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Where's that Picard facepalm when you need it...?  Sorry, but what a useless waste of resources just for short-sighted profit gains. The race of this civilization to the bottom is accelerating.
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So, what're they going to do with all the year old phones?
Will they be announcing lower cost plans next year and the year after leasing factory refurbs?
Since the yearly rate's only a bit more than half the sticker price; assuming this takes off they're going to have to find a way to offload a ton of used phones at reasonably high prices to protect their margins.
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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Dan Neely wrote: So, what're they going to do with all the year old phones?
Landfill, obviously.
It's not like they would ever resell slightly scratched phones. Not shiny enough.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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If they were charging $700/year instead of $350 maybe; but they're not going to landfill half of their revenue.
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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The only price I saw was at Walmart which had AT&T refurbished iPhone 6's at $525 (down from $598)
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Is in-house software development the only way to get the best possible user experience from your software? "You can go your own way"
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An example of when it works for the organization.
We have some vendor software that is very good. Unfortunately, it has grown to the point that it takes up half or our department. Interestingly, they allow us to own the data and I have admin rights to tens of terrabytes of the data. The catch is that I can't change it. If I change anything I don't like, like delete an empty table with the prefix _tmp on it, their proprietary software breaks. If I want to do something in house, then I have to create another schema that has rights to that data or write an ETL process to bring a copy of that data into my data structures.
The proprietary software we use is used across an industry, so it has huge cost benefits. It seems like it costs about 200k a year plus database licensing. In contrast, if we built it in-house, we'd need a team of developers and or contractors to build it, then need to maintain it; even if our in-house software is not as good. Over 10 years you're looking at 2 million versus 4 or 5 million to build it then another half million a year to maintain it.
Personally, I think my section should be shutdown and I'd imagine that in the future I'll be transferred into another.
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When you want it done properly.
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When you're the only one doing what you do, with the exceptions of your competitors 
Geek code v 3.12 {
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Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
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Windows Insider boss Gabe Aul admits the next Windows 10 Mobile Insider build has taken “longer than expected” but he does offer an explanation as to why. "It's hard. It's just hard, it's just kind of hard to say."
(Heaps o' congrats to those who can get that one without Googling/Binging/Ducking/whatevering. Although it's not my favourite album of hers, for obvious reasons.)
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Tiobe tweaked its algorithm to remove statistical noise, leading to leaps for Go and Scala and drops for F# and OpenEdge ABL. New, more accurate SWAG
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Windows 10 includes a number of new security features that weren't part of Windows 7, yet so far Microsoft hasn't been touting them much. Here's more of some of what's new and noteworthy. Something, something, "kicking and screaming"
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After months of rumors and speculation, the iPad Pro is here. Oh look: a stylus. Think different
OK, I never would have expected to see Microsoft demo at an Apple event. (Nor did the crowd from the basis of the sound when they announced it)
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Oh look: a stylus. Think different
As a drawing tool, YES (to use the iPad as a wacom replacement), as an input device, not really an advancement.
I'd rather be phishing!
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$169 for a freaking keyboard! and they laughed at MS for the price of the Surface keyboard (then proceeded to copy it).
Almost everything in this years presentation is already being done by their competitors, the gloss seems to be slipping since Steve "If you see a stylus, they blew it" Jobs died.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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N.Y. Times: [^].
The Nabobs who can't/won't do business now in China ... they'll be there.
Wonder what Bill G. and President Xi will talk about ?
"In Seattle, Mr. Xi is also set to meet the Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates at his nearby lakeside estate for dinner before heading to Washington to meet President Obama."
«I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center» Kurt Vonnegut.
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The following riddle is claimed to have been written by Einstein as a boy. Your daily chance to feel superior (of the day)
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I think Leslie may have already solved this many times. 
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I care not for Leslie (actually that site meme irritates me beyond words), but of course if you'd care to find a post and prove it, I'll drop that item from tomorrow's newsletter (and you'll win a virtual medal).
TTFN - Kent
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Gosh, clever.
Forums weren't selected though, but whatever, fine. Removed to save your poor sensibilities from seeing something more than once.
TTFN - Kent
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No, leave it in: there must be at least one geek who has never seen it.
p.s. looking forward to receiving my medal. 
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Done 
Used Excel for practical reasons, but needed only a sheet of paper and a pencil.
Reductio ad absurdum.
Do I win a chocolate medal ?
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
modified 8-Sep-15 20:18pm.
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ppolymorphe wrote: Do I win a chocolate medal ?
You win a chocolate-coated manhole cover
(Extra points for identifying the reference)
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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