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Two researchers at York University have worked out a way to communicate between two points using vodka evaporated into the air. They used their system to message the lyrics of “O Canada” between two points, leading them to conclude that in times of need, when there is no cellular reception, it would be possible to text-message using this system. Ladies and gentlemen, your new Nobel Prize winners!
OK, *some* people might think it should be gin, but they can do their own research
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I've got a lot better use for vodka. It involves mixing it with redbull, and maybe a couple olives.
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And *which* people would that be? Hmm?
Anyway, I wouldn't waste gin like that - as if it'd ever last long enough out of the bottle to evaporate!
speramus in juniperus
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Ladies and gentlemen, your new Nobel Prize winners
Make that the IGNobel Prize[^]
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Remember the Apple Newton? How about Netscape? Even if these products did not last until the present, they left their mark in the evolution of personal technology. For his final WSJ video column, Walt Mossberg takes us through the last 20 years. "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness"
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State-sponsored surveillance and repression should not be your concern. Social networks, providers and employers you trust to safeguard your data and livelihood is what worries me most. Doubleplusungood
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As coding courses and bootcamps flourish, some students get left behind--and that promise of a six-figure salary pops like a bubble. You mean... I can't learn everything about programming in eight weeks? Or 21 days?
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That would do it, yes.
Now to work on the flux capacitor!
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TTFN - Kent
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Quarterly survey of developers also finds NSA revelations are not having much impact on mobile development in the U.S. Write once, test and patch everywhere isn't appealing?
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Microsoft is releasing "Project Siena" today, a Windows 8.1 app that lets you easily create your own Windows app. It’s designed as a quick tool for building Windows 8-style apps without any programming skills. It’s also a touch-friendly way to create apps from a tablet, rather than using the desktop equivalents. Although potential developers won’t get the full power of tools like Visual Studio, that’s not really the point. Siena is designed to create apps that are more document-like and highly visual, with a canvas for inserting images, buttons, shapes, videos, and more. Oh look. *Another* tool to let *everyone* create applications.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: lets anyone create Windows 8.1 apps
Kent Sharkey wrote: a Windows 8.1 app that lets you easily create your own Windows app
So that's the "anyone who happens to be running Windows 8.1" definition of "anyone", then?
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Siena is designed to create apps that are more document-like and highly visual, with a canvas for inserting images, buttons, shapes, videos, and more.
"Document-like", so it's not any app at all, but a document. Yawn.
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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The question everyone here needs to know the answer is when your boss hits the limits of what that thing can do, will there be a way to convert it into a real visual studio solution that you can do real coding on short of rewriting it from scratch?
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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I had the misfortune to be stuck with a sharepoint project. I probably spent 80% of my time trying to get stuff to work the sharepoint way. I probably achieved about 80% of my forward progress when I eventually decided to treat the codethuluelephant as a datastore with a braindead API and replaced sharepoint UI components with JQuery based forms and workflows with raw javascript API calls. All the while, the spreadsheet this was supposed to replace kept getting more and more of it's own built in logic that never got ported over.
I *really* *really* *really* hope that if the monster ever shows signs of life again that A) the PM listens to the advice I and my predecessor gave him and scraps sharepoint for a real web app, or that B) I'm too busy to do anything beyond a minimal handoff to the new sucker stuck on it...
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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Dan Neely wrote: I had the misfortune to be stuck with a sharepoint project. I probably spent 80% of my time trying to get stuff to work the sharepoint way.
I definitely feel for you. I'd add as a likely footnote: with the next release of SharePoint past the one you created this in, all your work would likely require re-creation. I've never seen a program that breaks backward compatibility as much. At least one not from Apple.
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TTFN - Kent
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oh crap. The server I had to use is (was?) two versions behind; and the rumor was they were finally planning to upgrade it. Don't know if to 2010 or if they're going to catchup to 2013.
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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That means they will put back the C compiler in SDK?
Nuclear launch detected
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: "Deep in the bowels of the planet, ancient computers tick away the millenia." (Or something like that, I'll have to look it up later.)
Here you go:
"An automatic system," he said and gave a small sigh. "Ancient computers ranged in the bowels of the planet tick away the dark millennia, and the ages hang heavy on their dusty data banks. I think they take the occasional pot shot to relieve the monotony."
Cheers! 
"I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"
Ron White, Comedian
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Aye, that's the one. 
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Now research from Johns Hopkins University provides the first public confirmation that it’s possible to do just that, and demonstrates how. While the research focused on MacBook and iMac models released before 2008, the authors say similar techniques could work on more recent computers from a wide variety of vendors. "Be seeing you"
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The company is building a voice-activated app to contend with other tech giants' personal assistant apps, according to a report from Android Police. Going to be a little tricky to teach everyone how to yodel questions, isn't it?
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