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/ravi
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http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/nokia-sell-devices-services-business-030202373.html[^]
- Nokia will sell substantially all of its Devices & Services business and licence its patents to Microsoft for EUR 5.44 billion in cash, payable at closing
- To avoid the perception of any potential conflict of interest between now and the pending closure of the transaction, Stephen Elop will step aside as President and CEO of Nokia Corporation, resign from the Board of Directors, and will become Executive Vice President, Devices & Services
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This has been in the works since 2011 when MS formed a "strategic alliance"[^] with Nokia and they replaced Symbian with Windows in all Nokia phones.
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Yep, just took some time...
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This is a sad day for all Nokia clients. 
Microsoft ... the only place where VARIANT_TRUE != true
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Why? Baby blocks is a great interface for a phone (it's just cr@p for a computer, just like a TV or microwave interface would be cr@p for a computer).
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I can see all the blue sreens on my phone. Nooooooo i don't want that for my phone
Microsoft ... the only place where VARIANT_TRUE != true
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I have a Lumia with Windows Phone 8, and I love it. Never looked back at my iPhone 4.
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Get an Android and you'll never look back at you Windows Phone 
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I try not to look back or at least not over my shoulder 
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I'd tend to agree; I'm over the moon with my android phone -- but I haven't made much use of Windows phones, so I can't comment fairly (OTOH, I've made extensive use of itoys, so am perfectly qualified to condemn them as comparative cr@p).
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Build quality of Apple products is second to none. I've witnessed two minor mishaps lately involving Sony and Samsung phones, both resulted in badly cracked screens. My iPhone has been dropped loads of times and survived relatively unscathed. I love Android and am typing this on a ASUS tablet running Jellybean but the build quality of many devices using Android is shite. The problem for Android is, lots of people think Android make the phones ( I know I know !) They ( the manufacturers ) need to get their sh*t together.
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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A well-built brick is still a brick.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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My Android devices have been bricked by me ( rooting etc...) That's why I have an Apple phone - I need something reliable that doesn't encourage me to tinker.
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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There's no real need to root android phones; you can do plenty without (the only solid reason is to get rid of unwanted pre-installed stuff to free up space).
itoy products, OTOH, are pretty much useless without being rooted.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Oh yes he will. With longing. And then eventually turn back to said Windows Phone and chuck the Android in the recycle bin where it belongs.
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Agree, I also use a Lumia and in overall it's a good phone. Of course some enhancements are more than welcome in the future, but that's the nature of the business
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Hmm. Good point.
I always configure the blue screen on computers to display in green, so that I never get blue screens (I get s GSoD, instead), but I don't know how to do that in the baby-blocks interface.
If I google "How to avoid blue screens in Windows phones", it'll probably give me 2,873,856 results telling me to get an android phone.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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As someone who transitioned from Android to WinPhone (Lumia), I can say that WinPhone is a damn phine fone OS.
<edit>Odd - I posted this as a reply to your earlier message here, but its registered against this!</edit>
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Rob Grainger wrote: Odd - I posted this as a reply to your earlier message here, but its registered against this!
What, you used an iphone?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Sixty-four year old Diana Nyad became the first person to swim from Cuba to Florida without a shark cage: 110 miles, in fify-five hours [^].
This may be an important step on the way to proving that sharks do not like old human meat (if it's not in chum form, that is).
In Greek mythology, a Naiad (Ναιάδ) was a nymph, who inhabited fresh water, and their name comes from a root-word meaning "running water," or "flow" [^]. Salt-water (open-sea) nymphs were the Oceanids; the Mediterranean was also considered to have its own nymphs, Nereids.
Naides were not creatures you wanted to mess with; one of them raped the young Hermaphroditus, and when he tried to fight her off, she mind-soul-body melded with him, thus leading to his both being male and female (not sure what organs, if any, were changed).
On the other hand, in the Greek Tarturus (hell) were: "the Danaides, forty-nine daughters of Danaus who murdered their husbands and were condemned to an eternity of carrying water in leaky jugs."
Working these factoids into a conversation may prove difficult, but think what an impression you'll make if you can get them "in" !
Google CEO, Erich Schmidt: "I keep asking for a product called Serendipity. This product would have access to everything ever written or recorded, know everything the user ever worked on and saved to his or her personal hard drive, and know a whole lot about the user's tastes, friends and predilections." 2004, USA Today interview
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Bill,
Looks like someone other than me likes ancient mythology.
Dave.
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She must be his[^] sister?!
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 That's an amazing human being, Super Lloyd; thanks for the link to the story.
What the frontiers of genetic research are revealing about the expression of genes, and "epigenetic modification," the cross-generational effects of your current life-experiences (internal, external, environmental) on your offspring's expression of genes, is really going to alter many fundamental assumptions at the basis of much of social science research of the last 100 years !
Possibly Lamarck may not have been totally "wrong." [^].
But, who knows what will come out of the current seething ferment in genetics, evo-devo, and evolutionary theory. I suspect that within a few decades after I'm dead (not far off, probably) genetic modification of human adults and children will be commonplace ... for better, and, for worse.
yours, Bill
Google CEO, Erich Schmidt: "I keep asking for a product called Serendipity. This product would have access to everything ever written or recorded, know everything the user ever worked on and saved to his or her personal hard drive, and know a whole lot about the user's tastes, friends and predilections." 2004, USA Today interview
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Did she swim for 55 hours or did she sleep along the way? Why don't they ever give the full details of how something incredible was accomplished?
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