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Reliant on plug-ins like Silverlight, Unity, and Java? Make plans to move on or change browsers, because most plug-ins will be banned from Chrome in the next year. Time to unplug
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Software giant Oracle kicked off its annual OpenWorld conference in San Francisco tonight with a big keynote speech by CEO Larry Ellison, during which he said the company has significantly boosted the speed at which its databases can run. Oh, tell me more of this "in memory database". Sounds innovative.
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Remember the days when some people, concerned about security, would disable JavaScript in their browsers? Today that seems like a ridiculous notion. JavaScript rules the Web. world.prototype.ruleTheWorld = function() { console.log("This makes sense to some");}
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After a forever-long countdown to a three-tiered announcement, Valve has rolled out phase one of its plan to take over your living room: SteamOS. It's the law now: every company needs their own OS
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An actual released vapor-ware !!! 
I'd rather be phishing!
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So, is it a steaming pile of OS?
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote: So, is it a steaming pile of O'S?
FTFY.
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Months before announcing a near $1 billion net operating loss and plans to eliminate 40 percent of its workforce, foundering smartphone pioneer BlackBerry bought a long-range private jet in which to ferry its executives around. "Who mourns for Adonais? Oh, come forth"
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*boggle*
Since the buyer is a long term share holder I'm wondering if they're deluding themselves about recovering the company. I was expecting some combination of MS/Apple/Google/Amazon/etc to war with the other half of the group for patents and then fob the remainder of the corpse off on vulture equity for dismemberment.
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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Oh, I never thought about Amazon. That could have been a good match. Not just for patents, but they could have launched a decent phone. (A Kindle Phone)
I guess, Blackberry just needed the money, while they still have the creative control over the product. so they chose an insurance company over a tech company.
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I wonder if they'll just send the jets along to their new buyers?
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TTFN - Kent
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Microsoft unveiled on Monday at its event in New York City the Surface 2 tablet, which is heralded as a total revamp of its predecessor and comes with a ton of free cloud storage. If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
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When Bill Gates was at Harvard, he wrote software code that helped to launch the personal computer era Once upon a time, there was a little boy named Bill...
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Yeah. A little longer than I usually point at, but definitely worth a read IMO.
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TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Yeah. A little longer
Yeah but there was a lot of stuff in it that I had never heard before.
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Poorly implemented (non-futureproof) User-Agent sniffing has proven to be the top compatibility problem encountered each time a new version of Internet Explorer ships. As a consequence, the logic around the user-agent string has grown increasingly complicated over the years; the introduction of Compatibility Modes has meant that the browser now has more than one UA string, and legacy extensibility of the string was deprecated after years of abuse. Browser sniffing deemed bad (code) smell
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Early next year, when Microsoft finally, officially, and unreservedly drops support for Windows XP, it won't mark the beginning of a new XPocalypse. XP is a relic of a bygone era. It's time to let it go. Go into the light, XP, go into the light
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Go into the light, XP, go into the light
It'll be in queue, right after VB6.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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At this point XP should be dragged out into the street at 3am for revolutionary justice. Then have a parade of elephants march over the remains.
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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Dan Neely wrote: At this point XP should be dragged out into the street at 3am for revolutionary justice. Then have a parade of elephants march over the remains.
If you had said Vista, I'd agree with you. XP just needs a quiet injection, and "go to sleep now, sweet Prince" of a treasured old pet.
It served well for a long time, but it is time.
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TTFN - Kent
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I think it's time I went shopping for some retro XP T-shirts. I seem to be the only one actively using it. 
/ravi
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There's at least two of us. 
BDF
The internet makes dumb people dumber and clever people cleverer.
-- PaulowniaK
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