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Microsoft GigJam is a new way to work with your documents and SaaS information. It allows you to quickly share only what you want from any source, on any device, safe and securely. Now everyone can jam their gig (but try not to bruise it)
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A team of researchers thinks it may have solved an impending problem with silicon-based computer chips: replace the transistors with vacuum tubes. The sound, man. It's just so much richer with tubes...
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Yeah, they're vacuum transistors, not vacuum tubes
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ed welch wrote: Yeah, they're vacuum transistors, not vacuum tubes
That's the point -- the article Kent referenced wasn't talking about vacuum tubes either. 
Marc
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Once AI really hits it off and computers become as smart as us humans they'll be trading their silicon chips for potato chips. They support a FAT file system and enough salt for a gazillion passwords
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In this article Patrick S. Li, the designer and implementer of L.B. Stanza, suggests that the greatest productivity gains are the result of having a wide spectrum of libraries. The purpose of a general-purpose programming language is to enable the creation of powerful and easy-to-use libraries. The more powerful the language, the easier the libraries are to use. #include "rest_of_program.h"
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Amen. Besides having my own personal C# library that I use for everything, from WinForm to web servers, and a small but growing Javascript library, one of the reasons I'm using Python for Beaglebone development is that there's a large community of cross platform libraries, I can easily swap the the LCD screen stuff on the BBB with Tk on Windows, and for the hardware specific stuff, there's a ton of examples for I2C and GPIO interfacing. Of course, it also helps that there's a bunch of cheap hardware out there for screens, LCD displays, buttons, sensors, etc.
The point being though, these libraries really do impact my productivity.
Kent Sharkey wrote: The more powerful the language, the easier the libraries are to use.
Now that, I'm not sure I'd agree with. That seems like a specious conclusion. A library is easy to use if it's well designed, I don't care if it's written in COBOL or in BrainF***.
Which is the most complex programming language?[^] An amusing link when I googled that question.
Here's a new term to sling around: "Turing Tarpit."
Another interesting read[^] on the subject of complicated languages.
But complexity != powerful. Well, for "powerful", I give Top 10 Most Powerful Programming Languages - YouTube[^] this video. 
Marc
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In the wake of megabreaches at some of the Internet’s most-recognized destinations, don’t be surprised if you receive password reset requests from numerous companies that didn’t experience a breach: Some big name companies — including Facebook and Netflix — are in the habit of combing through huge data leak troves for credentials that match those of their customers and then forcing a password reset for those users. That's OK my password will never be hacked - the extra 7 at the end makes it secure: 1234567
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Dang it, that's the 4th iteration of my luggage combination.
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Of course it will just mean that I am more likely to forget the password. too many passwords. At least a number of sites let you use your email, which means that is harder to forget.
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If Facebook or Netflix will ask me for password reset I will know that something went totally wrong...
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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I'm currently at 9, but will be back at 0 since most apps only keep the previous 10 passwords.
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Five years ago, Microsoft's own cloud computing team couldn't figure out how to use the Azure service. Something, something architecture astronaut
But really, early Azure was confusing? Naaaaaaah
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So there is hope for me - in five years time...
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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Microsoft has been dropping hints that Windows powering the Xbox One would be meaningful, but we've been waiting to see the type of close integration that the company has teased time and time again. Games on a PC?! Say it ain't so!
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Computer security experts have exploited a flaw in the app used to remotely control the Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV that makes the popular family SUV an easier target for thieves. I hope those hackers had valid driver's licenses, or they'll be in trouble!
'Yeah, let's hook it up to the Internet. What could go wrong?'
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By changing how some light beams rotate, the researchers from the National Institute of Physics were able to slow down light in a vacuum. "186,000 miles per second: Not just a good idea. It's the law!"
And apologies to those offended by non-SI units. 3x10^8m/s just seems like a boring number.
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SI rules 
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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Kent Sharkey wrote: National Institute of Physics were able to slow down light in a vacuum.
This happens all the time. You go into a meeting and t..i...m...e.....s...l......o.....w.....s.
It's because the meeting is a vacuum. hint: what do vacuums do?
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I always thought it was because of all of the dense objects in the room...I mean managers
-NP
Never underestimate the creativity of the end-user.
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Quote: And apologies to those offended by non-SI units. 3x10^8m/s just seems like a boring number.
You can write it 300 000 km/s, that's one of the beauties with the metric unit.
(Try to go from yards to miles. )
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