I, on the other hand, imagined a revamped Starbucks menu system involving "junctioning" of customers' pets to improve coffee attributes such as size, caffeine, flavour and fairtradeness. Sadly, this is not the case.
I was thinking that after I wrote it - that you're using the word "friend" when I would say "close friend". But why should it matter if a facebook "friend" isn't actually the same as a "friend" in real life? Should they call them "acquaintances"? It's just a name. I think geeks, of all people, should understand that.
It's certainly not the best place to be creative, but that's not the point. It might not be the best for anything, but the value of facebook is that most people you know are on it. I know this is slashdot, but there IS value in that, e.g. for parties.
As for all the privacy business, I agree in principle, but I personally don't really care who sees the stuff I put on facebook.
For the record, I meant, "you sound bitter" in the sense that what you wrote made you sound bitter. It wasn't intended as a personal attack. Otherwise, well, I've outlined my disagreement. I don't really see how it's flamebait, but whatever, I defended facebook on slashdot.
You sound bitter. I feel a little sorry for you because of some of the things which you seem to believe are true.
They talk about themselves and hopefully get a lot of people telling them how awesome they are.
Yeah, but people like that do the same in real life. That's why you don't add them on facebook.
That's probably because most people don't have real friends on facebook.
What? I have nothing but real friends.
It's a list of people that decided to friend them for no good reason or because they met once or twice. It's impossible to have 500 actual friends.
It's very possible if you've lived in many places, joined many clubs, etc. I have 425 friends. I was in no rush to accumulate them, I would certainly recognise all of them on the street and know their first name. I would definitely have a pint with any and everyone I'm friends on facebook with. Otherwise I delete them.
Well good for you, you're like 99% of the population.
That "like" is highly subjective. The way you choose to separate 1% from the remaining 99% would seem silly and arbitrary to a lot of people. Try being a bit more humble, please. I like to use facebook, but I only go on for 5-20 mins / day. A lot of my friends are creative. They put up good pictures, they say funny things, they are generally entertaining, because they're my friends, and I love them. Facebook might well be evil, but I like using it anyway.
I actually prefer the terminal, but the lack of settings in both gnome 3 and unity is surprising. Try comparing it to Windows' control panel. Some of the things they've left out boggle the mind, since it must have been a conscious decision. For a lot of users, the lack of something as comprehensive as the control panel is a big deal, and it certainly would not spoil the design to put in a little "advanced options" button.
Well, if the Windows branding and marketing folks are doing their job right, people won't want to switch systems even if all that changes is the name and logo. People are very tribal in nature, and this effect is very strong; especially if the users have seen many versions of Windows and not much of anything else.
I just wish they'd expand the control centre. Regardless of what they believe, there are a LOT of users that want to have tight control over their settings, while never having to use a terminal.
I don't think that's a meaningful difference in terms of invention. Hearing a simple oscillator, even the most casual musician would surely realise an instrument could be made from it. A lot of ingenuity went into the designs from that point, but again, it was a gradual evolution of ideas.
"Technology" generally refers to this kind of product of incremental advancements. I enjoyed the little spiel, but all you didn't do was demonstrate your point.
I hadn't seen this before. Best thing done at Microsoft in a while. I laughed pretty much continuously. People can find it unfunny if they want, but the phrase "PR disaster" just shows how unwilling people are to see anything the slightest bit different.
You must be joking. Almost nobody actually reasons out their religious beliefs like that. People believe loads of inherently contradictory things, and they certainly don't want you pointing it out. That won't make them reconsider or anything, it'll just make them annoyed that you're questioning their beliefs. The most recent example of someone who told me she doesn't believe in evolution just said to me, "you think we came from monkeys?"
Living in Ireland, a supposedly Catholic-majority country, almost no one seems to believe in creationism (bar the oldies, no doubt). Few enough people take their beliefs that seriously, but if you ask them, they'll probably say they're Catholic or that they "believe in some God". That doesn't mean they practise at ALL. Being a "real Christian" doesn't have the same place as part of Irish identity like it does in American identity. Anthropologists remark on the astonishing rate at which settlers in America adopted a common language and religion. Normality still seems to have great value in America, so many are, to some degree, reluctant or frightened to think for themselves. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
But perhaps more importantly, it's just not taken seriously in the media. We have no Fox News or anything like it. There's RTE, the national broadcasting company, who are fairly liberal and focused on fact. Then there are a few smaller crowds who are much the same. In all of Europe, creationism just hasn't caught on. It's been, rightly, labelled as crazy in public opinion and only a few cave-dwellers still hold on to it.
I'm guessing you're no mathematics expert, either. The US figures are included in the overall percentages.
About the flawed tests, this is a count which is known to be difficult. It's absolutely impossible to get an accurate count. But counts like this are indicative of something. While there might not currently be more Chrome users than Internet Explorer users, it is StatCounter's honest estimate that there are. Given the history of web browser competition, this is certainly important and arguably interesting.
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Good heavens, aren't you clever! Look at all those words!
"Bligger" is obviously a bad idea. I didn't say that there aren't other words ending in -igger or anything like that.
...because everyone knows that the best things are the most popular. Don't you just love Rihanna, Justin Bieber, Beyoncé...
"One bard, please. Extra spoony."
I, on the other hand, imagined a revamped Starbucks menu system involving "junctioning" of customers' pets to improve coffee attributes such as size, caffeine, flavour and fairtradeness. Sadly, this is not the case.
Y_o
I'd say stick to the German, Adolf.
those who say that their product / OS / device is the best option for all scenarios
...which wouldn't include the person you're replying to.
"cundits"?
"shloggers"?
It's probably not a good idea to invent any new words, especially insults, ending -igger.
Pronunciation
changes to accommodate
those who write po-ems
And CDE 4.0 still probably would have enraged us.
I was thinking that after I wrote it - that you're using the word "friend" when I would say "close friend". But why should it matter if a facebook "friend" isn't actually the same as a "friend" in real life? Should they call them "acquaintances"? It's just a name. I think geeks, of all people, should understand that.
It's certainly not the best place to be creative, but that's not the point. It might not be the best for anything, but the value of facebook is that most people you know are on it. I know this is slashdot, but there IS value in that, e.g. for parties.
As for all the privacy business, I agree in principle, but I personally don't really care who sees the stuff I put on facebook.
For the record, I meant, "you sound bitter" in the sense that what you wrote made you sound bitter. It wasn't intended as a personal attack. Otherwise, well, I've outlined my disagreement. I don't really see how it's flamebait, but whatever, I defended facebook on slashdot.
You sound bitter. I feel a little sorry for you because of some of the things which you seem to believe are true.
They talk about themselves and hopefully get a lot of people telling them how awesome they are.
Yeah, but people like that do the same in real life. That's why you don't add them on facebook.
That's probably because most people don't have real friends on facebook.
What? I have nothing but real friends.
It's a list of people that decided to friend them for no good reason or because they met once or twice. It's impossible to have 500 actual friends.
It's very possible if you've lived in many places, joined many clubs, etc. I have 425 friends. I was in no rush to accumulate them, I would certainly recognise all of them on the street and know their first name. I would definitely have a pint with any and everyone I'm friends on facebook with. Otherwise I delete them.
Well good for you, you're like 99% of the population.
That "like" is highly subjective. The way you choose to separate 1% from the remaining 99% would seem silly and arbitrary to a lot of people. Try being a bit more humble, please.
I like to use facebook, but I only go on for 5-20 mins / day. A lot of my friends are creative. They put up good pictures, they say funny things, they are generally entertaining, because they're my friends, and I love them. Facebook might well be evil, but I like using it anyway.
They wanted to test if the program "Mythbusters" is just a myth in one episode.
Unfortunately, Grant, Kari and Tori were allowed to do that one, so their experiment had gaping holes and proved inconclusive.
Maybe Chinese patent trolls will eventually alert US patent supporters to how stupid the system is.
I actually prefer the terminal, but the lack of settings in both gnome 3 and unity is surprising. Try comparing it to Windows' control panel. Some of the things they've left out boggle the mind, since it must have been a conscious decision. For a lot of users, the lack of something as comprehensive as the control panel is a big deal, and it certainly would not spoil the design to put in a little "advanced options" button.
Well, if the Windows branding and marketing folks are doing their job right, people won't want to switch systems even if all that changes is the name and logo. People are very tribal in nature, and this effect is very strong; especially if the users have seen many versions of Windows and not much of anything else.
I just wish they'd expand the control centre. Regardless of what they believe, there are a LOT of users that want to have tight control over their settings, while never having to use a terminal.
I don't think that's a meaningful difference in terms of invention. Hearing a simple oscillator, even the most casual musician would surely realise an instrument could be made from it. A lot of ingenuity went into the designs from that point, but again, it was a gradual evolution of ideas.
"Technology" generally refers to this kind of product of incremental advancements. I enjoyed the little spiel, but all you didn't do was demonstrate your point.
I hadn't seen this before. Best thing done at Microsoft in a while. I laughed pretty much continuously.
People can find it unfunny if they want, but the phrase "PR disaster" just shows how unwilling people are to see anything the slightest bit different.
You must be joking. Almost nobody actually reasons out their religious beliefs like that. People believe loads of inherently contradictory things, and they certainly don't want you pointing it out. That won't make them reconsider or anything, it'll just make them annoyed that you're questioning their beliefs. The most recent example of someone who told me she doesn't believe in evolution just said to me, "you think we came from monkeys?"
Living in Ireland, a supposedly Catholic-majority country, almost no one seems to believe in creationism (bar the oldies, no doubt). Few enough people take their beliefs that seriously, but if you ask them, they'll probably say they're Catholic or that they "believe in some God". That doesn't mean they practise at ALL. Being a "real Christian" doesn't have the same place as part of Irish identity like it does in American identity. Anthropologists remark on the astonishing rate at which settlers in America adopted a common language and religion. Normality still seems to have great value in America, so many are, to some degree, reluctant or frightened to think for themselves. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
But perhaps more importantly, it's just not taken seriously in the media. We have no Fox News or anything like it. There's RTE, the national broadcasting company, who are fairly liberal and focused on fact. Then there are a few smaller crowds who are much the same. In all of Europe, creationism just hasn't caught on. It's been, rightly, labelled as crazy in public opinion and only a few cave-dwellers still hold on to it.
Why would you assume that? It's good to be critical of Microsoft, but you're just pulling ideas out of your ass.
I have a USB wifi dongle where the part that plugs in is bigger than the rest. It cost about a tenner. Problem solved.
I'm guessing you're no mathematics expert, either. The US figures are included in the overall percentages.
About the flawed tests, this is a count which is known to be difficult. It's absolutely impossible to get an accurate count.
But counts like this are indicative of something. While there might not currently be more Chrome users than Internet Explorer users, it is StatCounter's honest estimate that there are. Given the history of web browser competition, this is certainly important and arguably interesting.
all this hype about it being a Kinect competitor
Can you point me to that, please? I can't find it.
"For a new technology to be successful, it must replace all usage cases of older technology" /. Anonymous Cowards and Moderators (apparently)
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In my current setup, I'd say I use my keyboard ~90% of the time and my mouse only about 10%.
Listen: I'm still glad I have the mouse.