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20 years ago I contracted at a company that used "the office package that everyone legendarily hates" - anyway, so they had all of these user forums for all of their different company supported groups. Now mind you, fb is fb to mine data. Microsoft wants to be able to mine what companies are doing. You think there is some other reason why they want companies to go to the cloud and 365? Hmm.
Anyway, after announcement after announcement of awards to assorted groups: single moms, mixed this, mixed that. It doesn't really matter. We're talking 100s of thousands of dollars - some engineer commented, "Can we get some money for training and research?" and was told, "Get on the train or find another place...."
Company does not exist any more.
Microsoft made it's money with the OS and Office. I live in the embedded world and we are on Windows embedded. Not for much longer. FML.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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A previous employer attempted to create that as an internal platform. It went about as well as you would expect.
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
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Teams BLOWS.
<insert not="" safe="" for="" work="">
It's terrible. The conversations are gated by IT settings and they expire. It's a steaming pile...
God, please let me retire before meeting Viva.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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It was now obvious to most organizations that giving developers a choice in the tools they used enabled them to create more interesting and ultimately more interesting applications. Does "rock-paper-scissors" count as decision making?
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Did it allow them to create more useful and ultimately more useful applications, too?
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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This new feature comes with the iOS 16 system and aims to combat “Pegasus” and other malicious software. How many people will they have to split it between?
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I suppose the NSA isn't included
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There are 85 different webpages in all, collectively forming a kind of secret society of the world’s most ambitious tinkerers. The job's not over until it runs DOOM (of course)
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... or the usual Microelectronics laboratory excercise in Computer Engineering. Each year there are at least a couple hundred people building their own CPU in my university.
GCS/GE d--(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
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I moved forward - created an entire new computer - including CPU, video, music and so - as an emulator only... No burned fingers...
“Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.”
― Terry Pratchett, Hogfather
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Hmmm,
Are you being serious or just joking? I would be super impressed if you've created an emulator. Qemu and Bochs are using a Cirrus emulated vga bios[^].
Do you have code I can look at?
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Totally serious - originally I created a c64 emulator, and then moved on an turned it into a 'dream' computer...
It took me about 4 years - on/off... Now I'm at the point to cleaning it up and releasing to pulic domain...
At the end I was thinking to actually create it using FPGA...
A few more years probably...
“Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.”
― Terry Pratchett, Hogfather
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The curse of Patch Tuesday strikes again as error codes wreak minor havoc I may sound like a broken record posting these, but I'm not the one breaking Windows
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Luckily, it can transmit that data back to Earth far faster than Hubble. And where can I order one of those SSDs?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: And where can I order one of those SSDs?
Quote: So the SSD, like all other parts, must be radiation hardened and survive a grueling certification process.
Quote: Two high-profile stories in US newspapers this year have prompted the media to ask whether the illegal sale of human organs in the US is more common than previously thought. In the first case, a New York City resident was arrested for trying to orchestrate the sale of a human kidney to an undercover FBI agent for US$160,000. The second story was of an Israeli man who flew to New York to donate his kidney in exchange for $20,000. Unless you have a secret life in the 1% you aren't telling us about, you will never never be able to afford it.
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I did not see costs...
Quote: When the telescope was named Webb in 2002, it had a budget forecast of $1 billion to $3.5 billion for launch as early as 2010. When 2010 arrived, the launch date had moved to 2014, and estimated costs for the telescope had risen to $5.1 billion. After reviews found both the budget and the schedule to be unrealistic, in 2011, NASA reset the program with a much higher budget not to exceed $8 billion and an October 2018 launch date. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/11/science/greg-robinson-webb-telescope-nasa.html
Obviously, it didn't make 2018. I don't think you, Kent, or I can afford that SSD.
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Microsoft is launching a new rendition of its autonomous aircraft simulation technology, 'Project AirSim,' starting with a limited preview. Does it connect to Flight Simulator?
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In this post, I’m going to share what I learned from a people, process, product perspective. That they don't use it?
JD was one of the most amazing people I had the joy of encountering when I worked at the Fish Shoppe.
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Deepfakes are getting better at mimicking real people. Soon that's going to be a problem for everyone. If you outlaw deepfakes, only fakes will be deep
Present company included.
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Will they be able to solve captchas?
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You think we could outsource them?
TTFN - Kent
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Uh oh, I've been found out. I guess a 20 year career as a "developer/programmer" or whatever it is people on this site do wasn't all bad. Anytime you can get companies to pay you for pretending to be something that long is living the dream. As far as I'm concerned C# is a musical note, java is coffee, rust is whats eating away at my car, and python? well thats just snake oil.
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Developers need to be cautious about whom they trust on GitHub because it's easy to establish fake credibility on the platform, security vendor warns. By getting them to use GitHub?
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Excellent. I'm a champion of "roll your own".
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