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Ya, like that. 
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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dandy72 wrote: Whereas you'll be lucky to get one OS update throughout an Android device's lifetime?
My wife has already got three upgrade invitations for her Samsung A3 (to be fair 1 was just security patches)
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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Compare and contrast...
My Lumia 640 phone came with Windows 8.1. It got upgraded to 10, and to this day I can still install Insider updates on an almost weekly basis if so I choose.
My cheap-ass HP Stream 7 tablet came with 8.0 (I think), and again, was trivial to update to 8.1, then 10, then to all releases of Windows 10 that came between that and the Creators Update from last March.
My first-gen Surface Pro tablet is also now on Creators Update.
Now for the fun part:
I have 4 Android tablets; an ancient one that came with Android 2.2, another that came with 4.2, another that came with 4.3, and finally, another with 6.0. Only the one that came with 4.3 had an upgrade to 4.4 (which in hindsight was pretty minor), and that's it. More often than not, I can't install apps anywhere because "...your device is not compatible with this version of Android".
In my experience, Android tablets are pretty much abandonware the moment you walk out the store, and based on stories I keep reading about carriers not making OS updates available, Android phones aren't doing any better. I'm hoping I'm not ever going to be foolish enough to believe I could buy another Android device and assume it's one day going to be upgradable.
Oh, and Cyanogen is pretty much dead at this point.
Wanna buy some Android tablets? All barely used, all in great condition.
Does this answer your " "?
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Because an iPhone with 128 Gb costs way more than 16 Gb, so you are focusing it wrong. It is not a technical question, it is economical.
Coming back to the feature... I find it a bad feature if you can't set a "don't touch this ever" list. Only because I don't use something that much doesn't mean it is not important when I do need it.
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
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Nelek wrote: Only because I don't use something that much doesn't mean it is not important when I do need it.
I could have read it wrong but it does look like you can enable the feature per app if you want to.
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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For security it should be the other way around... I actively mark my expendable ones.
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
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Jem Cresswell: family-safe video: [^].
Jem is an Australian photographer.videographer; his website's here: [^].
«Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.» Miss Piggy
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Thanks Microsoft.
I have a project with some long running tests. I wanted to exclude these from normal Unit testing, but include them in integration testing.
I set up a new Build Configuration for Integration testing, and excluded projects containing these long running tests from building under the Debug configuration.
You would think, wouldn't you, that tests for a project excluded from a build would not be run...
No such luck.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Let in or let on. (5)
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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ADMIT - To let in.
ADMIT - To reveal or "let on"
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Too easy...
All yours for tomorrow.
Cheers,
Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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One of the designers of COBOL
Jean E. Sammet - Wikipedia
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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And possibly RIP COBOL itself.
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What, so this year will be The Year?
One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I don't know.
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The are millions of lines of code written in COBOL, mostly in critical legacy systems (such as the banking system). While it may be possible to replace them with code written in a modern language, the costs (and risk!) of doing so are too high.
I expect that COBOL (and COBOL programmers) will still be with us for quite a while.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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I read somewhere that somebody in Australia, maybe a bank, spent 800 million dollars to replace their systems written in COBOL.
For that kind of money, you could have kept COBOL going for 100 years using code coolies from India! 
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For lunch today, I'm having a bun filled with ham and pineapple. That's Hawaii roll.
Early today - blame herself!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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careful you don't drop it, that's Los Alamos
Sin tack
the any key okay
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If said sandwich was large enough (and why wouldn't it be), would it be Maui grande?
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Mine just had tissue paper in the middle.. 
I'd asked for a Toulouse Roll.
Now is it bad enough that you let somebody else kick your butts without you trying to do it to each other? Now if we're all talking about the same man, and I think we are... it appears he's got a rather growing collection of our bikes.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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That's a poi excuse for a pun.
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP.
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Hula known that you'd post that? I was hoping I'd lava a lot at today's entry, but mauna loa quality pun would be difficult to find.
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Before one can rightfully use Hawaii as part of a pun, they must first be able to correctly pronounce the name of their state fish, the Humuhumunukunukuapua`a[^]. 
if (Object.DividedByZero == true) { Universe.Implode(); }
Meus ratio ex fortis machina. Simplicitatis de formae ac munus. -Foothill, 2016
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"Gerald"
The one I met was called Gerald. I can pronounce that!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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