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Android dominates market share but not yet developer wallets. This may be about to change. "On average, developers target 2.9 different platforms for mobile development." Wheee 
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Meh. None for me, thanks.
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"Now you can leverage the power of speech-to-speech translations from any Windows device", Microsoft says. "Simply speak into your device by using the microphone feature to place orders or ask for directions and hear the translated words in a native speaker's accent". "I will not buy this record, it is scratched"
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Cool!
Shuvro
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Oh dear... There are so many sources for failures.
How good is Microsoft's speech recognition currently?
What about languages which are a little more complicated for speech recognition, e.g. German, or can be hardly mastered, e.g. Hungarian?
Does translation still involve translation to English as a step in the translation process from e.g. German to Dutch?
And what about languages with quite different structures - e.g. translating between Thai and a European language (for a good translation, you have to understand the meaning of the sentence, and reproduce that meaning in the other language, rather than sticking to the individual words)?
On the other hand, we got used to funny texts of instruction manuals ...
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AMD says Kaveri has 2.4 billion transistors, or basic building blocks of electronics, and 47 percent of them are aimed at better, high-end graphics.
Looks like a fight to the death between Intel's Edison and AMD's Kaveri for processor supremacy.
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Does this technology mean that a PC using it won't need a graphics card?
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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In a ruling that has significant implications for the future of the internet, an appeals court has ruled that the FCC cannot impose so-called “net neutrality rules.” All bits are not (apparently) created equal
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If you’re curious about developing for the cloud, considering a move to the cloud, or are new to cloud development, you’ll find in this e-book a concise overview of the most important concepts and practices you need to know. The concepts are illustrated with concrete examples, and each chapter links to other resources for more in-depth information. From his red shirt, to you
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Thanks for sharing with us. 
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Company to focus on 'showstopper' bugs between now and then in JDK 8, and wait to fix lesser bugs later. "Chocolate acceptable limits (AOAC 965.38): Average is 60 or fewer insect fragments per 100 grams"
edit: updated blurb
modified 14-Jan-14 15:33pm.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: 60 or more
Less is more, and more is less, methinks.
Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.
- Mitchell Kapor
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I would hope so too, but that's the way they worded it on the FDA site. I'll more properly grammaticify it.
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TTFN - Kent
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FDA == 
Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.
- Mitchell Kapor
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Oracle to ship bugs in March, along with Java 8.
FTFY.![Rose | [Rose]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
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Scientists in Japan simulated one per cent of the neuronal network in the brain using the K computer, the fourth most powerful supercomputer in the world. Problem was, it calculated a second of distractedness
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It's quicker than me with a hangover!
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Do you know that the article link points to a site that tries to run the "Microsoft Update" ActiveX control?
While in theory that could be perfectly safe, it also sounds like a dandy attack vector to me  .
Software Zen: delete this;
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I did not, sorry (I tend to use Chrome/Firefox all the time). Sorry about that, I'll avoid that source in the future.
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TTFN - Kent
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No problem. As I'm still using IE8 here under XP (don't ask), I thought it entirely possible it's one of those things.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Google is making yet another big business acquisition and this time it's actually hyping up the deal in a press release. Today, the company announced it will buy Nest Labs for $3.2 billion in cash, with the deal expected to close sometime in the next few months if it is approved by U.S. regulators. Now even your thermostat will be tattling on you
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That has been the plan all along.
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I have one of their thermostats, and I'm pretty happy with it. I can only hope that Google continues to support the vision that Nest puts into their product line.
If the smoke alarms didn't cost an arm and a leg I'd replace mine with them...
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Quote: If the smoke alarms didn't cost an arm and a leg I'd replace mine with them...
I never considered using smoke alarm's as limbs. Wouldn't that make it difficult to move about and manipulate things?
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Yes, but considering how cool the Nest stuff is I'd feel like a futuristic robot anyway! 
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