...is not even the fact that Intelligent Design is ironic in its title, but that people actually think it is *valid science* -- it's not even science! At MOST, this should be taught in a philosophy class, and nothing more. I don't care how many people are supposedly of the Christian faith, it is not valid science, therefore should not be taught in science class. End of story...
1. Use Visual Studio and.NET, or Flash
2. Make sure there are tons of shiny multicolored buttons for everything even when not necessary
3. Implement a buddy system even though your site has nothing to do with anything social
4. ?????
5. PROFIT!!1!11
Over the last three years, I have found the web to be superior to my doctors' knowledge.
I'd be very, very careful about the medical information you find on the web. A lot of it is antiquated and/or incorrect. I've had many doctors advise a lot of people about this. Example, my father got state-of-the-art prostate cancer treatment (it was minor, thank [deity of choice])that wasn't even documented on the web yet.
Then again, who knows, they could be putting up a front because of what insurance and drug companies have told them...
Another Google program that will stay in beta until the end of time!
In all honesty, can anyone explain to me the point of avatar/character-based 3D environments like this one? Does anyone actually use them for more than a few minutes of amusement?
I know it's a strawman, that was the point.:-) But you'd be surprised how many FOSS fans think that way, that they somehow become morally superior by using it...
And I'm glad to be seeing F/OSS making money too. My point was that those who make it out to be something it is not end up contradicting themselves in the process.
...actually contribute to the source of any given project? I find that for all the fanboyism that surrounds FOSS, there are very few that actually contribute time to it, then bitch incessantly when either something is wrong with the software or when something is proprietary. I find this quite hilarious.
Example conversation with many techie friends of mine:
FOSShead:"OMGZ FIREFOX IS TEH BEST BROWSARS EVAR!!1!" Me:"Why is it so great?" FOSShead:"CAUSE LIEK TEH SOURCE IS OPENS AND STUFF!!1!" Me:"Do you code?" FOSShead:"NO BUT TEH PROPRIETARIES IS TEH EVAL! TEY MAKE MONIES AND STUFFS" Me:"Is that why Opera, a proprietary browser, far outshines Firefox, and why Mozilla corporation is recording record profits?" FOSShead:"..."
Disclaimer: I like FOSS software too, nothing against it, I use a lot of it, and I don't code. I'm more into hardware/IT, electrical engineering side of things.
Nah, but I'm thinking something in between the scales of those two situations. I'm tired of everyone my age voting based on a soundbite, and I'm tired of bickering. I want someone to just read a goddamn article once in a while, you know?
...get rid of all relevant, important information, use talking points and soundbites and nothing but image and slogans to campaign. People will fall for it, and vote based on that, whilst being distracted from everything important.
What with cApSsPeAk, 15 year olds writing journal entries about something no one actually cares about, letting anyone who isn't a webdev edit their page so that I have to deal with stupid cursors and blinking glittery images that say "princess", display names that are quotes from some shitty song with terrible lyrics, some post-grunge emo band starting up when I visit someone's page and having to attack the pause button before I have to be subjected to it......and pretty much everyone I know having the same experience, is it any wonder that MySpace is dying and losing an upper-hand in the ad-selling business?
I honestly can't think of anyone who is an honest, informed person that takes ANY blog they read seriously.
The word "blog" to me interprets as "a LiveJournal account for old, opinionated people who have no idea what they're talking about".
Besides, we get enough right-wing rhetoric nowadays through other medium, and the "blogosphere" (dumbest term ever invented next to Web 2.0) is infested with it as it is. Just my $0.02.
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...is not even the fact that Intelligent Design is ironic in its title, but that people actually think it is *valid science* -- it's not even science! At MOST, this should be taught in a philosophy class, and nothing more. I don't care how many people are supposedly of the Christian faith, it is not valid science, therefore should not be taught in science class. End of story...
1. Use Visual Studio and .NET, or Flash
2. Make sure there are tons of shiny multicolored buttons for everything even when not necessary
3. Implement a buddy system even though your site has nothing to do with anything social
4. ?????
5. PROFIT!!1!11
Over the last three years, I have found the web to be superior to my doctors' knowledge.
I'd be very, very careful about the medical information you find on the web. A lot of it is antiquated and/or incorrect. I've had many doctors advise a lot of people about this. Example, my father got state-of-the-art prostate cancer treatment (it was minor, thank [deity of choice])that wasn't even documented on the web yet.
Then again, who knows, they could be putting up a front because of what insurance and drug companies have told them...
Another Google program that will stay in beta until the end of time! In all honesty, can anyone explain to me the point of avatar/character-based 3D environments like this one? Does anyone actually use them for more than a few minutes of amusement?
I know it's a strawman, that was the point. :-) But you'd be surprised how many FOSS fans think that way, that they somehow become morally superior by using it...
And I'm glad to be seeing F/OSS making money too. My point was that those who make it out to be something it is not end up contradicting themselves in the process.
Correction: I do code, in fact a lot, but I don't do it as a hobby or anything along those lines.
...actually contribute to the source of any given project? I find that for all the fanboyism that surrounds FOSS, there are very few that actually contribute time to it, then bitch incessantly when either something is wrong with the software or when something is proprietary. I find this quite hilarious.
Example conversation with many techie friends of mine:
FOSShead:"OMGZ FIREFOX IS TEH BEST BROWSARS EVAR!!1!"
Me:"Why is it so great?"
FOSShead:"CAUSE LIEK TEH SOURCE IS OPENS AND STUFF!!1!"
Me:"Do you code?"
FOSShead:"NO BUT TEH PROPRIETARIES IS TEH EVAL! TEY MAKE MONIES AND STUFFS"
Me:"Is that why Opera, a proprietary browser, far outshines Firefox, and why Mozilla corporation is recording record profits?"
FOSShead:"..."
Disclaimer: I like FOSS software too, nothing against it, I use a lot of it, and I don't code. I'm more into hardware/IT, electrical engineering side of things.
Nah, but I'm thinking something in between the scales of those two situations. I'm tired of everyone my age voting based on a soundbite, and I'm tired of bickering. I want someone to just read a goddamn article once in a while, you know?
...get rid of all relevant, important information, use talking points and soundbites and nothing but image and slogans to campaign. People will fall for it, and vote based on that, whilst being distracted from everything important.
I'll call it "politics".
What with cApSsPeAk, 15 year olds writing journal entries about something no one actually cares about, letting anyone who isn't a webdev edit their page so that I have to deal with stupid cursors and blinking glittery images that say "princess", display names that are quotes from some shitty song with terrible lyrics, some post-grunge emo band starting up when I visit someone's page and having to attack the pause button before I have to be subjected to it... ...and pretty much everyone I know having the same experience, is it any wonder that MySpace is dying and losing an upper-hand in the ad-selling business?
Anyone ever heard of Digital Rights Management? Next it will be DMM, Digital Manners Management. Microsoft is now your pinnacle of morality!
I honestly can't think of anyone who is an honest, informed person that takes ANY blog they read seriously. The word "blog" to me interprets as "a LiveJournal account for old, opinionated people who have no idea what they're talking about". Besides, we get enough right-wing rhetoric nowadays through other medium, and the "blogosphere" (dumbest term ever invented next to Web 2.0) is infested with it as it is. Just my $0.02.