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Oh, I never thought about Amazon. That could have been a good match. Not just for patents, but they could have launched a decent phone. (A Kindle Phone)
I guess, Blackberry just needed the money, while they still have the creative control over the product. so they chose an insurance company over a tech company.
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I wonder if they'll just send the jets along to their new buyers?
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Microsoft unveiled on Monday at its event in New York City the Surface 2 tablet, which is heralded as a total revamp of its predecessor and comes with a ton of free cloud storage. If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
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When Bill Gates was at Harvard, he wrote software code that helped to launch the personal computer era Once upon a time, there was a little boy named Bill...
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Yeah. A little longer than I usually point at, but definitely worth a read IMO.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Yeah. A little longer
Yeah but there was a lot of stuff in it that I had never heard before.
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Poorly implemented (non-futureproof) User-Agent sniffing has proven to be the top compatibility problem encountered each time a new version of Internet Explorer ships. As a consequence, the logic around the user-agent string has grown increasingly complicated over the years; the introduction of Compatibility Modes has meant that the browser now has more than one UA string, and legacy extensibility of the string was deprecated after years of abuse. Browser sniffing deemed bad (code) smell
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Early next year, when Microsoft finally, officially, and unreservedly drops support for Windows XP, it won't mark the beginning of a new XPocalypse. XP is a relic of a bygone era. It's time to let it go. Go into the light, XP, go into the light
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Go into the light, XP, go into the light
It'll be in queue, right after VB6.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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At this point XP should be dragged out into the street at 3am for revolutionary justice. Then have a parade of elephants march over the remains.
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: At this point XP should be dragged out into the street at 3am for revolutionary justice. Then have a parade of elephants march over the remains.
If you had said Vista, I'd agree with you. XP just needs a quiet injection, and "go to sleep now, sweet Prince" of a treasured old pet.
It served well for a long time, but it is time.
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I think it's time I went shopping for some retro XP T-shirts. I seem to be the only one actively using it. 
/ravi
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There's at least two of us. 
BDF
The internet makes dumb people dumber and clever people cleverer.
-- PaulowniaK
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My work XP systems have no update scheduled. They may not be upgraded until Balmer's successor retires. 
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No Windows Update enabled on them? 
/ravi
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Not a question of updates being enabled - I do that manually rather than automatically - but I will still be on the same systems after updates cease to be issued in April 2014.
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Gotcha. I have a feeling I might be giving you company.
/ravi
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XP may have been good in it's day; but in comparison to newer versions of windows it's a festering cesspit of malware. IIRC from when MS was publishing stats from MSE XPs infection rate was ~2x Vista32's or ~3x Weven32's (64 bit versions lower still). The sooner it goes away the better.
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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While Google has everything that I personally need, it has its shortcomings when you compare it against some of the features Bing and Yahoo! have to offer. Even if you’re a Google supporter, knowing that it has competitors standing up and challenging it to improve, should make you happy. Without them, Google would look like a monopoly. Just in case it's time for an intervention
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Always root for the underdog.
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DuckDuckGo? 
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Everyone from users to entrepreneurs to advertisers loves the “mobile” category because those products are always with us, always on, and instantly accessible. But these opportunities are also design constraints: Mobile screens are small, driven by touch, and often connected to spotty networks. Which is why companies like Facebook, Google, PayPal, and countless startups taking the plunge into mobile-first design quickly realize that designing for mobile is not the same as designing for the desktop PC. A phone is not a desktop, part 42
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If you're an IT pro looking to either polish your existing cloud skills or add new expertise to your resume, the time is now as demand for cloud skills continues to outpace the supply of available workers. Must be aware of best practices for converting cumulonimbus to cirrus
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