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Rob Grainger wrote: Suddenly, Wired have lost a reader.
Make that n readers.
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Yep, noticed that the other day...
n++
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I'd say the same, except that the only time I read wired is when someone throws me a link.
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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But now you can pre-ignore. That's got to be worth the effort 
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Rob Grainger wrote: Somehow, the Net-Neutrality laws just got bypassed, Apple paying to give their customers premium access.
Is that really what it means? Seems to me they might just be feeding their news articles into the new iOS 9 news app and are focusing on one or two stories to make sure they get it right?
I'd think that once they've fixed their issues things would probably go back to normal? Surely it's too early to start lighting the torches and ordering pitchforks on Amazon Prime at this point? 
How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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Brent Jenkins wrote: and are focusing on one or two stories to make sure they get it right
That was funny.
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The interviewers detected lies less accurately among those with a full bladder. Subjects who needed to urinate showed fewer signs that they were lying and gave longer, more detailed answers than those who drank less. I think the researchers needed to head to the loo
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Kent Sharkey wrote: I think the researchers needed to head to the loo
I was to comment with the very same sentence 
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If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
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Were the researchers pissed when they performed their experiments?
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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They deserve an Ig-Nobel prize!
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Our goal is to enable developers around the world to build experiences that include the ability to talk to Skype users and other WebRTC compatible communication services. Phone it in, no plugins needed
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Windows 10 users are downloading more apps than Windows 8 users did, and that's exactly what the Store needs to attract better apps. However, 75% of those downloads were for Solitaire
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Quote: Now all those users need are more and better apps
Now all those users need is an OS that works the way they want it to without all the app-crap!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Exactly what is the point of any OS without applications?
There are two types of people in this world: those that pronounce GIF with a soft G, and those who do not deserve to speak words, ever.
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I think he means modern apps, specifically.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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I have lots of applications running on my Win7 boxes, but no "apps". In other words I run things like Excel, Word, Visual Studio, several useful programs I or my colleagues have written, even Chrome; but not the little, 1st grade level, overly colourful, useless finger-poking crap that are referred to as "apps" most of which seem to exist to tell my friends what "app" I have recently run!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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You can get it, it's called Enterprise LTSB (N). No apps except for Settings, no Edge and Cortana, even the old Win32 calculator is there. Problem is: It's not available for individuals, but fortunately you can even go and shrink the Home/Pro version down, remove all provisioned apps etc. but it takes some time and you need to maintain a custom setup image.
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But there are hardly any apps for Windows 10.
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That's still more than none.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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“Engineering productivity is hard to measure,” said Peter Seibel, the tech lead of Twitter’s engineering effectiveness group. “But we certainly can harm it.” Step 0: Keep them off Twitter
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The discussions and feedback that we received after the announcement went public showed that we had failed to properly account for all considerable groups of our customers and articulate our reasoning for the move in the announcement message. Translation: oops
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As PC owners increasing take to mobile connections for Internet access, malware follows. W00! #1! They're #1!
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AVG, the Czech antivirus company, has announced a new privacy policy in which it boldly and openly admits it will collect user details and sell them to online advertisers for the purpose of continuing to fund its freemium-based products. That's strange: the entire browser history is searches for competitive antivirus products. Then it goes blank.
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