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Acquisition positions Facebook to accelerate Oculus’ growth in gaming, communications and new social experiences. First the drones, now this. I am officially freaked out.
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Mark, dude, focus.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Online society in which every one has a "face"?
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This is truly awful news. The big appeal of the Oculus Rift was being an open platform for developers on PC to create virtual worlds.
I just don't want anything to do with it with Facebook's record on data tracking and privacy.
I was just on the verge on buying a dev kit. Hopefully someone else will fill the rift left by this announcement.
Markus Persson (Notch), of Minecraft fame, put it well. "We were in talks about maybe bringing a version to Oculus," he wrote . "I just cancelled that deal. Facebook creeps me out."
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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5 or 10 years from now, will Facebook as a company even be defined by its social network anymore? Moves like this one, while on the surface don't make much sense, seem like they're part of a larger concerted effort to diversify as a tech company far beyond social.
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buying random companies like they are is driven by two things. Terror over what happened to MySpace, and the news articles reporting that teens are increasingly anathematizing the site.
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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I like to hope they've got more of a plan than this. But I just don't see it.
Hopefully they've got some missing puzzle piece that, when revealed, will make us all go "ooooh, THAT'S what ... okay, yeah. That makes sense."
And hopefully I'll have my own Pegasus to fly home.
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If Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announces Office for the iPad as expected this week, he'll signal the company's willingness to finally move beyond its heavy reliance on Windows. But will he go beyond that, and give some indication that this is just the first step in abandoning the company's all-Windows-all-the-time past? Ladies and gentlemen: your comedy item for the day
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Quote: This is something that should have happened a few years ago. Holding Office for iPad as a hostage in the tablet war didn't work out well for them. They have to start to undo this negative behavior
Hmmm, I wonder who fits the description of this behavior? Could it beeeeeee........BALMER!!
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Hahahahahahah whaaaaaat? Who writes these articles?
Office is already on Mac's, so why would it mean anything bad for Windows if Office becomes avaliable on iPad? It's already avaliable on Android. Some people just spew out anything to get a catchy headline.
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Lloyd Atkinson wrote: Some people just spew out anything to get a catchy headline.
You won't believe these ten signs that journalism is moribund... 
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People have pointed it out in the past, but I hadn't really noticed before: Preston Gralla likes link-bait headlines.
Either that, or he's located in Colorado (although from the content of the article, I think it might actually be the case).
TTFN - Kent
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I'm really starting to loose my faith in most IT related journalism, they seem to have their own agenda as to what news get's over hyped 
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Lloyd Atkinson wrote: I'm really starting to loose my faith in most IT related journalism, they seem to have their own agenda as to what news get's over hyped
My opinion on the matter.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Hilarious!
So Office was the only thing preventing iPad (hardware) to kill Windows (software)? What the hell happened to those visionaries in Apple.
We seriously need a proper tech-blog/website, all these older ones are getting nuts. 
Oh and one more comedy to the story, Microsoft OneNote has been featuring as the Editor's choice App since last 10 days on a Mac App Store. End of an era for Microsoft? (I really love headlines that ends with a question mark) 
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Hölzle argues that although cloud prices have dropped consistently over the past few years, they haven’t dropped as much as the price of computer hardware. "You see me now, a veteran of a thousand pricing wars"
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Apple is dropping Windows 7 support in Boot Camp -- and Mac-based Windows users won't like the reasons why. Apple shows how to really drop support for a product (boom, splat)
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The idea that Apple would ditch support of Win7 to get Office on the iPad seems...wrong. They are pushing their own office productivity suite. For Free. Apple just don't seem to be a company who would bend like that given
a) Office on the Mac is awful. Why would Apple support such a competitive product?
b) I would imagine a measurable percentage of Mac hardware sold goes to those looking for hardware that will run Windows 7
High res displays? Just because Win7 doesn't support them doesn't seem like a showstopper.
Seems to me it could simply be a "We don't want to write Win7 drivers for Bootcamp" issue for the Mac Pro. Apple have done a fairly haphazard job on the Bootcamp / Win7 drivers as it is (Trackpad issues, anyone?) so maybe they are just picking the target that will remain viable for the longest period.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote: Seems to me it could simply be a "We don't want to write Win7 drivers for Bootcamp" issue for the Mac Pro.
Ding ding ding ding. Yup, I bet that's it, no conspiracy required.
TTFN - Kent
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A small-scale and unscientifcally sound experiment suggests that the drunker you get, the funnier you feel. This feeling is not shared by others. I guess I should stop drinking while working on this news
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That's one more than when I'm sober.
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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Very relevant to some people I know! 
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I have seen this before.
Kent Sharkey wrote: This feeling is not shared by others.
... except those who are also drunk.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
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Hi Kent, How about switching over to entheogens ? The lows would be so much higher, and versa-vice.
“Use the word 'cybernetics,' Norbert, because nobody knows what it means. This will always put you at an advantage in arguments.” Claude Shannon (Information Theory scientist): letter to Norbert Weiner of M.I.T., circa 1940
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