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Microsoft's latest public compatibility commitments refute rumors that it's planning to discontinue its Surface lineup. So, please buy one. Buy three, the warehouses are stuffed
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Remember when a majority of new tech jobs were going to India and China? Well, increasingly, those jobs are going away altogether. Outsourcing, it turns out, is in the early stages of being automated. The next program you write might replace you.
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Zrrrrp! Boing! Boing!
Don't be silly foolish human there is nothing to worry about.
This post brought to you by Codesoft Automated Programming Inc.
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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Computer engineering graduates are some of the top paid workers in the country, according to new data analyzed by Brookings. Might even get to pay off your student loan!
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TTFN - Kent
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Web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee on the future of farming, work and computing. “Some things are going to completely disappear and obviously more boring jobs go first."
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The Seattle-based organization today launched a crowdfunding campaign that aims to raise $5 million in order to introduce 100 million students around the world to one hour of coding lessons. Learn to code in one hour? In my day, we took 21 days to learn!
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Kent Sharkey wrote: In my day, we took 21 days to learn!
Nowadays you can get an injection. 
Marc
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I think that's called LSD. You can do anything on LSD.
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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The DHS contributes $23.5 million toward the Software Assurance Market Place to enable software developers to test open source programs and improve software analysis tools. Do you still get paid if you lock them out?
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Makes perfect sense to me. If the US Government can get everyone to conform to a set of standards and run software through their algorithms, it will be all that easier to keep the backdoor access points open for their snooping.
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Microsoft is actively developing a meeting-room application designed to streamline the entire process, including sharing data and recognizing participants, according to company co-founder Bill Gates. I could go for an app that kills meetings
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Skype + Xbox Kinnect + software = $$
(I did pitch this for a large company about 2 years ago - they decided to stay with the $20k teleconference rooms you have to book months in advance...)
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Wonder if it'll include gestures? 
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.0 Beta
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.
I'm not crazy, my reality is just different than yours!
Not my circus not my monkey's!
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I never knew killers were that big on having meetings 
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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They are all on "FiendsReunited".
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Even the Mob has gone 21st century.
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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The top trends for 2015 cover the merging of real and virtual worlds, the introduction of intelligence everywhere and the technological impact of the digital business shift, according to Gartner VP and fellow David Cearley.
Computing and printing and IoT...oh my!
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Though it seems as if we're surrounded by innovative technologies, there's a growing counter argument that we're living in a dismal era.
Get off my virtual lawn!
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I'd like to think that there has indeed been a major shift, if not revolutionary then teetering on the border, that has to do with the handling of information.
Over the years, humans have been better and better at two things regarding information:
*) Persisting it
*) Proliferating it
I think that we have reached the penultimate step in that evolution, where we no longer need to physically carry all information stored in our brains or in books in our backpacks, but can utilize the channeling of information from WWW to a small client device that fits in our pocket. All that is left there is lowering the threshold between that client and ourselves, which I believe will happen with the mainstream adoption of wearable tech.
The point to all this, though, is not the technology per se, but rather the shift in our relationship with the information we handle. There are certain limitations put on information purely for the purposes of storing and finding it. These limitations have gone from mnemonic encapsulation (for easy remembering), to sequential ordering (for easy expression in writing), to multi-media information containers that can be essentially tailored to the information and its use, rather than the other way around.
Also, the ease of accessing the information required for any situation means that the correlation between the amount of information and the effort to bring it along has all but evaporated; we have less and less need to put in the physical effort to memorize and/or carry the information with us.
This all means that the required amount of "cache" in a normal human being is much less than it used to be. And in a society as reliant on competence as ours, this means that the ability to store and access vast amounts of information no longer is the societal marker of excellence that it once was. Quite the contrary, anyone making the effort to memorize information that is readily available through a smart phone will likely be seen as curious, if not stupid.
We have, in essence, gone from a society where the power lay in the ability to keep information, to a society where the power lies in the ability to acquire it when needed here and now.
To put it another way: It's just silly to memorize stuff when you have Google.
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Google is making a big push for the enterprise market today as it announces a slew of features designed to make Chromebooks more appealing for the workplace. For $50/year, your "laptop that only works on a network" will only work when connected to *your company's network*.
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Docker has added new official repositories for language stacks to the Docker Hub, including C/C++, Java, Python or Ruby. I'm still not getting the difference from VMs, but you might be smarter
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Makes sense, given all the jockeying Docker has done lately to prove they're the kings of the container hill and start spending that capital. The Koality acquisition is another example, shoring up deployment security for Docker Hub.
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It uses Magic (tm) to get most of the benefits of VMs without as much overhead resource consumption/app deployed. Don't ask me how it works.
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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