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Rage wrote: Statistically, this must be true for a lot of stocks since 1997.
Maybe, but very few have gone from near bankruptcy to being the most valuable company in the world.
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Swings and roundabouts. In the early and mid 90s no one would have predicted that MS wouldn't continue to dominate. Apple's time will pass, eventually.
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_Josh_ wrote: Apple's time will pass, eventually.
Of course. I didn't think I'd implied otherwise. 
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So I've been eagerly waiting for this project[^] to start, it was first planned on kickstarter, then switched 2 days ago on indiegogo. These guys needed $70,000 to start, and have already raised about $2,000,000 overnight  . Totally Amazing. And awesome news for bees. Mine will be delivered in ... December. Merry Christmas to me.
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Saw something on the weekend about this; just sent the link to a co-worker who is interested.
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Looks great if it actually works.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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You told it. It looks all good on the pictures where everything is used for the first time and all cleaned. I hope it does not get unusable after a couple of years.
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"It is so much easier on the beekeeper and so much easier on the bees."
And it looks like the bee's knees for flies, lizards, foxes, etc. Do they seriously have to wait for the obvious, before they admit that it might not be the brightest of ideas?
Winnie-ther-Pooh is fat enough! Don't make it too easy for him!
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*Terms and Conditions apply. Bees not included. 
Zen and the art of software maintenance : rm -rf *
Maths is like love : a simple idea but it can get complicated.
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Thanks for sharing Rage. Cool idea and anything that helps bees is a GOOD thing given the devastation caused by parasites, disease and pesticides.
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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Bluddy skype on bluddy win 8!
The only way to log in with a different account is by creating a new windows user with the ID/e-mail address/password of the other account.
So if you have a personal account (paid for by you), a business account (paid for by them), and maybe a few project accounts issued by people you're doing contracts for (paid for by a different "them"), you have to create windows users for each, and log in to windows as the different users to use them!
And having to use your windows credentials to log into a social media app has to present a security risk. Wanna get on a company's intranet? Just phish a skype account, and telnet in*.
* D'you think that bit of hacking/phishing/virus-making advice will keep Bruno happy for a while?
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So I have to install the same bloated, grabs-and-keeps-100-meg-of-memory-at-boot program twice on the same machine?
Besides, I'm actually looking for things that I can put on the start screen.
Without skype, all I've got is the (cr)app store and a weather widget.
Oh, and the goto_desktop button.
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You can pin desktop applications to the start screen.
And if the "modern" version doesn't work for you, you could always uninstall it.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Richard Deeming wrote: And if the "modern" version doesn't work for you, you could always uninstall it.
I can't see it working for any business' security department -- that "phish & telnet" thing could actually work.
Mind you, I don't think any businesses are using win 8 (including microsoft!), so it shouldn't be a problem.
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they do...
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That sounds like solid reasoning.
Seriously, the METRO version of Skype is minimalistic. I use the desktop version for some of the reasons cited as well as the fact it still has an API. It doesn't have to run at boot either.
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I've had that problem with other Windows sites and services too... Outlook, Microsoft Virtual Academy, Microsoft Certified Professional, Microsoft Support Center, Microsoft Profile... All linked to one account. Changed my email and I had to change them all (or sign in and out of my email, and on my tablet same as you) 
I hope I'll never need another Microsoft account again...
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It's given me one of those "WTF WERE THEY THINKING???" moments.
Linking the computer and everything on it to an e-mail user account has to be among the worst three ideas that anyone has ever had. Even "gluing sliced bread back together" made more sense.
It has to be said that it would be remarkably useful for fascist security forces, though -- you know, like the NSA that microsoft pretends it doesn't cooperate with.
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On Windows Phone, come to think of it, you first log in with your Microsoft account and from that moment on everything you do is linked to that account. So if you ever decide to take a new email address and use it to login to your phone you lose all your apps, files, progress etc. That includes apps you paid for. It's the reason why I would never ever pay for an app from the Windows Store.
Oh, it's given me more than one "WTF WERE THEY THINKING???" moments
My blog[ ^]
public class SanderRossel : Lazy<Person>
{
public void DoWork()
{
throw new NotSupportedException();
}
}
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Even android got that right, and they're comparative newbies.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Try working on Azure, Visual Studio Online, SharePoint Online, and GMail, all with different accounts. And all at the same time, not a few hours alone with each.
No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly. - Oscar Wilde
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It's a poorly written article but this[^] might help.
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