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Wow. This is certainly a departure. If you're going to charge an obscene premium for a laptop with an incredibly limited OS, you'd better produce something that is incredibly well-made. In that regard, the Chromebook Pixel is a complete success. If you'll forgive us just one cliche, Google has gone from zero to hero with the Pixel. It's truly something to behold. This amazing laptop runs... a browser?
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I was aware of the Surface Pro but I wasn’t especially interested in it until I heard it came with a stylus and supported pressure sensitivity. I love gadgets and drawing so it only makes sense that I’ve always been curious about gadgets you can draw on. Since the old Windows tablet computers I’ve been looking for a good way to draw digitally on the go. I gave the iPad a shot but I don’t like drawing with the “eraser tip” capacitive touch styluses. When I read that the Surface Pro uses Wacom tech I was interested... Comics, sans laptop.
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I think he pretty much said what I would about the Surface Pro. I love mine, it's much better than a tablet, but can sub for a laptop easily and you can carry it easily. I put a microSD card in mine to get an additional 32 GiB of storage and also carry a 1 TiB USB drive when I travel for business, so the 128 GiB limit isn't really an issue for my uses.
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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Server 2012 is the Microsoft operating system that, in my opinion, makes cloud computing a reality. As far as I am concerned it is as big a leap over Server 2008 R2 as that OS was over Server 2003. With it you can build anything from a small cluster to a service as big as Microsoft's own Azure platform. Which is why I am completely baffled as to how it is possible that Azure was knocked offline by last week's SSL c**k-up. Leaving the reputation of a flagship cloud service hanging on a single forgotten semicolon.
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Wearing your mock turtleneck? Maybe some horn-rimmed glasses? Then you'll love to know that there's a new Beta of Ruby on Rails[^] out there. Now with Security[tm]!
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TTFN - Kent
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Parents whose kids blew their money buying virtual goods in "free" apps from Apple's iPad store will be getting refunds in the near future. That is, if a judge approves a settlement recently filed in a class-action lawsuit. Have you also been victimized by those easy in-app purchases through your kids?
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My eight year old son (six at the time) blew $120 when we first bought the Kindle Fire.
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The outage affected as many as 52 different Microsoft services, including Xbox Live, for up to 24 hours.
This is the second time they've had an outage due to an SSL certificate issue. They really ought to get somebody who knows what they're doing.
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Did you know you could traceroute over the TCP protocol? The regular traceroute usually uses either ICMP or UDP protocols. Unfortunately firewalls and routers often block the ICMP protocol completely or disallow the ICMP echo requests (ping requests), and/or block various UDP ports. However you'd rarely have firewalls and routers drop TCP protocol on port 80 because it's the web's port. Connect the hosts.
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If you search the Mozilla Central code base for the texts "Perl" and "Python" (don’t ignore case) then the comments mention what methods have been borrowed from those languages. ...plus influences from JavaScript to CoffeeScript and back to EcmaScript 6!
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Build a JPEG decoder? Whatever for, when we have so many of them already? JPEG is something we all take for granted: most of the Web comprises pictures transmitted as JPEG files, and video files based on JPEG technology. As it turns out, the concepts that lie behind these images span nearly two hundred years of mathematics and computing theory, and going from the raw file to an image takes a bunch of interesting work. A three-part (and growing) series of tutorials on building a DIY decoder.
Note: fixed link.
modified 25-Feb-13 19:01pm.
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Broken link.
I'd really like to read this too. Years ago, I was thinking of implementing a JPEG decoder/encoder, but backed off when I found out that the specification document cost several hundred dollars.
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Bet you could torrent it.
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Never been a fan of obtaining things illegally (except for a season of Sliders, for which I received a DMCA violation notice).
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Correct Link[^]
Bob Dole The internet is a great way to get on the net.
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Updated the post with the correct link. Something happened when the hamsters parsed out the URL.
Director of Content Development, The Code Project
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They took the %27 and made it an '. Why? My guess is 'Why Not?'
Bob Dole The internet is a great way to get on the net.
2.0.82.7292 SP6a
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Lets not.
These days I only use JPegs in printing, publishing, photograpy only at max quality no loss or min loss. Lossy compression was fun a decade ago. But nowadays it exists because of the widespread base. Relatively speaking LibTif by Sam Leffler is a piece of Engineering Marvel.
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What format do you use for photographs these days?
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Despite the advantages offered by FPGAs and their rapid growth, use of FPGA technology is restricted to a narrow segment of hardware programmers. The larger community of software programmers has stayed away from this technology, largely because of the challenges experienced by beginners trying to learn and use FPGAs. Comparing Verilog, OpenCL, Liquid Metal and other frameworks you've probably never heard of.
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In many organizations, it's expected that any persistent data will be stored in relational databases that are managed by a central database management group. There are various reasons for such central control, usually centered around using IntegrationDatabases. Central data groups worry about keeping out malformed data, queries that can slow down important shared resources, and consistent data models across the enterprise. Worthy these aims may be, but one consequence of them is considerable ceremony about storing data. Using a NoSQL database to avoid the DBAs when a relational database would be a better choice.
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TypeScript is a language for application-scale JavaScript development. TypeScript is a typed superset of JavaScript that compiles to plain JavaScript. Any browser. Any host. Any OS. Open Source. Try coding in side-by-side TypeScript and JavaScript, then run the code in your browser.
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A prospective new college hire recently related an odd comment from his professor: systems programming is dead. I was nonplussed; what could the professor have meant? Systems is clearly very much alive. Interesting and important projects march under the banner of systems. But as I tried to construct a less emotional rebuttal, I realized I lacked a crisp definition of what systems programming is... Any layer on which people build applications of increasing complexity is systems software?
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A simple piece of software means that there is no interleaving. It doesn’t combine things. It has focus. Something is simple when it addresses: one role, one task, one concept, one dimension. Simple doesn’t mean there is only one of them. Its not about an interface with one operation or a class with one instance. It’s not about cardinality. By contrast, a complex system is braided or folded together. There are interleaving roles, tasks, concepts, or dimensions. Identifying a system as simple or complex is thus objective. If there are twists, its complex. If there is no interleaving, it’s simple. Notes from Rich Hickey’s 2011 talk “Simple Made Easy.”
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