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Topic: Quick Questions, Short Answers - No Debate
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Percy
Member Posts: 22479 From: New Hampshire Joined: 12-23-2000 Member Rating: 4.7
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Message 447 of 653 (810400)
05-29-2017 7:54 AM
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Reply to: Message 444 by CRR
05-15-2017 3:02 AM
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Re: Do Nothing Button
Click on it a few times and find out. --Percy
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Percy
Member Posts: 22479 From: New Hampshire Joined: 12-23-2000 Member Rating: 4.7
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Re: Please name this fallacy
Lammy writes: I'm a bridge structural engineer. A lot of my job is to make sure nothing happens to the nation's bridges. I know a lot of people think my profession doesn't deserve to exist because they don't see bridges collapsing everywhere. But that's the point of my job! I'm surprised to hear that many people don't think we need bridge structural engineers. We need more, not less, for both design and inspection. This link lists a bunch of bridge failures from all over the world. We used to travel the Connecticut Turnpike (I-95) quite a bit, even though we found the roadway a bit rough, but when the Mianus River Bridge collapsed in 1983 we stopped using it and haven't been on it since. --Percy
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Percy
Member Posts: 22479 From: New Hampshire Joined: 12-23-2000 Member Rating: 4.7
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Message 511 of 653 (860784)
08-11-2019 9:10 PM
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Reply to: Message 499 by dwise1
08-10-2019 4:47 AM
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Re: Need Smartphone Recommendation
dwise1 writes: 2) a phone that I can actually use (which basically requires being able to copy files between the phone and my computer, something the Apple Store genius assured me cannot be done outside their update software (trying to use iTunes already too traumatic; I even only used the similar HTC program only once with my first smartphone because it was out of control). Assuming your computer is a Mac with bluetooth then you just use AirDrop to transfer files back and forth to an iPhone. If you have Windows then I guess you're stuck with iTunes. I've never tried it with my own Windows machine. What made it traumatic? --Percy
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Percy
Member Posts: 22479 From: New Hampshire Joined: 12-23-2000 Member Rating: 4.7
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Message 518 of 653 (860804)
08-12-2019 9:14 AM
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Reply to: Message 516 by dwise1
08-12-2019 1:10 AM
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Re: Need Smartphone Recommendation
dwise1 writes: Even at that, I had to dig deep to even find where Apple had tried to hide the shell (AKA "Terminal"). It was even harder to find the text editor. I'm sorry you've had negative experiences with Mac, but I don't think this is a fair characterization. "TextEdit" and "Terminal" are both in the Applications directory, (though "Terminal" is actually in Applications/Utilities). They aren't hidden. I'm not a Mac bigot. I use Linux for development and Windows for home type things like finance and email. I only started using Mac a few years ago when I started programming in Swift. Seems fine, and I like that my MacBook Pro, iPad and iPhone are all automatically in sync with texting, phoning, FaceTiming, music and photos.
So if I had an iPhone I'd have to use iTunes? As I said, I've never used iTunes for communicating with a phone - I assumed you were correct that iTunes was the only alternative. I just gave connecting my Windows machine to to my iPhone a try and it doesn't really work. It wanted to connect via USB cable, and that's too inconvenient. Poking around the Internet I see a pay app called iMyPhone. Looks like iPhones and Windows just really don't talk using the native stuff. --Percy
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Percy
Member Posts: 22479 From: New Hampshire Joined: 12-23-2000 Member Rating: 4.7
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Message 526 of 653 (860875)
08-12-2019 7:27 PM
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Reply to: Message 519 by dwise1
08-12-2019 4:09 PM
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Re: Need Smartphone Recommendation
dwise1 writes: "TextEdit" and "Terminal" are both in the Applications directory, (though "Terminal" is actually in Applications/Utilities). They aren't hidden. Maybe now they're not, but they certainly were on the first-gen iMac nearly two decades ago, which is what I'm talking about. Oh, stuff from a while ago.
I'm not a Mac bigot. I use Linux for development and Windows for home type things like finance and email. I only started using Mac a few years ago when I started programming in Swift. Seems fine, and I like that my MacBook Pro, iPad and iPhone are all automatically in sync with texting, phoning, FaceTiming, music and photos. So the main benefits you get from iStuff is playing around,... That would't be close to accurate, but never mind. Maybe Apple stuff really isn't for you, but the information you're basing your opinion on may be a bit dated.
Before the first trip, she got an iPad to use mainly for taking photos and was constantly cursing the estupido thing all the way across Austria and Germany. It's too bad that whoever sold her the iPad for photos didn't tell her it isn't really very good for that.
...Before the second trip (northern Italy) she got an iPhone X...She can't even view those photos on her Windows 10 laptop without special third-party conversion software. This is just a setting. She should go to Settings>Camera>Formats and select Most Compatible. Now any new photos she takes will be JPEG's. --Percy
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Percy
Member Posts: 22479 From: New Hampshire Joined: 12-23-2000 Member Rating: 4.7
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Message 528 of 653 (860888)
08-13-2019 12:11 AM
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Reply to: Message 527 by dwise1
08-12-2019 9:37 PM
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Re: Need Smartphone Recommendation
Convert Heic to JPEG for free | Made by JPEGmini, 50 photos at a time, free. Also, for photos not yet transferred off the iPhone, go to Settings>Photos and under Transfer to Mac or PC choose Automatic. This will automatically convert HEIC to JPEG upon transfer. I, too, mourn the passing of manuals, but we live in a brave new world now and must adjust to its mores. 18-35 rules the world now, and they need no manuals for these simple things. Percy
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Percy
Member Posts: 22479 From: New Hampshire Joined: 12-23-2000 Member Rating: 4.7
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Message 533 of 653 (860912)
08-13-2019 10:52 AM
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Reply to: Message 529 by dwise1
08-13-2019 12:50 AM
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Re: Need Smartphone Recommendation
dwise1 writes: By "upon transfer" do you mean whatever synching program they have you load on your computer? She normally uses a USB drive to transfer files, the same one she used with her iPad since the OS ate up so much memory there was little space left for her photos. And just as she'd be in the middle of taking a photo, the USB drive app would pop up; that was the usual cause of her more vociferous cursing. I was thinking of AirDrop, but I just tested it with my Windows machine and it doesn't work. It *should* work, they're definitely paired and connected, but AirDrop doesn't see the PC, may be a problem local here, so AirDrop is one thing to try. I've never tried USB with the iPhone/iPad, but if that's what she's used to then after she's changed the settings in the iPhone/iPad she should give the USB drive a try and see what format ends up there.
18-35 rules the world now, and they need no manuals for these simple things. They have the time to waste playing with their new toys instead of trying to do something useful. It's like they treat everything like a fecking video game where you search for clues. I wish I could remember the title, but there was a book about 35 years ago about how software quality would be the death of the software industry, because companies were not investing in it enough. What the author didn't realize was the value people would place on "good enough" software, and on how people unfamiliar with computers would blame themselves instead of the software. Especially over the past 10 or 15 years people have gotten used to having several different ways to do the same thing (like transferring photos), and when one way doesn't work they just switch to another and never blink. --Percy Edited by Percy, : Grammar.
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Percy
Member Posts: 22479 From: New Hampshire Joined: 12-23-2000 Member Rating: 4.7
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Message 534 of 653 (860915)
08-13-2019 11:02 AM
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Reply to: Message 530 by PaulK
08-13-2019 1:54 AM
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Re: Need Smartphone Recommendation
iBooks comes with only 1 book, Winnie the Pooh. I doubt it will prove helpful, but DWise1's friend might want to look at Apple's iPhone User Manual. It's updated to iOS 12. iOS 14 only came out a few weeks ago, so it's fairly recent. --Percy Edited by Percy, : Grammar.
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Percy
Member Posts: 22479 From: New Hampshire Joined: 12-23-2000 Member Rating: 4.7
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Re: Stock market falls and the selling off of stock
Hyroglyphx writes: For some people, maybe they couldn't afford even a single share of Amazon because the price was like $1,200! I don't know what Amazon's share price is at now, but maybe its now $800 per unit. Amazon was $1792.57 at the close today. --Percy
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Percy
Member Posts: 22479 From: New Hampshire Joined: 12-23-2000 Member Rating: 4.7
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Message 556 of 653 (864485)
10-11-2019 8:05 PM
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Reply to: Message 555 by RAZD
10-10-2019 12:59 PM
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Re: A reminder about heating, and power strips
It would be nice if circuit breakers were a required rather than optional feature of power strips. --Percy
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Percy
Member Posts: 22479 From: New Hampshire Joined: 12-23-2000 Member Rating: 4.7
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Message 571 of 653 (869220)
12-26-2019 8:40 AM
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Reply to: Message 570 by dwise1
12-25-2019 6:36 PM
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Re: Question about Social Use of Liters
I can't comment on your liter/centiliter question, but about over-the-counter vitamins, a fair number are sold in mcg units. Folic acid and B12 are two I can think of off the top of my head. --Percy
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