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We saw it coming last fall, and now the reality is here: Project Spark is dead. Microsoft removed its game-creation platform from the Windows Store and the Xbox Marketplace on Friday. Clap your hands if you believe
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Consider me stunned! 
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde
Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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This is quite sad - it was an excellent tool for teaching the young Padawans about coding 
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NASA’s New Horizons space probe is currently speeding towards a mysterious Kuiper Belt Object known as MU69. Santa?
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I think they're going to find a Scouse layabout, a hologram and the sole remaining descendant of the Scouse's cat.
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Don't forget a computer with a poor IQ for a glass of water. 
Rude alert! Rude alert! An electrical fire has knocked out my voice recognition unicycle! Many Wurlitzers are missing from my database. Abandon shop! This is not a daffodil. Repeat, this is not a daffodil.
"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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suggest the presence of tholin
Maybe it's inhabited by Tholians.[^]
Marc
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Bridge.NET wasn’t the first C#-to-JavaScript transpiler—there are others—but it has the advantage of having been professionally developed by full-time programmers. For those who like to break their C# code
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Well, I've looked. I can't say I'm hugely impressed at the thought of having to describe the entirety of a web page in code - if only there were some form of markup language available that could describe layouts...
This space for rent
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I am SO there. I'll report my progress. 
Marc
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It's quite good, and the new release supports reflection. I was able to get a decently complex DI library (Munq) to compile and run in the browser with minimal changes.
The downside is that you have to ship the entire Bridge.NET runtime with your app. It's 380kb, but only ~95kb gzipped, so not great but not terrible. If you're writing an application that loads once and stays loaded for a while, it's not much of a problem at all.
CSHTML5 is neat too, if you want to create in-browser apps with C# and XAML. I haven't had a lot of time to experiment with it, but after trying out the beta briefly it seems quite capable.
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Sounds like they're halfway to being able to convert silverblight projects over...
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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Microsoft has made a major breakthrough in speech recognition, creating a technology that recognizes the words in a conversation as well as a person does. And niche in all the way the one I see a
OK, it's using the current version of speech recognition, but that's what I get when I try it.
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I would like to test it against an India based Microsoft support person... I have a lot of trouble to recognize the words they speak...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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I was trying to activate an MSDN subscription and had to phone India. It was literally impossible to get it done, the conversation was so degraded due to their appalling English. The girl actually had the temerity to say she couldn't understand me, and I have a very BBC English accent.
I eventually gave up and did it in French with a French support number. And she was form some French speaking country somewhere in the world. It seems French has a narrower range of pronunciation globally. It is certainly intolerant of mispronunciation in France.
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Why assume it will do any better than you? 
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Why would you expect better then? They said it has reached parity, not exceeded.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Very easy. It supports the famous head shaking Indian culture too. Nadella tested too.
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: India based Microsoft support person
That's simple. They're saying, "your computer is infected with a virus; give us remote access and pay us lots of money, and we'll “fix” it for you". 
"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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Speach recognition was such a holy grail back in the day, and yet, when it became really usable, we just dropped it.
Seems we prefer to use a keyboard and mouse after all.
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I do like them 
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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What for, dictation? I know disabled people like the command and control a lot, heck, it gives them access to the net, who wouldn't like it, but for general use I haven't seen it since the late 90s.
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I am not saying speech recognition is not useful, I just said I do like keyboard and mouse
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Yeah, everyone does.
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Scientists Accidentally Discover Efficient Process to Turn CO2 Into Ethanol[^]
Quote: The process is cheap, efficient, and scalable, meaning it could soon be used to remove large amounts of CO2 from the atmosphere.
Scientists at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee have discovered a chemical reaction to turn CO2 into ethanol, potentially creating a new technology to help avert climate change. Their findings were published in the journal ChemistrySelect.
Excellent. Now we can spew vast amounts...
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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
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