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“Are any other developers baffled by Microsoft’s strategy? They say they want us to develop for their platform, and then they deprecate XNA along with their System.Drawing API for 2D graphics. The only supported options are to code the entire GUI in XAML (too high level) or DirectX (too low level). Essentially they are making it overly difficult for us to port our existing Android games to Windows. Do any other developers feel my frustration? Or has everyone else figured out a workaround?” "Are any other developers baffled by Microsoft’s strategy?" No one here like that, right?
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Never heard of Microsoft strategy whatsoever relative to developers...
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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So, basically it's "fork you" from Microsoft.
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Every day, and every way they can...
TTFN - Kent
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Microsoft has a strategy??? Doesn't strategy imply some planning and logical thinking???
Kent Sharkey wrote: Or has everyone else figured out a workaround?”
Well duh. It's called Open Source, and the myriad of alternatives that can replace (and improve) on System.Drawing or anything else.
Marc
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It sounds unlikely, but the Homeland Security Agency is now providing an online, open-source code-testing suite with the unlikely name of SWAMP. From the people that bring you airport security (in the US anyway)
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Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo are meeting data protection officials in Brussels to discuss how best to handle right to be forgotten requests. They should 'forget' to go to the meeting. Everyone would laugh and laugh.
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Quantum computing is a field that many will have heard of, but that very few really understand - and with good reason, as this is still an area of science that is in its infancy, with many discoveries still to be made. The giants of the technology industry have been investing in quantum computing research for some time; Microsoft's own R&D efforts have been ongoing for the best part of a decade. "If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don't understand quantum mechanics."
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Essentially content free article.
According to my calculations, I should be able to retire about 5 years after I die.
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Other than the video?
OK, how about this article[^] about it instead?
TTFN - Kent
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What I was hoping for was an explanation of how a program for a quantum computer is organized and written. It's one thing to wave hands and say "we'll factor numbers much faster" - it's another thing entirely to explain precisely how we will do so. What serves as the language? How does input and output work? I haven't put much effort into searching for it, but I have yet to find such an explanation. 
According to my calculations, I should be able to retire about 5 years after I die.
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Aaaaah! Yeah. It's quantum. That basically requires a large quantity of handwavium for everything.
But I'd look at this article[^], and this PDF[^]. Both are from D-Wave: the "leading edge" supplier of quantum computers. They're the maker of the one that Google bought.
TTFN - Kent
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Should that be better stated: You both do and don't understand quantum mechanics ?
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How about, "One does not simply understand quantum mechanics".
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Census data provides some detail, and also raises questions about whether there's a U.S. shortage of STEM workers. So make sure your barista skills are up-to-date before graduating.
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Your network is secure, your computer is up and running, and your printer is jam-free. Why? Because you’ve got an awesome sysadmin (or maybe a whole IT department) keeping your business up and running. So say IT loud; say IT proud … Happy SysAdmin Day! Or they might not let you keep using your network
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All your network are belong to us.
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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We will celebrate with the public reading of this Dilbert cartoon, featuring Mordac the Preventer of Information Services. Muhaha!
http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2010-05-17/[^]
This is real life where I work so will be abstaining from the other festivities.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: your computer is up and running, and your printer is jam-free. Why?
I regulary work with the infrastructure team. I answer that question as, by accident... 
Common sense is admitting there is cause and effect and that you can exert some control over what you understand.
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That's Saad!
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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And like everything in M$ the site isn't bug free. If you click Resources from the left menu you can see some of the tweets ?! some loading and then finally the resources part of the site, but redirected to the anchor at the end of it ?!.
These are small bugs, but they annoy me a lot.
Microsoft ... the only place where VARIANT_TRUE != true
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Quote: Winds of change are blowing Smile | 
Yes they blow and suck like an F5 tornado from the clouds. 
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Quote: F5 should make you run
I would run from an F5 Tornado! I fact I did, back when I lived in Oklahoma!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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