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To enable a "transparent texting" system, Apple proposes that an app's background be modified to display video images continuously captured by an iPhone's rear-facing camera, according to a patent application filed with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on Thursday.
But it is funnier when people walk into things!
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"Moving" and "driving" are very different things. Apple would be wise to make that distinction if it every implements this tech or they're looking at a walloping of a class-action suit.
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Moving and driving are not very different things. Driving is a subtype of Moving surely.
I drive therefore I move (or my car is very broken).
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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BlackBerry had to file a lawsuit to try and keep one of its most senior executives from leaving for a position at Apple—and it worked. I guess that's what they call job security
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So... I guess now they can cut that position's pay too, now that they can legally prevent the exec from going to another job.
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Yeah, I imagine he (and everyone around him) will have a smashing six months to come.
TTFN - Kent
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The WebScaleSQL project looks to make MySQL useable at Web scale. "I'm on my way, I'm making it. So much larger than life"
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Why don't they make it usable on a desktop scale first. Then worry about scaling it up.
Piece of junk.
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After years and years of rumors, Office for iPad is finally here. I predict the App Store is about to crash
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Microsoft's most hotly anticipated product release in years...is for Apple devices.
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MS used to be criticised for favouring Windows. Now they're criticised for not favouring Windows. They can't win.
Tbh, though, MS's orientation ought to be towards whether they can make [adequate] money or not. If it turns out that they are able to do so outside Windows then so be it.
Kevin
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Finally, MicroSoft is delighted to bring iPad users a new experience, the Blue Screen of Death (BSOD)
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Microsoft Corp. on Monday issued an emergency security warning saying that hackers have found a way to booby-trap certain common Word files with the .rtf extension.
Microsoft says it's aware of attacks going on now, but there's no fix yet to stop the hackers. It's working on a way to stop the bug.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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First time I've heard of RTF documents being used this way.
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From what I've heard - the rtf parser / engine is a major cluster of if statements in order to be backward compatible with the various versions throughout the years. Thank God for duct tape.
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I have no idea how this is related, but I have been using RTF files lately (don't ask why) and I noticed they are significantly larger than .doc or .docx files.
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Yeah, it is a pretty inefficient format. It also hasn't been updated in many, many years (and as others pointed out is full of cruft).
TTFN - Kent
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Probably related to compression in Word - not sure. I don't think RTF has built in compression.
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Emoji — the tiny art that can be stuck in texts, emails, and elsewhere to emote thoughts, feelings, and replace entire words — doesn't have a whole lot of diversity when it comes to the humans who are depicted. isn't multicultural?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: isn't multicultural? It's neutral. Meant to depict an emotion, and not to convey your color.
Apple needs something to have a headline, and racism is always a good one. But logically, it's a step backwards, exactly as expected from said company.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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How about giving us an emoji to show the middle-finger salute?
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Surely all you have to do is change the text colour.
Window-dressing on diversity - about the level I'd expect from that company.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Looking ahead, the Linux Foundation sees 80 percent of all commercial software development being based on open source. "Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches."
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By the time we had finished, 22 of my developers described building a Foobulator with one who claimed he developed a predictive Foobulator with full transactional semantics and a priority queue back in 1943 as part of the Manhattan Project. People invented a new way to do it
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