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After some (informal) testing of IE11 (on Win8.1) I was won over and set it as my default browser!
However I'm so used to click on the chrome browser icon I still do it.
And then, surprise, right after I set IE11 as the default, the new tab page on chrome, instead of showing the list of most used websites, now show bing search page!!
Worse, after looking at all the setting I can't find how to bring the most used page or delete the bing search! (even did a reset to factory settings!) .. grrrr... :<
Ho, and guess what? IE11 new tab show most used websites!
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If you can't beat 'em, beat the user.
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Microsoft is getting less creative. Even .NET Framework is a copy of JVM.
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Ho, look, an Apple fan!
Originality is greatly overrated!
Further yes, C# was indeed caused by Java (most likely), but it's much better! Thanks Sun for giving us C# by preventing Microsoft from modifying Java! 
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I'm not so Apple fan.
But I agree. C# was just for getting Java developers try .NET.
However here's what make Java a loser: It's somewhat hard to call APIs. In .NET, you just add DllImportAttribute(C#) or use a Declare func(VB.NET).
Out of the Scanner nightmare.
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Actually, it's essentially the VB runtimes with a heavy influence of Delphi and some concepts from Java (which weren't all that new there either.)
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Hi,
Just wanted to point out that Google saves your search, map navigation and your browsing history. When you are logged into Google this history is associated with your account. When you are not logged-in it is associated with the originating IP address. You can access this history by going to:
https://history.google.com/history/[^]
Best Wishes,
-David Delaune
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I mean this most frequent website tabs was very useful, saved me key strokes!
the other one... mm.. I don't even know my google password, not a good start.. :'(
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Yeah.
Google never did anything like that, did they?
Nor did apple (as long as you never looked at a page containing a link to a quicktime download).
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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How do we know this?
For he did Murder Most Foul.
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur.
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Oh damn, it was wasn't it!
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur.
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Sir David, Lord of Luton, Duke Dalek,
The vicious rumor that William Shaxper of Avon had a "thing" with chickens, either gallicidal, erotomaniacally bestial, or necrophiliac, and not, just the usual gustatory amour-propre: is one the most heinous of the pack of mad-dog lies spread by his jealous contemporaries, and later detractors.
Even though you could, argue that Sonnet #143, written from the point-of-view of a neglected baby whose mother has run-off chasing a chicken, is not only one of his worst sonnets, but also a semiotically coded message about something quite kinky ... and you could argue that all the mentions of cocks crowing in his work could also be suggestive of ... some aspect of concealed emotional, or even sexual, proclivities:
I, and others, who almost "worship" the immortal Bard of Avon, reject all such innuendoes as just suppurating acnaceous pimples (usually grafted by jaded academicians) on the corpus of literature, which William, along with Cervantes, and Rabelais, and Milton, Dante, and so many other demiurges, hold up for our edification.
Another disgusting rumor is that Shakespeare used the term "chicken-scratch" to describe hand-writing, which is absolutely absurd. That phrase comes from a 1909 play by Bostelmann written to discredit Shakespeare's as the author of his works.
What is true is that Shakespeare brought into written usage a vast number of phrases, and words, idioms, and allegories, metaphors, and similes, analogies, and cunning punts of the living English language, with its vitality, vigor, and improvisational richness. A scholarly friend of mine estimates that Hamlet, alone, brought over six-hundred new usages into the written canon.
So, I invite Thee, me Lord, to, prey, consider that William's thing with Gallus Gallus, whatever it was, is as trivial a bit as a piece of a chick's down tossed hither and thither by the four winds, and all the noise made about whether the Bard was all-in for thigh, or breast, mere scrawny hen's clucking.
yr Humble Servant, William the Scrivener
Google CEO, Erich Schmidt: "I keep asking for a product called Serendipity. This product would have access to everything ever written or recorded, know everything the user ever worked on and saved to his or her personal hard drive, and know a whole lot about the user's tastes, friends and predilections." 2004, USA Today interview
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Bleedin' 'ell Bill, wot you bin' smokin' mate? You ain't arf wax lirrical. As fur tossin' a chikkin's down ivver and fivver by ver four winz yer los' me by ver furd paragrarf.
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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Well, Seventh of the Ejog, that's progress for you; stay with me through the trials and tribulations you encounter on the Path of Slack, and don't forget to present generous gifts frequently, and you may achieve being lost with the first word: at that point, you will be ready to continue Slackisme on your own, safely.
No smoke here, but the air did seem kind of clammy, tonight, in my favorite local pub [^].
For some reason they didn't have the northern Thai chicken-feet soup, Tom-Saab Super Teen Gai, on offer tonight, so I came home early to replace some of the nails in my head with sharper ones, because I am really meticulous about not being blunt.
bill
Google CEO, Erich Schmidt: "I keep asking for a product called Serendipity. This product would have access to everything ever written or recorded, know everything the user ever worked on and saved to his or her personal hard drive, and know a whole lot about the user's tastes, friends and predilections." 2004, USA Today interview
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and i thought hamlet was a small picnic ham
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'E was a Danish Ham, too; that's very high on the hog, you know, 'cause them Danish hams be from pigs wot gets a lot of long days every bleedin' year.
bill
Google CEO, Erich Schmidt: "I keep asking for a product called Serendipity. This product would have access to everything ever written or recorded, know everything the user ever worked on and saved to his or her personal hard drive, and know a whole lot about the user's tastes, friends and predilections." 2004, USA Today interview
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here in the south we have smoked ham, very good if youhave not tried.
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Hi Mike,
I am from the South myself, both parents from Georgia. And, speaking of smoked ham: my great-grandfather was a Civil War orphan who was sheltered in a partially destroyed old ante-bellum mansion somewhere south of Atlanta with other orphans. After Sherman's Army passed by, there was nothing edible, and no animal life, left, within thirty-miles. The people at the orphanage had filled the chimney with dried peas, and sealed it up, and the Union foragers didn't find them.
So, for months the orphans lived on dried peas; for flavoring, they dug up dirt from the smoke-house floor that had some pork drippings and salt in it: they boiled that with the peas.
That great-grandfather sired seventeen children, eleven of whom survived to adulthood, of whom my grandfather was the last to die, at age 101.
As a child, I had lots of great smoked ham 
bill
Google CEO, Erich Schmidt: "I keep asking for a product called Serendipity. This product would have access to everything ever written or recorded, know everything the user ever worked on and saved to his or her personal hard drive, and know a whole lot about the user's tastes, friends and predilections." 2004, USA Today interview
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BillWoodruff wrote: That great-grandfather sired seventeen children, eleven of whom survived to adulthood, of whom my grandfather was the last to die, at age 101.
What a great story, bless his heart he had a long eventful life. I love talking to older people the things they tell you, some of the stories are truely amazing.
BillWoodruff wrote: As a child, I had lots of great smoked ham
I bet you did, I love it myself.
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BillWoodruff wrote: That great-grandfather sired seventeen children
Well, if all you've got to do all day is eat peas and dig up mud to cook them in...
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I like this report by El Reg[^] if it's not already widely known.
The concept is noble but knowing how Embarcadero price their products I'm not sure it will be the elixir to all development ills. I'd love to see Microsoft achieve this using VS but that's my dream. It's a great concept but a step to far for the waterside voles at Embarcadero?
 if they pull it off and make it affordable.
Edit:  I just saw the pricing structure. Corporates only, I suspect.
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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