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Agreed (and kind of my point too) - CE was awful, and they only gave up on it after they had lost to iOS and Android. I think things would have been quite different if they had bought Android, and ditched the licensing. But management in 2005 was not capable of either, it seems.
TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: But management in 2005 was not capable of either, it seems.
Either is today...
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Bill Gates but oh well. That’s a few hundred billion here or there
Spare change, I guess 
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did he forget nokia
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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Today we published our annual Octoverse report, showing that the world’s software is built by a global community, one that’s growing, evolving, and increasingly interconnected. git merge 2019
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Two researchers at the University of Notre Dame have recently developed a model to predict the size and shape of online comment threads when viewing them as trees. if(contains("cat")) { length+=20; }
Replace with "food related" for posts around here
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If any politics or religion is mentioned you'd have to break out the exponent formulas.
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Using the first new method in half a century for measuring the size of the proton via electron scattering, the PRad collaboration has produced a new value for the proton's radius in an experiment conducted at the Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility. Does this charge make me look fat?
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Internet freedom (n.)—the right to internet access without censorship or manipulation of content and without violations of user rights. "Freedom's just another word for nothin' left to lose"
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Freedom isn't free.
#SupportHeForShe
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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Morning Brew wrote: Internet freedom (n.)—the right to internet access without censorship or manipulation of content and without violations of user rights.
nice dream... continue sleeping 
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Let’s dive into what you (an experienced Windows .NET developer or a .NET-curious Linux developer) need to know to start building .NET services for Linux. I’ll cover IDEs, service hosting, Linux system calls and more. That Linux isn't a cancer?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: That Linux isn't a cancer?
It's a form of Ebola.
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Microsoft is continuing to forge ahead with its mission of making meetings better with a new white-glove meeting-room management service, as well as more new features in its Teams collaboration platform. Does it come with a person who will struggle with the AV equipment for 15 minutes at the beginning of each meeting?
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I'm more interested in the person who kicks the pointy hairs who ignore the booking page and just squat in a room all day whenever they want. 
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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Built with a modular approach, the Cloud Adoption Framework helps organizations breakdown their journey into discrete stages with clear guidance for business decision makers, cloud architects, and IT professionals to undertake their cloud journey with confidence and control, aligning business priorities and expected outcomes with technology changes and investments. For when the storm clouds gather in your office
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JetBrains is introducing Grazie, a spell, grammar and style checker designed for IntelliJ IDEA. 'i' before 'e', except in C
Do people use 'e' for loops? I don't know if I've ever seen someone use it. 'i' seems pretty standard though.
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NBC News is releasing almost 7,000 pages of leaked documents showing how Facebook treated user data as a bargaining chip with external app developers. That's really hard to believe (that it took leaked documents to figure this out)
Oh, sorry. That should be FACEBOOK. (Because they need to shout it out.)
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Kent Sharkey wrote: That's really hard to believe
The new "tinfoil hat" is a sand heap with a head buried in it!
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If you’ve ever had time for breakfast while building C++, then you may have asked yourself: what is the compiler doing? C++ Build Insights is our latest take at answering this daunting question and many others. Pay no attention to the compiler behind the curtain!
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"Space... is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly hugely mindbogglingly big it is..."
OK, hardly news, but I just felt like sharing. I'm sad like that.
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In other news, Epstein didn't kill himself.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Take it to the soapb... oh, bugger!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Splitting a song into separate vocals and instruments has always been a headache for producers, DJs, and anyone else who wants to play around with isolated audio. "If you keep on drinkin' you're gonna be too drunk to karaoke, just like me"
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