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Why Computers Suck!!

It's like making a video game about real life. Why? When you can just live life.

Let me know how that sand table excel spreadsheet works out for you.

It's the end of 2010 and time for NewYear resolutions.
Here's an article that has a few things to do just one time.

I've only listed the topic headings.
The article has more on the Why and the How to do these things.

NY Times

10 Ways to Get the Most Out of Technology

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GET A SMARTPHONE Why: Because having immediate access to your e-mail,
photos, calendars and address books, not to mention vast swaths of the Internet, makes life a little easier.

STOP USING INTERNET EXPLORER Why: Because, while the latest version has some real improvements,
Internet Explorer is large, bloated with features and an example of old-style Microsoft excess

UPLOAD YOUR PHOTOS TO THE CLOUD Why: Because you’ll be really sorry if an errant cup of coffee
makes its way onto your PC, wiping away years of photographic memories

GET MUSIC OFF YOUR COMPUTER Why: Because music bought digitally wants to be freed,
not imprisoned in your portable player or laptop.
It wants to be sent around the home, filling rooms like good old-fashioned hi-fi.

BACK UP YOUR DATA Why: Because photos are not the only important things on your computer.
With online backup services, you do not have to buy any equipment; you just install software,
which sits on secure servers and runs in the background,<snip>

SET UP A FREE FILE-SHARING SERVICE Why: Because while e-mailing yourself files
is a perfectly decent workaround, there are easier, more elegant ways to move files around
— and they do not cost anything, either.

GET FREE ANTIVIRUS SOFTWARE Why: Because attacks on unwitting users are more widespread
and tactics are growing more advanced.

[b]GET A BETTER DEAL FROM YOUR CABLE, PHONE AND INTERNET PROVIDER [/B
Why: Because it does not take much to get them to give you free (or cheaper) services.

BUY A LOT OF CHARGING CABLES Why: Because you should never have a gadget’s battery die on you,
and they are cheap.

CALIBRATE YOUR HDTV Why: Because that awesome 1080p plasma or LCD TV you bought
has factory settings for color, brightness, contrast and so forth that are likely to be out of whack.
They need to be adjusted.

Better yet, dump all that crap following you around. Keep all the technology in a dedicated room, and stay out of that room at least 50% of the day.
Play with/read to, children.
Watch raptors soar.
Tend you pot garden.
Get naked outdoors... but not while playing with/reading to, the children.:headshake

Both Lamp and xob are right, of course. In fact I think those are my New Year's resolutions right there!

computers "suck" just as much, and exactly in the same way, that books "suck"

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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce (Post 702672)

Better yet, dump all that crap following you around. Keep all the technology in a dedicated room, and stay out of that room at least 50% of the day.

Each tech thingy is in my home office. But I have to spent more then 50% of the day with it (while awake). That's how I earn money.
Yet my phone is just that... a phone. I don't need to chat all the time on the net (no facebook or twitter account).

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Play with/read to, children.

Don't have any child... but when my nephew (18 months) is around, I love to do just that... It so much fun !

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Watch raptors soar.

Would love to... but I live in a city.

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Tend you pot garden.

Sorry, I don't smoke anything but cigars.

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Get naked outdoors...

Nice but a bit chilly right now (3° Celsius outside)

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but not while playing with/reading to, the children.:headshake

That one goes without saying.

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Play with/read to, children.

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Don't have any child... but when my nephew (18 months) is around, I love to do just that... It so much fun !

The best part is, they don't know if you mispronounce a word. ;)

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Originally Posted by GunMaster357 (Post 702703)

Each tech thingy is in my home office. But I have to spent more then 50% of the day with it (while awake).

Nothing new. High tech of its time was a lead pencil. Then graphite. Then we made it even more high tech - mechanical pencil. Then added a telephone - the most high tech. Now you used your hands which using a voice.

Computer is simply the newest lead pencil. Now we add video to the mix. Next add smell to tools necessary in every office.

Of course some offices already have that when some secretaries have interests other than work. And you thought computers make life hard.

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Originally Posted by tw (Post 702753)

wow.... I don't want to be rude, but this is incoherent even for you, tw. care to rephrase, or....?

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Originally Posted by tw (Post 702753)

Next add smell to tools necessary in every office..

I certainly hope they won't do that... I have a cheese factory among my clients...

Gunmaster, raptors thrive in cities. You'd be surprised. Just keep an eye peeled. That's not a pigeon on the wing, soaring. Pigeons don't soar. But they do make a tasty snack for many raptors.

I can't do the outdoors naked thing as much as I'd like ... I live on the first floor, facing the parking lot (and, more importantly, the police station). If I were higher, though, I'd be on the porch right now. it's a comfy 51 deg F at the moment.

I know that there are falcons living in Notre Dame's towers. Unfortunately, I'm usually in the subway when I'm around the place.

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He moves like a bird, lightly, bobbing his head. And you keep still because you think that maybe his visual acuity is based on movement like T-Rex - he'll lose you if you don't move. But no, not Velociraptor. You stare at him, and he just stares right back. And that's when the attack comes. Not from the front, but from the side...

...from the other two raptors you didn't even know were there. Because the raptor's a pack hunter, you see, he uses coordinated attack patterns and he is out in force today. And he slashes at you with this... a six-inch retractable claw, like a razor, on the the middle toe. He doesn't bother to bite your jugular like a lion, say... no no. He slashes at you here... or here... or maybe across the belly, spilling your intestines. The point is... you are alive when they start to eat you.

Oh God be careful people!

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Originally Posted by wolf (Post 702797)

Gunmaster, raptors thrive in cities. You'd be surprised. Just keep an eye peeled. That's not a pigeon on the wing, soaring. Pigeons don't soar. But they do make a tasty snack for many raptors.