A question I get nearly every time I make a Dr appointment. "And why are you coming to see Dr zzzzzz" No, I'll leave my desk and use my cell phone when I make my Dr appointments. My health concerns are not my coworkers business.
Have you noticed that whenever you call the Dr office from work, they have trouble hearing you at their end? You usually have to repeat yourself several times before finally loudly yelling "Hemorrhoids!"
I have no problem with that. Last I heard, they didn't even allow iPhones to connect with our network. But I still have my phone in case my aging mother needs to reach me. And considering how often I'm in a meeting or working with a cow-orker at his desk, it's easier to reach me at my cell than at my work phone.
Yup! IMHO, the trolls weren't the real problem. The exodus of the non-trolls, and Rusty charging for new K5 accounts was the problem. If you have 12 trolls among 1,000 real users, it's not bad. If you have 12 trolls among 20 users, you're screwed, even with just the same amount of trolling.
Some books are limited to a certain number of devices. I once tried to DL a book to a new device and got an error message to that effect. It turned out I had an old Kindle that was still registered to me, and when I deregistered it at Amazon, I could DL the book to the new device.
That's why I got my Kindle. I have enough room for a reasonable amount of books. But after many decades, I have an unreasonable amount of books. For years I had to quit buying because there just wasn't any room left. Now, I can buy ebooks and not worry about space.
Good point! I had a one-week outage due to a bad ice storm, and without heat, I had to stay at my mom's. I didn't have an e-reader at that time, but if I had, it would have been much easier to charge it at my mom's than to pack a bunch of paper books from my cold house to read at hers.
Spaces are easy to handle because a space is always a space. Contrast that to handling files abc.txt, ABC.TXT, Abc.txt, aBc.txt, abC.txt, ABc.txt, AbC.txt, aBC.txt, abc.Txt, AbC.tXt, etc. It's a usability nightmare.
Even a space might not be a space. I've heard of filenames with ASCII 255 or 0 that looked like a space. Now my head really hurts!
"The U.S. is averaging a mass shooting every 6 months"
That means 2 a year, and 20 deaths is on the high side for each one.
In my city, the regular homicides are well over twice that number. In one city! In Chicago, 40 deaths is a bad week!! The crazies who kill scores of people at once make the news, but their numbers are dwarfed by the slower but more steady routine violence.
When I google my real name, I get several Facebook pages, and at least one LinkedIn that aren't me. I have to go to the second page to find a stupid question on some tech list that, er wait I didn't write that question!
It would have been kewl if I'd gotten the ability to smash tanks with rays from my eyes. Or even retractable claws that could cut through steel. But, with my luck, I would have wound up with 7 fingers on each hand.
MS Office probably won't disappear, but it might look dramatically different than it does now. MS might get rid of the "ribbon", and replace it with a bow.
Once I was put on a project with rather strict standards. I didn't like their naming conventions, and the style was noticeably different from mine. But I soon found that whichever of their programs I was assigned to, it was relatively easy to follow because of the similarity with the other programs in that system. In contrast, the system I'd been on before had no standards, and everyone did things their own way (including me), and I had to study each new program before making any significant changes.
And here's the problem. The uneducated masses see,
1. scientific theory like Global Warming 2. end of the world theory
in the news and they think "theory this, theory that. One wrong means both likely wrong".
Most of the population doesn't even know how science works or what is the scientific method. Some may say "but they learn it in school" - they also learn how to complete the square and do long division and how many know how to do that *today*?
Actually one problem is that they hear GW alarmists claiming that GW will cause the end of the world. Some of them even claim it will turn Earth into Venus! So, naturally they lump GW alarmists in with other EOTW crackpots.
Think about it. Would you rather punch someone, or would you rather pick up a big heavy club and beat someone with it? Yes, we're violent, but we can do so much more with improved dexterity than a simple punch, even with the crudest tools.
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Yeah, we should make flu illegal.
A question I get nearly every time I make a Dr appointment. "And why are you coming to see Dr zzzzzz" No, I'll leave my desk and use my cell phone when I make my Dr appointments. My health concerns are not my coworkers business.
Have you noticed that whenever you call the Dr office from work, they have trouble hearing you at their end? You usually have to repeat yourself several times before finally loudly yelling "Hemorrhoids!"
I have no problem with that. Last I heard, they didn't even allow iPhones to connect with our network. But I still have my phone in case my aging mother needs to reach me. And considering how often I'm in a meeting or working with a cow-orker at his desk, it's easier to reach me at my cell than at my work phone.
Yup! IMHO, the trolls weren't the real problem. The exodus of the non-trolls, and Rusty charging for new K5 accounts was the problem. If you have 12 trolls among 1,000 real users, it's not bad. If you have 12 trolls among 20 users, you're screwed, even with just the same amount of trolling.
Some books are limited to a certain number of devices. I once tried to DL a book to a new device and got an error message to that effect. It turned out I had an old Kindle that was still registered to me, and when I deregistered it at Amazon, I could DL the book to the new device.
That's why I got my Kindle. I have enough room for a reasonable amount of books. But after many decades, I have an unreasonable amount of books. For years I had to quit buying because there just wasn't any room left. Now, I can buy ebooks and not worry about space.
Good point! I had a one-week outage due to a bad ice storm, and without heat, I had to stay at my mom's. I didn't have an e-reader at that time, but if I had, it would have been much easier to charge it at my mom's than to pack a bunch of paper books from my cold house to read at hers.
Spaces are easy to handle because a space is always a space. Contrast that to handling files abc.txt, ABC.TXT, Abc.txt, aBc.txt, abC.txt, ABc.txt, AbC.txt, aBC.txt, abc.Txt, AbC.tXt, etc. It's a usability nightmare.
Even a space might not be a space. I've heard of filenames with ASCII 255 or 0 that looked like a space. Now my head really hurts!
But that's just my 2 cents.
Let's see, Bush did massive government bail-outs and spent more money than his predecessors combined. Seems pretty liberal to me.
"The U.S. is averaging a mass shooting every 6 months"
That means 2 a year, and 20 deaths is on the high side for each one.
In my city, the regular homicides are well over twice that number. In one city! In Chicago, 40 deaths is a bad week!! The crazies who kill scores of people at once make the news, but their numbers are dwarfed by the slower but more steady routine violence.
I'm fairly sure Antarctica has oxygen. And isn't quite as cold as space.
However, methane is an issue on Uranus.
Bone loss is the only really serious consequence, and even that may not matter if you don't worry about actually returning to 1G.
I disagree. I could just see myself sneezing in zero G, and without strong bones, I'd be splattered on whichever wall I rocketed into!
When I google my real name, I get several Facebook pages, and at least one LinkedIn that aren't me. I have to go to the second page to find a stupid question on some tech list that, er wait I didn't write that question!
Also, while I don't remember seeing any TV ads (which doesn't prove much since I have Tivo), I've seen ads out the wazoo online.
Actually, ChromeOS looks more like "Windows" than Windows 8/RT.
It would have been kewl if I'd gotten the ability to smash tanks with rays from my eyes. Or even retractable claws that could cut through steel. But, with my luck, I would have wound up with 7 fingers on each hand.
but I think I'd be more comfortable with the metal spider on treads.
MS Office probably won't disappear, but it might look dramatically different than it does now. MS might get rid of the "ribbon", and replace it with a bow.
Once I was put on a project with rather strict standards. I didn't like their naming conventions, and the style was noticeably different from mine. But I soon found that whichever of their programs I was assigned to, it was relatively easy to follow because of the similarity with the other programs in that system. In contrast, the system I'd been on before had no standards, and everyone did things their own way (including me), and I had to study each new program before making any significant changes.
And here's the problem. The uneducated masses see,
1. scientific theory like Global Warming
2. end of the world theory
in the news and they think "theory this, theory that. One wrong means both likely wrong".
Most of the population doesn't even know how science works or what is the scientific method. Some may say "but they learn it in school" - they also learn how to complete the square and do long division and how many know how to do that *today*?
Actually one problem is that they hear GW alarmists claiming that GW will cause the end of the world. Some of them even claim it will turn Earth into Venus! So, naturally they lump GW alarmists in with other EOTW crackpots.
Personally, I'd trust the military much more than I would Congress, especially now.
The fact that the US has insane ideas about what constitutes a "sex offender" does not mean that there are not genuine sexual predators.
Yeah, but sorting out the real predators from the 99% harmless ones makes the whole list rather pointless.
Think about it. Would you rather punch someone, or would you rather pick up a big heavy club and beat someone with it? Yes, we're violent, but we can do so much more with improved dexterity than a simple punch, even with the crudest tools.