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ZDNet says: the next feature update, known as 19H1/1903, is getting several additional weeks of testing time in the Windows Insider Release Preview ring before rolling out to the mainstream
When, oh When, will they get it through their thick skulls that USER-REVIEW IS NOT QA?!?ZDNet says: It will also get a round of additional broader testing among employees at Microsoft
And "letting their secretaries use it" is about as far from QA as you can get!ZDNet says: As it has been doing recently, Microsoft will roll out the 19H1/1903 update gradually,
Just ta da broads, foist, cuz dey don't know from nuthin'!ZDNet says: If customers are running a variant of Windows 10 that is close to its end-of-support date
... Which again puts paid to the idea that "windows 10 is the last version of windows".
However, the good news is that, now that we're up to version 1903, we're only 92 years behind the functionality, user-friendliness, and especially productivity values of windows '95.
Another truth that has been proven is that even scare-mongering sites like ZDNet can sometimes get stories that are genuinely scary.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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3,236 satellites will provide internet from low Earth orbit Are they Alexa-enabled?
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What happens when Amazon's and SpaceX's satellites start fighting?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Are they Alexa-enabled?
In space, no one can hear you scream...
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Yeah, right.
So some fresh-from-school cutie has batted her eyelashes at the psychopathic boss, but has kept hands-off enough to make him buy some "opening new markets" cr@p.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Privilege-escalation flaw could also make minor flaws much more severe. I guess it's a good thing there aren't that many shared host Apache servers? (eep!)
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I really, really wish that all these highly educated, highly skilled "researchers' would stop finding things for moron-level "hakkas!" to exploit!
Or, at the very least, that they would STFU about them, until everyone was patched.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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[^]Quote: None of these efforts look terrible. Some, like the news service, might be handy. Yet they are all so trifling and derivative. As the analyst Ben Thompson noted, Apple’s crush of me-too announcements falls far short of Mr. Jobs’s goal of putting “a ding in the universe.” As I watched Apple’s event, I felt the future shrink a little. In its gilded middle age, Apple is turning into something like a digital athleisure brand, stamping out countless upscale accessories for customers who love its one big thing, a company that has lost sight of the universe and is content merely to put a ding in your pocketbook.
Reading this, I was reminded of how ... so many years ago ... the Cupertino Kool-Aid seemed like the very nectar of a glorious future. My take on Manjoo's piece is he wants the Kool-Aid back, and, perhaps, some part of him believes it actually had some nectar in it.
I'd warm-up to Apple again if they rolled out affordable next-gen tech machines ... said the dust mote to the galaxy.
I like to imagine what might have happened if there was no "second coming" post NeXT resurrection of Jobs, if Apple had swallowed BeOS and (belch) Gassee: [^] ... yeah, okay, you gotta credit Jobs for the i-pod/pad.
«Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?» T. S. Elliot
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When a corporation spends years creating a culture where you either buy into its eco-system or you don't, it creates a situation where it needs some real killer product to entice any further people into it.
That's the downside of the proprietary policy that they've always adopted - short-term thinking has its costs.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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In other words, General Mills is more innovative with breakfast cereal than Apple is at anything.
(Now Apple will read this and give us iCheerios, though they'll cost $100 a box and require a special $50 spoon to eat.)
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but that spoon is an IoT device that is connected to the toaster and refrigerator and who knows what else.
"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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...and can tell your general state of health by your mouth flora. It gets MUCH less general if you stick it somewhere the sun doesn't shine... 
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It can do a colonoscopy for you also?
"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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A majority of the people working in IT roles are unhappy, in part due to their jobs, according to a survey from ITSM solutions provider SysAid. "Gloom, despair, and agony on me"
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Oh, don't worry about it; it'll sort itself out.
There's bound to be a new Star Wars movie and a new version of Halo out, soon.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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We just need to learn from our managers and realise that our jobs are mindblowingly easy, code writes itself and anything is possible in negative time.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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Panic, chaos, and destruction. My work is done.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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And you think this is limited to just IT?
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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Why I'm unhappy:
0) Technology moves to quickly. We don't have time to become truly proficient before something new replaces it.
1) The tech we do have is often half-baked, and the owners of that tech are generally not receptive to maintaining their products
2) Security concerns have become so burdensome that we almost can't develop any more, and it actually adversely affects the SDLC
3) Co-workers are generally in a comfort zone that prevents them from advocating for significant change, even when there is an obvious need
4) Nobody codes on their own at home any more I currently work with nine other devs, and I'm the ONLY one that codes at home as a hobby or to learn new stuff (that I need for work).
".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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For 0 and 1, I think in part the fault lies with #4 - specifically, those that still code at home. 
#3 - I (or someone) could write volumes on how workers are beaten into submission, starting from early childhood and parenting, then our educational systems, and finally the cubicle rat maze where the managers get the windows, all designed to subliminally (or overtly) let you know who's really in power. And it ain't you. For all the hype about innovation that is vomited up in the tech rags on a daily basis, the reality is that innovation threatens those in power. Same could be said about proficiency, because proficiency leads to innovation.
Latest Article - Azure Function - Compute Pi Stress Test
Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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#realJSOP wrote: 4) Nobody codes on their own at home any more I currently work with nine other devs, and I'm the ONLY one that codes at home as a hobby or to learn new stuff (that I need for work).
In my old age, I admittedly don't do this as much anymore, however with one or two exceptions, the developers I respect the most all do some sort of techno-geek tinkering at home.
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I code my ass off and maintain a 13-computer network at home. 
".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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In other news, narcissists upset at not being praised every second of the day.
(Snark aside, it is irritating for sales to be congratulated for "job well done" with a product I wrote. On the other hand, if they keep writing me checks, that's okay.)
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It took nearly five years into the internet’s life before anyone made a concerted effort to archive it. Much of our earliest online activity has disappeared. Because we didn't think it would amount to anything?
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