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by castell 11y ago
Internet Explorer 11 had that automatic updates too. But it shows that Microsoft changes things that I may or may not want. They changed the "F12" Developer Tools in a significant way, basically completely replaced it with a compl
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by castell 11y ago
That's exactly the problem. The insightful videos on Microsoft's Channel 9 made it clear that they went crazy with Metrics since Windows XP. What they don't get or simply ignore are the huge user base of power users and devel
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by castell 11y ago
Office365 is a subscription service and can get quite expensive - if one compares it to a traditional Office 2003 or 2010 (comparable) license that is often used for 5+ years.
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by castell 11y ago
The upgrade from Windows 7 and 8.1 to Windows 10 will be free the first year . It won't be free in 2017! It's still unclear if you get an upgrade license or a full license of Windows 10. The first one would mean, if you ever
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by castell 11y ago
Google Knowledge Graph is based on Freebase.com. Google shut it down, last month. IBM relied on Freebase for Watson, so they acquired Blekko last month, a real web search engine & knowledge base startup. Microsoft already owns Powerset
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by castell 11y ago
Please revive the Web SQL Database HTML5 API defacto standard [1] or create a new proposal for a relational database API. The NoSQL Indexed Database API is okay, but as we all have learned NoSQL isn't the right solution for everything
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by castell 11y ago
> the calendar and the TODO list should be the same app Sounds similar the functionality that MS Outlook Windows application offers. Though, I would like to have it on Android & iOS too and with IMAP support.
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by castell 11y ago
Typescript may serve as another showcase for Microsoft tactics to influence and steer a language (JavaScript/ES6 & 7). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend_and_extinguish You know the Java vs. MS Java
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by castell 11y ago
The transition from PHP3 to PHP4 and from PHP4 to PHP5 wasn't that painful. At the time, most PHP open source projects simply avoided OO concepts due to their slow implementation in PHP4 and to be downwards compatible with PHP3. It sol
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by castell 11y ago
I thought that too. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercator_projection Which map projections would you choose? A difficult decision: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_map_projections
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by castell 11y ago
> extinguish an open source project Open source? Windows IoT requires Visual Studio and Windows (Windows Remote Arduino is a WinRT (WinRunTime) component). http://www.arduino.cc/en/Main/Software
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by castell 11y ago
Everyone should read Bill Gates' infamous memo Windows: The Next Killer Application on the Internet (January 1994): http://www.microsoft.com/about/companyinformation/timeline/t... Some notes: The Marv
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by castell 11y ago
HTML5 with CSS3 (offline) web apps offer that, Motorola Android offered that called "WebTop" ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_Atrix_4G ), Ubuntu Phone offers that, Apple's continuity offers that. Wi
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by castell 11y ago
Several countries in the EU have it already, they other have to follow soon.
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by castell 11y ago
All registered dogs already need a NFC implant. Hopefully this requirement will never ever carry on to human beings - it's like 1984. [edit: Technically the dog implants use RFID. NFC standards cover communications protocols and data e
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by castell 11y ago
Which country? The central Europe countries that I know (Germany, Austria, Switzerland, etc.) and western-Europe coutries (France, Great Britain, etc.), there is a choice and most don't work on Saturday or even Sunday (except for certa
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by castell 11y ago
Strigi desktop search and NEPOMUK semantic desktop extensively relied on D-Bus. The D-Bus background daemon often hung and NEPOMUK itself was known to be slow and wasteful on hardware resources. Maybe it wasn't D-Bus fault at all, but
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by castell 11y ago
It's the other way around! DRM is a specific form of copy protection. Read the DRM article on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_rights_management "The term [DRM] is also sometimes referred t
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by castell 11y ago
You are wrong. DRM != copy protection You can own the DVD with a copy protection and even legally create a backup-copy. You simply cannot own a DRM product, as its bound to a server side check. DRM products may suddenly vanish from your PC,
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by castell 11y ago
Bethesda introduced DLCs to the PC gaming world in 2006: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Elder_Scrolls_IV:_Oblivion#... The first update came as a set of specialized armor for Oblivion‍ 's ridable horses;
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by castell 11y ago
> Naive REST (HTTP, JSON) isn't exactly known for its performance Naïve XML isn't known for its performance either. JSON is usually faster to parse than XML. While D-COM uses a binary protocol, it uses XML for its "Introsp
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by castell 11y ago
Mozilla has its own XPCOM too: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XPCOM Read the Criticism section: "XPCOM adds a lot of code for marshalling objects between different usage contexts (e.g. different languages). This le
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by castell 11y ago
> Since then I'm convinced that people who are inventing RPC solve non-existing problems. Many RPC solutions ultimately failed, because they were slow and overdesigned/complex. (e.g. CORBA, Network OLE/DCOM, Java RMI, XML-
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by castell 11y ago
Seymour Cray, the supercomputer architect, set up a new company, SRC Computers, and started the design of his own massively parallel machine. The new design concentrated on communications and memory performance, the bottleneck that hampered
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by castell 11y ago
I have never experience it myself either, but I saw a lot of students that experienced it in the VR lab. Especially people who had not 100% eye-sight on both eyes had a lot of troubles. So it is a serious problem, and VR won't fly in c
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by castell 11y ago
Have you tried 3D glasses in big movie theaters like IMAX? Or watch a movie like Avatar or Jurassic Park (re-released 3D edition of the 1993 movie) on a good 3D TV. You should see the 3D effect there. But some people only see 2D, e.g. with
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by castell 11y ago
> the actual AI can wait Scaling such services is hard. I want to hear back from "Magic", "Cloe", "Luka", "Path Talk", "Rabbits", "Jarvis" - a post mortem, what went right, what
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by castell 11y ago
Before, there was Crysis (2007) with its Nanosuit ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crysis ) which itself was inspired by real-life US military Future Force Warrior concept ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&
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by castell 11y ago
Do you mean a LCD display with fluorescent tube as light source, instead of an LCD display with an LED as light source? Your MacBookPro with Retina display uses an LCD with LED light source too - it's just an LCD panel with IPS technol

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