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I am that guy... 
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I am still using my nokia 3310, as a spare hammer.
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Our Windows phnes care so deeply about us.
Yesterday, as I'm approaching my car to go home, Cortana announces that if I leave by 15:31, I'll be home in 35 minutes, based on the current traffic.
A) No one asked her.
B) How did she know I was leaving work?
C) How did she know I was going home, rather than to the store or whatever?
The only way any of that could have happened would be for the phone to pay attention to what time I start driving every weekday afternoon and where I usually end up.
Sheer devotion like that is hard to find.
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I'm that guy too!
I like the live tiles and being able to control the size of them. I tried android for a while, but it didn't stick.
My desktop is windows, my laptops are windows, my tablets are windows. Why shouldn't my phone be windows???
I've heard the arguments about the apps, but my WP does everything I need it to do.
I know, I can't get an app for my favorite Chinese restaurant, so I can no longer eat there. Oh wait, I can use my WP to call and talk to a real person to place my order.
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littleGreenDude wrote:
Oh wait, I can use my WP to call and talk to a real person to place my order.
You make calls on your phone? Probably the least used feature on mine. Happily so, but, I may have been damaged by a phone sales job back in the 90s...
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I'm that guy too. I need a new phone and am depressed that I will have to downgrade to Android or IOS.
"Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana."
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As a guy who held on to WP for a long time and 2 models, I can't tell you how happy I was to find that it's not a downgrade by any means (especially if it's an Android). iOS probably may not be as smooth a transition.
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I'm struggling to imagine what that leads to when the hyperbole wrapper is taken off and replaced by skin-flaps from the backsides of early adopters.
Implications for PWA's ? cross=platform syzygy ?
Does it ever grow up, and get 64 bits ?
thanks, Bill
«... thank the gods that they have made you superior to those events which they have not placed within your own control, rendered you accountable for that only which is within you own control For what, then, have they made you responsible? For that which is alone in your own power—a right use of things as they appear.» Discourses of Epictetus Book I:12
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For an Edge anything; write your own damn client and be done with it.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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My son-in-law has some sort of psychic aura, I think. My daughter says she was having trouble with her printer and called for him to look at it. He stood in the doorway looking and the printer started printing. I dismissed that , but I was havving trouble with a software defined radio the computer wasn't recognizing, he came over yesterday and as soon as he walked in my office the wsoftware started working flawlessly.
I assume he scares the hell out of anything electronics related.
He's a great son-in-law, He's now the family IT help desk instead of me, so I'm happy!
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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Then it is time to reward him with a stay in this hotel: Hotel Aura[^] 
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This happens to me quite often when a client calls for help with a problem. They are my favorite kind of support calls!  or maybe just a magnetic personality!
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Walt Fair, Jr. wrote: I was havving trouble with a software defined radio
Are you a ham?
Common sense is admitting there is cause and effect and that you can exert some control over what you understand.
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I have the same thing with a friends computer. He breaks it, calls me, I walk into the same room, it works fine. Seems to work - and I get paid in coffee and cuddles with his dogs.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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You're a pretty cheap date.
I'm retired. There's a nap for that...
- Harvey
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I get this all the time at work ... I provide some in-house tech know-how and "support" to a business team ... As soon as they call me over to their desks it, whatever it is, starts working again.
I'm thinking of getting one of those free-standing cardboard cutouts of me to leave in the team area - that'll frighten the young 'uns
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My brother is the opposite. He barely has to look at an electric appliance and it stops working. I quite literally won't allow him to touch my computer.
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I get that a lot with my parents' computers. I think the mere threat of me swearing at it in just the right way makes it start working. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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He might be a Technopath. Be careful he doesn't turn evil.
(How many of you will get this reference?)
Answer: Sky High
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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My wife (yippy ki yay) and partner down at the old computer shop is the same way.
Today a bro came in with a chromebook that wouldn't start because of some error. For a week!
He dropped it at the front desk, my wife pushed the power and it came up. The guy was freaking out because, really, it won't start. Who are you. She didn't charge him.
She's forever doin stuff that must be voodoo because everyone knows you can't do that, but it all obeys her. 
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Walt Fair, Jr. wrote: looking and the printer started printing
I suppose that programmers of printer drivers purposely implement these kind of random behaviour. I think the job of testers of printer drivers has not been invented yet, neither the one of printer driver optimisers (seriously, 545Mb for a printer driver ?). Programmers are probably being paid at the number of kb.
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Are innuendos just operating systems for Italian proctologist ? ?
Prenderò il mio cappotto . . .
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Got that in the end!
Keep your friends close. Keep Kill your enemies closer.
The End
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Reminds me of some thopughtlessness I heard recently.
A man goes into a library and asks the clerk foir the self help section. The clerk replies, If
I showed you it would defeat the purpose.Maybe from George Carlin, but I didn't hear it from him.
Physicists hypothesize that about 95% of the universe is made of Dark matter and dark energy.We know about electrons, proton and neutrons, so the other 95% must be morons. Whioch explains why as we try to make our software more and more fpoolproof, we've observed that the universe appears to have an unlimited supply of fools and idiots!
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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