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Quote: Timeline 3, Steve Ballmer. You open the door to lots of blather an office chair thrown by a balding nutjob. That’s Steve Ballmer.
It’s easy to mock Ballmer.
FTFY. It did get one thing right though.
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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I thought to be like Steve Ballmer, you had to learn chair throwing
Every day, thousands of innocent plants are killed by vegetarians.
Help end the violence EAT BACON
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Perhaps in defense of some insistent questioning coming from former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, current CEO Satya Nadella is attempting to wrangle the narrative around Windows Phone’s app strategy. Like any fruit, it just needs time. And loads of fertilizer.
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Bull sh*t seems to be the furtilizer of choice.
New version: WinHeist Version You didn't fall from the stupid tree you got dragged through the whole dumbass forest.
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An the volume seems to be more than adequate!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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"Universal! Universal! Universal!"
EDIT: Am I the only one who thinks this framework is just a cheap rip-off of .NET library design and a warmed-up COM foundation, built by C++ lovers?
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FIorian Schneidereit wrote: EDIT: Am I the only one who thinks this framework is just a cheap rip-off of .NET library design and a warmed-up COM foundation, built by C++ lovers?
It's made by the same people.. so you can't quite say that!
But
1. Yes, it is very strongly inspired, because .NET is good
2. It has more feature (think sensor API for example)
3. It has less feature (can't even access the disk without begging through a OpenFileDialog first)
4. It's a C++ lover affair sadly.. (allegedly because it was needed for supporting multilanguage support (i.e. Javascript!)(and frankly, who thought this would be a good idea?)) and also to provide better UI tool to native developer (it's painful to develop the polish of XAML-WPF App in C++) I guess that's a win for them... (whoever they are?! )
But mostly I am sad that Midori[^] is just gone!
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Virtual assistants are one of the trendiest themes in tech right now. Flip phones. They're totally coming back.
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My bet is futurama eyephone.
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The seldom-mentioned fifth 'bridge' designed to bring more apps to Microsoft's Windows 10 quietly debuted this week. See? Silverlight's not dead.
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Silverlight haahahaaahaaaaaaaaa.
Almost lost my cool there for a second. ~The Grinch (Jim Carrey)
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Ok, that's Sliverblight for WP8.1 covered; what about a porting tool for Silverblight in the browser?
Quote: The Mobilize.NET Silverlight bridge allows developers to convert Silverlight Windows Phone apps to Windows 10 Universal Windows apps and/or to HTML5 and JavaScript. According to the company's site, the bridging tool analyze an app's source code and converts the references either to Windows 10 application programming interfaces (APIs) or HTML5/JavaSript. "Either way you'll get native C# code with no runtimes," the company says.
Say what!?! Last time I checked HTML5/JavaScript wasn't anything like C#. I'm guessing the author meant native windows runtime code (since for some perverse reason there is an HTML/javascript version of the metro API); not a leak of a web to C# bridge. Which's too bad, I'd've liked the latter.
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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Windows 10 likely focus again as company will be prepping 2016's first feature upgrade. All the big announcements will be on the last day
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Kent Sharkey wrote: All the big announcements will be on the last day Without doubts biggest announcements will be on April 1st.
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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Never underestimate the power of spreadsheets. But boss. I am working, look, it's just a spreadsheet
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The screenshots didn't make me to change my decision and call Office (Excel) back...
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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Yeah, it doesn't exactly need a high end video card.
TTFN - Kent
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Source will be available from January, and open to community contributions. I wonder if they'll accept a pull request to convert it to C#?
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They hop someone will able to improve it finally...
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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Do you think my tiny PC will have the juice to build the entire source code?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: I wonder if they'll accept a pull request to convert it to C#?
I wonder how many trolls will submit pull requests that consist of deleting the entire existing code base and replacing it with Google V8 or Mozilla Spidermonkey.
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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This change aligns with the licensing scheme now used for SQL Server, among others. Time to dig up those old Pentium severs
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Microsoft has published a collection of predictions from sixteen employees they consider to be “leading thinkers” within their Technology and Research organization. Flying cars. Aaaaaaany day now.
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Quantum computing?? Yea, no. Stick to silicon, it is way predictable.
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Why just take their money when we could also take their blood ? [^]. Google's patent application: [^].
«I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center» Kurt Vonnegut.
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