The people I work with send emojis to clarify text messages. It's hard to tell if someone is sarcastic in text. But an emoji helps clarify it.
At first I thought they were silly, and people should just learn to use:-) instead of the emoji for the smiley face.
But then I realized that it's not the 80s anymore. Computers are mainstream, and that means that things need to be made easier for everyone to grasp what's going on and be included in the discussion. Emojis help with that.
(That being said, I'm still searching for the emoji for . I seem to use it a lot in my texts and it vexes me.)
Not at all true. Just visit a strip club and ask the girls there. They're mostly quite nice and talkative (if you want) after you give them a couple bucks.
I met several nice ones who were doing it on the side to just earn money while they were getting their other jobs in order (once was selling crafts, another was a florist, and at least one was working as a personal trainer).
They all realized they could make a few extra bucks on the side and still keep their day jobs. All of them drove over an hour from where they live, because they were worried about the stigmata in their communities.
Maybe with the cars seeing them and making a wide path around them?
I remember an Asimov story (one of the more forgetable ones) in which there was a room with robots all going in straight lines criss-crossing the room. The robots were in direct communication with each other so none of them ever hit another. When a person had to cross the room, he essentially had to close his eyes and keep walking, regardless of what he heard happening around him.
Not sure I would trust this in the real world, mind you. A lot more jerks would just stand in front of the traffic and taunt the cars.
I've had my Linux Mint box freeze sporadically. I thought it was the OS for the longest time but it happened a couple weeks after I did a clean wipe and reinstall.
Turned out it was a bad stick of memory. Replaced it and things have been golden.
I got a 6S 6 months ago because my battery life on my 4 was getting short enough that it was starting to bug me.
I hate my 6S. It still feels awkward in my hands and it's tall enough that it's fallen out of my shirt pocket a number of times when I bend over to pick up my pants in the bathroom. (Obviously I'm doing it wrong!)
Wish I had waited a bit longer to get the smaller one, but the rumor on a smaller iPhone has been floating for more than a year, so I didn't think it likely until recently.
I was a long time user of DigiKam, but it's just become too heavy for the amount of photos I have. Load times were going up and removing the cache and letting it recreate it just wasn't helping much to make it faster.
gThumb is what I use now. Very simple, but fast and easy for the wife to use as well.
You're supposed to leave the Tesla at the supercharger plugged in and go get a bite to eat or use the restrooms. That's why they put the superchargers near eateries and bathrooms instead of a barren stretch of the highway.
And, of course, you're also supposed to charge up at home so you always leave the house with a 90% (~235 mile on the 85kwh battery) charge.
Sounds like we're supposed to talk about the ODROID-C2.
Anyone know how big the community for it is, compared to RaspPi? And what OS options are available? (ie: Debian, OSMC, MS Windows, etc.)
Balmer said it best: Developers! Developers! Developers!
I have two first generation Rasp Pi Model Bs that I replaced with Model 2s. Haven't had any problems with the Model 2 B yet. If I do, I'm almost certainly going to replace with the Model 3. I'm using it for media center and it works fantastic.
It's no different to a power user. As you said, you wipe and reinstall your apps and documents.
For the general public, it's a little different. With a failed drive they're hosed. With an encrypted file, they have the option to pay the ransom and regain their data. (And, typically, the second time around they'll buy an automated backup solution. Since this is an Apple OS, probably Time Capsule).
If the certificate gets it's 90 day extension, your payment is as secure as it was on 12/31/2015.
Of course the announcement that no new SHA-1 certificates would be issued after 12/31/2015 would mean there would be a rush to get them before that date. However, the second part was that the new certificates would be 1 year with no renewal.
Which means that if they were doing the right thing, they would have gotten them before the end of last year, and they would have expired before then end of this year.
Instead, they get them late and they expire before this Summer. It seems like it's a reasonable option in the real world.
I used to use Anysoft's software to rip DVDs (and the occassional BluRay).
Then I got to realized that it's better to keep my copies on the hard drive rather than burn a second disc for safety. Now I use makemkv to rip the disc and handbrake to compress to a reasonable size.
The plus is that with a small netbook computer attached to the TV I have access to my whole video library over wifi.
Our hospital is looking into something called Spok for secure messaging. Should work whereever the cell phone has wifi or cell service. It's a secure texting app that's HIPAA compliant and has desktop/web versions so that the operators or nurses can send us texts without having to use a phone. Added bonus of read receipts and ping-back to the sender (if wanted) if the message isn't read in a timely manner (ie: STAT pages).
At least that's what our IT guys told me. We haven't gotten it yet.
Okay. I guess the community's dumbed down enough that asking whether an open hardware system (running on a POWER chip could run the security nightmare which is Microsoft Windows 10) could run MS Windows could conceivably be a valid question.
My, how this community has slid.:-(
I'm just going to go back into lurking mode and tend to my lawn, I guess.
Similar situation. I started reading up on investing (books: The Boglehead Guide To Investing, Common Sense on Mutual Funds, The Boglehead Guide To Retirement, Where Are The Customers' Yachts?, The Little Book Of Common Sense Investing).
Now I have close to 80% of my funds managed personally and just over 20% under a guy my dad recommended to me 20 years ago.
My project for this year is to get rid of the guy. He never put my funds in tax-safe ways and has about $50k sitting in cash for a number of years.
I keep a monthly sheet of my asset allocations. Since I am still in the income generating phase of existence, I decide each month where to put money based on the percentage worth of my assets compared to my goal percentages: 65% Total Stock Market / S&P 500 5 % Total International 5% Fun Stuff (Individual Stocks, sector ETFs) 25% Bonds
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The people I work with send emojis to clarify text messages. It's hard to tell if someone is sarcastic in text. But an emoji helps clarify it.
At first I thought they were silly, and people should just learn to use :-) instead of the emoji for the smiley face.
But then I realized that it's not the 80s anymore. Computers are mainstream, and that means that things need to be made easier for everyone to grasp what's going on and be included in the discussion. Emojis help with that.
(That being said, I'm still searching for the emoji for . I seem to use it a lot in my texts and it vexes me.)
Possibly, but we're not billionaire CEOs of a Chinese tech company.
The bar is set a little higher for him to make sense than we are.
A year ago it was about a dozen. Now it's down to two or three.
And hence Facebook's problem. They're no longer relevant.
> 50% of human beings? What a dubious statement.
Ummm... What are you replying to?
Not at all true. Just visit a strip club and ask the girls there. They're mostly quite nice and talkative (if you want) after you give them a couple bucks.
I met several nice ones who were doing it on the side to just earn money while they were getting their other jobs in order (once was selling crafts, another was a florist, and at least one was working as a personal trainer).
They all realized they could make a few extra bucks on the side and still keep their day jobs. All of them drove over an hour from where they live, because they were worried about the stigmata in their communities.
Pebble is this generation's Palm. A great product which did what it did well.
Destroyed by inferior products from bigger companies with color screens and more integration.
Be nice. The writer is probably in 3rd grade. I think my son had that phrased as a homework question a couple months ago:
Pebble plans to lay off 40 people, bringing down it's total employee count to 80. What percentage of the company will be laid off?
Maybe with the cars seeing them and making a wide path around them?
I remember an Asimov story (one of the more forgetable ones) in which there was a room with robots all going in straight lines criss-crossing the room. The robots were in direct communication with each other so none of them ever hit another. When a person had to cross the room, he essentially had to close his eyes and keep walking, regardless of what he heard happening around him.
Not sure I would trust this in the real world, mind you. A lot more jerks would just stand in front of the traffic and taunt the cars.
I've had my Linux Mint box freeze sporadically. I thought it was the OS for the longest time but it happened a couple weeks after I did a clean wipe and reinstall.
Turned out it was a bad stick of memory. Replaced it and things have been golden.
Did the GP run a low level memory test lately?
Agree 100%.
I got a 6S 6 months ago because my battery life on my 4 was getting short enough that it was starting to bug me.
I hate my 6S. It still feels awkward in my hands and it's tall enough that it's fallen out of my shirt pocket a number of times when I bend over to pick up my pants in the bathroom. (Obviously I'm doing it wrong!)
Wish I had waited a bit longer to get the smaller one, but the rumor on a smaller iPhone has been floating for more than a year, so I didn't think it likely until recently.
I was a long time user of DigiKam, but it's just become too heavy for the amount of photos I have. Load times were going up and removing the cache and letting it recreate it just wasn't helping much to make it faster.
gThumb is what I use now. Very simple, but fast and easy for the wife to use as well.
You're supposed to leave the Tesla at the supercharger plugged in and go get a bite to eat or use the restrooms. That's why they put the superchargers near eateries and bathrooms instead of a barren stretch of the highway.
And, of course, you're also supposed to charge up at home so you always leave the house with a 90% (~235 mile on the 85kwh battery) charge.
Sounds like we're supposed to talk about the ODROID-C2.
Anyone know how big the community for it is, compared to RaspPi? And what OS options are available? (ie: Debian, OSMC, MS Windows, etc.)
Balmer said it best: Developers! Developers! Developers!
I have two first generation Rasp Pi Model Bs that I replaced with Model 2s. Haven't had any problems with the Model 2 B yet. If I do, I'm almost certainly going to replace with the Model 3. I'm using it for media center and it works fantastic.
It's no different to a power user. As you said, you wipe and reinstall your apps and documents.
For the general public, it's a little different. With a failed drive they're hosed. With an encrypted file, they have the option to pay the ransom and regain their data. (And, typically, the second time around they'll buy an automated backup solution. Since this is an Apple OS, probably Time Capsule).
Would there be benefit in trying to land the rocket in a pool of fresh water (or even pure water or some other non-ionizing solution)?
It would at least be less corrosive than salt water, and if they get it out quickly maybe not significantly damaging at all?
It's going to replace Windows Mobile.
How else are you going to have a Windows Everywhere software stack?
If the certificate gets it's 90 day extension, your payment is as secure as it was on 12/31/2015.
Of course the announcement that no new SHA-1 certificates would be issued after 12/31/2015 would mean there would be a rush to get them before that date. However, the second part was that the new certificates would be 1 year with no renewal.
Which means that if they were doing the right thing, they would have gotten them before the end of last year, and they would have expired before then end of this year.
Instead, they get them late and they expire before this Summer. It seems like it's a reasonable option in the real world.
I used to use Anysoft's software to rip DVDs (and the occassional BluRay).
Then I got to realized that it's better to keep my copies on the hard drive rather than burn a second disc for safety. Now I use makemkv to rip the disc and handbrake to compress to a reasonable size.
The plus is that with a small netbook computer attached to the TV I have access to my whole video library over wifi.
Or, you know, you could just not give it access to your network.
You want YouTube or Netflix? Buy an Amazon Fire or AppleTV or one of the dozen other options to stream it off the internet.
Our hospital is looking into something called Spok for secure messaging. Should work whereever the cell phone has wifi or cell service. It's a secure texting app that's HIPAA compliant and has desktop/web versions so that the operators or nurses can send us texts without having to use a phone. Added bonus of read receipts and ping-back to the sender (if wanted) if the message isn't read in a timely manner (ie: STAT pages).
At least that's what our IT guys told me. We haven't gotten it yet.
Okay. I guess the community's dumbed down enough that asking whether an open hardware system (running on a POWER chip could run the security nightmare which is Microsoft Windows 10) could run MS Windows could conceivably be a valid question.
My, how this community has slid. :-(
I'm just going to go back into lurking mode and tend to my lawn, I guess.
Woosh!
Does it run Microsoft Windows?
Similar situation. I started reading up on investing (books: The Boglehead Guide To Investing, Common Sense on Mutual Funds, The Boglehead Guide To Retirement, Where Are The Customers' Yachts?, The Little Book Of Common Sense Investing).
Now I have close to 80% of my funds managed personally and just over 20% under a guy my dad recommended to me 20 years ago.
My project for this year is to get rid of the guy. He never put my funds in tax-safe ways and has about $50k sitting in cash for a number of years.
I keep a monthly sheet of my asset allocations. Since I am still in the income generating phase of existence, I decide each month where to put money based on the percentage worth of my assets compared to my goal percentages:
65% Total Stock Market / S&P 500
5 % Total International
5% Fun Stuff (Individual Stocks, sector ETFs)
25% Bonds
Is this a windows-only thing?
Doesn't stream for me on Linux Mint and Firefox. A separate tab opens in the browser and that's about all I get.