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I have had my Nokia Lumia 920 since it came out almost two years ago. On Saturday I was finally able to retrieve and apply the Windows Phone 8.1 update.
Overall I like the new features (it is a lot easier to use the CodeProject mouse-hover menus), but as I came home today, got out of my car and grabbed the car door to close it, I was zapped by the mother of all static electricity discharges.
That startled me so much that I instinctively pulled my hand away. The hand that was holding my phone. The phone that took flight and landed glass-down on my garage floor several meters away and continued sliding along as if it was one of those curling stone thingies.
Yeah, the glass is broken  , but everything still seems to work.
That is the first time I have dropped my phone since I got it. Since my car has that SYNC stuff (also developed by Microsoft), it seems very, very suspicious. It's like those spam emails - I mean, how do they know  .
Anyway, the phone still works, but I am sure a much smaller second impact will change that in an instant. So I guess I have to check how soon I will be able to upgrade.
[Note: I put the joke icon on this post to ease the minds of the paranoid among us. I really did drop my phone as I described, but I think the static electricity incident has a natural explanation.]
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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I use the static-electricity thing as an excuse not to walk round the clothes department in Tesco with Herself.
They use a different floor material in there, and if I push the trolley round I can generate a big fat blue spark each and every aisle... 
(Being the person I am, I always try to discharge it in a environmentally considerate manner. Bumping into fat kids with the trolley does the job... )
You looking for sympathy?
You'll find it in the dictionary, between sympathomimetic and sympatric
(Page 1788, if it helps)
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Have you considered trying to harness this power? Channel it into a Flux Capacitor. Or perhaps charge your phone 
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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Or be like Emperor Palpatine and use the power for world domination 
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RUs123 wrote: use the power for world domination
I like the thinking, young lad!
Keep it up, and I'll see about a promotion from Minion to Henchman (IIIrd Class) 
You looking for sympathy?
You'll find it in the dictionary, between sympathomimetic and sympatric
(Page 1788, if it helps)
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I use a Nokia Lumia 720 and I and my little daughter together have dropped it a hundred times, many times glass down. It's still pristine with no scratch or break. The latest incident happened yesterday.
I also use an official phone that is a LG Nexus 5, I dropped it once and one of the speakers stopped working.
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Instead of wasting your uncountable-minutes trying to come up with a joke and a literature, you should have tried to go back to the store where you bought the phone and asked for a repair.
Favourite line: Throw me to them wolves and close the gate up. I am afraid of what will happen to them wolves - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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Thank you for the tip.
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
modified 9-Sep-14 4:41am.
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What a bunch of prannies![^]
So now we have to worry about getting asthma from flour, do we?
Never mind the millions of gallons of diesel fuel pumped into our precious air by Mail readers, every month, it's making bread and cake that causes asthma.
But they forgot to mention that you can burn yourself on ovens and cut your fingers with knives!
Best to stay out of the kitchen altogether. Just drive to supermarkets in diesel cars to buy TV dinners, and install a microwave between the tropical fish tank and the PVC-clad bar in the living room.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: Just drive to supermarkets in diesel hybrid cars to buy vegan TV dinners, and install a microwave between the tropical fish tank and the PVC-clad bar eat it cold in the living room.
Fishtanks have water in - toddlers could drown.
Plus they use precious energy to heat the water.
Microwaves are dangerous. Why else would it be so difficult to get your head in one and turn it on?
And alcohol is fun, so it should be banned.
You looking for sympathy?
You'll find it in the dictionary, between sympathomimetic and sympatric
(Page 1788, if it helps)
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You din't mentioned rope[^]...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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Are you offering to help him out, if he doesn't have enough?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Quite amusing, indeed.
Why not take the Japanese (or simply Oriental) solution and wear a surgical mask when baking?
Almost, but not quite, entirely unlike... me...
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Chefs wear masks in China because, for some unknown reason, the Chinese think it's unhygienic to have people breathing and dribbling on your food. It also makes spitting on food a more complicated operation, which is definitely unfair to Chinese catering staff, and must waste a lot of their time.
Anyway, I've watched bake-off, so I know that it's perfectly OK to blow on food that other people have to eat.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Easy way to tell if there's too much flour dust in the air: light a match. If the kitchen explodes, there was too much dust.
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Or just the right amount, if you were making a flambe.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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England should declare independence from the United Kingdom before Scotland can.
That'd piss all over their chips.
Which would probably ruin their breakfast.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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At least Mel Gibson can claim his rightful place as king of Scotland.
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Eggbert Bartholomew Bligh wrote: claim his rightful place as king of Scotland
I thought that was Idi Amin?
You looking for sympathy?
You'll find it in the dictionary, between sympathomimetic and sympatric
(Page 1788, if it helps)
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I had to look that up.
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When I heard the Mel Gibson was going to play William Wallace I thought it was really bad casting.
But it turns out he is an alcoholic, mean-tempered racist, so it was right up his street.
(Apologies to the non-stereotypical Caledonians present)
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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Dalek Dave wrote: When I heard the Mel Gibson was going to play William Wallace I thought it was really bad casting.
I agree with that, because Wallace had a solid education from English universities, whereas Gibson's education was in some outback shanty.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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That way they will also automatically get expelled from the EU, which seem to be somewhat a priority for many politicians anyway.
modified 20-Oct-19 21:02pm.
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That is the question.
I am looking at using Embarcadero (either C++ Builder or Delphi) to write some windows/win8/android/iphone apps. I briefly looked at Xamarin but it is out of my price range. Besides, I don't really care to make monthly payments to them.
I currently don't have a Mac so I realize that I can't actually write an iphone app but I do want the ability to when I can.
I am just looking for folks who have used Embarcadero to create the apps or experienced it in some way. I used C++ Builder years ago and really liked it, I also used Delphi about 10 years ago. So this should be familiar to me.
Any suggestions?
Jack of all trades, master of none, though often times better than master of one.
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Ron Nicholson wrote: I briefly looked at Xamarin but it is out of my price range.
Methinks $300 for the Indie license is pretty decent - that's less than $1/day for a year of upgrades. The license is perpetual, so you if you're happy with the latest upgrade you can continue to use it to build apps without forking out more $.
/ravi
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