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ThoracicGuy said:
Chili was created in Texas. It was not created with beans. Please listen to what I am saying.

http://www.houstonpress.com/restaurants/history-of-texas-chili-without-beans-6426046
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Still going to call it a chili, just not a Texas chili.
dyachei said:
"Traditional Red Chili is defined by the International Chili Society as any kind of meat or combination of meats,
cooked with red chili peppers, various spices and other ingredients, with the exception of BEANS and PASTA
which are strictly forbidden. No garnish is allowed."
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Whoops. Mine fails on two principles. But it's yummyy!
 
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Soyrizo is awesome, now I want chili. With beans, obviously 😛
 
wheelin2vetmed said:
Unfortunately, your computer model does not have an active digitizer. See my post above where I briefly describe it. You can buy any cheap $5 capacitive stylus with the big nubby rubber points that simulates your finger, but that's as good as you're going get. You can write with that stylus, but the line's always going to be the same thickness (no pressure sensitivity), and you won't be able to rest your palm on the screen because it'll recognize it immediately as touch input (no palm rejection).
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Wow, thanks for researching that for me!

And hmm.... :thinking: maybe I'm better off just hooking up my Intuos lol
 
wheelin2vetmed said:
You are so cool. Would you like to see one of the new pens I bought? **reaches into shirt pocket protector**

Maybe join me during lunchtime to play Magic the Gathering? I have a new wizard card.
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Everything about this post is innuendo to me
 
WildZoo said:
Everything about this post is innuendo to me
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LOL I can have a pretty dirty mind when I want to...but even I can't see it 😛

Oh and that reminds me, once on Neopets (LONG time ago), a friend was trying to explain about the stylus on a drawing tablet. Neopets wouldn't let her write "A graphic pen is..." because it thought "pen is" was a dirty word. Jeeze!
 
Starry-chan said:
LOL I can have a pretty dirty mind when I want to...but even I can't see it 😛

Oh and that reminds me, once on Neopets (LONG time ago), a friend was trying to explain about the stylus on a drawing tablet. Neopets wouldn't let her write "A graphic pen is..." because it thought "pen is" was a dirty word. Jeeze!
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My boyfriend is a huge geek. So geeky stuff...Idk. That's where my brain goes :laugh: I can definitely see him saying something like that as innuendo.

Haha I remember the crazy Neopets censor.
 
I'll throw this "chili" out there too. Cincinnati style chili is super runny and made with cinnamon. Usually put on top of spaghetti or hot dogs. But no beans
 
lilylilac said:
I'll throw this "chili" out there too. Cincinnati style chili is super runny and made with cinnamon. Usually put on top of spaghetti or hot dogs. But no beans
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Cincinnati chili over spaghetti is amazinggggg though
 
WildZoo said:
Haha I remember the crazy Neopets censor.
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Remember how messed up their safeguards against cheaters were? Remember how people would login to their accounts and randomly find out they'd been frozen for cheating?
 
Starry-chan said:
Remember how messed up their safeguards against cheaters were? Remember how people would login to their accounts and randomly find out they'd been frozen for cheating?
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That place was oddly hardcover for a site geared towards kids.
 
WildZoo said:
That place was oddly hardcover for a site geared towards kids.
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It was sooooooooooooo poorly run.

I remember creating a support ticket after I was trying to get back into playing the game, but I couldn't get in my neopoints bank account because I'd lost the PIN years before. I couldn't recover it because I no longer had the e-mail that they were sending the recovery emails to. (My Neopets account was ~11 years old.) Customer service wouldn't help me because I couldn't access that email.

Yet...get this...to delete the account all I had to do was login and delete it. Isn't deleting the account worse than getting in its bank?

I just deleted the account and wiped my hands clean of Neopets forever.

..........or at least, that's how I remember it. It was years ago and I don't remember it well 😛 I just remember that Neopets disgusted me 9999999999 times by what I felt were ridiculous policies. Glad I moved on.
 
Starry-chan said:
It was sooooooooooooo poorly run.

I remember creating a support ticket after I was trying to get back into playing the game, but I couldn't get in my neopoints bank account because I'd lost the PIN years before. I couldn't recover it because I no longer had the e-mail that they were sending the recovery emails to. (My Neopets account was ~11 years old.) Customer service wouldn't help me because I couldn't access that email.

Yet...get this...to delete the account all I had to do was login and delete it. Isn't deleting the account worse than getting in its bank?

I just deleted the account and wiped my hands clean of Neopets forever.

..........or at least, that's how I remember it. It was years ago and I don't remember it well 😛 I just remember that Neopets disgusted me 9999999999 times by what I felt were ridiculous policies. Glad I moved on.
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I tried to get back into my old account when we had a Neopets WW game but I of course couldn't remember the password and had turned off email communications at some point. I definitely did not go to much effort to try to recover it though haha. I'm way too lazy for that.
 
WildZoo said:
I tried to get back into my old account when we had a Neopets WW game but I of course couldn't remember the password and had turned off email communications at some point. I definitely did not go to much effort to try to recover it though haha. I'm way too lazy for that.
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Hmm, I see. Well for me, I had put a lot of effort into my account (fully upgraded neohome, painted my pets, trained them a lot, etc.) So, I hated to see it all go to waste. But once I found out I would never be able to get in my bank again, I kissed it goodbye. Don't regret it.

RuneScape is what I play now. Over the years I've put 3.8k hours in and have come far, so it is my replacement for Neopets 😀
 
wheelin2vetmed said:
Every time I see a classmate take notes on an iPad using the virtual keyboard a little piece of me dies inside.
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Every time I see a classmate taking notes on MS Word a little piece of me dies inside...noooo, please, stop that right now, you have not seen the wonders of OneNote...
Though to be fair your posts here have made me aware of a whole bunch of OneNote features that I've apparently been ignorant of 😳 sound recording?? I've never even tried handwriting with it because through undergrad I had just a regular laptop. Now I have a touchscreen laptop and a Surface 2 with type cover, only cheap nubby styluses though. (are the surface pen stylus worth it?)

also, I may or may not be an active neopets player and I may or may not be a neo-multimillionaire.
 
wheelin2vetmed said:
Yea, every option on the iPad (except for the new super expensive iPad Pro with the $100 pencil add-on) is hacky. Basically, without getting too nerdy, touchscreens receive input through a digitizer. Your normal touchscreen is a capacitive digitizer, and it recognizes your fingers. Your Surface Pro and other machines that use similar technology actually have 2 digitizers, a capacitive digitizer and an active digitizer. The active digitizer is where the magic happens. Based on electromagnetism or other methodologies, when the pen reaches a certain hover distance, the capacitive digitizer is disabled and the active digitizer kicks in. That allows you to rest your palm on the screen, and the active digitizer talks with the pen to interpret tilt, pressure sensitivity, etc.

All the expensive styluses for iPad try to replicate the active digitizer experience using software, bluetooth, etc, but it always ends up being kinda crappy. You have the real deal.
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I already responded to this, but I was just thinking about it, and I realized that the inability of my touch screen to understand tilt and pressure sensitivity is a non-issue for me. I just care about being able to open OneNote and hand write on digital notes. And I like doing it on the touch screen because then I don't have to haul around my Intous 4 Medium...or use the trackpad *shudder*

When I was writing with my finger, the lines were of a nice thin and constant thickness, so if I was using a stylus wouldn't it be the same?

That said, when I'm doing art, I care about pressure sensitivity and the like very much, but I only do that on my desktop and I always have the Intuos hooked up and ready to go 😉

I love art, by the way, don't know if I ever mentioned that to you guys:

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Devastating said:
Every time I see a classmate taking notes on MS Word a little piece of me dies inside...noooo, please, stop that right now, you have not seen the wonders of OneNote...
Though to be fair your posts here have made me aware of a whole bunch of OneNote features that I've apparently been ignorant of 😳 sound recording?? I've never even tried handwriting with it because through undergrad I had just a regular laptop. Now I have a touchscreen laptop and a Surface 2 with type cover, only cheap nubby styluses though. (are the surface pen stylus worth it?)

also, I may or may not be an active neopets player and I may or may not be a neo-multimillionaire.
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we've probably had this conversation before, but I definitely log in daily(ish) for stocks and lab.... current neogoal is for my bank interest to pay for stocks daily, 1/3 there! I'm draconyst.
 
Trilt said:
we've probably had this conversation before, but I definitely log in daily(ish) for stocks and lab.... current neogoal is for my bank interest to pay for stocks daily, 1/3 there! I'm draconyst.
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Actually don't think I've conversed with any SDNers about neo yet! (lil' newb)
i'm big into the stock market too and play daily for lab/stocks/dailies...totally just neofriend requested and I'm neopaws787 (shutupIwas10okay) (also it's so cool that you have lab on like all your accounts i'm too cheapskate for that)

@Starry-chan aaahh I love to art too, though I haven't drawn or even doodled lately 😳 for digital stuff I only have a small wacom Bamboo tablet.
 
Devastating said:
Every time I see a classmate taking notes on MS Word a little piece of me dies inside...noooo, please, stop that right now, you have not seen the wonders of OneNote...
Though to be fair your posts here have made me aware of a whole bunch of OneNote features that I've apparently been ignorant of 😳 sound recording?? I've never even tried handwriting with it because through undergrad I had just a regular laptop. Now I have a touchscreen laptop and a Surface 2 with type cover, only cheap nubby styluses though. (are the surface pen stylus worth it?)

also, I may or may not be an active neopets player and I may or may not be a neo-multimillionaire.
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Surface pen is the bee's knees. But I don't think the surface 2 supports the pen utilization, because it doesn't have _________ (whatever w2vm said previously). I think they incorporated it in the surface3 though.

Abort to start selling plasma twice a week to afford a surface book if I get accepted anywhere this year.
 
WildZoo said:
*sees number of posts with the word chili*
Oh dear, what have I done...
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Well technically, I brought up beans. But you can have the red card, I get to keep playing.

Starry-chan said:
I already responded to this, but I was just thinking about it, and I realized that the inability of my touch screen to understand tilt and pressure sensitivity is a non-issue for me. I just care about being able to open OneNote and hand write on digital notes. And I like doing it on the touch screen because then I don't have to haul around my Intous 4 Medium...or use the trackpad *shudder*

When I was writing with my finger, the lines were of a nice thin and constant thickness, so if I was using a stylus wouldn't it be the same?
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I'm an artist too, really enjoyed your piece Starry 🙂. Yes, tilt and pressure sensitivity may be a non-issue when notetaking, but not being able to rest your palm on the screen and write comfortably is a huge deal. My goal with stylus technology (well with any technology really) is to integrate it so it mimics the real thing (in this case, writing on paper). Once you use a device with a true active digitizer, you will never go back to using apps that disable a portion of the screen, or having to use a special app because it tries software palm rejection, or using a fat nubby rubber stylus with no precision. A true stylus just feels like writing/drawing on paper. I love the feeling and smoothness of inking with Wacom (the same company that makes your Intuos), the only difference between my device and yours is I write directly on the screen, and you have to draw on an external tablet.

Teepster87 said:
Surface pen is the bee's knees. But I don't think the surface 2 supports the pen utilization, because it doesn't have _________ (whatever w2vm said previously). I think they incorporated it in the surface3 though.

Abort to start selling plasma twice a week to afford a surface book if I get accepted anywhere this year.
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You're right. Surface Pro 1/2 used a Wacom digitizer. Microsoft bought N-trig (competing stylus technology) and began using that in Surface 3 and Surface Pro 3/4. Surface 1 and Surface 2 don't have an active digitizer. And if you had a Surface Pro 2 but tried to use the new Surface Pen on it, it wouldn't work because they're different technologies.

I tested and reviewed the Surface Book. It's a beautiful machine, but I would personally wait for the 2nd generation next year simply based on the "clipboard" battery alone. I take notes all day on my machine, and the Surface Book's battery life in tablet mode is 3 hours. That's just a complete deal-breaker for me, the device would be dead by 10AM for me if I was currently using it at school. Yes, I could attach it back to the keyboard base and get the rest of the battery life, but now it's gone from 1.6 lbs to 3.6 lbs and has completely left the thin and light tablet category. I could just as well use any other laptop with stylus input at that point.

People ask me if the machine I'm using is the new Surface Book, but it was made by Toshiba a year before the Surface Book; similar form-factor though. The tablet portion is the same thinness and weight as the Surface Book's tablet, but both the tablet and keyboard dock have equal batteries, each lasting 7-9 hours. The battery life on this thing is averaging 17 hours, it's damn incredible. And it uses a Core M processor, so it's a little less powerful than the Surface Book but completely fanless and makes no noise at all (I hate fans in computers). As a secondary school device, a full Core i5/i7 is completely overkill for me.
 
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Trilt said:
we've probably had this conversation before, but I definitely log in daily(ish) for stocks and lab.... current neogoal is for my bank interest to pay for stocks daily, 1/3 there! I'm draconyst.
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Are we neofriends? I don't think so, I'm adding you. (I'm scatteredpictures_2 as my main account...yes I have multiples)
 
WhtsThFrequency said:
Thank you my good man.
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But that article says several times that chili with beans is "perfectly legitimate" and describes the version without beans as being a sauce to go over other foods; a condiment.

My chili is NOT just a condiment. You can add cheese or sour cream to it. You can dip corn bread or sour dough in it. You can happily use it as a condiment... but expect a more complex flavor than the "thin red sauce" used to cover tamales.
 
lilylilac said:
I'll throw this "chili" out there too. Cincinnati style chili is super runny and made with cinnamon. Usually put on top of spaghetti or hot dogs. But no beans
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So at first I was kind of horrified by chili on spaghetti, but then I looked it up and realized it wasn't suppose to be anything like regular chili.

The flavor profile sounds delicious, and now I want to make a veg version.
 
LadyOtheFarm said:
When I lived in MA, the argument there was over chowder: creamy or red? New York or Boston?

My answer is the creamy, milky, wonderful goodness of a thick white calm chowda!
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What is red chowder? I have never heard of such a thing.
 
Teepster87 said:
Surface pen is the bee's knees. But I don't think the surface 2 supports the pen utilization, because it doesn't have _________ (whatever w2vm said previously). I think they incorporated it in the surface3 though.
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wheelin2vetmed said:
You're right. Surface Pro 1/2 used a Wacom digitizer. Microsoft bought N-trig (competing stylus technology) and began using that in Surface 3 and Surface Pro 3/4. Surface 1 and Surface 2 don't have an active digitizer. And if you had a Surface Pro 2 but tried to use the new Surface Pen on it, it wouldn't work because they're different technologies.
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Aw, that's too bad. My dad got me this Surface 2 last Christmas to "replace my laptop" from undergrad that was on its last leg, since that was the whole selling point on the Surface Pro 3 ads...he didn't really do the research to realize that unfortunately isn't quite true of the surf2. The limitations of windows RT can be pretty dang annoying at times, but I still LOVE this device--I can't do everything that I can on a laptop, but with the type cover it's PERFECT for class notetaking (good battery life, super portable!), and as tablet pc's go I also think it's 134235x better than an iPad. (if only the windows store had the same breadth of apps as the iOS or Google app stores...)

twelvetigers said:
And I prolly have more NP than either of y'all.
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mmm, I dunno...... 😛


and yeah, I'd actually never heard of Manhattan clam chowder or whatever (the red version) until I tried it a few years ago, but there's a reason it's not as famous, and that's because it's fricking bad. Who puts clams in a wannabe-minestrone tomatoey broth? New England all the way, always been one of my fave soups 😀
 
..................................................................I don't like chili at all.........

*dodges the tar and feathers* 😛
 
LetItSnow said:
Please expand. I *LOVE* my ipad mini, but am considering replacing it with a surface when the time comes. Would appreciate your thoughts.
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A lot of it is just personal preference, since my Surface can function more like a full PC with desktop etc.--except for the fact that the older models (Surface RT and my Surface 2) run on Windows RT, which is essentially a more limited version of Windows 8; It doesn't get the same updates/support and can't run many typical desktop applications, just the apps that are available on the Windows store, which is a huge pain. For example, I can't install a different web browser, and I'm stuck using the mobile/metro app versions of things like Skype and Dropbox--however, it did come with full MS Office which is awesome (pretty much the only desktop apps it runs). Here's a comparison overview of Surface models from original to Pro 3.

My only experience with iPads comes from my mom's iPad and iPad 2, so I guess I'm not familiar with using them in the context of work/notetaking, but I dunno, even when it comes to casual internet browsing and being able to splitscreen apps, I enjoyed using the Surface to the point I liked it more than the iPad (which feels like using just a scaled up version of my iphone, I'm not a big Mac person 😛 ) If you're big on any App Store stuff you probably won't like MS Store's limited selection though. I'm sure a newer more powerful model like the Pro 3/4 would be even better, not having the limitations of RT and being able to run the programs/serve the purpose of a full laptop PC...I might consider upgrading to a non-RT model someday, but for now I'm fine with just using my actual laptop to do whatever the tablet can't.

Also, I just really fricking love the kickstand and type cover 😀
 
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LetItSnow said:
Please expand. I *LOVE* my ipad mini, but am considering replacing it with a surface when the time comes. Would appreciate your thoughts.
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iPads are great consumption devices, but at the end of the day, they're constrained to a mobile operating system and far less capable for productivity purposes. Surfaces are full fledged computers in a tablet form-factor. You can install any and every computer program on them. With pen input (if you're into digital notetaking or have an interest in transitioning), it becomes an even more powerful tool.

Depends on how much computing power you need, but if you want something very close to the size/weight of an iPad mini, you'd like the Surface 3 (non-pro).

Devastating said:
A lot of it is just personal preference, since my Surface can function more like a full PC with desktop etc.--except for the fact that the older models (Surface RT and my Surface 2) run on Windows RT, which is essentially a more limited version of Windows 8; It doesn't get the same updates/support and can't run many typical desktop applications, just the apps that are available on the Windows store, which is a huge pain. For example, I can't install a different web browser, and I'm stuck using the mobile/metro app versions of things like Skype and Dropbox--however, it did come with full MS Office which is awesome (pretty much the only desktop apps it runs).
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Windows RT reached EOL (end of life) last year. Microsoft basically killed it off because it was a massive failure. You'll likely never see another update.
 
dyachei said:
I hear people reference this often...but it's just a cover...
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My dad had originally gotten it a 3rd-party big case/cover dealy with attached bluetooth/USB keyboard...but I didn't really like the fact that it covered the whole device, the keyboard was tiny and cheap, and had to be "charged" via the usb. Type cover plugs directly into the bottom, has backlight capability and is fully integrated/compatible 😀 I got mine used for a good price (in purple!). the Touch Cover version seems lame and almost useless for actual typing, though.

wheelin2vetmed said:
Windows RT reached EOL (end of life) last year. Microsoft basically killed it off because it was a massive failure. You'll likely never see another update.
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I had read about that :/ And I only just installed the faux-win10 Start Menu update last week...it leaves something to be desired. I wish it were possible to upgrade to win10 on my Surface (didn't want/like it on my laptop and reverted), but ughh, RT...
 
I love my iPad Air 2. Before this one I had an iPad 2 (which is now passed on to my parents). It works great for me. I've used an ipad for note taking for nearly 5 years of school now. I don't need a full fledged computer on my tablet, that's what my macbook pro is for. The app store has everything I need - I use notability for school. It has palm rejection which works pretty well even if it is "fake." Love love love that it syncs to my phone and the notability app on my mac. I can switch between taking notes all on 3 devices and look up notes on the go on my iPhone. For a stylus I have used the Adonit Jot Pro (which works great) but recently got an Adonit Dash and it's even better. For a keyboard I have a logitech one that is separate from the ipad so I don't have to carry it with me when I don't need it. I have a case with the triangle fold cover thing to prop it up. Also, with the last iOS update there is now a split screen feature on iPads.

I've played with a friends galaxy tablet and another friend's surface pro (not sure what #). My writing was no smoother/neater on those than it is on my ipad and I like the mobile os interface better. My friends love their galaxy/surface pro tablets and prefer those interfaces. What I'm trying to get at is tablet-choice is personal preference and I don't think there is a "one-size fits all" or best tablet ever.
 
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