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Hard to pay much attention to an article that begins by quoting a statement from 2001.
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Everyone is well-aware by now that Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 have not seen the impressive adoption rate of their predecessor. Yet the duo had a particularly good run last month, finally passing 15 percent market share together, according to the latest figures from Net Applications. I worry more about the almost 3% still using Vista
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Kent Sharkey wrote: I worry more about the almost 3% still using Vista
Scary lot!
of course the Thorazine helps immensely.
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.0
There's a fine line between crazy and free spirited and it's usually a prescription.
I'm currently unsupervised, I know it freaks me out too but the possibilities are endless.
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Well people adopt to a new thing lately. 
You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow
This opportunity comes once in a lifetime, yo - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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Kent Sharkey wrote: I worry more about the almost 3% still using Vista
My brother's one of them. He got a stinkpad for school a few weeks before Weven launched; and was too busy to order the free for the cost of shipping the disk upgrade when offered. To make helping him a bit easier I left my cheap 15.6" Acer plastic special on Vista (at that point I was almost never actually using it so meh); and eventually used the upgrade license I had on something else. About a year ago he managed to kill his laptop (dropped enough times to break the spillproof keyboard, then entered a cup of coffee into it); he was and is more or less perpetually broke so I gave him my old Acer (bought when Vista was only a few months old); and suspect he'll keep using it until he drops it enough times to kill it. At that point he's probably SoL; I doubt I'll have a spare laptop to give him and since he's back in school he won't be able to afford a new one himself.
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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It’s not clear what “copresence” is just yet but it’s clear that Google is working on it. References to the project were reportedly found in the latest Google Play Services software as well as the Chromium bug tracker. 'Almost' Near field communications?
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Next major version of server-side Web development language planned for release in the next year. Which would make it a full speed faster than PHP in general
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Becoming a good programmer is incredibly difficult and it doesn’t happen quickly. "If everyone is special, then no one is."
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Incredibly difficult? Yes, if you don't even understand the syntax of the language. If I don't know the grammer of English, speaking in English is incredibly tough for me either. 
You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow
This opportunity comes once in a lifetime, yo - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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The first 35 years are an unremitting slog - then maybe 6 months when you are at ease with the technology and do great things with it followed by obsolescence and the career scrap heap*
* Sometimes referred to as team project management.
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Is good code a work of art? Or is the Manifesto for Software Craftsmanship overdoing it a bit? And what does it mean to be a ‘good’ programmer? "And over here, there's a happy little squirrel."
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All I see is over usage of good words of English.
You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow
This opportunity comes once in a lifetime, yo - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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I propose a manifesto to stop all other manifestos. I call it the "Put it Where the Sun Don't Shine Manifesto."
Marc
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Kent Sharkey wrote: "And over here, there's a happy little squirrel."
Add: „We don’t make mistakes here, just happy little accidents“ to that!
Cheers!
"I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"
Ron White, Comedian
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Looking for a nice little burst of nostalgia on this fine Saturday evening? Don’t feel like going through the process of installing MAME and lurking for ROMs, but still want to get your classic arcade on? Quarters not necessary
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BSD is like food. It literally (and I mean that metaphorically) whispers "eat me" in the little voice one imagines a cube of cheese might use when it's sitting next to an empty bottle of the best beer in the world, which is of course Orval, brewed by an ancient and almost extinct order of silent Belgian monks called Les Gars Labas Qui Fabrique l'Orval. The BSD license, like its near clone MIT/X11, was designed specifically by a university (Berkeley) with no profit motive to leak work and effort. It is a way to push subsidized technology at below its cost price, a dumping of under-priced code in the hope that it will break the market for others. BSD is an excellent strategic tool, but only if you're a large well-funded institution that can afford to use Option One. The Apache license is BSD in a suit.
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It comes down to behavioral economics and game theory. The license we choose modifies the economics of those who use our work. In the software industry, there are friends, foes, and food. BSD makes most people see us as lunch. Closed source makes most people see us as enemies (do you like paying people for software?) GPL, however, makes most people, with the exception of the Patricks of the world, our allies. Any fork of ZeroMQ is license compatible with ZeroMQ, to the point where we encourage forks as a valuable tool for experimentation. Yes, it can be weird to see someone try to run off with the ball but here's the secret, I can get it back any time I want.
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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The story is behind a registration wall.
Here's a free version[^]
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Corrected - thanks. 
/ravi
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The rise of open source software and its impact on market share is undeniable, and I'm not saying we cannot sell open source. "A rose by any other name would smell as sweet"
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If that guy feels his customers have a problem with the term "Open Source" because of security, I'm not sure how the term "Community Software" will assuage their fears.
Maybe something like Observable Source Software.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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I concur, and generally feel the attempt is misguided. Open Source Software is just starting to get recognised for what it is, the correct approach is to educate the uninformed, not to rebrand.
I prefer to explain the difference as akin to the difference between being open and closed minded.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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London police are testing a system which would let them know who is likely to commit a crime before they’ve actually done it. However, it’s not quite as Minority Report as it sounds, as the predictive tech is aimed at gang members. "I'm placing you under arrest for the future murder of Sarah Marks and Donald Dubin that was to take place today"
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They just take note of anyone exiting a tattoo parlour.
Or attending a soccer match.
Or running for local office.
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Especially running for office, yes. 
TTFN - Kent
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