I figured out I was looking on the wrong floor of a parking garage that way once. I was very nearly convinced it had been stolen.
When you look back at this, in the three seconds it'll take you to turn to dust, I think you'll find the mistake was touching my stuff.
Buffy ,'Lessons'
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brenda m - Mar 14, 2012 8:42:53 am PDT #19652 of 25501
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
-t - Mar 14, 2012 8:45:38 am PDT #19653 of 25501
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Heh, don't have a keychain fob. Looks like Parking Genie just drops a pin onto Google Maps, its only advantage over just doing that directly is that it stores parking locations in one spot. Eh.
And it appears that most of the other apps I thought I had were WebOS.
§ ita § - Mar 14, 2012 9:19:49 am PDT #19654 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
How can you tell which floor you're on with GPS?
tommyrot - Mar 14, 2012 9:26:26 am PDT #19655 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
GPS can return altitude info as well, assuming you have GPS reception in a parking garage. But I don't ever recall seeing altitude info displayed in a consumer GPS device, except maybe those for hiking.
§ ita § - Mar 14, 2012 9:35:04 am PDT #19656 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Locale support told me they couldn't tell me which floor I was on, ground vs. 11, so I wondered how it would work in a parking garage.
Liese S. - Mar 14, 2012 9:36:33 am PDT #19657 of 25501
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Ha, our phone GPS once freaked out on us. We followed its directions and drove into an abandoned parking lot. It said, good job, well done, you are now on the interstate. We were all, uh... And we were! Just directly underneath the relevant ramp. We just couldn't tell because of the surrounding buildings. So we drove out, and around, completely confusing the GPS, and then were fine. It was pretty funny, though.
omnis_audis - Mar 14, 2012 11:12:58 am PDT #19658 of 25501
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
Ha, that's why I was so hesitant to get my Mom a GPS. "They get you were you are going, just not the way you would have chosen". I reminded her a million times, GPS doesn't know everything. I made her use it for her routine stuff for 2 weeks first. So she can get used to the cadence, and how it gives directions, and see it's screwey things like pointing you into a parking lot! Oh technology. Just when you think you have solved all problems, you find a bug.
§ ita § - Mar 14, 2012 11:21:30 am PDT #19659 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Just when you think you have solved all problems
Answer: never gonna happen, don't ever exhale on this one, nope.
My father has been labouring under this misconception for decades. He seems to think he's one explanation (from me) away from automating his entire life with...well, now it's a $500 laptop, and not the 8 year old desktop.
omnis_audis - Mar 14, 2012 11:33:06 am PDT #19660 of 25501
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
no matter how fancy the computer, there will always be PICNIC errors (Problem In Chair, Not In Computer)
tommyrot - Mar 14, 2012 11:40:27 am PDT #19661 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
OK, this has nothing to do with my iPhone.
If you had to scan many thousands of photos (all shapes and sizes) into a computer, how would you do it? Are there any flatbed scanners (or scanner software) that allows you to scan many pictures at once and save each to a separate file? Any self-feeding scanners that can handle many different photo sizes?
Who has the best software for recognizing faces and tagging photos appropriately?
Also, anyone have experience with a service that digitizes 8mm home movies and burns them to DVD or saves them as movie files?