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Microsoft is slated to pay Chinese authorities 840 million yuan (roughly $137 million) in back taxes and interest, according to a report by state-sponsored news agency Xinhua. In addition, the Redmond-based software company is on the hook for an additional 100 million yuan tax payment next year. Wouldn't it be nice to have an ATM like this around all the time?
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I didn't realize MS had sold $140M of software in China at all. I thought their national OS was WarezDoze.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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True dat. Maybe it's just them trying to charge for the copies where "Microsoft Windows, really" was written on the DVD in Sharpie.
TTFN - Kent
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Spoon app-containerization technology for Windows offers some Docker technology, but with an emphasis on desktop apps. "Only try to realize the truth: there is no spoon."
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I used spoon when it first came out and it was great, but it became less and less pleasant to use over time. From super-easy to setup and run to more of being nagged / more barriers in place to use kinda thing.
Which was a pity. I really liked it.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Developers don't need to be spoon-fed.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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European privacy regulators want Internet search engines such as Google and Microsoft’s Bing to scrub results globally, not just in Europe, when people invoke their “right to be forgotten” as ruled by an E.U. court. Have they forgotten how poorly this works?
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I suggest that if EUcrats want their internet censorship laws to apply worldwide, Google/etc should give them a taste of their own medicine and apply every other countries censorship laws to their connections. Targetting them at home would be difficult without affecting other innocent parties; but the IP ranges owned by EU organizations should be easy enough to get. Between China's Great Firewall (just dust off the old code from when Google was playing along; a bit dated but enough to make the point) and then add the filters required to comply with every other theocracy and dictatorship world wide. When they find 99% of the internet is blocked or broken perhaps they'll get the point.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Agreed. There was a good example of this a few months back when a German publication got themselves off of Google News. When they realized how much money they were losing, they came back pretty fast.
Although, I'm sure the EU could come up with their own search engine. Yahoo would probably love the traffic.
TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Although, I'm sure the EU could come up with their own search engine. Yahoo would probably love the traffic.
The search engine most used in the EU to find proxies to bypass EU search engine restrictions? 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I'd love to be able to forget about the EU 
How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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Once upon a time, Unity promised to overhaul the way developers would build user interfaces in their Unity-powered games. This was roughly around the time man discovered fire. Something for the pew-pew crowd
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This post will address the roadmap for the WPF platform, including areas of investment we’re prioritizing and tooling improvements for upcoming releases of Visual Studio.
The tooling improvements look very promising.
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Oh darn... Tried to find if it was already posted but obviously I wasn't trying hard enough 
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[T]here's one big place on Apple's devices where Google is still the default option: the Safari search bar. Microsoft's Bing, Yahoo (also Bing-powered), and the privacy-minded DuckDuckGo are all included as options, but Google has been the default for as long as iPhones have existed.
That may change next year according to a report from The Information (paywall). Apple and Google's search agreement is reportedly set to expire soon, and both Microsoft and Yahoo are already said to be talking with Apple Internet Software and Services SVP Eddy Cue about becoming Safari's default search option.
The search engine most used to change the default search engine?
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I remember when the world was Yahoo!
Then along came the quiet Google and stole it all away.
Here is how it simply happened.
I went to do a search on Yahoo! and there was an article that 100% annoyed me.
I went to the clean Google search interface and never left it.
After that, Google invented Android Pads, A Web Browser and cars that drove themselves.
Meanwhile, Yahoo! forgot to do anything except repost AP and Reuters articles. Meh.
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Much of ENIAC vanished into disorganized warehouses, a bit like the Ark of the Covenant at the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark. "I've heard of you. I heard you were dead."
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Tech companies and trade groups contend more green cards or guest worker visas are needed to keep tech industries growing because of a shortage of qualified American workers. But scholars say there’s a problem with that argument: The tech worker shortage doesn’t actually exist. They've found us!
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I knew it. But I didn't want to tell anyone because I didn't want them to fire me.
They don't need us! They've got computers. But don't let them know.
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Even the most savvy job seekers can fall prey to a fatal error or two that can cost them their dream job. Our experts identify the top 10 mistakes and offer advice on how to avoid making them. Bonus #12: Bragging about the job search to your current boss
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Koala-ity Article:
Here's point # 6:
CIO wrote: Mistake #6: Being Unplanned in Your Search
Definitely, definitely, do not be unplanned in your search 
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Knowledge of the popular web application framework still pays well, but demand for the skill seems to be on the decline. Losing steam. Pah! You can do a better pun than that. Ruby off the Rails? dRails?
OK, help me (and the author) out here.
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How about:
Ruby On Rails: It's the PERL of the Whatever-Ruby-On-Rails-Does World!!
I don't think you can get a better slogan than that.
Hahaha, PERL. Right. Yeah, uh huh. Ruby On Rails. ho ho ho, ha ha ha. I pity the fool.
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