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Microsoft's latest future-concept video features software, services and hardware that are all about productivity. Sure, it will never happen, but I want that roll-up tablet
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Indeed, a future where kelp farms provide the majority of the world's food. 
But remember, all that stuff is programmed with a keyboard and a mouse. Now that's what I'd like to change[^], I guess all I need is some elevator music instead of my droning voice, hahaha.
Marc
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How may we infect you today ? [^]
Please to advise if this post failed to offend; I am always trying to sharpen the necessary.
«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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I seem to have a very good PUP detector, and download.com is a big no no for downloads.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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In an interview, Google's product head, Sundar Pichai, replies to Tim Cook's criticism of Android. And by 'irresponsible' he meant, 'hugely profitable'.
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Contrarywise; it makes choosing a better product easier.
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What a stupid thing to say.
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Lol, they can charge what they like. No-one is forcing you to buy their products.
Quote: He said: "It's a bit irresponsible to say everything should be many hundreds of dollars [as most Apple products are]."
No it’s not. I would charge "many hundreds of dollars" per hour if I could find someone to pay me.
Quote: Surely, though, Pichai and Oseterloh are aiming their disdain at the wrong target. They really should be criticizing you. It's your fault.
By you, I mean all you people who pay these allegedly outrageous and irresponsible prices for Apple products.
You are being allegedly seduced either by design or simplicity or merely the need to use the same products as people whom you aspire to be like.
It's you who are upsetting these executives. How could you?
There are loads of people out there who agree Apple’s prices are too high and don’t buy their products. That’s fair enough. In the meantime Apple has $180 billion in cash or whatever.
Kevin
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Meanwhile for the last quarter of 2014 Google's (GOOG) corporate profit margin was 26.3% while Apple's (AAPL) was 24.2%. 
Pichai is an idiot.
Contrary to popular belief, nobody owes you anything.
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Hint: It doesn’t aim for perfection in keeping Google cloud, apps up. "Don't stop 'til you get enough"
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Windows App Studio is a web-based system which allows anyone to easily create apps for both Windows and Windows Phone, regardless of the user's programming expertise. You can change text colors? I'm sold.
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Does it support CListCtrl?
Marc
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I've heard a rumour they're BACON it in.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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I really doubt that. In VS 2013 they cut part of the libraries coming with MFC with the instalation and I believe they are starting to give up on the idea that the Win Applications should be written in c++ with MFC. After all they have their little 'cute' c# for the job.
You can notice small things like for example refactor function for c# but it's not supported for c++ and such small signs that they give their favorite child c# more time than any other.
On the other hand who does actually want to do something with CLictCtrl, where you cannot add an icon on the second column if its not in the first. Come on its not the 90ties.
Note : I am talking about the MBCS portion of the MFC library.
Microsoft ... the only place where VARIANT_TRUE != true
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Argonia wrote: their little 'cute' c# for the job
C# is a pretty impressive language nowadays. 
Argonia wrote: Come on its not the 90ties.
Indeed. I should remember more often to use the joke type for my flippant responses.
Marc
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That Come on was not for you, it was for the lack of updates of MFC from M$. I got the feeling that they just support MFC just for the older projects to run. All of their attention is focused on the c#. I don't particularly like c#. You have everything there you just need to know what to use. The idea of writing your own libraries is gone completely. Where is the creativity ? 
Microsoft ... the only place where VARIANT_TRUE != true
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Argonia wrote: The idea of writing your own libraries is gone completely. Where is the creativity ?
I'd have to disagree. .NET is a great framework but it definitely lacks things, and I'm not one for doing everything the Microsoft Way. I have a large library of stuff that I leverage many pieces of in just about every project. In fact, because .NET handles so much of the drudgery, I can actually spend more time in a creative space, and C#, what with Linq, lambda expressions, functional programming style, really supports that creativity, I've found.
Marc
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I think it would be more accurate to state that MS has decided Metro apps are the future, and the MFC, WinForms, and raw Win32 UI are all legacy interface tools. And after ignoring the C++ world for about a decade while building Winforms and WPF for .net, Metro is available for C++ apps.
Now if MS would only acknowledge that 95% of current Win7 boxes on the net will only be replaced with Win10 when the old machines are scrapped; and that making Win10 a free upgrade won't budge it more than a few percent. Unless the make a(nother) massive policy change and backport the W10 metro app in a window model to Win7/8 it will be a half dozenish years before most of us could seriously consider replacing our apps current UI with a Metro version. 
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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Robotics could help the elderly and disabled climb stairs, maintain balance and move more agilely. "It's the wrong trousers, Gromit, and they've gone wrong!"
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As that's in the UK, I really hope to God they're building robotic trousers. Robotic pants would be horribly wrong, and likely to chafe.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Agility and flexibility are top of mind when it comes to delivering IT projects. With that being the case, the traditional waterfall development approach, which requires each step of a project to be completed before the IT team can move onto the next, seems a bit outdated. There's a case for waterfall?
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"requires each step of a project to be completed before the IT team can move onto the next"
Yet that sounds like Scrum. 
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Agile is just "mini-waterfall".
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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Kent Sharkey wrote: the traditional waterfall development approach, which requires each step of a project to be completed before the IT team can move onto the next, seems a bit outdated.
You know, the more time that goes by, the more myths about waterfall, which, after all, was cited as a flawed software design process. Why the agile community insists on continuing to compare itself against a flawed model is like me continually exclaiming how my current wife is so much better than my ex-wife (not, mind you, that I'm married, that was a metaphor.) I mean, come on, how much longer do we have to hear about this? It seems to me that the agile community can't let go of the past relationship. Maybe they still yearn for it subconsciously.
Marc
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Sounds codependent (yah, you too  )
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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