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As smartphone shipments soar, Windows Phone's market share drops to 2.5% in second quarter, IDC says. "To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action when there is more reason to fear than to hope."
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Sun Tzu?
According to my calculations, I should be able to retire about 5 years after I die.
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Sounds like it doesn't it? It's actually from Don Quixote.
TTFN - Kent
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There was minor consternation in Internet engineering circles today, as the number of IPv4 networks worldwide briefly touched another magic “power of 2″ size limit. As it turns out, 512K (524,288 to be exact, or 2-to-the-19th power) is the maximum number of routes supported by the default TCAM configuration on certain aging hardware platforms. The End is Nigh (again)
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I understand quantum physics better than I understood that article. 
Marc
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How many IT people does it take to produce an application? Actually, let me rephrase that. How many IT people does it take to produce an application effectively and efficiently? For many organizations, the answer to the second question is less than the answer to the first because the traditional IT hierarchy includes layers of middle-manager decision makers that weigh everything down. Why not get rid of all middle-men then and require everyone to build their own computer and OS?
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Attackers used Google Developers and public DNS to disguise traffic between the malware and command-and-control servers. "If only he would have used his skills for niceness, instead of rottenness"
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Researchers have been working on a prototype smartphone that can be recharged using only the sound waves that we encounter every day when walking down the street. Now you have another reason to scream at your phone
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So now I'll have to frequent establishments that blast music at me to charge my phone? 
"Honey! I'm just going [to a gentlemen's club] to charge my phone, I'll be back in a few hours."
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It's time for PGP to die. I guess he doesn't think it's 'pretty good'?
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It's been heralded the as future and celebrated as a beacon of technological advancement, but now analysts are branding the Internet of Things (IoT) as the most over-hyped technology in development today. At least until the next over-hyped technology
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As a member of the OHTOTMC (Over Hyped Technology Of The Month Club) I can tell you that marketing people know no bounds when it comes to selling a product or idea.
Have you ever just looked at someone and knew the wheel was turning but the hamster was dead?
Trying to understand the behavior of some people is like trying to smell the color 9.
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That club is so overhyped even Google does not know much about it.
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Well, I for one look forward to the day when my toilet comes equipped with a Raspberry PI and uses unQLite to log every bowel movement and flush, which is transmitted to my local water purification center so that I get a bill exactly detailing my customized charges for the sanitation treatment plant. Also, my refrigerator will communicate with my toilet and adjust the grocery list to ensure that the solid waste density is kept within prescribed parameters based on my daily activity, which my bio-implant reports to the "healthy poo through healthy greens" club, and thereby adjusts the amount of fresh greens on said grocery list. Happily, because those greens are grown from the water reclaimed by every flush and fertilized by said poo, I will actually receive a small discount from the waste treatment center, also detailed on said bill.
Technology is going to be SO AWESOME!
Marc
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Something that *would* be cool though is that after a power failure, the microwave, stove, clock radios, and coffee maker would get the latest time from the atomic clock on the internet...*that* would at least be something...
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No need to get the time through the internet.
An old-fashioned technology called radio is sufficient.
That is how clocks and watches (those who sync with the Atomic Clocks of the World) get their time signal.
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Yeah, but those clocks don't work everywhere and they are quite expensive...
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Ten years ago, I bought a synchronized-to-the-atomic-clock table clock for $29.95 from Fry's in California. A couple of years back, I saw watches advertised for $99.99 in the airlines' SkyMall type of stuff.
There is a clock covering North America, one in Europe and one in Japan.
If you are in the middle of the Congo, you may not have access to the signal, but then you won't have access to the Internet either.
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OK, you win...send me a link to a microwave at Amazon that has your clock sync built in 
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You yourself said that it would be cool to have your microwave sync with the atomic clock using the internet, acknowledging it doesn't exist yet.
Start a Kickstarter project that syncs all clock-included devices with the atomic clock.  ![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
PS. I bought that clock at Fry's because I thought it would be cool to have a super accurate clock. Being the cheapskate that I am, I waited for the price to drop.
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I'll add it to my To Do list
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Now that you've put this idea on the intarwebs, I expect to see a new YC-funded startup (or KickStarter) to "make this a reality". Hopefully you'll get some kickback for the notion.
TTFN - Kent
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Today? Okay. But tomorrow it will be something else. If you want to talk recent memory, I'd go with the Segue as the most over-hyped: Paul McCartney said it would be bigger than the Beatles!
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So your fridge starts to break down and it warns you beforehand so you can have it fixed before all your food is spoiled. Instead you decide to order a new fridge and because they can predict someone your neighborhood is likely going to buy 'this' fridge, you'll have it installed 30 minutes after you clicked the "buy" button.
Yeah, nobody would ever want this... 
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Hewlett-Packard reportedly held talks with relative newcomers Apple and Google in recent months to create a new type of "Enterprise Siri" system that would allow its corporate customers to search their document and data troves using their voice. Hopefully it will come with an industrial strength profanity filter, it's going to need it
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