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Kent Sharkey wrote: All they need is a rocket, some kind of equipment to get out there, mining equipment that works in almost 0G, and some way to get things back and down the gravity well without burning up
That sounds eerily similar to some of the user stories written by the "business analysts" at my previous workplace. The developers were expected to build software based on such "specifications".
On one of the meetings, a senior developer (he was close to 60 then, and is probably retired now) commented that the specifications might as well say "Hello, have a nice day. Bye!".
The developers and even some of the business analysts in the meeting room laughed out so loud. 
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Project NEON will heavily focus on animations, simplicity, and consistency – essentially bringing back Windows 7’s Aero Glass and mixing it up with animations like the ones from the Windows Phone 8/7 era. "And at the fall of night, this city's made of light."
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Yawwww
(sorry, I was too bored by the idea to finish even my yawn.)
Marc
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n.
Don't worry. I have got your back there.
This space for rent
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So, essentially, the big improvement is blurry screens.
That'll be great for eye-strain and migraine, as everyone autonomically tries to force the blurred words/images into focus.
And the only use-cases given are for a music player that almost no-one uses or wants, and an e-mail app that's full of bugs/problems -- which will never be fixed, of course, because they're too busy inventing ways to make opticians insanely rich.
Announcement after announcement, I find my self stuck with the thought: "What the Hell are those morons thinking? WTF happened that drove them all batsh1t insane?"
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: Announcement after announcement, I find my self stuck with the thought: "What the Hell are those morons thinking? WTF happened that drove them all batsh1t insane?"
Maybe the water has been contaminating the weed and the coffee? 
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Throw in some bleach, to clean house.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Anyone want to start a poll on how long ARM waits before forcing a rename to protect the trademark on their SIMD[^] hardware, like what happened to the UI Formerly Known as Metro[^]?
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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The Windows Cmd / Command-Line shell is NOT being removed from Windows in the near or distant future! So, you're saying maybe it might go away?
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That would be a positive maybe?
New version: WinHeist Version 2.2.2 Beta I told my psychiatrist that I was hearing voices in my head. He said you don't have a psychiatrist!
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It is harder for admins and the like to write scripts for ever-changing GUI's.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Compute Card is intended as a more versatile replacement for the Compute Stick. Is that a computer in your pocket, or are you just glad to see me?
Or, "Why does your mobile not have a screen"?
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They just need to make them colorful, like on the original Star Trek series. 
Marc
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Great, so now I'll have a silly slow "smart" phone and a silly slow "smart" card. Perhaps upgrading my PC is the wrong approach--the future says I should buy a Pentium-33 system.
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At CES 2017, the company showed off its most technological garbage bin yet: a voice-activated trash can that can open and close through verbal commands. If it weren't for the CES, how would we know what we don't need?
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Why do so few use bluetooth?
Ridiculous!
Just lazy to use wifi instead of bluetooth, which would be far less hackable since it is local.
Yeah, maybe they're thinking, "We'll do OTA (over the air) updates so we'll make it wifi."
Yeah, whatever. You aren't going to do OTA updates anyways.
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Why?
I have a $20 plastic trash can at home which opens with my foot and closes itself when I pull my foot back.
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But you have to lift your toe off the ground to use it!!! That's practically a gateway drug to the really bad behavior: fitbits and sneakers!
Filthy athletic.
/s
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But with voice activation, you could open the garbage can while you're in another room by yelling loud enough!
Oh, wait... 
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Will it get offended if we tell it it stinks?
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N_tro_P wrote: It's interesting that they use the tablets I thought. I wonder if PC dead set touch screen will never replace my mouse and keyboard fanatics will start to see that the next generation thinks the mouse and keyboard are not very useful.
Not so much; tablets are cheap and mobile, and you don't want your kid to hog the desktop with his/her lego's.
N_tro_P wrote: If they are assuming it is simpler to teach kids programming on a tablet, it might just so happen it is easier to teach kids programming on a tablet.
I do not use a keyboard because it is easy, but because it is more efficient.
Try writing a novel on a tablet 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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N_tro_P wrote: In comparison they are about the same. Lego mind storm does not require a state of the art desktop and one can be acquired for a few hundred dollars just as a tablet can be.
Yes; but with the kids playing upstairs one day and downstairs the next, a tablet might be a somewhat more logical choice.
N_tro_P wrote:
As voice dictation improves I would assume novelists will write that way... Just my thoughts though.
You're not the first to assume that, as there were word-processors with speech-recognition available years ago. Can you dictate at 180 characters/minute?
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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