Last year when some politicians decided games needed censoring - there was public debate. Then some violently deranged gamer left a scrap of paper on a politicians doorstep in a threatening way. So the government was forced into action - and you gamers only have yourselves to blame. You should do something socially productive like join the army instead of playing violent games..
I know it was a "politician" and some times they make shit up, actually this particular politician has a history of making shit up, but - oh, hang on.... and, um, isn't he pro-war.
Anyway - it could only happen here - oh, hang on... what's that music? Frank Zappa! "Congress Shall Make No Law" - now what's that all about?
Now get off my lawn I'm going to watch some good old family values comedy - The Three Stooges, yay
Shhh... You don;t want to show reality to a Freetard, he may become enraged and charge at you!
How's your Microsoft shares doing? My IBM shares are just OK - same as they have been for the last fifty years.
You've spent your first week out of grade school trolling on Slashdot - such a dedicated fanboi is clearly you're destined for greater things, like a big career playing video games and testing pr0n - or maybe you could cash in big as a spelling nazi,
I'll check back when you've reach puberty and see what other insights into industry you've got.
Oh yeah. I forgot that 'Openness' is what makes or breaks products in the marketplace.
Let's see, open vs. closed:
Internet vs. AOL
CD vs. minidisc
Linux vs. UNIX
gzip/lzma/bzip2 vs. bzip
OpenSSH vs. SSH
OpenSSL vs. anything closed
AES vs. anything closed
Apache vs. IIS
Yup, that sounds about right.
Almost everything you use won because it's open, you just don't notice it anymore because it won so long ago that it just seems like part of the scenery now. DNS, DHCP, TCP/IP, HTTP, HTML, C++, Kerberos, LDAP, 802.3, 802.11, USB, the BSD sockets API, etc. etc. All things equal, customers prefer open to closed. Which means that closed is a state that can only exist prior to an open competitor reaching compatibility and substantial feature parity with the leading closed alternative, at which point customers choose the open alternative.
The only way closed is a long-term condition is when it is propped up by a monopoly, a cartel or a government.
Or to put it in a non-computer operating system/software way - he who makes that which allows the most other companies to add to - wins. The more third-party choices, the more market support/choice. And every time some lawyer/marketer says "lock that down and make a killing" - the lawyer/marketer makes a killing, the company just tends to take a dive (eventually). Oh sure, there's plenty of people who'll tell me Microsoft is the exception to the rule - what's the share price lately? In fact there's one in the following post - poor fool, obviously hasn't heard of webmail.
That's why we need 2 congressional investigations in parallel. One run by Republicans digging up any dirt they can find on Democrats, and one by Democrats digging dirt on Republicans.
What we really need is a Highlander style competition amongst politicians. That way there's just one we need to feed to a tree chipper to restore democracy in the U.S.
News at ten, a new colour mid-way between white and black has been discovered, middle America collapses into cognitive dissonance and denial. (is it something in your water?)
The Texas Teapot Party is the only one that makes any damn sense.
a democratic push for a congressional investigation of HBGary Federal
You're going to dig for info on their union-busting, but you're going to be very embarrassed if you find out that the Obama administration was in bed with these scumbags on some other sleazy project(s) that come up too. They were working for the banks, but some of these firms were (or at least had been) working for the government too. Might want to check with the White House before you start digging too deep.
BOA was what got these guys excited - you know the project that's *not* being discussed, the same thing that Wikileaks *was* going to leak early January.
I bet your mortgage any investigation (read NONE) will be tightly focused *away* from the BOA job. Deniable, deniable, deniable. Even the running rat'll claim he was under pressure to bring in funds, and Hogland's (I know nuffinK) wife will claim she was misinterpreted and kept out of the loop. Fuck, these scum won't even hire a script writer, they'll just recycle the head of the (Oz) NBN's previous defence (I didn't know what the people I manage and direct do with their days).
Bah fucking humbug, these folks were/are just another "Business" intelligence company - of which there are thousands, they just did worse (financially) than some of the others, hence the high risk/low return decision to go after Anonymous.
Glossing a little, there's a reason for the different words "photographic" and "eidetic" memory. Photographic is much like a natural version of the trained memory palace theme. Eidetic don't take snapshots, it is more like a well built web page that lets the user structurally find anything in some three links. My visual memory is terrible, but for a while I was pretty good at the US tax forms because oddly enough that body of law runs like a logic puzzle.
(All the whining you hear about it is from perceived non-importance, aka it is imposed. But geeks should have fun with it, because it's a giant If-Then maze. "You (use a 1040EZ unless you have a mortgage, but (only if the interest on the mortgage is greater than the standard deduction)) etc."
Agreed. Most of the people I've met who claim to to be eidetics confuse the two terms - and have neither abilities. I had one working here, his school friend also claimed the guy was eidetic - we sacked him because he was a fuckup who kept "confusing" things. He refused to admit he forgot things - they just "weren't important". And this guy was apparently a legend at Uni - so how come he constantly needed his password reset - and why lie when I'd say "again?" (confabulation?).
I suspect if real eidetics exist (total memory) they're smart enough to hide from researchers.
Fun with it? [screams in John Cleese voice] Who said you can have fun with it!! It's perfectly bloody simple!
Will those of you playing in the match this afternoon move your clothes down onto the lower peg immediately after lunch before you write home, if you're not getting a haircut unless you have a brother going out this weekend as the guest of another boy then collect his note before lunch, put it in your letter after your haircut. Make sure he moves your clothes onto the lower peg for you..
I guess it does make sense for many companies. The problem is that we webdevelopers are in the business of fixing things that aren't really broken, and then inventing new things to fix. People using 20 year old tech without problems is bad for our world view and our ego.
I have no problems with people using 20 year old tech - their mistakes are my advantages. Personally I wish everyone moved to HTML5 now. First thing I do is ask the client why they want a site, second is who's the audience - the decisions as to what to support stem from there. I still come across people who want just a single stylesheet for sites that serve to mobile and screen devices. A good third of the time (I'm just plucking figures out of my arse here) what the client wants the site for is just a colossal piece of shit.:-D
And now if you'll excuse me I'm going to see how the new kid is doing knocking up some sample templates for the client who flogs bullshit "miracle" diets... and after that I've got to quote on "a site that duplicates the functionality of r*%Tube" (sigh)
Failed to memorize. Ding ding ding. If they're putting any effort at all into memorization then they don't have a photographic memory. Instead, they should just remember everything they're paying attention to. The paying attention part might be hard though, since every new experience probably triggers a memory, and I'd think they'd spend a lot of time remembering things when they should be paying attention.
Recall == Remember. Makes no difference whether consciously memorized or not..
Have you never met people you've never met before (then)? Ditto with language, written or spoken. See "Danial Tammet" who learnt Icelandic in a week - considerably faster that those who claim to use techniques.
My problem is that I'll forget what the association was by the time I need that persons name again. Maybe I should associate the association with something?
So as I mentioned elsewhere, this is a trick that helps people with bad memories.
.Nice sophism..
The effort involved in goofy long winded associations like this is not worth it for the few times I might ever forget someone's name.
If you call a 1 second process long winded....
What I'd really like to see is how this is applicable to people in actual useful ways. I mean, great, you can meet ten people at lunch and say goodbye to each of them, by name, at the end of lunch.
Do you hear voices? You're not only twisting words, you're inventing things. Go back read again, the words haven't changed.
But can you read a five page guide on how to get started with the GNU debugger and then sit down and apply it all in correct order and without referring to the guide?
Yes - I can even remember when I did that (1998). It's kind of a prerequisite for my job, though I have, and will continue to reread it - it does change.
When I think of a "photographic memory", THAT is what comes to mind.
Much of this thread is about defining "photographic" - you seem stuck on what you "believe". The current "science" is that "photographic" memories do not exist. At the risk of repeating what's been said earlier - selective, partial, recall is not the same as a photograph. Eidetic never meant "only images".
Not some guy who can remember that Alice has a big nose, Bob is fat, the sky is blue, and the sixth card in the deck is a five of spades.
Somehow, in your enthusiasm, you've turned using a key (facial characteristic) to remembering a person *and their name* into recalling just their first name. Is there something you're trying to say?
Perhaps you're just incapable of remembering what is written on the screen in front of you?
And what the fuck is wrong with the edits in the nu slashdot? paragraph tags or not, blockquotes or just quotes, and it still double spaces (sigh)
One of the complaints I've heard about Firefox is that there is no way to do an installation similar to how msi files are setup.
If you mean that Firefox installs can't be "packaged" for.msi then you've been misinformed. It sounds very much like the argument trotted out by Finance for Group 8 - it is not correct, we'll happily tender for that job.
It's not a matter of being lazy, it's just stupid to support something that is such a colossal piece of shit. I did it for many years, in fact, IE 5.5 hacking as well. At most when I support IE6, I just make sure the entire layout doesn't break.
It's called browser deprecation, preach it to your clients. Websites DO NOT need to look exactly the same in every type of browser.
Depending on who your clients are, and where they earn their money, your view might just be business suicide... I agree about the lack of a need to make sites appear identical in different browsers though. But I've just been reminded we have clients who still run OS/2 - major clients (think nationwide chain of service stations). Though all their systems are internal, one of the reasons we hold the contract is because we're the only company that doesn't lecture them, though I do have reservations about their 1980 email system which is routed through NZ. (takes hours for email to be delivered)
If supporting a colossal piece of shit pays a stable, hassle free, (and colossal) income, I'll do it (a good well documented plan means no headaches)- especially as these folks have a hardware and software system in place that has worked flawlessly for over twenty years - despite the fact that most of the operators are pump jockeys.
Surely the solution to this is just to remove any mod points if a post is edited?
That would remove down-mods too. Having time limits on moderation means GNAA (and other) trolls are guaranteed to be at score:1 for that time limit. It increases the incentive for trolls to fristpost.
Possibly, the fact that large numbers of corporate desktops still have IE 6 means that a non-trivial number of Web programmers code to where IE6 will still work, whereas no one is using old Netscape, even for fun, except for this dude.
Possibly because of the fact that a lot of large corporations (and government departments) spent so much money on some software (Oracle and SAP I'm looking at you) that is dependent on IE (due to brain dead IT decisions) that anyone whose business is dependent on dealing with those folk *needs* to support IE6.
Sadly I'm guilty of taking advantage of the growing trend to build sites that don't support IE6. By which I mean - I build sites for clients whose clients are those same corporations and government departments who use IE6. It works really well for me.
Company A announces that they no longer support IE6 on their websites, corporations and government departments where the people who contract to outside companies can no longer view their websites *don't buy their services*. A few code tweaks and the willingness to live with half a dozen minor W3org in-validations meant that one of my clients went from the second largest service company in a country town - to the second largest in the nation. Simply because their competitors all proudly announced last year they'd no longer support IE6 on their websites - and I decided to go against the trend because my clients get their work from people who only use IE6. And yes, some of those people use foot rests, wrist rests, screen filters, wear beer coolers on their wrist, and have those huge upside down mice - but the money they control is the same as any other money.
I've interviewed a view "developers" (read point and click fffrontpage/ddddreamweaver operators) in the last twelve months who've given me great spiels on how *not* supporting IE6 was something you do "for the good of the user" - but in actual fact it is because they simply don't know how to. To the fellow who claimed he refused to support IE6 because he supported standards (while querying my non-use of Windoof) - how come nothing in your portfolio supported handicapped viewers?.
Horses for courses - if the site is commercial, and the clients use Mosiac 1.1 then I'll make the site support it - either design it to degrade properly, steer the browser to the correct code, or get a job you're capable of doing. Oh, and the decision by Joomla and other "popular" cms (by which I mean rubbish) not to support IE6 hasn't done some of the end clients any favours either.
We stopped supporting Netscape (and Mosaic) a long time ago - simply because we see no need to support them, but if there was - it's really not that hard.
Now ActiveX is a whole 'nuther barrel of rotten fish though....
Disclaimer:- I'm getting out of the industry so I'm not exactly digging my own grave pointing out obvious business failings in others.
So, you see a girl whose name you don't remember...
Now you have to remember: is this the girl who is careening down an icy road, or is this the girl that has to breathe oxygen?
I don't see how adding an extra step in the process helps!?
It just works - there is no "I see a girl who's name I don't remember" - though I might find it hard not to smile when I think of her name, Bettina (Bettina == bluetits). Best of all I remember her voice and the colour of her eyes too, and the little scar on her eyebrow, the way she twitches her lips etc, and I met her when I walked through a office and was quickly introduced to the dozen or so people there (I don't remember how many people, but I remember their names and faces when I see or talk to them). I use her as an example because I met her last year, and saw her in a queue near me this morning, I could see she was trying to remember my name. (she has tits, they're prominent, she was wearing a blue top when I met her.
He's talking about the technique I learnt, I also learnt that the word/sound/image you use to associate with it doesn't have to resemble it - it just has to have "impact". I meet a lot of people in my work, I never forget a name because I always associate them with something, not their name, them. John Dwibbles is the name, the feature that stands out is his nose, I think "dick nose", and somehow I never forget his name - when I see the face I think the name, when I hear the name I see the face - ditto with the voice. And I'm not Mr Memory. The trick it two-fold - 1st consciously make an effort to "key" the memory, 2nd use a key that has "impact". Seriously it works, if anything the "riskier" the association, the stronger the key ie. the more fucked you'd be if you came out with the key rather than the name the more you'll remember it. And I've never accidentally said "howdy dick nose/syphilis/cheezel sweat etc.
Got a list to memorize? SMEG is easier the remember than MEGS, SPEW is easier to remember the PEWS.
Strangely the "key" doesn't have to be unique, you can have multiple bluetits and dicknoses, it only has to "key" one thing, that thing keys another etc,etc, till you find you remember a surprising amount of details (odour, minor characteristics, skin tone, micro expressions).
It offered real techniques that simply work. I adapted some of it to help me remember names. For a friend named Carice, I imagined her careening down an icy road with a look of terror on her face. Car + Ice = Carice.
Another, Flo (real name!) I couldn't remember so I picked out that she has to use oxygen. The oxygen "flo's" into her nose.
Simple things like that really do work, it doesn't have to be elaborate.
Oh, another one. I kept mixing up the names of two brothers who looked very much alike, except that one was much taller than the other (about 6'6"). So, I looked at their names: Lewis and Drake. On an alphabet counted upwards from the bottom, Lewis is higher than Drake! Great, so the tall one is Lewis.
I would love to remember more things that aren't easy to remember automagically. Like, why do I remember that a MIG 25 used drone engines with a overhaul time of 100hrs and that mach 3 would kill the engines in short order, but can't remember the process for some stupid Windows thing that I do every other day? Seems like my head is full of useless trivia, but when I think about those things guess what pops into my head? Images.
Images + association = Memory.
I did a speed reading course in my youth, that was the (neurolinguistic) technique they taught, it still works for me.
It seems risky at first, but it's never failed me eg. meeting new people on job sites - this is John Dwibble (dick nose, cos he's got a large nose) - I always remember the name, and even drunk I've never accidentally said the word I used to remember them.
I have had a number of friends who learned highly-passable Spanish (and other languages) in three weeks to a month.
How does that compare with the intensive immersion courses? Do you friends think in their second language?
On a separate note I learned to memorize faces - you just practice describing someone to yourself, after about a week it becomes a habit, just like mental summarizing during cramming sessions.
'Memory palace' = 'method of loci' is a method, i.e. something that an average person can learn and train her or himself to use efficiently.
It is not particularly new, it is attributed to 5th/6th century (BC) Greek poet. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_of_loci
It is actually quite simple and can be taught in an hour or less. Training takes more time.
It is based on a simple fact that our brain is more specialized for remembering spatial facts and relations (has probably a bit to do with being able to quickly remember paths: either to successfully chase that squirrel or find the closest path to the most secure location while running away from a malnourished tiger of some sorts)
These methods map this mental power to non spatial concepts through visual association. Not completely unlike using GPU to do some non graphic tasks efficiently. The trick, in both cases, is to be able to recognize which tasks are best suited for it.
Yep, been around for a long, long, time. Just like the eidetic myth - if it exists no ones managed to prove it. Not that there haven't been people who demonstrated amazing memorization feats - but that a long way from a photographic memory. Plenty claim to have it - but I think you'll find the Great Randi hasn't had to fork out any money yet. I've read of few experiments where they failed to memorize everything - even over quite short periods of time (if you can see and hear it, but not remember all of it, it ain't photographic, usually just confabulation). No one has ever demonstrated the ability to remember languages they've never heard before, for instance.
And the Rainman thing, it's not memory it's math (Doomsday) and loci technique. The loci technique is particularly powerful when combined with (practiced) neurolinquistics.
Apparently one of the most talented is a guy who managed to learn fluent Icelandic in a couple of days - and he stands head and shoulders above the actual achievements of others (from my dodgy memory his book was called Blue Sky Dreaming).
And every Agency would have to pay on an annual basis for an Enterprise License to be "allowed" to side-load their own applications to the devices.
Why were iPads even considered? That sort of restricted access should rule them out at the first step.
Well it's obvious really:- Victoria increased the number of doctors there by giving tree iPads, now it's time to boost ASIO recruiting. I know it makes me want to endure the "intrusive vetting" in order to work with cheezel scented fat fucks for a low wage, and hey, once a month you get to play paintball out the back of the airport. Sign me up.
When I graduated from my IT Security and Cryptography degree I saw most of the morons of the class ending up working for ASIO and the DSD, so I wouldn't trust the DSD to certify that my CAT-5 patch cables have connectivity let alone an proprietary operating system. All they do is use inflexible checklists and frameworks to make their decisions on, they can't think outside of the box, and that's where the problems are going to lie.
Was one of them a kind of chubby, dark haired, autistic looking guy, works at Russell, carries an umbrella (always), and catches the bus to Civic?
Coz if he can't keep track of his briefcase I sure wouldn't trust him with anything smaller. He seems to have a little problem with literacy too....
Yep - it's not beta any more, what Microsoft hasn't reluctantly fixed third parties have provided replacements for, and a great deal of the unknowns are no longer. Somewhere on the shelf behind me I've got an old Thinkpad running Spud from the days when floppy installs were the still available - it still works fine too. And Windoof 98 (SE) makes a neat little vm when you lite it and replace most of the Microsoft bloat with third part stuff. And Windoof ME still sucks shit through a straw - I suspect 7 years from now I'll be saying thing about Vistass. Actually W2K lites up nicely too. The difference is that I can run a modern true 32-bit OS on old hardware using a GNU, but not Windoof (or Apple). Doesn't matter which distro I pick, I can leverage more life out of old hardware with new software.
Well actually it's a bit harder with Ubuntu, because despite Shuttleworths original announcement, Ubuntu doesn't do a lot to support old hardware (or Africa). And there's my main grudge against Canonical, Fedora (OLPC) do more to bring computers to those that don't have them than Ubuntu does.
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I know it was a "politician" and some times they make shit up, actually this particular politician has a history of making shit up, but - oh, hang on.... and, um, isn't he pro-war.
Anyway - it could only happen here - oh, hang on... what's that music? Frank Zappa! "Congress Shall Make No Law" - now what's that all about?
Now get off my lawn I'm going to watch some good old family values comedy - The Three Stooges, yay
Shhh... You don;t want to show reality to a Freetard, he may become enraged and charge at you!
How's your Microsoft shares doing? My IBM shares are just OK - same as they have been for the last fifty years.
You've spent your first week out of grade school trolling on Slashdot - such a dedicated fanboi is clearly you're destined for greater things, like a big career playing video games and testing pr0n - or maybe you could cash in big as a spelling nazi,
I'll check back when you've reach puberty and see what other insights into industry you've got.
Oh yeah. I forgot that 'Openness' is what makes or breaks products in the marketplace.
Let's see, open vs. closed:
Internet vs. AOL CD vs. minidisc Linux vs. UNIX gzip/lzma/bzip2 vs. bzip OpenSSH vs. SSH OpenSSL vs. anything closed AES vs. anything closed Apache vs. IIS
Yup, that sounds about right.
Almost everything you use won because it's open, you just don't notice it anymore because it won so long ago that it just seems like part of the scenery now. DNS, DHCP, TCP/IP, HTTP, HTML, C++, Kerberos, LDAP, 802.3, 802.11, USB, the BSD sockets API, etc. etc. All things equal, customers prefer open to closed. Which means that closed is a state that can only exist prior to an open competitor reaching compatibility and substantial feature parity with the leading closed alternative, at which point customers choose the open alternative.
The only way closed is a long-term condition is when it is propped up by a monopoly, a cartel or a government.
Or to put it in a non-computer operating system/software way - he who makes that which allows the most other companies to add to - wins. The more third-party choices, the more market support/choice. And every time some lawyer/marketer says "lock that down and make a killing" - the lawyer/marketer makes a killing, the company just tends to take a dive (eventually). Oh sure, there's plenty of people who'll tell me Microsoft is the exception to the rule - what's the share price lately? In fact there's one in the following post - poor fool, obviously hasn't heard of webmail.
That's why we need 2 congressional investigations in parallel. One run by Republicans digging up any dirt they can find on Democrats, and one by Democrats digging dirt on Republicans.
What we really need is a Highlander style competition amongst politicians. That way there's just one we need to feed to a tree chipper to restore democracy in the U.S.
News at ten, a new colour mid-way between white and black has been discovered, middle America collapses into cognitive dissonance and denial. (is it something in your water?)
The Texas Teapot Party is the only one that makes any damn sense.
a democratic push for a congressional investigation of HBGary Federal
You're going to dig for info on their union-busting, but you're going to be very embarrassed if you find out that the Obama administration was in bed with these scumbags on some other sleazy project(s) that come up too. They were working for the banks, but some of these firms were (or at least had been) working for the government too. Might want to check with the White House before you start digging too deep.
BOA was what got these guys excited - you know the project that's *not* being discussed, the same thing that Wikileaks *was* going to leak early January.
I bet your mortgage any investigation (read NONE) will be tightly focused *away* from the BOA job. Deniable, deniable, deniable. Even the running rat'll claim he was under pressure to bring in funds, and Hogland's (I know nuffinK) wife will claim she was misinterpreted and kept out of the loop. Fuck, these scum won't even hire a script writer, they'll just recycle the head of the (Oz) NBN's previous defence (I didn't know what the people I manage and direct do with their days).
Bah fucking humbug, these folks were/are just another "Business" intelligence company - of which there are thousands, they just did worse (financially) than some of the others, hence the high risk/low return decision to go after Anonymous.
I never get the point about rats leaving a sinking ship. Where the fuck are the rats going anyway???
In this case, Xe
Glossing a little, there's a reason for the different words "photographic" and "eidetic" memory. Photographic is much like a natural version of the trained memory palace theme. Eidetic don't take snapshots, it is more like a well built web page that lets the user structurally find anything in some three links. My visual memory is terrible, but for a while I was pretty good at the US tax forms because oddly enough that body of law runs like a logic puzzle.
(All the whining you hear about it is from perceived non-importance, aka it is imposed. But geeks should have fun with it, because it's a giant If-Then maze. "You (use a 1040EZ unless you have a mortgage, but (only if the interest on the mortgage is greater than the standard deduction)) etc."
Agreed. Most of the people I've met who claim to to be eidetics confuse the two terms - and have neither abilities. I had one working here, his school friend also claimed the guy was eidetic - we sacked him because he was a fuckup who kept "confusing" things. He refused to admit he forgot things - they just "weren't important". And this guy was apparently a legend at Uni - so how come he constantly needed his password reset - and why lie when I'd say "again?" (confabulation?).
I suspect if real eidetics exist (total memory) they're smart enough to hide from researchers.
Fun with it? [screams in John Cleese voice] Who said you can have fun with it!! It's perfectly bloody simple!
Will those of you playing in the match this afternoon move your clothes down onto the lower peg immediately after lunch before you write home, if you're not getting a haircut unless you have a brother going out this weekend as the guest of another boy then collect his note before lunch, put it in your letter after your haircut. Make sure he moves your clothes onto the lower peg for you..
You're thinking of Born on a Blue Day by Daniel Tammet
:-D bloody memory...
I guess it does make sense for many companies. The problem is that we webdevelopers are in the business of fixing things that aren't really broken, and then inventing new things to fix. People using 20 year old tech without problems is bad for our world view and our ego.
I have no problems with people using 20 year old tech - their mistakes are my advantages. Personally I wish everyone moved to HTML5 now. First thing I do is ask the client why they want a site, second is who's the audience - the decisions as to what to support stem from there. I still come across people who want just a single stylesheet for sites that serve to mobile and screen devices. A good third of the time (I'm just plucking figures out of my arse here) what the client wants the site for is just a colossal piece of shit. :-D
And now if you'll excuse me I'm going to see how the new kid is doing knocking up some sample templates for the client who flogs bullshit "miracle" diets... and after that I've got to quote on "a site that duplicates the functionality of r*%Tube" (sigh)
Failed to memorize. Ding ding ding. If they're putting any effort at all into memorization then they don't have a photographic memory. Instead, they should just remember everything they're paying attention to. The paying attention part might be hard though, since every new experience probably triggers a memory, and I'd think they'd spend a lot of time remembering things when they should be paying attention.
Recall == Remember. Makes no difference whether consciously memorized or not..
Have you never met people you've never met before (then)? Ditto with language, written or spoken. See "Danial Tammet" who learnt Icelandic in a week - considerably faster that those who claim to use techniques.
Sorry about the formatting, in a rush.
My problem is that I'll forget what the association was by the time I need that persons name again. Maybe I should associate the association with something?
I think maybe your observation is ironic...
So as I mentioned elsewhere, this is a trick that helps people with bad memories.
.Nice sophism..
The effort involved in goofy long winded associations like this is not worth it for the few times I might ever forget someone's name.
If you call a 1 second process long winded....
What I'd really like to see is how this is applicable to people in actual useful ways. I mean, great, you can meet ten people at lunch and say goodbye to each of them, by name, at the end of lunch.
Do you hear voices? You're not only twisting words, you're inventing things. Go back read again, the words haven't changed.
But can you read a five page guide on how to get started with the GNU debugger and then sit down and apply it all in correct order and without referring to the guide?
Yes - I can even remember when I did that (1998). It's kind of a prerequisite for my job, though I have, and will continue to reread it - it does change.
When I think of a "photographic memory", THAT is what comes to mind.
Much of this thread is about defining "photographic" - you seem stuck on what you "believe". The current "science" is that "photographic" memories do not exist. At the risk of repeating what's been said earlier - selective, partial, recall is not the same as a photograph. Eidetic never meant "only images".
Not some guy who can remember that Alice has a big nose, Bob is fat, the sky is blue, and the sixth card in the deck is a five of spades.
Somehow, in your enthusiasm, you've turned using a key (facial characteristic) to remembering a person *and their name* into recalling just their first name. Is there something you're trying to say?
Perhaps you're just incapable of remembering what is written on the screen in front of you?
And what the fuck is wrong with the edits in the nu slashdot? paragraph tags or not, blockquotes or just quotes, and it still double spaces (sigh)
Of course I thought it was fiction at the time.... That bloody "Max Headroom".
DONT buy sony. dont let anyone around you, buy sony.
Ri-ght, I'll buy Wii, or XBox, that'll learn 'em. Sigh.
Ignore the astroturfer - buy Sony, hack Sony, encourage everyone around you to buy and hack Sony. Grow a spine.
One of the complaints I've heard about Firefox is that there is no way to do an installation similar to how msi files are setup.
If you mean that Firefox installs can't be "packaged" for .msi then you've been misinformed. It sounds very much like the argument trotted out by Finance for Group 8 - it is not correct, we'll happily tender for that job.
It's not a matter of being lazy, it's just stupid to support something that is such a colossal piece of shit. I did it for many years, in fact, IE 5.5 hacking as well. At most when I support IE6, I just make sure the entire layout doesn't break.
It's called browser deprecation, preach it to your clients. Websites DO NOT need to look exactly the same in every type of browser.
Depending on who your clients are, and where they earn their money, your view might just be business suicide... I agree about the lack of a need to make sites appear identical in different browsers though. But I've just been reminded we have clients who still run OS/2 - major clients (think nationwide chain of service stations). Though all their systems are internal, one of the reasons we hold the contract is because we're the only company that doesn't lecture them, though I do have reservations about their 1980 email system which is routed through NZ. (takes hours for email to be delivered)
If supporting a colossal piece of shit pays a stable, hassle free, (and colossal) income, I'll do it (a good well documented plan means no headaches)- especially as these folks have a hardware and software system in place that has worked flawlessly for over twenty years - despite the fact that most of the operators are pump jockeys.
Surely the solution to this is just to remove any mod points if a post is edited?
That would remove down-mods too. Having time limits on moderation means GNAA (and other) trolls are guaranteed to be at score:1 for that time limit. It increases the incentive for trolls to fristpost.
Won't someone think of the grammar nazis please!
Oops, I meen grammer nazies...
Possibly, the fact that large numbers of corporate desktops still have IE 6 means that a non-trivial number of Web programmers code to where IE6 will still work, whereas no one is using old Netscape, even for fun, except for this dude.
Possibly because of the fact that a lot of large corporations (and government departments) spent so much money on some software (Oracle and SAP I'm looking at you) that is dependent on IE (due to brain dead IT decisions) that anyone whose business is dependent on dealing with those folk *needs* to support IE6.
Sadly I'm guilty of taking advantage of the growing trend to build sites that don't support IE6. By which I mean - I build sites for clients whose clients are those same corporations and government departments who use IE6. It works really well for me.
Company A announces that they no longer support IE6 on their websites, corporations and government departments where the people who contract to outside companies can no longer view their websites *don't buy their services*. A few code tweaks and the willingness to live with half a dozen minor W3org in-validations meant that one of my clients went from the second largest service company in a country town - to the second largest in the nation. Simply because their competitors all proudly announced last year they'd no longer support IE6 on their websites - and I decided to go against the trend because my clients get their work from people who only use IE6. And yes, some of those people use foot rests, wrist rests, screen filters, wear beer coolers on their wrist, and have those huge upside down mice - but the money they control is the same as any other money.
I've interviewed a view "developers" (read point and click fffrontpage/ddddreamweaver operators) in the last twelve months who've given me great spiels on how *not* supporting IE6 was something you do "for the good of the user" - but in actual fact it is because they simply don't know how to. To the fellow who claimed he refused to support IE6 because he supported standards (while querying my non-use of Windoof) - how come nothing in your portfolio supported handicapped viewers?.
Horses for courses - if the site is commercial, and the clients use Mosiac 1.1 then I'll make the site support it - either design it to degrade properly, steer the browser to the correct code, or get a job you're capable of doing. Oh, and the decision by Joomla and other "popular" cms (by which I mean rubbish) not to support IE6 hasn't done some of the end clients any favours either.
We stopped supporting Netscape (and Mosaic) a long time ago - simply because we see no need to support them, but if there was - it's really not that hard.
Now ActiveX is a whole 'nuther barrel of rotten fish though....
Disclaimer:- I'm getting out of the industry so I'm not exactly digging my own grave pointing out obvious business failings in others.
So, you see a girl whose name you don't remember...
Now you have to remember: is this the girl who is careening down an icy road, or is this the girl that has to breathe oxygen?
I don't see how adding an extra step in the process helps!?
It just works - there is no "I see a girl who's name I don't remember" - though I might find it hard not to smile when I think of her name, Bettina (Bettina == bluetits). Best of all I remember her voice and the colour of her eyes too, and the little scar on her eyebrow, the way she twitches her lips etc, and I met her when I walked through a office and was quickly introduced to the dozen or so people there (I don't remember how many people, but I remember their names and faces when I see or talk to them). I use her as an example because I met her last year, and saw her in a queue near me this morning, I could see she was trying to remember my name. (she has tits, they're prominent, she was wearing a blue top when I met her.
He's talking about the technique I learnt, I also learnt that the word/sound/image you use to associate with it doesn't have to resemble it - it just has to have "impact". I meet a lot of people in my work, I never forget a name because I always associate them with something, not their name, them. John Dwibbles is the name, the feature that stands out is his nose, I think "dick nose", and somehow I never forget his name - when I see the face I think the name, when I hear the name I see the face - ditto with the voice. And I'm not Mr Memory. The trick it two-fold - 1st consciously make an effort to "key" the memory, 2nd use a key that has "impact". Seriously it works, if anything the "riskier" the association, the stronger the key ie. the more fucked you'd be if you came out with the key rather than the name the more you'll remember it. And I've never accidentally said "howdy dick nose/syphilis/cheezel sweat etc.
Got a list to memorize? SMEG is easier the remember than MEGS, SPEW is easier to remember the PEWS.
Strangely the "key" doesn't have to be unique, you can have multiple bluetits and dicknoses, it only has to "key" one thing, that thing keys another etc,etc, till you find you remember a surprising amount of details (odour, minor characteristics, skin tone, micro expressions).
It offered real techniques that simply work. I adapted some of it to help me remember names. For a friend named Carice, I imagined her careening down an icy road with a look of terror on her face. Car + Ice = Carice.
Another, Flo (real name!) I couldn't remember so I picked out that she has to use oxygen. The oxygen "flo's" into her nose.
Simple things like that really do work, it doesn't have to be elaborate.
Oh, another one. I kept mixing up the names of two brothers who looked very much alike, except that one was much taller than the other (about 6'6"). So, I looked at their names: Lewis and Drake. On an alphabet counted upwards from the bottom, Lewis is higher than Drake! Great, so the tall one is Lewis.
I would love to remember more things that aren't easy to remember automagically. Like, why do I remember that a MIG 25 used drone engines with a overhaul time of 100hrs and that mach 3 would kill the engines in short order, but can't remember the process for some stupid Windows thing that I do every other day? Seems like my head is full of useless trivia, but when I think about those things guess what pops into my head? Images.
Images + association = Memory.
I did a speed reading course in my youth, that was the (neurolinguistic) technique they taught, it still works for me.
It seems risky at first, but it's never failed me eg. meeting new people on job sites - this is John Dwibble (dick nose, cos he's got a large nose) - I always remember the name, and even drunk I've never accidentally said the word I used to remember them.
I have had a number of friends who learned highly-passable Spanish (and other languages) in three weeks to a month.
How does that compare with the intensive immersion courses? Do you friends think in their second language?
On a separate note I learned to memorize faces - you just practice describing someone to yourself, after about a week it becomes a habit, just like mental summarizing during cramming sessions.
'Memory palace' = 'method of loci' is a method, i.e. something that an average person can learn and train her or himself to use efficiently. It is not particularly new, it is attributed to 5th/6th century (BC) Greek poet. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_of_loci
It is actually quite simple and can be taught in an hour or less. Training takes more time.
It is based on a simple fact that our brain is more specialized for remembering spatial facts and relations (has probably a bit to do with being able to quickly remember paths: either to successfully chase that squirrel or find the closest path to the most secure location while running away from a malnourished tiger of some sorts)
These methods map this mental power to non spatial concepts through visual association. Not completely unlike using GPU to do some non graphic tasks efficiently. The trick, in both cases, is to be able to recognize which tasks are best suited for it.
Yep, been around for a long, long, time. Just like the eidetic myth - if it exists no ones managed to prove it. Not that there haven't been people who demonstrated amazing memorization feats - but that a long way from a photographic memory. Plenty claim to have it - but I think you'll find the Great Randi hasn't had to fork out any money yet. I've read of few experiments where they failed to memorize everything - even over quite short periods of time (if you can see and hear it, but not remember all of it, it ain't photographic, usually just confabulation). No one has ever demonstrated the ability to remember languages they've never heard before, for instance.
And the Rainman thing, it's not memory it's math (Doomsday) and loci technique. The loci technique is particularly powerful when combined with (practiced) neurolinquistics.
Apparently one of the most talented is a guy who managed to learn fluent Icelandic in a couple of days - and he stands head and shoulders above the actual achievements of others (from my dodgy memory his book was called Blue Sky Dreaming).
And every Agency would have to pay on an annual basis for an Enterprise License to be "allowed" to side-load their own applications to the devices.
Why were iPads even considered? That sort of restricted access should rule them out at the first step.
Well it's obvious really:- Victoria increased the number of doctors there by giving tree iPads, now it's time to boost ASIO recruiting. I know it makes me want to endure the "intrusive vetting" in order to work with cheezel scented fat fucks for a low wage, and hey, once a month you get to play paintball out the back of the airport. Sign me up.
When I graduated from my IT Security and Cryptography degree I saw most of the morons of the class ending up working for ASIO and the DSD, so I wouldn't trust the DSD to certify that my CAT-5 patch cables have connectivity let alone an proprietary operating system. All they do is use inflexible checklists and frameworks to make their decisions on, they can't think outside of the box, and that's where the problems are going to lie.
Was one of them a kind of chubby, dark haired, autistic looking guy, works at Russell, carries an umbrella (always), and catches the bus to Civic?
Coz if he can't keep track of his briefcase I sure wouldn't trust him with anything smaller. He seems to have a little problem with literacy too....
XP is an 11 year old operating system.
Yep - it's not beta any more, what Microsoft hasn't reluctantly fixed third parties have provided replacements for, and a great deal of the unknowns are no longer. Somewhere on the shelf behind me I've got an old Thinkpad running Spud from the days when floppy installs were the still available - it still works fine too. And Windoof 98 (SE) makes a neat little vm when you lite it and replace most of the Microsoft bloat with third part stuff. And Windoof ME still sucks shit through a straw - I suspect 7 years from now I'll be saying thing about Vistass. Actually W2K lites up nicely too. The difference is that I can run a modern true 32-bit OS on old hardware using a GNU, but not Windoof (or Apple). Doesn't matter which distro I pick, I can leverage more life out of old hardware with new software.
Well actually it's a bit harder with Ubuntu, because despite Shuttleworths original announcement, Ubuntu doesn't do a lot to support old hardware (or Africa). And there's my main grudge against Canonical, Fedora (OLPC) do more to bring computers to those that don't have them than Ubuntu does.