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In the case of the pure-legacy Asha and pure dumb-phone (and any other Symbian devices?); I think it's safe to assume the answer is push people to entry level Lumia phone's while winding the businesses down. Eventually I suspect they'll end up selling what's left of the non-Lumia business to a 3rd party because obsolete platform smartphone and intermediate between smart and dumb-phone devices probably have a shorter half life than a pure dumb phones, and because the latter are unlikely to have any meaningful brand loyalty boost if/when users finally do decide to upgrade.
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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Microsoft's wave of spring 2015 updates to its various Windows-based platforms has a codename: Threshold. "The door was the way to... to... The Door was The Way"
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Reviews on that one[^] seem to be either 1 or 5. Which way did you land?
Quote was from one of the Dirk Gently books. I was trying to think of appropriate line from Poltergeist and I blanked.
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TTFN - Kent
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Ah, yes, the electric monk.
I like Threshold and I wish the guy would hurry up and finish the trilogy already.
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I kind of got lost at the strap line "Handsome, successful and fabulously wealthy Peter Cory had always assumed he'd make his own good fortune".
If he's already h s & f, surely he inherited his good fortune - if not he's had to bloody work for it!
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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You have to read the book.
The back cover actually says more than that.
P.S. As luck would have it, I just bought a new all-in-one printer thingy and needed to test the scanner. Threshold.png (1,038.4 KB)
modified 3-Dec-13 21:28pm.
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Jeff Bezos is nothing if not a showman. Amazon's CEO loves a good reveal, and took the opportunity afforded by a 60 Minutes segment to show off his company's latest creation: drones that can deliver packages up to five pounds, to your house in less than half an hour. "Fly my pretties, fly"
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I can imagine the reports of them being shot down.
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well that didn't take long.
It also looks like i'm out of practice
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I'm just imagining one of them falling and wrecking something (or someone)...
It will turn good publicity into a media disaster.
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AlexCode wrote: It will turn good publicity into a media disaster.
Bad publicity is better than no publicity.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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So freaking true...
Even this one that might go nowhere but it's already enough to make more people think about Amazon for the Christmas presents
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Oh please. That's not just fake, but stupidly fake. We all know there's exactly no chance of a worker being punished for botching delivery of your package.
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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Looks like I'll be using Weven for a LONG time!
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Latest worldwide usage figures for PC/Mac operating systems and browsers show little change in November, a traditionally slow month. But a close look at the numbers shows that the free Windows 8.1 and OS X Mavericks upgrades were a hit. People like free stuff! News at 11.
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And in other announcements from the Department of the Bleeding Obvious...
Pontiff declares himeself catholic.
Ursines defacate in wood.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Given the difficulty of tracking Android shipments or usage, the best proxy for its market share may come from developer payment data. Who's winning? Yes.
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Microsoft's Internet Explorer 11 web browser officially launched in October when it was included in the Windows 8.1 update, but the final version for Windows 7 was not released until early November. Today, newly updated numbers from a research firm Net Applications shows that IE11 surged up nearly two percentage points in November to claim 3.27 percent of the worldwide web browser market share, up from just 1.49 percent in October. This month, 3.27%. Next month, the world!
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it was most likley pushed out by automatic windows updates and people didn't know they were getting it till it was to late.
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Windows Phone 8 has been available on the market since late-October, 2012. That makes it more than a year old in human time and quite a bit older in tech years. They keep forgetting to put an Apple logo on it
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