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Microsoft has started boosting the free allowance of OneDrive, its cloud-based storage service, to one terabyte for subscribers to consumer and college student Office 365 plans. At this point, who needs a physical hard drive anymore? (Oh, right. Low connectivity. ffft! That never happens)
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Not only "connectivity", but also "privacy". Not to mention that companies come and go, and that I would not want to see my data go down with a bankrupt company. Or a company that gets hacked and whose data is erased.
It's not even paranoid, but simply the sane thing to do.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Cloud storage's getting cheap enough that just about anything short of your dvd/blueray rips can be backed up in multiple locations. In encrypted volumes if you're sufficiently paranoid.
While the initial upload and pulling it all down again is a pain; but the cloud shouldn't be your primary backup anyway. Dumping new pictures/etc into an online account as taken is still less of a hassle than mailing drives to your buddy across the country every few months for a distant offsite backup; and unless that person is also a geek it's much easier than convincing them to let you have a box running in their house 24/7 and making sure it stays online.
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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Why a student needs a terabyte anyway? When I was in college I barely visited by room once every 2-3 days. Porn was not watched - was done !
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We have finally finished fine-tuning the new version of dotPeek, our free .NET decompiler and assembly browser. Please download dotPeek 1.2 that receives a new superpower and learns how to walk in symbol server shoes. Remember Reflector? Yeah. Good times. Remember when they started charging for it? Here's an alternative.
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"A phone that works". just 2 screen blockings in 18 months. Apps sucks, but they all suck on all platforms (asking for my liver/wife/bank account/burrowed banelings to post on FB etc).
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I have one of these too, mainly to screw around with
It's not offering me the 8.1 update though, anything special I need to do? I'm in the UK on EE
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Probably enable developer mode. I don't remember how (a colleague told me how to do it and I forgot it immediately), it should be somewhere in advanced settings.
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Microsoft channel partners need to urgently redefine and evolve their businesses so that they can resell the company’s cloud computing products, according to Chief Operating Officer Kevin Turner. "There's a storm coming, Mr. Wayne."
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Call me an old fogey, but mobile yes, 100% cloud no. I mean, I'm happy when there's signal or a wifi I can connect to, but I cannot and do not want to rely on an internet connection to be productive. It's too damn fragile, and I don't believe that it's resilient at all to some gov't (as we've seen) shutting it down whenever it wants to impose it's big stick.
Now, where'd I put my CB radio??? 
Marc
modified 15-Jul-14 19:27pm.
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I don't think the NSA insisting they have the right to access MS's cloud data anywhere in the world really helps their business proposition. Especially in Europe, where you may well be violating data protection law by using American cloud services in light of this insane decision.
A good European cloud provider would have an enormous advantage now. Here's hoping someone steps into the void.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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The pressure put us - as Microsoft partners - 'between a rock and a hard place'. Microsoft wants us to integrate cloud based services into our application, but customers do not want to hear about their data on the cloud. No way!!!
So, at some point Microsoft will remove partner status, some customers will go, life will be happy...
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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They won't be happy if you just put a picture of a cloud on the ribbon, with the word 'Data' on it??? Perhaps when clicked, it opens this [^] video? 
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There are several reasons why I'm not going to do this. My top four are:
1. The monthly costs are unpredictable. I just need one client "going rogue" with bandwidth and I get clobbered for a huge bill - this is not a cost I can pass on to a client.
2. The lack of security safeguards around oversight. As a European customer, I really don't see why the US Govt thinks it has the right to my clients data. Again, this is not something I could sell to my clients.
3. I don't need Microsoft infrastructure. If I'm going cloud based, I can do this entirely on *nix platforms using Node.js and related tooling.
4. Why should I work hard to market something for Microsoft? They have spent the last several years actively doing developers down.
I'm sorry Microsoft, but you have a huge uphill battle to convince me to place my trust in you now. I used to be one of your most vocal advocates. Not anymore.
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote: My top four are:
Well said!
Marc
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote: Why should I work hard to market something for Microsoft?
Isn't that the point of being a developer? And you didn't told me that!!! 
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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Microsoft is developing a new approach to splatting bugs in software before they take down production systems. It involves wiring up programmers to sensors that record brain activity, track eye movement, and test how sweaty the engineers are. "I honestly think you ought to sit down calmly, take a stress pill and think things over."
Next steps: a couple of other electrodes for those who break the build
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Next steps: a couple of other electrodes for those who break the build
If I used this, the one breaking the build would be me, as I am the only one working on my projects (I am a self-taught hobbyist programmer), and I don't want a shock when the build breaks.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
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Researchers find that by touching our phones all the time we’re leaving our biological mark on them. You might want to wash it after reading this
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Apple and IBM have just announced what the companies describe as a "landmark partnership" designed to "redefine the way work will get done, address key industry mobility challenges and spark true mobile-led business change." Put more simply, they're aiming to combine their respective strengths and aggressively tackle the enterprise market. Swipe left to compile the current project
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Open up your wallets - the price king of the enterprise IT meet the price king of the personal IT. If only we can mix in Oracle somehow to make sure it's really out of reach for everyone....
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Oracle is hoping to turn heads in the crowded data analysis market with Big Data SQL, a software tool that can run a single SQL query against Oracle's own database as well as Hadoop and NoSQL data stores. SELECT * FROM 'everything' WHERE ID='you know, the one I want'
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Researcher uncovers "catastrophic failure" in random number generation. "It's hard times, for an honest man"
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