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Kent Sharkey wrote: People. Stop finding bugs! On a MS product ?
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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Erm. Yeah. What was I thinking?
TTFN - Kent
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The only way to stop finding bugs on MS products, is by stop using them
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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This also just in: Dogs and cats living together in peace. Microsoft did this for OpenBSD's help in porting OpenSSH to Windows. "Dogs and cats, living together! Mass hysteria!"
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Animal brains connected up to make mind-melded computer [^]
Then the team made things trickier: each monkey could only control the arm in one dimension, for example. But the monkeys still managed to make the arm reach the target by working together. "They synchronise their brains and they achieve the task by creating a superbrain – a structure that is the combination of three brains," says Nicolelis. He calls the structure a "brainet".
«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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New York Times, today: "IBM Announces Computer Chips More Powerful Than Any in Existence" [^].
But, it's a long way from proof of concept to mass-production.
«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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What sort of 7nm is that, half pitch or gate length? Are they the same now? (edit: it's the half pitch, as expected)
Anyway, looking at the picture it looks like the fin pitch and fin height are both about 25nm (edit: fin pitch is apparently closer to 30nm), fin width is about 7nm (that isn't what they meant, is it? that would be unusual), so the effective gate width is 57nm - I guess they'll make tri-gates in order to get a decent channel width.
modified 9-Jul-15 10:21am.
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The battle for smartphone supremacy is over. Actually, it’s been over for a while. It should surprise no one that the smartphone market is all but set in stone.
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Meh! Those things will never be popular! (That's what Ballmer told me the other day, anyway)
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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And for an editorial with a completely different opinion about if this is a smart move, we have Peter Bright at Arstechnica[^]
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging 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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It might have been out for 7 months already, but the C++14 standard is still pretty fresh. The changes include a couple of enhancements to the thread library, so I thought it was about time I wrote about them here. in big do loop is overrated concurrency just everything blocking one
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Will determine length of support by 'customer type,' which sounds like separating consumers and businesses based on the Windows 10 edition. Plus or minus two to four years
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Without the possibility of parole.
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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It's unclear exactly how the upgrade lifetimes and associated deferrals will affect customers: Microsoft has said nothing about what happens after the lifetime expires, including whether upgrades will be discontinued entirely, be available for a fee, or effectively be moot because a new edition will have superseded Windows 10.
Wasn't Windows 10 supposed to be the last major version[^] released?
Does anyone here fancy paying (either per update or a monthly fee) for Windows Updates? Let me get my shotgun and take my shoe off (again)...
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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I think someone's reading way too much into accounting arcana that has nothing to do with the real world.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging 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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As we get ever closer to the big Windows 10 launch, Insiders are today being emailed informing them that the Office 2016 Preview can now be installed on preview builds of the new OS. Pile those Betas on! Who needs a productive machine anyway?
Yes, yes. VMs. Hurrah. Make your own joke then.
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And MS eventually found a way to bring back the good old MENU bar ?
Or do I have to stick to LibreOffice ?
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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Why? The previous 2015 versions weren't a big deal...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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If anyone tries this out, I'm curious if they've changed the look ahead window for outlooks upcoming calendar events to a different arbitrary duration. I'm sticking with 2010 at home in large part because showing a month ahead is the right number of events to fill the bar for me. 2013 launched with it locked down to only show a single days events (an act of insanity that could only have been the result of an MS PM unable to understand the the rest of the world doesn't schedule each day into 16 30 minute intervals); in response to user outrage they then released a patch (hotfix?) that bumped the window back to a single week.
The real elephanting question is why it has to be a single hard coded value in the first place; either let us set it so it works both for the crazily over-scheduled PHB and someone who mostly uses it to keep track of when his bills are due. Or just make it dynamic and pull enough events to fill the space available whether that's 1 days worth of reminders or three months of them.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging 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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Linus Torvalds has said that artificial intelligence (AI) is nothing to fear, dismissing remarks from the likes of Elon Musk, Stephen Hawking and Steve Wozniak. Cogent and balanced opinion as always, Linus
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It's interesting how we humans abstract fears by naming them as faceless entities, like "AI", or "the government", or "Republicans", or "terrorists." With the exception of natural events like earthquakes and hurricanes, what we should really fear are people, not nameless entities that hide the people behind them.
Marc
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Isn't the 'people' same faceless term?
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Smart K8 wrote: Isn't the 'people' same faceless term?
You have a point, but the point being, AI is not dangerous, it's potentially the people that program the AI. Just like "the government funded project xyz" is BS. It would sound a lot different if reporters said "Tax payers funded project xyz."
Marc
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People will surely be the ones who will build AI, but after that any hypothesis is for grabs. Building AI is ultimately building a god. When done we'll see what kind of god it is. My tip is it'll either end itself, because in the end the Universe is like bowl for a goldfish. Except this goldfish is aware of its hopeless situation. Or it will just go its separate way (as soon as it can). No need for human pets, human destruction or human anything. Unless it needs resources. Then it gets complicated. And yes, it is my favorite topic.
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Smart K8 wrote: Building AI is ultimately building a god.
Building an AI that is more than just a complex expert system is so far out of our reach, I wouldn't be worrying about it for probably a couple hundred years. In many ways, it will probably never actually be possible, but that's more a philosophical debate.
Marc
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