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Sci News is reporting that astronomers at the University of New South Wales have discovered an Earthlike planet just 16 light-years away.
Clickity[^]
[edit] I wonder if that means they like bacon? [/edit]
If first you don't succeed, hide all evidence you ever tried!
modified 30-Jun-14 17:01pm.
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Do they have QA?
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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Mike Hankey wrote: astronomers at the University of New South Wales have discovered an Earthlike planet just 16 light-years away
No they haven't.
What they've "seen" is a wibble in some part of the electromagnetic spectrum, probably caused either by someone's cellphone as they twatted about what came out of their anus after their liquid lunch, or by sentient interstellar dust clouds performing rabbit silhouettes to pacify their noisy kids*.
Getting really sick of all this "WE'VE DISCOVERED YET ANOTHER PLANET!!!" BS, now.
* The probability of either of those options being true is actually higher than the probability of a planet having been discovered.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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They are planning to send a man and a sheep to settle.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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I'm sure there are already plenty of sheep around Settle
Clicky[^]
Regards, Stewart
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Rage wrote: They are planning to send a man and a sheep to settle.
If they send the ![Sheep | [baah]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/sheep.gif) the men will follow. 
Once you lose your pride the rest is easy.
I would agree with you but then we both would be wrong.
The report of my death was an exaggeration - Mark Twain
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Mike Hankey wrote: [edit] I wonder if that means they like bacon? [/edit]
It is the office NASA definition of intelligent life (or at least it should be)
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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Why is it that for years now Microsoft has been saying windows has gone to a consecutive roll out plan from now on, did everyone miss this?
First comes 8
Then 8.1
Then 8.2
Then 8.3
Windows 8 brings in a paradigm shift, metro is the .net framework, and the desktop is compatibility mode.
The concept of windows 8 is to bring the world slowly into windows 9 which does not have the desktop.
Windows 9 is nothing like windows 7.
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Colborne_Greg wrote: Windows 9 is nothing like windows 7.
Not according to Mary Jo[^]
Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. ~ George Washington
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Not according to some Mary chick or "according to my sources." she says - which is not Microsoft.
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Ummmm.... most of Mary Jo's sources are inside Microsoft or very closely related (very large developers who get pre-release information). She's not always 100% accurate but she's way more accurate than some random guy on an online forum (cough... cough...).
Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. ~ George Washington
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The consecutive roll out was taught in class from my teacher who works for Microsoft training me to work for Microsoft. When someone is wrong about news you should stop listening to them.
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If he works at Microsoft, he'd be under non-disclosure. As for the update; not having more consistent roll-up updates was a big mistake in XP and Windows 7. Everything I've read indicates that Windows 9 is still on schedule for April 2015.
BTW, all that said, I think Microsoft is now changing version numbers too fast! The Visual Studio situation is especially annoying.
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He also said it in the Microsoft virtual academy videos.
The whole point of continuous roll outs from 8.1 - 8.9 is to keep the concept of windows 8 while advancing the system away from the desktop.
If people would adapt windows 8 faster visual studio wouldn't have been so annoying.
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What's happening with Visual Studio is independent from Windows 8. The problem is that by changing the major release name costs money where incremental updates are typically free. One point of continuous updates is to avoid this (which also has a huge impact on resellers, who usually require that a vendor rebuy or "flush" the supply when then a major version number is changed.) The other point of updates is to make it easier to "patch" a system up to the latest version.
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Windows 8 is fueling the changes to visual studio as windows 8 is the .net framework as an operating system, the code for visual studio and windows 8 are the exact same.
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Windows 8 is NOT "the .net framework as an operating system". I don't know where you get your information. Windows 8 RT requires you write user applications in .NET, but .NET is not the operating system.
Having a Visual Studio 2012, 2013 and 2014 are about marketing, not engineering.
It seems you never had a question, but are simply arguing for the sake of hearing yourself. (And it seems to have not occurred to you that many of us are well read on the history and inner workings of Windows and know people, including the actual engineers, who work on it at Microsoft.)
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Windows 8 is the .net framework, nothing you say is going to change that.
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I don't think Windows 8 was a paradigm shift. Metro didn't replace the desktop, rather metro was added as a way to create fullscreen touch-centric store apps. The desktop isn't going anywhere according to MS. I think the error in Win8 was pushing the metro environment too hard when it doesn't really have the ability to replace the desktop. Perhaps great for certain devices but not something for all use cases.
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I don't care what you think.
The dot net framework is a paradigm shift which happened in 2003, and metro is the dot net framework as an operating system and the desktop is nothing but the old code.
Get over it.
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Your enthusiasm for metro is great, but I think you're just missing the fact that metro targets a fairly narrow set of devices/apps. There are many scenarios where a touch-centric fullscreen store app is a great thing. But this environment doesn't have what it takes to replace everything. This is why metro isn't a paradigm shift, its simply a new avenue for creating apps which do work well in that limited context.
Also, MS has confirmed the desktop is and will continue to be a key piece of the puzzle moving forward. So, no, the desktop isn't going anywhere and isn't for "old code", its for code which doesn't fit in the rather narrow definition of fullscreen touch-centric store apps 
Additionally it sounds like they'll be bringing the start menu back and allow running store apps in a window on the desktop. So the desktop is actually getting new focus and emphasis moving forward.
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Colborne_Greg wrote: It will be a key piece in windows 8.
Yes, the desktop is a key piece in Windows 8. The metro start screen with its store apps is sort of a parallel environment. They're both there and they fill unique roles. But to say that metro replaces desktop or that there's a shift from desktop TO metro misses the fact that metro doesn't do everything needed by desktop apps and provides a much more narrow focus.
If rumors are true, the desktop will be getting increased emphasis in Windows 9.
Colborne_Greg wrote: Your opinion on the paradigm that did happen means nothing.
You sound very defensive regarding your position. Why did you post in the lounge if you thought any other opinion had no meaning? I'm beginning to think I've been feeding the troll
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The desktop is code based on 1960s technology, the only reason people love it is the fact is has history, its a dinosaur and we only have to wait for the world to catch up - it will be gone because it can not advance.
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I've been using Windows since 3.1 and the desktop has advanced significantly since then. So I believe its incorrect to say that the desktop environment can not advance, since it has done just that. I get that you're enthusiastic for a new metro environment, the problem is just that the new environment doesn't do everything needed. Maybe someday something will be able to replace the desktop, but I think metro isn't it at least not in its current state. That doesn't mean it can't do a great job for what its designed for -- full screen touch-centric store apps. But its not really a replacement for the desktop.
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