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Microsoft doesn't made that chair. Bought it and sold you with great profit...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is (V).
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Steve Ballmer's departure from Microsoft will be a series of epitaphs written over the coming months. Many arm-chair pundits and analysts will scrutinize his 13-year tenure as chief executive, and you can expect him to be the scapegoat for all things wrong with Microsoft. Most assuredly, Ballmer could have done many things better, but he also contended with forces out of his control: government oversight for anti-competitive practices conducted under predecessor Bill Gates' leadership; maturing PC software market; and rise of the Internet as the new computing hub, among others. Now there's something you don't hear any day.
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Following today’s announcement of Windows Phone 8 Update 3 (8.0.10512), I’m pleased to introduce Windows Phone Preview for Developers, which will kick off later today. Windows Phone Preview for Developers gives you, our developer community, access to prerelease builds of Windows Phone updates on your dev phone before operating system updates generally are available to consumers. With the update in hand early, we hope that you can use the time to exercise your code on the update and verify that your app works as you expect. If you find issues, you can fix your app and get an update into the Store before your customers get the OS update. Why wait to update your phone? You could use a new brick.
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It has only been three years since Apple introduced the iPad, and it has been a tremendous success ever since. That makes it all the more interesting to hear Steve Jobs convincingly dismiss tablets, at the first All Things Digital conference in 2003, ten years ago, to Walt Mossberg.
In other news: Yet another thing Jobs was dismissing at first.
You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the tallest guy in the NBA is Chinese, the Swiss hold the America's Cup, France is accusing the U.S. of arrogance, Germany doesn't want to go to war, and the three most powerful men in America are named "Bush", "Dick", and "Colon."
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From The Register: Back door found in D-Link routers[^]
"A group of embedded device hackers has turned up a vulnerability in D-Link consumer-level devices that provides unauthenticated access to the units' admin interfaces."
May the "xmlset_roodkcableoj28840ybtide" be with you......
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I hate Microsoft Word. I want Microsoft Word to die. I hate Microsoft Word with a burning, fiery passion. I hate Microsoft Word the way Winston Smith hated Big Brother. Our reasons are, alarmingly, not dissimilar ... "Have you forgotten it takes a silver bullet to kill it?"
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Word is fine; it's the Ribbon I dislike. And Excel.
A properly behaving application should do whatever you tell it to, and nothing that you don't tell it to.
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: it's the Ribbon I dislike
They really improved the Ribbon stuff in Word 2013 - I can get to every function / Dialog I need within two clicks, which I find acceptable.
You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the tallest guy in the NBA is Chinese, the Swiss hold the America's Cup, France is accusing the U.S. of arrogance, Germany doesn't want to go to war, and the three most powerful men in America are named "Bush", "Dick", and "Colon."
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Call me a Luddite, but I liked Word most at Version 6.0. Back then it supported styles etc. in a logical consistent manner.
The next version they started creating styles to match ad hoc formatting in the doc, never seemed to get it write, started the Intellisense nonsense that "corrects" my correct prose, and generally F**Ked up my work.
Unfortunately, W6 does not work on modern O/S.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Word 6 was OK, but I can't stand Styles, and turning them off was difficult. And if I recall correctly it was the version that got corrupted when I installed the HTML pack -- crashed every time I tried to use spell check.
I never had any trouble with WinWord 2.
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I actually like Styles, but Word 6 was the last time I felt actually in control of them, after that I started struggling with them, especially with numbered headings. Adding one new heading to a document can mess up all your good work so far (again).
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Hewlett-Packard now sees Microsoft as a competitor. For years, Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft had a strong partnership -- but evidently, those days are over. The widespread backlash to Windows 8, combined with Microsoft's decision to release its own, competing hardware, has alienated Hewlett-Packard. The friend of my friend... no wait, the enemy of my friend... dang
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I wanted to do everything right. I had ideas on how to make this place better than my earlier workplaces. I had studied the literature. Well tested and documented code, continuous integration, service oriented architectures, lean methodology—you name it. The contrarian view
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Of all the criticisms leveled at Microsoft, the "you're no innovator!" one must hurt the most: Microsoft has the Forrest Gump-esque ability to be present at every major technological development, and in many cases it was shipping innovative hardware, software and services years or even decades before the rest of the world caught up. Close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades
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Yet literally billions of dollars are wasted due to excess project failures, bug fixes, and maintenance nightmares. Surveys and studies have consistently shown that 50 to 75 percent of software projects are consumed by bug fixes and maintenance. One underlying root cause of this significant problem is the use of traditional imperative languages (Java, C family, Python, Ruby etc.), whose manual, low-level approach is very error-prone and generates spaghetti code that eats up the backend costs. Instead, waste billions using *this* language
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I knew by reading the quote that it would be another ad for a functional programming language. In this case, one written by a Haskell IDE vendor.
Waste in enterprise software projects is mostly communication and requirements problems. You'll find programming language difficulties at the bottom of the list somewhere. There is no programming language that will make great strides in reducing waste because programming language difficulties are such a small, minor source of waste.
And if there were a miracle programming language, it wouldn't be Haskell (which is older than Java, C#, Python, and Ruby and has had more than enough time to prove itself).
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jesarg wrote: And if there were a miracle programming language, it wouldn't be Haskell (which is older than Java, C#, Python, and Ruby and has had more than enough time to prove itself).
Yeah, I think F# has had more success in the fx space, in far less time. Haskell is the new Lisp (without being the solution to everything) IMO
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TTFN - Kent
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ROTFLMAO! And I rarely use that textspeak.
Right. Haskell. HAHAHAHAHA!
A programming language is like a tool. Give a moron a hammer, and yes, you will need to take him to the emergency room.
Marc
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From the tone and references in the quoted article i'm surprised that isn't a direct quote!
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State-controlled telecoms group Rostelecom plans an internet search engine named after the Sputnik satellite, Vedomosti newspaper said on Friday, though analysts said the aim to muscle into the highly competitive Russian market was doomed. In Soviet Russia, Web site searches for you
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Kent Sharkey wrote: In Soviet Russia, Web site searches for you
FTFY.
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The files were encrypted but still sitting on an open Web server, security expert says If you're going to all the trouble of stealing something, at least take care of it
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Microsoft and other major software companies are producing major updates at faster speeds, putting pressure on IT to adapt. "It's becoming critical, Captain. We can't handle it."
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I think the biggest challenge I'm going to face with the change is to convince the bean counters to start buying resharper subscriptions instead of a new version every few years when we're able to convince them to actually spend a bit of money.
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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In a world where smart machines do most of the work, expect high unemployment, unrest and tumult "The machines have gathered an army and as I speak, that army is drawing nearer to our home."
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