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This may be a storm in a teacup, or it may be a typhoon massing off the port bow. Apple has applied for a patent that appears to cover the whole idea of the Swift language. Because that's what people are looking for in a programming language?
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Once again, the US patent office proves that it is either f***ing insane, f***ing incompetent, or f***ing corrupt -- or a combination thereof.
This is unbe-f***ing-lievable.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
modified 29-Jan-19 12:16pm.
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I couldn't agree more. Companies I have worked with have had to fight several patent lawsuits and in every case we were the plaintiff being sued to invalidate patents we owned and we settled just to cut the cost of the litigation. On principles alone we should have won every one of those suits but they didn't want to spend the money. My point is, there should not have been any money spent in the first place because those secondary patents were already covered by ours. The others should never have been granted in the first place.
I get the feeling the patent office only hires people from the bottom twenty percent of their respective graduating classes.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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Did the patent office even look at this in any depth. They are claiming as invention lots of things that have been existing practice in programming for decades. This system is horribly broken.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Microsoft employees spent much of Thursday ensnared in a massive reply-all email thread, according to social-media posts from employees. It was a secret plot by the Teams team to get everyone off email
The 'Reply All' button needs a safety switch
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And we trust these highly trained, highly skilled, technical IT people to build operating systems?
Break my computer once, shame on you; break my computer 473 times, Linux here I come.
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I'm going to assume the flood was disproportionately due to pointy haired types who needed git accounts for access to bug trackers, etc.
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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The latest development is Microsoft switching off the ability of Windows Media Player and Windows Media Center on Windows 7 to download metadata from their servers. Nice playlists you have there. Shame if anything were to happen to them.
People still use Windows Media Player?
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This will make a huge difference to my lifestyle.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: People still use Windows Media Player?
I have only used once, in a laptop where I could not install anything due to domain policies.
Even when it works fine, it is still ugly, uncomfortable and its handling sucks
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: People still use Windows Media Player?
I think Microsoft is more surprised than anyone else....
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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There are other possible outcomes . . . remind me . . . how do you spell VLC ?
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W∴ Balboos wrote: There are other possible outcomes . . . remind me . . . how do you spell VLC ?
Very Lousy Crap?
It's Music player UI looks like garbage. Winamp managed to be less fugly looking 20 years ago. 
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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Dan Neely wrote: UI looks like garbage.
Well - here you and I differ.
I "Listen" to music and don't watch it. A clean simple interface is absolute the best option. I don't need a friggin' dancing paperclip or any other fluff.
At work, I also have Window's Media Player - the older version which were clean and simple.
Add in that non-MicroSloth (and no iCrap) work across essentially all platforms.
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Dan Neely wrote: It's Music player UI looks like garbage.
I don't use VLC for its UI...
I think me and Balboos has finally found common ground on something. That is the real story here.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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It takes half an hour to boot and its music UI really sucks. I agree, WinAmp is sorely missed.
GCS d--(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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I don't miss it at all. It's installed and running on a couple of my machines.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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For music, I still use Winamp.
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I found a typo in the title. It should be "Microsoft trying to screw Windows 7 users".
Kent Sharkey wrote: People still use Windows Media Player?
Did anyone ever used it not by mistake?
GCS d--(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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C++ continues to be an important programming language in general and the only systems programming language of any consequence on the Windows platform. Almost twenty years on, still trying to figure out how to jam .NET and C++ together really hard
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Kenny Kerr wrote: Kenny Kerr ... Creator of C++/WinRT ... we are strongly discouraging anyone from using WRL or C++/CX
That's the thing about trumpets: If you own one, you shouldn't blow it.
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Please, please, please use the utter crap known as UWP.
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Food, water, shelter, artificial intelligence? If the predictions of Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff prove to be true, the latter will one day become a new human right. It seems like actual intelligence is still missing in some circles
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Who would know better than the guy who runs a social network for salesmen?
Give him a couple of hours, and you'll just give in and agree that no-one knows better about anything at all.
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