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Bill Gates has questioned whether Google's Project Loon, an effort to bring giant internet-giving balloons to less-developed countries, is really that good of an idea. What if they give them a ride in the balloons?
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Give them a ride on a balloon to the US.
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By the time Java 8 comes out, it'll be another two to five years behind .Net -- and Microsoft's coordinated front That's some fine linkbait you've got there
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We can not forget that the roots of .NET are still in Java.
Vasudevan Deepak Kumar
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BRAINWAVE/1.0
Status-Code: 404
Status-Text: The requested brain could not be found. It may have been deleted or never installed.
--Brisingr Aerowing
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That's a reason for them to be leading, not falling behind.
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Vasudevan Deepak Kumar
Personal Homepage
BRAINWAVE/1.0
Status-Code: 404
Status-Text: The requested brain could not be found. It may have been deleted or never installed.
--Brisingr Aerowing
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Agreed, but one horse ran, the other stumbled.
A lot.
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TTFN - Kent
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The one who run will win 
Ranjan.D
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Agree with you. However .NET is a running horse , there's a lot Java has to learn from it.
Ranjan.D
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In this gallery we present to you the silliest of the silly scientific theories, some of which you’ll no doubt recognize because for whatever reason people refuse to give up on them. So remember, there are no dumb theories, just dumb reasons to keep believing in long-discredited theories. There are no stupid ideas (only stupid people)
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A Microsoft Research effort called 'Cloud Build' spawned work to increase cloud-based software and services development inside the company. Mmmm. That's tasty dogfood
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Even if the new $499 Xbox One delivers "thousands of dollars of value" this holiday season, you'll need to pay $60 a year to make the most of them. For just pennies a day...
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I find it amazing that anyone is surprised by this, it was the same for the Xbox 360. Did anyone expect MS to just close a revenue stream?
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I agree - most of the news items seem to be of the "look at how expensive this is!" Not sure what people were expecting: most of those features they're charging for require either a fair amount of data storage (the game DVR), or third-party charges (the TV schedule).
People just want stuff for free I guess.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: People just want stuff for free I guess.
Well there are some cases where it is a bit ridiculous - for example, you have to pay for your internet service, pay for Netflix, then pay Microsoft just to watch it on your Xbox. I don't think they're offering anything in that chain that costs them money, but they still charge you for it.
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Collin Jasnoch wrote:  <--- My shocked face at finding out one really needs XBox Live Gold if owning an box.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: delivers "thousands of dollars of value"
How does a game box deliver "thousands of dollars of value?" As in, how does a game deliver anything that has value beyond its entertainment? We seem to have a very screwed up definition of "value" nowadays.
Marc
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Well:
- It's a paperweight. Those are ... five bucks?
- It plays music. That's got to be worth... $10?
- It shows the television schedule! That saves you from buying TV Guide. There's another $5.
- Games. Of course none actually come with it. Hmmm. Let me think on this more.
That's just the first $20. I'm sure there's at least $1980 I'm missing...
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Search giant Google has put its support behind an independent fork of MySQL, the famed open-source database that was gulped down by software giant Oracle when it acquired Sun Microsystems. Contains 90% of your daily dose of MySQL, none of the Oracle
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I'd like to change my personal VPS to Maria. Although I'm not sure how possible that is right now since I'm using cPanel which supports MySQL.
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I would think that with all the current ... feelings ... towards Oracle and MySQL, that cpanel (or rather the various hosting companies) might start moving towards Maria (or Postgres).
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Does relying on technology harm our senses and emotions? Thus fulfilling Betteridge's Law of Headlines for today.
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A long time ago, when some cavemen invented archiculture, someone made the exact same argument.
Technology doesn't make us less human, it changes the definition of being human.
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On the contrary, I think we've ceased to be human ever since that fire got invented 
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