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This sounds just like Microsoft's "Passport" from 10 years ago...
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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Yup.
But no one would pick a Microsoft solution for that :rollseyes:.
We could be so much further along in this industry. /sigh
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TTFN - Kent
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Everything that is old, is new again...
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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10 years ago having to manage 9000 passwords and needing to regularly change them because of a compromise somewhere wasn't on most people's radar. Federated ID is an improvement on the status quo; the main problem with it is in it's implementation. In most cases sites they only offer FaceBook, Twitter, and maybe Google as OpenID providers. Blogging sites will often let you use an ID from most of the other major blogging services; but I don't think I've ever seen LiveJournal/Blogger/Wordpress login offered anywhere else. The only site I'm aware of that lets you use an arbitrary openID provider is StackExchange.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Work progresses in parallel on versions 6 and 7 of underlying ECMAScript specification, with version 6 due by end of 2014. Wait, wait, let me guess, "Near C performance speeds?"
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Who? Amazon, Apple, Google, and Microsoft to name four. Do you even care? You should. Then that means all those computers in the office... They must be the undead!
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Nature abhors a vacuum (I never really understood that since the universe is basically all vacuum except for a grain here or there, but I digress), in that fine, if the Microsoft giant is shifting its weight in its slumbering repose, then some little flea will come along and take advantage of the space the giant has vacated, and that flea will grow and eventually bite the giant.
Ugh. My metaphors.
Marc
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So... Linux is the flea and... No wait, tables are the vacation... Uhm iPhones grow in the poop of large people?
Dang, my mind is blown with that metaphor...
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Jumping on the trend of using printers to churn out objects, Microsoft has developed a 3D printing app for Windows 8.1, betting that this will become mainstream. Great news everyone! Now you can print out those 3-D charts in Excel.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Now you can print out those 3-D charts in Excel.
Wouldn't they cancel and jest become de charts? 
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Microsoft board pressured Ballmer to move a lot quicker “Maybe I'm an emblem of an old era, and I have to move on."
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You mean, someone who will stop with all this recent nonsense such as Windows 8?
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That's a start, yes.
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After a sleepy week, Comet ISON is suddenly coming alive. Several amateur astronomers and at least one professional astronomers are reporting today that the comet has brightened at least a full magnitude overnight. Two days ago it glowed at around magnitude 7.5 and was visible weakly in 10×50 binoculars from a dark sky. Now it’s surged to around magnitude 6 – naked eye limit – and continues to brighten. ISON’s appearance has radically changed too. "By being seldom seen, I could not stir, but like a comet I was wonder'd at."
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JavaScript is the new Assembly. There are dozens of tools that compile some programming language to JavaScript. You can do it with C++, Java, C#, Python, Scala or Ruby. But there's one language that remains to be covered for JavaScript to dominate the world: JavaScript. Because just using JavaScript isn't enough
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I particularly like the PalPay.com testimonial.
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So.. it's a joke, right!?! 
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Yup. But an excellent one (IMO) after all the other X -> JS compilers out there.
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TTFN - Kent
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Google Inc on Thursday won dismissal of a long-running lawsuit by authors who accused the Internet search company of digitally copying millions of books for an online library without permission. Pass the photocopier
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First, choose Steve Ballmer's replacement for the CEO's hot seat. Then comes the really hard part. "Sometimes to create, one must first destroy."
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Fantastic insigth.
I think getting whealt sometimes does not mean making perfect products. In fact MS has made money from their own faults, as well as their big hits.
This way of doing things sometimes implies evil eating some smart competitors, but I think it has the seeds of their own ending, once the initial creative force faded.
I can remenber the compuserve issue. When internet started, compuserve saw it as a threat, and fougth against, instead of becoming the biggest USA ISP.
Similary, MS could have had the most important linux (or BSD) distribution, but Google and Apple took his place.
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I think I agree, yes.
We used to say that Microsoft does it's best when it's the underdog, or at least competing with someone (Borland, WordPerfect, Lotus). But after you've beaten everyone, there's only yourself to consume.
I hadn't thought of the Compuserve comparison. That is pretty accurate, I think, and a good point.
On the Linux/BSD: yes, yes, and more yes. People have forgotten (or ignore) that Apple is just a pretty face on BSD, and Android is mostly a Linux distro. Microsoft could have done the same thing years ago and dominated (more than they do now). Instead, they wasted many years on Vista, and have only now gotten to the MinWin paradise.
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TTFN - Kent
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altomaltes wrote: I can remenber the compuserve issue. When internet started, compuserve saw it as a threat, and fougth against, instead of becoming the biggest USA ISP.
Considering what ended up happening to AOL it probably wouldn't've mattered much in the end. They dominated the dialup era and were moving strongly into offering service over DSL when the FCC yanked the rug out from under all the 3rd party DSL resellers and gave the phone companies the same monopoly rights that the cable cos had. While AOL's got a decent internet content business still running they're a pale ghost of their former self. The same would've almost certainly have happened to CompuServe.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I enjoyed your comment, It has rhythm, and this makes its reading pleasurable.
I think you're absolutely rigth. I'm trying to show how even wealthy groups made big strategic mistakes as well as big strategic hits, and how is size prestige can hide the diference between.
So the CompuServe example if far from perfect, but is a try.
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I keep hearing about the "Post PC" era, but every office I've ever visited seems to demonstrate that this isn't the case.
Office is still pretty well untouched by competition, sure there are other Office suites, but take up in business seems to be minimal. Exchange is a massive part of that, but rarely mentioned in these articles.
Similarly, Windows Server dominates in office environments, Linux may power most web servers, but Windows 8 alone is used more often to access the web than any competitor, let alone when you add in Win7, XP, Vista, etc.
Indeed, more people access the Web from just IE in July this year than all mobile platforms together - and I assume those run on Windows - add in Chrome and Firefox (both of which have more Windows users than all other O/S together) and, it seems to me, the Post PC era is not quite here yet.
I know counting usage is tricky, but when pretty well all measures agree, I think we may be on safe territory:
Wiki[^]
W3 Schools[^]
Stat Counter[^]
I suspect a lot of this is Jounalistic bias - Journalists generally work in media organisations where, indubitably, Apple has a much larger traction than Microsoft. Maybe they should get out more.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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