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Will there be no limit to these pointless tangents?
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OriginalGriff wrote: then I realised that decimals have a point.
True, but what's going on with circles? They're pointless.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Reminds me of a t-shirt I saw: My password is the last two digits of pi.
Mongo: Mongo only pawn... in game of life.
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Corporal Agarn wrote: the last two digits of pi.
42
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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I have an iPhone running iOS v9.01. I used iTunes to back it up to my computer. I purchased an iPhone running iOS v9.1, and plugged it into iTunes for the first time and it did an obligatory backup. I want to restore the older iPhone's backup to this new iPhone. When I click the Restore button, the only backup it is finding is the one just made from the new iPhone. iTunes must be looking at version information in order to know which backups will work and which ones will not. As I understand it, iTunes' backup process is supposed to only backup non-OS related stuff like contacts, messages, pictures, and other app data. The problem is I've read several places on the Web about folks doing this same thing successfully (i.e., backing up from one version and restoring to another). Anyone have experience in the matter?
Thanks.
DC
"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." - James D. Miles
modified 30-Nov-15 10:32am.
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DaveAuld wrote: The instructions appear pretty clear on this page...
They may be clear, but step #5 is a no-go. The backup from the old phone is not there.
"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." - James D. Miles
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The instructions did not say to backup your new phone first. The backup that you did from your new phone probably over wrote the backup of your old phone. Try backing up your old phone again.
Within you lies the power for good - Use it!
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PJ Arends wrote: The instructions did not say to backup your new phone first.
iTunes requires that, or at least does not make it easy to circumvent, from new devices that it has not seen before.
PJ Arends wrote: The backup that you did from your new phone probably over wrote the backup of your old phone.
No, every backup goes into a new folder with a unique name.
PJ Arends wrote: Try backing up your old phone again.
It's still there, fully intact.
"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." - James D. Miles
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iTunes is a very special part of Hell reserved for iSh!t users.
I hope Steve Jobs is enjoying hs time there. 
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Vivic wrote: iTunes is a very special part of Hell...
Agreed. I'm glad I opted for the Android route.
"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." - James D. Miles
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People who think the ever increasing snooping powers the Government keep creating for themselves are intrusive, should read 1984 for a bit of perspective - They had it really bad back then.
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And thank goodness that seemingly endless war against Eurasia finally came to an end..
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Some people here would like a few bottles of Victory gin.
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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We really have it increasingly fab today, and ignorance is bliss. 
Life is too shor
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I bought the book "The Deus Machine" by Pierre Ouellette when it first came out back in 1994. I remember being totally captivated by a story that essentially wove self-modifying AI and DNA compiler and production technology into a dystopian glimpse into a future set in 2005. Find it here[^]
Enter Geneticist Jennifer Doudna. She and her team of scientists have developed a DNA editing technology called CRISPR-Cas-9. You can watch her (cautionary) TED talk here.[^]
Combine Doudna's work with what I'm about to listen to: "Stephen Hoover, CEO of Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center, talks with Scientific American tech editor Larry Greenemeier about the revolution underway in machine learning, in which the machine eventually programs itself."
It looks like we've all been subjected to an old Chinese curse:
"May you live in interesting times."
Cheers,
Mike Fidler
"I intend to live forever - so far, so good." Steven Wright
"I almost had a psychic girlfriend but she left me before we met." Also Steven Wright
"I'm addicted to placebos. I could quit, but it wouldn't matter." Steven Wright yet again.
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Doesn't matter if intelligent machines, a modified virus or a new world war where the planet will be nuked...
We are just running with open arms to our own extinction and the worst is we are doing it with a smile from ear to ear.
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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The thing about extinctions is you're not around to worry about it so why not smile? You're gonna die. So is every other human being. Does it really matter when and how?
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Member 9082365 wrote: Does it really matter when and how?
Yes!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Well I quite prefer to live a quiet life, enjoying it and dying old due to natural causes (hopefully without a long illness), surrounded by my family
than living a life hiding, fearing or fighting for my life surrounded by devastation and chaos
Yes... we all have to die. But it DOES matter and there is a BIG difference.
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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MikeTheFid wrote: the revolution underway in machine learning, in which the machine eventually programs itself
I'll be happy the day my boxes can apply updates on themselves without falling over.
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"Eventually" is still a long way. Not in our lifetime, and unless the current trend changes, simply "not".
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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From: http://www.computerworld.com/article/3009657/it-skills-training/best-black-friday-tech-books-and-video-sales.html[^]
O'Reilly has 50% off on all ebooks and videos -- 60% off if you spend more than $100 -- with code CYBER15. The discount is good through 5 a.m. PT Monday, December 1.
InformIT is offering discounts of 35% for one item or 55% for two with code BF2015. Unlike O'Reilly, this deal includes paper books with free shipping in the U.S. as well as ebooks and video tutorials.
All Apress ebooks are on sale for $10 today through Monday, Nov. 30. Springer eBooks are on sale for $20.
Udemy had thousands of courses on sale for $10 each earlier in the week. Price is up to $15 for Black Friday today, but that's still a significant discount on some courses' regular prices.
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Okay, seriously, you marked that as spam? Honestly, I am at the Apress site right now looking at the deals. $10 for tech books is fantastic. Get a life. I don't get anything out of this. Check out the computerworld article. was trying to help. Whatevs!! 
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