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Yes, Microsoft is giving Windows away for free to people who don't technically qualify for the upgrade. That's a good deal, but it's not that big a deal. Here's why. Good news for you Windows for Workgroups users
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The Register has a different opinion in today's e-mail update: [^] ?
"Microsoft has been forced to quietly edit a misleading blog post that seemed to suggest that anyone could get their mitts on Windows 10 for free – if they first installed a test version of Redmond's upcoming operating system for PCs."
«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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new DateTime(subscriptionDate.Year + 1, subscriptionDate.Month, subscriptionDate.Day);
Hah. Always use a TimeSpan rather than incrementing. Leap year and all that. 
Marc
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A Canadian teenager was shot and killed Sunday after an attempt to recover his lost smartphone took a tragic turn. "It’s just a phone — it’s not worth losing your life over"
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See, if he'd had a Droid he would have shot first.
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you find that funny?
I'd rather be phishing!
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Scientists attempt to quantify the effect of Internet cats on our mood. Purrfect news
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Cats!? CATS!? GET THOSE DARN CATS OFF MY COMPUTER!!!
Ummm... Yes, of course they affect mood.
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In the Electronic Frontier Foundation's annual Who Has Your Back report, Apple is commended for adopting a "strong stance" on user rights, transparency, and privacy. "Private eyes, they're watching you"
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There you go. I just had to push your post through the moderation queue 
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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I'm such a spammer 
TTFN - Kent
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Works well in conjunction with the article directly below.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Google sets up feedback loop in its image recognition neural network - which looks for patterns in pictures - creating hallucinatory images of animals, buildings and landscapes which veer from beautiful to terrifying "I've seen things you people wouldn't believe..."
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I think Google's image recognition neural network is on drugs.
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That's cool. I was intrigued by how it associates an arm with a dumbell when asked to look for one.
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IoT, with its tiny screens & headless devices, will drive an authentication revolution. It's a short leap from the kind of two-factor authentication used on the Apple Watch to proximity-based authentication that does away with any user interaction. Passwords are just the canary in the coalmine. Whatever it takes
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The team behind Microsoft Edge has been working hard to make sure their new browser engine will be able to properly, reliably, and quickly render web pages as best as possible. If this goes through, someone better send Lucifer a snow shovel.
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As of the last public build, their HTML5 test score of ~400 was where Chrome sat in early 2013 or Firefox was in mid 2013. They've made up a lot of ground, and are actually ahead of the competition in a few areas, but are still playing catchup. Supposedly they've got a largish batch of html5 form controls almost ready to go that just missed the last win10 preview; but they'd need a few more similarly large surges to actually catch up with Firefox, nevermind Chrome. OTOH Edge does score slightly better than Safari for desktop. 
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 can't imagine the nightmare that must be code for rendering HTML.
Marc
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All things considered, rendering valid HTML shouldn't be that bad. The problem is also guessing how to render every bit of screwed up invalid html that the clueless have vomited onto the net over the last 20+ years. I'm not saying that trying to do that successfully is a hard problem, but if you want to know what tears from dinosaur era web browser developers look like I might suggest studying a few of the larger puddles they left behind. Places with names like Atlantic or Pacific come to mind for some reason. 
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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The official release of Java EE 8 has been postponed after the team formally launched it in September 2014. Now, almost one year after the formal announcement, another round of formalities and demands sees a 2017 release schedule. "So tired. Tired of waiting"
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