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Microsoft's new ship target for its coming Windows 8.1 Update 1 may have shifted from March to April, according to sources. As long as they get it right, it could be December as far as I'm concerned
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A Verizon customer service rep eventually admitted the practice to the blogger who figured out what they were doing.
And so it begins.
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What kind of idiots are judges nowadays?
Why isn't Verizon and other telecommunication carriers declared to be "common carriers" forced to treat everyone equally?
It is as if United Van Lines charges one rate for me and a different one for you. That is not allowed.
But then lawyers and judges have been stupid for such a long time.
For instance, Microsoft allowed PC manufacturers (if they are MS-DOS customers) to install CP/M or Unix variants provided they still paid a fee to Microsoft.
This was similar to Rockefeller's Standard Oil that forced railroads to pay him money if they carried any other company's oil.
That was declared illegal and anti-trust and Standard Oil got busted up in, what, 1911?
80 years later, the lawyers and judges could not recall that landmark judgment.
Idiots!
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Microsoft confirmed late Tuesday that corporate VP Scott Guthrie, who has been leading Windows Azure efforts, will serve as acting head of the server and enterprise group, reporting to Nadella. That's "Emperor Gu" to you
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And I was taking this seriously up until "Emperor Gu." Well played.
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I know: he's a sweetheart, and doesn't deserve me mocking him like that (even in jest). But, that is where he's currently sitting in the global address list.
TTFN - Kent
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I send him my condolences through the ether ...
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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Imagine having millions of nanobots in your brain that constantly remind you to log into Google+. That seems to be the vision of Google engineering director Ray Kurzweil, who tells The Wall Street Journal that by the 2030s we’ll have “millions, billions of blood cell-sized computers in our bloodstream… keeping us healthy, augmenting our immune system, also going into the brain and putting our neocortex onto the cloud.” Would that be USB, HDMI, or RJ-11?
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You will be assimilated!
Resistance is futile!
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I'll hook him up to power now if he likes.
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A few Amperes at a some kiloVolts?
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Over my dead (prolly) body.
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Agreed.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Would that be USB, HDMI, or RJ-11?
ICU-2035 link, part of the matrix! 
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Why bother with Googles' cloud when NSA would like us to directly connect with their cloud?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: “millions, billions of blood cell-sized computers in our bloodstream
Coming from a man whose estimations actually made him "millions, billions".
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April 1st isn't for another couple months.
Marc
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Kent Sharkey wrote: also going into the brain and putting our neocortex onto the cloud
Put your dirty mind in the cloud, and have it datamined for personal advertising 
..so this is what telepathy looks like.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, sponsors a lot of technology through grants to universities and private labs, with projects running the gamut from robots to electroencephalography caps, to software and new programming languages. A lot of that knowledge is open source, but it hasn't always been easy to access. Today, DARPA has responded to requests from the research and development community by publishing the DARPA Open Catalog, a website that aggregates source code and other data for all public DARPA-funded projects. This should save a bit of time on that whole 'global conquest' thing
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The Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5.1 release, along with Visual Studio 2013, introduces innovative features to increase developer productivity and application performance. Additionally, it provides new features for improving the UX of consuming .NET NuGet packages, which is important because NuGet is a primary delivery vehicle for .NET Framework libraries. In case you were looking for a reason to upgrade (also: the rest of this month's MSDN Magazine)
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The new version adds support for the Firefox SocialAPI, improves TLS support and makes many other improvements. Because you totally need Facebook with you everywhere while you browse (other fixes seem nice though)
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Good for another month, the deal can earn you a hefty amount of store credit but naturally imposes certain conditions. Could, as in: if it works, if you want it, and if you live in US or Canada (sorry otherwise)
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You want to use SQLite in your Windows Phone, Windows Store and/or .Net 4.5 project, but you are not sure which distribution DLL to use and whether you need to create your own managed wrapper for each of these targets? Don’t search any longer: MS Open Tech has you covered. Here is an open source Portable Class Library for SQLite available as a NuGet Package (and source code) for you. It's the little things that make me happy
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This challenge appeared on an internal alias dedicated to C++. It was issued by Mike Vine, a developer here at Microsoft who agreed to let us share it with the mighty Visual C++ blog readers Today's homework assignment
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