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An ambitious project means anyone can now track the movements of almost 50 sharks in realtime. "The calls are coming from the house!"
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Back when Windows Phone launched, developers had to fork over $99 a year for access to the Dev Center (then it was called App Hub). However, at the beginning of this summer, Microsoft slashed the price to just $19, or as they aptly put it “the cost of a pizza”. That special offer was to expire yesterday, but Microsoft’s Todd Brix has taken to Twitter to announce that the price is staying for the near future (he actually announced it yesterday, but we missed it). Please, please, please, will you please write some apps for us?
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Well if they didn't purposely try to alienate a massive section of developers by not allowing the Phone 8 SDK to run on Windows 7 then they would probably have a lot more people interested in it.
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Yeah, and I'm still waiting for them to pull out a, "Here's Windows Phone New. Sorry, not backward compatible. Please buy new devices and rewrite your apps."
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Clickety[^] [CNN]
In other news: Intel threatens to sue over trademark infrigement. 
/ravi
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The Google/Microsoft YouTube dispute tells you more about the way software for the mobile internet is being developed than you might have thought. Welcome back to the days of "Works best on..."
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You're not as big a target as the NYT, but that doesn't make you safe. Step 1: Don't be The New York Times
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Hey that is where my Domain name is registered, but is is so locked down I can't even transfer it.
I can change the DNS though.
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The article gives fairly short shrift to registry lock down, but I think it's very useful. It keeps you from transferring a domain until you pass a key between the two registrars (at least that's what I remember when I moved everything off GoDaddy). It might be a hassle, but how often are you going to move registrars, and it prevents something like this hack from working.
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I can't rember exactly what I had to do when I was "Forced" to move from the Microsoft Small Buisness portal (when they shut it down) to the Office 360 portal but I know I had to change the DNS for it to the new Office 360.
Now I still have a Domain Name and someday will have a hosting provider again.
I think it Cost a few extra bucks but is worth it.
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The pack lets developers write once and deploy them locally in Windows Server 2012 R2, as well as in Microsoft's cloud. "Every silver lining has a cloud."
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Isaac Asimov has detailed countless visions for what the future could look like, most with a clear label of "fiction" on them. But in 1964, while reflecting on that year's World's Fair, Asimov described in The New York Times what he believed the 2014 World's Fair would really look like. "Gadgetry will continue to relieve mankind of tedious jobs."
Can we bring him back in exchange for Dan Brown?
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"Isotopes would serve as batteries."
What was this guy smoking?
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Lloyd Atkinson wrote: What was this guy smoking?
Plutonium.
By the way, plutonium was used as a "portable" power source not only in space craft, but also for heart pace makers decades ago. And some patient still live with them.
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The technology is out there and used in space/military, but because people are irresponisble idiots nuclear batteries are considered to be not fit for mass consumption.
Plutonium was in the 50's seriously considered to be made available to public households by the US government. You could use it to heat water, insulate your house and to make batteries that deliver power for a lifetime.
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Today, in partnership with the Bing team, we’re excited to release the first of several features that will make your SkyDrive photos smarter by using OCR (optical character recognition) to extract the text from photos in your camera roll when you view them on SkyDrive.com. 1T l0Ukz l1kE ¥ov arë p05ting a p8ot0?
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It’s official: The English language has jumped the shark. Srsly?
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The English language is a "living" language, it evolves and the Oxford will reflect the current state of the language.
One nice thing about the Oxford, is that I think it never deletes words.
I'd rather be phishing!
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I know, and I've used many a neologism in my time. But can we wait longer than one music video awards show before we're condemned to see "twerking" forever inscribed in the English language?
Damn kids... always on my lawn.
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Sprinklers. 
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Kent Sharkey wrote: It’s official: The English language has jumped the shark. Srsly?
O RLY? NO WAI!
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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Kent Sharkey wrote: Srsly?
Hey, there is something wrong with your keyboard! 
Common sense is admitting there is cause and effect and that you can exert some control over what you understand.
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Frank Shaw has a message for Microsoft's critics: You're focusing on the wrong things. "Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be."
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For developers, discovering NuGet packages can be a daunting process. The best way to do so is either via word of mouth or online search. However, your friends aren’t always available when you’re looking for a new package at 3:00 in the morning. You could try to search online, but you’d need to spend unnecessary amounts of time sifting through the results before finding a package that may be helpful. We recognize that this time is better spent actually developing software. We wanted to create an accessible service to deliver package recommendations using real world data about how developers use packages. Do you want fries with that?
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Passage of new patent law marks end of years of debate and lobbying. I was unaware there was a lot of software patenting going on down there
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