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How the name 'Internet of Things' can make you think that the web left behind!!!
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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For some loose definitions of "web".
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Microsoft’s Windows 10 is still in testing, but hardware makers can’t wait for the day the OS replaces the controversial Windows 8. A four year old computer is "ripe for upgrade"? Smells pretty ripe around here then.
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My work laptop is only about 2 years old and is very ripe. Unfortunately even if I found a real issue worthy of gaming my way to an out of cycle upgrade again (in 9.5 years working here I'm on my 4th laptop and have never had a laptop for the official 4 years before replacement); afaik the cheapskates still aren't buying SSD equipped models meaning it would be just as garbage as the box it replaced. 
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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Yes. Hyberbole is their middle name. And their first name. Also their last name.
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"There's a major lifestyle shift that's been brewing over the last 30 years," including kids and adults doing more close-up work and spending more time indoors, says Mark Jacquot, clinical director of vision care at LensCrafters. "This is contributing to a reduced ability to focus on things farther away, which is essentially myopia."
In the early 1970s, about 25 percent of 12- to 54-year-old Americans were myopic. By the 2000s, more than 41 percent had the condition, research finds. [^]
In Taiwan, the myopia prevalence among 7-year-olds increased from 5.8 percent in 1983 to 21 percent in 2000. And in South Korea, a large, representative study of 19-year-olds showed that more than 96 percent were myopic in 2010.
«OOP to me means only messaging, local retention and protection and hiding of state-process, and extreme late-binding of all things. » Alan Kay's clarification on what he meant by the term "Object" in "Object-Oriented Programming."
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Google's browser falters on both desktop and mobile. I'll never let go XP. I'll never let go.
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation warned U.S. businesses that hackers have used malicious software to launch a destructive cyberattack in the United States, following a devastating breach last week at Sony Pictures Entertainment. They battened down the hatches, but the hatches wouldn't hold.
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Intel has today unveiled a new open-source communication system created especially for Professor Stephen Hawking, which can be adapted for for the three million people worldwide who suffer from quadriplegia and motor neurone disease. An excellent opportunity for the open-source community to help people with disabilities.
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In its Africa Telecoms Outlook 2014, Informa Telecoms and Media predict that mobile date revenues will nearly triple by 2018, and mobile broadband subscriptions will more than quadruple. I'm not sure you've factored in how big my smartphone bill is.
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The best-known part of the Internet of things is full of dubious products and notions Do I really need lights that turn blue when it rains?
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Oh, where is Ken Olsen now?
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What Olsen [was focusing on was] that in the 1950s and 1960s there existed the notion that the computer not only could but would control all aspects of our lives. Images of the fully computerized home that automatically turned lights on and off and that prepared meals and controlled daily diets were popular. And the fear that computers might, as in the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey, even try to take charge altogether was widely experienced.
" -- http://www.snopes.com/quotes/kenolsen.asp[^]
Aside: Why am I unable to select/copy from Snopes? Eventually I simply used "Show source" and accomplished it.
modified 2-Dec-14 18:18pm.
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Some objections to Bruce Eckel's “Strong typing vs strong testing” The hats are at it in the arena again.
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Anyone with even a passing interest in the sciences must have wondered what it’s like to work at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research, better known as CERN. "What does discovery taste like?"
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Using Theano to build a chess AI Because everything comes back to chess.
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Chess is just math; even a machine can do it. 
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One bloggers notes on all the things that are different between apps in China vs. apps in the US. Ooo, a way to keep tabs on local pollution levels. The future is bright!
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One person's exploration of one of Google's alleged hiring tests at google.com/foobar Shall we play a game?
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Sean Ewington wrote: Shall we play a game?
This isn't the one where you cut off one of my fingers if my lighter doesn't light, is it? I don't like that one.
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But you've ... played that one?
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject
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I avoid visiting the twilight zone as much as possible.
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I think you'll find you're off the mark. It's a reference to Roald Dahl's Tales of the Unexpected if my memory serves me correctly.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Doh!
You're right. I had this tiny bit of doubt that it wasn't the Twilight Zone that I saw that story, and I thought it was "The Four Rooms" by four different directors, this one Quentin Tarantino.
and yes, a quick search confirms Roald Dahl.
And lists that it has been adapted for television and movies at least four times.
With that being said, I still avoid the twilight zone whenever possible. 
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