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Learn relativity from PBS host Brian Greene now. Come back later for biology. The site has momentum
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Microsoft is expected to give away a Windows desktop version of OneNote for free, report both ZDNet's Mary Jo Foley and The Verge's Tom Warren. It's the Netscape-killer strategy. 1:release free version 2:kill competition 3:stop development 4:profit?
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Google's new Cordova-based toolchain lets you develop hybrid mobile apps from the same HTML, JavaScript, and CSS code as Chrome apps. Write once, run on more than one place
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Perhaps Windows 8.2, a.k.a. Threshold, will rear its head? Or could Microsoft abandon the debacle of Windows 8 altogether and give us Windows 9 instead? That's certainly been one of the recent rumours. Mostly rumours, but hey, it's a slow news day
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I think it will be Windows 8.2, The last OS core change was Windows Vista, and the previous one before that was Windows 2000, so if this is truly a core change, then the internal number should be 6.3 with Windows 9 being the seventh generation of Windows.
Free your mind and the rest will follow,
Don't be colorblind, don't be so shallow!
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It's already 6.3 for Windows 8.1. And it's unlikely they'll change the major version for a long time to come after they faced so many problems with app compatibility (because people were implementing the algorithms to check for the OS version number wrong) when they did with Vista. That's one of the reasons Windows 7 didn't end up as 7.0 and became 6.1 instead.
I think the next version will be Windows 9 because I can imagine they want to release something that diversifies it from 8. Either that, or something completely different. How about Windows NT 6.4?
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When I think of a version change from 6.3 to 7.0, that means the file system and/or kernel changed, not the UI or the HAL. Windows 9 I believe will be more like 8.1 except the Desktop is enabled on non-touch and Metro/Modern is enabled on touch. Also, Modern apps can/will be made to run in Desktop mode with some windowing based on operation mode.
I also expect Windows RT, if it sticks around, to include a Hyper-V/VMWare type of client to run apps going back at least to Win Vista. The ecosystem otherwise is quite lacking.
Free your mind and the rest will follow,
Don't be colorblind, don't be so shallow!
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The kernel actually changes with every Windows release, especially for Windows 8 when they tweaked it for the new app model. The important question is: Was it a big change or not. Incrementing the major version between XP and Vista was quite reasonable because the changes were quite big. Incrementing the minor version number for Windows 7 and 8 was reasonable too as they essentially build on the work they've done in Vista and there were not big architectural changes. Well, now incrementing the minor version again for Windows 8.1 is not so reasonable to me as I assume the changes to the kernel were more of a service pack like fashion, and the bigger changes were all in the UI. But since Microsoft is not doing service packs anymore, they had to release a new version of Windows which essentially is just an update to Windows 8. You can even tell from simple things like the branding that remained unchanged.
One could go one with this all day long, but in fact it's just numbers and everybody has it's own opinion on them. I agree with you that Windows 9 (or whatever the branding will be) will be more like what 8.1 was to 8.0, hence we can expect it to be another minor release internally.
What I'd really love to see was if they split the new app model into two flavors - a consumer-oriented one that works just like the one today, and a professional-oriented one that replaces Win32 on the desktop, opens up the native XAML stack for windowed applications etc. and removes the deployment limitation via the Windows Store (some kind of sideloading by default, if you will). UI-wise, this would end up in two different versions of Windows in the future: One that is consumer-oriented and touch-optimized, with the Modern shell as the only UI and no Desktop (just like Windows RT today), and a professional/enterprise version without the Modern shell and a "reimagined" Desktop with its new app model flavor; which would be used for content creation, in production environments, and building apps for the consumer version (with an emulator like for Windows Phone). Of couse, that separation between consumer/professional won't happen as Microsoft went the route of "one size fits all" - a bold step but IMO one that can't really work out without compromises in both sides (all that "non-compromises" talk in the early days of Windows 8 was just talk with a specific perspective on the product, but nothing that worked out well in the real world).
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I'm glad you educated me about Kernel level changes (Ring Zero) and how they are made with every major and minor version. The change from XP to Vista must have had something to do with a filesystem rewrite, but I could be wrong.
As for the consumer/professional track, while this may make our development and "real work" lives easier, and it would, I don't see MS going down this road again. They went there with the Windows 9.x vs NT branch. They also had two codebases at the time, unified in Win2K.
Free your mind and the rest will follow,
Don't be colorblind, don't be so shallow!
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The World Wide Web — which celebrates its 25th anniversary on Wednesday — has undoubtedly ushered in massive innovation in its quarter-life existence but what's most surprised inventor Tim Berners-Lee is users' fascination with kittens. I think he speaks for all of us there
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Both halves of the Internet like kittens. 
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As a developer, when I architect a solution from the base up in a way that prevent all feedback until the feature is completed I am intentionally valuing my opinion of the way the feature should be created more than that of stakeholder(s) and/or the customers. This is my baby, I understand it better than anyone, and your’s is just one coughcoughwrongcough opinion.
Open lines of communications and quit overvaluing your opinion.
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The National Security Agency reportedly has plans to control millions of computers by infecting them with malware, according to documents leaked to The Intercept by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden.
What else is new...
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Who's the twisted f*** who thought this would be a good idea?? Sure, what could possibly go wrong?!
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Maybe Timothy Leary was right and he saw this stuff coming "Turn On, tune in, drop out", at least on the drop out part.
Along with Antimatter and Dark Matter they've discovered the existence of Doesn't Matter which appears to have no effect on the universe whatsoever!
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A year after Mozilla revealed its strategy to "supercharge" browser games, the future of Web gaming advances to the next level with Epic's Unreal Engine 4 running in Firefox. "Living on a lighted stage approaches the unreal"
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Really impressive!
Along with Antimatter and Dark Matter they've discovered the existence of Doesn't Matter which appears to have no effect on the universe whatsoever!
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Yeah. I had some vague notion that these things were going on somewhere. But I stopped following it back in the VRML 1.0 days.
That was pretty damn impressive.
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New research finds that software developers’ problem solving skills improve with their mood Sorry, I guess I should have warned you before dropping that wisdom on you
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Or Better programmers are the happy programmers.
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Seems self evident. But a study of 42 participants is some world class lazy research.
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As the application source code and supporting tools contribute to both mood and problem solving ability, I'd say that might be a proximate cause to both?
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..it was already widely known that happy people are more productive. One can Google the colors and music that'll "help".
And no, the way of measuring "happy" does not make it more scientific.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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One of the biggest changes is that “simple mode” is now the default for “git push,” which pushes only the current branch to the branch with the same name, and only when the current branch is set to integrate with that remote branch. The mode can be changed from traditional “matching” semantics using the configuration variable push.default. Now even more gitastic
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RE:
Quote: kkthxbye
=shane=
Thanks you very much, shane!
Of all the news letters and e-mail subscriptions, the CP Daily News (Insider?) is the most valuable news to me (never deleted any one without read).
By the way, who is this shane guy?
Is it collective work?
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