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In 1977, British palaeontologist Simon Conway-Morris discovered the fossil of a truly weird animal, which he named Hallucigenia because of its “bizarre and dream-like quality”. Hopefully the animal figured it out sooner.
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Content industry wants "new tools" to umask site owners to sue for infringement. "Come on tell me who are you"
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The Clear Linux Project for Intel Architecture is a project that is building a Linux OS distribution for various cloud use cases. Number of days without new Linux implementation: 0
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Astronauts will use Microsoft's AR device to communicate with Earth Great. Next they'll have a malfunction, and Moriarty will take over the ship. Again.
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Dang. Now they'll have to send up a Google cardboard or something to save money.
TTFN - Kent
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Acquiring Revolution Analytics gave Microsoft ownership over the open source R language. Let's hope it doesn't go through with its rumored plans for a GPL-free rewrite of R. Did I miss the announcement where they said they were going to do it?
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R is a mess. It's got two separate object models, no good concept of namespaces, and too many old obsolete ways of doing things, a syntax full of cryptic abbreviations and some poor design decisions (e.g. global graphics parameters should be replaced with graphics contexts).
The core of it is great, it's capabilities are great, there is a huge amount of code available for it.
It would be good if there was a reworking of the language to clean it up.
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If a rewrite can vastly improve R's dismal performance, why not?
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Humans will be taken care of like pets should robots take over because AI will want to preserve us as part of nature. Who's a good boy? Are you a good boy? Such a GOOD boy!
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Sounds good to me. First off, there will probably have to be a mass extermination of most humans, but after that, I imagine they'll do a decent job of stopping us from killing each other and the planet. Somebody has to come in and do some "pest" management, after all.
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: First off, there will probably have to be a mass extermination of most humans
By most, of course, you don't mean me. You, perhaps, but not me. 
Marc Clifton wrote: I imagine they'll do a decent job of stopping us from killing each other and the planet.
Doesn't all this depend upon how we program them? All of this apocalyptic robots taking over world depends on them not having any fail-safes that stop them from exterminating us, otherwise we might as well just call them Daleks.
BTW, what would be wrong with the 3 laws? it was only the introduction of the zeroeth law that caused the problems, as I recall.
Exterminate, exterminate!
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What are they going to be programmed in JavaScript? Wait, I already get treated like a pet. No, a lab rat!
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Why would robots want to preserve us as a part of nature?
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Today, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella emailed the troops as the company comes to the end of the fiscal year, revealing that "Our mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more" is the new official mission statement, and going on to lay out a worldview, strategies and ambitions, and culture for the company moving forward. "Kids, you tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is, never try."
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Wow, it's amazing what passes for journalism nowadays.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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It is shotty journalism but awesome click-bait.
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Microsoft is clearly moving in the direction of one OS for every form factor.
How a journalist can get from that to 'no phones' is beyond me.
That said, if Microsoft killed Windows phone I'd abandon the entire Microsoft ecosystem - development environment, desktop, laptop, the whole thing. It would be the straw that broke this camel's back.
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MehGerbil wrote: That said, if Microsoft killed Windows phone I'd abandon the entire Microsoft ecosystem
Funny, it was the push to Metro in Windows 8 that encouraged me to move to Mac.
I think Microsoft are very confused over what they should be doing, and which direction they should be heading in at the moment.
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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Yahoo has cut a deal with Oracle to promote Yahoo alongside its Java technology Because they didn't learn from the Ask Toolbar fiasco?
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Oracle, Java, Yahoo!
Seems like a good match.
All 2nd choices. 
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Today we're proud to announce Atom 1.0. It's amazing to think Atom has only been out and available to the public for a little over a year. A lot has happened since then. Atom has been downloaded 1.3 million times, and serves 350,000 monthly active users. STOP THE PRESSES: text editor released!
I'm sorry. I'm done. There can be no bigger news in the history of mankind. I must go somewhere and weep.
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 We need a Federal Department of Text Editors to tell us all which underpowered text editor to use. 
#SupportHeForShe 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 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
Only 2 things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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I saw the announcement on twitter and thought along the same lines.
"Yes! Another text editor. I haven't slept in quite some time, just contemplating all night when the next text editor would release."
Huge news. Huge.
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