anysia: (Dark Moon Goddess)
I have been using/wearing a Samsung Gear2 smart watch. It worked great, only needing charging every three to four days, and the version of Samsung health could measure pulse, blood oxygen and a few other things.

Along comes update on phone. Now Gear2 doesn't work, not because of hardware, but because of software. The new Samsung Health does a 'check version' on the watch, and blocks it from connecting. I email Samsung about why they're using software to block the watch. They said internet security reason. What? The watch didn't connect to the internet, just phone. I called bullshit, and pretty much told them so, but in polite language. They replied with a snarky comment about watch being 'obsolete'. THEN WHY THE F**K IS IS LISTED IN THE ACCESSORIES!

(deep breath)

Samsung suggest I get one their new smart watches, as the prices of $399 to $499. Uhh, no. I told them I don't buy items that have deliberate obsolescence built it, as you can't change the battery if it stops charging.

Dilemma: What to do.

Solution: Either buy one of my old model smart watch, that had has different OS flashed on it, and can be used with the OS makers own health software, or go in search of an 'old' model that is still compatible with the new phone.

I chose option two. at 1/4 the price of the new ones. I miss a great many features and abilities I had on my old watch. Like being able to choose a photo background AND what display of watch. Can't do that, so picked the least eye-bending color.

The only good thing I have found so far, it's great at reminding me to get up and walk around.
anysia: (South Park - Mellow)
I keep getting adverts from Adobe, and other companies to take part in 'cloud computing'.

No.

if I need to share digital content (images, sound files, video clips, documents) with someone, I will send it via email, a large file server, or physically carry it on a thumb drive. Yes, I hear of how secure these offsite cloud servers are... we've also hear how secure other sites are, only to hear they've been hacked.

So, no, I'll keep my data here, and give "Cloud Computing" a wide berth.
anysia: (Silver dragon)
I have to admit, I have become a hdd storage hoarder. I don't mean I keep each and every file or program I have ever made or installed. I mean getting larger hard drives to make images of the systems, and for storage of installation files, video files, photographs etc. I guess it has to do with having once had a complete loss of data because of a hard drive failure.

Burning things to DVDs helps to get a new system with the OS already installed up and running in about 10 hours total set up, but rebuilding data, trying to remember what the BLEEP you had installed after a system crash..... too much stress, thankyousoverymuch.
anysia: (Sign of the times)
My e280 showed up, and it turns out it's v1 not v2, so not compatible for Audible audio books. It, and also the Sansa View, has the same problem with excruciatingly slow scanning. Luckily for me, someone who liked the hardware and had the ability made installable software with a great GUI for the e2xx v1 series that cured it. Press forward for a few seconds, and it scans slowly ahead. Keep pressing and it zips right along. No more getting almost to the end of a 14 hr mp3 ebook, only instead of turning the volume up, accidentally going back to the beginning of the sound file.
anysia: (Sca Anysia)
I despise it. And because of that, I sent an email off to SanDisk about one of their products; the Sansa View. It's a wonderful MP3/WMV/MP4 player, easy controls, great sound, and clear bright screen.

It's fatal flaw is this: not learning from the mistake of the earlier iPods, it doesn't have a replaceable battery. So when the battery no longer holds a charge, it's to be chucked into the trash. This kind of thinking, this deliberate making of disposable tech, is why landfills are chock full, and why people have the 'toss it' mentality. I told them that the earlier version of this unit, which I have managed to secure, although it has a smaller screen, has the same storage capacity, same clear screen, but is equipped with a replaceable battery, and that maybe they should rethink their throwaway mentality.
anysia: (Scrying)
The first laser
Charles H. Townes
from A Century of Nature: Twenty-One Discoveries that Changed Science and the World
Laura Garwin and Tim Lincoln, editors


When the first working laser was reported in 1960, it was described as "a solution looking for a problem." But before long the laser's distinctive qualities—its ability to generate an intense, very narrow beam of light of a single wavelength—were being harnessed for science, technology and medicine. Today, lasers are everywhere: from research laboratories at the cutting edge of quantum physics to medical clinics, supermarket checkouts and the telephone network.

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