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It is in base 5. No wonder you don't realize that. 
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Well... in similar fashion, I learn that half of Australian Hospital have below average quality! 
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That actually makes sense.
Using "average" rather than "median", or the other way around, certainly is one of the oldest entries in the trick book of statistics.
One well known quote (I believe it is an actual quote from a Norwegian politician, but explicitly made as a joke): The standard of living in Norway is so high that very few Norwegians will ever reach it.
By average, this is certainly true in several countries (I wouldn't say it is in Norway). By median, it appears far less true: Half the population live above the median standard of living! (Great surpise!)
You've got lies. Then you've got d**mn lies, and then you've got statistics.
... Mark Twain, isn't it? Actually, I have a great esteem for statistics, by themselves. The problem lies in how they are (ab)used.
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Marked Boy Surrounding Attractive Woman (8)
cheers,
Super
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Too much of good is bad,mix some evil in it
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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That was quick. Next time will post a tougher one.
cheers,
Super
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One of those "read it and see it" ones - either you do or you scratch your head for hours ... 
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Only reason I avoid the toughie ( at least in my eyes) is to escape from next day responsibility.
cheers,
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Too much of good is bad,mix some evil in it
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There is a new CCC in town! 
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... to buy a new bus tracking system, based on Windows CE 6.0... in 2018?
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge". Stephen Hawking, 1942- 2018
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Pic or it didn't happen.
Also, for something like that, I would use a tried and trusted embedded OS -- ten million euros wouldn't induce me to entrust peoples lives to a windows 10 system.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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How you didn't ask what made me think it is a CE 6.0?
When got on the bus I only saw an ugly tree-view of the stations, but then we got into the tunel where no communicaton, so the ugly UI decided to crash, leaving the screen with a window of some back-process log and the screen-wide logo of CE...
Also clearly visible the icon of Media Player, RDP and the bin...
No picture as my old phone can't get it with the morning sun so low...
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge". Stephen Hawking, 1942- 2018
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OK, so it's a version of windows, therefore it crashed -- but winio would have crashed the bus into a bus queue, where the minister for technology was waiting to catch a bus.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Oh... We are much advanced here. Ministers not using buses... They flying around using their angle-wings...
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge". Stephen Hawking, 1942- 2018
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: No picture as my old phone can't get it with the morning sun so low...
In 2018...  
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As we have summerish, bright sun, but much lower (it seems winter already over). At morning the bus is either shining bright or pitch-dark (if rollers are down) and my 10 years old phone has no flash-light and very limited filtering...
But! I didn't payed for it yesterday, like the bus company for the failing tracking device 
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge". Stephen Hawking, 1942- 2018
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Not sure if this was a factor but from what I remember from a project a few years back the Motorola RFID API only exists for Win CE, most portable/hand-held NFC readers (and customised offshoots from Moto and 3rd party OEM) are built on the Moto PCBs. (Also had to use max VS2005/2008 to target CE).
If it works (well I guess in your case it crashed), they have RFID or/and barcode (options), network interface (including wifi option) and full programability, ... what's the gain from 'updating'? Nothing at all. It works fine as has done for years, RFID/barcode still very low vol data so speed is never an issue.
Ya don't screw with a winner when there's nothing more to gain. (And imagine it's the same components, PCB, software, etc for > 15 years, imagine the profit margin from doing nothing.)
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It is not system to track you (your ticket and payment) - that one has nothing to do with Windows and actually works...
It is to track the bus - it displays the current location and the stations for the passengers and send the location info to some serve so those waiting at the stations can query for the bus...
The nice thing that the drivers have a similar system already in place for years - that one is based on (and actually sold by) Motorola, and looks good (no Windows their either)...
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge". Stephen Hawking, 1942- 2018
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Yeah but probably still same thing: something designed years ago that does the job.
It's not like this stuff is rocket surgery, been around for years. (although back then for instance the 128kb memory would have made it too expensive to implement en mass.)
But also back then a lot of these small portable device manufacturers licensed CE for pennies per copy (- part of the old ms business plan to own the market.)
So roll into today: If they can get a mass produced device to work on CE (and other old design/components) what's the incentive to license w10 for a far higher price? Yeah I know they can also get w10 dirt cheap but it's literally pennies versus dollars, and most important (for some) saving dollars on a mass product = a huge boost to profit the CEO's bonus.
[Too bad the devs that have to make it work/interface onto modern networks/servers... row harder you lazy dogs... <cracks whip="">.]
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I would probably didn't recognize if it was look fairly nice and wasn't broke when lost connection 
But also have to say that Win CE 6.0 and W10 are not the only options for embedded...
What fascinating, that they probably got it for next to nothing, but somehow forgot to see if it is work at all (pay peanuts - get monkey?)...
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge". Stephen Hawking, 1942- 2018
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Yeah I also remember when the tap-on tap-off system was first implemented here I't also crash to a CE screen too.
Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: But also have to say that Win CE 6.0 and W10 are not the only options for embedded...
Sure there's the rasppi option starting to make some traction as well as embedded android, but it's still easier/cheaper to find windows devs even if it is CE (ref back to the note on Visual Studio albeit 2005/8). It's the bonus, the CEO's bonus that matters (and most CEO's still think android is only for phones and linux only for toys and pimple faced hackers anyway.)
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More important: Who was the manufacturer of the bus? I'm currently working on a program that is used by a well known manufacturer to manage the tests they do on bus prototypes, including managing their electronics and the installed software.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Most of the buses are of Volvo (not sure what was the on at the morning), but this special equipment was installed by the bus company -not part of the original setup...
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge". Stephen Hawking, 1942- 2018
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Ahh, too bad. Volvos are not in my database anyway.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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"If it works, don't fix it!"
I long back to the days when computers were so simple that it was possible to trace any operation down the last instruction - including what the OS were doing. Switching jobs over to embedded programming on 8051 brought back that feeling of being the master over the CPU - but we switched to ARM, which is certainly a lot easier to design for, but it also allows an OS so complex that you no longer can fully understand all that's going on.
I assume that CE 6.0 also is too complex to fully understand (I never worked with it). But I am sure that it is leagues away from, say Win10. Or more recent Linux versions. Every modern programmer knows to proclaim KISS in celebration speeches, but you hardly see anyone that lives by KISS principles in application programming. Maybe use of Windows CE 6.0 has an element of KISS.
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