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Sure but people who pay for apps usually aren't making those complaints.  Personally, I prefer the free-with-ads for most things (especially if I don't know if I'll like it), but I completely understand that I will be advertised to, and some of my personal information sold, and consciously accept that (of course, I never give an app any information it doesn't need, for example if a game asks for my phone number and it isn't optional, I delete it or give it a fake number if it doesn't verify it). It's just the whiny self-entitled people who think they should get something for nothing that bother me.
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We all know now that Windows 8 sales have been.... disappointing. You can blame the hardware. You can blame Windows 8's mixed-up interfaces. You can blame the rise of tablets and smartphones. Whatever. The bottom line is Windows 8 PC and laptop sales have been slow. So, what, according to Amazon, in this winter of Windows 8 discontent has been the best selling laptop? It's Samsung's ARM-powered, Linux-based Chromebook. Shocked? Amazed? Why? The Chromebook has several things going for it. Its interface is primarily the Chrome Web browser. Who can't use a browser?
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The third full generation of Lego's programmable robotics platform, EV3 is aimed at both enthusiasts -- young and old -- and educators, and blows past the previous generation with a long list of new features that add speed and power, intelligent programmability, and more ways to communicate with the robots. Lego expects to begin selling the product, which includes 594 Technic pieces that can be used to make five different robots, this summer at a retail cost of $350. It will also release instructions for 12 additional robots at launch. ...ARM9 processor, SD expansion slot, 16MB flash memory, Linux, Bluetooth 2.1, iOS and Android compatibility...
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Lenovo is starting up CES 2013 with a very big announcement, and we do mean big. The PC maker just announced plans to release the IdeaCentre Horizon Table PC, a massive 17.8 pound, 27-inch all-in-one Windows 8 PC that can also be laid flat on any surface. Where I come from we call that a "desk".
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It’s fair to say that Dune 2 is one of the founding fathers of the RTS gaming genre. The initially slow paced strategic action builds up over some beautifully crafted missions and was an instant hit when Westwood Studios unleashed it onto DOS based PCs and the Amiga in 1992/93. Fast forward 20 years and the OpenDUNE project is a modern day attempt to faithfully re-create the classic on today’s hardware. But as seems to be the trend at the moment author Aleksander Guryanov has seen fit to compile the C source of OpenDUNE down to JavaScript, making the game fully playable in your browser in the process. He who controls the DOM controls the universe.
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Going back to the days of ITX computer case mods, I’ve had the desire to place a computer inside of a stock Super Nintendo case. Instead of the project being a simple case mod, I’ve wanted to configure the computer in such a way as to maintain a console playing experience, with the additional benefit of having a full-fledged computer under the hood. With the Raspberry Pi, I finally found a platform suited to the project’s needs. DIY Super Mario.
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What follows is a good mixture of art and science. Intel's power engineers will take apart a competing device and probe whatever looks to be a power delivery or filtering circuit while running various workloads on the device itself. By correlating the type of workload to spikes in voltage in these circuits, you can figure out what components on a smartphone or tablet motherboard are likely responsible for delivering power to individual blocks of an SoC. Today we will dissect a living system-on-chip CPU and see how it works.
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With Windows 7 and Windows 8 the team and I blogged quite a bit, and often at great length  , about the design choices, implementation, and features of those products. Learning by Shipping picks up where these blogs leave off. The title comes from something impressed upon me early in my career, which is that learning as an engineer comes from the process of starting, then finishing, and iterating on products–getting products to market and putting the broad feedback loop to work. The teams and processes used to create products are critically important and fun to talk about relative to shipping and learning as we search for the best approaches to use at a given time. Write code. Ship code. Repeat.
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SQL injection attacks were once considered the greatest threat plaguing the Internet. They continue to be the source of many large data breaches today. This is due to the fact that these vulnerabilities are common, easy to exploit, and very rewarding to attackers. As a web developer, it is your responsibility to protect your clients and users from these threats. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to DELETE FROM Employees
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I recently ran into a statement that left me very perplexed. A programmer was proudly declaring that he can’t understand every piece of code he wrote a week ago. I honestly tried to figure out where the pride comes from, but I can’t. Is he proud that he writes so much code every day? That anyone is willing to pay him to write code? Let me state my opinion on this matter clearly up-front: not being able to understand the code you wrote a week ago, or a year ago, is unforgivable for a professional programmer. Code that isn’t readable is as bad as, or worse than, code that doesn’t work.
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At some point, the cheerleaders—and yes, amazingly, they’re out there—are going to have to face reality: Windows 8 is selling slowly. More slowly than Windows 7 at launch, and more slowly than Windows 7 a year ago. And while a peek at NPD’s publicly released data for the holiday selling season can provide some clues as to why, I can tell you exactly what happened. Netbooks didn’t just rejuvenate the market for Windows 7, they also destroyed it from within.
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The link is broken here and in the daily newsletter.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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it just loaded for me...
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging 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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Sorry, must be something on my end...will try it again later.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Hate to say this but: works on my machine. 
Director of Content Development, The Code Project
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It was working fine for me this morning.
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SyncTools is a meta-tool that keeps a folder on your computer up-to-date with all the latest tools from Sysinternals. Simply pick a folder where you would like to keep the Sysinternals tools and run SyncTools.exe in that folder. It will download all of the tools and check for updates on tools it previously downloaded. Any time Mark Russinovich publishes an updated version or even a completely new tool, simply rerun SyncTools.exe to download it for you. Utilities for utilities. How meta.
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A couple days ago, I announced, on the behalf of the Replicant project, the release of the Replicant 4.0 SDK, motivated by some recent license change regarding the Android SDK: Google decided to put an overall non-free license for their SDK.... These conditions seem totally unacceptable to me and are likely to cause a reaction such as calling the Android SDK proprietary from anyone who values software freedom. Android still uses a free software license, so what's the point of the additional proprietary license?
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Researchers launching a new vector-based video codec this week are claiming their work will lead to the death of the pixel within the next five years.... Digital pictures are built from a rectangular grid of coloured cells, or pixels. The smaller and closer the pixels are together, the better the quality of the image. Pixel-based movies need huge amounts of data and have to be compressed, losing quality. They are also difficult and time consuming to process. The alternative, a vector-based format, presents the image using contoured colours. Until now there has not been a way to choose and fill between the contours at professional quality. The Bath team has finally solved these problems. Lights! Camera! Vectors!
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This has direction and magnitude. 
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Sorry.
Interesting.
Bob Dole The internet is a great way to get on the net.
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Well drawn, sir. Well drawn.
+5
Director of Content Development, The Code Project
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Thanks.
Bob Dole The internet is a great way to get on the net.
2.0.82.7292 SP6a
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You see that Jerry is very much a writer… and if you’ve ever written anything yourself you’ll appreciate Jerry’s craftsmanship and how he pays attention to minute details to make something just right. Craftsmanship is knowing that the details matter and that getting them just right is the difference between good and great. But craftsmanship is craftsmanship, no matter what field you’re in. So as I was watching I kept noticing parallels with UI design… Jerry Seinfeld may not be a web designer, but we can learn a lot from his life of craftsmanship.
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So, what makes a good programmer? This is debatable point and to make things simpler, let’s see this the other way round i.e. discuss the top 10 enemies which can prevent oneself from becoming a good programmer. Pro tip: don't do these things.
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