Same here. I keep quite a few different characters, and shed the old ones in order to keep my privacy. Everybody I know does it to keep their past from haunting them. Funny how I look back on my old personalities and realize what a moron I was. It'd be horrible if people took the posts I made when I was 14 and use them as evidence against my character. People change in the real world, and the past is normally forgotten, but on teh interwebs, they stay the same, unless WE can help it. Also, it's great to see a new email account that spammers haven't gotten a hold of yet.
I wonder how long it'll be until we start accepting the truth and quit our denial of scientific, historical, and other important facts for political reasons.
Never said anything about sharing, DRM, or terrorism. I've never bought an ebook, nor do I read commercial ebooks. I used to whine about how hard to find good books were, until I started looking at the internet at Creative Commons and other free formats. Now, I only buy books that are worth buying, and just for the sake of keeping a hard copy for my library.
I've been reading mostly ebooks for a while. They can be read on a cell phone, on a pc, on a PDA, and anything that can read ASCII or PDF and are sure easier to carry than normal paper books. Seeing that I now measure my reading habits in megabytes instead of pages, I think it's pretty unintelligent to say that because books are being sold less literacy is declining.
You'd think that being the master of deception he'd at least be able to draw more than rough stick figures and such. Satan needs art classes. Or maybe it's because he was younger and less experienced back then...
Nothing shocking. Only a bad joke for an ipod cover referencing to that one site. I've seen it before. You'd never get it if you didn't know what that site was about anyway.
I think we're all sitting around in our boring jobs hoping we'd work for/. We're better off in the hands of laid back nerds we wish we were than in the hand of technical drones that we're hoping not to become.
As a graphic designer, I often find my own business card too bothersome to make well, so I got for the simple stuff. My carpenter friend normally makes simplistic furniture for his house, choosing not to make wonderful works of art like he makes for other people. With that logic, I should assume that/. programmers would rather be modding NES pads to control their alarm clocks, running linux off a toaster, or reading comics than getting rid of minor annoyances like that one. And I like it that way.
Yes, I purchased the legitimate thing from a respectable, authorized seller. I don't download that stuff, and I keep my taskbar empty. I keep a crap ware free machine. I had to turn WGA off in order to keep it from slowing down my real work (which takes up a lot of ram already). But somehow, after 4 months of use, it decided that my copy was illegitimate. So it almost locked me out, till I called tech support to fix it. (Good thing I still had the warranty). Maybe I'm just not Windows 1337 enough for it... I guess I'll go back to DOS. or go on to Linux.
That reminded me of the conspiracy people in the 70s and 80s saying that the government recruited kids with high scores for the army. How low have they sunk! Now they force you to get high scores!
I learned to read at an early age (3 or 4 years, can't remember), and spent a big time reading encyclopedias of animals, microbial life forms, and weird things. I had an understanding that there were all those things, but didn't "understand" most of it. It was more of a way to pass time. Still, it was interesting because they did all sorts of weird things and had interesting lives that kept me entertained.
Now that I'm all grown up, I see parents cramming their children with Winnie the Pooh, pokemon, and such, and I notice those kids understand those cartoon characters in the same way I understood the animals from my encyclopedias. When talking to those kids about those "childish" things, they talk in the same way I spoke about animals. There's a stereotype that kids must like "childish" stuff and cartoons so much, that parents end up cramming them with that kinda junk. Give a kid freedom, and he will most the time choose "the box instead of the toy". The problem is not "will they understand", but rather, what will they choose to understand, and what kind of stuff will parents choose to censor, push or encourage.
In a past story, we got links to all kinds of piracy websites, but this time we get no links to pr0n... Am I missing something? Since when is linking to pr0n any more taboo than linking to piracy?
Those "empty rectangles" are to a web site what a tip jar is to a street musician or an empty cup to a hobo. It's where you throw in your part to keep 'em going... (and maybe keep 'em drunk, too!)
Haven't we all welcomed our OS overlord Microsoft? Not really, more like they took us Attila the Hun style... "See all those heads in our bags? They were people who wouldn't upgrade to Vista. Unless you wanna go in, upgrade..."
I read an article a while ago about how we have overrated sitting, and so much sitting time is costing us our health. I read something about how many hours we were supposed to spend sitting, how many standing, and how many laying down. Anymore that that time limit, and we'd be stressing our bodies beyond nature. Then, yet another article on how some schools were trying to have students stand up while studying in order to prevent bad posture and promote weight-loss (standing up is already a workout).
I already walk around while playing my DS, and get up from the computer at least every half hour. I've setting up my office to allow me to work while standing for a while now, but I get stuck on monitor configuration. How to switch from standing to sitting quickly without interrupting the work flow (still stumped there)?
Alternate ergonomics are unfamiliar, but not impossible. The thing is, we aren't made for sitting in front of a computer all day long, but we could fool our bodies into feeling we aren't. Treadmills, changing postures, etc.
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Yee lubbers mod this one! It's a post touched by His Noodly Appendage!
The Germinator: I'll sprout back.
Less than he can throw chair. they're a bit harder to throw, since he'll be a bit tired after ripping it off the wall.
Same here. I keep quite a few different characters, and shed the old ones in order to keep my privacy. Everybody I know does it to keep their past from haunting them. Funny how I look back on my old personalities and realize what a moron I was. It'd be horrible if people took the posts I made when I was 14 and use them as evidence against my character. People change in the real world, and the past is normally forgotten, but on teh interwebs, they stay the same, unless WE can help it. Also, it's great to see a new email account that spammers haven't gotten a hold of yet.
Literally cool, that is!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocaust_denial
I wonder how long it'll be until we start accepting the truth and quit our denial of scientific, historical, and other important facts for political reasons.
Never said anything about sharing, DRM, or terrorism. I've never bought an ebook, nor do I read commercial ebooks. I used to whine about how hard to find good books were, until I started looking at the internet at Creative Commons and other free formats. Now, I only buy books that are worth buying, and just for the sake of keeping a hard copy for my library.
I've been reading mostly ebooks for a while. They can be read on a cell phone, on a pc, on a PDA, and anything that can read ASCII or PDF and are sure easier to carry than normal paper books. Seeing that I now measure my reading habits in megabytes instead of pages, I think it's pretty unintelligent to say that because books are being sold less literacy is declining.
And maybe you people claiming to know what's a hoax are here to distract us in order to cover up an even bigger conspiracy.
You'd think that being the master of deception he'd at least be able to draw more than rough stick figures and such. Satan needs art classes. Or maybe it's because he was younger and less experienced back then...
We're getting tons of festivities, all together: towel day, Star Wars tuned 30, now tron. I say we declare may Nerd Pride Month.
Nothing shocking. Only a bad joke for an ipod cover referencing to that one site. I've seen it before. You'd never get it if you didn't know what that site was about anyway.
I think we're all sitting around in our boring jobs hoping we'd work for /. We're better off in the hands of laid back nerds we wish we were than in the hand of technical drones that we're hoping not to become.
As a graphic designer, I often find my own business card too bothersome to make well, so I got for the simple stuff. My carpenter friend normally makes simplistic furniture for his house, choosing not to make wonderful works of art like he makes for other people. With that logic, I should assume that /. programmers would rather be modding NES pads to control their alarm clocks, running linux off a toaster, or reading comics than getting rid of minor annoyances like that one. And I like it that way.
Yes, I purchased the legitimate thing from a respectable, authorized seller. I don't download that stuff, and I keep my taskbar empty. I keep a crap ware free machine. I had to turn WGA off in order to keep it from slowing down my real work (which takes up a lot of ram already). But somehow, after 4 months of use, it decided that my copy was illegitimate. So it almost locked me out, till I called tech support to fix it. (Good thing I still had the warranty). Maybe I'm just not Windows 1337 enough for it... I guess I'll go back to DOS. or go on to Linux.
The daily upgrades kept making the machine slower and the system was overly paranoid with too many unwanted pop ups.
And flamebait, too!
That reminded me of the conspiracy people in the 70s and 80s saying that the government recruited kids with high scores for the army. How low have they sunk! Now they force you to get high scores!
A great funny/insightful/informative comment, and here I am without any mod points.
Now that I'm all grown up, I see parents cramming their children with Winnie the Pooh, pokemon, and such, and I notice those kids understand those cartoon characters in the same way I understood the animals from my encyclopedias. When talking to those kids about those "childish" things, they talk in the same way I spoke about animals. There's a stereotype that kids must like "childish" stuff and cartoons so much, that parents end up cramming them with that kinda junk. Give a kid freedom, and he will most the time choose "the box instead of the toy". The problem is not "will they understand", but rather, what will they choose to understand, and what kind of stuff will parents choose to censor, push or encourage.
In a past story, we got links to all kinds of piracy websites, but this time we get no links to pr0n... Am I missing something? Since when is linking to pr0n any more taboo than linking to piracy?
Those "empty rectangles" are to a web site what a tip jar is to a street musician or an empty cup to a hobo. It's where you throw in your part to keep 'em going... (and maybe keep 'em drunk, too!)
Their priorities are off somewhere in Acapulco eating gold-plated eggs and drinking fancy wine. Sure pays to work for M$!
Haven't we all welcomed our OS overlord Microsoft? Not really, more like they took us Attila the Hun style... "See all those heads in our bags? They were people who wouldn't upgrade to Vista. Unless you wanna go in, upgrade..."
I already walk around while playing my DS, and get up from the computer at least every half hour. I've setting up my office to allow me to work while standing for a while now, but I get stuck on monitor configuration. How to switch from standing to sitting quickly without interrupting the work flow (still stumped there)?
Alternate ergonomics are unfamiliar, but not impossible. The thing is, we aren't made for sitting in front of a computer all day long, but we could fool our bodies into feeling we aren't. Treadmills, changing postures, etc.