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Windows honcho Terry Myerson just provided details about the Windows 10 rollout. Here's the translation of his 'Softie speak. Patches? Oh, we won't need any patches.
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Woody Leonhard wrote:
"Volume licensing customers will be able to download Windows 10 Enterprise and Windows 10 Education on Volume Licensing Service Center (VLSC) starting on August 1."
Which gives Microsoft a month to iron out the big problems with the release, using consumers as cannon fodder -- as expected.
Strange calendar he's using there - how is there a month between 29th July and 1st August? 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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As part of this new commitment to clarity, Redmond has released WorldWide Telescope to the Open Source community, with the code now available via GitHub. There you go: now you can update it with 'corrections' (and aliens!)
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Can programming code ever be considered a beautiful endeavour? I think that I shall never see, a B-Tree as beautiful as a tree
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"Beauty may be only skin deep, but ugliness goes clear to the core."
#SupportHeForShe 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 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
Only 2 things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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Indeed, see my post on Tetris as a C++ metaprogram below 
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Which only goes to prove that just because you can do a thing it doesn't follow that you should or must do a thing.
But it does highlight the capabilities of metaprogramming. 
#SupportHeForShe 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 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
Only 2 things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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A version of Tetris implemented using C++ template metaprogramming that runs as fricking compile-time.
This is just wrong on so many levels (and speeds up slightly after each).
Super Template Tetris[^]
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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kill it before it lays eggs
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"Let us redefine progress to mean that just because we can do a thing it does not necessarily follow that we must do that thing."
- Federation President, at the peace conference (ST6 - The Undiscovered Country)
Marc
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 Why?!?!!?
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Because they can, I guess. 
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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I like it 
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What fun!
#SupportHeForShe 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 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
Only 2 things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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It's not the first "floating" display that uses lasers to create a hologram-like image, but a team of Japanese researchers say their so-called Fairy Lights are a more practical solution than some of the alternatives. Now without burning the user!
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One step closer to the holodeck and Minuet.
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Quote: And while it won't burn you, the plasma will apparently still generate "shock waves" that will let you feel an "impulse on the finger as if the light has physical substance."
Might not be perfect; but it's at least a step in the right direction. Not zapping sunshines who smear fingerprints on my screens is the biggest regression when we switched from CRTs to LCDs at work.
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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Today’s Internet of Things landscape is a modern day Tower of Babel – a proliferation of communication protocols and data formats across the device ecosystem that make it difficult for devices to “speak the same language” and work together in harmony. This reality makes it difficult for us to realize the full potential of IoT. "Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation."
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Actually your comment wasn't far from my first thought. If everything interoperates univesally, it may make it universally hackable.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Dang, and here I thought IoT actually meant Inter-Operable Things.
Yet again, technology fails me. 
Marc
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Directly engaging with customers is great, but should Sony be using them to fund R&D? Give us some money so we'll build something for you to buy. Brillian!
I think this might be related to the other "intelligence" article today.
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I should be paying the research for your stuff? I might sound old-fashioned, but how about adding those costs to the price of the product?
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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A few months ago, Yale University researchers released a study, which found the internet makes us think we’re more knowledgeable than we actually are "The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool."
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I'm backwards from this: I'm smarter than I even think I am. And, I think I'm a genius. I think.
Your Internet, as you call it, has no affect on me.
Do not try to convince yourself that I am wrong, for in doing so you will only learn how small your intellect is. 
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Those of you that think you know everything are annoying to those of us that do.
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