Because it makes you lazy and forgetful, and what's worse for our corporate overlords, makes you think.
Makes forgetful and makes you think....the forgetful part kind of cancels out the thinking part doesn't it?. if anything corporate overlords would promote a drug which makes you forget.
Corporate overlord:Buy this!
Customer: I have that already and it useless.
Corporate overlord:Have a joint
Customer: *takes a puff* ahhh you gave me this joint just to triiiiiiii....*forgets everything*
Corporate overlord:Buy this!
Customer: Okay...looks cool and useful...I'd love to have one
...the lack of offline messaging for msn can be quite annoying. Mind you it's not fault of the pidgin developers, but microsoft, who seemed to have used some arcane way to implement this feature.
I've used gaim and pidgin for a long time, but crumbled and when to msn solely cause of lack of offline msging.
and mind you pidgins simple look was a plus for plus for me.
The fact that it's so easy to replicate/steal, makes you wonder should it really cost that much?
If there was a machine that can replicate a 500,000 dollar car for 100 dollars....wouldn't you be asking yourself....should I really pay 499,900 dollars just for design?...should cars cost so much?
An interesting idea, applied to slashdot each user, or more advanced users could use own custom Bayesian filters, to block out what THEY think is stupid, other people would still see it but they wouldn't.
Technically this will be just a spam filter, a language classifier, the same could be used with almost no modification to filter out (or keep only) the funny comments.
Now if I could find a way to apply this in the physical life (i don't want to use the term 'real life', and this is the best i could come up with), it would be great.
This could be the start of another monkey sphere, Dunbar's number discussion and how it's quite normal and if not healthy to make jokes about a tragedy that happened outside your monkey sphere. We haven't BECOME desensitized, we always were. It just that before the information explosion, we weren't aware of the bad things that happened all the way across the world. To say that people were more caring/sensitive before is wrong, before people were just more oblivious of what's going on in the world. 20-30 years ago, hardly anyone outside of finland would hear about this story.
If I cried or just felt bad every time I hear about a tragic death....i'd be sad 24/7.
Good point, but I think the real problem lies on our conception of Internet. Internet is not something separate from this world. There is no privacy on it by default. It's foolish to want anonymity on the internet. Google violates your privacy, by knowing the link you clicked on THEIR search results? That's like saying that the cashier violates your privacy by knowing what products you bought. Privacy on the internet is a myth, a dream we have to stop chasing. Internet is a public place, going to freeones.com to have a look at a few pictures, is no different then browsing through Hustler in your local shop, people will see you, the owner of the shop will see you....are they violating your privacy?
Bad analogies aside, my point is: Internet is a public place, and there is no privacy in a public place.
my mom's on the facebook as well, and couple of her friends (all over 50)
the (potentially) strange thing here, is that I am not.
I guess 50 year olds are more hip, then before....because if you're 50 now, you were 35 when the Internet became a hit, and 35 is not that old.
What I am trying to say is that it's not that people who are older are starting to use Internet, it's more like people who have been using Internet (since it's popularization) are getting older, and yes that means YOU. YOU are getting older.
You make a good point which brings me to this point you don't have to be either a pessimist or optimist...it's all in the ratio. We don't need to be so binary, it's not all hit or miss.
So one could be 70% optimist and 30% pessimist. It hard to whittle down a personality trait down to exact percentages, but i think it's just as foolish to think in absolutes (either 0% or 100% and ignoring everything in between) and thinking either you're one or the other. As you've said
I always believe deep inside that I can succeed it shows you've got some optimism in you.
I suppose you could call the 100% pessimistic people depressive people. Furthermore I think pessimism/optimism isn't a stable personality trait (i don't think any personality trait is truly stable) it variates depending on the situation.
isn't same as being ignorant or oblivious of the situation.
Some one saying "The world is perfect!", isn't being optimistic, just delusional. As someone in replies said already, there is a difference between delusion and optimism. You can be realistic about the situation, but optimistic about your ability to live in it. Being optimistic and being realistic aren't mutually exclusive. Optimist and a pessimist might interpret the situation EXACTLY the same. Optimist will however think that the situation can be improved or made less bad, and will usually act on that. Pessimist will however be entirely passive and complain how it will only get worse, AND because he is passive it WILL (in most cases) get worse, making his claim a self fulfilling prophecy.
Someone here said that pessimist are good for contingency plans, well I disagree. A pessimist would think 'why make a plan, it will go wrong anyway', an optimist will say "Things will go wrong, but I think we can make a plan that will reduce the damage if they do".
Once again difference between pessimist and optimist, is not in the view of "How things are?" but in the view of "What can be done?"
Of course this is in my opinion (and in opinon of some people from who i 'stole' the ideas from)
While piracy is the bane of many musicians trying to control the sale of their songs' I think it's been more of bane for music executives, then musicians. Maybe the time of worldwide superstar musicians is coming to an end.(not tomorrow, but in a few years maybe) Without music industry, popularity of an artist will go back to the word of the mouth, not the amount of the money record company decides to spend on promoting a certain artist. Only word of the mouth, nowdays is more word of the blog,podcast,pitchfork(oh dear) but that's ok, maybe that's how it should be. What I am saying without music industry there won't be any massive worldwide campaigns and you won't have instant massive world superstars, cause those things cost money. There will be only local music stars, only this 'local' won't depends so much on where you live, but which part of the Internet you frequent the most.
1,700 songs is really a lousy share... she wouldn't be able to get on any decent DC hub with a share like that. Plus she used KazaA. These trials make it sound like listening to music is a crime.
Gates isn't even a geek. I mean I never viewed him as a computer guy. He is primarily a businessman. Yes, he knows more about computers then your average businessman, but he is still one of them. Paul Allen was the geek.
Slashdot Mirror
Corporate overlord:Buy this!
Customer: I have that already and it useless.
Corporate overlord:Have a joint
Customer: *takes a puff* ahhh you gave me this joint just to triiiiiiii....*forgets everything*
Corporate overlord:Buy this!
Customer: Okay...looks cool and useful...I'd love to have one
...the lack of offline messaging for msn can be quite annoying.
Mind you it's not fault of the pidgin developers, but microsoft, who seemed to have used some arcane way to implement this feature.
I've used gaim and pidgin for a long time, but crumbled and when to msn solely cause of lack of offline msging.
and mind you pidgins simple look was a plus for plus for me.
The fact that it's so easy to replicate/steal, makes you wonder should it really cost that much?
If there was a machine that can replicate a 500,000 dollar car for 100 dollars....wouldn't you be asking yourself....should I really pay 499,900 dollars just for design?...should cars cost so much?
You are dead to my imagination now
Can I shoot people who trespass on my imaginary property?
An interesting idea, applied to slashdot each user, or more advanced users could use own custom Bayesian filters, to block out what THEY think is stupid, other people would still see it but they wouldn't.
Technically this will be just a spam filter, a language classifier, the same could be used with almost no modification to filter out (or keep only) the funny comments.
Now if I could find a way to apply this in the physical life (i don't want to use the term 'real life', and this is the best i could come up with), it would be great.
This could be the start of another monkey sphere, Dunbar's number discussion and how it's quite normal and if not healthy to make jokes about a tragedy that happened outside your monkey sphere.
We haven't BECOME desensitized, we always were. It just that before the information explosion, we weren't aware of the bad things that happened all the way across the world. To say that people were more caring/sensitive before is wrong, before people were just more oblivious of what's going on in the world. 20-30 years ago, hardly anyone outside of finland would hear about this story.
If I cried or just felt bad every time I hear about a tragic death....i'd be sad 24/7.
Good point, but I think the real problem lies on our conception of Internet. Internet is not something separate from this world. There is no privacy on it by default. It's foolish to want anonymity on the internet. Google violates your privacy, by knowing the link you clicked on THEIR search results? That's like saying that the cashier violates your privacy by knowing what products you bought.
Privacy on the internet is a myth, a dream we have to stop chasing. Internet is a public place, going to freeones.com to have a look at a few pictures, is no different then browsing through Hustler in your local shop, people will see you, the owner of the shop will see you....are they violating your privacy?
Bad analogies aside, my point is: Internet is a public place, and there is no privacy in a public place.
my mom's on the facebook as well, and couple of her friends (all over 50) the (potentially) strange thing here, is that I am not. I guess 50 year olds are more hip, then before....because if you're 50 now, you were 35 when the Internet became a hit, and 35 is not that old. What I am trying to say is that it's not that people who are older are starting to use Internet, it's more like people who have been using Internet (since it's popularization) are getting older, and yes that means YOU. YOU are getting older.
now the question will be "did my shirt get mixed in with the non-electrical laundry?"
and "will this thing shock me everytime it rains?"
So one could be 70% optimist and 30% pessimist. It hard to whittle down a personality trait down to exact percentages, but i think it's just as foolish to think in absolutes (either 0% or 100% and ignoring everything in between) and thinking either you're one or the other. As you've said
I always believe deep inside that I can succeed it shows you've got some optimism in you.I suppose you could call the 100% pessimistic people depressive people. Furthermore I think pessimism/optimism isn't a stable personality trait (i don't think any personality trait is truly stable) it variates depending on the situation.
isn't same as being ignorant or oblivious of the situation. Some one saying "The world is perfect!", isn't being optimistic, just delusional. As someone in replies said already, there is a difference between delusion and optimism. You can be realistic about the situation, but optimistic about your ability to live in it. Being optimistic and being realistic aren't mutually exclusive. Optimist and a pessimist might interpret the situation EXACTLY the same. Optimist will however think that the situation can be improved or made less bad, and will usually act on that. Pessimist will however be entirely passive and complain how it will only get worse, AND because he is passive it WILL (in most cases) get worse, making his claim a self fulfilling prophecy.
Someone here said that pessimist are good for contingency plans, well I disagree. A pessimist would think 'why make a plan, it will go wrong anyway', an optimist will say "Things will go wrong, but I think we can make a plan that will reduce the damage if they do".
Once again difference between pessimist and optimist, is not in the view of "How things are?" but in the view of "What can be done?"
Of course this is in my opinion (and in opinon of some people from who i 'stole' the ideas from)Al is that you?
1,700 songs is really a lousy share... she wouldn't be able to get on any decent DC hub with a share like that. Plus she used KazaA. These trials make it sound like listening to music is a crime.
Where and when is all this kissing going on? Although IT people do have a rather broad definition of 'kissing'.
then schizophrenics are like ...quantum astronauts.
"My dreams have come true, I am an astronaut."
*I am reading Robert Anton Wilson so I have great disdain for the word 'is' now, and the word 'true' as well.
Gates isn't even a geek. I mean I never viewed him as a computer guy. He is primarily a businessman. Yes, he knows more about computers then your average businessman, but he is still one of them. Paul Allen was the geek.
Geek Action TOYS! Only instead of kung-fu grips they'll have carpal tunnel syndromes.