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Quote: designing and building self-service capabilities to minimize cognitive load for developers and to enable fast flow software delivery.
Think of it as a vending machine for software development. Insert bill, dispense, no thinking required.
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After a Microsoft employee accidentally leaked tabs in Notepad over the holidays, it’s officially in public test builds. What if you prefer spaces?
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If it follows the new 'roundedness' of Windows, does it only support serif fonts? 
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The nonprofit Linux Foundation has launched the Open Metaverse Foundation (OMF) to promote an open metaverse. It's the Year of Metaverse!
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Why don't they just take another name?
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Isn't that one of the very basic ideas of FOSS: When someone has invented/developed something, it should be free for the taking to anyone?
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I doubt Zuckeberg has done it with that idea in mind, and the guys are risking that he afterwards comes with some lawyers to claim copyright about the term.
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Lots of 'alternative' FOSS solutions - e.g. in sound and video compression - have ripped off a lot of costly development work done by commercial companies, repackaged it and made a few cosmetic changes to make it appear as their own development, and tried to sell it to the world.
There certainly are cases where FOSS people have managed to create very good software. One prominent example: The LAME encoder started as a mediocre, simplistic MP3 encoder, its quality was far behind commercial ones. But licensing fees for commercial versions were so horrible that a lot of users rather put resources into improving LAME, and it gradually improved to a level where it became the standard that other MP3 encoders were measured up against. -- But that was after several competing FOSS formats built on the same basic principles as MP3 had failed in the market. "If you can't beat them, join them".
On the desktop user interface side, FOSS guys have 'always' let other companies do expensive, lengthy usability studies. Then FOSS comes lurking behind to pick up the conclusion from the commercial studies. Smartphone UI is different - but can hardly be said to be developed by FOSS guys, even though there are lots of free apps. (Not that often open source, though.)
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Meta's chief product officer Chris Cox said he believes the metaverse will one day become as essential as smartphones during a panel about the technology at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Wednesday. "On the back of his business card is gibberish explaining how he may be reached: a telephone number. A universal voice phone locator code. A P.O. box. His address on half a dozen electronic communications nets. And an address in the Metaverse."
Please forgive me for being (more than) a bit skeptical
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That a virtual world will be important in the future... almost for sure.
That Metaverse will be it... I am not so sure, I just hope not.
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it will be as important as his job moreover...
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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I am sure it will just as essential as Second Life. Like when German police wanted to enter SL for criminal investigations of SL avatar activities that were against German law ... (That is true! I believe the investigation was stopped almost before it had started, though.)
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Tools vendor JetBrains has published its annual survey of development trends, this time based on responses from around 29,000 developers, and it shows the declining use of PHP and Ruby. Yes on the first two, not convinced on the other two items
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If you're looking to buy a Windows 10 license online, you might want to hurry up — by the end of this month, Microsoft will officially stop offering Windows 10 licenses on its website. Soon it will only go to 11
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At this point I wouldn't purchase a Windows 10 only license anyway. I'd purchase a Windows 11 license and used the downgrade rights to Windows 10. However, I have discovered that newer Surface lines don't work as well with Windows 10 due to driver issues.
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You have a Surface? Which one, and how do you like it? (I've considered getting one in the past)
TTFN - Kent
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I'm a SMB (Small Medium Business) CIO and we have a fleet of Surface Pros and Surface Laptops. We also have a small number of Dell laptops and have been phasing out our Dell desktops. My users generally love their Surface machines. One thing I would recommend though, is that Surface Pro 8 and newer and Surface Laptop 5 and newer stick with Windows 11 as the Windows 10 audio (speaker and microphone) drivers simply aren't very good.
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Turns out Metal Gear Solid was onto something with its cardboard box disguises. Lockheed Martin begins production of the M-300 Battle Box
It starts at USD 3million, plus munitions
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Visual Studio 17.5 preview 3 introduces the first preview of the Spell Checker for C#, C++ and Markdown files. You have nothing to lose but your suing delarcations
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Microsoft is investigating an issue causing the Windows taskbar and Start Menu to become unresponsive and triggering Outlook and Teams login problems. Now renamed the Won't Start menu
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Aha... now the question is... will they deliver a fix?
Or just change the icons in the task bar?
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Interesting. The article never mentions what version of Windows is affected.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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The comments on that article indicate this issue goes back to at least Windows 10 v1809. The problem is it's not only intermittent but also relatively rare so it's going to be hard to track down the underlying cause.
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The U.S. State Department is changing the decades-old tradition of using the Times New Roman font for internal documents. Perhaps Comic Sans would be more appropriate?
And don't get them started on the number of spaces after a period.
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