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Linux is probably the best thing ever to happen to Microsoft - by taking the potential to make money out of the operating system business it prevents anyone with a novel idea getting funding to pursue it while bringing all the engineering nous that Microsoft don't employ out into the open.
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VMS... Yay!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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I vote for VMS
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.1 new web site.
I know the voices in my head are not real but damn they come up with some good ideas!
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IMO this article lags a little behind the present day. A few years earlier it might have made sense, but I don't think the Microsoft of today has still the intention to kill off Linux. I mean, Linux runs in Azure, applications like Office & Co. are available on Android (which is based on Linux). They started to make so many of their once Windows-only products cross-platform that it's beginning to get stupid to bring up the kill-off statement. Maybe they have no other choice than to give up their OS monopoly and transform back into a software company that serves all kinds of platforms. It could be their biggest strength going forward, especially over competitors like Apple who still live in their closed bubble and offer almost nothing to the outside of their ecosystem.
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Article said: Linux is competing with itself and this is why it's getting better all the time.
This illuminates the real problem Windows has: It hasn't been a leader in a long time. Instead, Microsoft and Windows have just been chasing other OSes trying to be like them.
Once you are competing with others, they are no longer competing with you.
The solution: Write a really great OS that has features that everyone else wants so they start emulating you.
Is it possible? Maybe not.
Microsoft lost their niche: Desktop OS.
If they'd just concentrate on Desktop OS they could possibly win.
Hear me, Microsoft! People still want a desktop OS. I use pads/phones/portable devices, but I don't want to ONLY use them.
Wake up, you sleeping behemoth and make a great Desktop OS!!
I think I've made my point clear, so Nadella, I'd be happy to work along side you.
Reply here and we can work out the details of my salary (HUMONGOUS!!!)
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Kent Sharkey wrote: The death of Linux has been proclaimed many times, and that's something that will probably go on for quite some time.
And then... MS released Win8 and Win10 giving the biggest life injection to linux ever
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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I officially hate Softpedia. Scumbag pricks. I left two comments to that article, in the hope to join in on the conversation. Both of my comments were rejected. There was no swearing, no insulting words, nothing of the sort. Just an opinion. Apparently, insults are allows in their comments section, but opinions are not.
F*** Softpedia.
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That doesn't match my experience at that particular site at all.
I've posted comments, both critical and not to the site on numerous occasions. I've never received any correspondence from them, whether I'm being critical, opinionated or on occasion, rather unpleasant and nasty.
Silviu isn't what I would categorize as one of their better authors, but he's alright. Each author appears to need to approve the comments on their own articles. Over the years, I'm aware of one occasion on which my submitted comment was not published - it was for a correction to the article and its omission was entirely inconsequential (though the factual errors were changed)
What was the username you posted them under?
"When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down 'happy'. They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life." - John Lennon
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Python update includes async function, type hinting, and matrix manipulation, as developers seek wider adoption of 3.x branch. Nobody expects... a new version of Python!
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There’s a conventional wisdom that says software developers can’t test their own code. Having a bad memory helps, so you forget you actually wrote it
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Quote: Having a bad memory helps, so you forget you actually wrote it
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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Little tip I use: write your unit tests in a different language to the code under test...prevents copy+paste and makes you engage the brain a bit.
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In an op-ed for the BBC, the highly opinionated Google — and soon to be Alphabet — chairman wrote that we're closer than ever before to true artificial intelligence, and that continued research into its development will have positive side effects that will benefit the public. But it will never progress as fast as real stupidity
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I guess he would know. 
Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell
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
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What do Artificial Intelligence and Artificial Insemination have in common?
While both are significant advances in technology,
neither is as good as the real thing.
"Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed."
- G.K. Chesterton
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Article on Aeon Magazine which I consider well-written: [^].
«I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center» Kurt Vonnegut.
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and correct all known errors
Yes, because we are so extremely good at identifying what is good and what is not.
Not so long ago, smoking was considered healthy. And these idiots are going to determine what is "correct" in DNA and what isn't?
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: And these idiots are going to determine what is "correct" in DNA and what isn't?
Come on, this is the 21st century.. we can just ask Facebook users what's right 
How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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Yep; here comes that cliche (again) that history never gets tired of repeating: the "Master Race."
«I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center» Kurt Vonnegut.
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Fascinating and disturbing in equal parts.
Sometimes the true reward for completing a task is not the money, but instead the satisfaction of a job well done. But it's usually the money.
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In July 2013 a pair of studies set the cryptography world on fire. They were posted within days of one another to an online archive where researchers share their work, and together they described a powerful new method for hiding the secrets inside software programs. It's right to the left of "wishful thinking", just past, "real soon never".
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It is: unplug the power, unplug the network, seal the machine in heavy plaster and drown it in the Pacific.
That way you'll have the safest machine evah!
Geek code v 3.12 {
GCS 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
}
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
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It is: unplug the power, unplug the network, seal the machine in heavy plaster and drown it in the Pacific.
I think this is it. Near-perfect computer security!
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