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#SupportHeForShe
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We are happy to announce the availability of the preview SDK for Microsoft Surface Duo, and availability in the coming weeks for the preview SDK for Windows 10. Try it before they give up on it
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Try it before they give up on it
I thought that sentece was only reserved for google 
M.D.V. 
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True - Google would have given up on it already.
TTFN - Kent
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I have a feeling that folding phones won't be as popular as tech companies have decided that they will be.
They're assuming that being able to put stuff in your pocket is a big thing, but one of the main allures of mobile phones is that they're small enough to hold comfortably in the hand.
Having a phone that's more difficult to hold kinda breaks that, and why would someone want an unwieldy double tablet, when it would be a relatively trivial matter to network two tablets together to extend their screens? (if you then wanted to keep the unwieldy option of sticking them together, you could always use duct tape.)
As for tablet-sized devices that fold down, who would want to carry something that bulky (and heavy) in their pocket? If you carry it in a bag, the folding thing isn't such a great advantage, and could even be more of a disadvantage. Flatter and thinner trumps smaller but fatter, in many cases.
So the only working use case is for devices that fold out to somewhere between phone and tablet size, but which are still awkward to hold.
They won't sell none, but I hardly think it's going to take the market by storm.
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Yeah - I kind of like the smaller one. Almost like a day-timer, but you're right - hardly a one-handed tool. The big one just reminds of kids books for some reason.
It's niche, but I guess a differentiator?
TTFN - Kent
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You underestimate the strength of "I have the newest gadget" of many morons that will buy it just for the sick of showing it when going out.
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Nelek wrote: You underestimate the strength of "I have the newest gadget" of many morons
I'm more the "I've got a new gadget that's been out for three years -- they've got it working properly, now" type.
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I was using my iPhone 4S (my own work phone that I bought really cheap when I left previous company) until mid 2019.
I still have it, but not as main device because I can't trust the battery anymore and I want to be reachable for the family / kindergarden.
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With 2/3g networks being shut down even with a new battery it'd be on borrowed time.
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Yeah... that's one of the reasons why I didn't try to repair it.
That and that the cost proposal from Apple was more expensive than my current new device. 
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Nelek wrote: I can't trust the battery anymore
That really sucks, and is as much of a scam as printer ink.
apple phones cost more than a mid-range laptop; if people had to throw laptops away, rather than just get new batteries, there'd be riots in the streets.
And that's not to mention that it's an incredible waste of incredibly high tech. A smartphone ain't potato peelings, that should just be discarded as garbage.
I'll be very happy when the European court rules that non-replaceable phone batteries are not acceptable.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: And that's not to mention that it's an incredible waste of incredibly high tech. A smartphone ain't potato peelings, that should just be discarded as garbage.
That's why I still use it as alarm clock, surfing and so on, but I leave it at home.
I am starting to think on to prepare it a bit for kids multimedia content, with the hope if they have something "own", they will try less to play with ours.
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Old? Windows-only? Community struggles with '40-year-old male' problem Stodgy.NET? Boomer#?
Only partly a duplicate. While it discusses the ".NET on DOS/Windows 3.11" example, it veers off into discussions of "them what uses .NET". And I thought more discussion here might be...interesting.
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The closing comment: The issue is real, though, and the company has a challenge in marketing C# .NET to a younger and more diverse range of developers.
Just fork it and call the fork Latte Macchiato Pokemon Go, and they won't be able to get enough of it.
... Or do anything useful with it, probably, but one step at a time...
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Quote: In its current form .NET is for 40-year-old white men.
Exactly. Because it's a mature professional programming language, like a 40 year old (ok, we could drop the "men" part) that should be a mature professional programmer at that point.
The issue is not men/women, it's the cultural-craze that starts probably pre-teen now where all your male friends geek out on some goofy programming language. We have a graveyard of them. Ada, Perl, and Ruby come to mind.
And why "male friends"? Quite simply because geeking out pretty much doesn't attract women the way it does men. Of course there are exceptions, but the exception is not the point, reality is.
Given that *almost* everyone under 30 is not a mature professional programmer (man or woman), of course C# / .NET has an image problem. Frankly though, I strongly believe that if we had more women as developers, we would also have saner decision making on all these newfangled here today, gone tomorrow languages and frameworks.
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Marc Clifton wrote: The issue is not men/women, it's the cultural-craze that starts probably pre-teen now where all your male friends geek out on some goofy programming language. We have a graveyard of them. Ada, Perl, and Ruby come to mind.
I agree - this is not a men/women thing, but a long-standing impression of Microsoft and Microsoft tools as being locked-in and "enterprise-only". Not for Kool Kids(tm). Yet somehow a 30 year-old language (Python) suddenly is. And as you mention, Ruby before then. .NET Core could easily play in those spaces, it just needs some interest (and likely a framework like Rails. I almost said, "good framework" but my fingers wouldn't accept those two terms in one sentence)
It would be good (IMO) to get the 20-somethings using .NET though, and I think moving it to Linux/Mac will help this happen. They might see that the days of Windo$e are over, and that it is a company that you can actually somewhat trust (at least some parts of the company - Windows and Office marketeers continue to amaze me).
TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Boomer#
I exemplify that remark. Get out of my yard, you puling brat!
Software Zen: delete this;
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Scientists at Google and the Janelia Research Campus in Virginia just published an incredibly-detailed 3D connectome — a map of neural connections — for a fruit fly, including a mind-boggling 20 million synapses connecting 25,000 neurons. "Take a ride to the land inside of your mind"
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I went there and looked at the pictures, which were fun, even though the street names weren't to scale, and the viruses faces were blurred out.
No way was I going to read any of the words, though -- anyone who writes a headline like that really shouldn't be read.
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Starting with Version 2002 of Office 365 ProPlus, an extension for Microsoft Search in Bing will be installed that makes Bing the default search engine for the Google Chrome web browser. This extension will be installed with new installations of Office 365 ProPlus or when existing installations of Office 365 ProPlus are updated. If Bing is already the default search engine, the extension doesn't get installed.
Note, that's Office 365 version 2002 released in 2020, not to be confused with Office 2002.
Because this sort of abuse of power always ends well, doesn't it? It's not like other applications trying to do the same thing would end up getting blocked or anything...
And Firefox users aren't off the hook either: Quote: Support for the Firefox web browser is planned for a later date.
"Support" for Firefox! 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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They already do that with FF. A couple of weeks ago, I tested a software whose installation ended up changing my default search engine for Bing without asking any permission. I discovered the issue the day after, and quickly rollback'd the ![Elephant | [mastadon]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/elephant.gif) ing mess.
"Five fruits and vegetables a day? What a joke!
Personally, after the third watermelon, I'm full."
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Richard Deeming wrote: "Support" for Firefox!
A jock strap gives better support than uSoft!
It's been 6 months since I joined the gym and there's been no progress. I'm going there tomorrow in person to find out what's really going on!
JaxCoder.com
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OMG. That should be a criminal act, with the penalty that all those involved should be banned for life from every touching an electronic device again. That includes microwave ovens, cell phones, even digital alarm clocks. Probably refrigerators and stoves too.
Jeez, just wait til the EU here's about this!
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Marc Clifton wrote: Jeez, just wait til the EU here's about this!
We've heard. Arses will be quietly kicked.
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