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Kent Sharkey wrote: it just knows where you should be going today
“Where do you want to go today?” was the title of Microsoft's 2nd global image advertising campaign. - 1994!
You're mixing company slogans. 
But I suspect you did that on purpose to see who would notice. 
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Marc Clifton wrote: But I suspect you did that on purpose to see who would notice
Only people old enough to be adult and interested in those kind of topics back then?   
M.D.V.
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While 2020 was the year that companies had to get up to speed with digital, what will 2021 hold? Our global editors take a swing at the coming 12 months. Because it's that time of the year
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The only question that matters to me is:
When I can start snogging again without wearing a mask (not to mention the 6 feet apart thing.)
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Marc Clifton wrote: When I can start snogging
Strangers? Not if your wife/girlfriend hears about it... 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: Not if your wife/girlfriend hears about it...
Well, that's the problem - at the moment I am lacking either or both. 
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Microsoft has acknowledged a new issue impacting Windows 10 customers that might cause booting to fail on devices where the chkdsk tool has been used to repair logical file system errors. Hopefully the fix doesn't require you to run chkdsk
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A team of scientists at Freie Universität Berlin has developed an artificial intelligence (AI) method for calculating the ground state of the Schrödinger equation in quantum chemistry. It seems Bruce Willis was the cat all along
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Kent Sharkey wrote: It seems Bruce Willis was the cat all along
Possibly. But the only thing I remember about FUB is a guy walking around with a ferret on a leash.
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Library Explorer is an immersive interface which powerfully recreates and enhances the experience of navigating a physical library. "If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. "
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Welcome to a world where tech giants know a bank's customer better than the bank. According to my new credit score, I can borrow enough to get a cat
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But no... they are not spying on us... it is all only for marketing and to improve the services...
Bollocks
Not a surprise though 
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A Microsoft support document found by WindowsLatest confirms Microsoft is dropping the old Universal Driver classification model and will soon be classifying drivers as either Windows Desktop Drivers or Windows Drivers. And give us an entirely new set of driver problems!
Hurrah for progress!
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Does it really matter, Windows Ten Times (Worse), won't be supporting desktop applications either. With the Microsoft store a barren wasteland, they're nothing more than Edgebooks with delusions of usefulness.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing 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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A service launched with Capella-2 will allow the government or private customers to request observations of anything on the planet. "I am the eye in the sky looking at you"
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"I take a pride in probing all your secret moves
My tearless retina takes pictures that can prove"
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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IF you think the NRO doesn't already have higher resolution assets in orbit, I've got a bridgeEdgebook to sell you.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing 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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Kent Sharkey wrote: "I am the eye in the sky looking at you"
"I am the maker of rules, dealing with fools
I can cheat you blind"
Ah, The Alan Parsons Project. On my playlist while I work.
I wonder if the satellite can improve my poker playing by spying on the other player's cards?
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The average cost of a lithium-ion battery pack fell to $137 per kWh in 2020 "I've got the power"
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"Sometimes, you're given a program to patch, and you don't have the source code to modify it at that level and recompile it" Percussive maintenance?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: "Sometimes, you're given a program to patch, and you don't have the source code to modify it at that level and recompile it"
That would explain some things... 
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Windows Terminal is available in two different builds: Windows Terminal and Windows Terminal Preview. You know what would make me more productive? Background images in my CLI.
Said someone, I suppose?
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Design patterns are a must-know in programming today. Measure twice, implement once?
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Yeah, I was going for a play on that - Microsoft asks, "Where do you want to go today?" and Apple tells you, "Where you should go today" (because their designers know better).
