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It's a smart business strategy. Because then you get the milk for free?
Yes, it's a re-packaged Quora question, but an interesting answer (IMO).
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This new faster update pace will dispense with service packs. Because that's what DBAs have been begging for - more time with the SQL Server installer
One of the slowest I've seen
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You have got to be joking, an update to the database server takes months of planning and some serious testing before it goes ahead. So we will constantly be 2-5 service packs behind as they have not been tested thoroughly.
And don't give me any bullshit about trusting MS to do adequate testing.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Mycroft Holmes wrote: And don't give me any bullshit about trusting MS to do adequate testing.
That's was low! Very low! How dare you!!! 
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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A year ago, the Windows 10 Anniversary Update finally brought extensions support to Microsoft Edge, and there are now over 70 extensions for the new browser on the Windows Store. Riiiiiight
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A look at a few consistent themes that unite the work of product management across job titles, industries, business models, and company sizes. "Sittin' in the la la, waitin' for the ya ya"
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Ha! Just posted a Lee Dorsey song to FB last week. Always loved his voice.
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A prospective employer asks for your current salary. What do you do? "We want information..."
Yeah, Facebook. Sorry, but that's where he put it.
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Option 4: ridicule the prospective employee for mistaking me for a janitor.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Speaking to Bloomberg in a somewhat wide-ranging interview, Satya Nadella made an interesting statement on the size of the Windows ecosystem. What's a couple hundred million, here or there?
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Mars Climate Orbiter is just one of a very long list of projects that failed due to an extremely silly programming mistake; it can be used as another example that verifies the fact that proving any piece of software to be completely bug free and fully tested consists an impossible task. My job is done then
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The publication means that each individual version of the company’s firmware kernel is now available online for anyone to download, inspect, and interrogate to find out more about how macOS and iOS are put together at the lowest kernel level. There you go, now you can build your own iPhone
Some assembly required
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I suppose that we will soon have a wave of mac- and iExploits
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Many people in Silicon Valley believe in the Singularity—the day in our near future when computers will surpass humans in intelligence and kick off a feedback loop of unfathomable change. "I’m not Wintermute now"
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Retro Games is launching a mini version of the 1982 computer Commodore 64 called the C64 Mini. It will be available in early 2018, with a price point of $70. No tape drive?
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So, is this a fully functional machine or just a game console?
Will the user have the ability to write programs on the device?
Will they be a storage mechanism like a thumb drive?
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Sadly, looks like just a games console, but maybe that's just for the launch attention? It does have two USB.
Oh, wait, read all the way to the end:
Quote: As befits a home computer you can also plug in a standard USB PC keyboard and use as a classic C64 to type in those old BASIC computer listings or program new games.
Cautiously w00t.
TTFN - Kent
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From work, limited access to links, so hard to get details.
But, from what I've been able to find... looks like programming is possible and I suspect 'save' to USB device.
Good times ahead!
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In an industrial space tucked off a side street in Seattle's Sodo District, Microsoft is trying to reinvent the data center. What kind of mileage do you get on that server?
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A plan to update the security around some of the net's core address books has been delayed. Oh that's OK. It seems perfectly secure as is.
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Quote: But an investigation by the net admin body found that many organisations were running versions of DNS SEC that had not updated properly or did not have the new keys in place ready to use. It said it was not clear why some versions of DNS SEC had not been updated as expected.
Oh come on. We all know the reason. The DNS server has worked perfectly with zero human attention since it was installed several years ago and no one has time to read any of the eleventy jillion mailing lists for all the applications they're running to find out that they should change something even if their boss was willing to risk a minutes downtime to reboot the server if everything worked perfectly. 
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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Anywhere on Earth in under an hour,’ Musk says "Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down?"
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"Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down?"
I should prefer it does not land on my house!
I think a rocket for going to mars may be totally different than one to go to Japan, because interplanetary one needs 2 or 3 stages and a Earth based one only one.
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But some think our attitude
Should be one of gratitude,
Like the widows and cripples in old London town,
Who owe their large pensions to Wernher von Braun.
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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