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Gigili
Gigili
06:29
@Cerberus: amazon.de/dp/B005Y5SE6I/ref=pe_191771_29690911_pe_epc_dt4
(Discount rate)
Umm, My life seems repetitive. I need to change something...
David Wallace
David Wallace
That seems expensive.
The smartphone I mean, not changing your life.
Although that could be expensive too!
Gigili
Gigili
Maybe, but Cerb is a person of wealth and influence.
David Wallace
David Wallace
Lucky Cerb!
I have a stupidphone.
Gigili
Gigili
It can't be more stupid than mine.
But I like it despite its stupidity.
Maybe for the same reason that my parents like me!
David Wallace
David Wallace
I don't know which bit to reply to first!
Gigili
Gigili
06:42
You better don't reply to those stupid lines!
David Wallace
David Wallace
gsmarena.com/nokia_1100-512.php
I have one of these.
And I can think of dozens of reasons why your parents would like you. If I knew you better, it would probably be hundreds.
Gigili
Gigili
Wow, really?
I mean, do you really have that one?
David Wallace
David Wallace
Yes, why is that surprising?
My wife's one is even more primitive, but I'm not sure what model it is, so I can't link to it.
Gigili
Gigili
I always judge people by their mobile phone, perhaps I should stop it.
Is there anything you can do with your stupidphone except calling?
David Wallace
David Wallace
But why do I need to take photos, access the Internet, or do anything else that's smart? I owned it for almost two years before I ever sent anyone a text.
Gigili
Gigili
06:53
Very tempting David, very tempting.
David Wallace
David Wallace
OK, judge away then. I am feature-poor and boring, but reliable.
And old. Don't forget old.
Gigili
Gigili
takes note
Does it mean a phone like the one I linked to doesn't capture your attention?
David Wallace
David Wallace
Umm, I don't know what I would do with it.
Gigili
Gigili
Or you feel like you don't need it?
Oh?
David Wallace
David Wallace
I've never felt the need of any smartphone functions; I don't know why I would start now.
Gigili
Gigili
07:02
Odd.
David Wallace
David Wallace
I'm going to go and play table tennis with my son. I shall come back here later. CU.
Gigili
Gigili
Bye!
David Wallace
David Wallace
07:58
Hi.
 
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Stack Exchange
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Q: Why did generative linguists abandon the notion of kernal sentences?

James GrossmannI've had a hard time finding answers to this question on Ixquick. When I was young, transformational grammarians believed that sentences were derived from "kernal sentences," which were uniclausal, single-verb clauses with no modifiers. http://grammar.about.com/od/il/g/Kernel-Sentence-term...

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Alenanno
Alenanno
12:09
Hello!
@Cerberus and @Gigili :)
 
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Cerberus
Cerberus
15:13
@Gigili Oh that's pretty cheap! Wow, I had no idea priced would drop so quickly.
@Gigili I am? How so?
@Alenanno Lo!
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Stack Exchange
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Q: measuring relative importance/social proximity of an addressee based on length of written explanation in letters with multiple addressees

ShukicI have a corpus of personal letters in which writers explain a tough decision to multiple addressees, each in its own section/paragraph of the letter (for the most part). I wonder if anybody has ever empirically measured the attention/production/verbosity associated with each addressee (e.g. nu...

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Gigili
Gigili
18:25
@Cerberus Nur so.
Cerberus
Cerberus
@Gigili I am not rich at all, or I'd buy a Galaxy Nexus.
Gigili
Gigili
18:39
I know, I just said it without any particular reason.
Cerberus
Cerberus
Those are the best kind of reasons!
Gigili
Gigili
Maybe we should just wait a month or two and it'll be $200 if not for free.
Cerberus
Cerberus
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This is the price development in Holland.
Green is the lowest price available, blue the average price.
Cheapest one I could find in a Dutch (web)shop was € 365.
So even cheaper than Amazon.
Gigili
Gigili
Why didn't you buy it?
Cerberus
Cerberus
Well, look at the graph.
The curve is going downwards, and it is steepening.
It may very well be € 200 in a few months, as you say.
Gigili
Gigili
18:51
Wow, nice that we didn't buy one so far.
Cerberus
Cerberus
It is always that way with electronics.
Gigili
Gigili
Or at the time I was tempted to buy one of them, for € 600.
Cerberus
Cerberus
The more new types are introduced every year, the faster the price of the older ones will decrease.
@Gigili Yup.
By the way, a knowledgeable friend told me that it costs about € 50 or less to make a new smartphone.
So there is ample margin for prices to drop even more.
Of course the manufacturers need to make a handsome profit per phone to cover the costs of research and development, but still.
Gigili
Gigili
Whoa, only € 50?
Imagine how handsome is Apple making profit.
Cerberus
Cerberus
19:34
Exactly.
And Apple isn't innovating much recently, I think, in their phones, so low research costs for each new Iphone type.
That's why Apple's value increased by a hundred billion a year or more, over the past few years.
 
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Gigili
Gigili
20:46
Look:
in English Language and Usage, 28 mins ago, by Jez
all your flags are invalid
in English Language and Usage, 27 mins ago, by Jez
@Gigili If I spot another one of your unnecessary flags, I'll report you for abuse.
That's all I got from trying to kick him out.
Do you really think I'm more annoying that the on begging for help to translate some shit?
You suck badly, all of you.
Cerberus
Cerberus
Jez is pushing Reg a little bit about the translating, but Reg is quite capable of resisting and ignoring that. It's not a problem.
My advice remains: just ignore him, and don't try flagging (you have seen time and again that it doesn't work).

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