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by allegory 12y ago
My 2 year old Lumia 820 just got Windows Phone 8.1 and is as good as new in every way even though it has been dropped hundreds of times. It's getting the next 8.1 update next month as well. That's what I expect .
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by allegory 12y ago
That works apart from in Europe. We do a lot of non contract pay as you go stuff where the handset may last 4-5 years. I have a couple of Nokias that are still good after 8 years and Microsoft have a 11-12 year lifecycle for desktop OS for
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by allegory 12y ago
WP7 was a different OS (CE vs NT kernel). The NT kernel wasn't portable to a couple of the SoC's they used on those devices. I suspect that's why it went and jumped. You're right though about carriers. I always buy non-c
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by allegory 12y ago
We have a couple of clients using Citrix. It's on the way out though as to be honest it's inflexible, knackers client performance and is of dubious value these days.
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by allegory 12y ago
That's not how salespeople work...
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by allegory 12y ago
I doubt that will happen. At $100 a handset where is the return and motivation for an OEM to bother pushing updates out for firmware/integration testing etc (that the telcos require)? Look at the aforementioned Galaxy Ace in my last co
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by allegory 12y ago
I'm fine with it myself. We support IE9+ which isn't particularly painful (IE7 and before was). There was some interest in iOS devices around the iPad 2 era but that wore off when people couldn't use them for a lot of things.
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by allegory 12y ago
Yes definitely. Outside the fickle world of consumer internet usage, tech media and devices/appliances (basically leaving businesses at all levels), it's #1 and shows no sign of slowing down. 99.5% of our web hits are IE7-11 (fina
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by allegory 12y ago
It's this sort of thing that puts me off Android as a platform. Even my mother got sold a 2.2 handset recently (Samsung Galaxy Ace) that hasn't been patched for the best part of 3 years. You never know when you're going to en
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by allegory 12y ago
Thank goodness for this although it should be entirely unnecessary. Both my kids turned up yesterday and asked me why the hell I put U2 on their iPads.
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by allegory 12y ago
Credit card, new car and catalogue debt. Everything purchased is gone or broken. I threw a lot of money into a mortgage and ended up in negative equity for 2 years as well. This is how I learned that status and material things are not impor
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by allegory 12y ago
Bought an HP DeskJet 2540 for £39 for home. Has WiFi, colour, a scanner and just works over the LAN without any effort so is probably the opposite to what you desire. However I've lost count of the number of times the scanner/copi
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by allegory 12y ago
Been there. I now have no debt after spending 14 years paying it off. 14 years lost.
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by allegory 12y ago
The UK uses the same policy as Portugal i.e. soft enforcement with the same immediate effects. Unfortunately the health effects will not be known for perhaps another 15-20 years. Then we'll see if it worked or not...
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by allegory 12y ago
He may not have. Most psych issues have a trigger i.e an emotional or stress experience. Something that violently changes your brain chemistry has the same effect.
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by allegory 12y ago
I can't make every decision for myself, as it's not possible unless we go back to caves. So I contract some out to society which has experts to do the job for me to some degree. They know which side of the road is best to drive on
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by allegory 12y ago
Ok let's take this to hand then and write a rational reply. Every one of us can answer individually only with anecdotes, other than my wife who spent the best part of a decade dealing with drug addicts. They in turn dealt with the poli
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by allegory 12y ago
Thanks but that appears to be the opposite of how it works when being critical of drug consumption. Check all the posts I made on it and how they have been downvoted. It's a travesty that rational discussion is impossible.
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by allegory 12y ago
If drug use affects someone else, then it should not be allowed. It invariable always affects someone else either through taking a slice of healthcare or psychiatric side effects. The whole mantra of "do unto others..." (the golde
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by allegory 12y ago
The thing is that health expenditure and legalisation are proportionally tied. Thou who bites off the latter, increases the former in psychiatric and general healthcare. And that's not fair on everyone else. So perhaps you should forfe
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by allegory 12y ago
Hell no. Legalize nothing. Allow research but nothing more. My wife had to quit her job as a psychiatric nurse because of the violence from drug addicts. She was punched in the face five times by someone who wanted his methadone. Go figure
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by allegory 12y ago
Well he decided to take mushrooms one day due to peer pressure. Unfortunately he didn't know that he had a few problems that hadn't manifested themselves yet. The mushrooms pushed him over the edge and within a couple of days he b
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by allegory 12y ago
Or in a friend of mine, trigger latent schizophrenia, ruin his degree, lose his girlfriend, flatshare and end up living in the back of his car for 3 years. YMMV. I'd rather not flip the coin on drug use. That goes for a fair number of
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by allegory 12y ago
That's pretty interesting and is testament to the versatility of the 18650 cell package! I'm rebuilding ThinkPad X200 9-cell this weekend that is filled with 18650s and repaired a PBX about 15 years ago that had them in it so they
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by allegory 12y ago
The company I worked for a few years ago (I'm not going to disclose who as I'll get shot) were an EU based insurance org and had a US subsidiary that they used for selling overseas. They had a 5 man legal team to keep the US govt
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by allegory 12y ago
Two girls, one cup. That hurts the stomach muscles... Other than that it isn't :)
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by allegory 12y ago
Actually most people I know will say exactly these words to every member of their family "who the fuck put this on my phone? I don't want it".
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by allegory 12y ago
a) that's a major feature of iTunes' sync capability. Why wouldn't I have that ticked? b) I shuffle the entire device so yes it is as I only buy and put music I want on it. c) Hell yes. Sheldon moment: I have 10 pairs of sock
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by allegory 12y ago
This. I don't dislike U2. I do dislike someone deciding whether or not I may or may not like U2 and adding it to my device/playlists. I recently canned all of my Apple kit and went back to Windows after a number of issues over the
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by allegory 12y ago
Small engine, low emissions.

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