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"The general consensus is that it still has a long way to go to produce a unified OS."
Microsoft: Nobody wants a unified OS! Just. Flipping. Stop it!
"Direct Experience would start up a media version of Windows if you booted with a USB stick of music files plugged in"
 In the words of Jeremy Clarkson: "Who would ever think that's brilliant?"
(I'll look for a suitable Threshold quote after dinner.)
This'll have to do...
"Later I was able to reconstruct the visual afterimage of what appeared to be a huge, blazing fireball whose flaming wake seemed to trail to infinity . . . and -- somehow -- beyond." -- Threshold, David R. Palmer
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"Nobody wants a unified OS! Just. Flipping. Stop it!"
That model seems to work quite well for Linux though, where the kernel is deployed on everything nowadays.
As a developer, I like the idea, just ensure the user experience is different in each form factor and I'll be happy.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: Microsoft: Nobody wants a unified OS! Just. Flipping. Stop it!
That's not what Microsoft's ads are saying...
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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The popular scripting language was tops among developers recommending which programming language to learn first. Voting was carried out by the Semi-colon Liberation Front (ScLF) and Friends of Tuples ([F, o, T])
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Kent Sharkey wrote: colon Liberation Front
Really? So how do they take a shit?
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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The semi-colon liberation front - they use one half at any given time (hopefully right-left, and not top-bottom)
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TTFN - Kent
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There is a great deal of information about the upcoming SQL Server 2014 version, especially about Hekaton which is the In-Memory OLTP engine feature of SQL Server 2014. But is Hekaton the only new feature in SQL Server 2014? In this tip I will guide you through the new features that make SQL Server 2014 so outstanding. USE master GO ALTER DATABASE SET dbo.version = year(getdate())
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If you depended on LogMeIn's free tier for remote access, don't despair; plenty of competitors are just as functional -- and free. "If you're not paying for the product, you're the product."
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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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I am going to be checking out TeamViewer. One of my suppliers uses it and likes it.
Within you lies the power for good - Use it!
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I use Team Viewer for private stuff (e.g. Fix my Granddads computer remotely) and was never disappointed.
Veni, vidi, caecus | Everything summarizes to Assembly code
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We use the full version of TeamViewer in our company. It works great.
But there is a catch: there will be at least one new version per year, and when the customer downloads the latest (free) "quick support" version from TeamViewer, our version will refuse to connect with it, and we have to tell the customer to download an older version - until we buy (€€€) an upgrade...
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He missed Ammyy[^]...
I use it sometime - a good one...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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Microsoft is refreshing its Office Web Apps this week with a new user interface and some feature additions. No. No-no-no-no. No. (Reads about it). Oh, that's not like Clippy at all. Seems like it might be useful.
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The only good Clippy...[^]
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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How's about the one here[^].
Never moon a werewolf.
- Harvey
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I'm just dreading the day they decide to introduce a touch-friendly version of Visual Studio.
Especially if that's the only option (I'm also a bit afraid of that with Office, I don't want to sacrifice screen estate to touch friendly menus ribbons).
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Pope Francis declared the Internet was a "gift from God" that can break barriers between different groups of people by giving them a platform to discuss their differences. Oh, sure. Like Vint Cerf needed a promotion.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Internet was a "gift from God" ...
does this put Al Gore on the path to sainthood??
you want something inspirational??
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Don't you have to be dead? Oh wait, on second thoughts, that seems like a mighty fine idea.
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"put Al Gore on the path to sainthood?"
Is there an Al-Gore-Ithm for that? 
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Not likely ... There already is a patron saint of the internet ... clickety[^].
Never moon a werewolf.
- Harvey
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Ah - beaten to the punchline!
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Nah, its clearly an evolving technology.
(He's just trying to steal the credit)
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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