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Friday, Oct. 31, will mark the end of retail sales of consumer editions of Windows 7 and Windows 8. Buy up all the copies - think of what they'll be worth on eBay soon
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Google is building a nano particle platform that could one day be used to continuously measure your health via particles traveling through your bloodstream. "It was in the blood, the flesh, And now it is forever."
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It’s official: HTML5 is a standard.
The Worldwide Web Consortium today has elevated the HTML5 specification to ‘recommendation’ status, giving it the group’s highest level of endorsement, which is akin to becoming a standard. "I've seen the future. It's in my browser."
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It's no secret that Amazon leads the public cloud computing race. The question is by how much. Lock-in locks people in. News at 11.
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While he believes smart machines can take us to Mars and drive our cars for us, Musk remains worried that artificial intelligence holds a darker potential. Ia! Ia! Shub-Niggurath!
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I think someone is calling me...
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Artificial intelligence taking over the world is a horror story plot, not a real danger. Mostly this article proves that you don't need much sense to become a super-rich investor.
As long as we're afraid of artificial intelligence turning on us if advance it, let's also be afraid of sewer systems creating sludge monsters that crawl up our drains if we breed more efficient bacteria to deal with sludge. Or long hair coming alive and strangling us in our sleep because our new shampoo gives it a more "life-like shine".
There's no end to imaginary dangers that make good horror story plots.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Musk remains worried that artificial intelligence holds a darker potential.
I'm a lot more afraid of what we humans display as "intelligence" than anything a machine will, in the foreseeable future, demonstrate.
Marc
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I'm a lot more afraid of humans getting dumber than machines getting smarter.
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A company called MCX (Merchant Customer Exchange), spearheaded by Walmart, was started to build a mobile payment solution that would become an app called CurrentC that’s preparing to launch, but is already in the app stores. QR codes?! Someone suggests QR codes as a solution to something?
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The good news is that after the banks proprietary attempt (the platform formerly known as ISIS) faceplanted, GooglePay faceplanted, and ApplePay just being shoved toward a faceplant; we only have to wait for the merchant companies to fubar their effort (by alienating Google, Apple, and the banks if nothing else) before there's any reasonable chance of the major players attempting to work together to create an interoperable standard instead of squabbling over who'll be allowed to pocket 2% of every retail transaction forever. (Or until brainwave pay becomes a thing anyway.)
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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Waiting for industry cooperation seems a bit optimistic to me.
According to my calculations, I should be able to retire about 5 years after I die.
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Dan Neely wrote: (Or until brainwave pay becomes a thing anyway.)
That'd best be marketed as "BrainPay".
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Quote: The idea behind MCX was that if enough retailers teamed up, they could convince consumers to adopt their mobile payment system that would let retailers avoid paying credit card fees in the 2 percent to 3 percent range by processing payments through Automatic Clearing House transactions through bank accounts that have much smaller fees. MCX’s app could also help retailers by encouraging loyalty to participating merchants and possibly provide them additional intelligence on their customers.
So it's only going to support debit cards not credit. Yeah good luck with that. 
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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Rather than create another new programming language—Google has already done that with Dart—AtScript is designed to run on top of not only ECMAScript 5 and the upcoming ECMAScript 6, but atop Microsoft’s superset TypeScript language as well. The goal of AtScript is to make type annotation data available at runtime, also known as type introspection, in an effort to enhance JavaScript with type, field and metadata annotations.
ECMAScript, TypeScript and AtScript...one big happy JavaScript family?
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Last week at the ng-europe conference in Paris, the Angular team gave attendees details about the upcoming AngularJS 2.0 release. It's a significant departure from version 1.X with no migration path and made with a new language, AtScript, in mind.
Developers familiar with the Angular 1.X will encounter a drastically different looking framework and will need to learn a new architecture. -- souce[^]
Oh great, just when I was about to start learning AngularJS 1.X for a project, this happens. I think I'll go back to starting fires by rubbing two sticks together.
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: Oh great, just when I was about to start learning AngularJS 1.X for a project, this happens. I think I'll go back to starting fires by rubbing two sticks together.
It's still better than painting yourself head to toe with woad and doing a thunderstorm dance to light a fire.
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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Dan Neely wrote: It's still better than painting yourself head to toe with woad and doing a thunderstorm dance to light a fire.
Hmmm, that could be quite, um, stimulating.
On the other hand, here's an opportunity to actually learn a technology as it's emerging, something I have never cared to do with anything W.. related (WPF, WCF, web..., etc.) We'll see if it's true that you can teach an old dog new tricks.
Marc
modified 27-Oct-14 17:08pm.
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Marc Clifton wrote: something I have cared to do with anything
Missing a never here?
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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Dan Neely wrote: Missing a never here?
Indeed. Fixed. 
Marc
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We’ve asked over 350 developers and 3 JCP experts about their Java 9 expectations, here’s what we found out.
"Do not question the all-powerful Oracle...pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!"
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The Wizard of Oz. A great movie.
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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IT salaries will remain mostly stagnant in 2015, except for workers with highly coveted skill sets, according to a report tracking IT salaries and skills demand in the coming years. Where is 'headline snark writers' on the list?
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Global, high mobility, lightly regulated industry has wages governed by supply and demand? Shocked I am!
Edit That said, I'm surprised "machine learning" isn't on that list yet.
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