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You’ve probably seen more headlines about COBOL this year than in the last 20 years. You wouldn't want to upset your friend, would you?
Of course it's a coincidence his company sells a COBOL compiler.
And yes, it is a slow news week. Why do you ask?
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You -- and anyone else for that matter -- can't counter his statement that it was the Java-based front-end that caused the inability of the system to process unemployment claims in New Jersey.
So you left the snarky comment that the author said what he said because he is selling COBOL compilers and thus has a financial stake in determining the cause of the problem.
What monumental stupidity! What nauseating lack of logic, in a website supposedly dedicated to the pursuit of logic in computer programs!
modified 8-Nov-20 12:29pm.
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Rumours and references within the preview builds have revealed that Microsoft is in the process of overhauling the Windows 10 interface. Oh...FINALLY! Just what everyone has been begging for!
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Do you think they gave the icons rounded corners as well? 
EDIT:
As I recall, XP had rounded corners.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Richard Andrew x64 wrote: As I recall, XP had rounded corners.
What goes a-round comes a-round?
TTFN - Kent
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Richard Andrew x64 wrote: As I recall, XP had rounded corners.
If I remember correctly, only on the top edge of the window. It seems that Microsoft has "reached deeply into the innovation bag" (as I imagine Nadella might say) and have rounded all four corners!
This should bring a new level of user experience satisfaction to the Windows blah blah....
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Yes this is truly a spectacular technological achievement!
Microsoft ought to be proud of themselves.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Old memories:
Graphic workstations appeared during my student days. We were taught a method called SSA, Structured System Analysis, were "processes" (not in the software sense!) were drawn as boxes with round corners.
For his thesis work, one of my classmates implemented a tool for SSA development on the brand new PERQ workstations. You could control every single pixel on the screen! But that was all. Not even a library function for drawing a straight line; you had to program that yourself. But that is straightforward.
Then comes the round corners. In those days, the computer graphics course taught us how to map a function to pixels. So that is straightforward. Except that methods for drawing mathematical curves required trigonometric functions. PERQ provided nothing of that sort. We learned to do that in the Numerical Methods course. So that was straightforward. Except that those methods assumed floating point. PERQ had only integer arithmetic. So you had to design a software floating point format and implement the basic mathematical operations on it. Straightforward, right?
My classmate did implement a floating point package. Then a trigonometric library. Then a graphical library for drawing curves defined by trig functions. On top of that, a tool for designing SSA diagrams, with animation of document flow through the model.
I think that classifies as a "spectacular achievement" for a Master thesis. It may come as no surprise that he is now a highly respected professor in the Computer Science department of the Technical University.
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That's a great story!
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Finally - a tangible reason to stop using Linux...
".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 must be real hard to code rounded corners ... imagine the two year effort that went into this .. kudos !
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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I'm totally blown away by the fact that there isn't even a hint of sarcasm in this entire thread! 
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we're numb 
TTFN - Kent
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But are you comfortably numb?
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You are only coming through in waves
TTFN - Kent
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All our rage is directed at subjects we aren't allowed to flame about here anymore.
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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Site archive of Cit0day.in has now leaked on two hacking forums after the service shut down in September. Who hacks the hackers?
Qui furatus fuerit ex fures?
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Highly sensitive tax returns, contracts and bank statements were among 75,000 "deleted" files recovered by cybersecurity researchers as part of an Abertay University investigation into the risks of selling used USB drives over the internet. People sell USB sticks? I thought they were just meant to accumulate in drawers/boxes?
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Magnetars, a type of neutron star, can produce the previously enigmatic bursts. The calls are coming from inside the galaxy!
(Yeah, stolen from their URL. Sue me.)
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The new part is a content-creation tool, not a gaming accelerator. "These are the people who saw an overcrowded marketplace and said, ‘Me too!'"
"Xe Max doesn't always accelerate gaming workloads at all" <- uh? Oh well, I guess they're not really targeting the gaming market for these. It's such a small market after all {/sarcasm}
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Intel releases a completely pointless part:
Quote: the Xe Max is only slated to appear in systems that feature Tiger Lake processors, whose Iris Xe integrated GPUs already handily outperform the Nvidia MX 350
If Intel is true-to-form, they will release a crappy driver and never update it again.
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Thanks - I thought I was missing something there.
TTFN - Kent
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Look on the bright side; they aren't wasting time on silly 5nm and 7nm technology.
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The data analysts firm NetMarketShare revealed that Windows 10 has seen another uptake in users and it went up to 64.04% from 61.26% last month. Linux (multiple distros) went from 1.14% to 1.65% and Ubuntu now holds a market share of 0.51% It's probably the most popular, just not the most used
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And still almost 1% Windows XP...
Oh sanctissimi Wilhelmus, Theodorus, et Fredericus!
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