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Congratulations on what sounds like a new job you are really enthusiastic about !
And, since I am sure you are going to help aging members of CP, like this antique, purchase hearing assistance devices at a supernaturally substantial discount, I thank you in advance for your future gifts !
I had a Texan friend here in Thailand who was a certified Audiologist, and inventor, who was producing (by hand, one-at-a-time) some fantastic high-end in-ear speakers (ear-buds); last I heard of him he had joined-up with a Chinese outfit in Xian as CTO. I really enjoyed listening him talk about the nuances of sound, and human hearing, in contrast to other species' hearing, etc.
yours in tinnitus, Bill
«Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.» Benjamin Franklin
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New Job? Posting at CP?
You may just be repeating this part of your post very soon . . .
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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...our new house!
Closed on 12/30/15, just got cable installed. I was using Verizon DSL, which utterly sucked. I just test the Mid-Hudson cable connection, 26Mbps down, 3Mbps up.
Now, that's not great compared to what you city folks and fiber folks get, but it's more than 10 times faster than what I was getting with Verizon out here in the boonies. (The new house is also in the boonies, about 1/2 mile from where we currently live.)
Funny thing is, I was about to rework a website that I put together for a client that relies heavily on jqWidgets controls, because the pages load so slowly. Ironically, browsing the website here at the new home, it's incredibly fast. Good grief, I had no idea. So I'm pleased that that issue can be deferred, but deferred none-the-less because jqWidgets is really bloated, so I'd like to replace it with something more lightweight at some point.
Marc
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Congratulations on the new home
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Welcome to the 21st century!
BTW - We have awesome smart phones, great tablets and a choice of good OSes now. We're working on autonomous vehicles and re-usable rockets too. On the other hand... there are the Kardashians.
There are two types of people in this world: those that pronounce GIF with a soft G, and those who do not deserve to speak words, ever.
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I'm too living far from any cable based option...But the maximum speed we got is 15Mbps...Still good for CP
Best wishes to the new house
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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I'm about 8 or 10 miles from the nearest fibre-to-your-house town, but I am in a fibre-to-the-cabinet area - which means the half mile or so is copper. And I get 40Mbps down, 8 Mpbs up (instead of the 5 down, 1 up I got on "full copper").
If your site is moving significantly faster than it was on 2.5 down, then it needs serious fixing - because you can't control what your clients visitors are using, and it could be costing them money.
(This is one of the reasons I don't develop on state-of-the-art machines - if it works on mine, it'll be better in the "real world" where they do have SotA kit! )
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Gz on your new house!
Marc Clifton wrote: so I'd like to replace it with something more lightweight at some point. Ah, well the problem is the original client that consumes it; a "webbrowser" - replace that and you need not worry about jqWidgets
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Congrats on the new digs!
New version: WinHeist Version They all laugh at me because I'm different; I laugh at them because they're all the same. Kurt Cobain
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Congratulations, Marc,
May your (and yours) new house be full of light and laughter !
yours, Bill
«Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.» Benjamin Franklin
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Congratulations on the new house.
Only copper here. Only one wired provider and only live a few miles from a major city but off the main roads.
Mongo: Mongo only pawn... in game of life.
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Congrats!!
My long term goal is to live forever. So far, so good...
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Congrats!
Pics?
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Sound like the cable was the biggest improvement.
Tell us about the rest.
And congrats.
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Congratulations, was as close to a jealous icon I could find. I'd love to live in the boonies again, even for a few months.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Congrats!
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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May I get some recommendations on a simple and useful QR Code Reader App ?
The phone is the Sharp Aquos.
It's an Android.
A link to the app would be helpful.
I have already done THIS SEARCH[^] and THIS SEARCH[^]. SEO once again means, "Severely Exaggerated Obfuscation. I'm looking for...
- Simplicity of user interface
- Ease of execution on a trade show floor
- Simplicity of Download and install
- Cost (free is best, but not required)
In that order. Thanks
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What do you want it to do?
Barcode Scanner[^] is all I've ever needed on many Android phones.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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No, No, No, a thousand times no.
Upon installation, he reuqested access to my contacts (which are not needed for this use) and five or ten other resources which are not needed.
I then rejected that and chose instead "QR Code Reader" by TWMobile.
When I run that app, he puts ads on my phone screen, along with a "warning" that my phone is infected and needs to be "cleaned". I agree. The infection comes from the app by TWMobile. And needs to be cleaned.
I think the rapid answer to my concerns is that Freeware on an Android is as bad or worse than freeware for a windows desktop PC.
i.e., Freeware isn't free.
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Hey Chris !
Your next great website !
Phone app phoney reports !
Where victims like me can report crapware like I just put on my phone so that others won't get the same treatment.
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Kind of difficult for it to save a QR code that has contact information to your contacts if it doesn't have access to your contacts.
I believe it can also encode one of your contacts as a QR code so you can share it with someone.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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I'm using "QR Code Reader" for my car show web site.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
- You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
- When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Are you kicked out of maths class for one too many infractions?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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No, however, the multiple divisional minuses added to my already-long list of real instances in-variable-ly were factored into the equation of my being exponentially modeled against a less-than absolute value of bisectional planes of reality heavily bearing on the bounded sequence of alleged contrapositive outcomes cofactored to corollary differentiable yet discrete discontinuous functions otherwise refactoringly reduced to the lowest common denominator of several postulated probabilities.
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