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Money can't buy you love. But you can get a good substitute (or something that rhymes with it) 
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WiganLatics wrote: Money can't buy you love
Yep, that's what they said[^].
/ravi
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You do know you're talking to nerds and geeks right Jeremy?
We can't all have the professional head shots like you to attract the ladies. There is strong competition, Vivic will have to wait or battle it out like the rest of us to be found by someone who can ignore or overlook our geekiness. Or start to make the big bucks... face it, people with money can pretty much do what they want. 
Some of us do get lucky. I did, although it could be about timing as I met my wife before I was a software engineer. 
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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S Houghtelin wrote: Some of us do get lucky.
Quite. Mine was very appreciative of a program I wrote for her that saved her many hours of a repetitive task where we were working at the time. 
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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S Houghtelin wrote: You do know you're talking to nerds and geeks right Jeremy?
Yup. I also realize there are a lot of women out there that don't hate smart people. Being into tech doesn't make you bad with women. Being too afraid to talk to them does however.
S Houghtelin wrote: We can't all have the professional head shots like you to attract the ladies.
There's a lot of good looking guys out there that can't find a chick. You'd be surprised just how much personality counts. Besides, Vivic is a good looking guy. He just needs himself a woman! 
Jeremy Falcon
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Quote: Being into tech doesn't make you bad with women. Being too afraid to talk to them does however.
The problem is that 'being into tech' frequently implies 'being too afraid (or incapable) to talk to them'.
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WiganLatics wrote: The problem is that 'being into tech' frequently implies 'being too afraid (or incapable) to talk to them'.
I totally agree. But, it doesn't make it impossible. Just gotta get out of the house/office a bit more.
Jeremy Falcon
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That would certainly help. But the comfort zone has it's name for a reason. Dragging yourself out of it is difficult even if it is for your own benefit.
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Jeremy Falcon wrote: Being into tech doesn't make you bad with women. Being too afraid to talk to
them does however.
I think that may be why the stereotype exists, all time not spent with the fairer sex allowing one to focus on the tech without distraction.
Jeremy Falcon wrote: There's a lot of good looking guys out there that can't find a chick. You'd be surprised just how much personality counts
Followed by...
Jeremy Falcon wrote: Vivic is a good looking guy.
Hmmm, so you are saying Vivic needs to get a personality? 
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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S Houghtelin wrote: I think that may be why the stereotype exists, all time not spent with the fairer sex allowing one to focus on the tech without distraction.
You are correct sir! But, we're still human. And as human we need some distraction every now and again if you catch my drift.
S Houghtelin wrote: Hmmm, so you are saying Vivic needs to get a personality?
Yes.
Jeremy Falcon
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Jeremy Falcon wrote: He just needs himself a woman!
Hmm ... fish/bicycle ... 
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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We have some girls on CP. Try them for starters 
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WiganLatics wrote: We have some girls on CP. Try them for starters
Nah, he needs himself a local chick. Text does not a relationship make.
Jeremy Falcon
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Quote: ext does not a relationship make.
Oh I dunno. Kids these days text each other from the same room.
Quote: Nah, he needs himself a local chick.
If he's lucky there *might* be a local one. Or he could emigrate...
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I'm not sure how available most of them are, though, even in the general case and not the specific case of being also close enough to Vivic and liking him. It seems like CP isn't a great place to try to meet women, really!
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BobJanova wrote: It seems like CP isn't a great place to try to meet women, really!
Exactly. You don't go to the desert to fish. That's why most tech guys don't find a woman. They need to go where the fish are and start fishing.
Jeremy Falcon
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Quote: I'm not sure how available most of them are
Is that through bitter personal experience?
Quote: It seems like CP isn't a great place to try to meet women, really!
I concur. It's not the way I do it. However you can guarantee that they'll tolerate nerdy behaviour.
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I'm not nerdy enough to have resorted to trying to chat up female CP users :p
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Perhaps we could hire "He who shall not be named" to market him...
Will Rogers never met me.
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CBadger wrote: Why would we believe you without photo evidence?
Why would you believe anything you read on the Internet?
Jeremy Falcon
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More than once in the last few months I've blasted WP8/8.1 because something in the software stack resulted in the music player on my 520 puking into mega lag city when trying to shuffle the 60GB/11k track music collection I've got on a uSD card. The initial 8.1 dev preview only changed how it faceplanted but didn't really make it better...
Well the newest update I installed (I think this is the equivalent to the OTA update my simless phone can't get) has finally fixed things. The multi-minute freeze the phone totally bug from 8.0 is still gone, as is the 8.1 preview bug where the next/previous buttons had about 30 sec of delay before changing tracks. It now changes songs in an entirely reasonable second or so.
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
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My phone did this weird thing over the weekend. It shut itself down, then there was some cogs moving, then it restructured a load of stuff. Then it said it was ready for 8.1.
Just checked - still 8.0, not that I'd probably even notice if 8.1 is there.
There's one bug I hope they fix. I've got the kids area on it which is a brilliant idea. But in 8.0, you still need to enter the same unlock code as you do for the main phone, hence the partition between the two is pretty much non-existent. Sort it out, MS.
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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IIRC from when I upgraded to 8.1 dev preview they split the install into multiple parts; sort of like how on Windows for real computers you generally have to install all the normal windows update patches (including a new version of windows installer) before it will offer the service pack.
Edit: Probably if you wait a few days it'll get around to pulling down the main 8.1 update and installing it for you. Or you could always install the I'm a developer tell my carrier to pound sand and install the new version now app and manually do the OS upgrade now. 
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
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