I don't really have much to add to that, except (as a fellow twitter user) to thank you for an accurate description among a sea of hate.
Twitter is what you make of it, to some it's an RSS feed, others a blog, others a way for co-ordinating friend groups. If this doesn't interest people, then don't use it - simple as that.
It's an opt-in thing, if you don't want twitter updates you don't get them... and if you only want them from specific people you only choose specific people - you're hardly getting spammed.
This is true for people who use it like idiots, the kind who do follow everyone. For people who have enough self control to follow only people whose updates they care about - twitter is a valuable tool.
Poor guy, some helpful student needs to set him up with an account elsewhere with decent filtering (I recommend GMail), and forward all his e-mails through there.
The whole "Word has stopped working" thing drives me mad, because I get it all the time when I'm working (Macs come with a trial). So many people, especially people who've used windows at work for a while and done some "courses" seem to be convinced that Microsoft Word just about is the entire operating system - they're lost without it.
You are of course right, but out of the 60 or so work and personal contacts there are about 3 of them who realise that they can just e-mail me and I'll get it (push e-mail on iPhone). It's not really an option with a lot of people.
Virtual worlds will take off when they manage to get the socialising aspect right - ie as easy as chatting in person or through video. Which to my mind at least means more or less never. I, for one, don't want to have to invest effort in learning how to work a virtual world when it would be far easier to IM/Skype/E-mail someone. It baffles me that companies invest actual money in virtual presence on things like Second Life.
It makes sense in the context of MMORPGs, but stripped of gaming there's really very little point. You can never communicate as well through an avatar as you can face to face, over a video link, or even in less constrained text environments such as e-mail where you are free to express yourself at length. If the world of Snow Crash ever came to pass, then it would make sense - the Metaverse in there allows for depth of expression.
And as for the PS3, if I want to play a game or watch something then I'll do it. I don't want to have to 'go to the theater' or the 'arcade'. I have a console so that I don't have to. And the virtual world features certainly don't offer me any incentive to waste that time getting there.
Wasn't there some prominent senator in the last couple of years that this actually happened with? Something to do with an airport bathroom. (I'm not really sure - UK resident, just vaguely remember hearing something about it.)
Why the hell are our missile defence systems and/or the plans thereof connected to the internet then?
Leave the internet alone and build separate, secure command and control networks for the military/government.
This is something that seriously bugs me. The Earth's Magnetic field has reversed hundreds of times in geological history. There is NO evidence whatsoever that it has ever caused an extinction.
There's a potential for knocking out satellites or computers, but it's certainly not going to sterilize the earth.
Why do you want to change it? I find it quite a useful (Might go as far as saying awesome) feature myself. Unless you have truly major privacy concerns (Wife & a porn addiction?).
Exactly, this hardly seems like an issue that matters to the electorate - or more accurately that should matter to the electorate. Maybe we should be more interested in policy?
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I don't really have much to add to that, except (as a fellow twitter user) to thank you for an accurate description among a sea of hate.
Twitter is what you make of it, to some it's an RSS feed, others a blog, others a way for co-ordinating friend groups. If this doesn't interest people, then don't use it - simple as that.
It's an opt-in thing, if you don't want twitter updates you don't get them... and if you only want them from specific people you only choose specific people - you're hardly getting spammed.
This is true for people who use it like idiots, the kind who do follow everyone. For people who have enough self control to follow only people whose updates they care about - twitter is a valuable tool.
Poor guy, some helpful student needs to set him up with an account elsewhere with decent filtering (I recommend GMail), and forward all his e-mails through there.
The whole "Word has stopped working" thing drives me mad, because I get it all the time when I'm working (Macs come with a trial). So many people, especially people who've used windows at work for a while and done some "courses" seem to be convinced that Microsoft Word just about is the entire operating system - they're lost without it.
They were using Windows Explorer :p
You are of course right, but out of the 60 or so work and personal contacts there are about 3 of them who realise that they can just e-mail me and I'll get it (push e-mail on iPhone). It's not really an option with a lot of people.
If they need to send a short message to someone it's not like there's a viable alternative - it's really the only game in town.
Or: An underwater sediment slump from a Turbidity Current as a more likely candidate.
The AC above me is entirely correct, and should be modded up.
Rather than "granites" the quote should probably say "large grained intrusions" or better still "Gabbros".
I knew we couldn't trust that Brandon Sanderson character... Shoulda known he was working with that darned Forsaken.
Actually he was still conniving his way into the presidency through the supreme court up until... I think today-8 years?
Virtual worlds will take off when they manage to get the socialising aspect right - ie as easy as chatting in person or through video. Which to my mind at least means more or less never. I, for one, don't want to have to invest effort in learning how to work a virtual world when it would be far easier to IM/Skype/E-mail someone. It baffles me that companies invest actual money in virtual presence on things like Second Life.
It makes sense in the context of MMORPGs, but stripped of gaming there's really very little point. You can never communicate as well through an avatar as you can face to face, over a video link, or even in less constrained text environments such as e-mail where you are free to express yourself at length. If the world of Snow Crash ever came to pass, then it would make sense - the Metaverse in there allows for depth of expression.
And as for the PS3, if I want to play a game or watch something then I'll do it. I don't want to have to 'go to the theater' or the 'arcade'. I have a console so that I don't have to. And the virtual world features certainly don't offer me any incentive to waste that time getting there.
Nah, once you start down the linux path it's rare to ever have sex again.
You are of course, correct. My apologies. It is Mohs' Scale.
And I think the geologist/geology geek works either way, but I could be wrong).
...first comes love, then comes marriage,
Then comes a month trying to get the drivers for your wireless card working.
Such a hard worker he's classified as 10 on Moh's scale. Too much of a geologist geek joke? Probably.
Days Past?
Wasn't there some prominent senator in the last couple of years that this actually happened with? Something to do with an airport bathroom. (I'm not really sure - UK resident, just vaguely remember hearing something about it.)
Why the hell are our missile defence systems and/or the plans thereof connected to the internet then?
Leave the internet alone and build separate, secure command and control networks for the military/government.
"pubic endangerment"?
ouch
If I had mod points I'd mod you up, you're entirely right (trust me, I'm a geologist). I blame the retarded film 'The Core' for this nonsense.
This is something that seriously bugs me. The Earth's Magnetic field has reversed hundreds of times in geological history. There is NO evidence whatsoever that it has ever caused an extinction. There's a potential for knocking out satellites or computers, but it's certainly not going to sterilize the earth.
This being the reason that my computers all have user accounts for people who use them.
Why do you want to change it? I find it quite a useful (Might go as far as saying awesome) feature myself. Unless you have truly major privacy concerns (Wife & a porn addiction?).
Exactly, this hardly seems like an issue that matters to the electorate - or more accurately that should matter to the electorate. Maybe we should be more interested in policy?