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An internal Microsoft memo, distributed earlier today, outlines new restrictions on the company’s use of “external staff” — including a new limit on people who work on projects for Microsoft through vendors. The other shoe falls
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You know, if I was a cynical curmudgeon, I would say that Microsoft is positioning itself to be acquired. Laying of lots of employees, cutting all external consultants, and making statements about re-positioning its products are all the things a company does when it wants to make itself attractive to buyers.
Next, we will be hearing about Microsoft spinning off some of its products to "new companies." The likeliest candidate? Desktop development.
Marc
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Interesting notion, but who's got the money? Well, other than Apple or Google. Either way, that would be very 'interesting times'.
I do agree - spinoffs are likely. All the talk of 'becoming more like a startup' makes it sound likely.
TTFN - Kent
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So why did it take so long for Google to address the issue? While many paint the 1 ms timer as a "bug," Google consciously made the decision to set the system-wide timer at such a high rate and keep it there. It's all the fault of Flash
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Can you imagine the horror on their faces when they realise that what they are doing is actually not legal!
There's going to be mass hysteria and panic followed by an endless outpouring of grief and lamentation.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Tails OS can get straight to Pirate Bay.
Then, the torrent file you download can be used anywhere.
SSSSSHHHHHHHHH!
SECRET! 
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And reading about it automatically puts you on the NSA/GCHQ watch-list as a suspected naughty person. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Reading? Heck. I bought a copy of The Ipcress File on DVD, and when I ran it up, it started in 4:3 in the middle of my newer-than-1995 tv screen.
The (used) copies of widescreen were being sold (illegally also!) for £99.
Pirate Bay was my only redress.
Of course, USING Tails is even worse than reading about it.
As Doctor Heinz Kiosk used ot say many years ago, 'we are all guilty'! 
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Nadella's plan to put services, software on all platforms means the Apple-IBM deal will have little impact on the enterprise-centric Microsoft. Taligent, OpenDoc, Pink...
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If I were apple I would steer clear of IBM.
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Yeah, that's a tough one to parse. I'm assuming it's so that IBM's consultants will start pushing iStuff.
Technology-wise, what does IBM have left that they haven't sold to Lenovo? I haven't heard boo about WebSphere in over a decade, and I do try to keep up with the news...
TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: I'm assuming it's so that IBM's consultants will start pushing iStuff.
Which will drive anyone who's ever used an ibm CONsultant in the past into Android's loving embrace.
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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Almost every day, there are software development teams finishing agile sprints who are left wondering what happened. How did we fail? Where did we go wrong? The answers are as hard to come by as it is to successfully implement an agile approach that is sustainable and maximizes its true value. "More than meets the eye"
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I ran this past my AI and asked for a semantic analysis. It didn't take very long. The article makes a simple statement, then meanders without purpose, provides no examples or real data, and makes no useful conclusions. Semantic Analysis Level = 0.526.
This is a fluff piece useful for the author in looking for another job or gig and to try and boost his authority-ship where he plants some doubts, says nothing, demonstrates no useful skills, and hopes some person starts thinking that they should hire him. In other words, he's fishing.
Further analysis of the topic, beyond the article, has potential meaning and value regarding that Agile isn't a total solution in software project management. I'd like to see a much more in depth article, one with real information and a Semantic Analysis Level of at least 3.5.
Anyone have some good links to some good here?
- Grant
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Let me guess:
Refactored Agile Development is the new RAD. 
Marc
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Google finally cracked the image recognition problem with its new artificial intelligence system, known as Google Brain. With Brain, Google can now transcribe all of the addresses that Street View has captured in France in less than an hour. "In time you will come to regard me not only with respect and awe, but with love."
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The former Nokia employees who joined Microsoft in April are bearing the brunt of Microsoft's just-announced layoffs. But other teams across the company will be hit, too. 'It looks like you're doing a mass layoff. Would you like help with that?'
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Windows Phone and Windows Store app developers can finally rejoice -- Microsoft has announced a single Windows Dev Center website today, making it easier for app developers to learn and create apps for both platforms. This is yet another step towards the company's journey to a single unified Windows platform. Oh yes. Rejoice that there is more clutter when you're searching the Windows API
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We are thrilled to announce the 1.1 release of LiquidFun, an open-source 2D physics engine. It adds particle simulation to Erin Catto’s popular Box2D engine, and can be used as a drop-in replacement for Box2D. If your program is written in C++, Java, or JavaScript, you can easily use LiquidFun. LiquidFun now runs in your browser! And I can't stop playing with their test application, let alone something real.
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Increasingly, software isn't sold, it's used to power services offered over the Internet. So why contend with the complexities of open source licensing? It's just all about the sharing, maaaaaaan
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Didn't we read this drivel from another clickbait content farm last month? And the month before? And the month before that? And ... 
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 the reality is more that we are living in a post software of any kind world. We don't really want software - we want the service part. The sooner the industry realises we are more like roadies than rock stars the better
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Only six weeks after its release, Apple’s new programming language appears to already be on its way to replacing Objective-C. "He ain't too hip now, but I can dig the new breed thing"
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While the bulk of the 18,000 Microsoft job cuts are coming from the former Nokia operations, more than 5,000 are coming from within the traditional ranks of the company as Redmond looks to revamp the way it builds products. "Look, if we were to build a large wooden badger..."
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