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You no longer have to install the SkyDrive app separately as it is now built into the OS. Windows 8.1 makes a concerted effort to force you to use SkyDrive. Sink all your data
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Yet another fail for M$.
Keep Clam And Proofread
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√(-1) 23 ∑ π...
And it was delicious.
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If an Android device (phone or tablet) has ever logged on to a particular Wi-Fi network, then Google probably knows the Wi-Fi password. Considering how many Android devices there are, it is likely that Google can access most Wi-Fi passwords worldwide. Seeing as how most of them are "default", it's not surprising
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Revenge or no, this mass migration will definitely have a negative impact on Oracle's open source relational database. It's not MySQL, it's *their*SQL
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Awesome.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Awesome that Goog split, that they'll be helping Maria going forward, or you're just a fan of seals for logos (rather than dolphins)? 
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TTFN - Kent
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Well obviously the seal, but more importantly we're heading down the same (sorta) path and having the Behemoth aggressively contributing fixes and improvements means we get to ride a large set of coattails.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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What's performance in MariaDB for larger DBs like these days? I've got a friend who's a MySQL DBA; and a few months ago he said that despite all the "Oracle is going to cripple mySQL in favor of their own DB" fear mongering the reality has been that they've improved it's ability to scale across multiple cores significantly letting big DBs run much faster than before.
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 have no actual data but have read that Maria is starting to out-perform MySQL. It's always going to depend on context, but they are being aggressive in making MariaDB a contender.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Three federal agencies may have wasted as much as $321 million on information technology investments, according to a study (.PDF) released Thursday by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO). The study looked at the Departments of Homeland Security (DHS), Defense (DOD), and Health and Human Services (HHS) from 2008 to 2013. I'm actually surprised it's not higher
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The rest was simply squandered.
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Apple's new model includes Touch ID, which allows users to unlock their handsets with their fingerprints Because it's easier to do that than get their PIN?
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You can once again use RSS feeds to have all Google Alert notifications delivered to your feed reader of choice. Google Alerts has reactivated the option, which had disappeared following the shuttering of Google Reader a few months back. Coupled with the usual email digests, this returns to you the RSS option that was favored by many who wanted to keep their inboxes decluttered. For those who like to be fed
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As professional nerds, we love role-playing games. And we love web development. Naturally, we wondered what a character talent tree for a web developer might look like. Because it's Friday
OK, it's stupid and only WoW players are likely to get the joke (or Rift players, but are there any?), but it is somewhat useful as a collection of links to various training sources (including CodeProject).
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Microsoft isn't done taunting Apple about those new iPhones. Not by a long shot. After trying to seize publicity immediately following Apple's latest hardware unveiling, the company is back with seven — yes, seven — "fly on the wall" videos that ridicule both new iPhone models. Ugh. Why?
Really? You need to go there? Why not just come up with better phones (oh, you have that), or a better user experience for smartphones (oh, you have that too)? Why not just remind everyone how you're better instead of poking at a keynote?
But I do have to say, "And the beauty is, we can charge whatever we like" is sadly true.
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"We're giving them the finger, ..., print, fingerprint" ...
"so finger it is"
Humm.... please tell me this is a hoax, or is Ballmer still pulling the strings ?
I'd rather be phishing!
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Between these, and the Scroogled series, I really hope someone gets sacked. As in put in a sack and dropped in a river, as they'll just go to another company and do things like this.
And if it is Ballmer, maybe he can hurry the ____ up.
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TTFN - Kent
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Quote: Ugh. Why?
Why not? It seems very reasonable under the circumstances.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Reasonable to try to market your product:
- without mentioning your product
- by mocking a competitor for adding a feature your product doesn't have
- by mocking a competitor for adding colours to their product (that yours already does)
- with moderately bad acting
- by using visual references no one outside of your marketing team are likely to get
- using the word "Brah" in your marketing
Sorry, I don't think it's reasonable. It's not in the category of insulting your customers (the old Dinosaur ads for Office are a low point hard to match), but not good marketing.
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TTFN - Kent
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Yes, but it's Apple!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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 OK, I've give you that.
IMO, here were a couple of better examples Microsoft could have gone with:
Nokia[^]
Denny's[^]
Not directly iPhone 5, but spot on: Kit Kat[^] Jon Ive is just so unabashedly mockable.
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TTFN - Kent
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I love the KitKat one especially!  Yummy!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Quote: without mentioning your product
I didn't see the video because it was removed; however, if you can market your product without mentioning your product that seems pretty good to me.
Quote: by mocking a competitor for adding a feature your product doesn't have
by mocking a competitor for adding colours to their product (that yours already does)
with moderately bad acting
I'm a MAC. I'm a PC.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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I guess I should have better phrased that first one as, "Trying to market your product without ever mentioning your product." No where in the video was it clear that they'd rather you buy a Windows Phone (or even that it was a Microsoft video as I remember it).
RyanDev wrote: I'm a MAC. I'm a PC.
Well, I was never as keen on those as Apple was, but I'd argue that they never mocked the PC for features they didn't have. Moderately bad acting? Yeah, I'll give you that one.
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TTFN - Kent
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