Soyataur, the self-styled all purpose overlord, had ordered the a few of his followers to help him print a Word document. He is still puzzled as to why his followers disappeared so suddenly without letting him know about going off to the milk or tofu business.
I ran a somewhat popular Mechwarrior 2: Mercenaries site way back when I was ten, and I learned a bit of HTML by tacking on endless lists of crap on a single HTML webpage. It helped me get more into MW2: Mercenaries and helped me learn a lot about HTML (or at least, I can now look at the site and see how long I've come, and how broken everything was back then.)
This is a little bit off topic, but does anyone remember Clan Nuclear Slug?
It's been a pretty popular site for gamers for quite a while. A probably reason why they went under is not because it was an unknown site (they wouldn't have stuck around for as long as they did if it wasn't known by a good number of people), but because there was no incentive for people to invest money into the site. Fileplanet used to be like FileFront, except they saw that there was something to exploit, so they changed their system into a queue-based system, while offering subscriptions in order to go back to a queue-less system.
FileFront not only has all the perks that one of the posters mentioned already (no queues, fast download speeds, etc.), but also, you can find a lot of obscure mods from 10+ years ago -- as well as patches to extremely old games -- on FileFront. More often than not, I would come up with broken links if I tried to find anything older than 6-8 years on Fileplanet. Not so on FileFront.
This seems a little similar to the "Moore method", except, well, the "Moore method" is used in advanced undergraduate / graduate level mathematics classes.:) I took a senior level analysis class which employed the "Moore method" (more or less) and I learned quite a bit, though I was way too distracted with a few things in my life outside of academia at the time, so I ended up utterly failing the class. However, these sorts of instruction, the open-ended teaching paradigms, which seems to merely assume the knowledge base and not the intelligence of each person in the classroom, is quite pleasant when implemented well.
I used to help my peers out without question back in high school (in exchange for money or to be looked at a little more favorably), but I've realized a few things:
1.) The money did sort of matter, but I realized that there was a distinct separation between learning how to socialize and be friends with all sorts of people, and "just doing business";
2.) The people wanting the favors wanted to pay me back by acting "nice" for a little while until they've paid their dues. After that, it doesn't matter.
That sounds totally cynical, but believe me, it doesn't really help things with a geek's social life if all their reason for going out is to do someone a damn favor.
(note: I still help people out with computer problems, I just try to make it clear it is strictly business, and that I'm not doing it to earn favors from anyone.)
This sounds real terrible, but the classes where I learned the most about the scientific method was not in the freshman level physics courses that I took in college (a lot of it was just regurgitation of equations, facts, etc.), nor was it in any other science course that I took in high school or wherever else, but rather, it was in an english / comparative history of ideas course that I took where we went through several pieces of philosophy, from Plato, to Aristotle, to Bacon, Descartes, Peirce, and Kuhn. The course was titled, "Method, Imagination, and Inquiry."
Of course, it also helps to work in a research lab and being able to sit in in the round table discussions that we have every week.:)
I don't know about you guys, but I prefer QWERTY because I can easily type "lol" repeatedly on one hand while having the other hand ready to cover my mouth in laughter, depending on how many "lol's" I type.
This comes really handy in conversations which use internet in pluralized form and conversations with cats with "lol" as the prefix.
The point is that you have to learn how to be sociable. And to do that, you unfortunately have to shed (or at least hide) some of the more individual quirks that you may have.
Then when you become closer to the people you've related with, you can then express a bit more of who you are (in reasonable degrees), which makes you that much more intriguing.
It's all about being able to be sociable and still keep the core of who you are.
I'm definitely not the first person to say this, but, well...
Fuck. That. Shit.
I didn't read The Game, but I read many of the more "esoteric" books in the community, like the Juggler Method, Mystery Method, etc. etc. etc. And I realized, after meeting many people who were really involved into this shit, that really, it's a bunch of crap. The best thing to learn from it is that it's a good way to differentiate between what to do and what not to do. Everything that the pickup community stands for is everything that regular people SHOULD NOT DO.
I was involved in it for a few months after a friend convinced me to join the community, and boy, I was in for a ride. I came out of it extremely disgusted and wanting a bit of normalcy in my interactions, such as, well, actually communicating on the spot and not out of a script. There were literally people in the community who would write down and memorize every possible conversation possibility and act it out in a bar. What they don't get, however, is that every situation is different, even if the spoken words are exactly the same. The context determines the language used, whether it's body language or spoken language, and when you are acting out a script, it often comes off as very incongruent to the situation. It's awkward, for short.
I don't recommend ANYONE to get into that pickup community crap. It's morally bankrupt, and you won't learn a damn thing, unless you go in there totally skeptical (like I did) and come away with some knowledge about how not to act.
I know, all of the above is probably borderline trolling, but from first hand experience, I would absolutely not recommend anyone to read those retarded books. Just be social and learn slowly by immersing yourself in friendly conversation.
... in order to learn social IQ from public school.
I learned a lot just by the minute interactions I had with a lot of my classmates, most of it being real shitty. It sucked, but I learned a lot from all of those bad experiences.
Being home schooled means you don't really get to experience all of those crappy, but necessary, events.
I had a computer ever since I was five or six, and I played tons of old DOS games while figuring out, with my dad, how to make autoexec.bat + config.sys boot disks in order to play certain games. It came to a point where I would much rather stay in my room and play video games rather than playing tag football or anything else outside with kids around my neighborhood.
Fast forward a few years, and I find myself struggling like crazy trying to relate to anyone on a personal level, up until my second or third year of college. Since much of college, at least in my experience, had to do with interaction with other people, I ended up losing a lot of confidence and went through the shitter for a while. I finally realized after a while that I had to force myself to interact with people: I started going to a coffee shop after I transferred schools and interacted with as many people as I could, while being hooped up on Zoloft in order to get rid of my social anxiety. Then eventually, I overcame my fear and am now fairly comfortable around people.
Now, of course this is all anecdotal evidence that could also possibly point to the benefits of FIRST being a socially inept geek, THEN learning how to socialize and having the best of both worlds. However, I also had the benefit of having parents encouraging me to socialize as much as possible while being somewhat understanding of me wanting to just stay at home, and I also had the benefit of growing up with computers back when they were starting to become popular (so it wasn't totally infeasible for someone else in the block to have a computer), but also back when you had to have motivation to get things to work properly.
Nowadays, Web 2.0 hands people the power to publish blogs, websites, etc. with almost no effort, and any drive to learn HTML / CSS / etc. is limited by the mere fact that most functionality is already implemented MUCH BETTER than what an average person can probably do. That, and most kids nowadays probably don't know any DOS games (and even if they did, they probably played it through DOSBox, which makes things infinitely easier than before.)
I disagree with your last sentence. Though I do agree that philosophy does not necessarily solve problems itself, it effectively RESTRICTS the line of inquiry to a set of probable questions that we can then ask in whatever positive scientific discipline.
Slashdot Mirror
I now can play my favorite game of all time with decent performance: 3DMark
If you live in Seattle, Essential Bakery in Fremont is prime for dumpster diving as well.
(I'm not homeless, but I'm a college student, and the bread is usually VERY fresh. I promise. :D)
I'll be extremely happy when they finally find a planet with water, and not that crazy alien XYZ that I keep hearing about...
Yeah there is.
Ever look at a hipster's Facebook page? :)
I'm addicted to something, therefore I'm impervious to MPP!
(I didn't even provide enough assumptions for you to refute my reasoning above!)
Soyataur, the self-styled all purpose overlord, had ordered the a few of his followers to help him print a Word document. He is still puzzled as to why his followers disappeared so suddenly without letting him know about going off to the milk or tofu business.
... I think there's hope for us after all, I just hope the Archive Team archives slashdot so that <blink> is eliminated forever
Always avoid
SiliconValley/Heights here.
I ran a somewhat popular Mechwarrior 2: Mercenaries site way back when I was ten, and I learned a bit of HTML by tacking on endless lists of crap on a single HTML webpage. It helped me get more into MW2: Mercenaries and helped me learn a lot about HTML (or at least, I can now look at the site and see how long I've come, and how broken everything was back then.)
This is a little bit off topic, but does anyone remember Clan Nuclear Slug?
I don't understand, there's only remote controlled robots?
It's been a pretty popular site for gamers for quite a while. A probably reason why they went under is not because it was an unknown site (they wouldn't have stuck around for as long as they did if it wasn't known by a good number of people), but because there was no incentive for people to invest money into the site. Fileplanet used to be like FileFront, except they saw that there was something to exploit, so they changed their system into a queue-based system, while offering subscriptions in order to go back to a queue-less system.
FileFront not only has all the perks that one of the posters mentioned already (no queues, fast download speeds, etc.), but also, you can find a lot of obscure mods from 10+ years ago -- as well as patches to extremely old games -- on FileFront. More often than not, I would come up with broken links if I tried to find anything older than 6-8 years on Fileplanet. Not so on FileFront.
This seems a little similar to the "Moore method", except, well, the "Moore method" is used in advanced undergraduate / graduate level mathematics classes. :) I took a senior level analysis class which employed the "Moore method" (more or less) and I learned quite a bit, though I was way too distracted with a few things in my life outside of academia at the time, so I ended up utterly failing the class. However, these sorts of instruction, the open-ended teaching paradigms, which seems to merely assume the knowledge base and not the intelligence of each person in the classroom, is quite pleasant when implemented well.
I used to help my peers out without question back in high school (in exchange for money or to be looked at a little more favorably), but I've realized a few things:
1.) The money did sort of matter, but I realized that there was a distinct separation between learning how to socialize and be friends with all sorts of people, and "just doing business";
2.) The people wanting the favors wanted to pay me back by acting "nice" for a little while until they've paid their dues. After that, it doesn't matter.
That sounds totally cynical, but believe me, it doesn't really help things with a geek's social life if all their reason for going out is to do someone a damn favor.
(note: I still help people out with computer problems, I just try to make it clear it is strictly business, and that I'm not doing it to earn favors from anyone.)
sorry, i had to take a dump.
Whoops. :\
I wonder when there will be a Facebook group claiming to own all Facebook groups, but itself claiming to be a Facebook group. :x
This sounds real terrible, but the classes where I learned the most about the scientific method was not in the freshman level physics courses that I took in college (a lot of it was just regurgitation of equations, facts, etc.), nor was it in any other science course that I took in high school or wherever else, but rather, it was in an english / comparative history of ideas course that I took where we went through several pieces of philosophy, from Plato, to Aristotle, to Bacon, Descartes, Peirce, and Kuhn. The course was titled, "Method, Imagination, and Inquiry."
Of course, it also helps to work in a research lab and being able to sit in in the round table discussions that we have every week. :)
I don't know about you guys, but I prefer QWERTY because I can easily type "lol" repeatedly on one hand while having the other hand ready to cover my mouth in laughter, depending on how many "lol's" I type.
This comes really handy in conversations which use internet in pluralized form and conversations with cats with "lol" as the prefix.
Being a "stereotypical nerd" is social conditioning as well, remember that.
The point is that you have to learn how to be sociable. And to do that, you unfortunately have to shed (or at least hide) some of the more individual quirks that you may have.
Then when you become closer to the people you've related with, you can then express a bit more of who you are (in reasonable degrees), which makes you that much more intriguing.
It's all about being able to be sociable and still keep the core of who you are.
I'm definitely not the first person to say this, but, well...
Fuck. That. Shit.
I didn't read The Game, but I read many of the more "esoteric" books in the community, like the Juggler Method, Mystery Method, etc. etc. etc. And I realized, after meeting many people who were really involved into this shit, that really, it's a bunch of crap. The best thing to learn from it is that it's a good way to differentiate between what to do and what not to do. Everything that the pickup community stands for is everything that regular people SHOULD NOT DO.
I was involved in it for a few months after a friend convinced me to join the community, and boy, I was in for a ride. I came out of it extremely disgusted and wanting a bit of normalcy in my interactions, such as, well, actually communicating on the spot and not out of a script. There were literally people in the community who would write down and memorize every possible conversation possibility and act it out in a bar. What they don't get, however, is that every situation is different, even if the spoken words are exactly the same. The context determines the language used, whether it's body language or spoken language, and when you are acting out a script, it often comes off as very incongruent to the situation. It's awkward, for short.
I don't recommend ANYONE to get into that pickup community crap. It's morally bankrupt, and you won't learn a damn thing, unless you go in there totally skeptical (like I did) and come away with some knowledge about how not to act.
I know, all of the above is probably borderline trolling, but from first hand experience, I would absolutely not recommend anyone to read those retarded books. Just be social and learn slowly by immersing yourself in friendly conversation.
... in order to learn social IQ from public school.
I learned a lot just by the minute interactions I had with a lot of my classmates, most of it being real shitty. It sucked, but I learned a lot from all of those bad experiences.
Being home schooled means you don't really get to experience all of those crappy, but necessary, events.
Did the tag just tell me to tap it?
If Hip-Hop has told me anything, it is to tap any hole that is tappable. I am jealous that the physicists have outdone us again. :(
I had a computer ever since I was five or six, and I played tons of old DOS games while figuring out, with my dad, how to make autoexec.bat + config.sys boot disks in order to play certain games. It came to a point where I would much rather stay in my room and play video games rather than playing tag football or anything else outside with kids around my neighborhood.
Fast forward a few years, and I find myself struggling like crazy trying to relate to anyone on a personal level, up until my second or third year of college. Since much of college, at least in my experience, had to do with interaction with other people, I ended up losing a lot of confidence and went through the shitter for a while. I finally realized after a while that I had to force myself to interact with people: I started going to a coffee shop after I transferred schools and interacted with as many people as I could, while being hooped up on Zoloft in order to get rid of my social anxiety. Then eventually, I overcame my fear and am now fairly comfortable around people.
Now, of course this is all anecdotal evidence that could also possibly point to the benefits of FIRST being a socially inept geek, THEN learning how to socialize and having the best of both worlds. However, I also had the benefit of having parents encouraging me to socialize as much as possible while being somewhat understanding of me wanting to just stay at home, and I also had the benefit of growing up with computers back when they were starting to become popular (so it wasn't totally infeasible for someone else in the block to have a computer), but also back when you had to have motivation to get things to work properly.
Nowadays, Web 2.0 hands people the power to publish blogs, websites, etc. with almost no effort, and any drive to learn HTML / CSS / etc. is limited by the mere fact that most functionality is already implemented MUCH BETTER than what an average person can probably do. That, and most kids nowadays probably don't know any DOS games (and even if they did, they probably played it through DOSBox, which makes things infinitely easier than before.)
I disagree with your last sentence. Though I do agree that philosophy does not necessarily solve problems itself, it effectively RESTRICTS the line of inquiry to a set of probable questions that we can then ask in whatever positive scientific discipline.