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Let us know how it turns out. I'm at the "gotta buy a case of these and send it to all the local schools" stage at the moment.
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Rocking! Thank you for this. Sorry about the breakage - JSON can definitely be like that. Getting all your [] and {} lined up can be maddening if you're not using a library. You got my 5 anyway.
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When it ships on September 20, Apple’s iPhone 5s will be the first and only smartphone on the market powered by a 64-bit processor — but not for long, if Samsung can help it. And they'll support .. 8G networks. Yeah, that's the ticket.
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I just love the Guardian's write up of this. The Guarniad[^]
Or, to be more accurate, I particularly like the way he gets pulled apart on his arguments in favour of 64-bit in a phone - you know because it improves floating-point accuracy. Reading the Comments is essential.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Americans Losing Faith In Technology, But Can't Break The Addiction I can quit any time. I just don't feel like it right now.
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Here's a secret: GitHub isn't just for writing code. Too bad GitHub doesn't seem to care. I think many people will get the wrong idea from a "Pull request"
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Imagine a team of lawyers researching a case and using GitHub to upload and annotate legal documents. Or co-authors writing and editing chapters of a book. Or even an online brainstorming session on GitHub, which would be stored and documented far more efficiently than a mess of flustered emails ever could be.
There's far better tools for brainstorming and managing a research project than GitHub, especially when it comes to merging changes, which any VCS does poorly with non-text documents. GitHub doesn't address the real issues that a project that involves a lot of "documents" encounters -- organizing, indexing, and cross-referencing the information in a meaningful way. Yet another example of "oh, here's a cool technology that will solve lots of problems". Sorry folks, it solves the wrong problems in this case, and there's better tools out there already.
Marc
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Agreed. Versioning is such a small part of that kind of scenario, I don't see the value. Something like a shared Evernote or dare I say it - a wiki - would be more useful.
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I sat in a packed room as Microsoft held a daylong series of sessions during which the company announced what it called the .NET strategy. To regain its place within the vanguard of personal computing, Ballmer's Microsoft promised to deliver an interconnected set of Web services that could serve up relevant information to users across multiple devices and let them share with family, friends and co-workers. In a statement then, Ballmer said Microsoft would create a "unified platform through which devices and services cooperate with each other." Computer. Stop.
[Later thoughts]: I think I'm still suffering from PTPD (Post-traumatic PowerPoint Disorder) from these. We were handed these and told, "Make them real" back in 2000. They are missing my favourite though: the medical one.
modified 12-Sep-13 12:43pm.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: I think I'm still suffering from PTPD (Post-traumatic PowerPoint Disorder) from these.
And we're all suffering from PTBD - Post-traumatic Ballmer Disorder.
Marc
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Many adult Internet users take careful precautions to remain virtually invisible online — deleting past posts, disabling browser cookies and using temporary email addresses. Poorly?
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Microsoft is working on its 'Cortana' rival to Apple's Siri and Google Now, which will be integrated into all flavors of Windows in the future. No, you can't get it to call you "Master Chief" all the time
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Bob 2.0?
(No, not ![Green Alien | [Alien]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/alien.gif) - Bob[^]!)
"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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Yeah, I was thinking "Clippy" myself.
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Apple’s CEO announced that iWork, the company’s suite of productivity software (word-processing, spreadsheets, presentations) “now consists of the best-selling mobile productivity apps on any platform.” That’s not so remarkable: Microsoft has allowed its Office suite, which is near-ubiquitous on PCs, to fall far behind on mobile by not releasing versions of it for iOS and Android devices until this summer. But then Cook revealed that from now on, anyone who buys a new iPhone or iPad will get iWork for free. It used to cost $30 in the United States. Here's your news from an alternate reality
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From wearable technology to $100 tablets to city infrastructure, Intel plans to puts it chips in almost everything. And Moore's Law lives. Haswell, Broadwell, and Quark. Sounds like a law firm in Deep Space 9.
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And 1/3 of the world population continues to starve, and probably 90% of the world's population doesn't give a damn what Intel does.
(Sorry, sometimes I think these things just need to be put into perspective.) 
Marc
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+1, but that goes for our entire industry in many ways.
However, some times it does lead to good news (or at least postpone the bad). The water find in Kenya as one example. I'm sure there were some chips involved there.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: I'm sure there were some chips involved there.
Holy Water, Batman!
You're right[^]
?The finding by Radar Technologies International (RTI) was made using space based exploration technology called WATEX system. The largest aquifer at 250 billion cubic meters of water which is equivalent in volume to Lake Turkana one of the largest lakes in the Great Rift Valley, and 25 times greater than Loch Ness. More importantly the annual recharge rate, the amount of water that can be sustainably exploited per year, is estimated to 3.4 billion cubic meters, nearly three times the water use in the New York City.
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: 25 times greater than Loch Ness
When did Loch Ness enter the realm of "sizes of things for comparison"?
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Well, Paula[^] apparently spent some time at Bristol University, UK so maybe she developed a love for Loch Ness. Then again, she also spent time at Princeton, so why didn't she compare it to one of the Great Lakes? 
I love Internet sleuthing.
Marc
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Oracle has released the first developer preview of Java 8 for the full range of platforms (Windows, Max OS X, Linux, Solaris). Also: developer preview of upcoming security flaws
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As Robert Heinlein said, TANSTAAFL Free as in, "set my data free"
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My wifi network is named "FreeWiFi". But it has a password.  (of course, any WiFi becomes free with enough effort)
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