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We work in the most transformative profession of our day. Despite the deep dysfunction in most organizations, we have no business being disgruntled. "Happy, happy. Joy, joy"
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When Google and NASA announced plans to boot up an honest-to-goodness quantum computer at NASA’s Ames Research Center, it seemed like the beginning of something very big. This is why we can't have nice things
Yes, I should have done a "it may - or may not - be operating", but I just couldn't bring myself to it.
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A new nonprofit called Code.org wants to bring computer science into schools. Its first initiative will be a worldwide “Hour of Code” during the second week of December, with materials provided that include coding tutorials from Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates. Now you can learn the secret of programming on airplanes
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In a move that's about as useful as rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic, BlackBerry has issued an open letter to customers and partners designed to quell their fears. Despite a recent spate of well-publicized ill fortune, the company claims that its loyal customers "can continue to count on Blackberry." As in: continue to count down until we're no more
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This post announces a standalone release of the .NET portable class library reference assemblies that can be used on any operating system. It was written by Rich Lander, a Program Manager on the .NET Team. "It's everywhere you want to be."
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The problem is that it's not anywhere close to everything I want it to be. About 6-12mo ago I ran into an interesting looking static analysis tool from MS Research that only supported PCLs and spent about half a day trying to hack the main compute library of one of my solutions to get a portable version of it. After that half day of work I concluded I'd probably need 2 or 3 more days of wrestling with dependencies to get a chopped down portable version and probably at least a full week to then write a wrapper to add back all the misc functions I'd cut out that my app needed to use it.
I'm not saying PCLs are a bad idea; and if designed from the start that way the reduced number of dependencies at a the low level would mostly be a good thing, needing an abstraction/wrapping layer around our logging library (IIRC nLog in that app) being the main exception, but actually getting existing code refactored in portable form isn't likely to be a trivial undertaking.
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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The backdoor could be used to modify a router's settings -- a dangerous vulnerability Joel - you got lotsa 'splaining to do
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Pssst...
Leslie was faster[^]
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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Dang, missed that. I'll give David credit on that one.
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TTFN - Kent
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One of the more intriguing concepts in the recent speculation about who will be the next CEO of Microsoft was raised recently: The difficulty of selecting between an exec who has business chops and one who is a tech product visionary. Cut off one head, and two will spring forth
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Nirvanix customers learned first hand what happens when cloud services go out of business. Here's how you can be prepared. Into every life, a little rain must fall
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The toolkit can be used to keep IE11 off Windows machines without disabling Automatic Updates for all other Microsoft software None of that new stuff for you!
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It is safe to say that most people reading this probably don’t respect Microsoft very much. Asked to name the most innovative tech company, they’ll say Apple or Google. And they’ll do it with a straight face, while sitting in a chair made by Microsoft. Other than the obvious
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Microsoft doesn't made that chair. Bought it and sold you with great profit...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is (V).
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Steve Ballmer's departure from Microsoft will be a series of epitaphs written over the coming months. Many arm-chair pundits and analysts will scrutinize his 13-year tenure as chief executive, and you can expect him to be the scapegoat for all things wrong with Microsoft. Most assuredly, Ballmer could have done many things better, but he also contended with forces out of his control: government oversight for anti-competitive practices conducted under predecessor Bill Gates' leadership; maturing PC software market; and rise of the Internet as the new computing hub, among others. Now there's something you don't hear any day.
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Following today’s announcement of Windows Phone 8 Update 3 (8.0.10512), I’m pleased to introduce Windows Phone Preview for Developers, which will kick off later today. Windows Phone Preview for Developers gives you, our developer community, access to prerelease builds of Windows Phone updates on your dev phone before operating system updates generally are available to consumers. With the update in hand early, we hope that you can use the time to exercise your code on the update and verify that your app works as you expect. If you find issues, you can fix your app and get an update into the Store before your customers get the OS update. Why wait to update your phone? You could use a new brick.
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It has only been three years since Apple introduced the iPad, and it has been a tremendous success ever since. That makes it all the more interesting to hear Steve Jobs convincingly dismiss tablets, at the first All Things Digital conference in 2003, ten years ago, to Walt Mossberg.
In other news: Yet another thing Jobs was dismissing at first.
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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From The Register: Back door found in D-Link routers[^]
"A group of embedded device hackers has turned up a vulnerability in D-Link consumer-level devices that provides unauthenticated access to the units' admin interfaces."
May the "xmlset_roodkcableoj28840ybtide" be with you......
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I hate Microsoft Word. I want Microsoft Word to die. I hate Microsoft Word with a burning, fiery passion. I hate Microsoft Word the way Winston Smith hated Big Brother. Our reasons are, alarmingly, not dissimilar ... "Have you forgotten it takes a silver bullet to kill it?"
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Word is fine; it's the Ribbon I dislike. And Excel.
A properly behaving application should do whatever you tell it to, and nothing that you don't tell it to.
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: it's the Ribbon I dislike
They really improved the Ribbon stuff in Word 2013 - I can get to every function / Dialog I need within two clicks, which I find acceptable.
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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Call me a Luddite, but I liked Word most at Version 6.0. Back then it supported styles etc. in a logical consistent manner.
The next version they started creating styles to match ad hoc formatting in the doc, never seemed to get it write, started the Intellisense nonsense that "corrects" my correct prose, and generally F**Ked up my work.
Unfortunately, W6 does not work on modern O/S.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Word 6 was OK, but I can't stand Styles, and turning them off was difficult. And if I recall correctly it was the version that got corrupted when I installed the HTML pack -- crashed every time I tried to use spell check.
I never had any trouble with WinWord 2.
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I actually like Styles, but Word 6 was the last time I felt actually in control of them, after that I started struggling with them, especially with numbered headings. Adding one new heading to a document can mess up all your good work so far (again).
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Hewlett-Packard now sees Microsoft as a competitor. For years, Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft had a strong partnership -- but evidently, those days are over. The widespread backlash to Windows 8, combined with Microsoft's decision to release its own, competing hardware, has alienated Hewlett-Packard. The friend of my friend... no wait, the enemy of my friend... dang
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