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I personally do not agree with the myth that hackers are always a step ahead. I think that the IT industry is way behind from where it should be. I am using the results of hundreds of web application security scans performed with Netsparker web application security scanner as an example to show that the IT industry can do much better in terms of security. Only you can prevent hacking of your site.
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One of the most controversial changes Microsoft made to Windows in its latest iteration - Windows 8 - is the removal of the Start button and menu. According to The Verge, the company wants to bring it back with Windows 8.1, which is also known as Windows Blue. While the button will make its comeback, the Start menu itself will still be absent.
According to Windows Insider Paul Thurrott[^], the Management of Microsoft made this decision above the Windows Blue teams' head. Good or bad idea?
Original article by The Verge[^].
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Close but no cigar.
We're gettin there.
They a-scareeed 
Keep bitchin until we get the traditional start menu back.
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In Visual Studio 2012 Update 1 (VS 2012.1) Microsoft delivered a feature for the Ultimate edition called Code Map with the goal of visualising relationships in code. In Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 (VS 2012.2) they’ve extended the Code Map experience to include debugging support and the ability to generate code maps on the fly as a debugging session is conducted. If you saw the announcement then you may have had one of the following reactions. Reaction 1 would be something like “Oh. It’s in Ultimate. I don’t have it. I’ll ignore it”. The second might be similar to mine: “Is this really going to be that useful?”. After ignoring it for a bit I decided to answer that question for myself. You are here. Your code is doing lots of work over there. Let me show you where...
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It seems to be fashionable at the moment to be negative about Windows 8. People like to whine about how the Modern UI gets in the way and how the rest of it is just Windows 7 with some of the furniture rearranged. Some analysts are even blaming Windows 8 for poor PC sales. Well, I’m sorry Windows 8 deniers, you’re wrong. I’ve used every major version of Windows since 3.1, I’ve been using Windows 8 since the Developer Preview versions and I think it’s Microsoft’s best effort yet. Why do you love Windows 8?
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Windows 8 is quick n' fast ' smart.
I run a pc shop and can't tell you how many new windows 8 machines come in for us to "please get my login and stuff off this pc 'cause I'm sending it back" - Which means factory restore.
The reason? The Modern UI.
If MS wasn't so stupid as to shoot with a windows 8 shotgun, the whole business world with that play school kids stuff interface than it would be a run away hit.
As it is it's killing and will everything.
I read somewhere recently that those on mahogany row at MS arent resposible for the blunder but left it up to "designers" in an attempt to emulate Apple. Do you suppose those are the "kids" dancing around outside on the comercials?
Windows 9 better be windows 8 without the modern interface or MS is dead meat.
Because users say no with their pocket books.
That said:
Windows 8 with a 3rd party boot to desktop, start menu app rocks.
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Been using Win8 daily myself on a laptop and dual monitors for 8 months. I'm loving it.
I understand that it's a shock and people don't know what to do with it. It's just a matter of giving it a chance. Once you realize that the "Start Screen" is really just the "Start button" spread out, and adapt your thinking... things get better.
One does wonder why all the user experience studies, if any were done, didn't tell them people would have a hard time adjusting... WTF were they thinking??!!!??
But I agree that it should have been a choice.
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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simple; the people who volunteer for UX studies are much more willing to play around with something to learn how it works. Joe SixPackXP wants it to Just Work The Way It Always Has(tm).
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 love this in one of the comments:
Quote: I understand that Apple products cure bad breath and impotence, surrounding owners with an aura that invites friends and enemies alike to worship at their feet. What I don't get is what that state of inspired, beloved awesomeness has to do with an article about Windows 8.
LMFAO! 
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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Btw:
Those who are sending their laptops with 8 on it back are keeping their xp and having us rehab it back to speed.
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I still don't understand how Microsoft expects us to design and use real applications (Photoshop, Office, etc) in the so-called "Modern UI".
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I'm fine with Windows 8 as I was with Windows 3.1, 95, NT, Win 7 etc. Around the time I set up Win 8 on my dev machine, I also had a Samsung S3 Android phone supplied to me.
It took a little while to get used to Win 8. A couple of days tops.
I have found I'm still discovering new ways of doing things (or trying to) on my Android Phone. An OS obviously developed by a committee.
So if millions can learn and even love Android then Win 8 should be a walk in the park.
Peter Hayward
Ngarkat Technologies
South Australia,
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Windows 8 is sleek and fast.
The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second is listening, the third memory, the forth, practice and the fifth is teaching others!
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* Lightning Fast
* Built-in Multi-Monitor Taskbar
* Live Tiles
* Blazing Fast
* Works
* Awesomely Fast
* Built-In Hyper-V Client
* Did I mention it is fast?
Gryphons Are Awesome! Gryphons Are Awesome!
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A button is simply a device you can press to connect two pieces of metal together, allowing a current to pass. It’s extremely handy for all sorts of applications. This tutorial is for those who want to learn more about how electronics (like buttons) work. You’ll use an open-source micro-controller called the Arduino to make a LED light turn on and off. Click here to learn how to make a gadget that lets you click there.
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Tony Hoare, the inventor of null, has gone on record calling it his ‘billion-dollar mistake’. So what should replace it? Maybe, at its core, is a construct that allows programmers to move null checks into the type system, so they can be enforced at compile-time. Instead of forgetting to deal with a null check and finding out with an exception at run-time, you forget to deal with a null check and find out at compile-time, before anyone else even sees it! And that’s not just some null checks, that’s all of them, guaranteed! Schrodinger's Type: Maybe it's there. Maybe it's not.
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I disagree. Maybe is not better than NULL its more complex and will lead to more mistakes.
Worse than that this is yet another example of trying to 'fix it by changing the language'. Hasn't 15 years of failure from Microsoft made it clear enough THAT DOESN'T WORK.
You have to fix the problem, which is essentially the inability of most code to operate safely when given one or more empty parameters, not the language so as to hide empty parameters inside unions. As for the idea that this change means checks can be done at compile time, bilge, most NULLs arise from the lack of existence of user input, files, communication or some other artifact or item of data at runtime. Trying to ban these situations at compile time will simply lead to unhandled real world situations, commonly known as unhandled exceptions.
The one part of this that is correct is that the answer is to use the type system to create checked types that can throw when they evaluate to NULL. This can be done, I know because I've done it and definitely doesn't require any language level changes.
"The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage."
Thucydides (B.C. 460-400)
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Matthew Faithfull wrote: Maybe is not better than NULL its more complex and will lead to more mistakes.
Just try a language that has no nulls and you'll change your mind quickly.
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Hmm, that's what they said about languages with no types.
No thanks, I'll wait for version 3.5 or 4.0 of said language when they put NULLs back in to solve the problems they caused by having to write situation specific exception handlers almost but not quite identically all over the code.
The solution is a conceptually more advanced type system where types include declaratively what they can and cannot be converted to, what values they can and cannot be set to including NULL.
This doesn't need a new language just proper use of some of the better ones we have already. In other words a better understanding of what a type is amongst developers rather then a new language which further obscures the answer to that question by trying and inevitably failing to do it for you.
"The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage."
Thucydides (B.C. 460-400)
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Matthew Faithfull wrote: No thanks, I'll wait for version 3.5 or 4.0 of said language when they put NULLs back in to solve the problems they caused
 Some of the languages without nulls are pretty old (ML, for instance) and I've never heard of any of them adding them. Nulls are simply a mistake - a billion dollar one[^], according to Tony Hoare who first introduced them:
"I call it my billion-dollar mistake. It was the invention of the null reference in 1965. At that time, I was designing the first comprehensive type system for references in an object oriented language (ALGOL W). My goal was to ensure that all use of references should be absolutely safe, with checking performed automatically by the compiler. But I couldn't resist the temptation to put in a null reference, simply because it was so easy to implement. This has led to innumerable errors, vulnerabilities, and system crashes, which have probably caused a billion dollars of pain and damage in the last forty years. In recent years, a number of program analysers like PREfix and PREfast in Microsoft have been used to check references, and give warnings if there is a risk they may be non-null. More recent programming languages like Spec# have introduced declarations for non-null references. This is the solution, which I rejected in 1965."
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Point me at a substantial open source project written in ML and I'll consider learning it, or Spec# or that matter.
"The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage."
Thucydides (B.C. 460-400)
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Thanks, the link produces a 403 but I managed to find MLDonkey. It's been 15 years since I last looked at ML and it's still almost as ugly as SQL. The interesting thing to me is the apparent ability to integrate with something as concrete and 'real world' as GTK. That's real progress for a functional language, the idea that it might actually get used to write software rather than prove a point. I don't believe Miranda ever got that far. Maybe ML is worth another look but it will have to wait until after the elections, my brain is reading critical right now and all the sirens are going off. Time to sleep before tomorrows radio debate.
"The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage."
Thucydides (B.C. 460-400)
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