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There's quite a difference between the "normal" voices in OSX, and the high-quality ones. If you have a few spare gigabytes, try out the French, Spanish, and Swedish versions.

For my kids, it's at least a few minutes entertainment to make the computer speak high-quality foreign curse words.

http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-20082143-263/how-to-ins...

It took me a double-read to understand you meant "...funded our solution (to [crapware] junk like this): ninite.com"

Upon first reading, it sounded like "to junk like ninite"

Great stuff!

Electric cars could be the next ring tone market. Personally, I'd love galloping horses...

"Windows Server 2008/R2 shipped with ~230 cmdlets. Windows Server 2012 beats that by a factor of over 10 shipping ~ 2,430 cmdlets."

http://blogs.technet.com/b/windowsserver/archive/2012/05/30/...

What's the scenario exactly? You can't make use of AD and DFS?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_File_System_(Micros...

All of that was true for older editions as well (2008, 2008R2). Of course, the 2012 version has a lot of new features!

I thought one of the coolest feature was the ability to add and remove the entire UI:

http://blogs.technet.com/b/klince/archive/2012/04/02/windows...

In short, the previous Standard / Core SKUs are gone, and you can switch between them as required.

Actually, for 2012, kickers are 61% for 50+ yard field goals [1], including an incredible 10/10 performance.

[1] http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/stats/byposition?pos=K

What are your thoughts about flat networks (mentioned by someone in the comments on the original article)?

No, that's what you meant.

For a Hyper-V Windows client, you should be using Remote Desktop. The Hyper-V desktop client is really designed for simple installtion & management. For other OSs, I'd imagine installing a native client (ssh/X) on the host would be a better experience.

Slight correction: Microsoft SQL Server added MVCC in 2005 (READ_COMMITTED_SNAPSHOT).

Yes, of course, but see reply down-thread. I was called by the school, so the school nurse had made an assessment that the situation was non-critical. Since ambulances are a limited resource, why take it away from someone who could be in critical condition?

About a year, after living in Bergen for 10. But only my second trip to Storgata 40, and if you've actually driven there, you'd know that the signage is pretty terrible, and -- along with the construction -- it's pretty non-intuitive to get to the entrance.

Actually, my big mistake was not keeping the taxi I'd taken from work (normally, I take the tram & train) to pick him up at school.

He was in pain, but not anything I'd consider taking the ambulance for (and the driving distance from his school to the emergency room is ~2-3 km). I shouldn't have gotten my car, and instead just have dumped him into the taxi. Norway covers a share of the taxi fare when it's for medical reasons.

Yep; on the first try. Unfortunately, I was trying to drive my son (who had broken his arm) and the Google driving directions would only display the list mode, rather than on the map. I ended up finding the building on Google Maps, then dropping a pin on iOS Maps, and using the turn-by-turn.

All-in-all a stressful experience

I had to go to the main emergency room in Oslo last week. iOS6 couldn't find it, or even the correct street. Looking at the map in detail later, it didn't even have a building at the correct location. I was furious.

The link should probably go directly to the job posting, since the StackExchange -> Channel9 posts don't really provide any additional information.

The compilerjobs link (http://www.compilerjobs.com/db/jobs_view.php?editid1=648) has a bit more details:

"Specifically this work will include:

• Engineering parts of the reader for MSIL

• Creating a native compiler internal representation that the existing compiler can optimize • Designing and implementing new managed optimizations to augment the existing optimizer like range check elimination or speeding up C# constructs on vector machines

• Engineering and co-designing the ability to emit a new object file format that will support rapid linking

• Fixing all existing phases of the compiler so that managed code can be correctly and efficiently compiled with the new auot-vectorizing/auto-parallelizing Win 8 compiler."

So, this sounds to me like an element of high-performance computing (maybe with the recent work getting Hadoop running on Windows?), rather than a fully-native toolchain.

You raise a good point: is there something like http://pinvoke.net/ for non-windows interop? I know that mono is wrapping things themselves, but on open wiki might help.

I've heard the same thing about banking the support calls for an unknown future problem, and my reaction is always the same; "We have had 2 devs working on this problem for x hours, at $y per hour. MS support calls are purchasable in packs at $z each. We passed the point for calling (really hard math here) hours ago. By the way, remind me which business school did you get your degree from?"

Why doesn't PayPal and other services add a Verified Paypal code to a user's account page. And train users to login during these phone calls and ask the caller for the code?

The training itself - if you're being verified, you should do the same of the caller - would have immense societal value.

The article summary of Universal Music's defense seems to say that since Universal had no procedures in place to determine if something was fair use, they can't be liable for the portion of the DMCA that punishes take-down attempts that are, in fact, fair use. Kafka-esque barely begins to describe this situation. I imagine that the defense will also introduce pictures of Universal compliance officers with their fingers in their ears as well.

If you're going to make a tortured analogy, it would help if you actually understood the things you're comparing. The writer clearly doesn't understand Breaking Bad.

And it would have been the 91st Congress, which as you can see, had a pretty-substantial Democratic majority: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/91st_United_States_Congress

US currency isn't printed on paper.

This is a little misleading; an internal checkpoint happens upon transaction commit[1]. The comment makes it sound as if one or more transactions can commit before a checkpoint writes them to disk.

[1]: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms186259(v=sql.105)....

I don't really want to rehearse that argument again; and this seems to be waaaaay outside the scope of the original post. And, incidentally, nice moving-the-goalposts - you avoided the question of whether putting Trumpet Winsock et al. out-of-business to incorporate what we all consider to be part of the OS should have also been considered illegal.

You're not the only one who was there. And some of us discrete with your interpretation(s). When Microsoft included TCP/IP in Win3.11 for Workgroups, they killed a lot of proprietary, expensive products. Should that have triggered an anti-trust investigation, too?

Say hi to my bro!

I just fund out that one of my co-workers raced in the Isle of Man TT last year, so perhaps motorcycles spurred thoughts in me of bug-eyed insanity