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Microsoft is committing suicide to its consumer business. They have the "vision" to be a cloud company.... 
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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KarstenK wrote: They have the "vision" to be a cloud company....
They do. They're going up in smoke.
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Maybe, but it's working for their stock price...
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I wonder if they are making those changes to harmonise with Lync, so that they can then kill one of them and still have everything "working".
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What, exactly, is the point of Skype on a phone? (Not just Microsoft; what is the point of Google Hangouts on a phone?)
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Making calls when on WiFi, rather than the cell network?
Also, Skype et al also include text chat, so maybe that's a better answer?
TTFN - Kent
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Its new Bookings service lets customers schedule time over the web I can do Tuesday at 9, unless Mercury is in retrograde. That work for you?
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After accusations that Windows 10 collects too much data about users, France's National Data Protection Commission (CNIL) has order Microsoft to comply with the French Data Protection Act within three months. The company has been ordered to "stop collecting excessive data and tracking browsing by users without their consent". "We frustrate many designs against us by pretending not to see them."
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Looking for a new job in the IT industry? A recent study might help you change how you advertise your skills, and decide which additional ones to focus on. "So tell me what you want, what you really, really want"
My sincere apologies...
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Quote: Knowing APIs is in such high demand that it appeared nearly 50 times more frequently than the next closest: a degree in computer science.
Many journalism job adverts mentioned "sentences" therefore I would really recommend that you learn "sentences" if you want a long career in journalism. 
My flabber is unbelievably ghasted...
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They also mention "English", might be an other requirements! 
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Duncan Edwards Jones wrote: My flabber is unbelievably ghasted...
Given how useless I continue to experience degree'd graduates are with regards to good design/programming practices and knowledge of modern tools and languages, I can see why API ranks 25% while a degree ranks 15%.
Marc
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You will needest the newest and hottes buzzwords - as ever... 
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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Researchers have identified a serious flaw that could allow an attacker to compromise a number of different devices and networks, including telecommunications networks and mobile phones, as well as a number of other embedded devices. Malloc: causing job security since 1973
Or is that job insecurity?
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Google today announced the public beta launch of its Cloud Natural Language API, a new service that gives developers access to Google-powered sentiment analysis, entity recognition, and syntax analysis. Well, verb my subject object
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Cool. That'll give some competition to the services I've written about here. The pricing is amazing as well.
Though I do have a question.
Given:
Price per 1,000 units, by monthly usage.
And then, in the columns (we'll take the first one):
0 - 5K units/month
OK, so can I interpret this as 5K * 1000 ? 
The only thing is, I just don't trust Google that, if I write an app that uses their service, that they won't nuke it at some point in the future, unlike some of the services that are a lot more expensive.
Well, if I get a free moment, I may update one of those articles to include Google's API.
[edit]Wow, OK, maybe I won't write about it. Clicking on "start free trial" requires name, address and credit card. FU Google, all I want to do is plug in some text and see how it works. Well, let's see what happens when I use a CC I haven't ever activated, mwahahaha [/edit]
[edit2] Darn, that didn't work. [/edit2]
[edit3] Ah, there's a Try the API about half way down the page. That was intuitive. NOT. [/edit3]
[edit4] Don't waste your time. Entities analysis was, well, not working. It simply spit back out what I put in, didn't identify entities at all (I gave it a paragraph of a political speech by Bernie, maybe it knows it all fits under the entity "hot air.") That's too bad, because entity extraction is one of the most interesting things I suppose you could extract your own entities from the syntax analysis.[/edit4]
Marc
modified 20-Jul-16 21:37pm.
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If you go to the Settings app on these newer Windows 10 builds, you'll notice "For Developers" as a new menu item. It forces you to end all sentences with a semi-colon?;
Or:
It changes all MENUS to UPPERCASE?
or:
I can finally press Ctrl+K, Ctrl+C to create a new comment on a site?
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As a developer you likely install Windows and then immediately go around to Windows Explorer, the Registry, and a bunch of other places to tweak Windows to how you work as a developer.
Nope, first thing I do is go to Windows Update and kill updates. 
Marc
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Should be part of Developer Mode.
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Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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It doesn’t matter if you’re on a Windows or a macOS machine, you have access to amazing IDEs to build iOS, Android, Mac, and Windows apps and libraries with Visual Studio and Xamarin Studio. But, what if you could take all of your code on the go and with you everywhere you go? Who needs a silly old keyboard?
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Very cool. 
/ravi
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Who needs a silly old keyboard
Silly old moi... 
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Damn! The two apps mentioned there are amazing as well. Calca reminds me of Mathcad, but way cheaper.
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Bassam Abdul-Baki wrote: Calca reminds me of Mathcad, but way cheaper.
They have a community edition now, albeit crippled but I expect still pretty powerful. I used to do tech support for Mthcad many many years ago! 
Kevin
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Kevin McFarlane wrote: They have a community edition now
Kevin McFarlane wrote: I used to do tech support for Mthcad many many years ago!
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