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The centre of gravity may not have fully shifted yet, but it's moving. Big Windows, as many insiders have called it, will be replaced by Bigger Windows, one that works at cloud scale to deliver information and services to smart end points. Tomorrow's Microsoft will be built around Azure. That strategy means more and more collaboration between the different parts of the organisation as what were in the past standalone applications become services that are consumed by other services. To the cloud!
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Terrence Dorsey wrote: standalone applications become services that are consumed by other services.
Like what Amazon did all those years ago?
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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This sounds very much like going back to the good old days of time-sharing mainframes where you only had a terminal linked to a distant mainframe (often via an acoustic coupler). Yes, I am showing my age as I learned on one of these set-ups. Of course, interactive gaming back then meant an awful lot of typing and waiting.
- Life in the fast lane is only fun if you live in a country with no speed limits.
- Of all the things I have lost, it is my mind that I miss the most.
- I vaguely remember having a good memory...
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Big Windows, as many insiders have called it, will be replaced by Bigger Windows, one that works at cloud scale to deliver information and services to smart end points.
Has someone been watching too much Family Guy[^]?
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Nintendo insiders speak: How Microsoft and Sony were a handshake away from thwarting the Wii, and how its motion controller was born on an airplane... Tom Quinn, a serial inventor based in California, is described by some as "the man who invented the Wii". That's not an accurate statement, of course, but it's not an entirely false one either. Not invented here syndrome, Game of the Year edition.
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Sales of Windows 8 PCs are well below Microsoft’s internal projections and have been described inside the company as disappointing. But here’s the catch: The software giant blames the slow start on lackluster PC maker designs and availability, further justifying its new Surface strategy. But Windows 8’s market acceptance can be blamed on many factors. Windows 8 is no Vista, in many ways. Until it is.
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Terrence Dorsey wrote: Windows 8 is no Vista, in many ways. Until it is.
No, it's more like Windows ME.
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I don’t want to teach anyone how to cover their illicit tracks better, or how to have a more clandestine affair, but let’s take a look at where Petraeus and Broadwell went wrong so you can understand how to cover your tracks better in general, and how to secure your email and protect your privacy online. The more identities a man has, the more they express the person they conceal.
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Black Ops 2 Makes $500 Million in 24 Hours[^]
The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is SILENCE, the second is LISTENING, the third MEMORY, the forth, PRACTICE and the fifth is TEACHING others!
modified 17-Nov-12 10:39am.
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Just wait for GTA5 to break the record.
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LOL '24 hours'. I wonder how many hours and people it took to make the game itself...
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Leap represents an entirely new way to interact with your computers. It’s more accurate than a mouse, as reliable as a keyboard and more sensitive than a touchscreen. For the first time, you can control a computer in three dimensions with your natural hand and finger movements.
We are leaping into the future!
I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.
Stephen Hawking
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Nice idea, but you'll be totally cramped after using it for an hour or so.
Wout
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Looks like an inferior touchscreen attempt to me.
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Source:[^]
How can they be granted a patent filed in 2010 for something that existed long before that. It should be binned as "prior art". #PatentSystemBroke
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WTF, Apple!? In 2006, Bob Hartman published this[^] article at a website I sometimes frequent.
/ravi
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Welcome to our continuing series of Code Project interviews in which we talk to developers about their backgrounds, projects, interests and pet peeves. In this installment we talk to Cary Bran, Senior Director of Advanced Software and Architecture at Plantronics.
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In Java, you can use the command Runtime.getRuntime().exec to execute shell commands, or any external system command. Here's a handy example. Bash has your back.
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One of the worst things that can happen to you is your code being a failure, and in extension, causing damage to a bigger picture as in: delaying (or breaking down) the project and the business, pulling down the sales, or generating any money/time/or hardware loss. It could happen in the worst of the moments, and in the least expected scenarios. What is a coder to do when his program goes wrong and every finger is pointing on him? Success usually has many parents, failure remains an orphan until they figure out a way to put it on you.
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Why so paranoid? Simple. Because I care about my work, photos and data and I would be sad if I lost it. Think about all the times you've heard about a friend who has lost everything. A decade of photos. Years of email. It hurts- just like exercise - because it's good for you. Try restoring from a backup to practice. Backups always succeed. It's restores that fail.
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Performance is only one of many points we consider when we review tablets, but performance affects your overall impression of the tablet—how zippy and responsive it is when you use apps, navigate the operating system, and surf the Web. On top of that, if your tablet's battery fails to deliver long life, you'll find yourself tethered to an outlet more often than you'd like. Tegra 3 leads the way.
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If you build websites for a living, you'll undoubtedly use the obvious web design tools - Firebug, Browsershots, plus the various font embedding services and page speed analysers. So this article isn't about them. Instead we thought we take a look at the more underrated tools that can help you improve client-side browser development and rigorously test everything that you build. Plus 4 alternative tools if these don't quite meet your needs.
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