Is it just me, or do most people stop reading a post once OSX is mentioned?
I read the first paragraph, then started the second one and BOOM! OSX fanboy alert! I didn't even bother to look at the next sentence. Then I realized my behavior was instinctual, and went back to question it... and indeed, the rest of the post was a rant about BWJones' lust for Steve Jobs' anal cherry. Now I see why I act that way.
Sorry BWJones, I know you're a really active poster:)
Despite the fact that Moore's Law has been around for 40 years, and widely known about for almost as long, Slashdot will report about it at least once a month.
It's almost as prevalent as the popular media corollary, which is:
Popular media will always say that Moore's law is ending now, while ironically citing examples where such earlier predictions were premature.
I have a similar experience with Hollywood Video. I've never even opened an account with them. When I go in I just give them my California drivers license, and they let me take out the video. I have no idea why they let me do this but I don't want to question it.
Just because Apple's stock has gone up incredible amounts over the past few years doesn't mean it won't in the future (or that it will). You could have said the same thing last November, and since then Apple's stock has gone up 35%.
Apple's stock is risky, however. Sony is starting to be a serious competitor with their non-DRMed portable music players. But I still own their stock and I think it can still go higher from here.
Dude... people can hardly remember phone numbers, how are they supposed to start remembering PIN numbers for each person in their phone list? Your solution might work if I put my phone number + PIN on a business card, but it's hardly workable for social purposes.
You make a great point. But I've found that generally in a big emergency (like an injury car crash) people don't leave messages at first. Though in more common minor emergencies (like being locked out) people generally do. So while most of the time waiting for a voice mail will work just fine, sometimes it won't.
I haven't thought about the way I handle these things before now. But now that I am thinking about it, I recall that:
- I'll answer random calls if I don't know specifically where my girlfriend is. - If I know where she is, then I'll let callers leave a message.
Of course there's often exceptions but that's generally how things work. Plus, the screen on my phone is pretty illegible since I fell on it while rollerblading... so I basically answer it when anyone calls except when my girlfriend is around, and then I let people leave a message unless I'm expecting them to call.
Maybe this works for you, but in my life things don't always go as planned. If my girlfriend is in an emergency situation (and it has happened), she contacts me by phone. Because it is an emergency, it may be from a phone number I do not recognize. She will likely not have access to email or IM before calling me. So a random call comes in from a random number... and guess what? I have to answer it because I care about her and it might be her. Until other less-obtrusive technologies like IM are ubiquitous and can be used in emergencies, this cannot change for me.
VOIP spam is a really scary and almost unavoidable future. To combat it, I only give out my cell phone to people I know. I always give businesses my home or work number. But if it starts to be a problem, I bet a lot of the profiling techniques already used for filtering email will start happening on phone networks. And thankfully, I have never heard of a VOIP open relay, so we'll have a better chance at stopping the problem at its source.
Oh.. I thought once Firefox and Thunderbird got mature a year or so ago, Mozilla would start to be a bundle of them and it would drop its old architecture. But apparently Mozilla was only the kitchen-sink architecture... oh well.
So if that's the case... Why doesn't Mozilla just make 1.8 a bundle of the new technologies? I know Netscape 8's supposed to do that, but it's commercial and I'd like to see it come from the mozilla.org developers directly.
Can someone please explain what the Mozilla Foundation did, and why it is being discontinued? I thought, in the most recent versions, the Mozilla suite was Firefox and Thunderbird and the other mozilla.org projects bundled together. Or was Mozilla still the old Gecko code from before it was pulled out and put into a stand-alone browser?
Does this announcement mean that bundles of all the Mozilla suite pieces will no longer be created, or is the old architecture of the Mozilla browser going away? Is some other group or project going to do the bundling instead?
I'm 5'6". On match.com there's a section for girls to list their desired height range. I think they're usually overly hopeful with what they say.... but they usually start at 5'8". So I would not be suprised if this is a decent factor in why I get so few responses.
Actually I tried to email girls without photos as much as I could. I figured the same things you did about them, but they still didn't work out for me. I wonder how much of my failure had to do with living in the Bay Area, where there are lots and lots of single guys because of the tech industry? But I realize that the ratio still isn't -that- awful, so there must be women to find.
I should note that I've now been in a 4-month relationship with a girl I met in real life, though. She's awesome. I don't know if we'll get married, though, so it's still nice to chat about ways to meet new people (though hopefully I won't have to for a bit longer:).
I think only tall, dark and handsome guys do well online, but they don't really need dating sites anyway!
Yes we do!
Tall, dark and handsome people seriously have no idea how important those features are to women. I've had lots of friends try to coach me into getting more women, and almost all of them have been tall, dark and handsome guys. The reason they coach is because they're successful, and the reason they're successful is because they're TD&H. It's too bad they can't see what it's like to be in my shoes... it's very different from their's!!
But aside from my disgruntledness about the way the dating world works...
I've learned that basically I need to be more talkative. Talkative to everyone. Being outgoing and meeting new people and going to new places is what _must_ happen for me to meet girls. It's not going to happen on its own.
I used eHarmony too. I thought it was pretty cool at first. I did a lot of emailing with one girl before things fizzled out. Actually, I kept asking her to go on different dates and she'd have excuses but she'd continue other conversations with me. So I figured she wasn't that interested and stopped emailing her.
But then every match beyond that never got beyond stage 1 or 2.
I realized that 95% of the people I was matched up with were not subscribers. I was being used as a pawn to lure them into a subscription before they could talk to me. I thought that was bullshit. If I was paying $50/mo for a subscription, eHarmony should be bending over backwards to help me, their customer, get what I paid them for!!! But instead I was their advertizing tool. So I cancelled my subscription and started up with match.com instead. Match.com has a lot more vain people but at least I can email them my email address so we don't both have to be subscribers to get to know one another.
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Most of "Nanotechnology" is just hyped up stuff that used to be called "Chemistry" or "Molecular Biology".
:).
Yes, and nanotech regulation used to be called micromanagement.
PHB's just love to make themselves look important
How??? "Maricon" only shares 4 letters in common... that's like me saying it reminds me of the word "vagina".
How does it make me think of the word vagina? Well they share 5 letters, of course!
Is it just me, or do most people stop reading a post once OSX is mentioned?
:)
I read the first paragraph, then started the second one and BOOM! OSX fanboy alert! I didn't even bother to look at the next sentence. Then I realized my behavior was instinctual, and went back to question it... and indeed, the rest of the post was a rant about BWJones' lust for Steve Jobs' anal cherry. Now I see why I act that way.
Sorry BWJones, I know you're a really active poster
Hardly. TV remotes send infrared signals, but eyes receive them. So really, this is a major step-forward to having remote controlled people.
Until they start accusing you of child molestation, eh Michael?
I have a similar experience with Hollywood Video. I've never even opened an account with them. When I go in I just give them my California drivers license, and they let me take out the video. I have no idea why they let me do this but I don't want to question it.
Just because Apple's stock has gone up incredible amounts over the past few years doesn't mean it won't in the future (or that it will). You could have said the same thing last November, and since then Apple's stock has gone up 35%.
Apple's stock is risky, however. Sony is starting to be a serious competitor with their non-DRMed portable music players. But I still own their stock and I think it can still go higher from here.
Duh... It means all the I's are dotted with hearts.
The original comment was meta-1337. He's so l337 he can start using random strings to express his l337-ness
Hey man, thanks. You're pretty tleet too.
My favorite time is 7:33:17. Every time I see it in the mirror I'm reminded how f*cking k-rad I am.
institive
Do you mean instinctive, intuitive, or intrinsic? Or something else?
Dude... people can hardly remember phone numbers, how are they supposed to start remembering PIN numbers for each person in their phone list? Your solution might work if I put my phone number + PIN on a business card, but it's hardly workable for social purposes.
You make a great point. But I've found that generally in a big emergency (like an injury car crash) people don't leave messages at first. Though in more common minor emergencies (like being locked out) people generally do. So while most of the time waiting for a voice mail will work just fine, sometimes it won't.
I haven't thought about the way I handle these things before now. But now that I am thinking about it, I recall that:
- I'll answer random calls if I don't know specifically where my girlfriend is.
- If I know where she is, then I'll let callers leave a message.
Of course there's often exceptions but that's generally how things work. Plus, the screen on my phone is pretty illegible since I fell on it while rollerblading... so I basically answer it when anyone calls except when my girlfriend is around, and then I let people leave a message unless I'm expecting them to call.
Maybe this works for you, but in my life things don't always go as planned. If my girlfriend is in an emergency situation (and it has happened), she contacts me by phone. Because it is an emergency, it may be from a phone number I do not recognize. She will likely not have access to email or IM before calling me. So a random call comes in from a random number... and guess what? I have to answer it because I care about her and it might be her. Until other less-obtrusive technologies like IM are ubiquitous and can be used in emergencies, this cannot change for me.
VOIP spam is a really scary and almost unavoidable future. To combat it, I only give out my cell phone to people I know. I always give businesses my home or work number. But if it starts to be a problem, I bet a lot of the profiling techniques already used for filtering email will start happening on phone networks. And thankfully, I have never heard of a VOIP open relay, so we'll have a better chance at stopping the problem at its source.
Me too! I actually came up with one too:
:)
Both On The wHole
But then I read your post and realized that 'whole' starts with W and not an H.
Oh.. I thought once Firefox and Thunderbird got mature a year or so ago, Mozilla would start to be a bundle of them and it would drop its old architecture. But apparently Mozilla was only the kitchen-sink architecture... oh well.
So if that's the case... Why doesn't Mozilla just make 1.8 a bundle of the new technologies? I know Netscape 8's supposed to do that, but it's commercial and I'd like to see it come from the mozilla.org developers directly.
That's what I thought I said... but you're right. The guy who replied after you explains it better than us both :).
Can someone please explain what the Mozilla Foundation did, and why it is being discontinued? I thought, in the most recent versions, the Mozilla suite was Firefox and Thunderbird and the other mozilla.org projects bundled together. Or was Mozilla still the old Gecko code from before it was pulled out and put into a stand-alone browser?
Does this announcement mean that bundles of all the Mozilla suite pieces will no longer be created, or is the old architecture of the Mozilla browser going away? Is some other group or project going to do the bundling instead?
Thanks for answering my questions!
How tall are you?
I'm 5'6". On match.com there's a section for girls to list their desired height range. I think they're usually overly hopeful with what they say.... but they usually start at 5'8". So I would not be suprised if this is a decent factor in why I get so few responses.
Actually I tried to email girls without photos as much as I could. I figured the same things you did about them, but they still didn't work out for me. I wonder how much of my failure had to do with living in the Bay Area, where there are lots and lots of single guys because of the tech industry? But I realize that the ratio still isn't -that- awful, so there must be women to find.
:).
I should note that I've now been in a 4-month relationship with a girl I met in real life, though. She's awesome. I don't know if we'll get married, though, so it's still nice to chat about ways to meet new people (though hopefully I won't have to for a bit longer
Congratulations man! I wish you two the best!
I think only tall, dark and handsome guys do well online, but they don't really need dating sites anyway!
Yes we do!
Tall, dark and handsome people seriously have no idea how important those features are to women. I've had lots of friends try to coach me into getting more women, and almost all of them have been tall, dark and handsome guys. The reason they coach is because they're successful, and the reason they're successful is because they're TD&H. It's too bad they can't see what it's like to be in my shoes... it's very different from their's!!
But aside from my disgruntledness about the way the dating world works...
I've learned that basically I need to be more talkative. Talkative to everyone. Being outgoing and meeting new people and going to new places is what _must_ happen for me to meet girls. It's not going to happen on its own.
I used eHarmony too. I thought it was pretty cool at first. I did a lot of emailing with one girl before things fizzled out. Actually, I kept asking her to go on different dates and she'd have excuses but she'd continue other conversations with me. So I figured she wasn't that interested and stopped emailing her.
But then every match beyond that never got beyond stage 1 or 2.
I realized that 95% of the people I was matched up with were not subscribers. I was being used as a pawn to lure them into a subscription before they could talk to me. I thought that was bullshit. If I was paying $50/mo for a subscription, eHarmony should be bending over backwards to help me, their customer, get what I paid them for!!! But instead I was their advertizing tool. So I cancelled my subscription and started up with match.com instead. Match.com has a lot more vain people but at least I can email them my email address so we don't both have to be subscribers to get to know one another.