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Well it could be worse. They could be trying to manage things. 
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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This picture[^] is taken from one of the public terminals of the European Parliament (don't worry, it's SFW).
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Microsoft execs quietly showed off new compiler technology under development at the company that aims to compile .Net code to native code directly. Write once, run just here
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They should just buy .Net Reactor and merge it with Visual Studio, job done!
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Amazon Web Services is launching its own virtual cloud desktop service, called Amazon WorkSpaces — promising to deliver a Windows 7 operating system and software from Amazon’s cloud to traditional desktops, laptops, Android tablets and Apple iOS devices including the iPad. Why bother with those horrid dust collectors in the office? Stick them far away beyond a long network connection instead!
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In a speech at London's Science Museum, the famed physicist says the Higgs boson discovery makes physics less interesting. He adds that we've only got 1,000 years left on Earth anyway. Oh, if only the Higgs were 140GeV, that would be interesting, wouldn't it?
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oday, I’m very excited to launch Visual Studio 2013 and .NET 4.5.1. I am also thrilled to announce Visual Studio Online, a collection of developer services that runs on Windows Azure and extends the development experience in the cloud. Visual Studio 2013 and Visual Studio Online represent the beginning of a new era for Visual Studio, combining a powerful desktop IDE with rich developer services in the cloud. "To the moon, Alice, to the moon!"
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Microsoft and cross-platform mobile-app development vendor Xamarin are tightening their technical and marketing ties under a new partnership deal. "The sum of the angles of that rectangle is too monstrous to contemplate!"
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Oracle, which has already been working with HSA Foundation on projects, finally becomes a member. You had me at 'everybody' seeks Java performance boost
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Fuel cells may be a strong alternative for powering data centers, Microsoft report concludes. It's better than putting a nuclear reactor into a Surface
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American definition of a fuel cell: Gas tank.
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why all the hate?
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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Don't get me wrong, I don't hate the US: It was rather a zynic outburst which made me using the oldest US cliché ever.
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Few things in computing are as vital as the lowly hard drive. If your memory goes bad or your processor blows, it’s easy enough to switch out; when a hard drive gives up the ghost, your precious files expire along with it. Usually until 15 minutes before you create a backup
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During. It's always during the effing backup.
Ugh.
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The Computer History Museum has published the source code for the Apple II DOS. Last spring, CNET was first to report the existence of documents that led to the creation of the code. Go ahead: type it all in. It will be just like the old days.
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Lack of large-screen phablet hurts Apple share, IDC says Start the "Apple is Doooooomed" bus!
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Many useful additions make this an attractive release, but writing Windows Store apps remains clumsy work. "It's got a good beat and you can dance to it."
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It's not really a new version (not based on the new features) - just a upgrade to 2012...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is (V).
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But the upgrades are, IMHO, valuable enough to justify the new version.
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Over the past several years there has been an enormous amount of press over NoSQL, which is a way to store and retrieve data found in a less structured and less consistent form than relational databases. "If you hype something and it succeeds, you're a genius, it wasn't hype; if you hype it and it fails, then it's just a hype."
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My only relationship (harhar) to NoSQL was when I was part of a conference call for an interesting website idea and the geeks on the call were wondering what kind of database to use. Someone (not me) said "let's use NoSQL!" and everyone (again, not me) said, "Yeah, Cool, Awesome!" without any thinking behind why we would do that.
And frankly, that experience is enough to keep me away from anything and everything in NoSQL land. I can handle unstructured structured data easily with a standard relational database, thank you very much, and quite frankly, the vast majority of data is structured, it's just that people are too lazy to work out the structure. In my HUMBLE opinion.
Marc
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Yeah, there was a stretch there where the answer to every question seemed to be NoSQL. I think it falls happily into the "fast iteration, maybe we'll get an app out of it" mindset where "we don't need to think about the schema, we'll figure it out as we go along." Fine while you're fiddling, but I can't see how it really can compete long term with a relational db.
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TTFN - Kent
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