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Well, what do you expect from a cheap Chinese phone that has ridiculously expensive non-Chinese designers?
For 600-odd quid, you get 120-quid's worth of phone, and the rest goes on the "design".
A bargain at a tenth of the price (but not as much as a ninth).
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Mark_Wallace wrote: For 600-odd quid, you get 120-quid's worth of phone, and the rest goes on the "design lifestyle".
FTFY!
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OriginalGriff wrote: Mark_Wallace wrote: For 600-odd quid, you get 120-quid's worth of phone, and the rest goes on the "design lifestyle".
FTFY!
Good point.
apple makes a huge difference to my lifestyle.
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Have you seen Iron Sky 2? The Church of Steve Jobs[^] was one of the more believable elements ... 
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OriginalGriff wrote: Have you seen Iron Sky 2?
It's one of those movies that I had to stop watching half way through, and never got around to finishing.
I caught that clip on TV, a while back, though. I thought it was part of a documentary.
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It wasn't easy to finish, nowhere near as good as the original. I think they had too long, too much money, and just lost sight of what made the first actually good.
Ah well, perhaps number three will be back on form ... sequels are generally bollocks.
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Well, it was a really simple premise that was easy to work with and create great stories -- they couldn't have that, now, could they? They had to "improve" it.
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They have also struggled to get a reliable 4G internet connection, making apps such as Facebook and Instagram redundant No comment required
Turning the phone off and on again temporarily fixed the problem, O2 said. Just turning it off fixes it permanently.
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There are reasons other than fanboy to own iPhones. That is the only smartphone that will talk to and control my hearing aids. There are now a few HA's that talk Android, just coming out years after Apple. I have had connection for over 6 years, back 2 levels of phones and 2 levels of HA's. I am now several levels back, iPhone 7. They are free: hand me downs. 
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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My dev machine is down. I'm here on my hubby's craptop
I went to install ubuntu 18.04lts and grub2 refuses to boot my system
I've tried installing using a ton of different configs, i even pulled a drive because it was insisting on writing the boot to sdb instead of sda
It just dies. Cannot find an OS but the setup is successful.  I don't know where my windows DVD is since I've moved, and I'd have to put a dvd drive back in the #$(# thing even if i found it.
I hate linux when it doesn't work. I'm probably doing something wrong but I have no idea what. This system has taken this same version of ubuntu before (albeit on an older hard drive, but both SATA hdds under 3TB)
I'm so over a barrel right now. FML
Fixed with some cmd line magic and manually installing grub and a grub_bios partition
Now I need to get wifi drivers but my network cables are heaven knows where.
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.
modified 7-Jan-20 9:00am.
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Ditch Ubuntu. Go for Qubes.
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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i'll try it if MINT doesn't work. I've had good luck getting MINT to run on machines where ubuntu won't install. Installing ubuntu afterward seems to work
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That happened to me a few years back. One day my Suse Linux decided not to boot. And it was not been able to boot, no matter the ongoing efforts. Ended up FDISKing and FORMATing the HD.
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I finally got it to boot but the wifi adapter that had previously worked with it decided not to be detected this time.
It's frustrating. I'm just going ethernet since it's easier than tracking this down.
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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Our new manager is putting all kinds of documents and procedures in place. Standard Operating Procedures, Forms for Change Requests, etc. I guess some of it's good, if it's not overdone and starts to get in the way of getting work done.
I'm used to working for smaller companies with a more 'flexible' process 
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Don't say i didn't warn you, a change request to change text on a button from "Save" to "Submit" will now be taking 4 months to get from development to production. On a positive note, you will still be getting your pay check. 
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He won't be getting his paycheck for long if that's what happens!
Too little process, or too much, can spell the death of an organization.
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No it won't.
It will never get done, as it will not get high enough priority to be ever phased in into a sprint.
And the testing process afterwards including adapting all automated test cases for ranorex and other tools will cause so many working hours that it will be labelled as "too expensive" and then it will be dropped.
In 5 years from now, users will still not know, that "Save" actually sends data to a server 
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That reminds me of when I advised my boss to turn down a contract writing some medical software because it had to go through an FDA approval process or some such (it has been years - i think that's the agency though)
Anyway, turnaround time on releases/updates in that scenario is just too much. We'd have to have endlessly tested before every revision to even hope to break even and we didn't have the infrastructure for it - i'd have wanted at least one dedicated tester on staff to do that.
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actually it can be a winner. I encountred this at a manufacturing company.
firstly the FDA will let some other body do the approval, say state (or if it's overseas the home country govt.)
after that they show up for their own inspection, maybe leave a few notes, requests (for info - not changes), and once that is done they approve you.
every 3 years or so they come back for an inspection - as long as nothing has changed, as long as documentation is in place, they re-approve.
honey the codewitch wrote: turnaround time on releases/updates in that scenario is just too much
so that means you don't update or change anything, really just don't change a thing - only fix what is broken (and document that to the volume of an encyclopedia.)
doesn't matter if your system runs on RSTS/E on a PDP 11/23, doesn't matter if the cooling system is a monkey pedaling a stationary bicycle, you change nothing, you upgrade nothing, just write (literally, on paper using a pen, on to SOP forms which also never change) a daily ream of logs and the renewals keep coming.
2 or 3 FDA folks roll up, show them you've done the required, let them walk around and flip through a few binders of logs, let them feed the monkey a bag of [very clean] peanuts, get the other monkey CEO to take them out for lunch - that's it.
after many stupid answers the nice folks at Technet said the only solution is to reinstall my signature. What a surprise!
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all those docs. still glad i punted.
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lopatir wrote: your system runs on RSTS/E
On a side note, back in the dawn of time, my work responsibility was to configure and run UETP1 on RSTS/E machines as final QA. Since the system disk would get wiped, the System Name, which is printed in the header of every message, was of no real import.
Until of course one enterprising QA person realized the length of that field could be completely filled with the text <drum roll="">: PARITY ERROR
Hilarity followed as the tech vainly tried to find the problem.
1User Environment Test Package
But I never wave bye bye
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devenv.exe wrote: a change request to change text on a button from "Save" to "Submit" will now be taking 4 months to get from development to production
You might as well go the whole hog, and change the text to "I bloody give in!"
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Jacquers wrote: starts to get in the way of getting work done.
Exactly. Your manager is a noob.
It's much easier to enjoy the favor of both friend and foe, and not give a damn who's who. -- Lon Milo DuQuette
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Jacquers wrote: Our new manager is putting all kinds of documents and procedures in place.
Ah yes, "paperwork" that nobody cares about and nobody will ever read, most likely so that a checkbox can be checked for the auditors when they come to verify some ISO or similar compliance that some other paper-pushing bureaucrats wrote in some dark windowless government office to justify their own existence.
Bah. Humbug. SDLC. 
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