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I hope that someone cooks up a law to stop these manufacturers from heading in the direction of building devices that do not have a replaceable battery.
One of the reasons for sticking with my Galaxy S4 (and S2 as a backup) is that I can replace the battery when it starts to degrade and I can do the spin on the table trick with the battery to get a sense of whether it needs replacing(the batteries have a tendency to bulge when they near their end of life).
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Sale of goods act. "fit and merchantable quality"
This is the law that means all goods sold must be fit for purpose. In the UK it is a 5 year guarantee, however it is reasonable to assume degradation of components, and they must be replaceable.
Imagine a car with a battery that couldn't be changed, or even worse, tyres. The law would take a dim view of it!
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KarstenK wrote: Apple wants the battery to last longer and so slows down the phone.
Battery life is always touted as a huge selling point, so if that's their goal, why aren't they slowing down all phones, including brand new ones?
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damn, I got to get me one of those then.
Other party: "I sent you a message."
Me: "Sorry, I'm using an iPhone, it hasn't got around to showing it yet."
Other party: "But that was an hour ago."
Me: "It's an older model, even not throttled it'll take a while. Merry Christmas, I'll get back to you next week."
Signature ready for installation. Please Reboot now.
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Interesting - and perhaps part of a conspiracy. A real one.
Mrs. Wife's (Android) phone started to get warnings that it couldn't update because it didn't have enough space (She doesn't take pictures with it). I told her to get rid of anything she didn't need and email her text-photos to herself to make space.
Then - last night - an offer to upgrade to a new phone as a text message.
And this AM, a TV news item, pushing a 'home cloud' for people who got that 'feared out of storage' message. Suddenly, out of storage messages are common enough to make the morning chat-news.
Of course, this could all be coincidence.
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W∴ Balboos wrote:
Of course, this could all be coincidence
If you had total control as a provider, what would you do to raise revenue..?
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A guy goes to the doctor and says, "Doctor my leg keeps talking to me."
So the doctor takes out his stethoscope and listens to the guys thigh and he hears, "Lend me a fiver!"
The doctor then takes a listen to the guys knee and hears, "Lend me a tenner!"
The doctor then takes a listen at the guys shin and hears, "Lend me twenty quid!"
"So what's the problem doctor?" the guy asks anxiously.
"It's your leg - It's broke in three places," says the doctor!! 
And today is Friday, so that explains why I'd rather post jokes than work...
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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Johnny J. wrote: I'd rather post jokes than work
When are you planning to start?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Soon my friend, soon - Keep your eyes out here in the Lounge...
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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Leave tails alone: [^].
«While I complain of being able to see only a shadow of the past, I may be insensitive to reality as it is now, since I'm not at a stage of development where I'm capable of seeing it.» Claude Levi-Strauss (Tristes Tropiques, 1955)
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As one message said: "too bad Darwin struck the wrong one here. RIP mr. tour guide" ![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Dunno if others do this but:
I always see all those days off at this time of the year and think "time to do all those things I put off for a rainy day." (Even simple things like a whole bunch of bookmarks 'to read later')
Then all that they-visit-us, we-visit-them gets in the way, attempt starting some task... just getting into the zone, and some 'social event' strikes.
At the end and getting ready to return to normal routine (daily work for the employed) realise nothing intended for the holidays got done, all those days totally wasted on friends' babies' parties, family <strike>festivities</strike> feuds and way too much other stupidity.
So after the "long break" the only thing you really want to do is take leave to get crap done.
And it happens like that every year.
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I find it makes my 'do it later list' longer...
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are you my clone? my whiteboard at home is full of lists....
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Perl is like a three-year-old.
Regular Expressions in the hands of Perl is like a surgical scalpel in the hands of a three-year-old.
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Regular Expressions in the hands of Perl is like a surgical scalpel in the hands of a three-year-old trying to defuse a nuclear bomb
I'd rather be phishing!
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I'm sorry! I didn't see your text message before this morning! I replied directly of course! 
You OK? 
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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I think of Perl like I think of C++. It gives you all the tools you need to shoot yourself in the foot but those same tools can accomplish things many other languages simply can not.
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Yesterday I volleyed a customer problem back into their court, which earned me an attaboy from my boss. That has been the highlight of my week.
Today is my last working day of the year. As can be expected, my motivation is almost nil. None of my to-do list items are small enough to be worth starting. I'm reduced to clean-up at this point.
I've put away all the lab stuff that had migrated to my cube. My cube stays pretty tidy, but it does collect stuff occasionally. Some of it is depressing - I'm the official librarian-of-departed-employee-stuff(*), and a couple piles are things from long-time friends that have been laid off or forced to retire.
(*) one of my many roles as the DSJB, or Departmental Sh!t Job Boy
My old PC, which has been sitting on the side of my desk for the last six weeks powered off, is busily deleting files and uninstalling apps preparatory to it joining its brethren on the Island of Misfit Computers in my other lab. I would have yanked the hard drive and wiped it, but it would be nice to leave the thing bootable. Unfortunately the corporate IT yabbos don't have the recovery image set up properly, plus the drive is encrypted , so I have to do this the hard way. I do believe VS2015 takes longer to uninstall than it did to install.
I'm also lurking on CP a bit, and posting pointless nonsense like this message.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Hehe, did you move to Australia?
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No, but I think I would enjoy the warm weather. I live in Ohio, in the U.S.
Mother Nature says you can't have all four seasons in one day. Ohio replies "Here; hold my beer."
Software Zen: delete this;
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_Four_ seasons?! Must be nice.
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u have a boss ha ha ... happy new year ...
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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