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Microsoft has announced a unified technology event set to take place in May of next year. The event covers all of Microsoft's products, including Windows and Office. Microsoft seems to have combined its annual TechEd conference with the Microsoft Management Summit, SharePoint Conference, Lync Conference, Exchange Conference, and Project Conference to provide a unified event for enterprises. Wasn't that what TechEd was?
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Microsoft is not confused in any way about the confusing message it is sending to all of the confused people in the world who are not confused.
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Internet of Things is the current hip phrase of technology evangelists, geeks and all kinds of clairvoyants. If, according to tech blogs and websites, 2013 was the year of big data, then 2014 certainly is the year of Internet of Things. Calling them things is bad for their self esteem
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Dunno if I want the internet in everything but it would be cool if the microwave would connect to the net and get the latest time from the atomic clock after the power goes out...same with the stove and the coffee maker, not to mention the alarm clocks...that feature would be worth a few bucks more.
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I do not know why microwave and coffee maker have to know what time it is (I have none of them), but can suggest you a solar powered alarm clock[^] (there are hundreds of them). No problem of power failure...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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It's for timed startup...you can set your microwave to start cooking your dinner before you get home.
Coffee maker, you can set it to brew your coffee before you get up.
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That's explains why I have none of them...
Cooking - do by myself (wife if I'm ill)
Coffee - not in my cup...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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Why should you set when to start cooking when you can use internet to make it cook from a distance. Or even set the ingredients and just select a recipe from internet for it to make.
This way you wont need to marry ... ever
Microsoft ... the only place where VARIANT_TRUE != true
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And you trust a machine that will cook you something a bit more than edible? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISXqC-YPnpc[^]
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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Yes why not?
When I think about how much we trust in the machines who knows what will come after 10 or maybe 20 years.
For example we trust the machines to build the cars, to wash the clothes and so on. No matter how we look at it we depend on them more and more after each year. Today is google glasses tomorrow, who knows teleports(I hope so) ? Why not a stove to prepare the meals all by herself?
Microsoft ... the only place where VARIANT_TRUE != true
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On July 20 1969, at about four minutes before 10:00 pm Central Daylight Time, former naval aviator and test pilot Neil Armstrong became the first human being to stand on the surface of the Moon. Take a small step to commemorate the event
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Love, love, love that video. Someone needs to make a dance-mix version of it.
TTFN - Kent
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MDD as described here is a fundamentally iterative process that begins with a high-level view of your system’s overall health and then drills down into relevant subsections as you follow the data. Because it's been almost two whole weeks without a new paradigm
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Can you match the following realities:
Neurosis Driven Development
Rigid Development
What the User Says is not What the User Wants
Irrelevant Performance Development
Failure Driven Development
Anarchy Driven Development
with the following fictions?
Test Driven Development
Agile Development
Model Driven Development
Behavior Driven Development
Domain Driven Development
Metrics Driven Development
Marc
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Are any of these a silver bullet yet? I'm sick of having software projects eaten by werewolves.. we need a silver bullet (covered in garlic, just to be sure).
All business software is actually created using DDD. Sometimes this stands for Deadline Driven Development, sometimes for Defect Driven Development and sometimes Dumb*ss Driven Development. I could write an article as to why this is* but some Dumb*ss has set a Deadline for me to fix a Defect 
(*Short version - we tolerate idiots in the hope that they will go away. It works but the marble jar of idiots is with replacement)
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What could possibly go wrong[^]. 
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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As nature abhors a vacuum, innovators abhor a monopoly, especially in the fast-paced IT industry. "Do not pass Go, do not collect $200"
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i Weak wrote: At the time, Windows commanded about 90% of the desktop operating system market. The competition? Mostly Unix and MacOS and a handful of thin clients.
Today, Windows' share of the market for operating systems on all computing devices -- PCs, smartphones, tablets, and all manner of hybrids -- stands at about 14%, according to a new Gartner report.
..and what't is the percentage on the regular desktop?
Regardless of this hype, I do not see any servers being replaced with smart-watches, nor do I see people trading their desktop for a tablet.
When, o-when, do we hit "peak bullshit"?
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: When, o-when, do we hit "peak bullsh*t"?
I don't know - there seems to be a pretty infinite supply.
TTFN - Kent
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World Partner Conference attendees were more receptive to Microsoft's pleas to change their business models for cloud computing "'Cause I don't wanna come back down from this cloud"
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I started thinking that we as an industry need a new term. The reason I say this is related to the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis, which says that the language we use influences the way we experience the world around us. If we keep referring to what we write as code, we are going to keep writing software that ‘requires secrecy or brevity’, instead of writing software intended for other people to read. "Only a great technician can be a great artist."
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The author appears to have misinterpreted the meaning of "code" as "cipher". "Code" is short for "source code", which Wikipedia[^] correctly defines as "any collection of computer instructions (possibly with comments) written using some human-readable computer language, usually as text".
And if the author wishes to write software poetry or software novellas, he has to only fire up his COBOL compiler. 
/ravi
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Ravi Bhavnani wrote: And if the author wishes to write software poetry or software novellas, he has to only fire up his COBOL compiler
Forget about COBOL, this is some devious code: Black perl poetry[^]
Cheers!
"I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"
Ron White, Comedian
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Even better!
/ravi
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