I was gonna suggest something like a Tap device, but instead of using the multi-finger approach, use one finger and tap out Morse. Barring that, can we bring back Palm's Graffiti?
When I worked at Motorola in Schaumburg, a few people in the 70+ person group got the idea of bringing small plastic fish to code reviews and other meetings. Team building, or some such. It was an "in crowd" thing, and much like the Sneeches, it got ridiculous, at one point. So I sent out a group email proclaiming a new counter-movement called "PAIN - People Against Ichthyoid Nonsense." Shortly after, the fish thing at meetings quietly died. One of the senior members of the group - this guy actually had a doctorate in some field of biology, but preferred to work in software engineering - asked where I got the word "ichthyoid." I told him I read it in a Calvin and Hobbes cartoon.
I'm from western NY, which is about as "red" as you can get in a "blue" state, and, yes, we absolutely don't use photo ID where I vote. But that's likely because for at least 20 years, the same voting place monitoring folks have watched while I sign the voter registration book. They know me. One of the monitors lives four houses up and has known me since my family moved in in 1972. I don't know if she's [R] or [D], but it doesn't stop her from using common sense: she knows who I am - she knows everyone who votes at that polling place - so she doesn't need to see photo ID.
Should've added it to my other reply, but there's also Ting ( https://ting.com/ ). I have an account with them, and they're pretty reasonable, but the drawback is coverage. Driving between western NY and Boston, MA, for example, is hit and miss. When they spiff up their coverage, I'll probably switch from pre-paid AT&T.
I know you said you'd like to move from AT&T, but that "$55 / mo" bill seems a bit high. I use their pre-paid service ( https://www.paygonline.com/ ). At $30 / mo, I get unlimited texts and calls, and can use any phone that uses a SIM. I don't know if they cap either of those in any real fashion since I don't push the limits of texts or calls. Coverage seems pretty good wherever I go - western NY to Long Island to Boston, MA, and all points in between. In case you can't really leave AT&T but want to give them less money...
Isn't that pretty much what Trump did during the campaign with this:
“Hillary wants to abolish, essentially abolish the Second Amendment,” Trump said to boos from the crowd.
“By the way, if she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do folks,” he then added.
“Though the Second Amendment people, maybe there is, I don't know.”
Hey! I *am* deaf, you insensitive clod! Even with that, I smelled scam from the outset. Partly because âoetoo good to be true,â and I also have some experience working in the blood testing business at one of the big boys in the industry. Given the resources our company put into our product, I was pretty sure she couldnâ(TM)t accomplish the same thing the way she was doing it.
Being your child's friend isn't inherently a bad thing - if you consider that being a friend isn't the same as being an enabler. My son, now 33, was my best buddy from minute 0. That didn't mean that I allowed him to run amok, or rewarded bad behavior because I didn't want to hurt his feelings and tell him "No." Screw that - if he needed discipline, he got it. He went on to become a standout scholar-athlete in high school, started his own family, and runs a successful business. He's a child of which I can be very proud. And he's still my best buddy.
> Line up all the flagship phones from all the manufacturers right now and they're all almost identical.
I think thatâ(TM)s a typical âoeasymptote,â given the design requirements of the devices. You make calls and send texts and you want it small enough to fit in a pocket. All devices of such nature - except for the wierd one-offs that fit a niche - will tend toward a common appearance and construction. To meet those requirements, thereâ(TM)s only so much differentiation you can do. Look at mini-SUVs, lately. I canâ(TM)t tell one from another.
Seriously - wtf is there to do for 12 hours per day 6 days a week? If they were digging in mines, ok, I could see that, though with the physical nature of it, they'd probably be better off getting more rest. Or is just fill-a-seat type "work"?
I'm guessing you haven't actually come back into the US in a while. It *is* dangerous. My wife and I came back from a lunch in Ontario's Fort Erie, and the Border Patrol person didn't hear what my wife, in the passenger seat, said in reply to one of his questions. I repeated what she said - for his benefit - and he jumped all over us, threatening us with federal prison for lying to a federal agent. I just repeated her answer - that's it. These fuck-tards can have your ass thrown in jail for the most trivial of things, in addition to what the OP said. That just about makes it a form of Russian Roulette. I consider that dangerous - to the point where if I don't have to come back into MY OWN COUNTRY, I'll take a pass on it.
Except that Iran has never really held itself out there as a "bastion of Freedom." The US, on the other hand, has a statue in an important harbor that says, “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.” However, at some point - and I won't say it's entirely Trump's fault - we've changed that to a big "Not so much."
Just ask the Natives about all the treaties that, technically, are still "in force," that the US actually honors. (Hint: It ain't many.) I will admit that I was surprised that the US actually delivers a yard of cloth per Native person according to one of those treaties. And while it's nice that the US is no longer contaminating the cloth with smallpox, on the whole, it's rather pathetic of the US, in terms of upholding their end of the bargain(s).
Big fucking deal. Drive around south side Buffalo, NY, and you'd think you were in County Clare, Ireland. What about Little Italy in NYC? No one complains about those "hostile invasions."
I was going to say that I kinda miss the Palm platform, particularly the Visors. They worked pretty well for me. Maybe it was mostly Graffiti. I got pretty efficient with that by the time Palm wrapped up. I'd take that over the "keyboard" on my iDevices.
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I was gonna suggest something like a Tap device, but instead of using the multi-finger approach, use one finger and tap out Morse. Barring that, can we bring back Palm's Graffiti?
And then there's this guy threatening members of Congress...
https://www.abcactionnews.com/...
Vi is not an IDE: it's an editor. Would you use a hammer as a screw driver?
And a happy, hearty "Fuck you!" from NY (western NY, in particular), to you, too.
When I worked at Motorola in Schaumburg, a few people in the 70+ person group got the idea of bringing small plastic fish to code reviews and other meetings. Team building, or some such. It was an "in crowd" thing, and much like the Sneeches, it got ridiculous, at one point. So I sent out a group email proclaiming a new counter-movement called "PAIN - People Against Ichthyoid Nonsense." Shortly after, the fish thing at meetings quietly died. One of the senior members of the group - this guy actually had a doctorate in some field of biology, but preferred to work in software engineering - asked where I got the word "ichthyoid." I told him I read it in a Calvin and Hobbes cartoon.
Yes, the recently concluded "blue chip" investigation into the massively fraudulent 2016 election proved all of that. Oh, wait...
I'm from western NY, which is about as "red" as you can get in a "blue" state, and, yes, we absolutely don't use photo ID where I vote. But that's likely because for at least 20 years, the same voting place monitoring folks have watched while I sign the voter registration book. They know me. One of the monitors lives four houses up and has known me since my family moved in in 1972. I don't know if she's [R] or [D], but it doesn't stop her from using common sense: she knows who I am - she knows everyone who votes at that polling place - so she doesn't need to see photo ID.
You're a 5-digit UID. You haven't yet learned to skim over /. articles in which you're not interested?
Should've added it to my other reply, but there's also Ting ( https://ting.com/ ). I have an account with them, and they're pretty reasonable, but the drawback is coverage. Driving between western NY and Boston, MA, for example, is hit and miss. When they spiff up their coverage, I'll probably switch from pre-paid AT&T.
I know you said you'd like to move from AT&T, but that "$55 / mo" bill seems a bit high. I use their pre-paid service ( https://www.paygonline.com/ ). At $30 / mo, I get unlimited texts and calls, and can use any phone that uses a SIM. I don't know if they cap either of those in any real fashion since I don't push the limits of texts or calls. Coverage seems pretty good wherever I go - western NY to Long Island to Boston, MA, and all points in between. In case you can't really leave AT&T but want to give them less money...
There would be no cheap Chinese crap if people didn't buy it.
“Hillary wants to abolish, essentially abolish the Second Amendment,” Trump said to boos from the crowd.
“By the way, if she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do folks,” he then added.
“Though the Second Amendment people, maybe there is, I don't know.”
Hey! I *am* deaf, you insensitive clod! Even with that, I smelled scam from the outset. Partly because âoetoo good to be true,â and I also have some experience working in the blood testing business at one of the big boys in the industry. Given the resources our company put into our product, I was pretty sure she couldnâ(TM)t accomplish the same thing the way she was doing it.
The problem, here, isn't the bags: It's the people who can't bother to dispose of them properly. Can we ban the lazy, inconsiderate people, instead?
Being your child's friend isn't inherently a bad thing - if you consider that being a friend isn't the same as being an enabler. My son, now 33, was my best buddy from minute 0. That didn't mean that I allowed him to run amok, or rewarded bad behavior because I didn't want to hurt his feelings and tell him "No." Screw that - if he needed discipline, he got it. He went on to become a standout scholar-athlete in high school, started his own family, and runs a successful business. He's a child of which I can be very proud. And he's still my best buddy.
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> Line up all the flagship phones from all the manufacturers right now and they're all almost identical. I think thatâ(TM)s a typical âoeasymptote,â given the design requirements of the devices. You make calls and send texts and you want it small enough to fit in a pocket. All devices of such nature - except for the wierd one-offs that fit a niche - will tend toward a common appearance and construction. To meet those requirements, thereâ(TM)s only so much differentiation you can do. Look at mini-SUVs, lately. I canâ(TM)t tell one from another.
Seriously - wtf is there to do for 12 hours per day 6 days a week? If they were digging in mines, ok, I could see that, though with the physical nature of it, they'd probably be better off getting more rest. Or is just fill-a-seat type "work"?
Is he wrong?
I'm guessing you haven't actually come back into the US in a while. It *is* dangerous. My wife and I came back from a lunch in Ontario's Fort Erie, and the Border Patrol person didn't hear what my wife, in the passenger seat, said in reply to one of his questions. I repeated what she said - for his benefit - and he jumped all over us, threatening us with federal prison for lying to a federal agent. I just repeated her answer - that's it. These fuck-tards can have your ass thrown in jail for the most trivial of things, in addition to what the OP said. That just about makes it a form of Russian Roulette. I consider that dangerous - to the point where if I don't have to come back into MY OWN COUNTRY, I'll take a pass on it.
Except that Iran has never really held itself out there as a "bastion of Freedom." The US, on the other hand, has a statue in an important harbor that says, “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.” However, at some point - and I won't say it's entirely Trump's fault - we've changed that to a big "Not so much."
Just ask the Natives about all the treaties that, technically, are still "in force," that the US actually honors. (Hint: It ain't many.) I will admit that I was surprised that the US actually delivers a yard of cloth per Native person according to one of those treaties. And while it's nice that the US is no longer contaminating the cloth with smallpox, on the whole, it's rather pathetic of the US, in terms of upholding their end of the bargain(s).
Big fucking deal. Drive around south side Buffalo, NY, and you'd think you were in County Clare, Ireland. What about Little Italy in NYC? No one complains about those "hostile invasions."
I was going to say that I kinda miss the Palm platform, particularly the Visors. They worked pretty well for me. Maybe it was mostly Graffiti. I got pretty efficient with that by the time Palm wrapped up. I'd take that over the "keyboard" on my iDevices.
That's not a bad idea. I'll keep that in mind, in case my credit card provider pulls a Darth Vader and "alters the deal."