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In a blog post on Friday, Microsoft announced that it wouldn’t be extending the free upgrade to Windows 10 for Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 Enterprise users. Microsoft plans to update Windows 10 much more frequently compared to previous Windows versions. On behalf of IT Support: thank you
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As I remember we (the company I work for) paying an annual fee and get all the software, so can't understand what all this about...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Yeah, that part hasn't changed much (although with Wen being free, you'd think they'd throw Enterprise customers a bone), but what I thought was interesting was the "Current Branch for Business" release plan.
TTFN - Kent
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Wow. Epically bad writing on Win Beta's part there. Seems they turned he FUD and FAIL up to 11 and then grabbed the knobs with a pair of pliers and snapped them off trying to go to 12.
Ars Technica[^] did a much better job of covering it. Short version is that the only people who're going to be left without a free upgrade path are the handful of companies who shot themselves in the foot by paying as much as an SA contract would cost for a boxed version of Win 7/8 Enterprise in the last year or so. Normal small businesses using consumer versions of Win7/8 qualify for the free upgrade, normal larger businesses will get it bundled in to their SA contract at no extra cost.
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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“Agile” is undeniably here to stay and probably approaching “industry standard.” It’s become so commonplace, in fact, that it is an industry unto itself, containing training courses, conferences, seminars, certifications — the works. My code's not agile, but it does run occasionally
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A new version of Windows for consumers tends to accompany a new version of Windows Server too. But this time around, it seems that Windows 10 won’t have its server counterpart launch alongside it as Microsoft has opted to delay Windows Server 10 (or Windows Server ‘Next’) to 2016. However can I wait that long?
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Microsoft has launched a Cloud Platform roadmap website to share release dates of its various cloud technologies with customers. "A cloud does not know why it moves in just such a direction and at such a speed."
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"One of the leading big data algorithms for finding related topics within unstructured text (an area called topic modeling) is latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA). But when Northwestern University professor Luis Amaral set out to test LDA, he found that it was neither as accurate nor reproducible as a leading topic modeling algorithm should be.
Using his network analysis background, Amaral, professor of chemical and biological engineering in Northwestern's McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, developed a new topic modeling algorithm that has shown very high accuracy and reproducibility during tests. His results, published with co-author Konrad Kording, associate professor of physical medicine and rehabilitation, physiology, and applied mathematics at Northwestern, were published Jan. 29 in Physical Review X."
«I'm asked why doesn't C# implement feature X all the time. The answer's always the same: because no one ever designed, specified, implemented, tested, documented, shipped that feature. All six of those things are necessary to make a feature happen. They all cost huge amounts of time, effort and money.» Eric Lippert, Microsoft, 2009
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Hmm, maybe he could use his new algorithm to model our Earth's climate and tell us what's really going on instead of the crap models being foisted on an ignorant public...
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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Back in July, Michael McLaughlin, Herb Sutter, and Jason Zink submitted to the ISO an updated proposal to standardize a 2D Graphics API for the C++ programming language. Because the C++ spec wasn't getting big enough, fast enough
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Quote: Given MS Open Tech’s historical interest in cross-platform graphics development
*sputter*
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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Well, trying hard to shoot something down for sure denotes a certain level of interest 
Geek code v 3.12
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- r++>+++ y+++*
Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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For some their URL (https://msopentech.com/blog/2015/01/28/experimenting-with-a-proposed-standard-gui-for-the-c-language/) makes two errors. Firstly, this is for C++ not C (but that's understandable given the limits of URL). Worse, it refers to a proposed standard GUI, quite a different beast from a graphics library.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Quote: proposed standard GUI
I thought it was talking about a proposed standard API which is another different beast.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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The leading maker of PC chips says its new Core vPro processor is now available and offers speedier performance, longer battery life and the need for fewer cords. That's a fine idea, as long as you're not a tightrope walker
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Until you get to zero, reducing the number of cords has very little qualitative impact.
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And way more reliable, yes.
I don't understand what Intel has against wires, personally.
TTFN - Kent
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The Federal Communications Commission today voted 3-2 along party lines to change the definition of broadband to at least 25Mbps downstream and 3Mbps upstream. "I feel the need. The need for speed."
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A compound from hops could protect brain cells from damage -- and potentially slow the development of disorders such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases. "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure." (and a pint is even better)
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Well, I have to admit I've never known anyone who drank 100 or more glasses of beer a day who ended up getting Alzheimers.
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Yeah, they suffer from some other form of neurosis and died long before they could get Alzheimers...
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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Kill those brain cells before the disease can damage them... Brilliant!
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Hey, that's what I was thinking, but you were faster on the draw...
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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