Actually that isn't a bad idea. Tech articles written for non-techies (like lawyers) who want to do some techie things for themselves, or at least to try to understand what the techies they hire are talking about a little bit. I wish I knew more people like that (non-techies who actually WANT to learn a bit I mean.)
You got that last part slightly wrong. "hell, your 17 year old daughter and her 17 year old boyfriend may be a child pornographers for her sending nudies of herself to her boyfriend...."
I strongly agree. It seems we (as a culture) have this habit of making iconic characters that are perfect (the way we would like to be). And then we seek to destroy them under the guise of making them "more real" by making them flawed. At first, this is probably an accurate description, but after a while they become so flawed I start to wonder how they survived childhood, and they become almost a parody of real people. I read some paper someone wrote several years ago about this phenomena and I think the person who wrote it (can't recall much about it other than the premise now) was right. I'm sure it is just another one of those great pendulums in society and it will swing back the other way again soon enough.
The color just made you aware of how cheezy it was (they didn't know how to hide some things as well). It eventually did get better (even before the new version which rocks.)
I think their whole point is to make this easier for users, and the vast majority of users I have ever known could not be taught by anyone how to properly use a version control system. Many of them can barely understand how email works (still!). I have th same concerns as the poster before you about a system like this. Having to "save" a file is a feature, not a bug, once you understand how to use it.
But does it make other, nearly equally insane, people seem more reasonable to the average person (in comparison)? Sometimes where you are negotiating with someone you will want to first present an idea so ridiculous sounding (to people who really understand the problem you are dealing with) that the idea you really want them to agree to sounds reasonable in comparison. This is usually only when you are dealing with someone who doesn't really understand the situation, obviously, like a PHB, but I think most people out there are at about that level when it comes to gaming (though I see that changing as it becomes more and more common).
We handled this sort of thing already with Maritime laws. In this case, the ocean is a lot like the Internet, I think. We need a set of treaties that work the same way towards what is and is not acceptable on something that is by its very nature so cross border.
How much is it to own a cell tower then? I've always wondered about it. And how do you make money with it? Do you sell contracts to telcos or something?
If you read the pdf (and assuming it is legit) they do say they want to offer it to google users, but that it isn't quite ready yet. And I can't think of any reason they wouldn't want to offer it (and since people are already using Gmail that way through things like gmailfs, etc). It gives them even more information on people, which they do want (they are primarily in advertising after all). I think you'd need to be careful with what you put on it, but I don't see it as an automatically bad thing. Of course most users I know won't be able to understand what that means, but I've given up on teaching most of them about computers and safety already.
Ha! I was originally going to answer: No. But then I thought it would generally be funnier to answer the way I did. I've known some women who had great voices, but were as I described. I also knew one who had the deepest voice of anyone (male or female) that I've ever known who was very pretty (and quite petite surprisingly, and she somehow still sounded feminine). I've also worked with a guy who sounded like a woman (but sure didn't look like one!) None of them worked in phone sex (at least when I knew them, as far as I know) but some of them could have.
I've seen a couple of Real3D movies recently and I liked the effects, and I wonder if there is any reason they couldn't make contacts like that? I've never worn contacts (and my wife didn't like hers before she has laser surgery) so it might not be worth it, but I think that could be cool for certain uses.
Also, does anyone know if they can make games, etc using this tech? I tried to find something about it the other day and everything was about the red/blue system and that frankly sucks compared to the more modern techniques.
Why would that even work? Pretty much by definition fanbois take their love of something beyond reasonable limits. When you love something that much (and very little actually deserves that much love) you are too far gone for anything to make you see the light. You also tend to do all kinds of strange things, like see any negative comment on that thing as if it was a personal attack against you, and you feel a need to respond with an unreasonable level of force. I say, just ignore them, it is at the level of religion and no amount of reasonable argument will sway them. Just realize most people are not at that level of fanaticism and can still be swayed, and focus on those people. You'll be much happier that way.
Actually fairly recently there were some news articles where studies supposedly showed that as long as you didn't get a second concussion before the current one healed you would probably have NO permanent damage.
http://familydoctor.org/online/famdocen/home/common/brain/head/458.html#ArticleParsysMiddleColumn0011
It isn't too hard to find articles like this one, but I think the thoughts about this are changing, as there is (was) evidence on both sides. Perhaps the problem is sometimes there really is no permanent damage, and sometimes there is. Therefore one or two in your life probably won't cause any permanent damage, but over time, eventually there will be (just like getting shot doesn't automatically mean you'll die, but get shot enough and the odds are one of them will be fatal.) This is different than many of the previous articles indicated.
Maybe that was his stage name? He could have been one of the original guys who were brought on to intentionally lose to make some other guy look good?;)
I had my fill of first person shooters years ago and yet for some reason they're still being developed and offer little to nothing different over the last one.
The logical extension of that would be that since he has had his fill, everyone has had their fill of these games. What is that if not a Universal Truth as you put it? Yet I sort of doubt that is really what he meant. Language is this fluid, fun thing. I sometimes think no two people actually speak the exact same language, it just happens to be that many of use appear to speak very similar languages, and thus we are actually translating what other people say into our own version of English (or whatever language you happen to speak). It is okay to have fun with language, whether it be with a pun, or unintended meanings. You're right that people do sometimes get overly sensitive about their opinion and how it may effect other people. But empathy isn't bad, either. What we need to be well adjusted is a balance between understanding how other people feel and the value of our own ideals. But being overly sensitive about other people pointing out what was probably an unintended potential meaning isn't healthy, either. Just because someone does that, it doesn't automatically make them a bully, as you don't know their intentions anymore than we know the intentions of the OP. Among my close friends, the comments we make to each other often seem very harsh to outsiders (bringing up bad experiences, etc) but we only do that among ourselves to prevent any of us from getting too big an ego for our own good. And we appreciate that we can be that brutally honest with each other, because we know it isn't intended to be mean. That doesn't mean we are that honest with people we don't know extremely well, though. But we would consider poking fun at a point that could be considered extremely arrogant to be just a bit of good fun. And if they took it too hard, then as you say, we would consider it to be their problem.
About a year ago I had to load just under 4 TB of tiff images onto 750GB drives, and the first two out of the group of drives were bad. I'd get them part way loaded, and they'd start mentioning problems writing. I turned off caching, etc as part of the troubleshooting the manufacturer wanted me to do, wasting a good chunk of my day because it took so long to get anything done with drives that large, and I had to load this same data for 4 different clients (for about 15 TB total effectively). Once I got past the first couple of drives things went along much better and I didn't have any other problems. We just sent the bad drives back to the store (I think it was Newegg, but I'm not certain).
At this point, he is modded +4 Interesting, so (I think) you just needed to give it some time. And the way his post was written, it was pretty easy to see it as condescending. Heck, it might have even been intended that way (I don't know the guy myself) and since the server is down, it is much easier to make jokes about that than it is to actually answer his (valid) question. Maybe nothing is really different. Maybe these guys just wanted to do something on their own to truly understand it? I wish I knew, but again, the server seems to still be down at the moment.
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"Why a spoon?"
"Because it will hurt more, you twit!"
As it should (cost you karma). May your next life be spent working at a Windows ME help desk support center. (j/k, I wouldn't wish that on anyone.)
Actually that isn't a bad idea. Tech articles written for non-techies (like lawyers) who want to do some techie things for themselves, or at least to try to understand what the techies they hire are talking about a little bit. I wish I knew more people like that (non-techies who actually WANT to learn a bit I mean.)
You got that last part slightly wrong. "hell, your 17 year old daughter and her 17 year old boyfriend may be a child pornographers for her sending nudies of herself to her boyfriend...."
Chuck Norris doesn't need to remove posts. They delete themselves when he looks at them cross.
I strongly agree. It seems we (as a culture) have this habit of making iconic characters that are perfect (the way we would like to be). And then we seek to destroy them under the guise of making them "more real" by making them flawed. At first, this is probably an accurate description, but after a while they become so flawed I start to wonder how they survived childhood, and they become almost a parody of real people. I read some paper someone wrote several years ago about this phenomena and I think the person who wrote it (can't recall much about it other than the premise now) was right. I'm sure it is just another one of those great pendulums in society and it will swing back the other way again soon enough.
The color just made you aware of how cheezy it was (they didn't know how to hide some things as well). It eventually did get better (even before the new version which rocks.)
I think their whole point is to make this easier for users, and the vast majority of users I have ever known could not be taught by anyone how to properly use a version control system. Many of them can barely understand how email works (still!). I have th same concerns as the poster before you about a system like this. Having to "save" a file is a feature, not a bug, once you understand how to use it.
But does it make other, nearly equally insane, people seem more reasonable to the average person (in comparison)? Sometimes where you are negotiating with someone you will want to first present an idea so ridiculous sounding (to people who really understand the problem you are dealing with) that the idea you really want them to agree to sounds reasonable in comparison. This is usually only when you are dealing with someone who doesn't really understand the situation, obviously, like a PHB, but I think most people out there are at about that level when it comes to gaming (though I see that changing as it becomes more and more common).
We handled this sort of thing already with Maritime laws. In this case, the ocean is a lot like the Internet, I think. We need a set of treaties that work the same way towards what is and is not acceptable on something that is by its very nature so cross border.
How much is it to own a cell tower then? I've always wondered about it. And how do you make money with it? Do you sell contracts to telcos or something?
If you read the pdf (and assuming it is legit) they do say they want to offer it to google users, but that it isn't quite ready yet. And I can't think of any reason they wouldn't want to offer it (and since people are already using Gmail that way through things like gmailfs, etc). It gives them even more information on people, which they do want (they are primarily in advertising after all). I think you'd need to be careful with what you put on it, but I don't see it as an automatically bad thing. Of course most users I know won't be able to understand what that means, but I've given up on teaching most of them about computers and safety already.
Or breast reduction (for guys.)
Maybe if they include a zoom lens.
Oh, for want of mod points!
Ha! I was originally going to answer: No. But then I thought it would generally be funnier to answer the way I did. I've known some women who had great voices, but were as I described. I also knew one who had the deepest voice of anyone (male or female) that I've ever known who was very pretty (and quite petite surprisingly, and she somehow still sounded feminine). I've also worked with a guy who sounded like a woman (but sure didn't look like one!) None of them worked in phone sex (at least when I knew them, as far as I know) but some of them could have.
I've seen a couple of Real3D movies recently and I liked the effects, and I wonder if there is any reason they couldn't make contacts like that? I've never worn contacts (and my wife didn't like hers before she has laser surgery) so it might not be worth it, but I think that could be cool for certain uses.
Also, does anyone know if they can make games, etc using this tech? I tried to find something about it the other day and everything was about the red/blue system and that frankly sucks compared to the more modern techniques.
Screw that, you're really just curious if that phone sex girl is into you or not.
I can help you out there: If you could see what she (if she is even really a "she") really looks like, you probably wouldn't want to know.
Why would that even work? Pretty much by definition fanbois take their love of something beyond reasonable limits. When you love something that much (and very little actually deserves that much love) you are too far gone for anything to make you see the light. You also tend to do all kinds of strange things, like see any negative comment on that thing as if it was a personal attack against you, and you feel a need to respond with an unreasonable level of force. I say, just ignore them, it is at the level of religion and no amount of reasonable argument will sway them. Just realize most people are not at that level of fanaticism and can still be swayed, and focus on those people. You'll be much happier that way.
Actually fairly recently there were some news articles where studies supposedly showed that as long as you didn't get a second concussion before the current one healed you would probably have NO permanent damage. http://familydoctor.org/online/famdocen/home/common/brain/head/458.html#ArticleParsysMiddleColumn0011 It isn't too hard to find articles like this one, but I think the thoughts about this are changing, as there is (was) evidence on both sides. Perhaps the problem is sometimes there really is no permanent damage, and sometimes there is. Therefore one or two in your life probably won't cause any permanent damage, but over time, eventually there will be (just like getting shot doesn't automatically mean you'll die, but get shot enough and the odds are one of them will be fatal.) This is different than many of the previous articles indicated.
Maybe that was his stage name? He could have been one of the original guys who were brought on to intentionally lose to make some other guy look good? ;)
The logical extension of that would be that since he has had his fill, everyone has had their fill of these games. What is that if not a Universal Truth as you put it? Yet I sort of doubt that is really what he meant. Language is this fluid, fun thing. I sometimes think no two people actually speak the exact same language, it just happens to be that many of use appear to speak very similar languages, and thus we are actually translating what other people say into our own version of English (or whatever language you happen to speak). It is okay to have fun with language, whether it be with a pun, or unintended meanings. You're right that people do sometimes get overly sensitive about their opinion and how it may effect other people. But empathy isn't bad, either. What we need to be well adjusted is a balance between understanding how other people feel and the value of our own ideals. But being overly sensitive about other people pointing out what was probably an unintended potential meaning isn't healthy, either. Just because someone does that, it doesn't automatically make them a bully, as you don't know their intentions anymore than we know the intentions of the OP. Among my close friends, the comments we make to each other often seem very harsh to outsiders (bringing up bad experiences, etc) but we only do that among ourselves to prevent any of us from getting too big an ego for our own good. And we appreciate that we can be that brutally honest with each other, because we know it isn't intended to be mean. That doesn't mean we are that honest with people we don't know extremely well, though. But we would consider poking fun at a point that could be considered extremely arrogant to be just a bit of good fun. And if they took it too hard, then as you say, we would consider it to be their problem.
About a year ago I had to load just under 4 TB of tiff images onto 750GB drives, and the first two out of the group of drives were bad. I'd get them part way loaded, and they'd start mentioning problems writing. I turned off caching, etc as part of the troubleshooting the manufacturer wanted me to do, wasting a good chunk of my day because it took so long to get anything done with drives that large, and I had to load this same data for 4 different clients (for about 15 TB total effectively). Once I got past the first couple of drives things went along much better and I didn't have any other problems. We just sent the bad drives back to the store (I think it was Newegg, but I'm not certain).
At this point, he is modded +4 Interesting, so (I think) you just needed to give it some time. And the way his post was written, it was pretty easy to see it as condescending. Heck, it might have even been intended that way (I don't know the guy myself) and since the server is down, it is much easier to make jokes about that than it is to actually answer his (valid) question. Maybe nothing is really different. Maybe these guys just wanted to do something on their own to truly understand it? I wish I knew, but again, the server seems to still be down at the moment.
Maybe they just need to hire a lot of programmers? :)