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Five functions to fill. One ticking clock. How fast can you code? "Insanity laughs under pressure we're cracking"
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It was one thing when Google's Chrome apps managed to break out of the browser and become real, offline apps, but clearly that is not Google's real long-term play. A recent update to the developer version of Google Chrome basically runs Chrome OS inside of Windows 8. Now you can have an expensive (and ineffective) way to run Google "apps"
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Good. I like what they are doing...If I could just get my damn employer to wake up and smell the coffee and get rid of this IE9 and let us have Chrome. I feel my productivity and creative streak is being supressed by living in IE9 world.
Having to rely on an remote desktop connection to a server at my ISP to do anything interesting really sucks.
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The OpenID-related vulnerability could have allowed attackers to impersonate users on websites using Mozilla Persona authentication I thought everyone enjoyed a good impersonation?
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One day before the anniversary of Steve Jobs' death, The New York Times Magazine has published a captivating recollection of the terrifyingly stressful two-year development of the first iPhone. The piece is an excerpt from journalist Fred Vogelstein's upcoming book, Dogfight: How Apple and Google Went to War and Started a Revolution, and it includes insight from Andy Grignon, the senior engineer in charge of the radios in the original iPhone, among other former Apple employees. Grignon told Vogelstein that he was so impacted by his work on the iPhone that he gained 50 pounds and was left emotionally exhausted. "It was very dramatic," Grignon said. "It had been drilled into everyone’s head that this was the next big thing to come out of Apple. So you put all these supersmart people with huge egos into very tight, confined quarters, with that kind of pressure, and crazy stuff starts to happen." All because of one man's nasty reading habit
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From October 4th to October 6th, Microsoft has made everything normally reserved only for Xbox Live Gold members — apps, multiplayer gaming, etc. — free for anyone with an Xbox 360. The goal is to entice folks into signing up for a real Xbox Live Gold membership, but even if you have no plans to sign up, you can still snag these three free days. Assuming you don't have something better going on
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When Microsoft Security Essentials started falling behind in effectiveness tests, we stopped recommending it. Microsoft is now officially saying that they've shifted their focus and establishing MSE as a "baseline." Shocking ... no one?
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Since they're claiming that the reason they're last is that they're giving 100% of their work to the competition for free to build on and not that MSE is garbage, one would expect that the fraction of malware MSE is blocking should be holding steady over the last few years while everyone else's protection level is increasing. Is that the case, or is the competition holding steady while MSE's block percentage has been steadily falling?
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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While Ray Ozzie's time at Microsoft is widely regarded with disinterest by those Windows watchers who even remember him, it's clear now that the erstwhile Chief Software Architect was simply rowing against a tide of internal calcification. And if you look at Microsoft's belated move into devices and services with any sense of perspective at all, one fact becomes clear: This is the path the Ray Ozzie first pleaded Microsoft to take almost a decade ago. And the company's senior leadership simply ignored him. Ray was right (not counting Notes)
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Kent Sharkey wrote: (not counting Notes)
And Groove 
Anyway, Ray is busy with a new startup[^]. We'll see how that goes.
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/shrug I dunno. I kind of liked Groove. It was way too intrusive on a machine, but I liked the idea behind it. OK, maybe that's it - I liked the idea, but definitely not the implementation.
Could there be more newspeak in that business description?
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TTFN - Kent
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Microsoft claims IE11 is more standards-compliant and 30 percent faster than other browsers
Better, faster, less features and a decreased usability.
You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the tallest guy in the NBA is Chinese, the Swiss hold the America's Cup, France is accusing the U.S. of arrogance, Germany doesn't want to go to war, and the three most powerful men in America are named "Bush", "Dick", and "Colon."
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"Leave them wanting more."
Can I have the menu at the very top where it belongs?
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: Can I have the menu at the very top where it belongs?
Yes, you can... at least that is the place where it sits at home... 
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Adobe has made the cloud an essential part of its business strategy, but today it's been dealt a major blow thanks to cyber attackers. The company has revealed that an intrusion led to Adobe IDs and passwords along with "certain information" about 2.9 million customers falling into the hands of hackers. Now *that's* a creative cloud
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If you are a website owner, you know that understanding who has been visiting your site, where they are from, and what pages they looked at (and for how long) is absolutely essential if you are to have any hope of growing and developing your online presence. If you have no idea who your site visitors are, then you are walking blindfolded. "Who's that knocking on my door, all last night and the night before"
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The same way that each grocer and butcher is blind? Not asking their customers where they came from, where they're going to, not timing the duration of the visit. Not saving the useragent string from each visit, how did they ever manage? -
I'm looking forward to the day that even the toilet measures the amount, time and pressure. It'd be a giant leap for mankind to be able to datamine that sh*t!
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Well, the grocer and butcher would have their stock decreased as a mark of the sale. Web sites don't (usually, not talking retail sites here) have a similar transaction, so having data about the browser/customer is much more valuable.
Eddy Vluggen wrote: I'm looking forward to the day that even the toilet measures the amount, time and pressure. It'd be a giant leap for mankind to be able to datamine that sh*t!
I'm pretty sure they have those in Japan... 
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Kent Sharkey wrote: so having data about the browser/customer is much more valuable.
Anything that puts you before the competition is valuable.
In these days, trust is becoming a unique selling point
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Amazon's set-top box could make its way to stores this year. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Amazon hopes to begin selling a device that looks and acts like a Roku in time for the holiday season. While it would largely focus on delivering Amazon's own video content to buyers' televisions, the box would also allow other apps to run on it, helping it to compete with the vast content offerings from competitors like Roku. The set top box was first rumored earlier this year, though it was then targeted for a release during the fall, suggesting that development may have fallen behind. Because we all need something else to plug into our TVs
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Google buys a flawless hand gesture solution for... something. Gestures are the new Clippy?
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A number of researchers, some with scientific background, declare they have seen Bigfoot. Meanwhile, a project wants to raise money for a quiet drone to finally track down the large, hairy creature. "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence"
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Alan Mulally is reportedly a favorite among the candidates being considered to become Microsoft's next CEO Has he driven a tech company. Lately?
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Microsoft must get over Apple envy and play in the real world of mobile. First step: Unchain Microsoft software from Windows. But they just got in!
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Kent Sharkey wrote: First step: Unchain Microsoft software from Windows.
Let's pray they don't.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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