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December 1st, 2017 at 4:18:28 PM permalink
Nareed
Member since: Oct 24, 2012
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How about an app that vibrates and/or beeps when you're looking for your phone?

It would work with voice recognition. You stand int eh room, or sit (I suppose), and say loudly "where's my phone?" and off it goes. you don't even need an app. With "assistants"all the rage, simply asking "Siri, where are you?" should be enough.
Donald Trump is a one-term LOSER
December 2nd, 2017 at 11:58:19 AM permalink
Pacomartin
Member since: Oct 24, 2012
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Quote: Evenbob
On another forum I almost was banned this week because I pointed out that there was a spelling error in the title of an E book. In the fricking title! The
admin on this site, a woman from Portugal, screamed at me for a whole paragraph that spelling doesn't matter, it's the fact we knew what the author meant. This is where the world is headed, dumb everybody down. It's frightening.


Did she scream at you publicly or in a private message?
If it was public would you mind sharing a link (in PM if you like). I would like to throw in my two cents.

I make spelling errors, and we are all growing increasingly tolerant of people using words like "thru", but to say spelling no longer matters if content can be inferred is a major step down the slope.
December 2nd, 2017 at 12:13:42 PM permalink
beachbumbabs
Member since: Sep 3, 2013
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Spelling matters. I definitely form an unfavorable opinion about

1. Individuals who can't spell. People have typos, but c'mon.

2. Interchanged use of homophones.

3. Media, whether online or hard copy, with stupid spelling errors.

4. Special scorn reserved for unclever misspellings in marketing products or other names.

i.e. KWIK-anything. Ugh.
Never doubt a small group of concerned citizens can change the world; it's the only thing ever has
December 2nd, 2017 at 12:21:39 PM permalink
Evenbob
Member since: Oct 24, 2012
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Quote: Pacomartin
Did she scream at you publicly or in a private message?
If it was public would you mind sharing a link (in PM if you like). I would like to throw in my two cents.
.


Of course it was in public, she wanted
them all to see it. No link, it's a closed
forum. And I use 'thru' all the time
because I'm too lazy to type 'through'.

She's a hotshot translator from EU who
works at a tech firm translating tech
manuals into other languages, of which
she speaks 3. She really went off on me.
If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose.
December 3rd, 2017 at 5:36:45 AM permalink
beachbumbabs
Member since: Sep 3, 2013
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Quote: Evenbob
Of course it was in public, she wanted
them all to see it. No link, it's a closed
forum. And I use 'thru' all the time
because I'm too lazy to type 'through'.

She's a hotshot translator from EU who
works at a tech firm translating tech
manuals into other languages, of which
she speaks 3. She really went off on me.


You sure it wasn't a last straw kind of thing, EB? You do have a certain "gift" for a cumulative persona... ;D
Never doubt a small group of concerned citizens can change the world; it's the only thing ever has
December 3rd, 2017 at 10:53:27 AM permalink
Evenbob
Member since: Oct 24, 2012
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Quote: beachbumbabs
You sure it wasn't a last straw kind of thing, EB? You do have a certain "gift" for a cumulative persona... ;D


She's known as the 'Nazi' mod in the
group, people leave because of her
all the time. It's 99% women there
and she has a particular hatred for men.
If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose.
December 3rd, 2017 at 11:50:19 AM permalink
AZDuffman
Member since: Oct 24, 2012
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Posts: 18136
Quote: Evenbob
She's known as the 'Nazi' mod in the
group, people leave because of her
all the time. It's 99% women there
and she has a particular hatred for men.


What kind of a forum has 99% females?
The President is a fink.
December 3rd, 2017 at 2:52:42 PM permalink
Evenbob
Member since: Oct 24, 2012
Threads: 146
Posts: 25010
Quote: AZDuffman
What kind of a forum has 99% females?


A cooking and food forum.
If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose.
December 4th, 2017 at 2:36:52 PM permalink
Nareed
Member since: Oct 24, 2012
Threads: 346
Posts: 12545
Stupid question of the day:

Should I buy a new battery from the Toyota dealership?

I know I shouldn't. That's the stupid question part.
Donald Trump is a one-term LOSER
December 7th, 2017 at 5:38:45 AM permalink
odiousgambit
Member since: Oct 28, 2012
Threads: 154
Posts: 5055
4 of us, all hunters btw, were able to prove that men in fact do not 'rule the world'

In camp we were there with no electricity, no internet, no TV, no regular telephone, but there was cell phone coverage, the hardest to get away from. I suppose it might be hard for some to understand the "no X" being part of getting away from everything and how that is nice.

It was clear from the start that the cell phone system was going to allow wives to call husbands any time they wanted to. You can't tell me that this technology would not have been thrown out the window early on if men ruled the world
I'm Still Standing, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah [it's an old guy chant for me]
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