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You're right, but I was simply making a satirical observation.
I'm afraid the opinion you were projecting on me is an attribution error[^].
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8 tracks suck! Vinyl is the only true path!
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Just days after regulators in the United States cleared Microsoft's proposed $7.2 billion purchase of Nokia's devices and services businesses, the European Union has approved the sale as well. Noting that the transaction didn't raise any competitive concerns, the EU's European Commission issued its OK on Wednesday. All over except the cheering then
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As with all of the trends I’m covering in my year-end review, neither the “Learn to Code” nor the “Maker Movement” are new. I’ll say it again: read Seymour Papert’s Mindstorms, published in 1980. Welcome to being trendy.
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Microsoft may be considering delivering the consumer- and business-focused versions of Windows client on different schedules, going forward, according to Terry Myerson, head of the operating system group. Here's an idea, three versions: consumer, Workstation, and Server. Nah, no one would ever go for that.
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Attackers are using the 'Pony' botnet command-and-control server software. In almost as surprising news: the day of the week today ends in a 'y'
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When Android founder Andy Rubin stepped away from the mobile operating system he helped create, rumors suggested he would pursue his lifelong love of real robots instead. Now, The New York Times reports that those rumors were true: Google has purchased seven different robot companies for a secretive new robotics initiative — and placed Rubin at its head. "It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th. In a panic, they try to pull the plug."
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Malware communicates at a distance of 65 feet using built-in mics and speakers. So much for that being impossible
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They merely discovered that one can use air as a communication medium, using vibrations that are commonly known as "sound". A normal machine does not decode sound, and hence, this is as much as a problem as transmitting malware using pictures and a webcam. And yes, creating inaudible sounds is easy. Detecting those sounds is equally easy.
What the scientists found, is "funding".
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Meanwhile, dog whistles are causing computers to crash...
Seriously, is there a mic/speaker system commonly used that processes sounds outside the range audible to humans?
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At Node Summit today, Joyent execs announced the company’s latest offering: commercial support services for the Node.js core. That should open them up to the enterprise market
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Every time I read "Joyent" it reminds me of Soylent, as in the Green.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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PCs sales are on track to have their biggest drop ever, down more than 10% in 2013 warns IDC. And there's no end in sight, with nearly a 4% drop projected in 2014. With its core business going south, is there anything Microsoft do in order to thrive? "And there shall in that time be rumours of things going astray, and there will be a great confusion as to where things really are"
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That should be "Can Windows survive the coming PC apocalypse?". For all its faults, Microsoft is a very diversified business and they are capable on porting their business software to other platforms.
SharePoint on Linux someday? 
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The statement is based on declining licenses; that's due to declining hardware-sales, not due to a competing OS.
There's no such thing as a PC apocalypse.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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No problem. I understand they have some kind of "smart bra" in the works.
-NP
Never underestimate the creativity of the end-user.
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The IDC data is wrong. If look at the the financial reports from Intel and AMD, PC CPU sales were down only by around 5%.
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You can sell a PC CPU without anyone buying the PC it is gonna be built into.
Veni, vidi, caecus
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but that doesn't account for the shortfall, because eventually the CPU will end up in a PC
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Yeah, right - But the PC can have a CPU and still stay somewhere in a company's stock without ever being sold to a customer, thus the CPU manufacturer has sold a CPU, but the PC company has not sold a PC.
Veni, vidi, caecus
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Again I say, the PC has to be eventually sold, otherwise the PC manufacture would have to declare a massive inventory writedown. IDC has been reporting far bigger declines than Intel and AMD for the last 3 quarters. So, where are all those CPUs going?
The obvious explaination is simply that IDC and Gartner information is inaccurate. That's not too hard to believe. They are essentially using 2nd hand information and don't even monitor some segments of the PC market.
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The ADD begins at school age and continues on through college and university, where students wonder why they must learn linear algebra without appreciating how it provides an important grounding in root principles of computer science and problem solving for something as common as how a browser creates a cookie. Developers know how to create a cookie by typing a single line of code, but they don’t understand how tiny pieces of technology frameworks and protocols work together to enable the creation of a cookie on the end user’s computer. "Mayhaps you desire to - SQUIRREL!" (thank you, Jason Cardoza)
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Was it Tech ADD that caused you to repost this one?
(I know, its because you somehow managed to squeeze a few days into the weekend)
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Probably, but then again, I'm a professional. (Literally - I get paid for my tADD. Bonus!)
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TTFN - Kent
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The smart bra was revealed in a new paper (.PDF) from a team of five scientists at Microsoft Research, titled "Food and Mood: Just-in-Time Support for Emotional Eating." The idea is to measure your emotional state via sensors built into the bra, cross reference that with your feelings when overeating in the past, and send a warning to your smartphone if the system thinks you're likely to reach for the jar of cookies at any minute. The "wearables" market is really starting to inflate
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