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Microsoft has announced at its January 21st event that all Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 users will be eligible for a free upgrade to Windows 10 for the first year of its launch. "Freedom's just another word for nothin' left to lose"
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Can you un-grade if you decide you don't like it?
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010 ----- You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010 ----- When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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I'd be willing to put money on "yes", assuming that answer includes, "as long as you reformat your hard drive" after it.
But it's got to be better than 8.1 anyway. I mean. Cortana! Now everyone can fall in love with their computers. (where's the eyeroll icon?)
TTFN - Kent
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You rang?
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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I wonder how they'll handle it if, after one year you need to reinstall everything. Will you still be able to get the upgrade for free?
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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There's a live stream of the briefing here[^]
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Freedom's just another word for nothin' left to lose"
Great quote and didn't know where it came from until I Googled.
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Sounds like they plan to release 11 within that year.
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That's the way it *should* be considering we have paid for mostly the same lines of code ten times already...a small fee for what changed would be okay.
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I feel sorry for Windws 8 users.
Haven't read the article.
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New research links sitting for long hours with elevated risk of cancer, cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes and early death. "Get up offa that thing, and try to release that pressure!"
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Hey, the reason I have a hot ass because I work on it all day long.
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TMI
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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It was a joke.
Jeremy Falcon
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So was my reply.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Suuuuuuure it was.
Jeremy Falcon
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However, research also shows that sitting at a desk for many hours a day reduces the risk of being hit by a moving vehicle while crossing the road during a healthy run!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Microsoft will show off Windows 10 mobile and touch-first Office for Windows at its January 21 Windows 10 event, but the first mobile preview isn't likely until February. One OS. Everywhere. That sounds vaguely familiar.
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Inspired by C++, D is a general-purpose systems and applications language that’s similar to C and C++ in its syntax; it supports procedural, object-oriented, metaprogramming, concurrent and functional programming. "Well, it's one louder, isn't it?"
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D is too high, I cannot hear it all these days. In the old days I could even hear a G.
:p
Life is too shor
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D is all that and more! But C# pays the bills.
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We've spoken in the past about teaching Clang to fully support Windows and be compatible with MSVC. Until now, a big missing piece in this story has been debugging the clang-generated executables. Hurrah! Yay! Finally! ... what's LLDB?
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Microsoft has taken a new approach to Windows 10 feedback thanks to the Windows Insider Program. Microsoft recently revealed that more than 1.5 million registered users are participating in the Windows Insider Program (as of December 2014) and roughly 450,000 of those testers are considered "highly active" -- meaning they are using the latest build of Windows 10 every day. Coming soon, a bug fix when someone executes the thank you to "Del /f /s c:\"
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Ubuntu Linux has spread to quite a few platforms in its 10-year history, if not always successfully. Today, though, the open source software is tackling what could be its greatest challenge yet: the internet of things. Canonical has released a version of its stripped-down snappy Ubuntu Core for connected devices like home appliances, robots and anything else where a conventional PC operating system wouldn't fly.
The Internet of Things strikes again
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