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Hey, I like Aero, and I don't mind wasting some cycles on prettifying the display. I can see why you might want to make this optional (a basic ARM processor in a tablet might be overwhelmed), but that's not the case for most desktop / laptop machines.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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IIRC turning it off gave a noticeable bump on laptop runtime due to reduced GPU load, which was why MS disabled it in Win8.
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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Today we are announcing our intent to phase out non-secure HTTP. Mozilla commits to making itself less relevant
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For the last six years you've heard us go on and on about this Roslyn thing and how it's the platform for the future and would change everything and that we were all-in on it and "it's going to be great just wait and see". Well, the wait is over. Go get your code generating
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Finally.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Live code analysers - I wonder if it will ever be possible to create an entire application by simply pressing CTRL+. over and over...
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As a C# guy, I'm a little offended this was announced by the VB team. 
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In order to extend the benefits of Clang to C++ developers building apps for Windows, we have been working on an experimental implementation of Clang on Windows. "Clang, clang, clang went the trolley"
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Microsoft discontinued development of Windows Media Center in 2009, but enthusiasts have held out hope that the feature would get one more reprieve for Windows 10. Sorry, folks, that's not happening. I think there might be alternatives, folks
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Not many. XBMC and Plex (which is really just a branded XBMC) come to mind, but anything else?
And WMC did some things better than those guys. I like the WMC UI better.
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Those would be my first picks as well. And isn't XBMC open source? Give it the missing features 
TTFN - Kent
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Google cooks up an experimental way to write Android apps with a focus on speed. As long as you're willing to carry a mobile with a 400W power supply and dual graphics cards
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According to the FAA, there's a software bug in the 787 Dreamliner that can cause its electrical system to fail and, as a result, lead to "loss of control" of the plane. But why? The FAA says this is triggered by the aircraft's electrical generators, which could give out if they have been powered on continuously for over eight months. On the bright side: now you know the worst case for your flight delay
Aren't there grounds for having your "Professional Engineer" taken away from you?
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Ladies and gentlemen, the C programming language. It’s a classic. It is sleek, and spartan, and elegant. (Especially compared to its sequel, that bloated mess C++, which shares all the faults I’m about to describe.) It is blindingly, quicksilver fast, because it’s about as close to the bone of the machine as you can get. It is time-tested and ubiquitous. And it is terrifyingly dangerous. "They stab it with their steely knives, but they just can't kill the beast"
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The Peter Principle suggests that all employees manage to rise to the level of their incompetence. "Scientifically proven"
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At a Windows breakout session during Build 2015 today, Joe Belfiore, corporate vice president of Microsoft’s operating systems group, talked more about the company’s favorite new term: “Windows as a service.” "Give away the razor; sell the blades"
Or:
"The first hit is always free."
"'Will you walk into my parlour?' said the Spider to the Fly"
"The tenants arrive in the entrance hall here, and are carried along the corridor on a conveyor belt in extreme comfort and past murals depicting Mediterranean scenes, towards the rotating knives."
"Once. Twice. Three times a lady."
OK, maybe not that last one.
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The article mentions Windows Store support for Win32 applications. I hope they are not planning to move desktop applications to be distributed exclusively through the store like metro apps.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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I think/hope that it's just an option, but everything they demoed this week seemed to come with a "Universal app" requirement.
I also hope there will still be distribution methods other than the store.
TTFN - Kent
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Yeah, soon the only code that will run on Windows is that which has been approved and signed by Microsoft. That will go a long way toward quelling malware, but I won't like it one bit.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Richard Andrew x64 wrote: That will go a long way toward quelling malware, but I won't like it one bit.
Apple's method right now seems pretty decent. There is an OS setting where you can choose to only execute app store apps, execute apps store apps and approved / signed vendors or "wild freakin' west". I think the default is app store only. If you change it to app store and approved / signed vendors there is still a special technique (not easily done by accident) to run a non-approved / non-sign app. Once its been run once OS X remembers and allows it in the future.
Contrary to popular belief, nobody owes you anything.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: “Windows as a service.”
Does it come with a red light? That profession is, after all, what that phrase conjures up for me.
Marc
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You forgot:
"And the next time we wanna do a Vista or a W8, you're gonna take it and damned well like it!"
Looks like Weven will be the last Win OS I buy.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Web developers should learn .Net, Java and C# to improve their employability but will not make as much as other IT roles in the UK despite high demand, according to new research. "Follow the money."
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David Treadwell and I just gave the audience a peek at many of the new capabilities the new Universal Window Platform will enable, along with the associated tools and services. What technology will you be ignoring (later this year)?
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