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Internet companies make billions of dollars by capturing one of the world’s most precious commodities: your attention. "Query: This "meatbag" is an incoherent babble of useless information. Can I shoot him?"
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But figuring out what you want to read, watch, and see is harder than it looks.
What's really scary is the idea that millions of idiots social media users dictate what I end up seeing on the Internet, in department stores, etc. I suppose this explains why I may visit FB once a month and avoid the zombie infested malls and department stores like, well, the plague that they are.
The sad (or not) truth is, what captures my attention is almost always different than what I notice captures other people's attention. I look at things like sunsets and clouds and the moon in conjunction with Jupiter and Venus, and flowers and the fauns nibbling the stinging nettle in the yard.
Most other people where I live, I see on my walks with my girlfriend that they have their heads bent over little glowing screens in a Leary-ian "tune in, turn on, drop out" crouch that makes chiropractors see dollar signs. 
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: walks with my girlfriend
Sheesh, get serious about programming, okay?
Walks with your girlfriend. What a waste of time. 
If you were married you wouldn't have this problem.
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Once upon a time, Microsoft was famous for its resistance to Linux, a free operating system that was developed by a community of enthusiasts and independent vendors. Don't talk about fight club?
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People were always asking me, did I know Microsoft...
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Quote: In fact, on stage, Russinovich said that he hasn't had a single customer conversation lately where Docker didn't come up.
If this isn't an exagerationlie he's either shoving it in the face of every customer he meets regardless of what they want/need; or running in a reality distortion field.
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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For humans, choosing what action to do next to reach a goal can be pretty intuitive. But for a robot, making even simple decisions can be daunting. That's why researchers at Brown University's Humans to Robotics Lab are developing an algorithm to help robots better plan their actions in more realistic environments. And researches have found that video games, especially Minecraft, can help robots learn these important decision making skills. Damn, the robots get all the good jobs! :-p
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They have a better union than us 
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Will they end up building computers with redstone?
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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Just recently, open-source developers have discovered that the Chromium browser, an open-source web browser where Google Chrome is based, has been automatically installing a program secretly that contains audio code. Maybe not "evil", but kinda creepy
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Maybe it's not actually Google doing the installing?
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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It's possible (especially as Chromium is open source), but I think this is part of the "OK, Google" infrastructure. I imagine it's not actually turning the microphone on, or there's a mistake that's turning it on without the person checking the option box. I don't really think it's that EEEEEEVil.
TTFN - Kent
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Hell, install any HP printer driver and you get 14 apps for graphics editing, custom e-mail templates, search toolbars, ordering supplies online, etc... It all sucks but its not new.
Caveat emptor!
Contrary to popular belief, nobody owes you anything.
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Yeah! And try uninstalling any part of that and your HP printer stops working and you cannot re-install anything - even including non-HP printer drivers without reinstalling the O/S!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Mike Mullikin wrote: Hell, install any HP printer driver and you get 14 apps for graphics editing, custom e-mail templates, search toolbars, ordering supplies online, etc... It all sucks but its not new.
Samsung goes even further than that: you can't download individual drivers for their laptops anymore. You have to install some management software that they use to distribute them. The catch is the management software disables Windows Update. On every reboot. And if you delete the applet that does the disabling, the management service downloads it again for you.
Link to story[^]
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The foundation's annual bulk release of technologies features Docker tools and Java IDE improvements. 65 million lines of code, and probably double that in XML configuration files
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Mars represents the work of 79 open source projects and 65 million lines of code.
This[^] comes to mind.
Marc
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We've known for some time now that Microsoft will offer Windows 10 as a free upgrade during its first year of availability, to those with a Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 PC. "How much monies for leg of lamb?"
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...and the clever ones simply go for a 50 euros Windows 7 Pro OEM/COA license on eBay and use the free upgrade offer instead of paying about 200 bucks for retail Windows 10 Pro.
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To Microsoft, Windows XP is like a gift that keeps on giving. "That ain't workin', that's the way you do it. Money for nothin'"
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"The Navy relies on a number of legacy applications and programs that are reliant on legacy Windows products. Until those applications and programs are modernized or phased out, this continuity of services is required to maintain operational effectiveness,"
This is largely B.S.
They're either stupid or lazy or both.
And I am typing this on XP and am reminded each day
why it's the best OS MS did.
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Ron Anders wrote: the best OS MS did.
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Nothing against XP, I used it myself for many years and I wouldn't bash it just because it's old, but according to my experience, Windows 7 plays in the same category and it is just as well of a system as XP. Things only got worse with 8 and it's not getting particular better with 10, especially for people who don't care for all the cloud stuff it feels like a lot of features added with no real benefit and a crippled experience. So after six years, Windows 7 is on a good way to become the next XP, the only sad thing is that it's treated like an orphaned child while it would deserve better.
Back to the Navy: I think they are both stupid and lazy, just like the other contractors. They knew for a very long time that support for XP is eventually going to end, and instead of investing the money preventive into modernizing their systems and applications beforehand they sat around and did nothing. But sitting things out is never good tactics, it eventually all falls down on you and hit you harder than it should. In this case, it's the waste of tax money.
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I agree with you, except that I think Win 8 & Win 10 are even better and more stable and secure than Win 7, which is more stable and secure than Win XP.
#SupportHeForShe 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 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
Only 2 things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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Oh, I agree with you, too. But tell that usage and adoption statistics... 
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