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"Remember the heady days of August 2007, when the iPhone had barely reached store shelves"
Yeah - I remember those days quite well - we had a boss that told us not to worry about that toy with a color screen - after all - we had better battery life.
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Aldrin is working with the Florida Institute of Technology (FIT) to develop what he calls “a master plan” to colonize Mars in just 25 years. "There they go, off to Mars, just for the ride, thinking that they will find a planet like a seer's crystal, in which to read a miraculous future."
Buzz, did you even read, "The Martian"? The place is *nasty*.
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He's pretty old I don't believe he'll be able to go in 25 years...oh he probably means someone else is going to colonize mars.
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.1 new web site.
I know the voices in my head are not real but damn they come up with some good ideas!
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Buzz, how about suggesting to spend the money that would be needed for such a project to make this planet a better place first of all? Instead of wasting it for the stupid attempt to colonize a dry, cold rock where the only place to survive and be safe from cosmic radiation is beneath the surface. As if we didn't have enough bottlenecks to deal with down here. Sure I would like to see humans to reach for the stars, but it's not the right time, it's too early, we've got more important problems to solve on Earth before we can start to think about such a mission.
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It'll happen when it happens.
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A new study by Oracle and Opinium Research finds that businesses around the world overestimate their ability to flexibly manage workloads or rapidly develop, test and launch new applications. I can touch my toes, does that count as agile?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: A new study by Oracle and Opinium Research
Like we need a study Orifice and Opium Research to tell us what we all already know.
Well, maybe the difference is, we in the trenches know, while management continues to put its collective head in the sand while wagging its butt in the air occasionally tooting "we are an agile company."
Marc
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Ah, Oracle. The nimble and agile company that basically invented agile
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What're you talking about? Oracle is as agile as two high speed trains approaching each other on the same track. Bits and pieces end up going in every direction.
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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Microsoft has a new Office tool that's really useful if you regularly take screenshots. Microsoft Snip, available in beta now, allows Windows users to capture screenshots and then annotate on them and record audio over the top. Aaaaaand there goes Camtasia
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The Microsoft Edge Team just built a proof-of-concept browser to show developers that they too can build a web browser for the Universal Windows Platform. Are they hoping for a better replacement for Edge?
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Well, I was really hoping to be able to reuse the EdgeHTML rendering engine in a .NET application. Unfortunately, there's no .tlb anymore like there was for MSHTML. Again, people who don't like to build a UWP app from scratch but would like to embrace the new stuff and use it in their exisiting solutions are left in the cold. IMO, forcing people to use a certain technology exclusively is a bad idea, it shows that they have no confidence developers would use it if they had the choice.
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Need a quiet spot to check your email? Looks like for many people, that’s the bathroom. According to a new study from Adobe, 42 percent of Americans use their time there to check their email. Text with the left, swipe with the right
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Kent Sharkey wrote: swipe with the right
Ewwwww.....
Anyway, I believe that 0% of Amercians check their email in the loo, although I do believe a huge % check their email in the restroom or bathroom EDIT or outhouse. We don't have loos here.
Interesintgly, 87% of UKers & Canadians actually do check their email in the loo.
True story.
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That IS surprising.
I expected to look at a number closer to 100%
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That IS surprising.
I expected to look at a number close to 100%
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And of the 48% that claim they don't, 98% of them lied.
Marc
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Prominent content will still autoplay, but less important items won't in order to improve battery life. New feature is called 'Captain Cold'
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Once, not so long ago, "computing" was synonymous with Microsoft Windows. But thanks to the rise of the smartphone and tablet, those days are behind us. Freecell becomes the new monopoly?
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In 2009, Eugene Kaspersky, co-founder of one of the world's top security companies, told some of his lieutenants that they should attack rival antivirus software maker AVG Technologies by "rubbing them out in the outhouse," one of several previously undisclosed emails shows. That would make them (of course) an anti-anti-virus company
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Since the beginning of the consumer tech industry, there’s really only been one business model for hardware startups: build a product and hope people buy it.
That’s starting to change - the hardware market is now starting to look more and more like the software business and several Canadian startups are starting to take advantage of this new market. Well that's a mouthful.
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One man's journey learning Clojure. Embrace the parentheses.
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