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I wonder when the author is going to complain about Sony's lack of support for his Walkman.
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The real unspoken elephant in the room is that 50% W7 now, is much higher than XP was 18mo before its originally planned EOL.
MS is at some point either going to have to extend support by a few years or have about 1/3rd of the internet online with foreverday bugs. They could turn free W10 upgrades back on for consumers I suppose; but on the enterprise side a lot is legacy crapware blocking upgrades, and volume licensing means that they could go W10 anytime they're ready anyway.
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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With C# 8, reference types are not null be default. This is a big change, and a great feature. However, what about all the legacy code? Can old libraries be used with C# 8 applications, and can C# 7 applications make use of C# 8 libraries? NotNotNullReferenceException?
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This is VERY interesting.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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I'm VERY... oh wait, I don't care.
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I found this a less than useful article because the author used Type 'String for all his examples, and Type 'String is, imho, not where dev's have null reference exceptions.
«... 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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Researchers have shown that a new quantum-based procedure for distributing secure information along communication lines could be successful in preventing serious security breaches. So all we need are quantum computers, and our cats are safe?
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Do they realize that quantum-based solutions will mean that their passwords will also get cracked faster?
And it won't stop people from clicking on "You Must See This!"
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It's a "quantum step". I.e. the smallest possible step in the quantum world - close to nothing at all. Hence: title is correct.
Oh sanctissimi Wilhelmus, Theodorus, et Fredericus!
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The US Supreme Court has overturned a tax-related ruling from 1992, freeing state and local governments to collect billions in internet sales tax. "Should five per cent appear too small, be thankful I don't take it all"
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Hmmm? Seems Illinois has been doing this for a few years now... I've been robbed!
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I paid "use tax" on my state returns for years. (Which is where you calculate what you would have paid has the transactions been in-state and pay it on the state return.) Haven't recently because Amazon started collecting sales tax and I haven't bought from anyone else online in a very long time.
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A proposed European law would mandate that content providers utilize some kind of content filter to make sure rights holders get their royalties. But for a public open source code repository, such a contraption could be a nuisance, or it could be catastrophic. A side effect of a political decision? Well, I never!
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The Linux Foundation and Dice.com's 2018 Open Source Jobs Report shows the demand for open-source savvy employees is stronger than ever. Because it's The Y-- you know the rest
Just call me lame running joke.
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The union believes software updates are vulnerable to government misuse. "I wanna be your backdoor man."
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Ironically, the ACLU was all in favor of the FCC controlling the internet. The little bit of government control "we like" rarely ends there.
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Ibrahim Diallo found himself jobless for three weeks with no idea why "We are all, by any practical definition of the words, foolproof and incapable of error."
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The software developer is expected to push companies to switch to Office 365 by tightening access to that software's online services. Paying for something once and using it forever is so last century, isn't it?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Paying for something once and using it forever is so last century, isn't it? Are you still using Windows 3.1? DBaseIV? WP5.1?
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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No, but if I wanted to - I could.
The subscription model is a worrisome trend. Some companies that maintain legacy code rely on the licences for software being "perpetual licences". What happens to legacy code when your toolchain is available only under a subscription model, and stops working X years after a newer version is released?
For that matter, a couple of years ago I used my version of Word for Windows 6.0 (Hebrew Edition) to convert some legacy files for my father from a now-defunct format to Word format. What would have happened if Word 6.0 didn't work because it had been superseded by a "newer and better" version which didn't include these converters?
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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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: No, but if I wanted to - I could. Just like you can use an old sock to save money. My point is that those solutions are so horribly dated and insecure that it may not be a very good idea to begin with.
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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I also gave a couple of use cases where I would want to use legacy tools. Sometimes you simply have no choice.
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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I've been running my Exchange servers since the early 1990's (even before it was called Exchange).
I will continue to do so PRECISELY to keep my data off of their cloud servers.
I've met people who trust the "cloud" with their private data. I've also met people who eat their own snot.
Software as a service === NOPE.
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Gartner predicts
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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This is the first of a series of posts in which we’ll explore all things command-line – from the origins of the command-line and the evolution of the terminal, to what we’re doing to overhaul and modernize the Windows Console & command-line in future Windows releases. It's what all the cool kids are using these days
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