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The statement is based on declining licenses; that's due to declining hardware-sales, not due to a competing OS.
There's no such thing as a PC apocalypse.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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No problem. I understand they have some kind of "smart bra" in the works. 
-NP
Never underestimate the creativity of the end-user.
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The IDC data is wrong. If look at the the financial reports from Intel and AMD, PC CPU sales were down only by around 5%.
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You can sell a PC CPU without anyone buying the PC it is gonna be built into.
Veni, vidi, caecus
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but that doesn't account for the shortfall, because eventually the CPU will end up in a PC
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Yeah, right - But the PC can have a CPU and still stay somewhere in a company's stock without ever being sold to a customer, thus the CPU manufacturer has sold a CPU, but the PC company has not sold a PC.
Veni, vidi, caecus
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Again I say, the PC has to be eventually sold, otherwise the PC manufacture would have to declare a massive inventory writedown. IDC has been reporting far bigger declines than Intel and AMD for the last 3 quarters. So, where are all those CPUs going?
The obvious explaination is simply that IDC and Gartner information is inaccurate. That's not too hard to believe. They are essentially using 2nd hand information and don't even monitor some segments of the PC market.
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The ADD begins at school age and continues on through college and university, where students wonder why they must learn linear algebra without appreciating how it provides an important grounding in root principles of computer science and problem solving for something as common as how a browser creates a cookie. Developers know how to create a cookie by typing a single line of code, but they don’t understand how tiny pieces of technology frameworks and protocols work together to enable the creation of a cookie on the end user’s computer. "Mayhaps you desire to - SQUIRREL!" (thank you, Jason Cardoza)
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Was it Tech ADD that caused you to repost this one?
(I know, its because you somehow managed to squeeze a few days into the weekend)
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Probably, but then again, I'm a professional. (Literally - I get paid for my tADD. Bonus!)
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The smart bra was revealed in a new paper (.PDF) from a team of five scientists at Microsoft Research, titled "Food and Mood: Just-in-Time Support for Emotional Eating." The idea is to measure your emotional state via sensors built into the bra, cross reference that with your feelings when overeating in the past, and send a warning to your smartphone if the system thinks you're likely to reach for the jar of cookies at any minute. The "wearables" market is really starting to inflate
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So let me get this straight - a bunch of "scientists" at Microsoft Research have created a completely ridiculous invention that will remind you via phone that you are likely to go comfort eat? Surely the fact it's reminding you that you might want to eat is self defeating as your more likely to then go eat.
Perhaps they should invest less in nonsense and more in fixing Windows 8 
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Developing for mobile should be just as easy as it is developing for desktop. We've been working hard in the Chrome DevTools to make things easier for you and it's time to unveil some new features that should dramatically improve your mobile web development. Screencasting! Emulation! Pinch-zoom! So much goodness on the way.
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Increased spending on salaries, training, and budgets puts IT in a "sweet spot for employment and investment," says latest Society for Information Management data. "The future's so bright I gotta wear shades"
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Open "platform as a service" vendors Cloud Foundry and OpenShift are having at each other on Twitter. It's a sign of things to come. "If you're not paying for the product, you are the product."
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The ADD begins at school age and continues on through college and university, where students wonder why they must learn linear algebra without appreciating how it provides an important grounding in root principles of computer science and problem solving for something as common as how a browser creates a cookie. Developers know how to create a cookie by typing a single line of code, but they don’t understand how tiny pieces of technology frameworks and protocols work together to enable the creation of a cookie on the end user’s computer.
Facebook
Technological Attention Deficit Disorder is a fancy word for procrastination
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Sounds like someone found the perfect group to rob; people who can't complain to the police without incriminating themselves. Makes you wonder if it was hacked or was created as a scam from the beginning. 
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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Maybe he gets away with it legally, but I doubt he will have a long life!
Wout
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Microsoft is launching a beta version of Project Spark today, its game-maker project for Windows 8.1, Xbox 360, and the new Xbox One console. Project Spark is essentially a tool to allow developers, enthusiasts, and gamers to build a game within a game. Your path to fame, fortune, and sore thumbs
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Merges of code lines between releases would be halted after JDK 9 is initialized from JDK 8. "Two roads diverged in a yellow wood"
modified 3-Dec-13 18:35pm.
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Link(s) take me to the Codeproject home page. Looks like more than the merge has halted........(Kent brain -> Restart) 
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Derp. Thank you. I blame taking a few days off this weekend.
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That's impressive squeezing a few days into a weekend, I've only ever managed a couple!
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Well, I was technically 'on vacation' Wed-Sun, so how would you rather I refer to that quantity?
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