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Moms and people who don't need to check facebook 20 times an hour turn their phones off so they can work uninterrupted. It turns out that they don't miss out much if you have to wait to share the latest cat picture off the internet. They keep a cat for that. They get their news curated at 6 pm, and it's still fresh, even though you heard about it at 13:46. They exchange long letters (perhaps by email), rather than 140-character tweets.
It's naive, as well as insensitive, to expect all people to take up the same technology you do and use it in the same way. That doesn't make them "moms".
You need to give your mom an actual reason to have their phone on. Baby pictures will usually do the trick, if you're motivated enough to help them adopt the technology. Baby pictures can turn even grandma into a technology adopter.
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"Being a Dung Beetle looks like S**t job", Quote from my Mum!  while a BBC nature prog was on featuring David Atenborough, while reading a book...
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Ah! That'll be that new-fangled, excremental TV that the BBC is so proud of then?
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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It'll probably lose me a lot of man points but I saw this[^] on Virtually Famous[^] this week and for all its kitsch it's one mighty amateur performance (the professional's a lot better than I thought too!) Respect!
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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Wherever that voice comes from (is it "live," or lip-synch ?), it's quite beautiful. Not my type of music, but, as someone who once really enjoyed singing ... before oral cancer cancelled my karaoke career  ... I really can appreciate the technique.
cheers, Bill
«In art as in science there is no delight without the detail ... Let me repeat that unless these are thoroughly understood and remembered, all “general ideas” (so easily acquired, so profitably resold) must necessarily remain but worn passports allowing their bearers short cuts from one area of ignorance to another.» Vladimir Nabokov, commentary on translation of “Eugene Onegin.”
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BillWoodruff wrote: is it "live," or lip-synch ?
It's live using a karaoke video set up to allow anyone to duet with Jessie J and post the results. There are a lot of far less successful 'collaborations' using the same video to be found on You Tube!
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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Your man card has been revoked hand it to the guy Sander had to give his Geek card too!
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glennPattonBackInThePUB wrote: Sander had to give his Geek card too!
Got it back for being an awesome programmer and for doing some Arduino stuff 
And I NEVER EVER EVER had my MAN card revoked! 
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Ha ha! 
Jeremy Falcon
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Mad skills for sure. This dude can sing!!! And yes, it sounds live and legit.
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He's got talent. You have to respect that, but he should go ahead and get the operation done and make the complete transition to female.
Jeremy Falcon
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Hi All,
The last Win 10 update did several things it knifed my PC making it stop and reboot several times, I winged about this before. The other odd thing it does is it gets OneDrive to start up, something I have never used. I have tried to use Cortana to tell me where the start up menu is with out luck. Anybody any ideas on how to stop OneDrive at start up... Well it seems to be right on notification bar, click select the check box...
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My Google Foo is working (!!) I found how to stop it, strangly like every other version of Windows  , But thanks! I found the same link, now I have stopped it I ask myself is it worth removing or is likely to break some thing else??
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glennPattonBackInThePUB wrote: is it worth removing or is likely to break some thing else??
Yes, you should remove Win10 because it will break something else (a new surprise in every update!). It's totally worth it to remove it 
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I would have Win 7 Pro if I could on this machine, it came with 8.0 so Win 10 is better (still gives the  moment, I have not had since I swapped Amiga WorkBench for 95 back in the day...)
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OneDrive gives you access to 15GB storage in the cloud for free. I find it quite useful. It is my first use of cloud storage, and I am starting to appreciate it!
How do we preserve the wisdom men will need,
when their violent passions are spent?
- The Lost Horizon
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Cornelius Henning wrote: I am starting to appreciate it
We too. Your data is very valuable for us...
The Microsoft OneDrive Team...
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 am paranoid about my data, but not THAT paranoid. Anyway, I don't save sensitive data, such as passwords or financial stuff, in the cloud. That would be stupid. 
How do we preserve the wisdom men will need,
when their violent passions are spent?
- The Lost Horizon
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Will look into it I use Drop Box at the moment for nonsensitive things...Just thought the log in now signs would panic my Mum...
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I don't think other people can get to your stuff in the OneDrive cloud as easily as they can get to it in DropBox. From my limited understanding, I believe OneDrive is targeted to more secure personal storage than you have on DropBox, and possibly to synch data on your different personal devices.
I don't think it's going to be a direct replacement for DropBox. However, I am very new to OneDrive, and my understanding may not be 100% correct.
How do we preserve the wisdom men will need,
when their violent passions are spent?
- The Lost Horizon
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Cornelius Henning wrote: OneDrive gives you access to 15GB storage in the cloud for free.
Nothing's ever completely free. The cost is just hidden somewhere you would never have thought of before
I never finish anyth
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Actually, I believe you only get 5GB commercial free, but with 15GB you may see pop-up commercials at times, but so far I haven't seen any. Commercials may be coming down the pike soon!
If you don't want commercials, you can pay $1 or $2 per month for 50GB of storage. That won't break the bank, but at the moment I am enjoying 15GB free and commercial free. I don't really need more, but you know how it goes in the world of computers. Enough storage is never enough for very long!
How do we preserve the wisdom men will need,
when their violent passions are spent?
- The Lost Horizon
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Until MS decides to shrink your quota again.
And its been shrunk to 5GB unless you jumped through hoops a month or two ago;[^] and even then that's down from as much as 30GB free if you'd played opt in games with them before. As grudging as they were in backtracking to 15GB, I suspect at some point in the future they'll decide to elephant you over again and force you to pay to keep it.
For breaking the cardinal rule of cloud storage - Thou Shall not Shrink User Quotas - MS has made certain that I'll never use their cloud offerings because murphy's law gaurantees that the next time they'll decide to elephant their customers will be when I'm too busy with other stuff to deal with it. A handful of whale's taking advantage of an unlimited tier to store stupidly many TB of data is something that every other provider who offers unlimited storage has had to deal with; MS has no excuse for being caught by surprise on this; and even less of an excuse for not adjusting the price if needed so that the people paying for the convenience of unlimited without using crazy amounts earn enough to cover the handful of users with insane amounts of data.
Freaking out when customers at the free tier were actually using as much storage as offered is even more pathetic.
Elephant onedrive today. Elephant onedrive tomorrow. Elepant onedrive forever.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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... to rule them all? 
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