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Regular cost declines with each new generation of silicon are coming to an end. "Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and weigh only 1.5 tons."
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Microsoft may line things up behind the scenes, but for users they'll stay different. That sounds familiar, somehow.
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Did you watch Charles Torre's discussion with Ale Contenti, Tarek Madkour and Herb Sutter at the Visual Studio 2013 Virtual Launch last month? The team answered a number of questions from Charles and the community on topics ranging from refactoring to PEX. In case you missed the video (or missed some of the answers), the questions and answers are provided below. Q & A++
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Just about every console maker has revealed details of odd, inventive controllers that they worked on and abandoned, but rarely do we actually get to see what such novel control schemes look like in action. Though they're personal projects, Valve engineer Ben Krasnow has released videos showing off two devices he's made that allow video games to be controlled by the tongue and by how a player is sitting. Krasnow calls the latter device a "posture-based" controller, which allows users to move around a game world by sitting on it and shifting weight on their butt forward, backward, or side-to-side. It takes the shape of a large pad, and it also allows gamers to swivel left and right to look around. Well, that should help for those simulations of... uhm, next item
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Idle for playing games while kissing the bosses butt...
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote: Idle for playing games while kissing the bosses butt...
Ideal?
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Yup, ideally I'd be idle.
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Kind of makes playing Call Of Duty fun. You could fart and blow someone's head off!
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You sir, are my hero today.
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TTFN - Kent
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Ice cream eating simulator 2013!
Lick the ice cream with your tounge while getting butt aches of sitting on uncomfortable chairs 
I thinks that will be the next generation of simulations
just like
"sitting in prison simulator"
"the subway sit simulation"
and "lick that beer of the table while sitting in Pub simulator"
if(this.signature != "")
{
MessageBox.Show("This is my signature: " + Environment.NewLine + signature);
}
else
{
MessageBox.Show("404-Signature not found");
}
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The company is encrypting information traveling on its services, which will be completed by end 2014 Thank you
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Yes, this time it will be different, you're data is safe with us 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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I often write up analyses of the passwords disclosed in website breaches. For example, there was A brief Sony password analysis back in mid-2011 and then our local Aussie ABC earlier this year where I talked about Lousy ABC cryptography cracked in seconds as Aussie passwords are exposed. I wrote a number of other pieces looking specifically at the nature of the data exposed in individual sites, but what I really found interesting was when I started comparing breaches. "Someone didn't bother reading my carefully prepared memo on commonly-used passwords."
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One of my "junk" email addresses got pwned by the Adobe breach. That's why it's a junk email address.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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Yup, definitely worthwhile keeping a few of those around. Assuming you don't use the same password with a real email address.
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TTFN - Kent
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indeed
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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If what you're doing is Scrum in isolation, it won't work. Scrum requires a much larger corporate culture of agility. "It don't mean a think if it ain't got that swing" (and culture)
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AMEN!
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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Dr Dobb's wrote: If what you're doing is Scrum in isolation, it won't work. Scrum requires a much larger corporate culture of agility.
Understatement of the year.
/ravi
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When I see those two items juxtaposed, it gives me the impression that it's something done in a gay bathhouse.
. . . just sayin' . . .
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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Internet Explorer 11 helps overcome the effects of network latency, making every day browsing feel fast and responsive without hurting battery life, CPU, network bandwidth, or memory. Network latency is a problem that holds back Web performance, even though we enjoy more bandwidth now than ever before. IE11 reduces the effects of network latency by downloading and preloading pages and Web resources in the background, downloading multiple resources in parallel using the SPDY/3 protocol, and prioritizing downloads of the most important resources on the page. "Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!"
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HealthCare.gov's front-end problems for users has led to back-end issues with insurers as well
Oooh, shiny. Not.
Veni, vidi, caecus
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Famo.us's product to bring complex 3D graphics, realistic motion to stock Web browsers and ordinary Web developers. In the future, all JavaScript libraries will be famous for 15 minutes (thank you, snydeq)
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Google wants to leapfrog Amazon’s dominance in cloud computing by making it available to everyone. Save them a bit of time scanning all your data
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It's a shame it's only Linux. I'm looking for a Windows-hosted cloud computing environment with 64+ GB of RAM. 
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