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The article crawls up ms' backside by saying: It’s clear that whatever Microsoft is working on for Windows Lite and beyond, it will involve seamless updates, security improvements, 5G connectivity, cloud-powered apps, new form factors, and AI support.
The article omits: ... And an absolutely godawful UX.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I love how mutually inconsistent the rumor mill is. The sort of stuff this one says MS is trying to do needs software that is UWP but more locked down/sandboxed/etc so vs native applications that can sink teeth into the OS everywhere; which is the exact opposite of the other side of the rumor mill saying that MS is going to kill UWP in favor of a resurgence of win32/winform/wpf applications. 
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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The big news will be when Microsoft (and probably others to be honest) will understand that a device update should be the decision of the user not the software...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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An annual contest challenges programmers to create 8-bit games of intrigue and adventure Because I know you're all fans of BASIC
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"Awesome" and "Basic" are mutually exclusive terms. I'm surprised the universe didn't explode...
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Meh, I call BS. If the games are only 10 lines why is it so hard to find the relevant source? How hard is it to repo 10 lines? I bet the 10 lines are just POKEing machine code into memory and that is where the game is. Back in the day you would store your assembler code values in DATA lines which can store many many many codes in a single line, then you loop through POKEing each value into subsequent memory locations then call the address of your code directly. So 10 lines of BASIC is actually hundreds of lines of assembler.
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I had the same sort of response, although on reading the article it explained that machine code was not allowed in the challenge.
Still though, they could have provided some example source code as I can't quite figure how you can code sprites and a game in 10 lines of Basic.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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POKE is a BASIC command though, not machine code, it also says you are allowed to POKE in the rules. But yeah, otherwise I don't see how these things could be done otherwise.
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I followed the link below and looked at one of the games.
I am afraid the game was coded as follows using my pseudocode:
is inputValue = "car" then goto next line else goto previous line
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Define a "line of code"? Sure you can write a game in 10 lines of code, of 20 million characters each.
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Well, it does have the line length limits right there, but do go on 
Quote: Submissions are judged by a panel and fall into three categories: PUR-80, PUR-120, and EXTREM-256, which refer to game programs with maximum line lengths of 80, 120, and 256 characters, respectively.
TTFN - Kent
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The article shows that picture of a clone of original Mario Bros and says it was written in 10 lines of BASIC.
I don't see how that was possible. Show the code or it didn't happen. 
EDIT
I found the code at : 10-liner: Mini Bros[^]
Here's a snapshot -- and it is as ridiculous as we all suspected...it's a huge number of BASIC statements on individual lines:
https://i.stack.imgur.com/VteNg.png[^]
modified 30-May-19 8:23am.
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My short game:
Move object around in circle.
Press keyboard.
Move object in counter-direction.
Isn't this fun?
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Gaming can indeed be addictive, but is it a mental health condition? Well, the World Health Organization (WHO) has now declared that gaming disorder is indeed a thing. Defining mental illnesses is a disorder
At least at that level of definition.
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Cash grab inbound in 3...2...1...
"Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity."
- Hanlon's Razor
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Researchers found "no evidence whatsoever" that fusion is possible at room temperature. "In this house, we obey the laws of thermodynamics!"
Yeah, not exactly thermodynamics, but I couldn't think of a good "cold fusion" quote.
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Not the version in Pompeii[^]? Ah well, great song (and it's been a while since I heard it). Thank you!
TTFN - Kent
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F me, that was a good version! Thank you for pointing it out! 
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The project hasn't failed, they just didn't get the outcome they'd hoped for...
Also, $10 million isn't a lot for a billion $ company (and $10 million divided by 30 is even less).
Too bad they "failed" though.
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Sander Rossel wrote: $10 million isn't a lot for a billion $ company
Not a lot for what they are trying to achieve.
Clicked through with false assumptions based on title, to find
1: this money used as funding to others.
2: Research done on 3 past theories for achieving Cold Fusion.
I feel like if this was a Google/Alphabet project like loon, funding would have been closer to $100 million.
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UC Berkeley’s SETI@home, one of the most significant citizen-science projects of the late 20th century, brought the search for intelligent life to PCs. It hasn’t yet found what it set out to, but there’s still hope. "If you don't answer I'll just ring it off the wall"
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Yup.
This proves without a doubt what the Earthman's speciality is.
@home spyware, for spying on other Earthmen, obviously isn't enough; we've just got to take it interstellar.
Just wait until the Andromedan Union starts imposing fines.
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