JohnKenn
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Reality check...
Friends,
Nothing to do with software or anything relevant here. Mods may knee jerk shuffle this post off to some obscure location if not delete entirely.
Was obsessing over installing a point update for a delay unit. Big struggle and wondering what could be worse.
Saw a CNN picture of a refugee boat sinking and human beings drowning. If they survive, will at least have a few fragments of the wet clothes on their backs. Young kids and babies drowned outright.
Made my software tribulations insignificant in the bigger picture.
Feel helpless to do anything that will make a difference.
John
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bitflipper
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Re: Reality check...
2016/10/29 20:55:05
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I think that's quite relevant to software. And hardware, and music, and smartphones and technology in general.
I've never had any illusions about the importance of what I do for a living, even if my users sometimes act as if it's life-and-death.
P.S. The Coffee House isn't exactly an obscure location. You should visit it sometime. Many of us spend way too much time there.
 All else is in doubt, so this is the truth I cling to. My Stuff
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yorolpal
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Re: Reality check...
2016/10/29 21:41:33
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Right you are. Most of our trials and tribulations...even ones we consider monumental...are pathetically trivial compared to many, many folk's daily problems in trying to just "exist" from day to day the world over. There is no getting around that in so many ways we are nothing but a bunch of self-centered babies whining day in and day out about the most trivial of issues. That said...why do I still get clicks and pops after upgrading to Win 10???
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JohnKenn
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Re: Reality check...
2016/10/30 12:52:21
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Ol Pal,
Clicks and pops me too after win 10 upgrade, but found the problem and fixed it.
Seems the CPU was throttled back to 10% power by default, likely to save on heat but severely limits fire power.
The processors are made to handle a bigger load, so go into the power options and into the advanced settings. I set the computer from 10% to 50% on the max end and the static is gone. Had been blaming it on USB 2. I'd put a post on the hardware forum a month or so ago with a link to a small program that adds another control to the power settings to fine tune things further.
John
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yorolpal
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Re: Reality check...
2016/10/30 17:51:00
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Whee hoo!! I'll give that a try ol pal!!
That probably explains other problems regarding playback of large session as well.
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Ham N Egz
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Re: Reality check...
2016/10/31 09:42:55
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first world problems vs third world problems
I met a man with no feet........
Green Acres is the place to be I dont twitter, facebook, snapchat, instagram,linkedin,tumble,pinterest,flick, blah blah,lets have an old fashioned conversation!
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Fleer
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Re: Reality check...
2016/10/31 10:45:53
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Oops, sounded like the beginning of a joke. Sorry.
"We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl" (Wish You Were Here)
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jude77
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Re: Reality check...
2016/10/31 11:23:57
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☄ Helpfulby robbyk 2016/10/31 12:47:31
Johnkenn:
Heavy stuff there. I spent the last 40 years of my life as an ordained clergyman and licensed psychologist. I saw a lot of life and death and human suffering up close. There is a lot of pain out there. What always fascinated me was how often people seemed incapable of grasping the urgency of the great issues of life and, instead, focused on absolute trivia. It sounds like you have the ability to see what truly matters. It's blessing and a curse. Sometimes it's a hard thing having a heart. God bless ya.
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Fleer
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Re: Reality check...
2016/10/31 11:29:04
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☄ Helpfulby robbyk 2016/10/31 12:47:50
You have a point. Quite strange how most people are empathically affected by pain and disaster, yet don't act on it apart from sending money. The way I see it, we need a more interactive platform in real life, people helping out and supporting each other in dire times. Seems that should be the essence of community building.
"We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl" (Wish You Were Here)
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RSMCGUITAR
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Re: Reality check...
2016/10/31 18:08:08
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Most of these problems are the result of the American War Machine. After all they have to have war to employ all the people in all the gun and bomb factories. The middle east is the dumping ground for the military industrial complex.
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JohnKenn
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Re: Reality check...
2016/10/31 18:25:55
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☄ Helpfulby cclarry 2016/10/31 18:32:07
Unfortunately, you guys are probably correct.
To Jude, spent also decades in the ordained heathen clergy, too many countries to remember. Had to live in the worst cesspool hells of humanity and experience what the vast majority of humanity is going through. Did most of my training in "civilized" countries, US, Sweden, Germany and others. My first missionary post outside known civilization was in Africa. Thought India and the middle east had troubles from what I went through there.
Before flight to Gold Coast, the director asked if I could borrow some string. Did I have any plastic yogurt cups to bring. Was below my radar to understand the request until I got there.
We got it so good, it is a disgrace in the balance of what our blood related brothers and sisters are having to endure.
John
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cclarry
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Re: Reality check...
2016/10/31 18:35:23
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After my first trip to Mexico I had a new profound understanding
of what we take for granted every day. I had kids chasing me
all over wanting to sell me all kinds of things. I was with a group
of friends, and I was the only one who had on cowboy boots and
everyone else had on Tennis Shoes...so I had a boy chase me for
over an hour begging me to shine my shoes for quarter! After an
hour of his persistence, I turned to him and said...
"Here's a dollar...and you don't have to shine my shoes"
He was the HAPPIEST little boy I had EVER seen...
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