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DuckDuckGo is sometimes portrayed as the “anti-Google”, but that’s not quite right. It’s more like bizarro-world Google. It looks similar, it acts similar — but in the end, it has totally different motives. DuckDuckGo aims to offer up the simplicity and functionality of the big search engines, minus all the creepy tracking stuff. The company outlines everything they do/don’t store right here, but most importantly: it doesn’t use tracking cookies, and it doesn’t save a record of your IP. Search, without being searched
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Scientists set up equipment in Hawaii to discern the true hue of the dark side. They say that blue light reflected from Earth turns turquoise when it bounces off the moon. "There is no dark side in the moon, really. As a matter of fact it's all dark."
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"New reports have determined that the scientists were, in fact, under the influence of highly potent LSD while postulating the turquoise color of the moon's dark side. The claims were investigated after one line in the footnotes cited a "shimmering, majestic space flounder wearing a rainbow top hat" swimming in the turquoise moonlight."
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Android is really beginning to challenge Windows on the desktop - but this war will be long and drawn out and the conclusion far from certain. Assuming they can fight over the pile of corpses of OSes that have battled Windows in the past
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Article says: Android is really beginning to challenge Windows on the desktop
Really?! Shouldn't Android have even 1% market share on the desktop before some idiot makes that claim?
Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. ~ George Washington
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Can Android run Windows in a VM? 
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Rabbit holes inside rabbit holes! That way leads to madness.
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TTFN - Kent
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2014 looks to be even bigger than 2013 for Microsoft, with the company expected to ship a number of major updates to existing products as well as expanding into new product lines thanks to the Nokia acquisition. Loads of stuff: some good, some less good
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There are some interesting things to come, but as far as I am concerned, the continued search (or lack of decision) for a new MS CEO stopped being interesting a while ago.
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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In a great presentation at the AT&T Dev Summit’s Design track last week, AT&T’s Doug Sillars said that it’s time to “drop the word ‘mobile’ from ‘Web development.‘” We say “Amen” to that. In fact, we’d take it one step further: it’s time to drop the word “mobile” from the phrase “mobile developers.” If you're an 'X' developer, you're expedable
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In this post, the Windows Phone Store certification and policy teams share the most common certification failures we see as apps go through the certification process. This post also covers steps you can take to avoid these failures. Armed with this knowledge, you can increase your chances of passing certification the first time and publishing your app to the Store on schedule. "It ain't the melody and it ain't the music. There's something else that makes this tune complete"
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Microsoft's ambitious but accessible game creation tool program Project Spark began its closed beta in December for Windows 8.1 users and this week the Team Dakota team announced that the Xbox One beta testing will begin sometime in February. XBox not included
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I got my access last week. The kids love it.
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Congrats!
Are they just tinkering around with it, or do you think they might actually build something shareable?
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It's pretty comprehensive. It looks like they really will be offering something shareable.
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Yes, my son and I just started playing with it too - great fun.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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You can get beta keys from JoinProjectSpark.com[^] - the designer requires Windows 8.1 and is currently quite restricted....but the "brain designer" AI writing tool is actually quite a lot of fun.
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Mobile strategy and solutions company Mokriya is trying to help by launching MobileInsights, a series of free guides aimed at streamlining the way businesses recruit mobile development firms. Almost as good as selling an app? Writing guides about how to sell an app.
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Companies are also looking for workers with more traditional skills for security and quality assurance jobs. Less hot: ActiveX control development
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Microsoft's Windows team may share its high-level plans for its next-generation Windows "Threshold" release at its upcoming Build developers show, according to a new sourced report. Hopefully not on the first
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"Threshold will include updates to all three Windows OS platforms (Xbox One, Windows, and Windows Phone) that will advance them in a way to share even more common elements"
Why the elephant do they continue to think that that's a good thing and that the users want it? Did no one teach them "use the right tool for the right job"?
Kent Sharkey wrote: Hopefully not on the first
As if that matters.  I notice that Passover starts on the 15th -- maybe that would be more appropriate.
"And that would be very bad," interjected the cat, ... "For you, for us, for Mankind..." -- Threshold, David R. Palmer
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The analyst believes Elop as CEO and Nadella as CTO would be the best combination for Microsoft's future.
It's Gates and Ballmer, reversed.
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I don't take stock in much if anything that Gartner says.
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The startup's recruitment failed because the Google programmer was already making $3 million with restricted stock.
How do you work for Google, again?
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