My sense of smell is probably just shy of a bloodhound's, so food flavors are more varied for me than most I guess. For me smells have color and texture, too. People just don't understand when I say something smells brown and dusty.
Synesthesia - awesome!
I also have an enhanced sense of smell, which brings up a pet theory of mine. I find that women smell really good, and men do not - to me. I'm not talking about perfume or unclean body odor, but an inherent smell to each sex. Women just smell good. And I find a relationship between the smell and who I find attractive. I have always suspected that people might be noticing a smell that doesn't quite reach their threshold of sensation, but react to it anyhow.
Which has always made me wonder about the idea of sexual orientation as inborn or a choice. I never chose to find the inherent smell of women attractive, but it tells me something about myself.
People taste things differently, too. I hate cilantro, but others seem to like it. It tastes like copper or soap to me. I wonder how this new VR eating will cover variances like that.
Ugh - the taste of Cilantro reminds me of getting an ivory soap bar stuck in my mouth as a punishment for being saucy as a kid.
Now one other thing about smell that is interesting. For all of the things I smell intensely, I can just barely smell bayberry. All of us have a few holes in our sense of smell. Like the smell of urine after eating asparagus. I love asparagus, but the smell when you hit the bathroom next? Yikes! Since some people reported they couldn't smell those effects, it was originally thought that they didn't produce the smell - as it turned out, it's just that some people can't smell it. The lucky bastards!
Absolutely nothing providing you don't complain about dataloss. Better idea, why not store your entire system in non-volatile memory since you have such amazing uptime. You're spoilt for reliability and that makes you utterly reckless with your data. Yeah it suck if you lose some work but with that approach expect to be mocked rather than finding sympathisers.
Spoiled for reliability?!?!?!? We have reached the ultimate shill post. When you complain that reliability is a bad thing, you reached the pinnacle of fanboi'ism. Even a paid shill wouldn't declare that reliability is a bad thing.
You are Godammnedright I am spoiled for reliability. And your idea that we should be willing to settle for any less is just about the most ridiculous whining I have ever read. My job is to get things done with my computer, not struggle to make it work.
I fear you have a terminal case of Stockholm Syndrome.
So, the setting of "reboot your PC at random" vs "reboot your PC at random but with 1 hour warning" is completely unacceptable to me.
Again it's only random to someone who has no idea what they are doing. The reboots are only at a preset time and only if a computer is identified in an idle state, something various OSes have spent a good 20 years providing APIs to allow programmers to identify opportune times to perform maintenance.
I want my computer to reboot only when I tell it to reboot, not when the Operating system decides is a good time. I want a popup box that I can say reboot after the update, or reboot whenever. I know exactly what I am doing, and any reboot of the computer needs performed specifically at my direction. Not your's, not Microsoft's not Apple's, not Linus Torvald's. Mine. Me, the boss of my computer.
The up-time numbers you're quoting also tells something else about your approach to security and updates. No doubt you'll be the first to complain when your computer crashes due to a fixed issue by some update you blocked.
But the new issues caused by the update process are simply wonderful? Windows 10 causes more issues than it fixes, which is why I abandoned it except in the one network I do that doens'n have internet access, and therefore works.
Tell me - when a Win10 update comes in and knocks your computer out, let's say something simple, like the typical endless reboot "feature" - explain how this is the users fault. I'm interested, because I suspect you will have an interesting story about how it isn't Microsoft's fault.
You left a computer for over an hour with open and unsaved documents, in not normally a victim blamer but you have it coming.
And you know everything about the guy. It isn't that it is a good practice, but I would sometimes get called away form my desk, for a minute, and not get back for hours. Then again, I didn't use an OS that acted like it knew better than me.
Also windows updates don't magically apply when software user's standard wake timers like the ones that prevent screensavers while watching a video or prevent sleep while encoding or compiling.
Again learn how your computer works.
I did. That's why I don't use Windows 10. The more you know about it, the less it is appealing. I do realize that every problem I have with W10 is my stupidity. So I moved back to W7, where I miraculously got a whole lot smarter immediately. Weird how that worked.
How about when it informs me that it scheduled an update in an hour and I'm not at the computer, so I don't get to see the popup and I lose my open documents?
Your fault. What kind of idiot leaves their computer alone for a second?
How about when I want to reboot because my Wacom driver has stopped working and I don't have 40 minutes to sit through an update install I wasn't aware of because I'm in the middle of actually trying to do some work?
Your fault. The upkeep of the computer is more important than your work. If you have work to do when Microsoft needs to do an update, you should have woke up earlier and not inconvenienced them. Then you'd have your work finished.
How about when I've delayed the update install a couple of times and now Windows decided I don't get a choice when to reboot and just shuts off?
Your fault. Delaying updates is a security risk, and if you had the nerve to delay them, you are just asking for problems, so if you lose work or the thing goes dead in the middle of a big meeting, maybe you will think twice.
So now I have the update service disabled and I'm not getting any updates installed instead of installing them at a convenient time like I do on 7.
Windows 10 had that too. It asks you when to reboot, and warns you an auto reboot is accredited when your computer is set to. Arbitrary in this context is translation for "I don't know what I'm doing"
Everything Microsoft puts out is flawless, and every problem is the fault of the user. And it only gets better and better.
If you have a problem, you are stupid.
That's why I went back to W7. I'm not so damn stupid with that OS. Problem solved.
I was thinking the same thing. And how does it actually work without some system adding a smell? Smell is a BIG part of tasting (and sex).
Try eating something like an apple while holding your nose closed. It doesn't "taste" the same. The texture may be there, but the great apple flavor is somewhat off.
Glad I wasn't the only one. But yes, smell is very much intertwined with east. I have two friends with Chron's, and the medicines for each knocked out their sense of smell and taste. The one guy decided that eating was boring and lost a lot of weight - no problem because he needed to. The other guy needed to have his wife as part of the healing process - doctors told her she had to nag him to eat even if he didn't want to.
That guy eventually got to go off his meds - I think it was remicaid (sp?) or somthing like that, and his sense of smell came back while in the office. Never saw a mid 50's guy so excited. Now he's sporting a bit of a belly.
Imagine though, if Facebook or any other social media were forced to remove or not allow posting of anything anyone found objectionable.
By the time you added up the concerns of individual countries like Germany, France, Turkey, China, North Korea, and take individual groups concerns, PETA, the Tumbler crowd, Religion pro or con, or any other group that is offended at something, you come up with nothing allowable.
Because for whatever is out there, someone hates it.
I would suggest that if Germany finds it necessary to determine what the rest of the world can see on Facebook, it will be pretty difficult to make that happen. They might be more successful to make viewing of Facebook a crime in Germany, and work on methods of blocking them. Perhaps a Volkscomputer is in order.
This sums up 99% of my issues with Apple: not so much their anti-consumer practices (I don't buy from them, it's not my loss), but how insufferable their users are.
You ought to try looking at yourself once in a while.
If I am superior, it isn't because of what computer I buy. Or phone. Or Operating System. Or blah blah blah.
Having Mac and Windows and Linux and iOS and Android and ChromeOS devices, I can make some pretty informed decisions about what is good, which is better or worse.
That situation also makes it a little difficult to bullshit me. Let us not forget that you are on the side of the AC and others who accuse me of engaging in oral sex with the head of Apple. Or Hipster comments. But yeah, I can see where me noting that add-on devices on all computers is not unusual is much much worse that that.
Perhaps you might wish to engage in a discussion pointing out that my comparison with the Ford versus Chevy crowd is wrong. I grew up with that group, and the arguments are remarkably similar.
Or you can just mutter about fucking Mac hipsters are so smug and declare yourself the winner of some weird computer war inside your head.
Perhaps you're unaware that "standard port" and "ports I've seen frequently" are not the same thing?
He hates Mac. Because he's a computer redneck who would otherwise be pissing on the woodburning stove at the general store and screaming about his fukin awesome Chevy that mops the floor with those idjits that drive Fords. Explains everything No logic needed, only hate.
It's unforgiveable[sic] because they use proprietary ports instead of industry standard ports, which you then have to use an adapter to convert back to a standard port.
Time to go back to the basement and work on your GED.
For me, it was twice. I really wanted Windows 10 to work well. And right after installing it, it was promising. I put up with the telemetry because I only ran the program I needed for Windows on it, so nothing of value would be given to Microsoft.
Then the update breakage began. And as usual Microsoft was of little help, and the shills all replied that somehow it was my fault.
So I went to operating systems where I don't have problems that are my fault, and all is good.
Nowadays, all of the outside consultants bring in Macs and boot into Windows when necessary, which btw, is because of legacy, lethargy and support for a soon to be retiring lead programmer.
I've seen a lot of Macs in the last few years being used in a professional capacity, as well as a lot of students on campus using them. They have this weird tendency to always work. It's also the reason why I view the installed user base of Windows a little skeptically.
You should check again and filter by SteamOS/Linux. Then sort by cost, you will see a fair number of triple A games there. Sure a lot are missing but my last check had over 1000 games available. If you don't NEED game-of-the-moment-X, there is plenty there to keep you happy for years.
Now he's furiously searching for the ones Linux doesn't have on steam, which will magically become his new favorite games.
They didn't make 7 better than vista. They just rebadged vista and changed the default UAC policy, nothing else and waited until the CPUs caught up. The winSxS bloat that is in 7 came from vista.
And just how long will that last? At some point programs won't work well if at all for Win7. How many people you see still running Win2k (or Win98) and say they have no problems?
2020 by my estimate. I dropped Windows once before, and life was better. Now that the one program I needed and ran Windows 7 again has been enabled on the OSX side, I'll be happy to drop them again.
If you are willing to put up with any amount of shit from windows, and still keep using it - that's how much shit they are willing to put you through. You act like its some sign of superiority, while I have pity for people stuck on Windows, similar to the pity I feel for people with terminal syphilis dementia. Sorry for ya, but didn't have to turn out that way.
just the other day I was talking to my wife about anti-virus and an ad for one popped up at just the same time, talk about handy. Now I don't need o search, I just talk about things in range of the microphone and wait for the ad to pop up!
Oh boy, I shouldn't have made that joke about shemale midget scat porn. What am I going to come home to?
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My sense of smell is probably just shy of a bloodhound's, so food flavors are more varied for me than most I guess. For me smells have color and texture, too. People just don't understand when I say something smells brown and dusty.
Synesthesia - awesome! I also have an enhanced sense of smell, which brings up a pet theory of mine. I find that women smell really good, and men do not - to me. I'm not talking about perfume or unclean body odor, but an inherent smell to each sex. Women just smell good. And I find a relationship between the smell and who I find attractive. I have always suspected that people might be noticing a smell that doesn't quite reach their threshold of sensation, but react to it anyhow.
Which has always made me wonder about the idea of sexual orientation as inborn or a choice. I never chose to find the inherent smell of women attractive, but it tells me something about myself.
People taste things differently, too. I hate cilantro, but others seem to like it. It tastes like copper or soap to me. I wonder how this new VR eating will cover variances like that.
Ugh - the taste of Cilantro reminds me of getting an ivory soap bar stuck in my mouth as a punishment for being saucy as a kid.
Now one other thing about smell that is interesting. For all of the things I smell intensely, I can just barely smell bayberry. All of us have a few holes in our sense of smell. Like the smell of urine after eating asparagus. I love asparagus, but the smell when you hit the bathroom next? Yikes! Since some people reported they couldn't smell those effects, it was originally thought that they didn't produce the smell - as it turned out, it's just that some people can't smell it. The lucky bastards!
What's the problem with that?
Absolutely nothing providing you don't complain about dataloss. Better idea, why not store your entire system in non-volatile memory since you have such amazing uptime. You're spoilt for reliability and that makes you utterly reckless with your data. Yeah it suck if you lose some work but with that approach expect to be mocked rather than finding sympathisers.
Spoiled for reliability?!?!?!? We have reached the ultimate shill post. When you complain that reliability is a bad thing, you reached the pinnacle of fanboi'ism. Even a paid shill wouldn't declare that reliability is a bad thing.
You are Godammnedright I am spoiled for reliability. And your idea that we should be willing to settle for any less is just about the most ridiculous whining I have ever read. My job is to get things done with my computer, not struggle to make it work.
I fear you have a terminal case of Stockholm Syndrome.
So, the setting of "reboot your PC at random" vs "reboot your PC at random but with 1 hour warning" is completely unacceptable to me.
Again it's only random to someone who has no idea what they are doing. The reboots are only at a preset time and only if a computer is identified in an idle state, something various OSes have spent a good 20 years providing APIs to allow programmers to identify opportune times to perform maintenance.
I want my computer to reboot only when I tell it to reboot, not when the Operating system decides is a good time. I want a popup box that I can say reboot after the update, or reboot whenever. I know exactly what I am doing, and any reboot of the computer needs performed specifically at my direction. Not your's, not Microsoft's not Apple's, not Linus Torvald's. Mine. Me, the boss of my computer.
The up-time numbers you're quoting also tells something else about your approach to security and updates. No doubt you'll be the first to complain when your computer crashes due to a fixed issue by some update you blocked.
But the new issues caused by the update process are simply wonderful? Windows 10 causes more issues than it fixes, which is why I abandoned it except in the one network I do that doens'n have internet access, and therefore works.
Tell me - when a Win10 update comes in and knocks your computer out, let's say something simple, like the typical endless reboot "feature" - explain how this is the users fault. I'm interested, because I suspect you will have an interesting story about how it isn't Microsoft's fault.
You left a computer for over an hour with open and unsaved documents, in not normally a victim blamer but you have it coming.
And you know everything about the guy. It isn't that it is a good practice, but I would sometimes get called away form my desk, for a minute, and not get back for hours. Then again, I didn't use an OS that acted like it knew better than me.
Also windows updates don't magically apply when software user's standard wake timers like the ones that prevent screensavers while watching a video or prevent sleep while encoding or compiling.
Again learn how your computer works.
I did. That's why I don't use Windows 10. The more you know about it, the less it is appealing. I do realize that every problem I have with W10 is my stupidity. So I moved back to W7, where I miraculously got a whole lot smarter immediately. Weird how that worked.
How about when it informs me that it scheduled an update in an hour and I'm not at the computer, so I don't get to see the popup and I lose my open documents?
Your fault. What kind of idiot leaves their computer alone for a second?
How about when I want to reboot because my Wacom driver has stopped working and I don't have 40 minutes to sit through an update install I wasn't aware of because I'm in the middle of actually trying to do some work?
Your fault. The upkeep of the computer is more important than your work. If you have work to do when Microsoft needs to do an update, you should have woke up earlier and not inconvenienced them. Then you'd have your work finished.
How about when I've delayed the update install a couple of times and now Windows decided I don't get a choice when to reboot and just shuts off?
Your fault. Delaying updates is a security risk, and if you had the nerve to delay them, you are just asking for problems, so if you lose work or the thing goes dead in the middle of a big meeting, maybe you will think twice.
So now I have the update service disabled and I'm not getting any updates installed instead of installing them at a convenient time like I do on 7.
Redmond is working on making that a crime.
Hopefully you didn't take my response seriously.
Windows 10 had that too. It asks you when to reboot, and warns you an auto reboot is accredited when your computer is set to. Arbitrary in this context is translation for "I don't know what I'm doing"
Everything Microsoft puts out is flawless, and every problem is the fault of the user. And it only gets better and better.
If you have a problem, you are stupid.
That's why I went back to W7. I'm not so damn stupid with that OS. Problem solved.
I was thinking the same thing. And how does it actually work without some system adding a smell? Smell is a BIG part of tasting (and sex). Try eating something like an apple while holding your nose closed. It doesn't "taste" the same. The texture may be there, but the great apple flavor is somewhat off.
Glad I wasn't the only one. But yes, smell is very much intertwined with east. I have two friends with Chron's, and the medicines for each knocked out their sense of smell and taste. The one guy decided that eating was boring and lost a lot of weight - no problem because he needed to. The other guy needed to have his wife as part of the healing process - doctors told her she had to nag him to eat even if he didn't want to.
That guy eventually got to go off his meds - I think it was remicaid (sp?) or somthing like that, and his sense of smell came back while in the office. Never saw a mid 50's guy so excited. Now he's sporting a bit of a belly.
Not the "OMG OMG BIGBROTHER" hysteria reaction.
Imagine though, if Facebook or any other social media were forced to remove or not allow posting of anything anyone found objectionable.
By the time you added up the concerns of individual countries like Germany, France, Turkey, China, North Korea, and take individual groups concerns, PETA, the Tumbler crowd, Religion pro or con, or any other group that is offended at something, you come up with nothing allowable.
Because for whatever is out there, someone hates it.
I would suggest that if Germany finds it necessary to determine what the rest of the world can see on Facebook, it will be pretty difficult to make that happen. They might be more successful to make viewing of Facebook a crime in Germany, and work on methods of blocking them. Perhaps a Volkscomputer is in order.
The first thing I thought of was simulating the various tastes the pr0n VR market might use.
> I am superior because I buy Macs
This sums up 99% of my issues with Apple: not so much their anti-consumer practices (I don't buy from them, it's not my loss), but how insufferable their users are.
You ought to try looking at yourself once in a while.
If I am superior, it isn't because of what computer I buy. Or phone. Or Operating System. Or blah blah blah.
Having Mac and Windows and Linux and iOS and Android and ChromeOS devices, I can make some pretty informed decisions about what is good, which is better or worse.
That situation also makes it a little difficult to bullshit me. Let us not forget that you are on the side of the AC and others who accuse me of engaging in oral sex with the head of Apple. Or Hipster comments. But yeah, I can see where me noting that add-on devices on all computers is not unusual is much much worse that that.
Perhaps you might wish to engage in a discussion pointing out that my comparison with the Ford versus Chevy crowd is wrong. I grew up with that group, and the arguments are remarkably similar.
Or you can just mutter about fucking Mac hipsters are so smug and declare yourself the winner of some weird computer war inside your head.
Let me translate your comment. Ahem. ...no...I can't seem to translate the sounds of you sucking off Tim Cook.
Dreadfully sorry.
You gotta go a better job of entertaining us coward. So far, not so good.
I'm surprised TFA doesn't have a video. This is what they're talking about: https://www.youtube.com/watch?..
And the crowd goes mild.
No - that won't ever replace fireworks.
Everyone ages, and genetics trumps all.
And unless you are at the fringes, you are gonna die when you are gonna die, and not much can be done about it.
usb-c ports, you mean?
*head asplodes*
Perhaps you're unaware that "standard port" and "ports I've seen frequently" are not the same thing?
He hates Mac. Because he's a computer redneck who would otherwise be pissing on the woodburning stove at the general store and screaming about his fukin awesome Chevy that mops the floor with those idjits that drive Fords. Explains everything No logic needed, only hate.
Ads for cleaning products and air fresheners?
Took me a second there.
But on a Mac? Fucking unforgiveable.
It's unforgiveable[sic] because they use proprietary ports instead of industry standard ports, which you then have to use an adapter to convert back to a standard port.
Time to go back to the basement and work on your GED.
Microsoft is pushing its customer base away.
For me, it was twice. I really wanted Windows 10 to work well. And right after installing it, it was promising. I put up with the telemetry because I only ran the program I needed for Windows on it, so nothing of value would be given to Microsoft.
Then the update breakage began. And as usual Microsoft was of little help, and the shills all replied that somehow it was my fault.
So I went to operating systems where I don't have problems that are my fault, and all is good.
Nowadays, all of the outside consultants bring in Macs and boot into Windows when necessary, which btw, is because of legacy, lethargy and support for a soon to be retiring lead programmer.
I've seen a lot of Macs in the last few years being used in a professional capacity, as well as a lot of students on campus using them. They have this weird tendency to always work. It's also the reason why I view the installed user base of Windows a little skeptically.
You should check again and filter by SteamOS/Linux. Then sort by cost, you will see a fair number of triple A games there. Sure a lot are missing but my last check had over 1000 games available. If you don't NEED game-of-the-moment-X, there is plenty there to keep you happy for years.
Now he's furiously searching for the ones Linux doesn't have on steam, which will magically become his new favorite games.
They didn't make 7 better than vista. They just rebadged vista and changed the default UAC policy, nothing else and waited until the CPUs caught up. The winSxS bloat that is in 7 came from vista.
Doesn't matter, because W7 actually works.
And just how long will that last? At some point programs won't work well if at all for Win7. How many people you see still running Win2k (or Win98) and say they have no problems?
2020 by my estimate. I dropped Windows once before, and life was better. Now that the one program I needed and ran Windows 7 again has been enabled on the OSX side, I'll be happy to drop them again.
If you are willing to put up with any amount of shit from windows, and still keep using it - that's how much shit they are willing to put you through. You act like its some sign of superiority, while I have pity for people stuck on Windows, similar to the pity I feel for people with terminal syphilis dementia. Sorry for ya, but didn't have to turn out that way.
just the other day I was talking to my wife about anti-virus and an ad for one popped up at just the same time, talk about handy. Now I don't need o search, I just talk about things in range of the microphone and wait for the ad to pop up!
Oh boy, I shouldn't have made that joke about shemale midget scat porn. What am I going to come home to?
Linux is NOT A viable alternative, no matter how much you zealots claim it is.
Neither is Windows 10.
The French are coming to your house right now; fortunately they're only armed with Brie and pÃté.
What - no wine or crusty bread? Damn.
My iPhone 7, and am loving it. I miss the headphone jack and the lack of firestarting ability - not at all.
I hear that Samsung is going to kill the earphone jack. Now they are really hitting below the belt.