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A quick shift from Windows 8.1 upgraders to those updating from Windows 7 is good news for Microsoft. "I still don't know what I was waiting for, and my time was running wild"
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So, does the increase in usage share for Windows 8.1 after five weeks imply that people who moved to Windows 10 are fed up with it and turning back now? 
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That looks a lot more like either a blip or a correction from too small a sample window. IOW what we're really seeing is an adjustment in the W7 to W8.x ratio. With W10 only gaining 0.2%/week at the moment you're looking at numbers that're probably on the same scale as the margin of error. Even the monthly version trend numbers have a weird bobble or two every year. 
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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Apple's Swift programming language is enjoying a meteoric rise in popularity and gaining new followers at an unprecedented rate, according to a recent study. From 0 to "Please Kill Objective-C already" in just a year or so
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Outbreak may have caused hundreds of millions of people to download malicious apps. Apple computers are immune to malware...right?
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(mixing quotes...)
Only three things are unavoidable...
death and... taxes
and human stupidity
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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The effects have been extremely limited, and almost exclusively to the Chinese market. The good news is that Apple seems to be able to track it down to specific apps and pull them from it's App Store.
I can't believe that people were downloading XCode from unofficial websites though, especially as Apple give it away for free anyway.
Would you download Visual Studio from an unoffical site? And if you did, would you be surprised if it was infested with malware? 
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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Vintage tech goes under the hammer[^] [Aunty]
An Apple 1 motherboard, a 79-year-old TV and the only surviving processor of the last supercomputer designed by Seymour Cray are being auctioned in New York.
/ravi
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::yawn:: Did I mention the ten-year-old HP Integrity (Itanium) server I just got off Ebay?
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I'd get my hand on the Cray chip if I had the money!!!
I'd rather be phishing!
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Or you you could just buy a Dell laptop, according to this[^] post. 
/ravi
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In the era of decentralized IT, enterprise architects will find fresh opportunity to help businesses meet their most important objectives. Someone's got to build all this stuff
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Someone's got to build all this stuff
Pssst: Architects don't build anything.
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OK, someone's got to draw the diagrams of all this stuff?
TTFN - Kent
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With circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back...
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Twenty-seven eight-by-ten photographs ought to be enough for anybody? 
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Surely, all you need to be an enterprise architect is an envelope and a pencil?
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And Google.
Jeremy Falcon
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Yeah... architects design the system, convince management it MUST be implemented, and leave the implementation costs up to the sites... in other words, find the money you didn't budget for.
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This morning in his opening keynote at CppCon, Bjarne Stroustrup announced the C++ Core Guidelines (github.com/isocpp/CppCoreGuidelines), the start of a new open source project on GitHub to build modern authoritative guidelines for writing C++ code. Assuming you feel he knows C++
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Some idiot wrote: guidelines for writing C++ code
That's not his jurisdiction.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: guidelines
Leaving plenty of room for writing outside the lines...
Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell
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
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Rob Grainger wrote: Suddenly, Wired have lost a reader.
Make that n readers.
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Yep, noticed that the other day...
n++
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