I'm an "Uber Cool Nerd God!" . . . at 58 years old...
I also got a 98% on the space test... what can I say...
Clicjk my award to take the test yourself...
Posted on 12/25/2007 5:28:49 AM PST by Kaslin
Interesting test...
My results:
good article.
I'm an "Uber Cool Nerd God!" . . . at 58 years old...
I also got a 98% on the space test... what can I say...
Clicjk my award to take the test yourself...
On the other hand, 75% of test takers were cooler than me... but they didn’t ask whether I used a Mac or owned an iPhone...
It is not that I can’t learn to use the functions, it is that I so rarely use one that I can’t remember how to when needed.
I have learned how to use the alarm clock feature on my cell phone, becuase it is accurate and the siren setting with wake the dead.
Freepmail me if you want my "Bagpipes Playing "Scotland The Brave" ringtone"!!!! I use it for my wife's ringtone. Once she called me when I was in a LIBRARY...ooops. People were too stunned to even say anything, as I slunk away.
My niece tells me, "You are such a GIRL with that thing, I am ashamed of you!"
It’s not that you want fewer features. It’s that you want features that are actually useful and that serve your interests rather than those of the computer company and whoever slipped them a couple bucks. I think they should be ashamed of themselves that after taking money from a customer, they don’t feel obliged to work in only his interests. Fiduciary freakin DUTY and all that. Oh well.
I want a product, a cell phone for example, that does what it is supposed to do; does it well, reliably and with minimum effort on my part.
I have the easiest, simplest mp3 player made. Super price, damn near idiot proof, almost nonexistent learning curve. The most difficult thing about it was finding it. No synchronizing baloney, no problem with bad (or no) ID3 tags. No software needed - if you can drag files in windows explorer you can use it. After owning mine for a year I bought one for my wife. I think it was the 5th different one she has owned. She loves it.
It does two things and it does them easily & well. Data storage/transfer and plays audio files, with 20 gigs of storage. It doesn’t play video, take pictures or stroke you.
I wish many of the other devices I use fitted their niche as properly.
Uber Cool Nerd Here
Does seem hard to imagine, doesn't it!
The fact that you still have a child of yours in the house is a sign that you are still young.
Let me share one with you. Recently, I needed to access a database that I use only rarely. I discovered I had forgotten my password. I called the help desk and explained the problem. They changed the password and gave me a new one. They told me the password they gave me would only allow me to enter the data base where I would find a prompt to change the password again. I was advised to be sure and not change it to my old password. I asked: “So I need to be sure and not change it to the password I forgot?” I was told: “Yes, don’t change it to that one.”
You can access the UNIX operating system in Mac OS X by using the Terminal utility. The Terminal utility is in the Utilities folder in the Applications folder.That's from Leopard's "Finder" help which I found by searching for "terminal" in help. Your mileage probably does not vary on an older version of OSX.
You can access the UNIX operating system in Mac OS X by using the Terminal utility. The Terminal utility is in the Utilities folder in the Applications folder.That's from clicking on the desktop to get to Finder, selecting Help, then searching for 'terminal'. I am using Leopard, OSX 10.5.1, but I think that was the same on older versions of OSX.
I'm pretty good with my computer too, and I do reply to text msgs with my phone, even send/receive/save pics for d/l to my computer.
FIVE remote controls for an "entertainment center" is ridiculous. If a guy wants to get rich, he'd figure out how to run all the pieces through ONE remote that is actually usable.
Dr. Sowell gets a rare "swing and a miss" here.
"Portrait" and "landscape" are old words. Has to do with paintings. Like art and stuff. Portraits, like people's heads go up and down. Landscapes, like painting a picture of a field, goes the other way.
Not new words. Not invented by computer and printer people.
hahah...I’m usually pretty tech savvy...except for one object....I inadvertently changed a setting on my alarm clock and I cannot figure out how to return it to radio wake mode...I know I should look the instructions up on line...but it’s irritating that I can’t just fiddle with it. It’s probably some idiotic function sequence like push this button twice and then some other button...arghhh
We keep the GoVideo around because I make a lot of home videos, and it's just so much faster to output a video to digital tape, then copy to a DVD. Waiting for compression on the computer to crank out a 20 minute video makes me crazy.
The TV has to be set on channel 4. The GoVideo on channel 3. Don't even get me started on having to use the new DVD player ... then we have to switch input sources, switch surround channels, etc.
I know I could probably simplify somewhere, but I have this all memorized now and everything works.
But I still can't do a video capture on my computer. What am I missing?
We have had cell phones in our family for, what, 10-12 years now? Anyway, Mr. RightField *STILL* sweetly says, "How do I get my messages off this thing?" Each time he gets a message, it's like the very first time. Bless him. Just yesterday, on his fairly new LG phone, when he tried to get a message, he ended up setting the alarm clock for 4:31AM.... which of course, we didn't know he had done until 4:31 THIS MORNING .... sigh.
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