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But of course - those of use who fund the BBC through the licence fee shouldn't be able to see other content from the BBC which the rest of the world can see for free. 
Thankfully, there are easy ways around the block[^].
"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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Someone who says Apple has ripped him off by not giving him enough episodes of “Breaking Bad” has filed a putative class action suit against the company. Bad was broken
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Not long ago I received an E-mail from an energetic and talented developer who was tackling an ambitious software project. He asked if I had any advice to pass along. Maybe if you make it purple next time?
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Bruce Schneier thinks we (engineers) should re-engineer the Internet to make it harder for governments to conduct surveillance. This is just silly. If we aren't willing to re-engineer it to stop criminals we sure won't do so to stop governments. "Dream until your dream comes through"
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As heard on Going Native 2013 yesterday.
ISOCPP[^]
The first piece of code acquired by the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum – "Planetary", written in C++.
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Planetary is an iPad application written in C++ using the Cinder framework. Planetary offers an alternative music player application for the iPad that visualizes your music collection as a series of celestial bodies. Songs are moons, albums are planets, artists are suns—and the orbits of each are determined by the length of albums and tracks. Their brightness represents their frequency of playback.
Kudos for C++
I'd rather be phishing!
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Is your extensive IT experience and your age making it harder to find a new positions? Learn how to limit the effects of age discrimination and land that interview. You have to do something so you can afford that mid-life crisis
I kid because I love. If you're "older" and looking for work: good luck. There is stuff out there. Honest.
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Yeh right. 
speramus in juniperus
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A new poker machine has such smart artificial intelligence that players are hooked even though the house always wins. This is why we can't have nice stuff.
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A computer program has the best poker face and reveals no tells
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If you listen for the faint clicking of the hard drive as it laughs at you, you can beat them. Every time!
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TTFN - Kent
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"The only winning move is to play against stupid humans"
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Microsoft's pivot to a devices and services company sounds cool, but what about enterprises who want no part of that vision? "Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone..."
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Windows powers countless markets from flower shops and burger joints to hi rise hotels and beyond.
They are abandoning the entire world that had little choice in business than to use windows and before that, DOS because there were no other players.
Now they are walking away.
Great.
National Cash Register to re-rise.
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And I'm sure if you counted up all those computers, it easily dwarfs "the enterprise" numbers. But those people can't buttonhole an executive in Building 33 and don't pay to have Microsoft enterprise advisor consultants on site.
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jOOQ stands for Java Object Oriented Querying. Oh look: jLINQ
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Computer silicon can move electrons fast, but researchers want to make something even faster. A team at Oregon State University has been working for several years now on a new type of electronics that could transport electrons "almost instantaneously." They say that it could ultimately mean the creation of "extremely high-speed computers" along with improvements to cellphones, TVs, displays, and microelectronics at large. "There once was a fellow named Bright. His speed was much faster than light. He set off one day, and in a relative way, returned the previous night."
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Today we’re unveiling a new kind of Chrome App, which brings together the speed, security and flexibility of the modern web with the powerful functionality previously only available with software installed on your devices. They've escaped from the browser!
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Wow. What an innovation.
Opera's been doing this for a couple of years, and Maxthon allows you to save any web page as a desktop app (great for "cloud" programs).
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Chrome's had that for a while as well - I think the "innovation" here is that they'll supposedly run native. And the offline bit, or did Maxthon have that as well?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: And the offline bit, or did Maxthon have that as well?
Maxthon turns a page into a pseudo desktop app, but you need to be on-line if you have to log in or fill out forms, if the page contains a cloud app, or if you want to navigate to different pages (i.e. it doesn't download the entire site or any databases; you need something like WinHTTrack for that).
Where does the Chrome one stop? If it downloads linked pages, its storage requirements can get pretty big, pretty fast (esp. if it downloads off-site resources, like advertising guff, which I imagine google would give a high priority to).
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: Where does the Chrome one stop?
They seem to target items that fit into the "one page" philosophy more: Pocket, Wunderlist, some games. The only one of their apps currently enabled is Keep (their Evernote "clone"). It lets you add items to your list, and syncs them when connected. I imagine at some point they'll add Docs as well, probably just for new or selected documents.
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TTFN - Kent
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A play in 4 acts. Please feel free to exit along with the stage character that best represents you. Take intermissions as you see fit. Click on the stage if you have a hard time seeing it. If you get bored, you can jump to the code. Most importantly, enjoy the show! !enos ihtkc arcre venll iwuoy
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Kent Sharkey wrote: !enos ihtkc arcre venll iwuoy
V penpxrq vg, V penpxrq vg!! 
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PHP is not going to disappear soon, but its position is being undermined even further by the nascent Node.js. When the Internet exploded in the 2000′s, PHP was the thing ”all the cool kids” did. "Two men enter, one man leave!"
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If you're looking for a job in corporate IT, you might want to think again. While there are plenty of jobs at technology companies, startups, and smaller businesses, the classic enterprise IT department is laboring under what can only be called a perfect storm that's blowing away full-time positions at a frightening rate. If you don't have to be there, odds are your company doesn't think you need to be there
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