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Seems it up:
There is a solution, and it's a simple one: Follow Apple's lead and design one OS for traditional computers and another one for tablets. But there's no sign Microsoft is willing to do that with Windows 8. If we're lucky, maybe it will happen with Windows 9 or beyond.
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With the release of Windows 8.1 to the world in October, January was the third full month of availability for Microsoft’s latest operating system version, which was just enough time for it to pass Windows Vista in market share. Linux is at 1.6%! It's truly the "Year of Linux" this time
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The real question is of those new sales that were created for Christmas, How many were returned ?
I know we returned 1 in my house.
And HP is offering some Windows 7 units again.
Not a system I would want though.
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That's a good point: I don't think I've ever seen reports on returns. Except - of course - on major recalls.
Windows 7 is definitely going to be around for a while though.
TTFN - Kent
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For at least the past five years I have read countless articles not just deriding the value of the so-called skill, but citing experts that flat out deny that there is such a competency in the first place, and pointing to evidence that those who engage in the behaviour are seriously harming their cognitive performance. It certainly is possible, and I'll prove it - just after I answer my phone
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It is certainly possible to perform multiple tasks at once provided the tasks have periods when they don't require your active participation.
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Quote: productivity reduced by up to 40%
Only? That does not include the efforts for the later clean-up when half-finished code got checked in (and we read unfinished code quite often in the Werid and Wonderful).
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Project eliminates many steps in multicore programming, allowing developers to write to C++ and automatically distribute to any number of cores. "Divide et impera"
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Microsoft is said to be working to add a new 'enterprise mode' feature to IE11 to try to help Windows 7 business users with IE8 dependencies get 'unstuck.' Also known as 'broken' mode
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Customers have been asking us about the future of InfoPath and SharePoint forms, and today we’re ready to share some information on the next generation of Office forms. They will not be missed
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IDC has published the “2014 Worldwide Software Developer and ICT-Skilled Worker Estimates” document, a study estimating the number of professional software developers, hobbyist developers and Information and Communications Technology (ICT)-skilled workers in the world at the start of 2014. The 90 countries covered in the study represent 97% of the world’s GDP. All right, everybody: count off
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Wrong forum.
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I think it fits here, but it could also have gone in the Lounge too.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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In Tegmark's view, everything in the universe — humans included — is part of a mathematical structure. All matter is made up of particles, which have properties such as charge and spin, but these properties are purely mathematical, he says. And space itself has properties such as dimensions, but is still ultimately a mathematical structure. Time for someone to integrate himself into a padded collection
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"I think I'm missing an electron."
"Are you sure?"
"Yup, I'm positive."
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Does an electron's quark echo?
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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I think he's made the fundamental error of confusing the map with the territory.
The reason mathematics models the universe so well is simply because we designed mathematics to be useful modelling the universe, through a succession of refinements.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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The cosmos is made of thought.
"I had always considered thought to be an electrochemical process that goes on in the brain. Therefore a thought would be comprised of matter, and energy. But if we can alter an experiment by thinking about it, which is another way of saying we can alter reality with a thought, then can we truly consider thoughts as being simply matter and energy? Couldn't we actually elevate thought to the same status as matter and energy?" -- The Spires of Tarkus by Dave McWhorter[^]
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Calculate me a universe and we'll take another look at your ideas.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Please take a moment to consider if you actually need jQuery as a dependency. Maybe you can include a few lines of utility code, and forgo the requirement. If you're only targeting more modern browsers, you might not need anything more than what the browser ships with. "All you need is love"
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Microsoft Corp.’s board is preparing to make Satya Nadella, the company’s enterprise and cloud chief, chief executive officer and is discussing replacing Bill Gates as chairman, according to people briefed on the process. Maybe. Possibly. Could be. Conceivably.
OK, I know I promised not to have any more of these until the final announcement, but seeing as how everyone and their dog are reporting this, it does seem like it's their final choice.
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From everything I've read and seen of him over the years he may be a top leader for his "section" but does not seem to be a buck stops here kind of person that is needed for the CEO.
Time will tell.
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One of the biggest sea changes in computing took place in the late 1990s, with the switch over to running managed code, first with Java and then a couple of years later with .NET. Prior to this, compiled code (typically written in C, C++, Visual Basic or Delphi/Pascal) produced unmanaged code. Yes, both of these run machine code. So what’s the difference? "C programmers think memory management is too important to be left to the computer. LISP programmers think memory management is too important to be left to the user."
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Hmm, he claims managed code can never crash the machine, while unmanaged can.
Funny that, because most of the applications I use are unmanaged and they never crash the machine (although they do crash, they never bring down the PC)
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