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Maximilien wrote: He is in a position to do now what most only a very select few people can only do later in life
FTFY 
Unless most people have billions $ where you come from 
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Yeah but at least Gates etc took on simple tasks that would have a direct effect on saving lives (diseases, food), zuck is trying to build utopia - and while he says it's for everyone looking at it won't be free - really does nothing useful for the less fortunate - I'm sure they want to live in a beautiful connected world as they starve/get thrown into forced labor/child armies.
In short do the stuff that needs fixing first, then make smell nice.
Sin tack ear lol
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I think you may be missing the original poster's point. Bill Gates made bazillions of dollars, and gave away a lot. That is very different from stating that "my bazillion making company Facebook can make the world a better place".
For every mega-corporation there is clearly a conflict of interest where some decisions make more bazillions and other decisions do more good for the world. Even if an extremely conscientious leader always wants to do the right thing his shareholders may have strongly opposing interests.
As for Mark Zuckerberg, his track record so far does not make this latest selfless philanthropic statement convincing.
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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Good for Zuckerberg to at least write about this important topic, sadly, he doesn't go nearly far enough. Baby steps, I guess.
Marc
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tl;dr...summary?
I have this aversion to having any page originating from Facebook loaded in my browser...
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El Reg has a summary...
One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I don't know.
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Results are binary. 1 or 0. 
for some reason these adds popped up for me. Not sure if it's just country specific adds or if I want to know what sort of footprints I've left on the internet.
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Baby steps from the sounds of it
This space for rent
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When you are dead, you won't even know that you are dead. It's a pain only felt by others.
Same thing when you are stupid.
modified 19-Nov-21 21:01pm.
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a test for a digital pregnancy?
with so much stuff loaded on mobiles how to know which app is the father?
Sin tack ear lol
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No, it should be an integer:
0 - Nope
1 - Yeah, pregnant
2 - Pregnant with twins
3 - Pregnant with triplets
etc...
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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-1 "Reserved for future use"
-2 "Reserved for future use"
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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I'm tempted to suggest a use for the negative numbers, but that would not only move this thread to the Soapbox, it would also get me downvoted into oblivion... So I'll refrain from doing that... 
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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Legalise post-natal abortion! Make it legal up the age of 16, and see how much better behaved kids you get!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Good one! I wasn't thinking in those lines, but now that you mention it...
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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-1 You're not the father
-2 You're not their father
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Sounds rather primitive, using just your digits to check pregnancy.
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I bought a Kindle Fire 7, just a bit over 1 year ago on a Black Friday deal for $34.99.
Can't complain too much at that price.
I mostly used it for reading books in Kindle reader software.
I was very careful to charge it before it became too drained and to not charge it to often.
Now, if I charge it and unplug it before work (7am) and then attempt to look at it again that night (around 7pm) it has about 17% charge left.
Even if it's on Airplane mode it is basically dead by that evening.
Is that all you get out of these batteries & devices? 1 year?
The hardware (except the battery) all seems fine. Seems like it performs well and all.
Again, it was only $35 so I understand 1 year is a long time, but it just feels like a "throw-away philosophy" taking over.
Anyone else have a Kindle Fire 7 for over 1 year? What's your experience?
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raddevus wrote: Is that all you get out of these batteries & devices? 1 year?
Depends a little on the exact type of the battery, but essentially that is correct. Lithium polymere batteries, for example, have about 100 good charge cycles. It probably is a battery with only one or two cells and should not be too expensive to replace.
Edit: It's a single cell lithium polymer battery (3.7V, 4400 mAh). Discregarding its extremely flat shape, you could get such a battery for a remote controlled toy for about 5$. But not this thing. We begin at 25$ and can also reach 50$.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
modified 17-Feb-17 8:41am.
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Only 100 charges!?! wow! I guess that is about right. Charge it about every 3rd day over 1 year and it's toast.
That's great info. Thanks very much for sharing.
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They wear out a little more each time they are charged. The capacity gets lower and the internal resistance of the cells rises. In the end they become as tired as you described them.
I use those[^] for some outdoor activities. By now they are in their third year and have seen some action, mostly at the weekends and only occasionally during the winter. They sre still in good shape.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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When my Nexus 7 died, I bought one to tide me over until the WookieTab arrived.
It was cheap.
It felt cheap.
It was - frankly - rubbish. The Amazon philosophy of "Google is the Antichrist" ruins it, along with the ads it tries to stuff down your throat all the time.
In comparison, my Nexus battery was still fine after four and a half years ... Then the electronics died.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Most electronic devices run on smoke. If you see the smoke escape, the device will no longer work.
Rules for playing Javascript frameworks.
1. You can't win.
2. You can't break even.
3. You can't get out of the game.
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That's funny you had a Nexus 7 and then bought a Kindle Fire 7.
I did the same thing.
The Nexus 7 was really nicely made Asus pad. I can only use the Nexus 7 as an alarm clock now but it stays charged for over a week as long as it is on Airplane mode.
The Fire 7 hardware does indeed feel very brittle.
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