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True, and they (XBox) have been doing better lately. I think that you've hit on a big difference between XBox and Surface though: there seems little way that the Surface can create such an ecosystem. The XBox devices themselves can do poorly, but the ecosystem as a whole does well.
Quote: The company took in $19.9 billion in revenue this quarter – up 10 percent compared to last year's earnings – with $4.97 billion in net income. Revenue for Microsoft's Entertainment and Devices Division, which includes Xbox 360 hardware and software sales, grew by 8 percent ($134 million) this quarter, and 6 percent ($566 million) year-on-year.
Microsoft additionally reports that Xbox Live transactional revenue grew by nearly 20 percent during the last quarter year.
TTFN - Kent
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"Negative. Negative. Just impacted on the Surface."
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As part of our ongoing commitment to delivering a more secure browser, starting August 12th Internet Explorer will block out-of-date ActiveX controls. ActiveX: the gift that keeps giving
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Fortunately that feature can be switched off. What a security hole if users have to update several items every day - they get used to it and will install every crap.
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Government sources said ten Apple products including all iPad and MacBook products were excluded from a final government procurement list distributed last month. At this rate, they might have to move all work back to abacuses (or abaci if you're a Latin scholar)
Or suanpan, I suppose would be more accurate
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Actually it would be abacii as the correct plural.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Only if the device were called an abacius. (Masculine nouns in Latin typically go from -us to -i, not -ii).
Also, according to various dictionaries I checked (as I knew there might be a few pendants in da house), and summarized on Wikipedia[^]: Quote: The preferred plural of abacus is a subject of disagreement, with both abacuses[6] and abaci[6] in use.
TTFN - Kent
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Quote: preferred plural of abacus is a subject of disagreement
Well I disagree with them. I use "...ii" for all appropriate plurals I come across such as, "That man is rich. He has a whole fleet of Lexii." Also, accepted plurals of Octopus and Hippopotamus are Octopii and Hippopotamii respectively and neither of them end in "...ius". These Latin scholars just don't really agree on anything and since the last person to actually speak the proper version of this language (as apart from the ecclesiastical dialect of it) died a long time ago everything is really guesswork over is it a rule or justium baddus spellingus!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Well, true on no one left that actually speaks Latin, so we can't be absolutely sure, but
Octopus: (Oxford dictionaries[^]): Quote: The standard plural in English of octopus is octopuses. However, the word octopus comes from Greek and the Greek plural form octopodes is still occasionally used. The plural form octopi, formed according to rules for some Latin plurals, is incorrect.
Hippopotamus: (Meriam Webster[^]): Quote: plural hip·po·pot·a·mus·es or hip·po·pot·a·mi
And do you actually say, "Lex-ee-ee" or "Lex-ee"? For Lexi?
TTFN - Kent
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Dictionaries? Hah! What do they know of reality?
"Lex-eye". 
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Forogar wrote: I use "...ii" for all appropriate plurals I come across
So is Hawaii plural for anything?
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Yes, the Hawaus Islands! 
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Excellent! 
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Quid dicis? Tu Latinam linguam nescis. Nunc tace!
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Ego certe sacra. Ego eram iustus esse ridiculam et disputate! 
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Humans of a certain age will remember the brief period when accessing the internet meant shelling out a monthly fee to AOL. For most of us, this gave way to better business models well over a decade ago. But as Recode points out today, 2.3 million souls never got the memo. Not only that; their rates have somehow gone up. As the kids say these days: 0.o
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I would say, if it's not broken don't fix it... but... seriously?
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"My software never has bugs. It just develops random features."
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How is that (much) different than shelling out to Verizon, Comcast, Cox, and all the other money-hungry thieves out there?
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$20/month for DIAL UP or not much more for the cheapest cable/DSL from the other money-hungry thieves.
TTFN - Kent
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Sadly, I haven't found anyone else in my area that wasn't mucho dinero.
Is AOL still dial-up? That is sad.
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Bassam Abdul-Baki wrote: Is AOL still dial-up? That is sad.
Yeah, that was the part that boggled my mind. I know it wasn't that long ago that I loved my new 56K modem, but I think I'd rather rely on library/coffee shop wifi these days than go back.
TTFN - Kent
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Bassam Abdul-Baki wrote: Is AOL still dial-up? That is sad.
In almost all of the US it's impossible to sell broadband without owning your own set of to the customer networking. Back in the late 90s DSL was regulated the same way as voice landlines and the phone companies were forced to allow 3rd party resellers but cable was allowed to extend its TV monopoly to its internet service; at the time AOL was a relatively large 3rd party DSL provider too. The phone companies sued that this put them at an unfair disadvantage and eventually convinced either the courts or the FCC to agree; unfortunately they "fixed" it by allowing the phone companies to become monopoly ISPs too. 
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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After a journey of more than 10 years and a total of many billions of kilometers, the Rosetta spacecraft has finally arrived at the comet 67/P Churyumov-Gerasimenko. "By being seldom seen, I could not stir, but like a comet I was wonder'd at."
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I bet it's funky and cold.
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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Where's the alien space ship following behind?
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