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ntel is working to make the experience of switching between OS as a seamless one. With the push of a button, user will be able to switch to the other OS in few seconds. "Check out my new weapon, weapon of choice"
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In this course, you will learn how to build web experiences that adapt to the different screen sizes and capabilities that mobile devices offer, and how to scalably optimize media for mobile and desktop. Learn Web Development in 21 Days (or so)
Full course isn't online yet, but supposedly RSN(tm)
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Open source isn't just about saving money -- enterprises are adopting it to develop applications faster, with higher quality components. Cost, budget, fiscal prudence, and expenses?
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Intel's been promising that future laptops will integrate 3D cameras that can track your motions much like Microsoft's Kinect, and it appears those plans are building steam. Intel has just announced partnerships with a wide variety of PC manufacturers to build the new Intel RealSense 3D camera into a variety of new notebook, two-in-one, and all-in-one computers later this year, including Acer, Asus, Dell, Fujitsu, HP, Lenovo, and NEC. Now coffee shops will look like they're filming a sequel to Minority Report
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Finally.
However, it's still to be seen if developers can produce a UI that takes advantage of Perceptual Computing in an intuitive, foolproof manner that doesn't leave one's arms tired.
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If someone can conduct Der Ring des Nibelungen without passing out, we should be able to fidget together a little app. Or we need to work on our upper-body stamina (I know I do).
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I can answer that. Only for short periods of time. As you're aware, you have to mix and match the input modalities to get something that isn't as exhausting - i.e., include gestures, gaze, voice and so on. Funnily enough, this is an area that you and I know an awful lot about
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I suspect the pr0n industry will be pioneering gesture based input. 
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The company has reportedly considered is letting consumers pick either Windows Phone or Android after they select a given device in store. "Would you like what's in the box, or would you take what's behind door #1?"
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A Hong Kong computer scientist has created "programmable makeup."
Too weird? Too weird.
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I dunno, I think the cellphone-enabled panties are weirder (or at least potentially creepier). This is just us getting closer to our Gibsonian future. 
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Ok, you win. I don't think I can top cellphone-enabled panties 
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Kent Sharkey wrote: cellphone-enabled panties
WTF?
Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.
- Mitchell Kapor
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Didn't want to link to it, but here you go[^]. Slightly gratuitous (and possibly NSFW) images on that page, if you're looking at work.
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Even more WTF!
Just when I thought the world couldn't get any weirder... (The Japanese are excluded from this thought, as who knows what crazy thing they will come up with next)
Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.
- Mitchell Kapor
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Great, finally an acceptable reason for me to wear my fake eyelashes and fingernails. 
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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Google joins Audi, GM, Hyundai, Honda and NVIDIA in the Open Automotive Alliance (OAA.)
Yo dawg, we heard you like cars and phones, so we put a phone in yo car so you can car while you phone.
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We are actively looking at the potential standardization of a basic 2D drawing library for ISO C++, and would like to base it on (or outright adopt, possibly as a binding) solid prior art in the form of an existing library. "We built Moonlight in C++ for all the wrong reasons and was a decision we came to regret."
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Rumor has it that Microsoft is in full retreat on Windows 8 as the outlines of a new version emerge, but the company is already a step ahead as we move into a cloud-centric world. One step back, two steps forward?
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Programmers love to sneer at the world of fashion where trends blow through like breezes. Skirt lengths rise and fall, pigments come and go, ties get fatter, then thinner. But in the world of technology, rigor, science, math, and precision rule over fad. Just you wait, everything unfashionable will return one day
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Infoworld are good at factual inaccuracies.
There first point includes "languages that target the JVM" under preprocessors.
I pretty well stopped reading there.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Heady forecasts showing Linux would become a major player on the desktop, on the server, and in embedded systems were published back in 1994. While the prognostications proved correct for server and embedded operating systems, what happened on the desktop? Starts with an 'O', ends with 'ffice'
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Certainly a large part of it. There is also familiarity and to get people to move, things often need to be considerably better, where as the experience is while for general users not a whole lot worse, still worse. e.g. for a normal user playing video's etc was jerky because until recently the scheduler was not really designed to take those kind of use cases into account, unless to switched to the RR or FIFO schedulers and thats not something a normal user would even know to do. These days the problem has been solved on multiple fronts, but people don't care as everyone is using smart phones and tablets.
Laptops outsell desktop computers and tablets (not sure on this) are close or have probably overtaken laptops in sales. In a way, with Android, Linux is the desktop.
I switched to OSX and iOS about 4 years ago and have not looked back. I use Linux and Windows everyday, and on the whole don't care. Use the tool that seems right for the job.
I would consider myself fairly handy with office, but it does feel cumbersome these days. Excel is about the most usable. Outlook I am a slave too which I hate. Something has to change with e-mail. Its a shockingly outdated way of communicating in a work environment. It should probably be made illegal.
"Je pense, donc je mange." - Rene Descartes 1689 - Just before his mother put his tea on the table.
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Giles wrote: Use the tool that seems right for the job.
I wish more people would realize this, rather than investing their own self worth into their chosen OS/tools.
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