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#7: The perfect form for doing a Dr. Evil impression [^]
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Bonus #6: "Shout, shout, let it all out"
You're now, now rocking with ... Will.I.Am and Ballmer, bitch!
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Brisingr @ Gryphon-PC $ phrase type 'Ballmer management'
Parsing 'Ballmer management'...
Phrase 'Ballmer management' is an oxymoron.
Brisingr @ Gryphon-PC $
Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.
- Mitchell Kapor
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Software may be eating the world, as Marc Andreessen posits, but open-source software seems to be eating itself. And at a far faster clip. While the software world has grown used to products and their vendors dominating for long stretches (think: Microsoft in operating systems and Oracle in databases), the new world of open source is moving at an accelerated, Darwinian pace, leaving no project to rest on its laurels. "The hurrier I go, the behinder I get."
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Development for multiple devices has its challenges, but there are also possibilities which aren’t typically available on desktop PCs. Consider the vibration mechanism; it’s a simple tactile feedback device which can alert you of new messages or phone calls. It’s especially useful in a noisy environment where sound cannot be heard or quiet places where it would be a distraction. "Don't ask, don't tell"
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Give's a new meaning to "vibrator".
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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We all know which industry will use this feature first.
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In keeping with their tradition of community collaboration on the Java platform, Oracle is inviting the enterprise development community to participate in a survey to help define requirements for the next version of Java Enterprise Edition, Java EE 8. "Fools need Advice most, but wise Men only are the better for it."
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delete java;
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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Valve, the online software distribution company, is shipping 300 prototype Steam Machines to beta testers on Friday. The lucky few hundred will receive both Steam's hardware and SteamOS, its Linux-based software for video games, for testing, as the company pushes to establish an open-source gaming platform. Will it fix the "catastrophe"?
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Hmm, I don't see much use for running SteamOS on a normal PC, because I could just install Steam and have exactly the same thing.
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I'm assuming that it might be useful as a dedicated machine at some point. Also, there would be a theoretical performance improvement in just having one OS before your game.
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Legit is a complementary command-line interface for Git, optimized for workflow simplicity. "Too legit. Too legit to quit."
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In yet another disclosure from Edward Snowden's pile of leaked NSA documents, The Washington Post has revealed that the US surveillance agency may be using Google's advertising cookies to track and "pinpoint" targets for government hacking and location-tracking. Google: a division of the NSA since 1997
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I've always thought Facebook was the NSA's invention to get people to keep tabs on each other for them.
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Yeah, George Orwell would be pretty happy (or really sad) about Facebook.
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Nokia's largest manufacturing center and a key piece of Microsoft's devices and services deal, is frozen along with Nokia's other Indian assets and unable to be transferred to Microsoft. The Indian government is awaiting payment on up to $3.4 billion from Nokia in taxes and penalties dating back to 2006.
"Lalalalalala, you will never get this," says the Indian government to Microsoft.
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UPDATE: The Indian government lifted the freeze on Nokia'a assets [^] , clearing the Chennai phone factory for transfer to Microsoft.
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Mary Jo Foley conducted what may be Steve Ballmer's final press interview while he is still CEO of Microsoft in late November. The major parts of that chat were posted today at CNN's Fortune website but Foley has some expanded portions of her chat with Ballmer on her ZDNet column today as well. So, we're all in agreement then?
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I think I prefer Vista to Windows 8 ::ptui:: , though.
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His biggest mistake...next to firing anyone with the intelligence, vision and balls to talk him out of it.
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And ME wasn't on his watch? What about the Ribbon?
modified 11-Dec-13 23:29pm.
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I'm sorry: Vista was his biggest mistake? You're kidding me.
Vista was a mess because it was so late and they handled the bad publicity terribly, but they recovered quickly and produced their best OS ever in Windows 7. Windows 8 was not only hamstrung and driven on the road side of the road (to mix metaphors) by internal politics, they haven't recovered with Windows 8.1. Worse: their timing of releasing it on the crest of a move towards tablets and mobile devices was truly awful and it has directly contributed to a decline in PC sales for the first time ever.
I can't help but think there's a little stock-price concern in his reticence to name the current selling Windows OS as his biggest mistake. Regardless of the technical merits of Windows 8 and the need for an OS to move forward and keep up with hardware, I feel the handling of the Windows 8 product has been a much larger issue for Microsoft than Vista ever was.
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Sorry, don't agree. Windows 8 is way better than Vista. People need to get over the start menu/screen bullshiite.
I agree trading the start menu for the start screen/menu was a stupid decision. Even so, I find Windows 8 eminently as usable and even more performant and stable than Windows 7. I have been using windows 8 daily for my job for over a year.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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Upvoted.
Personally, I like the Start screen better than the Start menu. Cascading menus is not a great user experience. The fact is that people are used to it.
I'm not saying the Start screen is great. That would be subjective anyway. But, for my mileage, the Start screen is faster and keeps the noise out of the way. For example, SQL Server creates two separate folders and a dozen or so icons. All of which I almost never need to use. The Start Menu lets me hide all of that. I have quick access to what I need.
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