...as well as my rooted nook (which is now more than half a portable game console itself with cyanogen 7 on it).
I too just recently bought a nook to root. I had some gift cards/rewards points so got it NIB for about $135...and WOW...that a tablet for that kinda price!!
Anyway...could you elaborate on what apps, and what games you found were the best on it?
This nook project is my first hands on exposure to anything Android before.
they're looking to unify their portable devices...look at the market for standalone MP3 players in general. The only people I even know that still carry one are the ones still rolling with dumbphones. Otherwise, they use their phone as an MP3 player nowadays.
I dunno...I have several dedicated mp3 players. For one thing...I don't use the phone all day for music, I don't want the battery to run out in case I need to talk or txt or check email on it. I do use it at times for Pandora at work when I'm up for some 'radio' like experience.
But aside from that, I have the new iPod nano...for working out at the gym. I don't want the heavy bulky phone there in my pocket...the nano clips on to my shirt and is largely out of the way but providing both mp3's or radio if I want.
Also, the phone has more limited memory and can't carry my large library of music...only a small subsection. I play my 'brick' iPod classis in my car or I grab it to go when I travel so I can listen to any song I have whenever I think of it....also with many podcasts...videos...etc. The phone can't carry everything I like to bring with me.
Heck...now I'm starting to carry a tablet with me more and more....I rooted a nook recently and have really been enjoying that.
So, sure..we are trying to downgrade carrying SO much..but it isn't going away totally....a phone can do many things, but it can't do them all well. The screen is small, it has a lack of memory, and you often need to keep it with enough power for its primary use.....telephone.
I agree...I was assuming one would act according to the situation...no, you don't go down the wall lined with women asking each one and moving to the next one in line.
I'm talking in general during life. You see tons of women out there while moving through your day each day...see one, approach. If that doesn't work..wait a little, and you'll see a new one that hasn't seen your previous interaction.
Desperation, NO..women definitely do not react to that. Projecting confidence will mean you're not projecting desperation. You need to engage them...and basically get them to try to present THEIR value to YOU. That takes a little practice...but it works. You need to be the one they WANT to be with....have them offer YOU their number after talking with them awhile. Things like that also help with women who quite often do retro-justification for their actions. "I must have thought he was cute since I offered my phone number to him"....etc.
Well, I grew up in the day where you'd get licks at school for doing wrong, and likely when you got home and parents found out about it...you'd get another spanking/punishment.
With years of lack of discipline of generations of youth, that have been raised in a culture of entitlement....the youth of today expect the world owes them the good life and all that entails, combined with a lack of consequences for poor behavior if they don't get their way.
From seeing interviews with many of the rioters in the UK...that pretty much sums up a lot of the reasons for the events we're observing.
I say sure...bring back discipline for kids, and a "time out" doesn't always work...sometimes you need to whack a kid to get their attention.
I know I wouldn't have grown up the way I did if I'd not gotten some spankings along the way. It certainly made me curtail behaviors in a quick and decided manner!!
Actually, the better way for a guy to improve his love life is pretty simple.
1. Go out and fucking approach all the women you can. Every woman you see that you have an interest in...approach her and talk to her. It goes help to learn how to talk to women, but that will come, go out and start every day, even if it is only saying 'hello' or asking the time. When you engage them in conversation...listen to them, and one easy way to talk to them, is get them to talk the most!!
No woman ever was out with a guy and complained that she talked about herself too much.
2. Project confidence in yourself. Doing step #1 will start you off in that direction. You had the 'guts' that most of the other guys in the general area didn't have. Woman dig a man that projects confidence in themselves, and how they make their way through life. Until you are really confident...fake it, it works.
3. Try to at least watch your general hygiene, and appearance. You don't have to be Brad Pitt...but don't smell bad, or dress like a homeless person on the street. You don't have to be the best looking guy in the world....thankfully, women are much more forgiving of a male's appearance than we are of them in general. I call it the Billy Joel syndrome...when he was nailing Christie Brinkley who was one of the hottest women in the world at the time. Sure the money helped...but you see my point. How often do you see a good looking chick on the arm of a guy that isn't the best in the world? Yes, some of them might be rich, but the majority are not. They have decent appearances, a good sense of humor and other qualities like I mentioned above.
But seriously, the main thing is...to quit being shy. Do what it takes to get over that....I don't ever remember anyone spontaneously exploding for walking up to speak to a strange woman and trying to meet her. The WORST that can happen is...she's not interested...but so, what? The one right beside her might just be. There's tons of them out there.
If nothing else...play it as a 'numbers' game...hit on every one that interests you...and you will get laid, will get new friends, and after seeing a lot of them, you'll come across one that has traits you might like to settle down with.
It just isn't as hard as people try to make it out to be to themselves.
When I get asked by bosses/coworkers to be Facebook friends, I politely suggest we connect through LinkedIn.
I don't think I've ever been asked by anyone at work to 'friend' or whatever on FB. I mean, work is work...you generally don't try to make close friends or share too much at work, that can cause problems (with some exceptions of course). To me, work is work...professional relations only...outside of work, is where I have my friends, lots of them.
But if they were to ask me at work the question you posed, I'd simply say "I'm not on Facebook", and let that be the end of the conversation.
I have another friend that worked in the medical field and was getting questioned daily by his HR department demanding he "friend them" on Facebook. so he changed his name to a made up one, made a new "real profile" that is empty and friended them through that.
Not saying I doubt you on this one, but I do have a few questions.
1. How do they know he has a FB account in the first place? I mean, I've never seen an employment form that asked for such information.
2. What if he didn't have a FB account? Would they hound him to join and create one just for work? Could he just tell them he doesn't have one?
and at some sites, your Facebook identity is now the only way to leave a comment.
Really? I've not come across site like this yet...can you provide some links? I"d be genuinely interested to see what kind of sites would want to limit participation in a manner of this fashion...
just like a person waives their right to not be asked to prove sobriety by accepting a driver's license and driving on public roadways.
Depends on the state you live in. There are still some where you can refuse a drunk test.
They may suspend your license for awhile if you do...but you can get a temporary one for work..and you will eventually get it back. A PITA I grant you...but can be done to avoid the DWI.
Just this week, I had a friend from high school that I've long regretted being out of contact with find me on FB and now we can catch up.
Interesting...pretty much every real friend I knew from High School, or along lifes path since then...I've kept up with and in constant or almost constant contact with...some for multiple decades. That's one reason I've not seen any reason to join FB. Anyone that I want to be in contact with...I'm in contact with. It isn't like I lose touch with people I care about in life...I guess some people do, but that thought alludes me as to how that happens.
There's plenty of people out there I do NOT want to find or have find me...so, basically I see no plus side to joining a social network, only downsides, especially if I had to give real, identifying information.
No offence, but you're a fucking idiot. The day they "cure" AIDS, the divorce rate won't sky-rocket. Do you seriously think "fear of dying from AIDS related illnesses" is a major reason why people stay in marriages rather than getting divorces?
When AIDs hit...it became a HUGE incentive, to get into and stay in a monogamous sexual relationship...generally marriage.
Yes, I do believe that if they found the cure, then guys who were afraid of messing around with more women...would tend less to become married, or would cheat more in marriage (if found out would divorce), and sure...many that could feel they could freely pursue sexual conquests without fear of death...would get out of the stiffling arrangement they were in.
Would there be a stampede to the courts for divorces...no.
But men's thinking and social norms would change that's for sure.
A LARGE factor for men to marry and stick it out for life....is that it gives them safe, constant sex. If the safe were a trait with most any women out there...safe sex would be easier to get outside of just one woman for life, and I dare say...many men would go for it.
Sex and love aren't necessarily intertwined....they can be quite separate and fun things on their own.
It's how USPS does it for online change of address forms.
Yes, but you as a customer do not have to do your change of address online and pay for it.
I was kinda shocked when I saw this...so I looked a bit harder at the USPS site...and it did provide the option (not as easy to find) to print out the form, and submit it to the postoffice or mail it in like the old ways for free.
Just come up with a cure for AIDS...so we can all get laid again without worrying or feeling guilty about screwing without a fuckin' rubber.....
Geez, the day they cure AIDS, I'm predicting the divorce rate will skyrocket with a ton of guys going "Later Bitch"....and not having to worry about dying if they get laid by someone different.
Oh well....sure would be nice to go back to the days before AID's..when you really didn't worry as long as she was on the pill, and anything you caught for the most part...could be cured with a quick shot.
Flamebait, really?
I was only saying that basically, if you can't get laid the day after they cure aids...something must be seriously wrong with you.
Just saying...feel sorry for the kids today..back in my day, you could fuck anything that moves, and the worst thing you worried about was getting her pregnant....but most of them were on the pill, so that wasn't as big a worry. And if you caught the clap or something, all you needed was a shot. You also didn't feel forced to be so monogamous for health reasons.
Man, you've got that right...I've been jonesing after a good McIntosh tube amp(s) since I was about 12yrs old and heard my first ones hooked to some Klipschorn speakers.
I got the speakers..I just need to save up for the amp.
I know why so many people love Mc's.....although I'm confused why so many people call them Mac's...
Doesn't everyone just throw them out in the garbage like the rest of your trash at home? You put it outside...and the garbage man picks it up with the rest of the trash.
Actually, whenever I've set out computers, monitors, tv's...etc....overnight someone usually grabs it before the trash guys can come...lots of neighborhood trash scavengers about I guess these days.
Just come up with a cure for AIDS...so we can all get laid again without worrying or feeling guilty about screwing without a fuckin' rubber.....
Geez, the day they cure AIDS, I'm predicting the divorce rate will skyrocket with a ton of guys going "Later Bitch"....and not having to worry about dying if they get laid by someone different.
Oh well....sure would be nice to go back to the days before AID's..when you really didn't worry as long as she was on the pill, and anything you caught for the most part...could be cured with a quick shot.
Hmm...glad I got my nook, and rooted it into an android tablet.
HEY, there's the ticket...have Samsung and all the others....put out VERY powerful ereaders, which can be easily 'hacked' by most any user into a full blown working tablet.
So far, it seems one can put out any type of ereader...just have it easy to 'convert'...and voila...you have a market and Apple can't sue you.
Seems an easy way to get around most any patent that is software or 'use' related...sell the hardware with minimal installed software on board...call it something...but let it be easily altered to install software that raises it to its true potential.
I've been reading the headlines on this a couple of days....and I'm still not sure what all the rioting is about?
The police shoot someone over there, and they have a riot? What's the deal with that?
We don't lose our minds everytime someone get's shot over here unless it is something pretty egregious....I mean, we just finished the trial (not that much national exposure I don't think) about all the people shot on the Danziger bridge post Katrina by the cops. They had an orderly trial, etc. We didn't go all apeshit over it and riot in the streets over the shooting. The cops were caught, tried and found guilty, and convicted...end of story.
Then again, I don't understand it why other towns riot in the streets and burn cars when "their" football/basketball/baseball teams wins the championship.
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I too just recently bought a nook to root. I had some gift cards/rewards points so got it NIB for about $135...and WOW...that a tablet for that kinda price!!
Anyway...could you elaborate on what apps, and what games you found were the best on it?
This nook project is my first hands on exposure to anything Android before.
Thanks in advance!
I dunno...I have several dedicated mp3 players. For one thing...I don't use the phone all day for music, I don't want the battery to run out in case I need to talk or txt or check email on it. I do use it at times for Pandora at work when I'm up for some 'radio' like experience.
But aside from that, I have the new iPod nano...for working out at the gym. I don't want the heavy bulky phone there in my pocket...the nano clips on to my shirt and is largely out of the way but providing both mp3's or radio if I want.
Also, the phone has more limited memory and can't carry my large library of music...only a small subsection. I play my 'brick' iPod classis in my car or I grab it to go when I travel so I can listen to any song I have whenever I think of it....also with many podcasts...videos...etc. The phone can't carry everything I like to bring with me.
Heck...now I'm starting to carry a tablet with me more and more....I rooted a nook recently and have really been enjoying that.
So, sure..we are trying to downgrade carrying SO much..but it isn't going away totally....a phone can do many things, but it can't do them all well. The screen is small, it has a lack of memory, and you often need to keep it with enough power for its primary use.....telephone.
I agree...I was assuming one would act according to the situation...no, you don't go down the wall lined with women asking each one and moving to the next one in line.
I'm talking in general during life. You see tons of women out there while moving through your day each day...see one, approach. If that doesn't work..wait a little, and you'll see a new one that hasn't seen your previous interaction.
Desperation, NO..women definitely do not react to that. Projecting confidence will mean you're not projecting desperation. You need to engage them...and basically get them to try to present THEIR value to YOU. That takes a little practice...but it works. You need to be the one they WANT to be with....have them offer YOU their number after talking with them awhile. Things like that also help with women who quite often do retro-justification for their actions. "I must have thought he was cute since I offered my phone number to him"....etc.
Err...no they wouldn't. I don't have a FB account.
Did you think I'd be lying about that?
Well, I grew up in the day where you'd get licks at school for doing wrong, and likely when you got home and parents found out about it...you'd get another spanking/punishment.
With years of lack of discipline of generations of youth, that have been raised in a culture of entitlement....the youth of today expect the world owes them the good life and all that entails, combined with a lack of consequences for poor behavior if they don't get their way.
From seeing interviews with many of the rioters in the UK...that pretty much sums up a lot of the reasons for the events we're observing.
I say sure...bring back discipline for kids, and a "time out" doesn't always work...sometimes you need to whack a kid to get their attention.
I know I wouldn't have grown up the way I did if I'd not gotten some spankings along the way. It certainly made me curtail behaviors in a quick and decided manner!!
Yeah..but it make sex about as pleasurable as eating a steak with one on your tongue...absolutely NO sensation of something good going on.
I mean..why go through the effort if you can't feel anything...?
1. Go out and fucking approach all the women you can. Every woman you see that you have an interest in...approach her and talk to her. It goes help to learn how to talk to women, but that will come, go out and start every day, even if it is only saying 'hello' or asking the time. When you engage them in conversation...listen to them, and one easy way to talk to them, is get them to talk the most!!
No woman ever was out with a guy and complained that she talked about herself too much.
2. Project confidence in yourself. Doing step #1 will start you off in that direction. You had the 'guts' that most of the other guys in the general area didn't have. Woman dig a man that projects confidence in themselves, and how they make their way through life. Until you are really confident...fake it, it works.
3. Try to at least watch your general hygiene, and appearance. You don't have to be Brad Pitt...but don't smell bad, or dress like a homeless person on the street. You don't have to be the best looking guy in the world....thankfully, women are much more forgiving of a male's appearance than we are of them in general. I call it the Billy Joel syndrome...when he was nailing Christie Brinkley who was one of the hottest women in the world at the time. Sure the money helped...but you see my point. How often do you see a good looking chick on the arm of a guy that isn't the best in the world? Yes, some of them might be rich, but the majority are not. They have decent appearances, a good sense of humor and other qualities like I mentioned above.
But seriously, the main thing is...to quit being shy. Do what it takes to get over that....I don't ever remember anyone spontaneously exploding for walking up to speak to a strange woman and trying to meet her. The WORST that can happen is...she's not interested...but so, what? The one right beside her might just be. There's tons of them out there.
If nothing else...play it as a 'numbers' game...hit on every one that interests you...and you will get laid, will get new friends, and after seeing a lot of them, you'll come across one that has traits you might like to settle down with.
It just isn't as hard as people try to make it out to be to themselves.
I don't think I've ever been asked by anyone at work to 'friend' or whatever on FB. I mean, work is work...you generally don't try to make close friends or share too much at work, that can cause problems (with some exceptions of course). To me, work is work...professional relations only...outside of work, is where I have my friends, lots of them.
But if they were to ask me at work the question you posed, I'd simply say "I'm not on Facebook", and let that be the end of the conversation.
Not saying I doubt you on this one, but I do have a few questions.
1. How do they know he has a FB account in the first place? I mean, I've never seen an employment form that asked for such information.
2. What if he didn't have a FB account? Would they hound him to join and create one just for work? Could he just tell them he doesn't have one?
Really? I've not come across site like this yet...can you provide some links? I"d be genuinely interested to see what kind of sites would want to limit participation in a manner of this fashion...
Depends on the state you live in. There are still some where you can refuse a drunk test.
They may suspend your license for awhile if you do...but you can get a temporary one for work..and you will eventually get it back. A PITA I grant you...but can be done to avoid the DWI.
Interesting...pretty much every real friend I knew from High School, or along lifes path since then...I've kept up with and in constant or almost constant contact with...some for multiple decades. That's one reason I've not seen any reason to join FB. Anyone that I want to be in contact with...I'm in contact with. It isn't like I lose touch with people I care about in life...I guess some people do, but that thought alludes me as to how that happens.
There's plenty of people out there I do NOT want to find or have find me...so, basically I see no plus side to joining a social network, only downsides, especially if I had to give real, identifying information.
When AIDs hit...it became a HUGE incentive, to get into and stay in a monogamous sexual relationship...generally marriage.
Yes, I do believe that if they found the cure, then guys who were afraid of messing around with more women...would tend less to become married, or would cheat more in marriage (if found out would divorce), and sure...many that could feel they could freely pursue sexual conquests without fear of death...would get out of the stiffling arrangement they were in.
Would there be a stampede to the courts for divorces...no.
But men's thinking and social norms would change that's for sure.
A LARGE factor for men to marry and stick it out for life....is that it gives them safe, constant sex. If the safe were a trait with most any women out there...safe sex would be easier to get outside of just one woman for life, and I dare say...many men would go for it.
Sex and love aren't necessarily intertwined....they can be quite separate and fun things on their own.
Yes, but you as a customer do not have to do your change of address online and pay for it.
I was kinda shocked when I saw this...so I looked a bit harder at the USPS site...and it did provide the option (not as easy to find) to print out the form, and submit it to the postoffice or mail it in like the old ways for free.
Flamebait, really?
I was only saying that basically, if you can't get laid the day after they cure aids...something must be seriously wrong with you.
You say that like it is a bad thing?
Just saying...feel sorry for the kids today..back in my day, you could fuck anything that moves, and the worst thing you worried about was getting her pregnant....but most of them were on the pill, so that wasn't as big a worry. And if you caught the clap or something, all you needed was a shot. You also didn't feel forced to be so monogamous for health reasons.
You must have missed the part where she was on the pill.
Man, you've got that right...I've been jonesing after a good McIntosh tube amp(s) since I was about 12yrs old and heard my first ones hooked to some Klipschorn speakers.
I got the speakers..I just need to save up for the amp.
I know why so many people love Mc's.....although I'm confused why so many people call them Mac's...
Doesn't everyone just throw them out in the garbage like the rest of your trash at home? You put it outside...and the garbage man picks it up with the rest of the trash.
Actually, whenever I've set out computers, monitors, tv's...etc....overnight someone usually grabs it before the trash guys can come...lots of neighborhood trash scavengers about I guess these days.
Just come up with a cure for AIDS...so we can all get laid again without worrying or feeling guilty about screwing without a fuckin' rubber.....
Geez, the day they cure AIDS, I'm predicting the divorce rate will skyrocket with a ton of guys going "Later Bitch"....and not having to worry about dying if they get laid by someone different.
Oh well....sure would be nice to go back to the days before AID's..when you really didn't worry as long as she was on the pill, and anything you caught for the most part...could be cured with a quick shot.
I hate to root for them (no pun intended), but.....
HEY, there's the ticket...have Samsung and all the others....put out VERY powerful ereaders, which can be easily 'hacked' by most any user into a full blown working tablet.
So far, it seems one can put out any type of ereader...just have it easy to 'convert'...and voila...you have a market and Apple can't sue you.
Seems an easy way to get around most any patent that is software or 'use' related...sell the hardware with minimal installed software on board...call it something...but let it be easily altered to install software that raises it to its true potential.
Didn't say ever, but is pretty uncommon...considering how often someone gets shot over here. besides, Rodney didn't even get shot and killed
The police shoot someone over there, and they have a riot? What's the deal with that?
We don't lose our minds everytime someone get's shot over here unless it is something pretty egregious....I mean, we just finished the trial (not that much national exposure I don't think) about all the people shot on the Danziger bridge post Katrina by the cops. They had an orderly trial, etc. We didn't go all apeshit over it and riot in the streets over the shooting. The cops were caught, tried and found guilty, and convicted...end of story.
Then again, I don't understand it why other towns riot in the streets and burn cars when "their" football/basketball/baseball teams wins the championship.