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In this blog post, I look at the contributions of several different programming languages to our discipline. "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need"
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Kent Sharkey wrote: "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need"
makes slaves of us all.
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You may not have noticed, but most people already are (that's if they're lucky enough to have jobs).
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Nnno.
Just.
No.
If people aren't working towards their own goals and dreams, doing what they love, that's their own damn fault.
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At its Build 2014 conference today, Microsoft unveiled Windows 8.1 Update 1, coming via Windows Update on April 8. What a horrid product name. Oh well, break out the MP3 of "Start me up" for nostalgia
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I'm waiting for Windows 8.1 Update 1 Update 1
Not sure why they wouldn't just call it 8.2, although from reading about it there seems to just be a handful of UI tweaks nothing really major in the update.
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Why not just call it Windows 8.2?
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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My thoughts exactly.
TTFN - Kent
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Because they want to have all windows versions on the same versioning scheme. Win 8.1 and Win Phone 8.1.
Wout
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Soooo...they just figured out that desktop users use a mouse?
Marc
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At least one step. When will they find out that some desktop users also use a keyboard?
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Next version, they will figure out that more than one app at a time can be viewed on a 24" screen
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I am not sure. But I hope that they might think of such an odd thing in that strangely rare case when two monitors are connected with the smartphone computer.
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As part of Microsoft's BUILD 2014 keynote address, the company announced Universal Windows apps, a way for developers to create apps that will work across all of Microsoft's Windows platforms and form factors. Write once, run everywhere (mostly)
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unless you want your app to actually run on the desktop not in some full screen metro app store parallel universe
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At its Build developer event in San Francisco today, Microsoft announced the launch of its oft-rumored voice-driven Cortana personal assistant. Cortana, which seems to have some of Siri’s humor, gets its knowledge from Microsoft’s Bing. It will be a built-in part of Windows Phone 8.1. Please don't get it to call you, "Master Chief"
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I still think they should've went with GLaDOS.
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I posted this above, and I should have posted it here.
I noticed that "Cortana" is an anagram of "An Actor".
It's also the name of a Halo 4 character.
A one or two syllable name typically could be spoken quicker, but then maybe they found "Cortana" is easier to recognize in noise? I am curious what criteria were used to choose that name?
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I'm guessing they originally went with Cortana as a code name (due to Halo), then decided to stick with it to ship. Nicely, they even got the actress that did the voice in the game to be the assistant's voice.
I think the 'Cortana easy to recognize' is just a really nice accident.
TTFN - Kent
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And now I seem psychic[^]:
Quote: The name started from a simple suggestion from Windows Phone program manager Robert Howard in an early planning meeting. "It was just a codename, it stuck," explains Marcus Ash, group program manager of Windows Phone. "We didn't intend for it to be the actual product name from the beginning." The fact Cortana exists simply as Cortana, and not some marketing buzz like "Microsoft Personal Digital Assistant Home Premium" is surprising given Microsoft’s history of naming products. Up until a few weeks ago, it was hit and miss whether Cortana would be the final name. It could have been Naomi, Alyx, or a number of other suggestions, but leaks and a petition to use the Cortana name helped sway Microsoft’s decision.
TTFN - Kent
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Kent, I read that, but it doesn't tell 'how' the codename was originally chosen. I suspect it did come from Halo.
It's cool if the anagram is just a coincidence.
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The anagram is a coincidence. It was just codenamed after the character in Halo, and it stuck.
Quote: The name started from a simple suggestion from Windows Phone program manager Robert Howard in an early planning meeting. "It was just a codename, it stuck," explains Marcus Ash, group program manager of Windows Phone
TTFN - Kent
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That's according to an e-mail he issued to employees in 2010 for an annual Top 100 meeting called "2011: Holy War with Google." In related news: Duh
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I swear, are there ANY of them who just aren't out and out evil?
I'm definitely not one of the "Evil Korporation$" morons. But do they really have to be such jasshonks about lock in? I swear if I never use another google product it'll be too soon, lust as I do after a sparkly android phone.
It's getting to the point where Microsoft is actually shaking out to be the good guy, in relative terms.
Hrrmpf.
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