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Yesterday I went to send an SMS (text message) using Hangouts and my Android phone popped up message like: "Would you like to use Google Messenger to send your SMS...blah, blah, blah...."
I don't know if I want to use Messenger now? Why would I switch?
Has Google replaced Hangouts with Messenger? 
Messenger Is All
Why is every company renaming their app Messenger? Are they under legal obligation to name these SMS apps "messenger"? 
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Nah, Hangouts is still there, but they have a new app for SMS/MMS-only stuff called Messenger.
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde
Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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Colin Mullikin wrote: new app for SMS/MMS-only stuff called Messenger
Thanks for explaining. But I'm not sure why I would want "yet another app".
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raddevus wrote: Has Google replaced Hangouts with Messenger?
Nope, but it is currently recommending Messenger for SMS. What this means as to the future of one, both, or either service is anybody's guess.
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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9082365 wrote: What this means as to the future of one, both, or either service is anybody's guess
That's the modern world of technology.
"Hey, are you using <FAVORITE TECHNOLOGY EVER!!!!>? Well, we'll probably throw that in the garbage can real soon." 
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I had the same issue when I got my new Nexus 5x. After a bit of Googling and checking out several forums it seems that the recommended app for MMS and SMS is Messenger. Hangouts is still available but is likely to be deprecated at some point.
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare
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Keep your stuff private, un-mined, etc.
Connect with folk on MeWe[^], a social media site backed by the man, himself, who created the web, Tim Berners-Lee.
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Whoa! so it's not Al Gore!?!? 
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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I thought it was Robert The Bruce!
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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I wonder how many man-years (Man–year | Definition of Man–year by Merriam-Webster[^] ) have already been wasted by people clicking a window, only to learn that it was the wrong window because the user cannot see the border around the windows any more. 
Probably millions of years by now.
And people thought waiting for windows to boot up was a waste of time. 
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I've also noticed that a lot of web applications these days are using Bootstrap, nothing wrong with that - nice css, but the buttons and links are hard to find. The links on the buttons don't highlight, they're not bold, and there's no border around them. I waste a second or two on some of those websites each and every visit.
And slow drivers need to get out of the fast lane!
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I'm talking about the "washed-out" graphic design aka metro aka "i can't tell where anything is and everything is blurred into everything else and there is no contrast"...
But, yours is a nice shot at Java. Though, I believe unrelated directly. 
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Should've gone to Specsavers[^]?
Can't say that I've ever done this (well, not sober anyway), even in the first days where there was no option to colour the borders! Using the touchscreen (on my Kindle) is an entirely different matter but it's hard to see how you can c**k it up using a mouse!
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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excactly 42*
raddevus wrote: because the user cannot see the border around the windows any more.
Your options:
- Get prescription glasses
- Shake cane at monitor and call it whippersnapper
*) correctness of the number depends on which planet's year is considered
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Not to mention the number of man years wasted reading about unhappy people who upgraded from Win7. 
Life is too shor
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Who? When? Why?
Here[^] is the very visible border of the news app on top of this site in Chrome, if that's what you're asking. Well it is, even if it's not what you're asking, actually.
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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Hi All,
Lemmy, Bowie, Glenn Frey, Paul Katner & now Maurice White (Earth, Wind & Fire). I'm gonna go see as many music stars as I can before it's too late!! 
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Not just music stars, Lord Lucan is dead now too.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Only officially, so his son can inherit the title (and the estates, money, ...)
But...would you want to call yourself Lord Lucan these days? 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: But...would you want to call yourself Lord Lucan these days?
Who says I don't?
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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And not only that! Just the other day, I heard that Leslie Nielsen has died! 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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Well the thing is that after it became easier to record music, more people got famous for it. And now all those people that were famous in the 60's, 70's are going to start dying. And with a lot of people idealizing that era of music, it's only logical that most people will have to say goodbye to a lot of legendary people. Adding the fact that most legendary musicians have a live fast attitude, most won't get to live until they are 80.
But that's the circle of life. Some legends die, others become legends.
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