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While Windows 8.1 is certainly growing quickly and is eating into Windows 8′s share, the duo has only now been able to pass 10 percent market share, while Windows 7 seems to be plowing forward unaffected. "Windows 7 managed to gain more share in December than Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 combined."
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"And there was much rejoicing."
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40 light-years away lies the exoplanet GJ 1214b, a searingly hot "super-Earth" orbiting a red dwarf star. And thanks to the Hubble telescope, researchers believe they've found what lies in the planet's upper atmosphere: thick clouds. Yeah, but is it going to rain tomorrow, Mr Smartypants?
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Using Node.js, we can create web applications easily. Now, thanks to the node-webkit we can also create desktop apps with it, using a unique combination of HTML5 and Node. Who needs all those features like responsiveness and performance?
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The competition really heats up next year as services expand and prices drop. "I saw two clouds at morning Tinged by the rising sun, And in the dawn they floated on And mingled into one. "
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Apple just responded to newly released documents claiming that the U.S. National Security Agency has a method for gaining backdoor access to its iPhone. It says it has never worked with the agency, and is unaware of the alleged program targeting the iPhone known as DROPOUTJEEP. Nah, they're not working with them, they created it for their own use
On an entirely different note: could those government slides get any more ugly?
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Another day, another Sinofsky lieutenant leaving the Redmond software giant. As with Jon DeVaan, it’s not a surprise that George Grant is leaving as Terry Myerson forced him out and replaced him with Mike Fortin. Sinofsky and Grant go way back to the Office days in 1994. "When one or more new males oust the previous male(s) associated with a pride, the conqueror(s) often kill any existing young cubs,"
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Ars editors remember the computers that began their digital lives. "Misty water-colored memories of the way we were"
Sorry for that earworm, it's better to share.
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"Those were the days, my friend."
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Apple CEO Tim Cook received a compensation package of $4.25 million for the 2013 fiscal year, a 2% increase over the year before.
But the board also dinged Cook to the tune of nearly $4 million in stock vesting reductions, citing Apple's subpar performance compared to the S&P 500's for the 12-month period. Poor guy, now he can't even afford a Mac Pro
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Jon DeVaan, the respected Microsoft executive who oversaw some of the company’s most important engineering initiatives, is leaving after nearly three decades — capping a year of massive changes in Microsoft’s executive ranks. "And another one gone and another one gone"
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tl;dr;
retiring or going somewhere else ?
I'd rather be phishing!
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"Spending more time with his family"
Of course, if he's been there since '84, there is a lot to spend.
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TTFN - Kent
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Is the uSoft ship sinking?
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It is in the process of being converted to a submarine just in case!
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They better get some small life jackets for the rats then or they'll all be jumping!
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The most overhyped, in their view, were social tools aimed at the enterprise. This would include products like Jive, Microsoft’s Yammer, Salesforce.com’s Chatter, Moxie, VMWare’s Socialcast and a host of others. Does this explain why you won't "Like" me?
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By zooming in on high-resolution photographs of faces, researchers recovered images of unseen bystanders from reflections in the subjects' eyes. The technique could eventually be used in criminal investigations. Zoom in! Enhance!
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It's inevitable that at this time of year tech companies and analysts like to try to grab headlines with their predictions for the coming 12 months. Security specialist Kaspersky Lab is no exception, and guaranteed to make waves is its forecast of the collapse of the internet as we know it. Well, we had a good run there, where did I leave that BBS install disk?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: where did I leave that BBS install disk? All will be revealed once you check out this[^]
[Perhaps this one has been done to death by now]
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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Ah right. Forgot about that one.
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TTFN - Kent
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At the Chaos Computer Congress (30C3), xobs and I disclosed a finding that some SD cards contain vulnerabilities that allow arbitrary code execution — on the memory card itself. "Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these"
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I had no idea. That's awesome.
Kent Sharkey wrote: "Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these"
...all racing around cleaning up bad memory at amazing speeds. :p
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Agents with the U.S. National Security Agency are able to intercept crash reports from specific Microsoft Windows-based machines to better understand how to exploit a computer with spyware, according to the latest revelations about the U.S. government’s electronic surveillance program, published this weekend by Der Spiegel newsmagazine. No wonder they have more data than they know what to do with
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