R_Edward

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by R_Edward 14y ago
As I was reading, I was impressed with how narrow the line is between "alarming" and "nuttier'n squirrel poo."
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by R_Edward 14y ago
I'd like to know where you're finding a pager that runs for months on a single AAA. My pager takes a AA battery, and it has to be replaced roughly monthly. Why, yes, I do work in Healthcare IS, why do you ask?
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by R_Edward 14y ago
Sounds more like training the parents.
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by R_Edward 14y ago
Good on ya, mate. Not only issuing an apology, but taking positive steps to make things right. If only more people had that strength of character. Now if I could just get you to reconsider releasing GasCubby for Android... :)
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by R_Edward 14y ago
Not exactly kitchen-free, is it? You've got to have food storage areas, produce washing stations, produce prep stations, garbage disposal, and even if the actual grinding, cooking, and sandwich assembly functions are all contained within t
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by R_Edward 14y ago
One of the neat things about storytelling, in the verbal sense, is that, when done well, it's not just repetition of words. There are inflections, emphasis, physical gesture, posture, facial expressions, and a plethora of other nonverbal f
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by R_Edward 14y ago
Not writing; speaking. Now it's not as if I deliberately employ sesquipedalian graphology for the express purpose of obfuscation. But I've spent a lifetime developing a rich, meaty vocabulary, and I'll be damned if I'm going to talk like a
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by R_Edward 14y ago
Try for example to reduce the number adjectives or complicated nouns in a presentation or article and exchange them with more simple, yet heartfelt language. But... what if one has developed a rich vocabulary, and truly does feel those mo
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by R_Edward 14y ago
Yes, greed is deeply embedded. But it rests on a bedrock of stupidity and incompetence. And even the dullest of greedy bastiges can figure out that if Money = Good, then pissing off the people who have it, and who, until you pissed them o
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by R_Edward 14y ago
Occam would probably disagree with you. Absent evidence of malevolent intent, I'd chalk this up to a mediocre designer who didn't ask enough questions of himself or his subject matter experts.
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by R_Edward 14y ago
Well done. Attractive, useful, succinct. Bookmarked!
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by R_Edward 14y ago
Not exactly a game that makes you want to keep trying, is it?
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by R_Edward 14y ago
For a kilobuck a month, you can buy a 4-bedroom, 2-story, single-family house on a half acre in a lovely suburb of Minneapolis. Of course, you'll also have to buy a down parka, a car to get you to work, a snowblower, a lawnmower, gas for t
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by R_Edward 14y ago
Central vac, with shared hose and power head. Make it so, Numba One.
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by R_Edward 14y ago
Excellent lessons! Anyone who has to give a presentation could stand to take them to heart. Unfortunately, most of us don't learn nearly as well from each other as we do from Professor Experience. My most important lessons were 1) never a
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by R_Edward 14y ago
How long until I can get my hands on that and load it in my Transformer Prime?
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by R_Edward 14y ago
You're right, it sounds great--but it's darned hard for the average singer to nail it. In any case, I'd still consider your example to be an exception to the general rule, while the augmented second is used so often that I have to believe
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by R_Edward 14y ago
OK, I can understand never including a leap of an augmented fourth in a single voice. That's just cruel to your singers. But an augmented second? As in a minor third? As in the first two notes of Greensleeves? or Misty? Whyever not?
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by R_Edward 14y ago
I'd hate to see icons disappear in favor of textual labels. Then my phone's app drawer would just be a page of words, which would blend themselves into a giant morass of meaningless letters, making it difficult indeed to find the app I'm s
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by R_Edward 14y ago
This is quite sensible; if my manager is leaning over my desk asking for that TPS report, I'm more likely to drop what I'm doing and give it to him than if he's asking from 20 miles away. In the latter case, I can tell him I'll e-mail it t
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by R_Edward 14y ago
Star Trek: TOS did it. Except after identifying which people were killed in the virtual attacks, those individuals were contacted and ordered to report to the collateralization center for the official results of the attacks to be consummat
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by R_Edward 14y ago
After losing all the data on a 4GB USB stick when it simply decided it was time to bite the bag, I have become more anxious about using an SSD as the boot and system drive in my home desktop machine. When I installed Win7, I relocated User
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by R_Edward 14y ago
Well, that's certainly disturbing. Arrested for burning a paper poppy. I always thought Great Britain was rather more progressive than us colonials.
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by R_Edward 14y ago
I used to text and drive all the time, and scorned the laws that said I mustn't. I've never caused an accident, never strayed out of my lane, or even close to the edge, never slowed way down, never changed lanes nor turned without appropri
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by R_Edward 14y ago
Indeed, most people don't move. I won't be able to put my finger on it now, but several years ago, I read a statistic that a huge percentage of people are born, live, and die within a 20 to 30 mile radius. College attendance, military s
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by R_Edward 14y ago
I was thinking removable battery so you could have a couple spares and keep flying while another is charging, but now I'm thinking you might actually want that downtime while the fixed battery recharges, so the motors can cool down a bit.
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by R_Edward 14y ago
Saw John demo one of these a couple weeks ago at my FIRST Robotics club. Cool product, but man, I wish the battery lasted longer than 10 minutes per charge. Also, it would be amazing if the IR dogfighting system included lasers to paint w
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by R_Edward 14y ago
Dammit, Jim, I'm a programmer, not a power engineer! So I'm just wondering whether harnessing tidal power will diminish that power over time, with results that might make global warming look like a church picnic by comparison. Conservatio
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by R_Edward 14y ago
There's calling anonymously, and there's intentional misrepresentation. I wouldn't mind retaining the ability to set your outgoing caller-id to Anonymous, or Name Withheld, or something like that. But I don't think Joe's Sweatshop should
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by R_Edward 14y ago
Great letter exposing the toxic level of administratium in the air in NC public schools, but I think it would have been better to have left out the financial paragraph. The author presumably knew what the pay scale was before he accepted t

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