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 | re: Homeless people with dogs - Korkstand on 5/23/13 at 10:37 pm
[quote]ctiger69[/quote]
The homeless man and his dog are each other's best friends, and possibly the only family they each have, and you want to rip that apart because you think you know what's best?
Find something else to worry about....
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| re: Homeless people with dogs - Korkstand on 5/23/13 at 1:51 pm
[quote]call dog food what you want, its got the right nutrition. fact.[/quote]
Another fact is dogs lived a hell of a long time without today's processed dog food.
Given the choices of a dog shelter, being neglected in somebody's fenced in back yard with plenty of dog food, or roaming the stree...
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| re: Homeless people with dogs - Korkstand on 5/23/13 at 1:42 pm
[quote]yall can argue all you want whether a dog is happier with a homeless guy, but the dog didn't choose to be homeless, the guy did. the dog isn't getting the chance to eat a proper meal. sure it will eat scraps and shit, but for once the dog should get proper nutrition. [/quote]
Everybody talki...
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| re: Homeless people with dogs - Korkstand on 5/23/13 at 1:37 pm
Also I guarantee a homeless dude has never beat his dog for tearing up the sofa or shitting on the carpet. OP is an idiot....
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| re: Homeless people with dogs - Korkstand on 5/23/13 at 1:32 pm
[quote]Because I truly care about the dog [/quote]
If you really cared about the dogs, you should argue the opposite of what you're saying. We should take the dogs from shelters and give them to homeless people....
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| re: Have you ever considered an IRC chat applet within the site? - Korkstand on 5/22/13 at 5:25 pm
More work to implement, support, and moderate, and it would cut down on pageviews and ad impressions. I'm not seeing a plus side here....
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| re: Mac IT guys - upgrading OSX question - Korkstand on 5/22/13 at 3:53 pm
It is my understanding that every release of OSX, and all Apple products, are perfect, and as such Mac IT guys do not exist....
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| re: S4 vs iPhone - Korkstand on 5/21/13 at 5:52 pm
[quote]The ETF and the payment plan may not technically be the same thing but you're still paying the full price of the phone (reduced for each month you complete) if you leave early. If I buy a phone off of eBay I can go to T-Mobile and use it contract free. I can do the same thing with AT&T and no...
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| re: S4 vs iPhone - Korkstand on 5/21/13 at 5:39 pm
[quote]do you get a cheaper cell plan or something? idk why you'd pay full price for a phone unless you have to have in unlocked when you leave the country.[/quote]
AT&T structures their contract and prepaid plans in a way that you can't make a direct comparison and figure out how much your subsidi...
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| re: S4 vs iPhone - Korkstand on 5/21/13 at 5:23 pm
[quote]T-Mobile isn't 100% no contract no matter what they want to say. If you have no contract you can leave without penalty. If you pay T-Mobile's downpayment for a phone and then decide to leave the next month you have to payoff the balance on the phone. If you get a subsidized phone from AT&T an...
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| re: S4 vs iPhone - Korkstand on 5/21/13 at 3:58 pm
[quote]How do I tell if the files are DRM files?[/quote]
I think most songs sold in the last few years do not have DRM, but you can look at the details of the file and it will tell you if it's protected I think....
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| re: S4 vs iPhone - Korkstand on 5/21/13 at 3:56 pm
[quote]so why buy an unlocked one rather than just one for the carrier your current plan is with?[/quote]
So people overseas can buy them.
And why would anyone sell a carrier-locked phone if they can unlock it and double or triple its value? ...
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| re: S4 vs iPhone - Korkstand on 5/21/13 at 3:48 pm
[quote]How easy is it to move iTunes purchased music to s4? [/quote]
If there's no DRM it's easy, drag and drop -or- upload to google music.
[quote]Is battery life better on s4? [/quote]
The wife has one and usually has about half a charge left after work, and she's pretty good at fricking up a ph...
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| re: Need help with color of Geaux.com logo... - Korkstand on 5/21/13 at 10:13 am
RA'd wrong board...
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Money Talk
| re: Tesla making honest car dealers very angry - Korkstand on 5/21/13 at 9:24 am
[quote]Someone posted the other day that a full battery charge would be about $10. Don't remember how exactly they calculated it, but they used math and stuff. [/quote]
It's really easy math: in Louisiana we pay 9 or 10 cents per kilowatt-hour (kWh), and the 300-mile battery in the model S has a ca...
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| re: Have to click on a page after opening a new tab to click a link or open more tab - Korkstand on 5/21/13 at 9:11 am
[quote]CTRL+Left Click works fine. Open as many tabs as quickly as I want. If I mouse wheel click a link, the tab opens. I then have to click on my current page one time before I can use the mouse wheel button or select a link on the current page. [/quote]
Did you get this sorted out?...
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| re: Have to click on a page after opening a new tab to click a link or open more tab - Korkstand on 5/20/13 at 10:54 pm
[quote]Why don't you just use the left mouse button?[/quote]Middle-clicking links to open a bunch of tabs is by far the fastest way to browse.
OP, not sure I understand the problem. Have you tried ctrl-leftclicking to see if it behaves the same?...
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| re: Bought a MacBook Pro today. Anything I should know? - Korkstand on 5/20/13 at 5:05 pm
[quote]it would often crash on startup and alot of my programs did not translate well into linux.
It just didnt feel like a solid OS[/quote]
Well, on the flipside, I have installed Linux on dozens of machines, and currently I have 2 servers and a desktop running ubuntu at work, and 2 laptops an...
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| re: Bought a MacBook Pro today. Anything I should know? - Korkstand on 5/20/13 at 4:48 pm
[quote]Buggy as hell[/quote]
Can you be a little more vague? ...
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| re: Bought a MacBook Pro today. Anything I should know? - Korkstand on 5/20/13 at 4:27 pm
[quote]whatever anybody gets to me the biggest advancement is the SSD drives, soooo much faster. [/quote]
Finally trillhog makes some sense. But if you value your cash, I would highly recommend buying the SSD separately (instead of paying for the upgrade when ordering), and either watch some videos...
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| re: Bought a MacBook Pro today. Anything I should know? - Korkstand on 5/20/13 at 4:08 pm
[quote]I've tried Ubuntu and I'd prefer Vista over that POS. [/quote]
What was your problem with it?...
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| re: Bought a MacBook Pro today. Anything I should know? - Korkstand on 5/20/13 at 3:57 pm
[quote]How much does the average Linux user spend?[/quote]
Tinkerers: hundreds of hours
Regular users: probably close to zero...
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| re: Question for OT IT Pros - Korkstand on 5/20/13 at 10:32 am
[quote]And get this, some forums are blocked, and it is listed as blocked b/c it is message boards, but TD.com isn't. [/quote]
It's easy to sniff for the popular message board software, so those can be done automatically. TD uses "home grown" software so it would have to be added manually....
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| re: Excel 2010 Drop Down Lists - Korkstand on 5/20/13 at 10:22 am
[quote]An access db, or if you're half literate download mySQL and build a couple one to many tables and find out how easy SQL makes life with data.[/quote]
Exactly. I hate to think about how many man-hours have been wasted worldwide by people trying to wrestle Excel into doing database-y things....
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| re: Question about computers becoming "Self Aware" - Korkstand on 5/20/13 at 10:11 am
[quote]How do we know it hasn't already happened.[/quote]
Because we haven't programmed them to be self-aware yet.
We have to understand consciousness before we can create it, but I'm not sure if we ever can....
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| re: HTC One or Samsung Galaxy S4? - Korkstand on 5/17/13 at 5:21 pm
[quote]Hmm no the Podio app in iOS does have a task list. LINK[/quote]
I was talking about the task widget. I have to have my little "todo" list right there in my face when I look at the phone, and quickly add new ones or check them off. If I had to flip pages and launch an app first, I wouldn't us...
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| re: HTC One or Samsung Galaxy S4? - Korkstand on 5/17/13 at 5:08 pm
[quote]Podio is a business communication and collaboration tool it's pointless to use it as a task list. [/quote]I know what it is. I was pointing out an obvious feature that the Android version had that iOS didn't.
[quote]If you want an awesome task list / reminder app that is actually way better...
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| re: HTC One or Samsung Galaxy S4? - Korkstand on 5/17/13 at 5:00 pm
[quote]Every app I listed that needs to share data does. Zite sends articles to pocket all day long sir.
Ill end this now because the is a lopsided debate. I use both android and iOS and from the criticisms you are bringing up like sharing has long been improved in iOS. It doesn't do it at he OS...
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| re: HTC One or Samsung Galaxy S4? - Korkstand on 5/17/13 at 4:46 pm
[quote]Fitbit can't sync with Bluetooth because the low power Bluetooth doesn't work yet on android. [/quote]The S3 and S4, and the Note II and 10.1 sync with Fitbit. More coming soon.
[quote]Rdio - no comment if you've used the two you'd see the difference. [/quote]See, this is exactly why I said ...
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| re: HTC One or Samsung Galaxy S4? - Korkstand on 5/17/13 at 4:10 pm
[quote]Podio, Sunrise, tweetbot, twitterrific, zite, cobook, camera+, rdio, fitbit, Facebook, dayone
That's a list of apps that are both eloquent and highly functional and are not rivaled by anything on android. [/quote]
Half of them have Android versions, and the other half have substitutes on...
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