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Microsoft updates Azure, Windows Server and other enterprise products as part of aggressive push into cloud market valued at $2 trillion. Some might even say they're *storming* the enterprise cloud 'market'
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More and more people want to use your web apps on their mobile devices, and the sizes and resolutions of those devices are becoming more diverse by the day. You already know the basics: generally, there are tablets and smartphones with landscape and portrait views. Plus, don’t forget about taking advantage of high-res “retina” displays. Technique #1: Mastering the ability to resize your browser window
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Amazon announced Tuesday a new service called "Login and Pay with Amazon." The service, where enabled, will allow shoppers to check out at third-party retail websites by using the payment information they have stored on Amazon (think of it as Facebook Connect for shopping). It's designed to make checking out more streamlined and secure: Shoppers won't have to enter their payment information during checkout, and they won't have to store that information at an additional site. Oh, *someone* please knock PayPal down
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How is this different from the existing Amazon Payments service?
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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I think the idea that people can just put it on their own sites (like the paypal button), not just retailers on the Amazon site.
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Again, I've seen sites offering a row of pay buttons: Paypal, Amazon, and Google for years. Others like KickStarter use Amazon Payment, IIRC, as their only payment option.
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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Huh. Yo no se then. I was assuming this was new functionality as they were announcing it and all. I had thought that all the people that had Amazon payment buttons were those on Amazon servers (either through AWS or their affiliate store stuff). Lessons learned, I guess.
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TTFN - Kent
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I did a bit of hunting and found a comparison between the two services from Amazon (it appears that all the tech journalists writing about it failed as badly as Mashable did). Apparently what's new is that they're offering an API so it can be more tightly integrated into your sites checkout process vs only offering a fully packaged solution suitable for setup without being a developer.
https://payments.amazon.com/business/productsandservices[^]
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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Aaaaahh there we go. Thank you for the sleuthing.
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TTFN - Kent
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Amazon wants apps for its Kindle Fire tablets and will give developers plenty of reason to build them. "Awww, come on bucko! Don't you want a... balloon?"
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Community strength is a huge factor is determining which JavaScript framework to adopt. Here's a close look at the activity swirling around AngularJS, Backbone.JS, Ember.js, and more Is it hot in here, or is it just this framework?
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I wonder how the list will look like in six months.
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There are a few (OK, a couple) that I think might survive six months: Angular seems to have a lot of momentum now (pun *entirely* on purpose), and it has Google's backing. So, it will likely be around a while. Knockout: pretty much the same, but because of Microsoft's backing. Most of the rest I could easily see the very fickle Web devs dropping pretty fast.
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What is one Windows? "What it really means common user interface, common programming interface, common security architecture and user interface adaptability and common developer model and key services," said Ballmer. Just as soon as people start demanding the lowest common functionality
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They don't guide their companies towards transformative uses of digital technology, according to a study from MIT and Capgemini In related news: IT workers shocked (that a study got something right)
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The reality is that successful technologies take years, usually decades, perhaps longer, to fade away. Most people would be shocked at how much of the world runs on RPG, COBOL, FORTRAN, C, and C++ – all languages that became obsolete decades ago. Software written in these languages runs on mainframes and minicomputers (also obsolete decades ago) as well as more modern hardware in some cases. Of course in reality mainframes and minicomputers are still manufactured, so perhaps they aren’t technically “obsolete” except in our minds. "The vision of time is broad, but when you pass through it, time becomes a narrow door."
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Researchers at the National Ignition Facility in Livermore, California, have been conducting fusion experiments for some time. Using 192 beams from the world's most powerful laser, they heat and compress a small pellet of hydrogen fuel until nuclear fusion reactions take place. Usually, they have to dump more power in using the lasers than they manage to create from the fusion reaction.
The BBC is reporting, though, that during an experiment conducted in the facility during September the "amount of energy released through the fusion reaction exceeded the amount of energy being absorbed by the fuel". If it's true, it's the first time any fusion experiment has managed such a feat—and it's a huge milestone in our quest for fusion power. Bring me my Mr. Fusion!
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You have to think that this is a cheap way for companies to find (and maybe fix) bugs. I'm assuming that most of the security researchers that find these are "the good guys". So, you might as well pay them, as have one of the others find it, and exploit it. Plus, they get good press for working with the community. "When nine hundred years old you reach, look as good, you will not, hmmmm?"
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Apparently the average age of an AOL worker is 30...  
I'm shocked that anyone younger than 30 would be willing to work there at all.
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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They had to get them young enough to not know just how much AOL sucks.
Their CDs did make great coasters though.
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TTFN - Kent
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AOL got me young; but I've long since recovered.  At one point I had probably 70 or 80 free floppies they sent me in the mail and a few dozen more from Prodigy and CompuServe (although these cheapskates only sent a single disk with a downloader instead of several with the full package on it). My 30th birthday is a few years past.
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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In his final shareholder letter, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer expresses enthusiasm for the company's future and reiterates its focus on being a "devices and services" business. "Everything is gonna be satisfactual"
I'll avoid my first couple of snarky thoughts.
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JUCE is an extensive, mature, cross-platform C++ toolkit Why should the script folk have all the fun - there are libraries for big kids too!
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Looks almost like a Java framework 
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Probably "inspired" by one.
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TTFN - Kent
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