As Willow goes, so goes my nation.

Oz ,'Selfless'


Natter 70: Hookers and Blow  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Dana - Sep 23, 2012 10:26:30 am PDT #23125 of 30001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

I am, um, "getting" the game. As insane as it is.


Dana - Sep 23, 2012 10:28:40 am PDT #23126 of 30001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

Son of a bitch! Maybe I need to stop talking about this game. They were doing fine until I posted.


-t - Sep 23, 2012 10:34:15 am PDT #23127 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

4th q will fix everything.

She says with no basis whatsoever.


Strix - Sep 23, 2012 10:53:22 am PDT #23128 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

Consuela, on my Android Swype, it lets me easily and quickly add words to the dictionary. Like "cocksucker" and "BWAH" And then when you start Swyping, you get a little bar with suggestions and just press your correct word and bob's yu=our uncle.

I ADORE Swype.


§ ita § - Sep 23, 2012 11:03:07 am PDT #23129 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I've been using it for nearly two years and doesn't seem to be learning much at all. Very annoying.

I don't think it learns either, which would be the greatest leap ahead for it, IMO. However, it works really well for my input style, so it's not a big handicap for me, but rather an occasional irritation that it doesn't know *that* yet, whatever this week's *that* is. During the time when I couldn't get Swype on my phone I used...SwiftKey which relies heavily on learning and predictive text, and that also worked pretty well for me... if it could have babies with Swype, I might throw my keyboards away. And, apparently, if it reads your FB and Gmail, it gets even better...so not the best partner for me, but even without that, interestingly fast.

Someone in Tech tried it and didn't like it--I remembered the alternative word suggestion functionality being criticised, for one. But I only used it a week.

My sister tossed Swype ASAP. She said it made her want to stab things. Tapping a touchscreen does that to me.

Consuela, on my Android Swype, it lets me easily and quickly add words to the dictionary

But that doesn't cover picking between two valid words. It doesn't seem to work out that *this* is how you enter "they're" and this is what swyping "there" looks like. For you.


-t - Sep 23, 2012 11:07:11 am PDT #23130 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Or maybe I should stop talking about football. Jeesh.


Consuela - Sep 23, 2012 11:09:28 am PDT #23131 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

But that doesn't cover picking between two valid words. It doesn't seem to work out that *this* is how you enter "they're" and this is what swyping "there" looks like. For you.

Exactly, yes.


Dana - Sep 23, 2012 11:11:43 am PDT #23132 of 30001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

Any of the math peeps around? -t, you're usually pretty good at this. (Football? What football?)

The problem is:

Solve for h: 2A-hb1=hb2

Augh, coding. The 1 and the 2 are subscript.


Amy - Sep 23, 2012 11:15:17 am PDT #23133 of 30001
Because books.

My sister tossed Swype ASAP.

I hate it. I don't get it, and I sometimes turn it on accidentally and panic. Do not like.


billytea - Sep 23, 2012 11:18:28 am PDT #23134 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

h = 2A / (b1 + b2).