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Quote: It also suggests that the technology will create more convenientdangerous products for swindling consumers, such as sophisticated tools for managing personal finances and investments by luring consumers into products that are most profitable for the bank instead of delivering the highest return for a given amount of risk to the sucker who buys them.
FTFT
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing 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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This teeny-tiny ARM processor essentially interfaces with your computer via the USB port and contains two LEDs and two buttons. Probably doesn't run DOOM (yet)
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One of the biggest complaints about Microsoft Windows development is the lack of investment in Winforms and WPF; most of the new features exposed by Windows 10 are built soley for UWP. "Islands in the stream, that is what we are"
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Yay! Airspace issues are back because we all liked them so much ten years ago. 
Support for Windows 7 might be one reason why developers still use WinForms/WPF today, but the article is missing the fact that the UWP framework is inferior to what WPF offers. Well, I guess that's just the fate of remakes: The new movie can hardly compare to the original.
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Quote: To address this, two new controls are being created: WinForms XAML Host and WPF XAML Host, which allow you to embed a UI written for UWP inside your existing WinForms/WPF application.
Welcome to the Island of Dr. Moreau: [^]
«... thank the gods that they have made you superior to those events which they have not placed within your own control, rendered you accountable for that only which is within you own control For what, then, have they made you responsible? For that which is alone in your own power—a right use of things as they appear.» Discourses of Epictetus Book I:12
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BillWoodruff wrote: Quote: To address this, two new controls are being created: WinForms XAML Host and WPF XAML Host, which allow you to embed a UI written for UWP inside your existing WinForms/WPF application.
As much of a horror as that sounds like, assuming a certain customer I was working on a UWP app for does come up with funds for another round of work. The current app is all UWP, with the intent of being locked down in Kiosk Mode. The latter's been a real PITA to work with in terms of deploying new versions locally for testing (login as admin, disable KM on the user account, login as the user, run the installer, log out as the user, login as admin, turn KM back on); and it's run on top of the login screen sandboxing model has me concerned that the non windows store update approach might not work (would be launching a second headless UWP app to run the installer, never tested in KM before the stopwork), and the question of if KM would be compatible with some sort of remote access tool is a storm cloud on the horizon.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing 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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I have a feeling Microsoft would stop pushing UWP in a few years' times after widespread adoption is not received. A better solution is to let UWP application run outside Microsoft Store and on Windows 7 and above. I dun wanna be stuck with a UWP app which I cannot sell after Microsoft Store is closed down.
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What are they doing? I mean with windows 10 and the new build with fixes over fixes ....when will it end? its like the Adobe Flash ...intentional security issues even after people don't even use it ! They already lost to android and apple in UI and if they throw UWP into apathy well..might as well go back to VB6 and asp.net 2.0 Muhaaaa !!!!
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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A team of researchers from institutions in France and Switzerland has found that people asked to do a concentration test performed better when a "mean" robot was watching them. I thought they were called "managers"?
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How good is the machine at self-defense? 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: I thought they were called "managers"?
Kent once again pokes Robot Chris.
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A paper posted to arXiv last month claims to have achieved superconductivity at room temperature, but other physicists say the data may be incorrect. Paging Dr. Occam
And bring your Razor
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When asked for comment, Pons & Fleischmann replied: hopefully Thapa & Pandey replace us as an example of bad science. To which Shawyer bitterly responded that he keeps getting forgotten.
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He reportedly was able to access authorized keys, view customer accounts and download 90GB of secure files before being caught. Mental note: don't keep a folder on your desktop called, "hacky hack hack"
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Should casually strolling through the front [electronic] door even be called hacking?
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319. That’s the number of discrete advertisements, both online and off, served to me over the course of one Tuesday in July. I know because I counted each and every one. "Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless"
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Oracle is advising customers to update their database software following the discovery and disclosure of a critical remote code execution vulnerability. A flaw in an Oracle product? Whaaa?
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With DMF, not only can you easily develop simple and structured Windows Driver Framework (WDF) drivers but also share code amongst your drivers. Just in case you have your driver's license
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Multi-caret editing, better C++ 11 support, F# 4.5, TypeScript 3.0 support, and so much more The, "I didn't get anything done today, I was installing a new version of VS" Edition.
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It fixed a bug I reported (VS Crash when trying to load code from the source server) so I'm happy with it.
I only have a signature in order to let @DalekDave follow my posts.
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The researchers published a study this month detailing a method in which common wifi can be used to easily and efficiently identify weapons, bombs, and explosive chemicals in public spaces that don’t typically have affordable screening options. "It's a b...?!"
I'll let you fill in the rest, Shirley.
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Sounds somewhat remarkable (for which read "too good to be true").
Am I missing something here? X-Ray wavelengths are measured in nanometers whereas wi-fi signals have a wavelength of about 12.5cm - so surely it can't be the same approach as the resolution would be so crude that the results would be meaningless if it were using that kind of imaging approach. Kind of like sonar - fine for detecting an oncoming battleship, not quite so good at finding a needle in a haystack.
And then, assuming it does work, weapons (especially bombs) can come in so many different shapes and sizes and be made of different things ... and well, come on! Really???
I'm emphatically not a scientist but I find this a far bigger stretch of the imagination than the claims of room-temperature super-conductivity, cold fusion and perpetual motion machines that usually come along on quiet news days.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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We released WebAssembly support in Unity 5.6 as an experimental feature, more or less when it also became available in the four major desktop browsers. Then in 2018.2, Wasm finally replaced asm.js as the default linker target. wawesome news.
Sorry, brain took a day off.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Sorry, brain took a day off.
Some Assembly required.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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