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Comment LastPass.com (Score 2) 445

I've been using them for years, and I love it so much that I subscribe to their premium service, even though I don't have a use for it, to provide support for them...their basic service is free.

It autofills my username and password on any machine where I have the app installed. If I don't have the app installed but need to get to my username/passwords, they have an online vault I can log on to.

And searching is easy - I can search by username or site or keyword in description. They auto-filter my passwords as I type into the search box.

https://lastpass.com/

Comment More Options (Score 2) 495

I wish my cell phone was more durable.
I wish my cell phone got better reception.

Cell phones today aren't really phones, they're pocket computers that you can also use for calling. Its easier to be happy with what I've got if I think of it that way...

Submission + - Draft IPCC report suggests that climate uncertainties have significantly grown (dailymail.co.uk)

schwit1 writes: The new IPCC draft admits that the climate has not warmed as predicted and that the climate field does not know why.

They recognize the global warming ‘pause’ first reported by The Mail on Sunday last year is real – and concede that their computer models did not predict it. But they cannot explain why world average temperatures have not shown any statistically significant increase since 1997.

They admit large parts of the world were as warm as they are now for decades at a time between 950 and 1250 AD – centuries before the Industrial Revolution, and when the population and CO2 levels were both much lower.

The IPCC admits that while computer models forecast a decline in Antarctic sea ice, it has actually grown to a new record high. Again, the IPCC cannot say why.

A forecast in the 2007 report that hurricanes would become more intense has simply been dropped, without mention. This year has been one of the quietest hurricane seasons in history and the US is currently enjoying its longest-ever period – almost eight years – without a single hurricane of Category 3 or above making landfall.

Comment I've Got IT! (Score 1) 337

Wizard101 is the ticket for hanging out with your girl, Tim. Seriously, give it a try. I know lots of couples who share time together by playing this game. All of them are people whom I've met via the game.

It has a fanciful story line with entertaining quests, animated spells that are fun to watch, card strategy, crafting, gardening, pet hatching (pets have genomes, getting half of their traits from each parent), and various types of housing that can be furnished and a number of different themed worlds to explore.

I love this game, and I've made friends on it that I look forward to seeing/hanging with. Now if I could just get my family to give it a try... :)

Be sure to register with an adult age though. It's one of the requirements for turning on open chat. Believe me, being limited to filtered chat and menu chat will be a pain.

Comment advice from the fingers of a geezerette (Score 1) 248

In cases like you cited, you may tell them, but if they're not getting it, you make your case by writing it out - all the problems with the request, in detail, covering what and why and even how, if you can manage it. And then you email it to them.

Lots of people don't really hear all that they should when others talk and everyone's recall is almost always faulty. If you give someone something that they can read over and consider at their leisure however.... I've found that its fairly easy to make a convert of almost anybody this way, as long as my reasoning is sound and they don't have some overriding goal or agenda which I'm ignorant about.

Comment Re:One Note? (Score 1) 217

Oh man, I am a HUGE fan of OneNote...

In addition to text, video, images, urls, content from urls, OneNote also lets you embed audio and any other files you might want, even executables.

It has ink features so you can write long hand if you're using a tablet, then later "lasso" the script and convert it into text using the builtin OCR. You can also draw on a page using your tablet. Pages can be as long and as wide as you want, and will automatically vary in size in concert with what's on the particular page.

Moving things around is easy whether within a page or between books. It creates a sort of textbox of grouped content for dragging around to a difference place. The organizational structure is "books" containing "sections" containing "pages" and you can even have "sub-Pages" if you really want.

You can make your own templates for different kinds of pages (note taking, analysis, experiment, for example) and everything (excluding the embedded files) is instantly full text searchable. Everything you place on any page, including audio files, becomes fully searchable.

The one downside is that it won't, as far as I can tell, incorporate other types of embedded files into its search index. Sure it will make the file's metadata (like name) available within search, but not the file's contents.

Submission + - There's a tricorder in my future!

jess_wundring writes: Remember the StarTrek tricorder, that did on the spot analysis of atmosphere and strange organisms planet-side, diagnosed diseases in sick bay, and checked for poisoned food when dining at a foe's table? Hey, it's REALITY now. At U of IL, they've put together an app (and a $200 cradle) that turns your smartphone into a high-end spectrophotometer.

http://www.news-gazette.com/news/local/2013-05-28/phones-could-become-diagnostic-tools.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kh7MUjIYuyw

Comment Re:If you're going to read that, read this as well (Score 1) 153

>> In many areas the difference between top end of "amateur" and "professional" is not talent or the quality of the work itself. It's being able to correctly estimate the difficulty and time of any job; of executing on time, on budget, always.

I am SO crestfallen. I just found out I'm still an amateur, even after >30 years of what I thought was success in IT.

Comment Chicken Feed (Score 1) 69

In the US, 18M Euro (23M US) is a governmental rounding error.

I mean, heck, that's not even a third of what it costs to send our president to Africa for the week.

And yet, OTOH, I can't even imagine what 100GBS would feel like. The best I can get in my neck of these American woods is 4MBS, and keeping it costs a little over $120/month, with taxes.

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