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Mark_Wallace12-Sep-13 2:16

Mark_Wallace

12-Sep-13 2:16

Well, whatever the picture is, it's Hilariously funny -- it says so, right there on the page, so it must be true.

I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

Dan Neely12-Sep-13 3:22

Dan Neely

12-Sep-13 3:22

Try it in a different browser, you need to click the link and then reload it to circumvent their anti-hotlinking protection.

Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius

Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt

RJOberg12-Sep-13 2:56

12-Sep-13 2:56

I love the fact that he got his IP blocked from Wolfram|Alpha and had to appeal it because of this week's question and locked up his Mathmatica program while trying to compute it all.

Imagine being the admin tasked with reading that appeal, it would make my day. Big Grin | :-D

Nagy Vilmos12-Sep-13 2:59

Nagy Vilmos

12-Sep-13 2:59

If the admin doesn't have a clue who Randal is then said admin really shouldn't be working for WA.

speramus in juniperus

RJOberg12-Sep-13 3:08

12-Sep-13 3:08

I agree but the reason he had to appeal did amuse me. It's early in the morning and I am a tad stressed. I could use some amusing anecdotes to lighten the mood and jokes in the SB just don't do it anymore.

I'm surprised this hasn't happened to him before. You'd imagine that they would just have his IP on a white list for this exact reason.

Rage12-Sep-13 4:02

Rage

12-Sep-13 4:02

I am actually wondering why he has no Pro account at WA.

~RaGE();

I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb

RJOberg12-Sep-13 4:10

12-Sep-13 4:10

Cost most likely. $5 doesn't seem like much though. Maybe the principle of the thing?

BillWoodruff12-Sep-13 6:41

BillWoodruff

12-Sep-13 6:41

Excellent story, thanks, Nagy.

I believe the impending shortage of Hellium will be more than made-up for by the exponential increase in Satanium, Infernium, and the ignoble gas Demon which is, even as we speak, levitating the Periodic Table.

bill

Google CEO, Erich Schmidt: "I keep asking for a product called Serendipity. This product would have access to everything ever written or recorded, know everything the user ever worked on and saved to his or her personal hard drive, and know a whole lot about the user's tastes, friends and predilections." 2004, USA Today interview

When and how did it break?

_Maxxx_12-Sep-13 13:43

_Maxxx_

12-Sep-13 13:43

Praise be the demonic gas[^] anti-element of chrysanthemum.

MVVM # - I did it My Way
___________________________________________
Man, you're a god. - walterhevedeich 26/05/2011

.\\axxx
(That's an 'M')

Nicholas Marty12-Sep-13 1:04

Nicholas Marty

12-Sep-13 1:04

I just noticed that my screenshot functionality on my Galaxy Nexus doesn't work anymore. D'Oh! | :doh:

The last screenshot I took was on 4 July. So I guess one of those updates between now and then seems to have broken it. I don't need to take screenshots often but there are some cases where saving a website as a screenshot comes in handy (especially if you need that data where you don't have access to the data network).

Anyone else who had such a problem and knows an easy fix? To take out the fun: Suggesting iOS, Windows Phone or any other OS is NOT a fix Poke tongue | ;-P

The only "solution" I found was suggesting to do a factory reset of the phone but I'm not that desperate yet Wink | ;)

Note: I'm running Android 4.3

Jörgen Andersson12-Sep-13 1:21

Jörgen Andersson

12-Sep-13 1:21

Nicholas Marty wrote:
Suggesting iOS, Windows Phone or any other OS is NOT a fix

You forgot one.

Use another phone and take a photo. Smile | :)

Sorry couldn't resist

Be excellent to each other. And... PARTY ON, DUDES!
Abraham Lincoln

MT_12-Sep-13 1:35

MT_

12-Sep-13 1:35

Made me laugh on otherwise a dull day...cheers.
Laugh | :laugh:

Thanks,
Milind

chriselst12-Sep-13 2:47

chriselst

12-Sep-13 2:47

I don't know how to take screenshots on my Android phone.

I know it works though cos often of a morning I take a screen shot of the alarm going off as I fumble for the snooze button.

“I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck.” Bill Hicks

RJOberg12-Sep-13 3:09

12-Sep-13 3:09

On the Galaxy Nexus, it is hit the power and volume down buttons at the same time and hold.

chriselst12-Sep-13 3:10

chriselst

12-Sep-13 3:10

Power button snoozes the alarm so I guess that is probably what I'm doing.

“I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck.” Bill Hicks

RJOberg12-Sep-13 3:01

12-Sep-13 3:01

Hmm, that's odd. I have a Galaxy Nexus as well and just took a screen shot. I'm running 4.2.2 (because Verizon is SLOW getting updates out to its customers), sounds like they broke it between that and 4.3.

Are you running an official version or something like Cyanogen?

Nicholas Marty12-Sep-13 3:16

Nicholas Marty

12-Sep-13 3:16

Official Version. I have an unbranded version. So it's the plain Android OS on it. (This exactly because the carriers usually are very slow at getting the updates out to the customers Wink | ;)

) didn't mind paying a bit more for the phone as I'm able to choose other benefits when extending my contract resulting more or less with the same costs counting phone + contract costs.

I've noticed that the usual combination of pressing the power + volume down button is indeed recognized. (As it does neither lock the phone nor change the volume). However it seems like no action is mapped to the combination... D'Oh! | :doh:

chriselst12-Sep-13 3:22

chriselst

12-Sep-13 3:22

Have you tried turning it off, and then back on again?

“I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck.” Bill Hicks

Nicholas Marty12-Sep-13 3:47

Nicholas Marty

12-Sep-13 3:47

You're working for the Microsoft Windows Support line, aren't you? Laugh | :laugh:

But yeah, turning it off and back on again was probably the first thing I did when I noticed that it didn't work. Poke tongue | ;-P

RJOberg12-Sep-13 3:39

12-Sep-13 3:39

Ah, how I wish I could have gotten the unbranded version. CDMA vs GSM is still all the rage here in the states and the two big GSM providers don't have great service where I live. At the time there was no unbranded CDMA and I'm still not sure there is.

Plus if you buy the phone outright, they give you no discount on your plan. In fact Verizon's CEO has said that the would love to end phone subsidies but if they do, they won't lower the monthly bill. They tried it and people here hated it. Idiots looked at the up front cost and saw hundreds of dollars more with a slightly lower bill every month, instead of a lower entry cost and a higher bill each month resulting in a higher end cost. The problem with people in general (and American's who have sh*tty money management skills in specific) is that they don't look more than a month down the road, they think "Can I afford the monthly payments?" and that is it!

I would still be paying to subsidize a phone that I bought. It's a flipping scam. T-Mobile used to offer discounts on their plans if you bought the phone. They got rid of that this year. But now with AT&T and Verizon, you can pay MORE to upgrade your subsidized phone sooner!

Let me pay $700 outright instead of $250 up front and then $25 extra a month for two years! I do not want to pay interest on things that can only hurt my credit! Mad | :mad:

I didn't intend on this becoming a rant, but gods I am jealous of you.