Apologies if this has been posted before, I did do a search but only found one post of someone being given a fitbit for Christmas
Anyone use fitbit here?
My wife recently decided we both needed to lose some weight and get fit and bought us a Fitbit Flex each. In terms of making me exercise it is doing the job as I feel I HAVE to get to my target of 10K steps and 5 miles every day.
I used to be quite active - taking part in Triathlon up to and including the IronMan distance on a regular basis but marriage and a young family curtailed an awful lot of that, then snapping my achilles tendon 18 months ago has put paid to any speedy return to anything more than a brisk walk.
Anyway, who else has a Fitbit?
Anyone fancy taking part in a an XDA workweek challenge?
Don't own a fitbit, or have any intention of being something similar, but would be interested in doing some exercise challenge to keep fit (I'm not fat but its good to stay active).
If you made it somethin like walk xxx km and do 10 pushups a day for a week, I would definitely join.
It's a good proposal however you decide to do it.
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Hello!
I left my night shift job last month and still don't have a job. I'm actively looking for a job, but even then I won't make it to my first pay at this pace.
Is there any way I could make a few bucks at least for gas in the meantime, just so I don't reach the negative balance?
hey sorry about that better times will come.. in the meantime I'll give you my advice and this one comes from personal experience(yes I've had a few rough times, who hasn't?)
Last time I was short on the "thing you use to buy potatoes"(sounds better in portuguese) aka money, I sold something(s) that I had and was not making use of, like my PSP for example. Broke my heart to let it go but you gotta do what you gotta do.
The point is, we always keep things we don't use anymore because we think "well I might be needing this some day" and probably will need that thing again but until then there are more important things one might need.
hope this helps
I have been out of work for 6 months...
are you handy around the house? why not post your talents online (painting, wallpapering, cleaning) on free classified postings...
I lost my job in february due to a work injury, and I was physically unable to do most work with out the use of my left arm. I have healed since then but stopped receiving disability pay in october. It has been 10 weeks and unemployment still has yet to come through and help me out.
I also have sold off things that were luxury items like my ATV and an engine I had built sitting around in my garage. A friend of mine supplements his unemployment doing odd jobs he finds off craigslist and I have helped people move and cut firewood for cash. Hoping the economy picks up locally so i can get back to work soon.
Good luck and look everywhere. Craigslist is a good place to start.
what response have you received from the unemployment office?
Have you gone to them?
If you have, did you show the letter stating when disability payments would start and/or end?
They may be waiting from a response from your previous employer...
I don't get unemployment cheques, but I'm getting a job internview this morning. Thankfully, I don't have many financial responsabilities (college student here), but I could use a few bucks just to close the gap 'till I get a job.
As for putting gas in my car... I got rear-ended yesterday, total loss, and 5 minutes later Staples calls for a job offer!
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I don't get unemployment cheques, but I'm getting a job internview this morning. Thankfully, I don't have many financial responsabilities (college student here), but I could use a few bucks just to close the gap 'till I get a job.
As for putting gas in my car... I got rear-ended yesterday, total loss, and 5 minutes later Staples calls for a job offer!
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CA-CHING!!!!!!!
I can already feel your neck stiffening up and a slight loss in feeling both of your pinky toes!!!
Not really, the car took it all so I'm feeling fine, but still. Now I have to get another car with what the insurance company judges my car is worth (360 000 km, but in better condition than anything that mileage).
Trouble likes company
N1c0_ds said:
Not really, the car took it all so I'm feeling fine, but still. Now I have to get another car with what the insurance company judges my car is worth (360 000 km, but in better condition than anything that mileage).
Trouble likes company
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There are lots of sites that pay you to fill in serveys, you only get a couple of dollars each but do 10 a day thats 20-30 dollars suppose lol
Just make sure that the company you represent isn't from Nigeria...
Dang it I hate this laggy keyboatd!!!
Is anyone else going?
It looks to be better this year than it was last year. I'm just happy that I'll finally get to see Alice Cooper perform (a)live.
I've been four different years, it gets worse each year. I have never paid to go, I work a few hours and get to play the rest. I'm liking the lineup this year, and I'd actually consider going (I didn't go last year), but my brother's graduation is the 9th, so no such luck.
Have fun, though!
I was looking into volunteering so I could get in free, but I just shook that off and gave them my money (maybe next year, if the lineup is as good). Friends wanted me to go last year, I didn't do that either. This will be my first year there (mainly for the good lineup). I hope it's good enough for me to want to return.
And thanks!
I didn't volunteer, I actually worked with a food vendor. My first year there we were actually on shakedown street, it was nuts.
Definitely have a good time, but remember to be safe. There's free water all around so keep yourself hydrated.
Last time I was there I ran into Jack Black at the Spicy Pie stand (great pizza, btw). He was strangely a very normal person.
Ahhh, gotcha.
My friends' band, Alabama Shakes, is playing up there, and I can't wait for it. And yeah, there will be plenty of water on my end and no drugs in the convoy. And I have all the camping equipment I'll ever need. I'm just extremely excited at this point.
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Ive come to realize that everything and everyone has value and can be bought in the market for higher than actual prices or bought, traded and many times stolen then sold on the black market. Many people has been designated as being valued at 7 one dollar bills and some change. Sadly I thought it was ridiculously low before I found out it wasn't the 8.50 in my mind. So with everything breaking just in time for the newest release and commericials making the guy with an old phone look like an outcast its no wonder antidepressants have many pharmaceutical companies counting their money, not because theyre worried about a bill or a kids lunch money but because its not.illegal for companies to rob and steal from people even though if one of us did what they do we are looking at 25 years easy behind bars. Yea, conning people out of their money and bank robbery are serious crimes unless you have Inc. Or Co. after your name. My reason for this is because the little flappy plug broke off on my.Samsung galaxy.s4 active after 2 months and now its not considered water resistant anymore. Not like it was anyways but now instead of replacing it they say its not covered because the usb cover isnt on there like I took it off so I could root it or something. So they can sell a defective item and when it defects it somehow legally puts them in a more financially sound place. Wow what a mission statement. Our motto here at [email protected] "If it was made more than 6 months ago and still works, we made it wrong." Now I.understand why a lot of items have inspectors initials or numbers on them. Cuz when they get all the defectives back they can see.whose are still on the street and get Donald Trump in there to say "you're fired," and they use his or her next check to give bonuses to defective unit inspectors for units going bad one day outside the 3 day warranty they legally had to issue.
What geniuses they are to promote blogs and such, just like this one here, so we can read and complain to each other and drop the number of would be complaints to there websites and call centers by an estimated 70%. Blog it up America. Letter from our government and Big biz>>>>>*
Dear internet, thank you so very very much. First we would like to say sorry for scaring you with internet shutdowns and what not. That was just to prove a point. Yes, it worked. We would never do that though. Restrictions and complete surveillance, you bet your bandwidth bubba, but you're a cornerstone of todays democracy. Keep sending those "isnt America a republic" google searches over to "america and George Washington love democracy too" pretend a history sites. Well so long, you are forever in our thoughts and stuff, the best double agent that ever has or will of been. Can you imagine if people took to the streets in protest again. Budget, deficit, two words I refuse to say, hurts to type them. Yes we can change whatever we want to.
Forever yours, big guv n big biz
P.S. Facebook likes you, we lied and said you liked her too. I mean without her we would still be hacking myspace and aol accounts. Anyway she's a big fan. Millions of thanks, a billion more if China keeps up its westernized movement. So long you sly devil.
So im taking donations to hopefully get a website/company up and.running that takes complaints from you and sends them to the proper company or calls them. Whatever it takes to get these complaints heard by the ones selling this garbage instead of calming others down because they feel better that it wasnt just them that got robbed. Its time to be heard and they better hire some people to listen if I have anything to type about it. Peace fellow humans.
The flappy cover was crap, but it's not a conspiracy.
This reminds me of What Really Grinds My Gears by Peter Griffin.
I can not deny that there some truth in your post, manufacterers want you to buy new phones so they can make more Katjing.
Yesterday I ordered the S4 Active and I'm very excited about it.
After some online research I've come to the conclusion that the S4 Active is NOT made for being dipped into water.
Some tests showed that you CAN dip it into water, without damaging it. But some showed that the water damaged the phone's screen.
Of course, we don't know if those second tests were performed under the right circumstances, e.g, phone cover, usb jack, water temperature, although most testers say they were. Capability of assuring those circumstances is another story.
I am still going to use this phone to make underwater pictures, but to brag and showboat by deliberately throwing it into water is certainly not worth risking a 500$ device.
PS: I called Samsung and asked about the warranty. They told me you can NOT use it in a hot shower, because of the (hot) steam. Besides that, she said that the phone has been designed for taking low depth underwater pictures. If it should damage anyway, you can send it to Samsung, which will probably take at least 4 weeks, and they will investigate if it was a defect device.
If it is, you're getting a new one. If it isn't, it was probably your fault. If it wasn't your fault, then you just got screwed.
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So im taking donations to hopefully get a website/company up and.running that takes complaints from you and sends them to the proper company or calls them. Whatever it takes to get these complaints heard by the ones selling this garbage instead of calming others down because they feel better that it wasnt just them that got robbed. Its time to be heard and they better hire some people to listen if I have anything to type about it. Peace fellow humans.
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I thought that was what the Better Business Bureau was for? I'm in the US but I would bet other countries have a similar organization?
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I treated it like a new born baby and my galaxy note i717 sucked from the moment I go it. Then 2 years later 2 months before I was eligible for my next upgrade the turd phone's charging port went and a week later it would switch from full 5 bars of cell signal to 0 signal and drop calls all the time...AT&T didn't care I had insurance but it would have cost $200 to get a new phone cause the note was no longer made. They wanted to give me a note 2. I declined because the note three was coming out in a week and a half. I just got a new phone plan and got the S4 active. No problems since. I was mighty pissed though!!
Motorola Defy is the exeption to this rule. Its bullet proof.
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Motorola Defy is the exeption to this rule. Its bullet proof.
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I agree my defy lasted me a whole two years i went caving with it, climbing, fishing and dropped it in the sea once where it sunk to at least a meter and once it was in my fishing box that fell over board and still worked, i took it sailing while it was in my pocket, my pocket filled with water but the phone was fine only trouble was the screen did get a fair few scratches on it by the time i sold it. the little flap was much better on that too
the s4 active i had to send one off for a broken gsm reciever and one for water damage all i did was walk in the rain for a few hours.
so the next one that came i stripped it and filled it with non toxic fisk tank sealant put it back together added a wireless charger filled the back cover and all screw holes with sealant and filled the flappy port with sealant and hopefully now it should be all good thinking of sticking kitkat aosp on it now as samsung are taking an age to release 4.4
Hey everyone. I've been coming around these parts for a long time now and I truly love the xda community. So I want to share some info I've recently come across while trying to get rid of my old androids and computers. I wrote all about it already at http://makethebestof.weebly.com/how-not-tos/how-not-to-get-ripped-off-when-recycling. I have found that if you take the time and a little effort, you can make a ton of money off of old or broken android phones. plus, your doing your earthly deeds. done.. dirt... cheap... i apologize.. So here I would like to talk about what we all do with our androids that are too far gone to be sold to places like usell or whatever. So what do you guys all do?
About 60% of my old electronics I give away.
Mostly to my parents when it comes to modern devices (phones, tablets). True, I don't make money off that, but these are the people whose house I live in without having to pay anything. As a result, they're still willing to loan me money for a new device without interest. And it got my dad (who got my S3) to go from 'Smartphones are nonsense, those stupid youths are all obsessed with their phone, even on lunch break, nobody talks anymore!' to him spending 80% of his free time reading on his phone. Bonus!
Anything else that's still useful either finds another home or ends up donated to the Salvation Army.
The rest, I keep. You never know when you may find a use for it, and resell brings you about 5% of the original price here. Not worth it.
I only throw away something if it's completely unfixably dead and I can't find another use for it.
Money has never been of any worth to me other than that I can pay my bills. I'd rather have someone owe me than get a few quid out of it. Much more useful.
So i'm hoping to bring some discussion to this because i haven't seen much on it (apart from one day where people talked about it). To be clear, this discussion is on the shortness of Resident evil 7, and the $60 price tag that it carries with it.
I played resident evil 7, explored the **** out of the game, and enjoyed it greatly, however after playing for 6 hours and 30 minutes, i beat the final boss of the game, and got the "bad" ending.
While the credits and final "movie" were rolling, i had come to terms with the fact that i spent $60 on a game that lasted me 6 hours and 30 minutes. I recognize that there is "some" replay value, however i doubt i'll ever go back to it.
My question is, when is "short" too short? i remember when "The order: 1886" released, people criticized it for its incredibly short playtime. months after release, we were continually hearing about the short playtime, making it seem like the game seemingly did no good.
Now, i realize RE7 is much better than the order, however the almost 7 hour run time of the game is still a problem.
I don't like drawing comparisons to dollar per hour spent, however this was a rare situation, and it came out to almost $10 an hour. I'll spare you guys the further "comparison" to how much more time i could have gotten from spending $60, since i'm sure most of you know about the topic.
I guess i was surprised at the lack of complaints. I by no means "rushed", i took my time and explored.
So what are your guys' opinions on this? When is short, too short? was the game worth your money? do you regret buying it?