Yeah the other thing about Malaysia is that patients expect to be fixed on the spot. Like taking their motorbike to the mechanic. One night my wife had a cold and I wanted her to get an early night. Her uncle turned up at 10 PM wanting to take us for dinner. He said I know a doctor who can fix her up. She came out of that surgery loaded with uppers and pain killers and feeling fantastic. Needless to say I was a bit pissed off.
When you have a thread of sms messages it gives you a text input box at the bottom to compose a reply message but no keyboard. Pressing on the input field sometimes gives you a confusing dialog asking you to select the input method but this dialog seems to do nothing. I finally got the keyboard by frantically pressing on the text field. Maybe a triple click. Maybe the keyboard is pushed off the bottom of the screen by the long exchange of sms messages.
But wasn't that because people in those times were so dirty? They didn't have the habit of washing regularly. They didn't have access to clean, fresh water to wash in. They were covered in bacteria so small injuries tended to give them big infections. Sure, a major injury is going to get infected even today, but small ones are no big deal for us.
Also I have this idea that our drinking water is disinfected with ultraviolet light. I am sure that would help too.
I don't take antibiotics for that scratch on my finger, but I do wash the finger after going to the toilet, etc. Probably ten times every day. And the tap water I use to wash it is, while not disinfected, pretty clean. I think the difference is in the number of things in our environment which we wash and clean all the time. We don't allow dead animals in our water supply, etc.
I wonder if the climate in Norway plays a part? Maybe bacteria find it harder to move between individuals because of the cold, while in the tropics they could live longer on surfaces and propagate more quickly.
On holiday in Malaysia my son was sick so we took him to a doctor. The doctor couldn't really do anything. My son was reacting to the climate and refusing to eat solids but he gave us a bottle of antibiotic dispensed from his surgery "just in case"
So I queried that and he quickly said oh well don't worry about it if you don't think he needs it. It seems that everybody in Malaysia just gets antibiotics automatically when they go to the doctor. My wife grew up in Malaysia and when she gets a cough she gets it for weeks at a time.
I googled around after we got the phone on saturday and found a few howtos for flashing the phone with images which give you root. It looked pretty straightforward but I won't be doing it on my wife's phone any time soon.
We found the threaded view confusing. When a reply comes in there doesn't seem to be a reply button to compose a new message. Instead there is this little message composition field and a send button. Anyway I am sure we will get used to it.
Sorry to hear your wife has had problems. Is it so bad that it would put you off Android in general?
No, she just finds it confounding at times. She loves the look and feel of the UI. I think it is easily the equal of the iPhone. But android lacks the minimalistic Steve Jobs feel, which may be a problem in the longer term.
This morning she discovered that addresses in the contacts app link directly to google maps so the phone can guide her to her clients site. She was very impressed with that.
The funny thing is that when she asked me why I had heard of Android I said well.... its linux based. She runs ubuntu on her laptop because it is all I will support so she got a chance to rib me about that. Because I am really a BSD fan I suppose I should be pushing her towards the iPhone.
I think Android generally is buggy. My wife bought an HTC Magic yesterday. I emailed some image files to it for her to use as backgrounds but the mail client on the phone gave the files names like "null", "null-1" and so on. It hasn't crashed though.
But the SMS application has this over designed UI which drives us around the bend.
In some corners of the world it is time to get serious about crypto and darknets. If the chinese government is not careful, their attempts to suppress pornography may lead to the creation of networks which will ultimately bring them down.
Depends on where you are. Here in Australia the police can be relied on more often than not to behave like human beings. And I know that in this case the place they needed to send help to was in a remote part of a different state, so there weren't many options available.
The ISP in this case passed information to the police because they believed it was in the best interest of the person concerned. Not because suicide might be illegal. I suppose my point is that passing information to the police can sometimes be the right thing to do, if not the legally correct thing to do.
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Yeah the other thing about Malaysia is that patients expect to be fixed on the spot. Like taking their motorbike to the mechanic. One night my wife had a cold and I wanted her to get an early night. Her uncle turned up at 10 PM wanting to take us for dinner. He said I know a doctor who can fix her up. She came out of that surgery loaded with uppers and pain killers and feeling fantastic. Needless to say I was a bit pissed off.
When you have a thread of sms messages it gives you a text input box at the bottom to compose a reply message but no keyboard. Pressing on the input field sometimes gives you a confusing dialog asking you to select the input method but this dialog seems to do nothing. I finally got the keyboard by frantically pressing on the text field. Maybe a triple click. Maybe the keyboard is pushed off the bottom of the screen by the long exchange of sms messages.
But wasn't that because people in those times were so dirty? They didn't have the habit of washing regularly. They didn't have access to clean, fresh water to wash in. They were covered in bacteria so small injuries tended to give them big infections. Sure, a major injury is going to get infected even today, but small ones are no big deal for us.
Also I have this idea that our drinking water is disinfected with ultraviolet light. I am sure that would help too.
I don't take antibiotics for that scratch on my finger, but I do wash the finger after going to the toilet, etc. Probably ten times every day. And the tap water I use to wash it is, while not disinfected, pretty clean. I think the difference is in the number of things in our environment which we wash and clean all the time. We don't allow dead animals in our water supply, etc.
I wonder if the climate in Norway plays a part? Maybe bacteria find it harder to move between individuals because of the cold, while in the tropics they could live longer on surfaces and propagate more quickly.
On holiday in Malaysia my son was sick so we took him to a doctor. The doctor couldn't really do anything. My son was reacting to the climate and refusing to eat solids but he gave us a bottle of antibiotic dispensed from his surgery "just in case"
So I queried that and he quickly said oh well don't worry about it if you don't think he needs it. It seems that everybody in Malaysia just gets antibiotics automatically when they go to the doctor. My wife grew up in Malaysia and when she gets a cough she gets it for weeks at a time.
I googled around after we got the phone on saturday and found a few howtos for flashing the phone with images which give you root. It looked pretty straightforward but I won't be doing it on my wife's phone any time soon.
We found the threaded view confusing. When a reply comes in there doesn't seem to be a reply button to compose a new message. Instead there is this little message composition field and a send button. Anyway I am sure we will get used to it.
The comic I looked at appears to be pictures of some guy pasted into a comic somebody has drawn up. Doesn't look very creative to me.
I just hope these people who have been baited don't get angry and catch flights to the west with their cavities stuffed with high explosive.
Wrong kind of "locked." I want to know if I can change/mod the software.
Android on the HTC Magic has a settings menu item to enable USB debugging so I have hopes for being able to install my own applications.
Hmm, I think I'll wait a few years for them to release the Nexus Six. Maybe it'll come with a Voight-Kampff machine built in.
Just don't ask me about my mother. I hate it when people do that.
I can't wait until they come out with the Nexus-6 models.
I might even call mine... Rachel.
You will need to load it with memories of course.
Sorry to hear your wife has had problems. Is it so bad that it would put you off Android in general?
No, she just finds it confounding at times. She loves the look and feel of the UI. I think it is easily the equal of the iPhone. But android lacks the minimalistic Steve Jobs feel, which may be a problem in the longer term.
This morning she discovered that addresses in the contacts app link directly to google maps so the phone can guide her to her clients site. She was very impressed with that.
The funny thing is that when she asked me why I had heard of Android I said well.... its linux based. She runs ubuntu on her laptop because it is all I will support so she got a chance to rib me about that. Because I am really a BSD fan I suppose I should be pushing her towards the iPhone.
I think Android generally is buggy. My wife bought an HTC Magic yesterday. I emailed some image files to it for her to use as backgrounds but the mail client on the phone gave the files names like "null", "null-1" and so on. It hasn't crashed though.
But the SMS application has this over designed UI which drives us around the bend.
No, not me. I am in Australia and all I know about Verizon is what I read here, so I assume it is a very bad word.
I'm in a true fringe area... there's two farm's fields within eyesight of where I sit.
Are you sitting on the fence?
With the right network you would just undermine the government. No protests, no violence. Just ignore them and set up your own system.
Aren't they a subsidiary of Australia
We don't want'em but they can have Tasmania if they want it. Come on guys. Its going cheap.
The Australian Federal Police was going to be called the Federal Law Enforcement Agency.
In some corners of the world it is time to get serious about crypto and darknets. If the chinese government is not careful, their attempts to suppress pornography may lead to the creation of networks which will ultimately bring them down.
Depends on where you are. Here in Australia the police can be relied on more often than not to behave like human beings. And I know that in this case the place they needed to send help to was in a remote part of a different state, so there weren't many options available.
In the scheme of things pornography exposure is not the end of the world but it does subtly alter your thought processes, and not for the better.
By what measure? Come on AC, justify your assertion.
Yeah I meant teaching *about* but I could have made that clearer.
The ISP in this case passed information to the police because they believed it was in the best interest of the person concerned. Not because suicide might be illegal. I suppose my point is that passing information to the police can sometimes be the right thing to do, if not the legally correct thing to do.