Why do you HAVE to smudge the screen with your finger if it is touchscreen? It still is perfectly good for displaying pictures.
It has a stylus, and we bought it initially to draw on. But flipped over in "tablet" mode, you necessarily have to deal with the OS via the touchscreen, or spend a lot of time flipping backwards and forwards between "tablet" and "laptop" mode to do stuff.
We've since gone back to a digitizer connected to a Windows XP desktop.
In summary, we bought the touchscreen laptop for a specific purpose, and, as it's failed miserably for that purpose, and the desktop performs adequately for that purpose, and we have other laptops, it pretty much sits unused. We have laptops running XP and Win7, but the one running Win8 nobody wants to use.
I'd like to see Android on the PC become commercially available. We have a touchscreen laptop running Win8. Currently I'm planning to find a friend of my daughter's that needs a laptop and gift it. (Downgrading to Win7 is pointless because it has a touchscreen and Win7 touchscreen support is pretty much useless.) But I might reconsider if there were a native Android that would run on it. Assuming reasonable hardware support, and that there was a reasonable selection of Android apps that run on Intel architecture.
Message was garbled. That was supposed to read: One caveat is that you must have (some degree) [from (some college)] just to get past HR and get the manager's ear. (But you probably already know that.) You need to find a different way in. You say you have many accomplishments -- someone must have noticed, and you must have built relationships during those accomplishments. Time to exploit that, call in favors.
Start a business. You'll enjoy that more than working for someone else anyway. In many states you can start an LLC for a pittance.
Barring that, you need to network. HR departments exist (these days) as a shield between hiring managers and the great unwashed masses. One criteria is that you must have [from Caveat -- I'm an old guy with lots of experience, mostly self-taught, working in a field not studied in college. (That didn't, in fact, exist when I was in college.) Finding a new job is often an adventure because my college credits were a long time ago in a completely different area. In most cases, I've known someone who knew someone, managed to get the manager's ear, maybe over a beer after hours.
I think in the context of the Fermi Paradox finding lots of habitable planets is _bad_ news because it invites the question "so where the hell is all the intelligent life on all these habitable planets"
Obviously you're unaware of Oliver's Solution to the Fermi Paradox: They discovered reality tv. Then civilization collapsed.
But even in space "nearby" is relative. We can reach Mars in a reasonable amount of time, using technology that's the space equivalent of "walking". Reaching even the nearest star is a whole 'nother story. Something else needs to be invented in order to achieve that. Or as someone smarter than I once said:
“Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.”
(Well, who did you *think* I was going to quote??)
I have visual evidence to the contrary. I didn't know this would be controversial, or I would have taken pictures. It was not a CF card in a socket, it was an SD card soldered directly to the board. (Blue. Sandisk.) Perhaps it depends on the year of manufacture.
You can repair iPods but you don't know the difference between SD and CompactFlash?
?? I very much do. My daughter's camera, for instance, takes SD cards and mine takes Compact Flash. It was an SD card with wires soldered to the exposed pins. How would you solder a Compact Flash card?
Definitions: principal (n.) - the chief administrator of a school principle (n.) - a basic truth, law, or belief
Gaaah. And doing a google search to insure that one is using the right word is problematic because so many people apparently use it incorrectly.
I used to be a big believer in the "3 feet" rule -- don't write anything without a dictionary and thesaurus within 3 feet. But google makes it easy to look stuff up. And, apparently, easy to be wrong at lightning speed.
Mostly ignoring standard fanboi rationalization, and I really shouldn't be feeding the trolls, but I do have one question: In what way does using a common screw head make it an inferior product?
I have to reluctantly agree with CastrTroy. It took me a long time to warm to Torex, but they really are superior to crosshead, and the tools are fairly common.
Replacing the screws so that commonly available tools can be used to work on it, tells me that the owner intends to fix it themselves, which makes this scenario unimportant. Besides, as someone else said, in the unlikely event you have a real out-of-warranty coverage scenario, you can always put the original screws back in.
Incidentally, car owners have been doing this for many years.
I assume with the turn of a screw you also void the warranty?
Enh. What makes me uncomfortable about this question is the unspoken assumption that everyone dumps their i-device for the "latest and greatest" right about the time the warranty runs out. I think the general answer is, if you're planning to fix it yourself (BTW, good for you!) then the warranty does not apply.
I've been fixing ipods for years as a side business. [1] I don't make enough to be worth my time. The only reason I do it is that it offends me that such a popular device is considered disposable when the parts that break/wear out are replaceable. It seems to me that someone could really make a go at this, and I'm very happy that someone is.
[1] If you're interested, the things most needing replacement in my experience are (a) the cheap plastic headphone jack (b) the battery and (c) the screen in that order. All the parts and the tools you need have been available online for some time (although they used to be hard to find; common now) and it's not hard to do. But I can sometimes see why Apple doesn't want you to look inside. For instance, the commercial Sandisk SD card soldered onto the circuit board of the ipod mini. (They didn't even bother to take the label off.)
I agree it's annoying that the screws are a nonstandard kind. But this "liberation kit" consists of:
1. A pentalobe screwdriver that lets you operate the iPhone screws.
2. Some Philips head screws that you can replace the pentalobe screws with.
But once you have #1, why do you need to do #2?
I'd say yes, for two reasons. At some time in the future, you will have (probably) several small cross head screwdrivers, and only one pentalobe screwdriver. Second reason, it's the principal of the thing.
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Looks interesting. Only problem is, it's HP.
Why do you HAVE to smudge the screen with your finger if it is touchscreen? It still is perfectly good for displaying pictures.
It has a stylus, and we bought it initially to draw on. But flipped over in "tablet" mode, you necessarily have to deal with the OS via the touchscreen, or spend a lot of time flipping backwards and forwards between "tablet" and "laptop" mode to do stuff.
We've since gone back to a digitizer connected to a Windows XP desktop.
In summary, we bought the touchscreen laptop for a specific purpose, and, as it's failed miserably for that purpose, and the desktop performs adequately for that purpose, and we have other laptops, it pretty much sits unused. We have laptops running XP and Win7, but the one running Win8 nobody wants to use.
That's good news. This touchscreen laptop is an Asus also. Might be worth the experiment.
I'd like to see Android on the PC become commercially available. We have a touchscreen laptop running Win8. Currently I'm planning to find a friend of my daughter's that needs a laptop and gift it. (Downgrading to Win7 is pointless because it has a touchscreen and Win7 touchscreen support is pretty much useless.) But I might reconsider if there were a native Android that would run on it. Assuming reasonable hardware support, and that there was a reasonable selection of Android apps that run on Intel architecture.
"You used six words out of context in your last transmission. We believe they are code words. Tell us what they mean."
"Um... what?"
Um, not really. There's always Steganography.
Or I could just put my daughter and some of her friends at each station. I don't understand her. The government is welcome to try.
Message was garbled. That was supposed to read:
One caveat is that you must have (some degree) [from (some college)] just to get past HR and get the manager's ear. (But you probably already know that.) You need to find a different way in. You say you have many accomplishments -- someone must have noticed, and you must have built relationships during those accomplishments. Time to exploit that, call in favors.
Start a business. You'll enjoy that more than working for someone else anyway. In many states you can start an LLC for a pittance.
Barring that, you need to network. HR departments exist (these days) as a shield between hiring managers and the great unwashed masses. One criteria is that you must have [from
Caveat -- I'm an old guy with lots of experience, mostly self-taught, working in a field not studied in college. (That didn't, in fact, exist when I was in college.) Finding a new job is often an adventure because my college credits were a long time ago in a completely different area. In most cases, I've known someone who knew someone, managed to get the manager's ear, maybe over a beer after hours.
I think in the context of the Fermi Paradox finding lots of habitable planets is _bad_ news because it invites the question "so where the hell is all the intelligent life on all these habitable planets"
Obviously you're unaware of Oliver's Solution to the Fermi Paradox: They discovered reality tv. Then civilization collapsed.
But even in space "nearby" is relative. We can reach Mars in a reasonable amount of time, using technology that's the space equivalent of "walking". Reaching even the nearest star is a whole 'nother story. Something else needs to be invented in order to achieve that. Or as someone smarter than I once said:
“Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.”
(Well, who did you *think* I was going to quote??)
It would take a leap in some branch of technology, true. (Perhaps several.)
"nearby" is relative. At 80 miles, the beach is nearby relative to, say Germany. But I still wouldn't want to walk there.
I have visual evidence to the contrary. I didn't know this would be controversial, or I would have taken pictures. It was not a CF card in a socket, it was an SD card soldered directly to the board. (Blue. Sandisk.) Perhaps it depends on the year of manufacture.
You can repair iPods but you don't know the difference between SD and CompactFlash?
?? I very much do. My daughter's camera, for instance, takes SD cards and mine takes Compact Flash. It was an SD card with wires soldered to the exposed pins. How would you solder a Compact Flash card?
We're geeks. It's what we do. I suspect we're a small demographic for i-product sales.
Definitions:
principal (n.) - the chief administrator of a school
principle (n.) - a basic truth, law, or belief
Gaaah. And doing a google search to insure that one is using the right word is problematic because so many people apparently use it incorrectly.
I used to be a big believer in the "3 feet" rule -- don't write anything without a dictionary and thesaurus within 3 feet. But google makes it easy to look stuff up. And, apparently, easy to be wrong at lightning speed.
Mostly ignoring standard fanboi rationalization, and I really shouldn't be feeding the trolls, but I do have one question: In what way does using a common screw head make it an inferior product?
I have to reluctantly agree with CastrTroy. It took me a long time to warm to Torex, but they really are superior to crosshead, and the tools are fairly common.
Replacing the screws so that commonly available tools can be used to work on it, tells me that the owner intends to fix it themselves, which makes this scenario unimportant. Besides, as someone else said, in the unlikely event you have a real out-of-warranty coverage scenario, you can always put the original screws back in.
Incidentally, car owners have been doing this for many years.
Of course he did not. This is absolute heresy. I imagine the Apple police are suiting up.
I assume with the turn of a screw you also void the warranty?
Enh. What makes me uncomfortable about this question is the unspoken assumption that everyone dumps their i-device for the "latest and greatest" right about the time the warranty runs out. I think the general answer is, if you're planning to fix it yourself (BTW, good for you!) then the warranty does not apply.
I've been fixing ipods for years as a side business. [1] I don't make enough to be worth my time. The only reason I do it is that it offends me that such a popular device is considered disposable when the parts that break/wear out are replaceable. It seems to me that someone could really make a go at this, and I'm very happy that someone is.
[1] If you're interested, the things most needing replacement in my experience are (a) the cheap plastic headphone jack (b) the battery and (c) the screen in that order. All the parts and the tools you need have been available online for some time (although they used to be hard to find; common now) and it's not hard to do. But I can sometimes see why Apple doesn't want you to look inside. For instance, the commercial Sandisk SD card soldered onto the circuit board of the ipod mini. (They didn't even bother to take the label off.)
I agree it's annoying that the screws are a nonstandard kind. But this "liberation kit" consists of:
1. A pentalobe screwdriver that lets you operate the iPhone screws.
2. Some Philips head screws that you can replace the pentalobe screws with.
But once you have #1, why do you need to do #2?
I'd say yes, for two reasons. At some time in the future, you will have (probably) several small cross head screwdrivers, and only one pentalobe screwdriver. Second reason, it's the principal of the thing.
The flaw in my cunning plan is that there would need to be recipients for this to work. I may have to label it as porn.
Then that really would make you criminal.
Hm. I guess it could actually *be* porn, but I'd need some to torrent... Where does one find porn on the internet?