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One intermediary solution, says Citrix’ Hinkle, is to run a virtualized version of Windows on top of Linux, such as with Citrix XenClient or VMware, or use remote desktops such as Citrix XenDesktop, for those users who need specific Windows applications. “For example, the Google Chrome Netbooks complemented with apps redisplayed from a Citrix XenApp installation could be a very interesting solution for a number of users.”.

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Here, a brief look at the disturbing frat-boy-ification of Silicon Valley:. Of course, not everyone is amused by these so-called brogrammers. Meet the “brogrammer,” a new generation of engineers and app developers who party hard, swill cheap beer, hold bikini contests, and still find the time to code. Sexism in an already male-dominated tech community just isn’t funny, says Tasneem Raja in .

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Until the obesity epidemic, doctors rarely saw children with Type 2 diabetes. A third of American children and teens are overweight or obese. They are at higher risk of developing Type 2 diabetes, in which the body can’t make enough insulin or use what it does make to process sugar from food. The more common kind of diabetes in children is Type 1, which used to be called juvenile diabetes.

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John Brennan’s comments on ABC’s “This Week” are in stark contrast to those he made in June 2011. He claimed then that in the prior year there hadn’t been “a single collateral death because of the exceptional proficiency, precision of the capabilities we’ve been able to develop.” His remarks were sharply challenged at the time by human rights groups and anti-war advocates.

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With an increasing demand for online content in Arabic, and the language seeing impressive growth rates on sites like Twitter and Wikipedia, a new project aims to do its part to bridge the gap between Arabic and English content in social media and technology, Gulf News reports.

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As the salacious details of the Secret Service sex scandal have cast an intensely private agency into the spotlight, the man at its helm has managed the crisis largely out of public view, a low-profile response that associates say belies his disgust with the conduct of his subordinates.

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Now, before you go crying Big Brother, there were a few good suggestions (i.e. In 1927, the MPAA (or, as it was known at the time, the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America) produced a list of “The Dont’s and Be Carefuls,” a rundown of things that should be avoided in future movies. However, the rest of the guidelines are, by today’s standards, absolutely hysterical. the one that banned underage nudity).

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(Some introverts are perfectly comfortable with public speaking; I’m not one of them.). I talked about my lifelong fear of public speaking, and about how I’d spent a year training in the style of a marathon runner to be the best and bravest speaker I could.

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“Given the inherently unpredictable nature of health care costs, it is not surprising that some health plans expect to pay rebates to consumers in certain markets,” said Robert Zirkelbach, spokesman for America’s Health Insurance Plans. “However, the coverage disruptions and other unintended consequences of imposing a new arbitrary federal cap on health plan administrative costs are likely to outweigh any benefit these rebates will provide to consumers.”.

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Best photo of the day! A bear was spotted walking around Williams Village in Colorado, spooking residents, causing them to call the police. The bear was also spooked by the residents and managed to climb a tree near the dorms of Colorado University in attempt to hide. The events that unfolded are rather hilarious thanks to a photograph taken of the event.

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