windows-11,alt.comp.os.windows-10 on Sun Oct 18 10:08:10 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.comp.os.windows-11

    On 18/10/2026 in message <11b2bj9.q5s.1@ID-201911.user.individual.net>
    Frank Slootweg wrote:

    You'll have seen Carlos's explanation by now (that it's a high-uptime >>service quality level).

    It's part of the American - I won't say obsession, as that's pejorative; >>habit, or custom, of speaking strings of numbers. It's just a different >>culture; it only becomes oppressive when the user/speaker assumes
    everyone else immediately knows what they're talking about.

    FWIW, I was not being 'oppressive' or/and assuming everyone knows
    what I was referring to. It was just tongue-in-cheek jest, because of
    the - for most people rather silly - "24/7/365" term. I.e. my silly term
    can beat your silly term.

    My "24/7/365.25" is better :-)
    --
    Jeff Gaines Dorset UK
    When you think there's no hope left remember the lobsters in the tank in
    the Titanic's restaurant.
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  • From Jeff Gaines@jgnewsid@outlook.com to alt.comp.os.windows-11,alt.comp.os.windows-10 on Sun Oct 18 10:09:17 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.comp.os.windows-11

    On 18/10/2026 in message <xn0pw5wqrkks0u1000@news.individual.net> Jeff
    Gaines wrote:

    On 18/10/2026 in message <11b2bj9.q5s.1@ID-201911.user.individual.net>
    Frank Slootweg wrote:

    You'll have seen Carlos's explanation by now (that it's a high-uptime >>>service quality level).

    It's part of the American - I won't say obsession, as that's pejorative; >>>habit, or custom, of speaking strings of numbers. It's just a different >>>culture; it only becomes oppressive when the user/speaker assumes >>>everyone else immediately knows what they're talking about.

    FWIW, I was not being 'oppressive' or/and assuming everyone knows
    what I was referring to. It was just tongue-in-cheek jest, because of
    the - for most people rather silly - "24/7/365" term. I.e. my silly term >>can beat your silly term.

    My "24/7/365.25" is better :-)

    I meant on average of course :-)
    --
    Jeff Gaines Dorset UK
    You know it's cold outside when you go outside and it's cold.
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  • From J. P. Gilliver@G6JPG@255soft.uk to alt.comp.os.windows-11,alt.comp.os.windows-10 on Sun Oct 18 11:48:32 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.comp.os.windows-11

    On 2026/10/18 11:9:17, Jeff Gaines wrote:
    On 18/10/2026 in message <xn0pw5wqrkks0u1000@news.individual.net> Jeff Gaines wrote:

    On 18/10/2026 in message <11b2bj9.q5s.1@ID-201911.user.individual.net>
    Frank Slootweg wrote:
    []
    FWIW, I was not being 'oppressive' or/and assuming everyone knows
    what I was referring to. It was just tongue-in-cheek jest, because of
    the - for most people rather silly - "24/7/365" term. I.e. my silly term >>> can beat your silly term.

    My "24/7/365.25" is better :-)

    No, it isn't - it still has the silly "7" in it! "24/365" (with the
    optional .2425) conveys what is _meant_, though still smacks of
    marketing slickness.


    I meant on average of course :-)

    :-)
    --
    J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()ALIS-Ch++(p)Ar++T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

    Personally, I don't like the Senate idea, I don't like the idea of
    having to elect another bunch of overpaid incompetents. I don't like
    the idea of having wholesale appointments by the PM of the day for
    domination of the second chamber. I like anachronism. I like the idea
    of a bunch of unelected congenital idiots getting in the way of a bunch
    of conmen. - Charles F. Hankel, 1998-3-19.
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  • From Frank Slootweg@this@ddress.is.invalid to alt.comp.os.windows-11,alt.comp.os.windows-10 on Sun Oct 18 11:49:20 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.comp.os.windows-11

    Jeff Gaines <jgnewsid@outlook.com> wrote:
    On 18/10/2026 in message <xn0pw5wqrkks0u1000@news.individual.net> Jeff Gaines wrote:

    On 18/10/2026 in message <11b2bj9.q5s.1@ID-201911.user.individual.net> >Frank Slootweg wrote:

    You'll have seen Carlos's explanation by now (that it's a high-uptime >>>service quality level).

    It's part of the American - I won't say obsession, as that's pejorative; >>>habit, or custom, of speaking strings of numbers. It's just a different >>>culture; it only becomes oppressive when the user/speaker assumes >>>everyone else immediately knows what they're talking about.

    FWIW, I was not being 'oppressive' or/and assuming everyone knows
    what I was referring to. It was just tongue-in-cheek jest, because of
    the - for most people rather silly - "24/7/365" term. I.e. my silly term >>can beat your silly term.

    My "24/7/365.25" is better :-)

    I meant on average of course :-)

    Well, slashes in combination with a decimal point isn't that great
    either.

    So let's make it a regular expression (and - as John mentioned - get
    rid of the silly 7):

    24/{365|366}

    Now if *that* is not a catchy marketing phrase, I don't know what *is*!
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  • From Jeff Gaines@jgnewsid@outlook.com to alt.comp.os.windows-11,alt.comp.os.windows-10 on Sun Oct 18 13:01:52 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.comp.os.windows-11

    On 18/10/2026 in message <11b2iol.ckg.1@ID-201911.user.individual.net>
    Frank Slootweg wrote:

    Jeff Gaines <jgnewsid@outlook.com> wrote:
    On 18/10/2026 in message <xn0pw5wqrkks0u1000@news.individual.net> Jeff >>Gaines wrote:

    On 18/10/2026 in message <11b2bj9.q5s.1@ID-201911.user.individual.net> >>>Frank Slootweg wrote:

    You'll have seen Carlos's explanation by now (that it's a high-uptime >>>>>service quality level).

    It's part of the American - I won't say obsession, as that's >>>>>pejorative;
    habit, or custom, of speaking strings of numbers. It's just a different >>>>>culture; it only becomes oppressive when the user/speaker assumes >>>>>everyone else immediately knows what they're talking about.

    FWIW, I was not being 'oppressive' or/and assuming everyone knows
    what I was referring to. It was just tongue-in-cheek jest, because of >>>>the - for most people rather silly - "24/7/365" term. I.e. my silly term >>>>can beat your silly term.

    My "24/7/365.25" is better :-)

    I meant on average of course :-)

    Well, slashes in combination with a decimal point isn't that great
    either.

    So let's make it a regular expression (and - as John mentioned - get
    rid of the silly 7):

    24/{365|366}

    Now if that is not a catchy marketing phrase, I don't know what is!

    :-)
    --
    Jeff Gaines Dorset UK
    There are 3 types of people in this world. Those who can count, and those
    who can't.
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