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I remember watching the Pipes screensaver, as they'd occasionally throw that teapot up on the screen. 
TTFN - Kent
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Personally, it blows my mind DirectX is incorporating any Ray Tracing at all. I actually wrote a C++ ray tracer back in 486DX days, and most scenes took over a week to render.
They do say time goes quicker as you get older. Nobody told me I'd be able to accomplish more in that time as well.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Rob Grainger wrote: They do say time goes quicker as you get older.
A doco I watched once asserted this to be a two-pronged assault.
0) Generally speaking, the region of people's brain responsible for keeping track of the passing of time works more poorly as they age.
1) The obvious one. 1 day is a far larger portion of a 1 week-old baby's life than that of any of ours.
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Just as the LAMP stack revolutionized servers and web hosting, the SMACK stack has made big data applications viable and easier to develop. "That's a drag with a monkey on your back, Smack Jack"
Sorry, I spent a lot of time with that album back in the day (and so it was the first blurb that came to mind)
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I'm holding out for the pancake stack at ihop.
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It will, I predict, do nothing for productivity getting lots of developers addicted to SMACK.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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It defies conventional wisdom about semiconductors. It's baffling that it even works. It eludes physics models that try to explain it. This newly tested class of light-emitting semiconductors is so easy to produce from solution that it could be painted onto surfaces to light up our future in myriad colors shining from affordable lasers, LEDs, and even window glass. Let's paint the baby's room in MOSFET
Besides, didn't you want to read about biexcitons today?
Yet another thing perovskites "may do - someday"
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Quote: An emergent class of semiconductors, which could affordably light up our future with nuanced colors emanating from lasers, lamps, and even window glass
Are they trying to say that the light striking the back of the glass excites the film on the other side to create different light? Or are they really saying that just the glass itself is enough to start the emission process?
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I think it's that light striking these causes them to start doing ... something above my pay grade.
Quote: In semiconductors, millions of excitons are correlated, or choreographed, with each other, which makes for desirable properties, when an energy source like electricity or laser light is applied
TTFN - Kent
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I think they are saying that a light input causes light of (a/any?) different wavelength as an output. So not much different than putting a colored screen in front of a light? (The only difference is that you can control the output wavelength?)
The writing doesn't speak well of the communication abilities of those 'academics.' Unless they really did mean that just placing their substance on a piece of glass, backlit or not, started the emission of light.
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Microsoft worked on the phases of Windows Update to help reduce the “offline time” when Windows 10 is unusable during featured updates to an average of 30 minutes. Something to read while the restarting screen is on your computer
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We built DirectML to provide GPU hardware acceleration for games that use Windows Machine Learning. Now the AI will capture your flag
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It’s hard to explain to people who haven’t worked with machine learning, but we’re still back in the dark ages when it comes to tracking changes and rebuilding models from scratch. Rarely is the question asked: Is our AI learning?
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You can filter job openings to find those where you know an employee. LinkedIn figured out how to create more spam? Well played.
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I change jobs to get away from those people, not to work with them again!
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The Internet Archive has launched a Handheld History Collection filled with about 60 emulated versions of retro handheld games to take you back to the long car rides of your childhood. "Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could that they didn't stop to think if they should."
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Microsoft is one of ten companies now committed to try to work through open-source software licensing problems involving the GPL with customers before resorting to legal action. That's 'free' as in, 'free to sue you'
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But don't let the size fool you: This sucker has the computing power of the x86 chip from 1990. Probably doesn't run DOOM, though ;(
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They should have used sugar instead of salt, that way if it "meltdown" then you get caramel at least
I'll go get my coat
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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Dear Microsoft,
Here's your next way to forcehelp people to use Edge...
Evil Marketing Ploy Every third time a link is clicked on the Win10 computer, simply open it in Edge no matter which browser is set as default.
It'll be so annoying that eventually a number of people will give up on trying to use another company's browser and will make Edge the default.
I've copyrighted and patented this idea so when you implement it, please transfer $10.25 million USD into my bank account and make me CMO (Chief Marketing Officer) of Microsoft.
I look forward to the $$$ being transferred with the next Win10 update.
Sincerely
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A slightly over-the-top headline: they're not trying to stop people from using other browsers in general (yet!). They're just considering making web links from one of their programs ignore the default browser, and open in Edge instead.
Which seems like a great way to make people switch to a different email client, rather than increasing the number of Edge users.
It's a terrible idea, and if it rolls out, I'm sure it will end up in another anti-trust case against them. It's just not quite as bad as the headline suggests. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Yes, that's the way I read it, too. Wrap Windows Mail the concrete boots of Edge and watch them sink together whilst the legal fees spiral. It really is a spectacularly stupid idea.
If I had any shares in MS, I'd be looking to verify the story and I'd offload them if it turned out to be correct.
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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Oy, MS - when you let ME decide where and how to display the favorites tab then I'll think about using you. Until then, Chrome (with an extension) does the trick. 
Keep your friends close. Keep Kill your enemies closer.
The End
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