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Oracle to ship bugs in March, along with Java 8.
FTFY.![Rose | [Rose]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
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Scientists in Japan simulated one per cent of the neuronal network in the brain using the K computer, the fourth most powerful supercomputer in the world. Problem was, it calculated a second of distractedness
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It's quicker than me with a hangover!
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Do you know that the article link points to a site that tries to run the "Microsoft Update" ActiveX control?
While in theory that could be perfectly safe, it also sounds like a dandy attack vector to me  .
Software Zen: delete this;
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I did not, sorry (I tend to use Chrome/Firefox all the time). Sorry about that, I'll avoid that source in the future.
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TTFN - Kent
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No problem. As I'm still using IE8 here under XP (don't ask), I thought it entirely possible it's one of those things.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Google is making yet another big business acquisition and this time it's actually hyping up the deal in a press release. Today, the company announced it will buy Nest Labs for $3.2 billion in cash, with the deal expected to close sometime in the next few months if it is approved by U.S. regulators. Now even your thermostat will be tattling on you
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That has been the plan all along.
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I have one of their thermostats, and I'm pretty happy with it. I can only hope that Google continues to support the vision that Nest puts into their product line.
If the smoke alarms didn't cost an arm and a leg I'd replace mine with them...
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Quote: If the smoke alarms didn't cost an arm and a leg I'd replace mine with them...
I never considered using smoke alarm's as limbs. Wouldn't that make it difficult to move about and manipulate things?
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Yes, but considering how cool the Nest stuff is I'd feel like a futuristic robot anyway! 
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Rumors are flying that Microsoft is going to do a lot more than just bring back the Start button in the next Windows version. A lot of smart people are saying that it will abandon its Metro interface on laptops and desktops. It took long enough. Lovely to look at doesn't mean lovely to hold
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If it happens, my faith in humanity may be restored.
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Your own scripts get injected into black box processes to execute custom debugging logic. Hook any function, spy on crypto APIs or trace private application code, no source code needed! Yeah. What's the worst thing that could happen?
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COOOOOOOOOLLLLLLLLL!
Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.
- Mitchell Kapor
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Microsoft announced today that it will partner with GoDaddy to bring Office 365 services to small businesses owners more easily. GoDaddy will offer users the option to choose one of three Office 365 plans that will be connected to their domain name. Users in the US and Canada will gain access to these plans first, and over the next three months the plans will expand globally. It's the one stop shop for Mom and Pop
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Every category tracked by Flurry grew in use over the past year. Utilities and productivity apps rose by 149 percent, music and entertainment apps by 78 percent, and games by 66 percent. But the biggest leap was achieved by messaging and social apps, which climbed by 203 percent, the firm said in a blog post Monday. Fun fact: 2 is 100% more than 1
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And battery life surged by -115%
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If the word on the street is that Microsoft is currently aiming for a Windows 9 release date of April 2015, this gives the company a little over a year to fix Windows. So what does Microsoft need to do to fix Windows? "I will tell you something else, King, which may be a surprise for you. It will not happen for hundreds of years, but both of us are to come back."
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I can't help but wonder with the fail of Windows 8/8.1 and the rising popularity of platforms like Raspberry Pi and Beagle Bone Black that run Linux whether a great exodus from windows in in store for the coming generation of users?
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I am in the process of rebuilding my PC because my old hard drive has become flaky. I have installed Windows 7 (again). After trying to use Win 8.1 on my wife's new laptop* I didn't even consider 8. I doubt I'll continue with Windows in the future if Microsoft continues to give the finger to their long-time users.
I really don't have a need to continue to use Windows at home.
* Now that my wife has her own copy of Office (2013) I may not bother to install it (Office 2003, mind you) on mine. I can write Word documents on my Droid if I like.
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Nope.
Raspberry Pi and other copycat DIY PC are nice "toys" for enthusiasts and geeks and people like that; but not for normal people.
The _vast_ majority of people use Windows because it works (even if there is a steep learning curve for Win8) and people are used to the OS and the suite of software that goes with it (office, ... )
I'd rather be phishing!
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Not only did the Windows team screw up windows, but Visual Studio took a hit with the effective elimination of Silverlight, which will hurt windows in the long run. Silverlight, which should have a desktop version to replace WPF was a great idea, and the windows team seemed to have managed to torpedo the reason to buy windows by corporations. If, as was the idea when Microsoft dropped Silverlight for HTML 5, was a stupid strategy for Microsoft Windows. Why should a pay for Windows if I am just running HTML5 apps. Visual Studio is the big reason that Windows has been successful in the corporate market. That also meant that Office was the default for the corporate world.
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Are you implying that Office is popular because of Visual Studio? I think that might be the other way around.
Other than that, I completely agree with you: Silverlight was really starting to show promise. Unfortunately for them, the Windows team hates anything that doesn't come out of the Windows org (they were also anti-.NET until the version 3.0 debacle), so they had to push their own solution.
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TTFN - Kent
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No, I did not. Should have said: Visual Studio is the big reason that Windows has been successful in the corporate market. The success of Windows meant that Office was the default for the corporate world.
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