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Timeline is a smart new feature, and Windows continues its modernization. Now you can see what apps you *were* running!
Woohoo!
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just a heads up, between some comments I've seen on arstechnica, and personal experience on 2 systems (one a frankenbox that's always part of the long tail for getting updates pushed); I think MS forgot to set the gradual release flag for this update and that anyone touching the check for updates setting will kick off a download of 1803 now.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing 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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While they were at it, they found the longest straight path you could drive without hitting water. For your next trivia night (or long drive/sail)
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Longest nap without hitting snooze is my goal. To each their own I guess.
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I could go for that kind of exploration about now...
TTFN - Kent
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Measuring and controlling reflections turns a room into programmable computer. "In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is."
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S Douglas wrote: I thought they completely gave up on creating a phone?
I know. Microsoft has been lazy and slow about doing phone technology.
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Dreamers, nothing but a dreamer. Then you put your head in your hands oh no!
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Microsoft will probably get there (phone) one day or another. They're too big to fail.
Plus, there is a general phone-malaise right now so maybe MS could release the NEXT AMAZING THING.
The journalists would pounce on it because they are so bored right now.
Hey, maybe I'll create a phone based on a RPi Zero. It's bound to blast off right now.
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Microsoft today announced that the free Windows 10 April 2018 Update (previously rumored to be called the Windows 10 Spring Creators Update) will begin rolling out on April 30, 2018. Just in case you're wondering why your machine is acting up
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So the 10 April update is coming on 30 April?
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Blockchain is not only crappy technology but a bad vision for the future. Its failure to achieve adoption to date is because systems built on trust, norms, and institutions inherently function better than the type of no-need-for-trusted-parties systems blockchain envisions. That’s permanent: no matter how much blockchain improves it is still headed in the wrong direction.
That whole trust thing is so overrated.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing 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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Medium nonsense: Its failure to achieve adoption to date is because systems built on trust, norms, and institutions inherently function better than the type of no-need-for-trusted-parties systems blockchain envisions. BC doesn't require or rely on "trust". That is not a bad thing, it is one of the advantages.
The "failure to achieve adoption" is more nonsens. It is in use, but you don't have to expect any country to start using it instead of their own currency that they can control. That's another advantage btw.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Maybe read the article rather than just the quote before you comment
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You assume too much.
The part on trust is hilarious; Mediocre wrote: Blockchain systems do not magically make the data in them accurate or the people entering the data trustworthy, they merely enable you to audit whether it has been tampered with. That "merely" isn't, and is a whole lot more than the capabilities of a normal bankaccount.
wrote: almost certainly artificially propped up by fake transactions involving billions of literally imaginary dollars. Similar to how imaginary and non-existent gold is traded daily?
Rewriting history even: Eight hundred years ago in Europe — with weak governments unable to enforce laws and trusted counterparties few, fragile and far between — theft was rampant, safe banking was a fantasy, Read up on the Medici-family.
Mistaken wrote: A decentralized, tamper-proof repository sounds like a great way to audit where your mango comes from, how fresh it is, and whether it has been sprayed with pesticides or not. But actually, laws on food labeling, nonprofit or government inspectors, an independent, trusted free press, empowered workers who trust whistleblower protections, credible grocery stores, your local nonprofit farmer’s market, and so on, do a way better job. No, they don't; that's why today's headline here is that beef-meat from the supermarket should be returned for a refund. Its independence is theoretically only, proven by the large lobby.
Trust is in short supply. Get used to it
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: You assume too much.
It's just that you talk about bitcoin when the article was about blockchain, and the points you made were covered in the article.
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F-ES Sitecore wrote: It's just that you talk about bitcoin when the article was about blockchain That's what most people will associate it with.
F-ES Sitecore wrote: and the points you made were covered in the article. Yes, albeit with a different conclusion - would be nice to show one or two examples of that, instead of quoting each sentence in a post here and list arguments for each.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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The blog post makes some good points but is slightly hyperbolic to my mind.
The debate at the bottom of the page is one of the most interesting that I've seen on the bottom half of the internet for a long time.
Well worth a read.
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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Google co-founder says the company is giving ‘serious thought’ to problems like job destruction Except their AIs, of course
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US-based researchers have successfully kept alive the brain cells of decapitated pigs for 36 hours, sparking concerns over the ethics involved in such frontline research. That's longer than I can keep my brain alive
Assuming it is, I haven't heard from it in a while.
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The main thing notice and consent does is subtly communicate to users the idea that their privacy is a commodity that they trade for services. It certainly does not protect their privacy. It also hurts innocent people. You've gotta tell them! Corporations are people! We've gotta stop them somehow!
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Researchers in OSU's College of Science have developed an inorganic compound that adopts a crystal structure capable of sustaining a new state of matter known as quantum spin liquid, an important advance toward quantum computing. "Quantum spin liquid"? "Frustrated magnets"? Now they're just throwing words together.
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Being a little nervous from time to time gets a bad rap. "Those who are tardy do not get fruit cup."
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