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Mycroft Holmes wrote: You KNOW they are going to admit defeat sometime in the near future and buy into Android.
God, I hope not.
My Lumia 1520 broke...not surprising, since it flew off the roof of my car at 45 mph and went bouncing down the road...
Anyway, the "insurance" I had sent an equivalent replacement. Their idea of equivalent is an HTC ONE M9 Android phone.
Android is ridiculous. Why does anyone like it? I've yet to get it to do anything useful.
Windows phone: Turn it on. Get in the car. Bluetooth connects. SMS message comes in and is read over the car's system. Then you reply to the message. Simples.
Android phone: Doesn't do anything like natively, so try out 7 hand free SMS apps for driving. Half don't work at all. The other half are divided between screwing up your phone's audio and not being able to reply via voice. Only another 100 or so apps to "test drive", so to speak. Maybe I'll find one that isn't crap.
Or maybe I'll just spring for the 950 XL and give the Android to someone who doesn't know any better.
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Actually I find the Note 4 quite useful, then again I don't expect too much from it, set the bar low and you will not be dissapointed 
Blue tooth works with both car (rented) and sound bar automatically. I never use hands free anything so it is not an issue thank Ghu!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Exactly, but I don't think Windows Mobile 10 is late, I think Windows 10 was released very soon. Even today, they are sending major bug fixes, driver support and other stuff. I bought Windows Phone (Lumia 532) as a gift for my mother and I recommended Windows Phone (Lumia 535) to my love (Note: Both of these mobiles support Windows 10 and are waiting for the update), and now that I have tried them I feel sorry for not trusting Android with it and when time came to select a phone for myself, I selected LG G3. A perfect mobile!  But, as Windows fan, I am still going to invest some leap of faith in Lumia 950 XL (if that doesn't fit, I am going to be an Android evangelist).
They are not "losing the trust", they have already lost it.  At least, I can speak for myself, and I personally think Ubuntu is way better than Windows 10. I would like to get the Ubuntu's mobile version and install it on my previous mobile device to see if that works.
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan wrote: Exactly, but I don't think Windows Mobile 10 is late, I think Windows 10 was released very soon
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Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan wrote: Windows 10 was released very soon
I figure the "real" RC will arrive around June.
«Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.» Benjamin Franklin
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Abhinav S wrote:
They are also loosing the trust of their last bunch of loyal supporters (at least for the Windows Phone).
What? BOTH of them? 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I am (mostly) enjoying as Insider for almost a year now on Lumia 1520 ... it's not sooo buggy though ... only soo 
modified 19-Nov-18 21:01pm.
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Dry ice screaming[^]
That's... freaky.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Yeah saw it the other week, neat huh.
The general consensus is that it's just a result of the hard edges of the steel part combined with the fact it's wrapped in the plastic bag. Since the CO₂ itself doesn't make any noise when it changes state, something else is going on here. If you pay close attention to the surface facing the camera, you can see what appears to be increasing vacuum created each time the guy presses the ice up against the part.
Others speculated that it had something to do with the corrugations in the cardboard. Indeed, I'd initially thought that to be the mechanism, but someone else pointed out the suction effect created on the bag.
It sounds a lot like a leaking vacuum line, as opposed to leaking positive pressure.
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I never heard that sound before; but gently pressing things like a spoon against a block of dry ice to make noise is a lot of fun.
The noise comes from it oscillating as each contact sublimates enough CO2 to briefly bounce it off the surface.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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"Discovered" that when I was 8 or so, and dropped a piece of dry ice on the linoleum.
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I'm starting to really hate InstallShield, so to vent a little bit I am looking around for alternatives and see if the grass is greener on the other side.
One product I just found is Advanced Installer[^].
We are installing a Windows desktop application, with a couple of pre-requisite and a couple of DLL to register.
Anyone used it ?
I'd rather be phishing!
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I use the WiX Toolset. It can do all I need as far as creating installation files is concerned. And: It's free!
How do we preserve the wisdom men will need,
when their violent passions are spent?
- The Lost Horizon
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That's a failure in globalization.
WiX toolset becomes quite funny in German.
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Yes, and in German it belongs in the Soapbox!
How do we preserve the wisdom men will need,
when their violent passions are spent?
- The Lost Horizon
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I second WiX. Easy to use, and VERY powerful.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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If anyone starts out with WiX, I would recommend the book by Nick Ramirez: "WiX: A Developer's Guide to Windows Installer XML."
How do we preserve the wisdom men will need,
when their violent passions are spent?
- The Lost Horizon
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I would not say easy... You have to read a lot of documentation and try to find information...
The good thing is that the format is based on XML and that it can be split in multiple files which is good for source control and history.
The bad things is that it seems that are not many good tools to help creating those files nor much good tutorials on how to do things.
Philippe Mori
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I use Nullsoft Installer[^] - it's definitely not an advanced solution, but it's free, and I feel that I have more control over what's actually happening when I write the script myself. Many of the advanced GUIS (like InstallShield) have so many options, that they're hard to customize because you can't figure out how and where to do it.
Alse, I've had a lot of problems with the installation localization (even for installations where I don't even have localization). Suddenly - without notice - InstallShield will start to claim that it can't locate certain strings - without telling you exactly what strings it is... 
And InstallShield is of course WAAAAAY too expensive...
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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My experience with InstallShield was a nightmare! And it is ridiculously expensive. 
How do we preserve the wisdom men will need,
when their violent passions are spent?
- The Lost Horizon
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we use Advanced Installer for some of our stuff. it's pretty powerful and easy to use and we've never had any problems with it.
we probably haven't come close to using all of its features. but we have it hooked into our VS builds; it does code signing, and reads registry keys to see if certain things are already installed, etc..
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I've been using the free version for years and really like it.
/ravi
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We're using the InstallShield 'Limited Edition' in house to deploy our Windows Services (since OneClick doesn't support them,) and it works... well enough...
I ran into a funny little bug today though, as I built an installer for a service I just finished. The service is built for .NET 4.5, and the installer has an option to allow installation to proceed only if .NET 4.5 is already installed. So I install the service in our beta environment, it installs fine, but then fails to start. I check, and sure enough, .NET 4.5 wasn't installed... 
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Hossein Alizadeh - Naghmeh[^]
After last weeks Song of the Week a fellow CP'ian of literary prowess shared some of his musical taste with me.
I think it's safe to say his musical taste isn't very common (at least not in the West), so I was surprised to hear some tones I don't hear very often, Persian!
After checking out some more songs on YouTube I ordered a CD on eBay (only sensible option to get his CD's for a reasonable price).
And his song Naghmeh is my song of the week! 
And if Google Translate[^] is not mistaken Naghmeh actually means Song
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Thanks for that, something I need to hear more of.
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