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Terry Myerson is a tough guy to pin down. Where his predecessor, Steve Sinofsky, would post pages-long blogs explaining in raptuous telemetric detail many of the components that made Windows 7 and 8 (and by extension 8.1) tick, Myerson has a reputation for letting his products speak for themselves. That's going to make it hard to second-guess where the next version of Windows is headed -- but all indications at this point are encouraging. It helps they left so much room to improve
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Thirty years ago, on 26 September 1983, the world was saved from potential nuclear disaster. Thank you, Mr. Petrov.
This one pops up every once and a while (strangely at this time of the year), but it's worth remembering.
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Bill Gates made many exceptional decisions while he was leading Microsoft to immense success. He did, however, make a few errors. One of those was the idea of using “Control-Alt-Delete” — initially designed to efficiently reboot a computer — as a way to log into Windows. Let's all salute him, with your choice of number of fingers
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It was not a mistake; it was well thought-out, and the right choice as well. Rather unusual for Microsoft I guess.
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In keynote address, Wozniak recounts hacking adventures in his college days and early Internet times. Oh, that Woz
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Google confirmed this week it has made a change to better protect the privacy of how people search. However, it left loopholes in that protection and once again failed to seize an opportunity to encourage all sites to go secure. Secure from everyone (except those who pay Google)?
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If you know Java at all, you probably think of it as something from the late ’90s, a child of the original internet boom, a little piece of downloadable software that sent a cartoon mascot dancing across your Netscape web browser. You think of it as something that promised a world of software apps that could run on each and every one of your personal machines — from PCs to cellphones — but that ultimately failed in the face of endless security bugs and poor decisions from its creator, Sun Microsystems. “For the general populace,” says LinkedIn principal staff engineer Jay Kreps, “Java is some annoying thing that really out-of-date websites try to make them download.” And if you see it as anything more than that, you probably dismiss it as a way of building stodgy “middleware” tools that connect things like web servers and databases. "I thought you said if we destroyed the brain, it'd die!"
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Wow, Wired used be a decent tech magazine, but somehow they failed to realise that Java has been heavily used server side for fair few years now.
When I first saw this I thought there was a resurgence of usage in the browser, that would be truly awful.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Working from feedback from the PhoneGap app developer community, the folks at Adobe have built a new open source CSS library designed with speed in mind. This should prove incredibly useful for web app design. The language was initially based on languages for Brackets and Edge Reflow and it has evolved from there. Just in case you needed another CSS framework (although this one is from Adobe)
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Topcoat, the most effectual Topcoat,
Who's intellectual close friends get to call him T.C.
Providing it's with dignity.
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Despite Microsoft's leadership problems and Windows 8 struggles, there are still huge opportunities for partners and customers. "'Ere, he says he's not dead."
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Microsoft’s F# programming language continues to catch on with developers and is gaining traction in the enterprise. For F-ing good code
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Computing, like life, may soon be carbon-based. A functioning computer has been built from carbon nanotubes – complete with its own operating system and software. Sadly, it doesn't run Windows 8 yet
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The first big update to Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser in three years will feature a number of advanced security features – and a whole lot more. That browser agent change is going to hurt a lot of sites
modified 25-Sep-13 18:17pm.
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Dew - water droplets on cool outdoor surfaces: moisture from the air that has condensed as tiny drops on outdoor objects and surfaces that have cooled, especially during the night
small drops: drops of moisture of any kind, e.g. tears or sweat
freshness and purity: a fresh and pure or refreshing quality in something
So IE11 is already under water? 
(I think you meant 'due')
Keep Clam And Proofread
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√(-1) 23 ∑ π...
And it was delicious.
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Danke. I meant "new" actually, just got carried away correcting the casing of their title.
But I do think it is under water yes 
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TTFN - Kent
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There are many open source programs that get a lot of press. And then there a few, like Solr, that are important to businesses but are also virtually unknown, even in geek circles. "Seek, and ye shall find"
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YouTube includes a number of simple production tools to help filmmakers improve their projects, but today it's launching one that could be huge for the low- or no-budget shooter: a library of completely free music that can be used in any video — even ones that don't end up on YouTube. I think I'm about to hate PowerPoint presentations (and YouTube videos) a little more soon
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As former cloud skeptic Larry Ellison bails on OpenWorld to watch the America's Cup race, Oracle pushes out 10 cloud services. Wait, wasn't he the big proponent of thin clients?
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Oracle may have been known as a thin client advocate at one point but it's even better known for thick management.
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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Two ears and a tail for that one!
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TTFN - Kent
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Te amo.
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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Microsoft is revealing its latest research project today, a way to use Kinect for gesture-based navigation with Windows. While the company has long supported Kinect for Windows, it hasn't really provided a way for Windows users to navigate using Kinect. A new research project aims to solve that by mounting a Kinect camera above a desk that detects a number of gestures above and around a keyboard and mouse. Brings new meaning to the term "three fingered salute"
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To give people a better Firefox experience, we’re changing the way plugins work. Earlier this year we talked about our plan for putting users in control of their plugins. We are now seeing these plans take shape in the latest version of Firefox Aurora. To give people more control over their browser, Firefox will no longer activate most plugins by default. When a site tries to use a plugin, the user will be able to choose whether to enable the plugin on that site. And now Firefox is also unplugging
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Torvalds isn't yet ready to apologize for giving Nvidia the finger. *This* will lead to The Year of Linux, for sure this time
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