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OriginalGriff wrote: I suspect my brain was running ahead of my fingers, again... 
You could've blamed that one on Android... 
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I think he hates lawyers.
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You know I hate to ask
But are 'friends' electric?
Only mine's broke down
And now I've no one to love
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I'm with you on that, well just windows vs android.
for my shorter oseas trips I wanted something just to check/reply emails and general surf (i.e. google info on something I've seen in a shop etc). for years thrown an old laptop with a wireless mouse into my check-in, (pretty much any ho/mo-tel half civilized has wifi, and I'm not that interested in doing email/web stuff while out-on-the-road, sitting in a plane or driving.)
almost bought the latest big samsung galaxy tab, but figured let's try first, so bought a cheap chinese knock-off for 1/5th the price, I knew quality would be less but it's the functionality and useabiity I wanted to try. (re-gift it to some kids should I upgrade.)
well nah, the way I work doesn't flow on a tab, what gave me issues
- switching between multiple windows/tabs with 1 click
- see multiple windows on screen email/browser even if overlapping (- not just half-half or nothing)
- cutting and pasting, yeah sure, with these fat old fingers, fail.
- multiple tabs in browser, I want a <right-click>-open in new tab, not press longer (how long)
the tab got about 60 minutes use 7 minutes actual use and 53 minutes verbal abuse.
I tried, I really tried hard, but sorry, the damn things are totally bass-ackwrd to me.
- I need a mouse (even laptop touchpads sh*t me),
- I need a right-click (well really context menus in general)
Yeah I know the kids can do all of that stuff and much more on their tiny phones.
I can't, I was born with last century model fingers and operating system; the o/s upgrades are fine but the new hardware drivers just won't stick.
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Android isn't bad - for games / book reading / email / surfing it's pretty good. Heck, it's even possible to code in C# on it (but very, very frustrating - I don't recommend it). And for a small, portable device it works well, because you can't split up the screen, clutter it with taskbars and Fisher Price Mode squares; because it runs in trivial amounts of memory, and has a small footprint to start with; because it's undemanding and uses little power so batteries last.
But on a bigger device, or doing complicated stuff you need a better OS (and preferably a real keyboard)
However, can you imagine how bad Win10 would be on a 7" tablet? 
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Never throw anything away, Griff
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Your post regarding the death of the Wookie inspired me to have a sort out of my junk cabinet. In there layeth my dead Wookie amongst dozens of old chargers and cables etc.. As I prepared to lay to rest the Wookie I thought I'd have one more go at turning it on, it only worked !!! Bearing in mind this has pretended to be dead for about eighteen months but a quick charge and the usual messing with the power button and up it came. I wonder if you have been premature in incinerating yours ? Maybe they need a long holiday every so often ? I'm not expecting it to stay alive for long ( it's still updating )
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That would be a git.
But I'll never know...
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OriginalGriff wrote: However, can you imagine how bad Win10 would be on a 7" tablet?
yeah. small portable devices vs large deskbound devices have some overlap but not fully there yet.
androids you can have what you want where you want, but the how is a bit, well let's say, crappy. (tiny screen ,difficult limited nav)
laptops aren't ready for the pocket yet but capable to run full dev, db, services etc. (still not quite the platform a full time dev could comfortably use 50 - 80 hours / week without going into a docking station or minimal external large screen).
it'll happen though, a single platform for activities big, medium and small, ... virtual/holo screens, virtual/air keyboard, mouse/gesture... won't even have to take it of your pocket
(pc's will get that small, phones will get that powerful, interfaces will get that good - already got bluetooth earpieces with phone staying in the pocket)
so who will run the end [user] platform? android?? ms?? doesn't matter (cloud)?? all of the afore??
... anyway, that's a much longer discussion/argument for another time.
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OriginalGriff wrote: the cut down nuisance that is your soft keyboard
Hey, it provides you with a couple of hundred emojis, so what is there to complain about?
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Where's the emoji for "I need elephanting HOME and END keys?" 
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Home is 
End is
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That you escaped from the Soapbox ?
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Too funny You’re killing it...
No wait you’re killing you!
I wonder if he even knew the guy that committed his suicide?
Socialism is the Axe Body Spray of political ideologies: It never does what it claims to do, but people too young to know better keep buying it anyway. (Glenn Reynolds)
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This is gonna lose a lot of context when you change your username back ...
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OriginalGriff wrote: This is gonna lose a lot of context when you change your username back ...
Does not the posts keep the username from whenst they were posted? I believe they do.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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They used to do that ...
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... but not any more. The previous message was posted by "They used to do that ..." and this named back to "OriginalGriff".
Try it - you'll see what I mean.
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just use pennies.
I write code like this too.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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No, you have to use half-pennies or there isn't a hole in the middle.
I use leather coated pennies as feet for covers: glue leather on on side, trim to size, and glue the penny to the cover. Voila! A cat hair proof lid for my laser printer that won't scratch the surface. (Cheaper and more effective than buying commercially made rubber feet, and they don't age, crack, and glue themselves to the printer.)
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Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I just drive a hole in the penny. winning.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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I am to go in the 24th and get new hearing aids when I all I had to do was use the magnifying glass hack.
Technician
1. A person that fixes stuff you can't.
2. One who does precision guesswork based on unreliable data provided by those of questionable knowledge.
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I do not like the title having presumptions about me. Why would I not believe it? I believed it all.
I may even try some when I'm out of washers, or when I need to pump air into one of the tyres on my bike.
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Being able to just tweak your code a little and increase performance by an order of magnitude.
I absolutely love it when that happens.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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