..."Perl 6 has all of the same features [as Perl 5] but with the rough edges knocked off of them"...
Hmmmm... it takes 14 years to remove some rough edges from Perl 5? There must be some really rough edges, Probably why Perl seems to be in decline.
...Its Xbox gaming platform is seen as a potential hub or control center for home devices....
At some point, the XBox will have "special" protocols and interfaces so that Microsoft will be able to push its own incompatible version of any infrastructure. History has shown that to be the manner in which Microsoft operates.
Microsoft does not know how to work in a marketspace where the playing field is level, so Microsoft will always strive to tilt the playing field in its favor.
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What is the purpose of the meeting? How will using a tablet vs using paper enhance the meeting towards the goal?
Why is there this trendy craze to rewrite everything in a badly designed browser scripting language?
imo, it's being pushed by the malware people. They want to have a mess of bad code 'out there' running in everyone's browser. It makes the attack surface so much larger.....
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Now it appears that Microsoft is using their reputation for producing security-challenged software to badger companies for PR purposes. The headlines will all read, ~Microsoft takes down a company that is a security threat~. And Microsoft will look good in the headline.
But what has Microsoft really accomplished? Will Microsoft's reputation for software with abysmal security be changed? Or will a small company be crushed because a huge company is trying to look good?
Well honestly, if you ignore the whole Metro UI fiasco, Windows 8 is a nice update to Windows 7....
Other than that Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?
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Why in the world would I want to give Microsoft more money just to stay on the Microsoft Upgrade Treadmill©?
All one has to do is watch the GM CEO testifying in the Congressional hearings, and read the reports about GM's safety failures, to see the arrogance is not with google, but with Detroit. The folks in Michigan are afraid of google in the same manner that auto dealerships are afraid of Tesla's direct sales. The current, cozy, entrenched business interests are going to be upset for the benefit of the consumer.
... IPCC has been furiously back pedaling...
Furiously back pedaling? - or - Careful restatement of certain specific points based upon new information, while keeping the overall context intact?
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I've seen so much over the top hype and hysteria from the climate change deniers, that I no longer believe their 10 word or less summaries of why climate change is not happening.
The climate change deniers need to start presenting a better level of peer-reviewed data and conclusions, and stop their unproven assertions (note: hypothetical research papers funded by the oil and coal industries, however well that funding is hidden, do not count.)
... In short, you don't always join Mensa because you think you're smart. You join to be set apart from most people, who are, as one member put it: "mundane."...
That's not why you join mensa, that why you continue to be a member after you join.
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When I attended the mensa meetings, the condescending attitude of mensa people towards others was quite a surprise to me. After a few meetings I just stopped attending and did not renew my membership.
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Why, all of a sudden has the terminology changed?
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I'm surprised that Wired fell for this false equivalence.
Sure, it is always good to publish ideas that may be in opposition to the mainstream. But I would have expected Wired to at least publish opposing ideas that are not so completely ridiculous, thereby giving those ridiculous ideas a false equivalence to the reality-based mainstream ideas.
...he says that data won't be shared with anyone, including Google, without a customer's permission.
What he actually says is:
...Like Nest customer data, Dropcam will come under Nest’s privacy policy, which explains that data won’t be shared with anyone (including Google) without a customer’s permission....
What Nest's privacy policy actually says is:
We pledge to:
Notice how, we won't share your data with anyone without your permission in the article suddenly morphs into we won't share your personally identifiable information with anyone in the actual privacy policy statement?
What about the other non-personally identifiable data, like when my house is empty? Or how many people are in the house? etc, etc.
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