Friday, May 03, 2013
Smartphone techno-geek support forums
Since I still have some technical questions/issues with smartphones in general I've been browsing some of the more popular online tech-support forums of late. They're a real hoot to read, basically the geeks are having nervous breakdowns 'cause they don't understand their smartphones. Look it takes time and one of the more common complaints you'll see is when they use their WAP browsers to roam the mobile web they hit on a site they really like and up pops the ever-annoying "Page too large - open mobile site." I'm kinda resigned to this by now and am still playing around with my own mobile settings but have come to the conclusion for serious computer work you probably shouldn't even be using a cell in the first place, at least get yourself a tablet. The other day another common complaint I saw was some folks were having trouble connecting to WiFi using a certain product although it could be any product it's just a general techno-geek angst out there and when somebody does answer their technical questions or tries what's funny is nobody really has any answers or real solutions it's just moral support from fellow geeks-in-suffering. Guy was having trouble logging onto Wayport at Mickie D's or something and I'm thinking are you just gonna sit there at that table and hog up the space for an hour or more after eating your cheap burger that you didn't really want anyway but it was just an excuse to go to a local hotspot and some family wants to sit down and enjoy their value meals but Dorkman is still experiencing technical difficulties. When I encounter problems I don't understand more likely it's something I don't get yet rather than it being the smartphone company's fault and there's just the hint, the merest whiff of a Corporate Conspiracy at work among some of these posters like they're deliberately programming cells to give you a hard time so you'll buy more Airtime cards or something. I just came up with a good expression though - My brain is experiencing technical problems, please stand by.
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Probably an interest level sort of thing. I can run an atomic absorption spectrophotometer, a raman infrared spectrograph and a
ReplyDeletegas chromatograph with radioactive
nickel ion capture detecter no problem. But..can't figure out the
VCR.
I'm lucky I can even say those words.
ReplyDeleteIn other news, my more hippie-minded-crunchy-granola friends (all HKs share this trait to some extent... some more than others) who have steadfastly refused to vaccinate their children are now in the middle of a measles outbreak. (google Orange County NC measles)
I support vaccination one hundred percent and think that it's only half a step from negligence to not vaccinate your kid. So I've had to basically recuse myself from the discussion to avoid fights. I mean, I don't have kids, so who am I to say, but that aside, I seriously think it's right there borderline negligence. Anyway there you have it.
I am completely obsessed with my knitting these days.
Infant mortality in the 18th century was 40%. Pertussis, measles, smallpox, etc. Your negligent friends are very lucky that A: most are vaccinated which
ReplyDeletelimits epidemics and B: modern antibiotics are available, even for the stupid. IMO, unreasonable fear of vaccines is just a new disease in itself.
Trust me, the HKs are getting some bad press out of this in NC.
ReplyDeleteI have issues with people not getting vaccines. I have issues with 'attachment parenting' and I think circumcision is a good thing.
Of course, I don't have kids, which, given my views, wouldn't make me real popular in the local mom crowd. On the other hand I'm about 10 years older than most of them and I think that also has something to do with it.... not just that I'm a nurse trained in Western allopathic methods.
Unreasonable fears are fine, except when your kids die from them when they didn't have to.
I'm signed up on a list somewhere that says if there's a bioterrorism event I'm willing to get the smallpox vaccine. I understand that this is a genuinely dangerous vaccine and I think right now only the military and the CDC types have it done. I said I would. My mother insisted on me having it when I was a kid-that was when they were starting to phase it out I think, but she was adamant. How the circle turns, eh? On the other hand, my parents grew up in the polio epidemics and saw firsthand how many kids were sick (think NYC) and how the vaccine changed everything for everyone.
For the record, I am so impressed by you smartphoning it in every now and again! Keep up the good work!
ReplyDeleteLibs'n Lefties Would Rather Abort Their Own Babies and Import Labor
ReplyDeleteLibs'n Lefties Are the Ones Having Most of the Abortions.
Libs'n Lefties Are Also the Ones Who Want Amnesty for Illegal Immigrants.
Seems These Libs'n Lefties Would Rather Pay Higher Taxes to Support the Illegal Immigrants Who Come Here - (And Put a Bigger Strain on Schools and Hospitals), than Have and Support Their Own Kids.
And since These Illegal Immigrants Lower Current and Future Wages for All Americans, the Libs'n Lefties Who Support Amnesty Are Guaranteeing That the Children They Haven't Aborted Will Earn less and Have a Lower Living Standard.
How Sick Is That!?
BB you can substitute the DVD player for the VCR and same deal. Playing a disk I'm fairly good at, zoom, angle, slo-mo and freeze-step but the hookup and I have an older TV so I needed an RF converter and had to have my friend help me. Watching a movie the other day and went back to the setup mode to tinker around and up comes a message on my TV screen "does your tv support YUV-P Scan?" and I'm like how the hell should I know so I said yes and I still don't know the answer as it's an old Emerson and I no longer have the manual. Then get into digital and audio outputs and inputs and it may as well be Hebrew to me. You need Bill Gates to set it up or something.
ReplyDeleteI'm kinda aware of there's a whole anti-vaccination crowd out there, it's kind of a vague movement but near as I can tell it's anti-gov't and I've considered that and also the older now apparently discredited argument that the triple vaccine you got as a kid causes autism but on balance you can put me firmly in the pro-vaccination corner. Saw a scary commercial the other day about if you had measles or maybe it was chickenpox as a kid you can develop shingles later on in life and I'm like I've enough to worry about.
ReplyDeleteThe setup Beth was fairly easy, went to the mobile section of Settings and there's fairly simple instructions for posting on the go if you have either an MMS-capable phone or an SMS. You can text it in but I do it the e-mail way and when you type in the subject matter in your e-mail before you send it to blogger that becomes the title of your new blogpost. Way cool!
ReplyDeleteYou suppose those new robotic insects are carriers of Lymes ?
ReplyDeleteI'm thinking though what is the Purpose and how will it benefit Humanity? I mean it's not like we cured Cancer or anything and we have time to tinker around.
ReplyDeleteAh, the old benefit to humanity...
ReplyDeleteThey will build the robot insects smaller and smarter and...
"Another device developed by the Araknes team is designed to eliminate the need for incisions entirely. Developed for 'Natural orifice translumenal endoscopic surgery' (Notes), the device consists of a magnetic platform coupled with miniature robotic arms that can be inserted into the patient through a natural orifice such as the mouth or anus with no other incision necessary.
Notes itself is still considered an experimental surgical technique, but one that potentially has many advantages for the patient over invasive methods.
(lemmee know how the lil spider
does on the colonoscopy) :)
A couple of tiny robotic spiders crawling through your colon looking for polyps, yes what could possibly go wrong?
ReplyDeleteOne thing I love about doctors though they haven't even solved your first problem and they want to move on to to stuff like colonoscopies. They can't even explain let alone cure your ongoing tinnitus and now they're talking, dropping some heavy hints that we'll be looking for polyps in your colon. Get rid of the damn noise first! My recent groin pull/sciatica problem BB, now all through that ordeal there was the ongoing tinnitus which people forget, the icing on the cake. Yeah so I'll be lying there on the table on my left side with the fentanyl starting to rock and meanwhile the humming in my damn head gets magnified.
ReplyDeleteSo... tell them you don't want the scope until they fix what's in your head.
ReplyDeleteMaybe you have an early version of a robot spider stuck in there and that's what the problem is.
When I googled this one day up came something called "Radio Frequency Hearing" and then some guy filed a lawsuit alleging the guv't did it to him to drive him nuts so I kind of gave the research a rest for a little while.
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