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The next generation of cloud servers might be deployed where the clouds can be made of alcohol and cosmic dust: in space. That’s what ConnectX wants to do with their new data visualization platform. You're going to need a longer network cable
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Google has recently revealed that it is dropping the paid subscription from Google Earth Pro, a more robust version of its Google Earth software. Do you need it? Who cares, it's FREE!
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It's been a long time since last hearing of any major innovations or improvements to VirtualBox, the VM software managed by Oracle since their acquisition of Sun Microsystems. Is there any hope left for a revitalized VirtualBox? "If an open source product gets good enough, we'll simply take it."
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I’m a software engineer for the fine folks at HappyFunCorp and I’m occasionally called on to diagnose and fix projects that have gone horribly wrong. The more I do this, the more I notice commonalities among problem projects–“antipatterns,” if you will. "I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by."
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Larry has announced that the Perl 6 Developers will attempt to make a development release of Version 1.0 of Perl 6.0 in time for his 61st Birthday this year and a Version 1.0 release by Christmas 2015. Are the pigs growing wings, or will they attach them?
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Just three small clues—receipts for a pizza, a coffee and a pair of jeans—are enough information to identify a person’s credit card transactions from among those of a million people, according to a new study. Hi. I'm bananas, rum, and chicken biryani
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So if I do not wear jeans and didn't ordered pizza like 10 years I'm safe?
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Nope, that's a positive ID.
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Worse; the lack of pants purchases might get you confused with Sean, and have advertisers bombarding you with mankini ads. 
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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First I read "how spending money that isn't yours with a card that's not very secure could get you into trouble" (I'm Dutch and credit cards aren't much of a thing here).
Then I read the article and it was nothing like that.
My blog[ ^]
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{
public void DoWork()
{
throw new NotSupportedException();
}
}
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In a blog post on Friday, Microsoft announced that it wouldn’t be extending the free upgrade to Windows 10 for Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 Enterprise users. Microsoft plans to update Windows 10 much more frequently compared to previous Windows versions. On behalf of IT Support: thank you
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As I remember we (the company I work for) paying an annual fee and get all the software, so can't understand what all this about...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Yeah, that part hasn't changed much (although with Wen being free, you'd think they'd throw Enterprise customers a bone), but what I thought was interesting was the "Current Branch for Business" release plan.
TTFN - Kent
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Wow. Epically bad writing on Win Beta's part there. Seems they turned he FUD and FAIL up to 11 and then grabbed the knobs with a pair of pliers and snapped them off trying to go to 12.
Ars Technica[^] did a much better job of covering it. Short version is that the only people who're going to be left without a free upgrade path are the handful of companies who shot themselves in the foot by paying as much as an SA contract would cost for a boxed version of Win 7/8 Enterprise in the last year or so. Normal small businesses using consumer versions of Win7/8 qualify for the free upgrade, normal larger businesses will get it bundled in to their SA contract at no extra cost.
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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“Agile” is undeniably here to stay and probably approaching “industry standard.” It’s become so commonplace, in fact, that it is an industry unto itself, containing training courses, conferences, seminars, certifications — the works. My code's not agile, but it does run occasionally
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A new version of Windows for consumers tends to accompany a new version of Windows Server too. But this time around, it seems that Windows 10 won’t have its server counterpart launch alongside it as Microsoft has opted to delay Windows Server 10 (or Windows Server ‘Next’) to 2016. However can I wait that long?
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Microsoft has launched a Cloud Platform roadmap website to share release dates of its various cloud technologies with customers. "A cloud does not know why it moves in just such a direction and at such a speed."
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"One of the leading big data algorithms for finding related topics within unstructured text (an area called topic modeling) is latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA). But when Northwestern University professor Luis Amaral set out to test LDA, he found that it was neither as accurate nor reproducible as a leading topic modeling algorithm should be.
Using his network analysis background, Amaral, professor of chemical and biological engineering in Northwestern's McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, developed a new topic modeling algorithm that has shown very high accuracy and reproducibility during tests. His results, published with co-author Konrad Kording, associate professor of physical medicine and rehabilitation, physiology, and applied mathematics at Northwestern, were published Jan. 29 in Physical Review X."
«I'm asked why doesn't C# implement feature X all the time. The answer's always the same: because no one ever designed, specified, implemented, tested, documented, shipped that feature. All six of those things are necessary to make a feature happen. They all cost huge amounts of time, effort and money.» Eric Lippert, Microsoft, 2009
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Hmm, maybe he could use his new algorithm to model our Earth's climate and tell us what's really going on instead of the crap models being foisted on an ignorant public...
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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Back in July, Michael McLaughlin, Herb Sutter, and Jason Zink submitted to the ISO an updated proposal to standardize a 2D Graphics API for the C++ programming language. Because the C++ spec wasn't getting big enough, fast enough
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Quote: Given MS Open Tech’s historical interest in cross-platform graphics development
*sputter*
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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Well, trying hard to shoot something down for sure denotes a certain level of interest 
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Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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For some their URL (https://msopentech.com/blog/2015/01/28/experimenting-with-a-proposed-standard-gui-for-the-c-language/) makes two errors. Firstly, this is for C++ not C (but that's understandable given the limits of URL). Worse, it refers to a proposed standard GUI, quite a different beast from a graphics library.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Quote: proposed standard GUI
I thought it was talking about a proposed standard API which is another different beast.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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