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Extremely high energy particles originated from outside the Solar System. This is huge news! It means... uhm.... well... something!
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Wolfram wants to make it easier for would-be programmers everywhere to start learning how to code, and it's announced a new partnership today that'll have every Raspberry Pi include at no extra cost a copy of Mathematica and an early version of Wolfram Language, its easy to use computing language. Great news for those who want to embed a graphing engine in their coffee maker
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From what I remember about how Mathmatica performed on the relics in my college math depts computer lab back in 99, I'm skeptical about being able to do much more than hello world level computation with it. If Wolfram's developers followed moores law in adding bloat even that may be beyond the rPi.
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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That syncs with my decades-old memory of mathematica as well, but who knows, maybe it's been rewritten in binary or with some magical Wolfram pixie dust? I'd be interested in seeing something real done with this.
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TTFN - Kent
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Nothing lasts forever. Office may be a huge money-spinner for Microsoft, but what's next? "The result would inevitably be a state of universal rest and death, if the universe were finite and left to obey existing laws."
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Is there a reason to believe that Office will die in a near future (5, 10 years)?
Are there real viable options?
I'd rather be phishing!
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Is there a reason to believe facts or reasonable belief has anything to do with what passes for journalism these days?
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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Well, like a lot of things, "It depends". I think there are a lot of alternatives for simple documents: GDocs, Libre Office, whatever Apple calls their stuff, heck even WordPad is good enough for the way most people use Word.
For specialized text, and even more so spreadsheets, the only real alternative to Office is an older version of Office. Which is Office's main competitor these days. Why upgrade when '97 has everything you want/need, and isn't as irritating?
I do have to admit though, I included that as comedy because of his choice. Skype?!?! I'd believe in Groove or "here's a chisel and stone" before Skype was a viable option to replace just about anything.
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TTFN - Kent
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They killed Office with Office 2007.
I'm still using Office 2003.
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Just when you thought it couldn't be crazier in Redmond, today they are introducing node.js Tools for Visual Studio! Just like the cool kids use, but in a real IDE!
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We are a group of .NET developers who are sick and tired of starting Visual Studio, creating a new project and running it, just to test simple code or try out samples from other developers. And as to sharing code and samples, don't even get me started. Sometimes, you just need a little jig
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Nice site, but I suspect they haven't heard of LinqPad[^] if they were starting VS to test simple code. 
"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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True. One of the nice features they have here that LinqPad doesn't is the "Collaborate" feature, for those times when you don't want to (or can't) gather around a monitor.
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TTFN - Kent
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Has anyone played with it enough to compare it to http://ideone.com/[^]?
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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Microsoft breathes new fire into the life of Scroogled, its anti-Google campaign, with a line of products that burn Google for treating your data the same way Microsoft does. “When you sling mud, you lose ground.”
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And the mug's already been "enhanced"[^]. 
"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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Perfect response, and much more accurate. Of course, there probably isn't enough room on the mug for all the logos needed.
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TTFN - Kent
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ooooh. I want that one.
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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Massive breach could set off chain of account hijackings on other sites. Not OK, Cupid
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CHRIST! How many times does this have to happen before it sinks in that storing passwords unencrypted/hashed is a REALLY BAD IDEA?!?!
Take the whole lot of programmers who built that site and the PM out back and shoot them all in the head.
Apparently, having that happen dozens of times in the last couple years to other sites wasn't enough for them to say "Hey, maybe we should check our code for this!"
MORONS!
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I think we could probably get a few bullets chipped in by Lounge members.
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TTFN - Kent
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Hell - it wouldn't even need checking the code. A simple inspection of the database / password file would have sufficed.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Dave Kreskowiak wrote: MORONS!
Your last line summarized everything you wrote before it
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure. Colin Powell
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