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Insert the pen backwards and shit breaks.
Galaxy Note 5 design flaw: A backwards S-Pen can permanently damage the device [Updated]
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Samsung's new auto-ejecting S-Pen slot design doesn't seem to be that robust.
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All they had to do to fix the problem was to make the end of the pen that should be on the outside too wide to fit into the inside. That'll be $1000.
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There are 10 gazillion ways of fixing this problem, samsung employed none of them.
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No time to fix - rollout deadline, blah, blah, blah.
This is yet another way hardware starts to emulate software.
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Typical Samsung, nothing new.
/offtop
But I might finally break out of there soon
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Stupid users, who would put the pen backwards?
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One could say they're ... Doing It Wrong™!
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The best part is Samsung's response:
We highly recommend our Galaxy Note 5 users follow the instructions in the user guide to ensure they do not experience such an unexpected scenario caused by reinserting the S-Pen in the other way around.
No, we don't include the user guide on the device or in the box. Why do you ask?
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This is yet another way hardware starts to emulate software.
Imagine if it started emulating Discourse
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Imagine if it started emulating Discourse
I fear that might be considered to be a step up for Samsung.
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I'm curious how many people actually use the pen. I barely ever did on my Note 2.
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I presume it's mostly a gimmick, outside of a few very vocal users, people do not seem to use them.
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I'm curious how many people actually use the pen.
Hardly ever use mine, as I've never had a writing recognition app worth a damn. Or even that would just record it as an image (leaving me to struggle with my own scrawl, but whatever). It'd be useful for a few apps like the Google search one that have some very small links close together, except they like to say “oh, you clicked on that, but there's this other link nearby that I think you ought to want to click instead because you must be fat-fingering!!!”
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That too. But that's not a tech
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@dkf said:
I've never had
ahand writingrecognition appworth a damn.FTFM
if i was less squeemish i would have made a good doctor.... not even pharmasists cna make out what my handwriting says!
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except they like to say “oh, you clicked on that, but there's this other link nearby that I think you ought to want to click instead because you must be fat-fingering!!!”
It's a relieve that Google doesn't click automatically for us. Yet.
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It's a relieve that Google doesn't click automatically for us. Yet.
Chrome pre-loads links, doesn't it?
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Chrome pre-loads links, doesn't it?
But it doesn't load the most interesting one of them when the current page is scrolled to its end (and it can be safely assumed the user has read to the end).
Again, yet.
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if i was less squeemish i would have made a good doctor..
My dad always told me that I would be either a doctor or illiterate based on my penmanship. Biology always seemed like too much memorization to be very interesting.
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Biology always seemed like too much memorization to be very interesting.
It depends on which bit of biology you're talking about. Some bits… yes, memorizing loads of stuff is the order of the day. Other parts are less irritating.
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I like to induce a nervous breakdown in my sat nav by deliberately going "off route" and then ignoring it's protests. There is, actually, a reason why I do this; but doing it for fun is.... more fun. Anyway, the quicker the sat nav comes up with an alternative route, the better I rate it.The longer it bleats on with "perform a U turn" and it's annoying variants, the quicker it's going to find itself hitch-hiking. Occasional it get its own back when I genuinely have to go off route because the road ahead is blocked: I want an alternative route, it tries to get me back to "where I was". It's almost as if...
By now you should be saying ,quite loudly,
has all this got to do with this topic.Well, I just wondered if @accalia treats her browser spell checker in the same causal / abusive manner?
Again, I hear, "yeah, so?
has that got to do with @accalia post?Well, it occurred to me that @accalia could try being a faith healer. It solves both the identified issues, satisfies a desire or need (from several perspectives) and If I had poked under the wrong stone with the wrong type of stick, I could try and save my life by saying "sorry, it was a very poor attempt at a poor joke". An admission that could not be left hanging there just like that.
and becuase you buggers know I want to leave everybody hanging until somebody asks, and you all won't ask because... well it's more fun that way
I would say "The faith that the patients have that the pharmacist did read correctly"
Which is what I wanted to say from the start, but I wanted to be "nice" about it and the (evil)Train of Though Method has yet to prove itself a successful technique and, besides, it's (eToT™) too long winded.
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I was just starting to wonder if your train of thought has a caboose…
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Well, I just wondered if @accalia treats her browser spell checker in the same causal / abusive manner?
what browser spelll chekcer?
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I was just starting to wonder if your train of thought has a caboose…
or even a set of tracks to run on?
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eventually, and sometimes not even then
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well, somewhat... i think it would be acceptable to limit the set of routes to those that do not include careening off cliffs and into canyons
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Yes, it would be good to avoid them, and the "all stops" routes. But occasionally you end up somewhere nice that you would never have visited
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well.... yes. there is that.
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@boomzilla said:
Biology always seemed like too much memorization to be very interesting.
It depends on which bit of biology you're talking about. Some bits… yes, memorizing loads of stuff is the order of the day. Other parts are less irritating.
I never went beyond high school biology. I mean, I find reading about biological stuff interesting, but not to the detail of a college level course, let alone medical school.
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medical school
That's one of the most memorization-ridden parts. Systems biology is much more fun.
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I never went beyond high school biology. I mean, I find reading about biological stuff interesting, but not to the detail of a college level course, let alone medical school.
I got thoroughly turned-off to biology in elementary school, where it seemed like every Science class for six years straight never talked about any aspect of science other than what cells are and how they work. (Not quite true, but much too close.) I took Chemistry and Physics, instead, in high school, and got through college with only a lecture-only Intro to Zoology, or some such, to meet the Life Science general-ed requirement. In theory, my Natural History of the Sierra Nevada class should have counted, but I never actually tried to see if my uni would accept the transfer credit.
if i was less squeemish
I got through high school and college without having to dissect anything. College, I went out of my way (a little) to make that happen. I don't even like cutting up a whole chicken from the grocery store.
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You know, I have the same problem when I try to insert my USB cord backwards. I loose a lot of phones that way...
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not even pharmasists cna make out what my handwriting says!
Does that have to do with your handwriting or your spellaring?
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BOTH!
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