Marvin: You can blame the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation for making androids with GPP... Arthur: Um... what's GPP? Marvin: Genuine People Personalities. I'm a personality prototype. You can tell, can't you...?
The solution to this is obviously a camera that takes your picture when you leave your residence each day to take into account your clothing, facial hair, bruises, makeup, etc. Or if you are out, you can go to a bank photo booth, put in your credit card, type in your pin, and get your picture updated so that you can go to the atm.
What I do is enter my passwords on the list with something like fg***cs where I know what those stars are and they are the same for each password so even if someone got a hold of my sheet, it really wouldn't help them much unless they had a lot of time on their hands. Downside is that once they crack one, they have them all.
Darwin is most likely making things worse if you consider the fact that the traits that get you laid are not necessarily valuable to society as well as the fact that most intelligent people are too smart to have an extremely high amount of children. Look at the movie Ideocracy as an example... Darwin is not going to solve the problems.
Will be to have people sumarize each of the online videos and dumb them down and repost their own version so that people will actually have the patience to read them because you know that the general public doesnt want to have to think for themselves
I am still in college, and currently me and everyone I kno all get tons and tons of letters for consolidations and credit cards. What I think should happens is that everyone should band together against these junkmailing companies to end it(or at least take a shot at the man).
Here is how it works:
1) Open junk mail
2) Remove return envelope
3) Fold up the rest of the contents as they arrived and stuff them in the envelope
4) Send it back to them
I figure if enough people do this, it can begin to make a dent by doubling how much they pay for each mailing(how many people actually sign up with junkmail anyhow) or at least maybe they will take me off their list(doubtful) but in the worst case... I am giving them they exact pain the inflict on me by having to open worthless mail.
You have also got to take into consideration that those millions of careless users are probably doing a lot of online transactions where there is very valuable information at stake for each of them.
Although I agree with most of that you said there are a few problems I have with it. First off, an example of a commonly used application that has gotten the toggle mode down pretty good is Nero. You start of in a very user friendly interface where you just press which kind of disk you want to make and it guides you through the process. Then it has the advanced interface where there is a lot more freedom and control but it is harder to understand for the common person.
Although Nero does get it to work successfully, I dont think that it is a viable solution for most programs because disk burning really only has a few options when compared to say a word type application. What they really should do is that if they have a common set of functions that most people use, put it in an easy to use/find format for the common people while still having all of the advanced options, like through a file menu, available without having to switch "modes."
What really pisses me off is when they make it extremely difficult to get to functions that an advanced user commonly uses when it really doesnt benefit anyone. I have been using Office 2007 Beta and although the new toolbar is kinda interesting and useful, they completely removed the file menu. There is probably some way to get it back(if anyone knows please let me know) but I have gone through all of the options and the only ones that I can find is the option to add more buttons to the tool bars or to move the "quick access toolbar"(has just a few common functions) above or below the main tool bar.
IMHO, what makes the least sense of anything is to make an interface much "simpler" by completely changing it. Even most common users should know by now how to do the basic things that they want to do because it has been that way for so long. Changing anything really can mess with a lot of people and make them much worse at a new piece of sw even if it looks "simpler."
It is most likely because they can't express these terms in other outlets so they do it where no one else will know. Kinda reminds me of the typical Catholic school girl becoming a complete whore when she goes to college.
Thanks for pointing that out... rereading that it was not what I meant to say. I meant to make the point that alternative devices (ie phones) will become more widely used and will play a part in the future of mp3 players. I agree completely that integration isn't always the way to go. I have one of the chocolate phones that are trying to push mp3s on phones and has a great camera... and I have never used either function of it. I just think that as technology gets better that this idea will become more and more feasible and it will feed into people's need to be listening to music whenever they have a second to themselves. I do totally agree with you that what makes the ipod great is that it is specialized and that is why it has been a huge success. I don't think that ipods will anytime soon lose a lot of their market share. But they will lose some as more and more alternative players and methods come out. As well as it is the same for itunes which will slowly make way to other sources of music.
There will always be sex offenders and of course they will be attracted to the social networking sites infested with pictures of kids and anonymity. How they could crack down on crimes committed would be to educate kids better about how to use these sites safely and what to look out for. We are in the internet age... parents should be en graining net safety to their kids rite alongside lessons like riding a helmet or looking both ways before you cross. Granted that most parents don't know how to be safe themselves, maybe it should be up to the schools to teach this by hiring professionals.
Assuming that the statistic is correct there are many very logical explanations for this trend. But what I think are the most blatant reasons are:
1) Big Artist music did really bad this year and many of the big artists sound exactly the same in every song so why buy more than just one?
2) The longer itunes proves to be successful, the more other companies will strive to compete with them and some of those are finally starting to catch up.
3) Competition among players (ie. zune) as well as most cell phones integrating mp3. People are realizing more and more that phones are the future of mp3 players and they don't want to invest in DRM'd songs that wont work on most phones or other mp3 players.
You may find it surprising, but when I saw the title of the article I literally almost fell out of my chair I was so excited. It could have been because I was sitting all the way back in my 135 degree angle but out of the 10ish media players I use, VLC is by far the simplest of most comprehensive one I have ever used and because of how long it has been since it was last updated and because of how many new features makes this big news. Also, consider the fact that I, along with many others who use it a lot, probably would not have realized that it was updated because the regular news outlets don't cover geek news... that is what/. is here for. Also, unlike these other services you are mentioning, VLC chooses not to spam you every time you open it with the option to upgrade which I think also deserves recognition.
You make some good points there. And I did somewhat abuse what you were saying. Don't get me wrong though, I am currently at Penn State and very social and party regularly. And I do party at frats occasionally because I have many friends in them and I enjoy those as well. But at a big party school like this, people DO go to frats and parties in general just to get beer and once it is gone, they leave without talking to any brothers at all. It may have been different at your school, I am just telling my experiences with them.
You just emphasized the point that you were trying to rebuke. When I say that "people in frats buy their friends," I am not talking about your brothers that you meet in your frat. I am talking about the 500 people, 4/5 of which you don't know, and yet you give them free beer to so that they will come to your house and party hard and thus making you seem "cool". I do not see any difference between this and paying 400 random people on myspace to be your friends.
I have both accounts and I think that it should be pointed out that the two sites are very different from one another. Myspace is filled with tons of spam advertisements and superficial that think by choosing a cool theme and music makes them so cool. Facebook is focused on the simple things like communication, information and pictures. I am in college and facebook has been very beneficial to me in many ways. For one, I have reconnected with a few friends that I have not talked to since elementary school and at that time were my among my best friends. Another nice aspect is that it allows you to put up what classes you are taking so that you can get in contact with people from your classes. Because facebook recently began allowing all people to sign up for it instead of just students, I feel that it is not long before I get many messages a day from porn companies, random shitty "bands" and the like just on myspace because there is a market for that sort of thing but up till now I have been very satisfied with its lack thereof.
Many of the devices that people claim to be broken can actually be preserved. Particularly regarding electronics and liquid. You just need to know how to fix it and implement it immediately. I'll forewarn that I am very clumsy and many of these situations could have been easily avoided as well... but even if you happen to mess up, there are solutions.
I had a phone that, along with me fully clothed, got pushed into a pool at 2am for about 2-3 seconds. It wouldn't even turn on after that, but the girl who had pushed me in(had to forgive her, she was hot) told me that if you put it under a lamp for a long time, the water will evaporate and it will work again so I did and it did.
Had a similar experience with my laptop, spilled a screwdriver(drink) on my laptop and wouldn't turn on and had some strange blue light go on. But I blow dried it with a hair dryer and put it under a light and low and behold two years later its still works (though the processor has gone to hell due to the carelessness of playing online games on a laptop).
One bit of warning however tho, do not place the said object directly on or too close to the source of heat. A friend of mine dropped her phone in the toilet and I cockily said that I could fix it. Since I didnt have my usual high powered desk lamp, I placed it in the top of a regular lamp rite above the bulb and half of the screen melted away. But it once again worked still!
My theory on why this works so well is that most electronics automatically shut down when they sense water on them (as shown by the blue light on the laptop or how when you take your phone back to the store they can tell it has had water damage) so thus it is just a bunch of metal with no current running through it. Therefore, it will not work until you remove the water residue but once you do, it has not reason not to work.
Maybe if they made floors all soft and squishy like our sofas, we'd be happier standing? Or better, make computer interfaces use more body parts - standing forever is a pain, but if were doing little tapdances and knee bends the whole day, I bet you could go for hours (okay...maybe not but...).
Hopefully we will get to see in our lifetime a common VR setup where your whole body is involved and thus giving you many more commands, possibilities, and 3-D as well as being able to get your daily exercise while scrolling through/.
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"Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job." - Douglas Adams
Marvin: You can blame the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation for making androids with GPP...
Arthur: Um... what's GPP?
Marvin: Genuine People Personalities. I'm a personality prototype. You can tell, can't you...?
How about encrypting all of the passwords with your second master password into a seperate section of disk space?
"Chances are if you need both of your hands to do something, your brain should be in on it, too." - Ellen Degeneres on headset phones
The solution to this is obviously a camera that takes your picture when you leave your residence each day to take into account your clothing, facial hair, bruises, makeup, etc. Or if you are out, you can go to a bank photo booth, put in your credit card, type in your pin, and get your picture updated so that you can go to the atm.
What I do is enter my passwords on the list with something like fg***cs where I know what those stars are and they are the same for each password so even if someone got a hold of my sheet, it really wouldn't help them much unless they had a lot of time on their hands. Downside is that once they crack one, they have them all.
Darwin is most likely making things worse if you consider the fact that the traits that get you laid are not necessarily valuable to society as well as the fact that most intelligent people are too smart to have an extremely high amount of children. Look at the movie Ideocracy as an example... Darwin is not going to solve the problems.
Will be to have people sumarize each of the online videos and dumb them down and repost their own version so that people will actually have the patience to read them because you know that the general public doesnt want to have to think for themselves
1) Open junk mail
2) Remove return envelope
3) Fold up the rest of the contents as they arrived and stuff them in the envelope
4) Send it back to them
I figure if enough people do this, it can begin to make a dent by doubling how much they pay for each mailing(how many people actually sign up with junkmail anyhow) or at least maybe they will take me off their list(doubtful) but in the worst case... I am giving them they exact pain the inflict on me by having to open worthless mail.
You have also got to take into consideration that those millions of careless users are probably doing a lot of online transactions where there is very valuable information at stake for each of them.
Yes that has the "file" menu... i was talking about all of the other menus available
Although Nero does get it to work successfully, I dont think that it is a viable solution for most programs because disk burning really only has a few options when compared to say a word type application. What they really should do is that if they have a common set of functions that most people use, put it in an easy to use/find format for the common people while still having all of the advanced options, like through a file menu, available without having to switch "modes."
What really pisses me off is when they make it extremely difficult to get to functions that an advanced user commonly uses when it really doesnt benefit anyone. I have been using Office 2007 Beta and although the new toolbar is kinda interesting and useful, they completely removed the file menu. There is probably some way to get it back(if anyone knows please let me know) but I have gone through all of the options and the only ones that I can find is the option to add more buttons to the tool bars or to move the "quick access toolbar"(has just a few common functions) above or below the main tool bar.
IMHO, what makes the least sense of anything is to make an interface much "simpler" by completely changing it. Even most common users should know by now how to do the basic things that they want to do because it has been that way for so long. Changing anything really can mess with a lot of people and make them much worse at a new piece of sw even if it looks "simpler."
end rant;
It is most likely because they can't express these terms in other outlets so they do it where no one else will know. Kinda reminds me of the typical Catholic school girl becoming a complete whore when she goes to college.
Apparently they have a set of "rules" that have to do with money that they can alter as they see fit and have real world penalties
Thanks for pointing that out... rereading that it was not what I meant to say. I meant to make the point that alternative devices (ie phones) will become more widely used and will play a part in the future of mp3 players. I agree completely that integration isn't always the way to go. I have one of the chocolate phones that are trying to push mp3s on phones and has a great camera... and I have never used either function of it. I just think that as technology gets better that this idea will become more and more feasible and it will feed into people's need to be listening to music whenever they have a second to themselves. I do totally agree with you that what makes the ipod great is that it is specialized and that is why it has been a huge success. I don't think that ipods will anytime soon lose a lot of their market share. But they will lose some as more and more alternative players and methods come out. As well as it is the same for itunes which will slowly make way to other sources of music.
There will always be sex offenders and of course they will be attracted to the social networking sites infested with pictures of kids and anonymity. How they could crack down on crimes committed would be to educate kids better about how to use these sites safely and what to look out for. We are in the internet age... parents should be en graining net safety to their kids rite alongside lessons like riding a helmet or looking both ways before you cross. Granted that most parents don't know how to be safe themselves, maybe it should be up to the schools to teach this by hiring professionals.
1) Big Artist music did really bad this year and many of the big artists sound exactly the same in every song so why buy more than just one?
2) The longer itunes proves to be successful, the more other companies will strive to compete with them and some of those are finally starting to catch up.
3) Competition among players (ie. zune) as well as most cell phones integrating mp3. People are realizing more and more that phones are the future of mp3 players and they don't want to invest in DRM'd songs that wont work on most phones or other mp3 players.
You may find it surprising, but when I saw the title of the article I literally almost fell out of my chair I was so excited. It could have been because I was sitting all the way back in my 135 degree angle but out of the 10ish media players I use, VLC is by far the simplest of most comprehensive one I have ever used and because of how long it has been since it was last updated and because of how many new features makes this big news. Also, consider the fact that I, along with many others who use it a lot, probably would not have realized that it was updated because the regular news outlets don't cover geek news... that is what /. is here for. Also, unlike these other services you are mentioning, VLC chooses not to spam you every time you open it with the option to upgrade which I think also deserves recognition.
No, but maybe soon they can condense the display from the new http://www.epic.org/privacy/surveillance/spotlight /0605/ backscatter machines without the blurring function.
You make some good points there. And I did somewhat abuse what you were saying. Don't get me wrong though, I am currently at Penn State and very social and party regularly. And I do party at frats occasionally because I have many friends in them and I enjoy those as well. But at a big party school like this, people DO go to frats and parties in general just to get beer and once it is gone, they leave without talking to any brothers at all. It may have been different at your school, I am just telling my experiences with them.
But we all know it doesn't matter that you think you are a loser as long as everyone else thinks you are so cool
You just emphasized the point that you were trying to rebuke. When I say that "people in frats buy their friends," I am not talking about your brothers that you meet in your frat. I am talking about the 500 people, 4/5 of which you don't know, and yet you give them free beer to so that they will come to your house and party hard and thus making you seem "cool". I do not see any difference between this and paying 400 random people on myspace to be your friends.
I have both accounts and I think that it should be pointed out that the two sites are very different from one another. Myspace is filled with tons of spam advertisements and superficial that think by choosing a cool theme and music makes them so cool. Facebook is focused on the simple things like communication, information and pictures. I am in college and facebook has been very beneficial to me in many ways. For one, I have reconnected with a few friends that I have not talked to since elementary school and at that time were my among my best friends. Another nice aspect is that it allows you to put up what classes you are taking so that you can get in contact with people from your classes. Because facebook recently began allowing all people to sign up for it instead of just students, I feel that it is not long before I get many messages a day from porn companies, random shitty "bands" and the like just on myspace because there is a market for that sort of thing but up till now I have been very satisfied with its lack thereof.
I had a phone that, along with me fully clothed, got pushed into a pool at 2am for about 2-3 seconds. It wouldn't even turn on after that, but the girl who had pushed me in(had to forgive her, she was hot) told me that if you put it under a lamp for a long time, the water will evaporate and it will work again so I did and it did.
Had a similar experience with my laptop, spilled a screwdriver(drink) on my laptop and wouldn't turn on and had some strange blue light go on. But I blow dried it with a hair dryer and put it under a light and low and behold two years later its still works (though the processor has gone to hell due to the carelessness of playing online games on a laptop).
One bit of warning however tho, do not place the said object directly on or too close to the source of heat. A friend of mine dropped her phone in the toilet and I cockily said that I could fix it. Since I didnt have my usual high powered desk lamp, I placed it in the top of a regular lamp rite above the bulb and half of the screen melted away. But it once again worked still!
My theory on why this works so well is that most electronics automatically shut down when they sense water on them (as shown by the blue light on the laptop or how when you take your phone back to the store they can tell it has had water damage) so thus it is just a bunch of metal with no current running through it. Therefore, it will not work until you remove the water residue but once you do, it has not reason not to work.
Hopefully we will get to see in our lifetime a common VR setup where your whole body is involved and thus giving you many more commands, possibilities, and 3-D as well as being able to get your daily exercise while scrolling through /.