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...that make this site so awesome[^].
Actually, the rest as well.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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Now if we can get the Supermodel Phone Lookup add-in sorted out then the site will be perfect! 
veni bibi saltavi
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Along with Live Chat.. 
Your time will come, if you let it be right.
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The two of you REALLY have lost touch with reality! 
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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I'll talk to the Hrlpouts[^] guys.
No promises.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Every now and then I receive a survey from a vendor/institution/etc. asking me if I would please fill out a survey for them. On occasion, I'm in a benevolent mood and follow their link.
My advice to the people who pay for the survey (and by proxy, to those who create them):
If you ask a question, allow for the user to not answer - either explicitly, such as a radio button with "no answer" or "not applicable" or allow blanks or whatever it takes to let the user continue and not disclose whatever it is they don't want to disclose.
Two reasons why this is useful:
- For you, it reduces the number of junk-answers where a selection or ranking is given that has no relevance to the user's experience with the product. If you actually intended to do a good job then you don't want surreptitious answers.
- People just close the window and the survey's left incomplete (if any data were saved) or
undone (a commission lost?).
There's alsothe possibility the survey's true purpose is to find out what fraction of users that start actually finish, and where the decide their disgusted enough to quit.
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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I've stopped taking surveys... for anyone (particularly political ones).
I feel like they try to lead me to say that either option A or option B is the right choice...
In reality, they are so far off the mark, neither option is any good and I will not reinforce their behavior regardless of they choice they want to make.
People (and businesses) need to display their values to me, not take a survey (followed by creating talking points to attract my business). If I don't know their values, I don't do business with them.
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Pualee wrote: I feel like they try to lead me to say that either option A or option B is the right choice...
That's a way of controlling the outcome.
Either option may only involve a tiny fraction of the pinions actually held, but, by corralling the opinions into a narrow area, they can give large percentage's, that reflect nothing about reality.
Politics: would you have it any other way ?
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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W∴ Balboos wrote: Politics: would you have it any other way ?
[ ] A: Yes.
[ ] B: Yes.
FTFY!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I'd go one step further, you may need to have two non answers, "Not applicable" as well as "Don't want to answer".
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make that three - you forgot "I don't give a fnark"
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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fnark fnark fnark!!
Apparently I give three of them!!
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This guy brings his best drinking buddy home, unannounced, for dinner at 6:30, after a few beers. His wife screams her head off while his friend sits open mouthed and listens to the tirade.
“My bloody hair & makeup are not done, the house is a f*****g mess, the dishes aren’t done. Can't you see I'm still in my f****** pajamas and I can’t be bothered with cooking tonight! Why the f*** did you bring him home unannounced you stupid idiot?"
"Because he's thinking of getting married."
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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Oh oh, just forwarded this to my wife...hard Weekend in front of me 
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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A fire started in the grasslands close to a farm. The county fire department rushed to the scene, but the fire was more than they could handle. Someone suggested calling the volunteer fire department. Despite some doubt that they would be of any assistance, they were called.
The volunteers arrived in a dilapidated old fire truck. They rumbled straight towards the fire, drove right into the middle of the flames and stopped! The firefighters jumped from the truck and frantically started spraying water in all directions. Soon they had snuffed out the centre of the fire and leaving two parts which were easily put out.
As the farmer watched all this, he was impressed and grateful that his house and farm had been spared. He quickly got his chequebook and donated $1000 to the volunteer fire department.
A local news reporter asked the volunteer fire captain how they planned to use the funds.
The captain replied, “The first thing we’re gonna do is get the brakes on our fire truck fixed!”
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How difficult would it be to make an app that turns a old or current android phone into an extension number pad keyboard for laptops or PCs? I figured that people have their old android phones just lying around n could also be able to use it to have macro programmed button mini keyboard. So, basically take the old phone and use the micro USB to plug in and have a num pad for laptops, or even a mini macro keyboard.
Any possibility of something like that working, or does that already exist? I don't know, for some reason I think that's a pretty good app idea... Any feedback, thoughts, or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Even just kind of setting me in the right direction would be most appreciated. To be honest I don't even know what type of code I would need to be using to create something like this.
And just some background; I'm new to programming. I'm learning quickly on my own (I'm learning on codeacadamy and am hoping to get into some community college classes) and with help, but I'm getting basics down quick (most I've learned has been in Java for game development but I'll learn anything I need to). I really want to progress and want to get into app development along side game design which is what I go to school for.
Also I don't know, if someone with knowledge would want or be willing to help with a project like this I'd definitely be open to working with people (anyone with some experience or knowledge they'd be willing to share and teach) and helping or sharing ideas. I have a lot of app ideas but not a lot of knowledge on how to make them all work or function.
Please help me out. It may sound dumb, but I'm an artist, I'm a creative thinker and am always coming up with little tid bits of app ideas but I never really know where to go with them but I'm hoping this one goes somewhere and that someone reading this would be willing to help me in the process. Truly, any info you could provide would help me, even if it's just telling me what kind of phones might work best for this. I need help on this and I hope you may give me the time and help to make this happen. If you're someone who's willing to help me and have some patience I have other ideas that I'd like to make happen to and I'd love to share those as well and get your input. Thank you for taking the time to read this and make a consideration to help me. I know I have potential, I just need help and direction.
Thanks,
Nick. aka infamous X187Xx
modified 21-Jan-15 12:28pm.
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Paragraphs are actually good things... Cause that's a really big block of text that I'm not awake enough to read.
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This idea requires more effort than needed. Regardless of the goal or merit of it, I think it will require the following:
1. An application specific to the phone devise so that it relays the keyboard actions to the PC, connected through USB.
2. An application running on the PC, listening to the actions from the USB and sending them to the OS.
Push Framework - now released !
http://www.pushframework.com
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I edited your message to:
a) put some paragraphs in there
b) remove the annoying text speak bits - it's and, not n, and be, not b
Please check my edit to make sure it still reflects what you wanted to say.
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The problem with that is that I read through his post (after your edit, and before reading your post) and thought to myself "self... at least this kid is using correct spelling, grammar and paragraphs!!" 
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote: Please check my edit to make sure it still reflects what you wanted to say.
I was wondering why I was feeling a disturbance in the force. What I was reading was in such good English, it didn't match with what I was expecting to be reading.
Marc
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People hate having to transition between using a keyboard and reaching for the mouse (and vice-versa). Having to reach for a third device sitting on your desk is going to be impractical, I would imagine. Not to mention actually having to pick it up to hold it steady, unless you're only going to type a very short sequence of numbers.
Not to mention the fact that you're also going to have yet another wire running across your desk.
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dandy72 wrote: People hate having to transition between using a keyboard and reaching for the mouse (and vice-versa).
True - but generally a fact of life
dandy72 wrote: Having to reach for a third device sitting on your desk is going to be impractical,
I disagree - especially as, with a bit of thought, it could be used in place of the mouse (i.e. as a touchpad)
I use teh numeric keypad often on my regular keyboard and HATE using keyboards without one (e.g. laptop keyboards and Mac wireless keyboards)
dandy72 wrote: Not to mention the fact that you're also going to have yet another wire running across your desk.
There's this new-fangled thing called BlueTooth that's just been invented. Oh and also there's now wireless networking!
Sorry for the sarcasm but I felt your post was unnecessarily negative for someone asking for our help!
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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_Maxxx_ wrote: I disagree - especially as, with a bit of thought, it could be used in place of the mouse (i.e. as a touchpad)
I have a vision of grandma moving her phone around her desk and wondering why the pointer on the screen isn't moving...
_Maxxx_ wrote: There's this new-fangled thing called BlueTooth that's just been invented. Oh and also there's now wireless networking!
My thought process is that given the battery life of the typical phone, I'd think you'd rather leave it plugged in all the time (hence the extra cable that's basically necessary to have). Especially when the original poster was thinking about making use of older phones past their useful life, and (presumably, given the age) with batteries that no longer keep a charge for very long.
_Maxxx_ wrote: Sorry for the sarcasm but I felt your post was unnecessarily negative for someone asking for our help!
Not at all. I'd rather give a newcomer something to think about upfront, rather than have him go through the effort, only to realize that in the end, it's really only going to be marginally useful. Been there, done that, spent hours coding, and then finding out I'm only going to use the program once or twice.
But then again, maybe his project is about learning how to do it, and not strictly about getting it finalized. In that case, more power to him.
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I grew up with keyboards without num-pad on the right side, so for me it is useless (as I do not use the existing num-pad)...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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