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If Microsoft Research gets its way, you might soon be controlling computers using the tiniest of muscle twitches and no controller in sight. With a hand still in your pocket, or behind your back, you will be able to control a computer with a variety of finger-waggling and pinching gestures. I can win this game with both hands tied behind my back.
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Controlling a computer with hand movements. That could go so NSFW very very quickly. Imagine Clippy:
"It looks like you're having a .... Can I be of assistance?"
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We think the time is right to reimagine email. So today, we're introducing a preview of Outlook.com. We realized that we needed to take a bold step, break from the past and build you a brand new service from the ground up. You already know Outlook via the Outlook desktop application-for PCs and Macs-as the world's most popular application for reading email, managing a calendar, and connecting to people. And you may have used the Outlook Web App connected to Exchange Server in your organization. Now, in addition to a desktop application and a service for businesses, we're offering Outlook as a personal email service - Outlook.com. You've got mail!
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Interesting social media features, though I think I'll stick to Exchange Online, as it allows me to use my own domain (which it appears outlook.com can't do).
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I am impressed. Have a hard enough time getting full HD (1080p) support on a 15" display.
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Twitter suspended journalist Guy Adams' account after he was critical of NBC’s Olympics coverage – destroying its good guy rep and creating a PR disaster. [ITworld]
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In the best of all possible worlds, Microsoft and its partners would implement Secure Boot in the ways that the Linux Foundation says would work with Linux. Well, that's not going to happen. So, instead we have three different paths. At this point, there's no telling which one is going to work out. In fact, we may end up using all of them. [ITworld]
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I am not getting it. Last time I checked, Windows 8 bcdedit still had the bootsect option, so it must be trivial to double boot any Linux, especially if it uses GRUB.
If you want to have only Linux and boot it securely, you have to move your a... and adopt to the new technology. Windows 8 or Microsoft has proofed that UIEF Secure Boot is working OK, nothing else. Just use it.
If you want to take a machine that somebody have build to run Windows and install Linux on it, then you may have problems, but I do not care since you just should not do that.
All this UEFI buzz resembles Start Screen buzz and both resemble orchestrated media bashing.
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atbennett wrote: Microsoft and its partners would implement Secure Boot
Microsoft only says that Secure Boot has to be enabled for Windows 8 systems. They're not legally allowed to tell OEMs (Dell, HP, etc.) that they *cannot* put a Linux certificate in the UEFI implementation.
That said, Microsoft is under no legal obligation to tell OEMs that they MUST support Linux in the UEFI. At least they're not in the US, the EU/EC may be another matter but won't be decided until after Windows 8 systems are generally available in the EU, and even then, it's the OEMs, not Microsoft that does the implementation.
Mike Poz
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The ARM Surface release date has been revealed. It's October 26th[^].
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Going to buy one?
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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The company will. It will also buy me the Pro version.
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Got an idea for an amazing Android game? Create a new, NDK-based Android game app for Intel architecture (IA) based devices, then write an article about it and you could win a $25,000 cash prize! Write an Android app for Intel devices and you could win!
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The little Pi community is having such fun and I think it's because of the device's constraints. It's small, it's cheap, but it's got such potential. If you are aware of it's limitations and are armed with a little patience, you'll have a blast introducing your kids to the Raspberry PI. No, it doesn't run Windows 8.
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I'm surprised that it's too slow to browse the internet. It has same specs as a 3rd gen iPhone
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When an application is focused on controls and not on data a lot of extra code and plumbing ends up being written which complicates things if control IDs are changed, new controls are added, or existing controls are removed. If you only have a few controls that’s not a big deal, but as the number of controls grows it becomes problematic.... The smart money is on building data-oriented applications rather than control-oriented applications. That’s why we’re seeing more and more data binding frameworks for JavaScript being released. Data binding is addictive once you start using it.
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We have found that the best defense against major unexpected failures is to fail often. By frequently causing failures, we force our services to be built in a way that is more resilient. We have written about our Simian Army in the past and we are now proud to announce that the source code for the founding member of the Simian Army, Chaos Monkey, is available to the community. Do you think your applications can handle a troop of mischievous monkeys loose in your infrastructure? Now you can find out. Chalk up another victory to the human spirit.
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Changing the colours of art can be a great way to increase the amount of content, and add variety and richness to your game. It is relatively easy to implement. What is not always as easy is to get a set of colours that look nice. This article gives some ideas for choosing colour palettes that look nice. The ABC's or RGB.
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Obtaining long sequences of random numbers, as required by some cryptographic algorithms, is a delicate problem. There are basically two types of random number generators: true random number generators, and pseudo-random number generators. Let's take a look at both and see how well they work. Testing pseudo-random number generators and measuring randomness.
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In perhaps the most famous design brief in electronics history Bill Hewlett challenged his engineers to shrink the 9100A into something he could fit in his pocket. Eventually Dave Cochran, the original HP-35 product manager, determined that it would be feasible using newly-developed integrated circuits and LEDs. A market research study, however, warned that the device would be too expensive and there was simply no market. That didn’t matter to Hewlett. He decided he wanted one and said “We’re going to go ahead anyway.” I'm the operator with my pocket calculator.
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digitaltrails wanted the data on a few old IBM 80-column punch cards he had lying around, but didn’t have decades old computer hardware in his garage. He decided to build his own out of LEGO, an Arduino, a digital camera, and a bit of Python. And lo, the punchcards did sayeth: woe unto thee, for thy COBOL ist borked.
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Standards-making is a boring, bureaucratic, unpleasant process, infested by difficult people and psychopathic institutions. Some “standards” turn out to be useful; most are ignored; some are actively harmful. And looking at which organization the standard came from turns out to not be very useful in predicting what’s going to happen. Why Eran Hammer quitting the OAuth 2.0 working group probably doesn't matter.
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They say the road to hell is paved with good intentions. Well, that’s OAuth 2.0. Last month I reached the painful conclusion that I can no longer be associated with the OAuth 2.0 standard. I resigned my role as lead author and editor, withdraw my name from the specification, and left the working group. Removing my name from a document I have painstakingly labored over for three years and over two dozen drafts was not easy. Deciding to move on from an effort I have led for over five years was agonizing. Why Eran Hammer quit the OAuth 2.0 working group.
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Who invented e-mail? That’s a bit like asking, “Who invented the internet?” Even those with intimate knowledge of its creation can’t agree on the moment it actually came to life. But amid all the bluster over the origins of e-mail, one man holds a claim that resonates well beyond the rest. Ray Tomlinson is the reason your e-mail address includes an ‘@’ symbol. The only preposition on the keyboard.
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