There are times when I shouldn't tell people "I'm in computers"
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Some friends have just spent two weeks in their static caravan in Tenby (a sea-side town in Wales) and they came round tonight to catch up. All good fun until...it turns out he dropped his phone in the sea while loading the boat, can I get his pictures back for him? Well, I'll try - where's the phone? At the bottom of Tenby harbour. :doh:
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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And a second app to run the first automatically for when you forget! :laugh:
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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And a second app to run the first automatically for when you forget! :laugh:
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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It could be done! Use location services to determine when you've entered a "tourist trap". And if we can remove red-eye, I'm sure an OS-level "nipple notification" wouldn't be too hard to add to the photo app!
Is it too late to volunteer for the job of app testing monitor?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Some friends have just spent two weeks in their static caravan in Tenby (a sea-side town in Wales) and they came round tonight to catch up. All good fun until...it turns out he dropped his phone in the sea while loading the boat, can I get his pictures back for him? Well, I'll try - where's the phone? At the bottom of Tenby harbour. :doh:
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
You got off easy... imagine if he'd been able to retrieve it...
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Low those many years ago people could not understand why I could not upgrade their $5K computer to run windows. I have shown one of my friends copy and paste 3 times and he will ask again and again say that it is brand new to him. He has a masters degree from an accredited university. I think I'm going to start telling people I am a file clerk.
One of my friends knows someone who can't remember how to load Word from one day to the next, and had to call him every day until he finally hit on making a large JPEG which was a list of instructions of what to do, and making that the screen background on the guy's computer. I pointed out that it wouldn't have taken much more time to set the guy's feet into a block of concrete and dump him into the ocean... after all, it's not as though anyone would miss him... but apparently, that sort of comment was uncalled-for, and don't I have any empathy? Hmmm... apparently not...
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Some friends have just spent two weeks in their static caravan in Tenby (a sea-side town in Wales) and they came round tonight to catch up. All good fun until...it turns out he dropped his phone in the sea while loading the boat, can I get his pictures back for him? Well, I'll try - where's the phone? At the bottom of Tenby harbour. :doh:
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
Know how you feel on this one.. Friend: So what do you do for a living? Me: R&D Software engineer Friend: Awesome. You are good with computers! My computer is complaining about the hard-drive and makes weird noises when I try to turn it on. But no problem you can get all of my files right? Thinking to myself: Ok.. In reality if the hard-drive isn't completely dead I probably could get the files if I used up the last of what little free time I have to work on your computer for free.... Sarcasm: "I should totally do this!!" Then if you say no they get mad at you or offended.
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Some friends have just spent two weeks in their static caravan in Tenby (a sea-side town in Wales) and they came round tonight to catch up. All good fun until...it turns out he dropped his phone in the sea while loading the boat, can I get his pictures back for him? Well, I'll try - where's the phone? At the bottom of Tenby harbour. :doh:
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
Hopefully Tenby is still there, and still gets enough daylight for photos.
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Some friends have just spent two weeks in their static caravan in Tenby (a sea-side town in Wales) and they came round tonight to catch up. All good fun until...it turns out he dropped his phone in the sea while loading the boat, can I get his pictures back for him? Well, I'll try - where's the phone? At the bottom of Tenby harbour. :doh:
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
Sure, that happens to us guys in tech a lot! But it's not limited to tech: I witnessed a situation where a lady walked in a shop and told the poor guy something like "I have an old black-and-white copy of a magazine page, could you please make a colored copy for me ?"... :omg: Just like with your phone issue, it's not technically impossible - only VERY expensive. You can hire a boat and a diver to recover the phone, and the shop guy could use Photoshop to color the copy! :-D
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice, but not in practice. - Anonymous A computer is a stupid machine with the ability to do incredibly smart things, while computer programmers are smart people with the ability to do incredibly stupid things. They are, in short, a perfect match. - B. Bryson
