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I have credibility?
TTFN - Kent
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You had credibility 
Ad astra - both ways!
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Amazon is a courier company ...no an IT Company..no a e-commerce paltform ...online bookstore? No wait
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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Smartwatches as devices for messaging and search are far eclipsed by the desktop, laptop, tablet and phones, for obvious reasons, namely their tiny touchscreens. In tech parlance, the smartwatch "input-output bottleneck" is lamentable, as it is a headache trying to work with such a small space. Because just trying to read email on your watch isn't awkward enough
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A growing number of U.S. adults no longer view the internet as a largely “good thing” for society. I'm still not sure about fire, either.
Then again, maybe not?
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Not surprised. We think we're so smart with self driving cars, but the horse and buggy was far more advanced, its just that now there's a computer chip at the reigns instead of a horse.
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Are surveys getting dafter by the day?
a) 367.52
b) A fish
c) Buenos Aires
d) Vladimir Putin
e) Pingu
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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Twenty-five years ago today, the World Wide Web announced that it was for everybody. On April 30, 1993, the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) put the web into the public domain a decision that has fundamentally altered the past quarter-century. I hear it might actually catch on
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Timeline is a smart new feature, and Windows continues its modernization. Now you can see what apps you *were* running!
Woohoo!
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just a heads up, between some comments I've seen on arstechnica, and personal experience on 2 systems (one a frankenbox that's always part of the long tail for getting updates pushed); I think MS forgot to set the gradual release flag for this update and that anyone touching the check for updates setting will kick off a download of 1803 now.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing 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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While they were at it, they found the longest straight path you could drive without hitting water. For your next trivia night (or long drive/sail)
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Longest nap without hitting snooze is my goal. To each their own I guess.
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I could go for that kind of exploration about now...
TTFN - Kent
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Measuring and controlling reflections turns a room into programmable computer. "In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is."
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S Douglas wrote: I thought they completely gave up on creating a phone?
I know. Microsoft has been lazy and slow about doing phone technology.
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Dreamers, nothing but a dreamer. Then you put your head in your hands oh no!
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Microsoft will probably get there (phone) one day or another. They're too big to fail.
Plus, there is a general phone-malaise right now so maybe MS could release the NEXT AMAZING THING.
The journalists would pounce on it because they are so bored right now.
Hey, maybe I'll create a phone based on a RPi Zero.  It's bound to blast off right now.
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Microsoft today announced that the free Windows 10 April 2018 Update (previously rumored to be called the Windows 10 Spring Creators Update) will begin rolling out on April 30, 2018. Just in case you're wondering why your machine is acting up
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So the 10 April update is coming on 30 April? 
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Blockchain is not only crappy technology but a bad vision for the future. Its failure to achieve adoption to date is because systems built on trust, norms, and institutions inherently function better than the type of no-need-for-trusted-parties systems blockchain envisions. That’s permanent: no matter how much blockchain improves it is still headed in the wrong direction.
That whole trust thing is so overrated.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing 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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Medium nonsense: Its failure to achieve adoption to date is because systems built on trust, norms, and institutions inherently function better than the type of no-need-for-trusted-parties systems blockchain envisions.
BC doesn't require or rely on "trust". That is not a bad thing, it is one of the advantages.
The "failure to achieve adoption" is more nonsens. It is in use, but you don't have to expect any country to start using it instead of their own currency that they can control. That's another advantage btw.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Maybe read the article rather than just the quote before you comment
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You assume too much.
The part on trust is hilarious; Mediocre wrote: Blockchain systems do not magically make the data in them accurate or the people entering the data trustworthy, they merely enable you to audit whether it has been tampered with.
That "merely" isn't, and is a whole lot more than the capabilities of a normal bankaccount.
wrote: almost certainly artificially propped up by fake transactions involving billions of literally imaginary dollars.
Similar to how imaginary and non-existent gold is traded daily?
Rewriting history even: Eight hundred years ago in Europe — with weak governments unable to enforce laws and trusted counterparties few, fragile and far between — theft was rampant, safe banking was a fantasy,
Read up on the Medici-family.
Mistaken wrote: A decentralized, tamper-proof repository sounds like a great way to audit where your mango comes from, how fresh it is, and whether it has been sprayed with pesticides or not. But actually, laws on food labeling, nonprofit or government inspectors, an independent, trusted free press, empowered workers who trust whistleblower protections, credible grocery stores, your local nonprofit farmer’s market, and so on, do a way better job.
No, they don't; that's why today's headline here is that beef-meat from the supermarket should be returned for a refund. Its independence is theoretically only, proven by the large lobby.
Trust is in short supply. Get used to it 
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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