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Microsoft will radically revamp which Windows updates customers receive starting with Windows 10, a move analysts said was the biggest-ever change in the firm's update practices. Goldilocks will be pleased
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Down with blanket autoupdate. Kill it dead.
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You can always turn it off.
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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Down with id10t's running unpatched software. Kill their internet connections dead.
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 think this is potentially a good move. But could be a support nightmare for ISVs.
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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PHP vs. Node, SQL vs. NoSQL, compiled vs. scripting -- the passionate debates and technical rifts that define programming today "We've always been at war with Eastasia"
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No debate for me - just use the right tool for the job 
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"My software never has bugs. It just develops random features."
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OK, here's my attempt in my best Internetese:
No! You're absolutely wrong (wrong, wrong)!!!oneone1!!! You MUST use the programming language|development environment|whatever that I have invested my interest into, or the Nazis win.
Or something like that. 
TTFN - Kent
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Deflinek wrote: just use the right tool for the job
Which of the many right tools?
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When Microsoft encourages its engineers to think outside the box, the results aren't always dead-ends like the Kin. In fact, the company's research division is now showing off an amazing thin transparent film called FlexSense that can sense deformations and allow us to interact with tablets and eReaders in fascinating new ways. I'm obviously not the target market for this
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I think the target market may be indicated by this "discourse" in the comments:
fangbanger: "What kind of other shapes can it adopt ?"
Andrew Liszewski: "Umm, round, cylindrical, curled, tubular, etc."
fangbanger: "I mean the concept, can they do a boob shaped sheet of plastic ? You know, for scientific research, of course..."
I guess it could be used to help train for "mammary checks".
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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What happens when you give an Android Wear smartwatch to a 16-year-old with a bit too much time on his hands? You get Windows 95 on your wrist.
Soon to be available for the Apple Watch? (Through Google Play for the utmost irony.)
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 Why?
(I would guess 'Why Not?')
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
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The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
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See? Those smartwatches are actually so 1990ies, as practically proven by this hack.
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Hewlett-Packard is reportedly planning to splitting itself up into two companies, one for PCs and similar consumer-focused products and the other for business-focused lines, such as IT services. H and P?
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Bring back DEC! 
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It's been around for a long time, and existed in various forms, but the version we'll be solving I originally encountered in a handout given to physics students at Harvard, and is called "Green Eyed Dragons." That's easy: 42
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No, I can't 
In code we trust !
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Your insanity has a frightning logic.
(Roger Fox to Andy Fox, on her statement that Broccoli, Lettuce, and Tomato is still a BLT.)
From a FoxTrot comic strip. (IDR which one, and ICNBA to find it)
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
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The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
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On the hundredth day after the departure there are a lot of Long-tailed sparrows on the island
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The answer is that inductive reasoning obviously doesn't model reality, based on the the purported difficulty of the solution.
For the pendant in me, in a world close to our own the first response of any dragon will be that since the other ninety-nine dragons have the same colored eyes, as they can plainly see, their own must be green or the other ninety-nine must be green. If it is common knowledge that all dragons have the same eye color, they would immediately conclude it was true for all. If it wasn't common knowledge, a follow-up discussion with their peers would reveal that everyone had the same color, which must be green. So either way all dragons disappear that night.
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1) Dragons are subject to quantum effects and enter a superposition that collapses when observed so unless Sylvester McMonkey McBean[^] goes back to the island to get them to switch from iPhones to Android (or back again) they'll be fine.
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Can I solve it? Sure... Do I get the same answer that the logicians get? No way. And even after reading all the explanations, I think my answer is correct.
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What is a planet? That is the question Harvard scientists want answered. Unfortunately for Pluto, the debate on the definition of a planet puts it back in the middle of an eight-year-old classification controversy. My very excellent mother will be pleased
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