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If you have ever been to the carnival or seen a movie depicting the carnival experience, there is always someone who is willing to guess your age and if they are wrong, you win a prize. Using machine learning and its newly released Project Oxford face detection API’s, Microsoft is bringing this game to the browser sans prize. All that computing power, to replace one carnie?
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well now, i'm 24, and according to the bloody machine i'm 48... the double!
my buddy loves it tough 
Life's like a nose, you've got to get out of it whats in it!
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According to Microsoft, Edge is setting higher and better benchmarks than Internet Explorer 11 and comparable or better to other modern day browsers. Even in Octane 2.0 benchmarks, Edge outpaced Internet Explorer 11 and scored higher than Chrome Canary and Firefox Alpha. Because - as everyone knows - speed is the only factor when selecting a browser
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Edge is setting higher and better benchmarks than Internet Explorer 11
That's because the code base doesn't yet have all the cruft that eventually (and rather quickly) creeps into Microsoft products.
Marc
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I'm more interested in standard support since MS has been banging on that drum again about IE being as good as the competition. So I went over to HTML5Test[^], found someone else's Edge results and compared them to everything else.
The good news is that Edge is scoring 390 up from IE11's 336; which is neck and neck with Safari 8's 396. The bad news is that it's still well behind Firefox 35 at 449, or Chrome 39 at 501. The biggest chunk of Edge's feature gap appears to be in support for HTML form elements.
To find browsers Edge actually outscored, I had to drop Chrome and Firefox both all the way back to version 21. That's the May 2013 version of Firefox or the July 2012 version of Chrome. Averaging that we get that MS is still about 2.5 years behind the competition. 
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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Thank you for finding these. 2.5 years. 
TTFN - Kent
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How did you actually get data about Edge over there? I couldn't find it in the list (did I miss something?) And the latest version of IE (11.0.18) actually scores 348.
Anyway, I don't think that those results are more significant than a speed comparison, simply because the site also checks for draft specifications that haven't reached an official status (recommendation) yet and therefore, one cannot expect those to be working. Support for such features might have been left out on purpose.
It's funny that people (or better, developers) still beat IE for its lack of "standards compliance" just because it's really aiming to be fully standard compliant but not more - just because it doesn't support all that fancy prefixed stuff that other browsers introduced, they think it is less standard-compliant than the competition when it actually is the very reverse. In some way, Chrome and Co. are the IE of our time because they're acting like IE in the late 90s, providing a lot of non-standardized stuff, and developers step into that trap again by writing markup and code that treats these features as if they were a standard (and complain when things break in IE).
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I cheated by using the search[^] page.
As far as prefix problems go, you're a bit behind the times now. In response to objections like the one you made Google[^] stopped adding prefixes to Chrome 2 years ago. IIRC Mozilla did the same with FF shortly after, but I'm drawing a blank in Google. They can't turn off the cluster-elephant they created without busting lots of sites; but they went to an alternate method of enabling new experimental features for testing that required the user to explicitly opt it. I'm not a web dev, and it's been long enough I don't recall if the method they chose was a flag in settings, installing a developer build instead of a release build, or something else.
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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Search... completely missed this tab. 
I'm not a web dev, too, so I can't really tell if it's still valid, I just pointed it out because it's one aspect of the IE bashing from which I always thought it's a little unfair.
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DVLUP helps developers hone your skills, deepen your understanding about Microsoft products, increase your revenue and grow your audience. "Us oldsters who predate Whuffie know that it's important; but to the kids, it's the _world_."
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At Microsoft BUILD today, the company announced a new framework, Vorlon, that helps developers debug remote devices running Javascript. "Ah, you seek meaning. Then listen to the music, not the song."
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No, it's a very ancient race that fought with the Shadow in order to try to dominate the galaxy (in Babylon 5 series).
Where've you been?
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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Dang I miss that show.
Drat, not on Netflix. Hmmm. whattodo, whattodo?
TTFN - Kent
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If it weren't "improper" I'd suggest you find a method to perhaps download the five seasons from somewhere or other. That however, is frowned upon.
Should you find a method to watch this series, it has some special qualities that make it the best SciFi, ever:
The characters really do develop - logically, sensibly, even realistically.
Since it's a fixed storyline there's no reason for any character to "always get out of it somehow", so predictability based on the usual TV standards is gone. Neither heroes nor villains are immortal.
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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W∴ Balboos wrote: Should you find a method to watch this series, it has some special qualities that make it the best SciFi, ever
Completely agreed. Also, it had actual alien aliens, not just people with funky foreheads.
TTFN - Kent
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If you're going on a quest for Babylon 5 you might watch out for LEXX as well, if you missed it. Not as high a production quality as Babylon 5 but also refreshingly different from other SciFi's and really funny.
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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I don't know why, but I could never seem to get into LEXX back in the day. Maybe I should give it another try. I know I missed the beginning of it, maybe that's why?
TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: I know I missed the beginning of it, maybe that's why?
Yes, definitely. Without the beginning you're completely lost. You should watch at least the three first movie-length parts, then optionally skip seasons 1 and 2 (like in Star Trek there's no real story arc) but seasons 3 and 4 are just great.
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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It also was the first sci-fi show I ever saw to accurately represent spaceship maneuvering with thrusters and dealt correctly (at least from a visual standpoint) with the physics of mass and momentum. In other words, when a ship fired its thrusters to execute a rotation, it would then fire the counter thrusters to terminate that rotation. You don't see that anywhere else. Even the latest Star Trek "Into Darkness", they fire the thrusters to align the two spacecraft (gotta love how space makes all that noise) but they never fire the counter thrusters so they can stay in alignment. Of course, that level of technical detail is beyond the casual observer, haha.
Marc
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How will this end?
In fire.
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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Under the hood, it's a fancy Web app, using Google's browser. If only they had something comparable to create it with!
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The Internet Archive has done an amazing job of preserving classic games by making them playable in your browser; the group's efforts have covered everything from MS-DOS games to titles from the arcades. And now you don't even have to leave Twitter to play some of them. Finally, someone has developed a reason to care about Twitter
And just out of curiousity, what happens if I do this? https://archive.org/details/msdos_Oregon_Trail_The_1990 via @internetarchive
Edit: nope, doesn't work.
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Still not as good as other communities for short-blogging.
Personally, (not being fanatic) but if I have to post something small (~140 characters), I post it on Lounge. Lounge has more fun than Twitter.
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan wrote: Personally, (not being fanatic) but if I have to post something small (~140 characters), I post it on Lounge. Lounge has more fun than Twitter.
Very true. (Still, Oregon Trail is the best use of 140 characters I can think of. Maybe Lemmings.
TTFN - Kent
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