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Appmethod provides a way to compile a single program for multiple platforms You know what would be a great slogan for this? "Write once, run everywhere"
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The European Parliament announced last year that the Internal Market Committee plans to impose a universal charger for mobile phones sold in local markets, that will replace the custom designs that are adopted by manufacturers and accessory makers. This initiative is meant to "cut costs and waste for users", according to the announcement. "You are incompatible. You will be deleted."
I'm glad someone's finally doing this.
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This needs to be done for all devices that take a charger or transformer.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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I really wish someone who really knew what the new rule does/n't mean.
When it was reported over the weekend on Arstechnica, the comment thread devolved into a many way flamewar based on different interpretations of what it meant. Constructive positions I recall seeing included:
0) All it's doing is making the voluntary agreement between the EU and phone companies that resulted in microUSB everywhere mandatory; it's business as usual for all current phone/tablet vendors.
0.1) The law is targeted at other products using low power DC chargers that are still proprietary and who didn't partake in the voluntary agreement.
1) They're mandating that the charging brick have a USB-A port and implement the USB charging/power specs so that high power charging will work everywhere.
1.1) This will ding Apple because they're using a non-standard way to signal high power mode.
2) They're mandating phones/tablets use:
2.1) The current micro-USB B port.
2.2) The current micro-USB B 3.0 port.
2.3) The forthcoming USB-C port, which is expected to be about the size of the micro-b port but reversible.
2.4) And Apple will/not have to dump the lighting port for it instead of being reversible.
3) Related to 2.*, the law will/not be written in a way that makes more capable future ports illegal to use.
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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The rumors are true: Microsoft confirmed today that it is making a version of OneNote available for free on every major desktop and mobile computing platform, including even the Mac. I guess they'll be stopping development soon
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Pretty excited. I've barely gotten my toes wet with OneNote. But it sure looks useful for cross platform notebook maintenance.
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I've got it with Office 2013, and it's pretty good for taking notes.
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yeah, me too. I just haven't managed to wedge it in to my daily routine enough to adapt to it.
It looks great. Every once in a while I'll open it with a hearty "I'm gonna use OneNote to... do... stuff!" then I stare at the UI, shrug, then close it again.
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In a potentially stunning new finding, astronomers say that they have seen evidence supporting a key element in the Big Bang theory: a hypothesized period of exponential expansion of the universe known as "inflation" — or, what one researcher calls, "the bang of the big bang." Incredibly shocking news I pass on despite my not being in the 0.1% that understands
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What? No song lyric reference? You were on a roll! 
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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Hmmm. "We are stardust, we are golden, how 'bout them gravity waves?"
TTFN - Kent
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That's not gravity waving, its gravity drowning.
I'll get my coat!
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Google has updated its gaming options to offer multiplayer support between Android and iOS. "Hans plays with Lotte, Lotte plays with Jane Jane plays with Willi, Willi is happy again"
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Tim Berners-Lee recently called on the internet to adopt a bill of rights for the world wide web. It sounds wonderful in theory, but here is why it will never work, and why that's okay. "Know your rights. These are your rights, all three of them!"
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Any laws requires enforcers. Next thing you know is a lot of "monitoring", "moderation" in name of "protection".
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Yeah, and interpretation. That way leads to (more) madness.
TTFN - Kent
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You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be used against you by certain Federal agencies who are accountable to no one.
Now, do you understand your rights?
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On Thursday morning, the House Judiciary Committee held its latest in a long series of hearings concerning potential copyright reform -- sometimes referred to as "the Next Great Copyright Act."
We hit it with six shots, but it's still alive...
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A Mobile Developer Challenge, and forays into online retail, healthcare and food, mark a busy season for the supercomputer
I know Watson improving hospital diagnoses is probably more important and all, but I can't get over the Watson food truck making an Austrian chocolate burrito.
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Fake is a Domain Specific Language that you can use without knowing F#, but if and when you outgrow it you can keep heading down the F# road. In all cases you've got all of .NET at your command. Fake it to make it
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Machine designer NCR says that only a third of banks will upgrade their ATMs to a newer OS before official XP support ends on April 8th, leaving many institutions little choice but to pay Microsoft for an extended contract if they still want support.
Banks, storing your money on Windows XP since 2001.
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That's good is it? After all Developers need get paid. Banks pay M$, and M$ pays us. What's problem with that? Banks has no choice but pay their landlords as well, what's wrong with paying rent?
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It's not just ATMs either. Where I work I got a laptop with Win7, but it's part of the Win7 pilot program, most others have laptops with XP. It just works.
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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That's until it becomes vulnerable to a security issue that MS aren't patching any more, at which point it not only doesn't work, but may make your company's data vulnerable and in some sectors leave your company liable for failing to take suitable precautions to protect customer data.
Apart from that, all fine I guess.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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