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The Consortium for IT Software Quality (CISQ) is working to create a measure of technical debt an organization carries across the aforementioned quality characteristics that takes in the amount of work required to clear that debt. About three firkins a kloc?
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Where and how to return values from a function is a topic that can lead to passionate and opinionated discussions. As usual, there are pros and cons for many of the different options. For all your trips There and Back Again
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FreeDOS 1.2 operating system has been released by the FreeDOS project. The new release comes with many updated packages, DOS-compatible games, and a revamped installer which eases the setup process for new users. Party like it's 1994
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If you want to make predictions for the future, you need to find the trajectory of events in the past. So to work out what shape digital technology will likely take next year, we should look back to the major developments of 2016. "Skynet begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware 2:14 AM, Eastern time, August 29th. In a panic, they try to pull the plug."
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Look at the past to predict the future? I wonder how many people could predict high resolution bendable screens when they invented the first color tv.
If you want to somehow plot future development create a nicely curved upwards graph and then make it a lot steeper. :P
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What a clueless, dumb article. Why would, say, Ford want to connect their robots to those at Boeing? Why would person A want to connect their home automation with those of person B? (Ignoring that home automation doesn't make much sense in the first place.)
Having self-driving cars "talk" to each other when in close proximity is arguably critical, but otherwise, why waste the bandwidth sharing useless information?
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Joe Woodbury wrote: why waste the bandwidth sharing useless information? Exactly... just because it is possible it doesn't mean that it is needed
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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Joe Woodbury wrote: why waste the bandwidth sharing useless information? ... Unless it's a coffee machine, of course. The main function of coffee machines is to provide locations for sharing useless information.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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At this week’s “Love and Sex with Robots” conference at Goldsmith University in London, David Levy, author of a book on human-robot love, predicted that human-robot marriages would be legal by 2050. And the first human-robot divorce by 2051
Anyone know how to unstick after a painful eyeroll?
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I think the real news is that there's a "Love and Sex with Robots" conference...
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With the term "experts" being used loosely
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He wrote a book on it - that makes him an instant expert, no?
TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Anyone know how to unstick after a painful eyeroll? I'm sure the manufacturers will provide of list of compatible jells that are water soluble; which can be used on a daily basis.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: And the first human-robot divorce by 2051
You're an optimist then?
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Legal by 2050, compulsory by 2051
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Do that enough and it will stay that way.
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Yet more proof that "x" is the unknown quantity, and a "spurt" is a drip under pressure.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Cyanogen Inc., which produced a version of the Android mobile operating system that competed with Google’s, has announced it will cease services and updates for the software it claimed was installed on more than 50 million devices. Apparently the ant can't move that rubber tree plant
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One of the last hold-outs finally sets retirement date for senior citizen XP. Bad news about your grandmother's computer
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Dang, I guess it is finally time to upgrade to Windows 7 from Vista.Quote: InstallDate : 11/17/2009 10:10:54 PM
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I use weven. Can you talk them into scrapping support there, too?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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The magazine said the machines didn’t deliver the promised battery life. "But there is no joy in Mudville—mighty Casey has struck out."
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After decades of fruitless scanning the skies for alien messages, scientists say it's time to try a basic rule of etiquette: Say "hello" first. "Sup, sup, suppertime!"
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