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Taking bets on how long until ticker displays headlines not related to broken Windows Updates. 
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Can I go for "more than ten years", or do I have to be more specific?
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Cool, unlike many I like a small, unobtrusive news ticker. It looks like this one might be configurable to be reasonably small.
Unfortunately (grrr) it's not yet downloadable from the UK. Even if you go to the US MS Store, it still won't let you download to the UK.
I used to use the BBC news ticker many years ago. Does anyone know of a configurable news ticker program that can take a feed from various sources? I've kind of missed it since the BBC new ticker ceased.
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The hotel chain says it uses an application to help provide services to its guests. Beginning mid-January this year, the login credentials of two employees at a franchised property were used to access guest information on this app. You can check out anytime, but your data never leaves
Until someone downloads it.
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Aw, they're just jumping on the "stay at home" bandwagon.
Some companies will do anything for publicity.
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Need a resilient lunar building material? Urine luck. "Uh, Houston, we've had a problem." We need more beer
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Is logical:
- Moon pee
- Mars poo *
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I don't want to think what we'll need in the next planet   
*The Martian (2015) - IMDb[^]
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Here are some magazines. We'll need the new base by Tuesday...
TTFN - Kent
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In space, no-one can hear you retch.
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After changing the tech that powers its browser, Microsoft is giving Edge new privacy tools, smarter bookmarks and a better way to manage all those tabs you have open. I think I've seen this movie before
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Quote: as of today, it works on mobile too. The browser now lets users dock tabs to the left side of the screen rather than the top
Um... Say what?
So, first they force everyone to use a desktop OS that's designed for phone screens, and now they're trying to force everyone to use phones with desktop-sized screens?
Anyway, if the most important thing to you is tab management, use Opera.
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How the times have changed.... AOL used to pay MS for IE-Core so that they could make their own browser on top of it. Now MS contributes code freely to a project for that is used more by its competitors.
Now MS knows they are not going to win the game; they are going to follow the Lt Commander Data model of playing Strategema : don't play to win, rather play so that the game lasts indefinitely.
Back in the 90's you actually purchased software to browse the web. Nothing but Netscape[^]
Where would we be now if we the companies (MS, Google, et al) charged for the browsers instead of spying on our every move?
Director of Transmogrification Services
Shinobi of Query Language
Master of Yoda Conditional
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MadMyche wrote: Where would we be now if we the companies (MS, Google, et al) charged for the browsers instead of spying on our every move?
Somewhat better off overall, I think.
Good: Free stuff on the Internet (software, services) speeds adoption.
Good: Free stuff on the Internet (software, services) makes people's lives easier and more convenient.
Bad: We become the product and privacy is seriously damaged.
Bad: Incumbent vendors become dominant making it more difficult for new entrants to gain a foothold (in some sectors).
Overall it strikes me that paying for what one actually needs would have worked out better for everyone.
modified 1-Apr-20 12:41pm.
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If we paid for browsers, I doubt it would make much difference.
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MadMyche wrote:
Back in the 90's you actually purchased software to browse the web.
Netscape was free for a long time and even after they tried to charge, people stopped using it. I don't know anyone who actually paid for it. I do remember how the version around 96/97 would leak just sitting idle.
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MadMyche wrote: Where would we be now if we the companies (MS, Google, et al) charged for the browsers instead of spying on our every move?
Still using IE 2.0? (or maybe 5)
Hurrah for
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TTFN - Kent
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Developers are still working—and for some, working from home is their status quo. But now, even those developers who usually work from home are finding that they have new “coworkers” with schools and other workplaces shut down. The refrigerator
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Kent Sharkey wrote: The refrigerator
The right answer, but it really needs an echo effect and 1950s spooky movie background sounds.
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Eclipse Theia combines some of the best features of IDEs into one open source extensible platform. For those who like editing code, without using 'm', 's', 'f', or 't'
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The year of the Linux desktop may one day come.
The year of the Eclipse IDE? Never in a million years.Eclipse Theia combines some of the best features of IDEs Good luck guessing what they've renamed them and finding where they've hidden them.
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Oh, thanks. You just made me choke on my pie. Far too accurate. ![Rose | [Rose]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
TTFN - Kent
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Is that a VS Code screenshot? 
Those icons on the left are exactly the same (except Microsoft has updated their icons, of course), the blue bar on the bottom is the same, the colors are the same, overall look and feel is the same...
It even supports "VS Code Extension protocol" so I wouldn't be surprised if this were a copy of VS Code and then ported to the browser.
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The system, called AutomataSynth, allows software engineers to tap into the power of hardware accelerators like FPGAs without specialized programming knowledge or needing to rewrite old, CPU-centric code. They (re)invented code libraries?
Or am I (probably) misinterpreting what they're up to?
OK, after watching the video, it seems like I've misinterpreted their methodology anyway.
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Looks like it's more from the "Let's use the GPU to do everything..." movement, which is largely promoted by people who are too dumb to realise that "... Except its job!" is missing from the end of their sentence.
Sure, it could be said that the GPU and other hardware elements are underused a lot of the time, but if you bake this kind of cr@p into libraries, those libraries will be used by programs that do make a lot of use of the hardware that you're using to do the wrong things.
To put it another way:
You might think that misusing hardware components is a stupid thing to do, but I couldn't possibly comment*.
* If you haven't watched the original House of Cards[^], drop what you're doing and watch it right now!
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