The totally off-topic thread

[rogerkambah]

The heat is making it awful in Adelaide. Three days so far of 40+ and two more to come. A brief respite of 30 then back to 39 on Christmas Eve. Really dont need this right now.

I feel for you Pushka. Probably a couple of times a year i think it would be very nice to return to live in Adelaide, for the Hills, the Fleurieu peninsula, the Clare, Eden and Barossa Valleys etc, etc, but then i think of the summers. OK a/c can make them bearable but when the inevitable power outages occur, then..............

 

[RooFlyer]

Back to the weather.We are having a 4 day heat wave here on the north West coast of Tassie.health warnings are out.

Burnie Weather

Forecasts

Day	Min Temp	Max Temp	Chance of rain
Thursday	15.0°C	22.0°C	60%
Friday	16.0°C	23.0°C	30%
Saturday	15.0°C	25.0°C	80%
Sunday	15.0°C	25.0°C	90%
Monday	11.0°C	20.0°C	10%

Thank goodness I am leaving Saturday morning.

Make the most of it drron .. personally I wouldn't be making fun of such glorious weather (including the rain!!), when Adelaide is in the 40s and we all know Perth will be the same during the summer; Sydney just got demolished by a tornado and Brisbane .. well, Brisbane has the mud flats I suppose.

Christmas Day where I am is heading for mid-high 20s and fine. Perfect.

 

[anat0l]

Do most people these days communicate via their devices in mainly text-based means (e.g. SMS, instant messaging of various kinds, email), or still mainly voice-based means (phone call, voice messages, VoIP)?

I find myself mainly using text-based means. Of course, official communications with some immediacy or of a more formal manner (e.g. interviews) are exceptions. But I know some who will call or use VoIP services quite a lot and not so much texting. A friend of mine has Whatsapp, just like me, except she often sends lots of voice messages (i.e. recording voice on Whatsapp, which is then sent), whereas I prefer just to use it to text message.

 

[Simo]

Depends on the urgency of communication needed. My phone is probably 60% text and 40% voice. Exclusive of e mail and FB type stuff. I generally make between 500 to 700 calls a month and about 1000 texts a month but does vary. I have a weekly text to one group which is around 50 to 100 texts.

 

[Simo]

My phone bill generally comes in a A4 envelope

 

[JohnK]

The heat is making it awful in Adelaide. Three days so far of 40+ and two more to come. A brief respite of 30 then back to 39 on Christmas Eve. Really dont need this right now.

Hang in there. Winter will be back soon enough....

 

[Mal]

BA released an Android App update with inappropriate permissions requested (basically access to certain parts of history for the device). Much backlash on Google Play store, BA claimed mistake and re released App.

 

[RAM]

BA released an Android App update with inappropriate permissions requested (basically access to certain parts of history for the device). Much backlash on Google Play store, BA claimed mistake and re released App.

Of course they did.

Being a "check the details" person - I ALWAYS read every EULA that comes up on the screen before I click on the "Yes" for installation.

One of the biggest surprises (Ok in call-a-spade-a-spade moment - SHOCK) came when I read the change to the Aplle EULA around 2007/8.

It followed the normal legal practise of burying the real terms that matter approx 100-150 lines from the end.

IF you have ever read an Apple EULA rather than just agree immediately - have you ever made it all the way through or did you give up and concede that you'd give away your first born to get your new iPhone (or in 2007/8 iPod Touch) working?

The Apple EULA has several nasty 'NSA-like' stings in it. The most interesting is that you, the user, give Apple permission to examine whatever storage device you connect the Apple iPod, iPad, iPhone to. You permit them to use the information gained in any way they see fit and to pass it on to whoever they deem worthy of receiving it.

So between Google and Apple - you're known.

Did you notice around 2006 Google changed the way it goes to one of the links that come up on a search?

Previously you left the Google ecosystem and went immediately via the most direct route to the ip address of the item. Up until around 2006 you did have the choice of navigating via Google's own servers to get to the link.

Google used to say that their servers COULD be faster (than Microsoft even) and it allowed them to 'better personalise the adverts you receive to ENHANCE your user experience'. Now that choice has gone and it happens regardless of your wishes.

So of course BA made a mistake with its app. It is not as if the UK intelligence apparatus would want any information...

 

[mrs.dr.ron]

Depends on the urgency of communication needed. My phone is probably 60% text and 40% voice. Exclusive of e mail and FB type stuff. I generally make between 500 to 700 calls a month and about 1000 texts a month but does vary. I have a weekly text to one group which is around 50 to 100 texts.

Holy Cow I am glad I don't pay your phone bill !! You can knock those 00 off your calls and texts and that is me ! :shock: :shock:
I generally make between 5 to 7 calls a month and maybe the same in texts

 

[RooFlyer]

Fresh garden raspberries on my cereal this morning

 

[stoneman]

Good grief why the confusion - just answer 4. Siamese / Conjoined Twins - cut and paste from Wikipedia and you'll bi in the pub enjoying a frothy whilst all other dudes sittin their scratchin their heads!

Just read this and nearly fell off my chair LMAO !!!!

 

[penegal]

drron make sure you wear your sunscreen on those heat wave days. You wouldn't want to grow a cancerous second head now...

 

[drron]

And I went to the trouble of getting a scar on my neck so that they would let me come back so often.
Another waste of money.

 

[erkpod]

Effectively on gardening leave because my medical clearance expired. Someone hasn't crossed the T's or dotted the lower case j's.

 

[Foreigner]

Fresh garden raspberries on my cereal this morning

Nice. I had fresh R2E2 today at breakfast

 

[JohnK]

Nice. I had fresh R2E2 today at breakfast

Mangoes? Any good?

 

[Foreigner]

Mangoes? Any good?

Sehr gut, truly. Australian, of course. Grown in Darwin probably.

 

[RooFlyer]

Sehr gut, truly. Australian, of course. Grown in Darwin probably.

I had a big mango tree in my back yard when I lived in Darwin. Serious bliss picking [-]one[/-] many then eating [-]it[/-] them in the pool, where the sticky mess was irrelevant.

Bloody bats, though.

 

[Foreigner]

I had a big mango tree in my back yard when I lived in Darwin. Serious bliss picking [-]one[/-] many then eating [-]it[/-] them in the pool, where the sticky mess was irrelevant.

Bloody bats, though.

The R2E2 trees apparently are quite short and the fruit is easy pick.

https://www.google.com.au/search?q=...J8uTJAhXGFqYKHetNBqsQ_AUIBygB&biw=360&bih=559

 

[mrs.dr.ron]

Nice. I had fresh R2E2 today at breakfast

I have a mango everyday too. I used to only eat Kensington but lately I have switched to Calypso - they are really good and don't bruise like Kensingtons do.