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It definitely looks like they might have a case on their hands. It would definitely be ironic to see Microsoft on the opposite side of one of these trials.
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Since last year's first unveiling of the "Brain-like" chips, IBM's now starting to get to a programming language in order to actually "use" them: IBM Looks to Human Brain to Devise New Programming Model[^]
They spoke about a "Fortran" for these "neural" chips. I wonder if that means all programming concepts are out the window then? Seeing as the neural chips are widely different from the usual "von Neumann" architecture, the concepts might also need to be. And starting at "scratch" (so to speak) by building some language equivalent to the 1st "3rd" generation language ever sounds like some indication of much new ideas in the future!
So ...  ... anyone up for making the NeuralLisp a year after they've completed the NueralFortran? You know ... just to repeat history 
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Fortran. Yummy.
I can't remember the exact syntax but was it a statement like GOTO 10,15,30 N that was the bane of Fortran developer's lives? Bring back column 6. Don't go beyond column 72. Ahhhh, those were the days. 
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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Yep, let's hope IBM implements stuff like if-then-else, while, for, etc. structures in this "Fortran" - i.e. not simply a Fortran 1 (IMO worse than ASM). I'd hate to be stuck with conditional goto's. Otherwise someone will HAVE TO invent a Lisp for it, just so we can at least use some decent programming concepts.
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Mobile developers need money, but what they want is the chance to express their creativity and have fun. At 99cents an install, it better not be
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Kent Sharkey wrote: It's not about the money
Ain't about the Cha-Ching Cha-Ching,
Aint about Ba-Bling Ba-Bling,
Wanna make the world dance,
Forget about the Price Tag[^].
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You're a poet.
OK, Jesse J is the poet, but you're good too.
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I like this:
<quote>Posted by FilthyBitchRich as a comment in that youtube.
Actually, there are no limit on how to make money online. But not everybody seems capable to obtain the best results. Most of them are failed because they don't focus on what they're doing, or even don't understand why they're doing this-or-that.
Btw, try to googling keywords such as "FREE Tips to become an Internet Millionaire" (along with "quote-and-quote" marks), you'll found something may help you - because it has works great for me and for some people, and I hope it will works for you too.
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I'm very agree with this. Programmer is sometimes another kind of artist.
If an artist is not allow to perform his art, he'll be depressed.
modified 14-Aug-13 21:50pm.
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For 65 years, most information-theoretic analyses of cryptographic systems have made a mathematical assumption that turns out to be wrong. V'z ubcvat gurl'er jebat
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After taking over as Microsoft's chief executive in 2000, Steve Ballmer presided over the liquidation of Apple's stock his company had acquired three years earlier in its $150 million investment in Apple. In retrospect, that was a fantastically bad idea. Buy high, sell low. Isn't that how it goes?
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Just one of many mistakes Ballmer has made.
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Their stock value has fallen what with Samsung eroding their market share but still, I wish I had those Apple shares. Another thing why MS might be off-loading is that the revenue raised will offset the pile of tablets they recently wrote-down and tried a price drop to move them on.
As I read somewhere, they don't call their tablet LFE (Land Fill Edition) without good reason. Ballmer is a pratt; his keynote presentation where he ran dancing across the floor was typical of a late middle-aged, balding, overweight bloke trying his luck in a rave bar. Oh wait, he is a late middle-aged, balding, and overweight pratt. Bill Gates must be laughing his head off at the dipstick who took over.
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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I believe BillG still owns enough MSFT stock to choke on the laughter.
Be excellent to each other. And... PARTY ON, DUDES!
Abraham Lincoln
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I know I would! I once read something about Ballmer years ago, when he'd call meetings on Sunday morning and if you didn't race in he'd vent his spleen, bile, foetid breath and spit upon you in a fit of rage and anger on Monday if you missed it. He's a wealthy turd to be sure but he's got no class.
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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You also can't have an accountant running a tech company.
What happens in five days by the way? You're soon out of letters.
Be excellent to each other. And... PARTY ON, DUDES!
Abraham Lincoln
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Jörgen Andersson wrote: What happens in five days by the way? You're soon out of letters.
I don't know to be honest. I'll see what happens when I get there. It's uncharted territory where only sea monsters are to be found.
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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Some clarity would be welcome, but Microsoft isn't good at clarity when it comes to changes to frameworks that developers might not like. Trying to read the fuzzy crystal ball (it must be running Windows 8)
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After the many years of Microsoft trying to put people off OpenGL, I highly doubt they will suddenly just drop all support for DirectX and convert to OpenGL.
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No, I don't think they would either, but I could see them pulling a "Silverlight devs should go with WinRT XAML". That is, stop work on the DirectX APIs, and come out with something new(ish) that is the future direction.
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Maybe, but like most of their recentish inventions they have just flopped, no one needs the silly things they keep making, like WinRT, no one needs some half baked version of Windows, when they can get a proper version.
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So there won't be a 12, that probably means there will be a 11.1.1 to 11.1.1337, and a 11.2 to 11.2.7.3.9001
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In motion to dismiss a data-mining lawsuit, Web giant says people have "no legitimate expectation of privacy in information" voluntarily turned over to third parties. Do no ^H^H some evil.
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Makes you really hate Google. They make Microsoft look like a saint. Down with Google!
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Then what? They shut down AltaVista; how am I going to find anything on the Intarwebs?
To be fair, it was a Googlawyer who wrote that, and the notion of "do no evil" doesn't seem to apply to them. But I wish the management would straighten out a little.
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