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Well... If lazy is to try to find the easiest way to do something... then yes, I am lazy. 
On the other hand... seeing the % of "urgent gimme codez, plzz" 
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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"Don't put off for tomorrow what can be put off for the day after tomorrow."
Many tasks will just go away, so don't waste time hurrying to perform them.
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The world's most popular OS exits 'mainstream' support Jan. 13, marks midpoint of 10-year support lifetime. Windows 7 middle-aged? Guess it will be getting a sports car soon.
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Next week thus marks the halfway point of Windows 7's decade-long support stretch, which ends Jan. 14, 2020.
Woohoo, another 5 years before I even have to start thinking about switch OS's. Maybe by then, Microsoft will have gotten the fiasco of W8 fixed (is that supposed to be W10?) or the Linux world will have finally developed a usable desktop and .NET will be fully available on it with a decent IDE (but that's the more improbable path, IMO.)
Marc
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Energous is one of a handful of companies hoping to change that. It claims its technology can charge your phone and wearable from up to 15 feet away, no wires required. Side effects may include whole body burns, appearance of second heads, and glowing children.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Side effects may include whole body burns, appearance of second heads, and glowing children.
But it charges wirelessly. Reminds me of this commercial[^].
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Microsoft might be close to releasing the preview version of Windows 10 for phones as the Insider app is now available in the Windows Phone store. Sure, run your phone on an alpha version of the OS. What's the worst that will happen?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Sure, run your phone on an alpha version of the OS. What's the worst that will happen?
That you don't reach the beta?
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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Today, we’re excited to release the alpha version of Rust 1.0, a systems programming language with a focus on safety, performance and concurrency. Look at that: it's rusted almost all the way through
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It's better to burn out than it is to rust
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.0
There's a fine line between crazy and free spirited and it's usually a prescription.
I'm currently unsupervised, I know it freaks me out too but the possibilities are endless.
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Yeah, but I've used that song for the last couple of posts about Rust, so I decided to skip it this time.
TTFN - Kent
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Gotcha, didn't go back very far but should have figured you'd be on top of it.
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.0
There's a fine line between crazy and free spirited and it's usually a prescription.
I'm currently unsupervised, I know it freaks me out too but the possibilities are endless.
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Despite improvement in Windows, IE vulnerabilities remain a major issue. "The more things change, the more they stay the same"
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The choices of Yahoo’s management could have affected the fortunes of another giant – Google. "It's easy if you try"
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*gag* me with a spoon
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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Version 1.5 of the language will use a tool chain written in Go as Google seeks to eliminate C programs from the source tree Go, go, gadget compiler
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Redmond's latest salary survey shows employers paying 25 percent more and up for Azure and big data work. "No one knows the lonely one whose head's in the clouds"
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We are moving the Roslyn OSS code from CodePlex to GitHub. GitHub has a vibrant open source community that we want to actively be a part of and contribute to. We are also going to take this time to modify our pull request process. Another vote of support for Codeplex,and the TFS-Git bridge
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Microsoft has finally embraced Linux -- with a bit of passion. Jack Wallen reports why he believes the makers of Windows have finally come around to sidling up to the open-source platform. How far the "Year of Linux" has fallen
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Now we'll know if Linux has a backdoor.
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I kind of feel disgusted with myself whenever I have a reaction ... like the one I had to this article ... of perceiving an author as kind of a "punk kid" that is way out of his depth ... "playing the age and experience cards" I call that, and I consider it a trap, a vice, a weakness.
Nevertheless, I just don't find this article credible; well, yes: Microsoft makes nice today towards Linux: the PowerPoint presentation, the saccharine signage, the flacks-primed-at-the-pump with today's spin ... all there for the enactment of another ceremony of innocent intentions.
I believe in this rapprochement about as much as I would have believed the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact between Germany and Russia in WWII in 1939 was about anything but naked power-play.
Is it in the long-term interest of MS to undercut their lucrative server business ? And, why shouldn't playing to win in the Cloud arena, and making sure the MS OS for desktop and mobile works best in the MS Cloud ... be of utmost strategic importance.
"Beware of Geeks bearing gifts," Homer did not rhapsodize.
Yada, yada ... okay: whadda I know, twelve years out from setting foot in the U.S., and not owning a smart-phone.
cheers, Bill
«A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards ... as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push» Wittgenstein
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BillWoodruff wrote: and not owning a smart-phone
"A smart man carries his smarts inside his head." -- Abraham Lincoln, upon seeing the first iPhone
modified 9-Jan-15 16:19pm.
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Bill, I have to agree with your "punk kid" perception. I get this a lot when dealing with new, shiny objects that are drooled over in one way or another by the various "kids" with their perception that any technology more than a couple of years old should be dumped along with those old fuddy-duddies who still think there is some value in them - "Boy! Are they out of touch, LOL!" (or whatever the appropriate hip TLA is these days).
I find the "smart" phone mania equally annoying. When it boils down to it, all I want from a phone is the ability to make calls and save the numbers so my old brain doesn't have to remember then anymore. I use an "old" Blackberry Bold. I make calls, I store the numbers. OK, granted, I do store a few eBooks on it to read while waiting at the dentist's or wherever but I don't need a Kindle, Nook or any kind of iCrap to watch YouTube with wires stuck in my ears - I have always avoided "ear-buds" and still have good hearing. I believe we are going to have a generation of prematurely deaf people if the level of noise coming from other people's ears (and cars) is anything to go by.
I sometimes hope that some solar flare will come along and fuse all satellites into scrap that then falls from the sky taking out all the cell towers in incredibly coincidental targeted strikes that have a by-product of scrambling the airwaves - leaving that world a more peaceful place where if you want to call someone you have to find a hard-wired phone with a proper handset rather than putting a large piece of flat plastic against your face.
I'm not a Luddite, but I'm beginning to understand them.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Sources familiar with the company’s Windows plans tell The Verge that the new browser, codenamed Spartan, will include a host of new features not found in rival browsers. "And by Spartan law, we will stand and fight... and die."
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Who stand and fight like Spartan...are immortal 
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