Tried it, didn't see the point. If I want to communicate using text I'll send email or an SMS.
My dad tried email once and he didn't see the point, so he went back to snail mail. Do you see a parallel here?
Yeah , oddly enough thats what normal do with *real* friends.
I have about half a dozen real friends but is a lot better than having 100 pretend ones that merely stroke your ego on facebook.
Do we have to understand than you communicate with 6 people (your real friends) and never ever communicate with anyone else? Hint: Facebook was never meant to be the best way of communicating with your 6 best friends. Another hint: Facebook was never meant to replace all other means of communication.
Yeah , you see calling the real world meat space really does make you sound like some nerd loser who hardly ever leaves his mums basement.
Hmm. This site's motto is "News for nerds, Stuff that matters". So I thought you'd understand the expression.
If you don't have phone numbers for those contacts then they're obviously not real friends so they don't matter.
It is not all black and white, there are shades of gray. The good thing about the Facebook way of communicating is that it is not intrusive. If the brother of my good friend (which I occasionally meet at his place) wants to check up on what's going on with me he can. Otherwise he won't bother. If I don't want to check my Facebook because I don't have time, I don't have to. I'll catch up later or never. My choice.
Facebook is a toy, its not a real way of keeping in touch with people.
It is as real as any other means of communication. WTF does "not real" means anyway? You mean that whenever I send you an email it is "real" but if I post on your Facebook wall it is not "real"? Looks like you never tried Facebook or that you never got how it works.
If you really want to keep in touch with someone you phone them occasionally or even - *gasp* - meet up.
So every time there is something going on in your life, you phone EVERY one of your friends that might be interested by it? Every time? Gosh, I guess you don't keep a lot of friends then. Phone calls are intrusive by nature. It's not better or worse, it is just a different way of communicating.
Yes, there's a radical idea , meeting in person. Who'd have thunk it?
Radical idea: Facebook users also meet other persons in meat space. Who'd have thunk it?
Hard drive's fail much more predictably then web sites.
Sometimes hard drives also fail without warning. Your strategy is most certainly going to lead you to the loss of ALL your data.
That said, I agree with you that having data in your hands put YOU in control. For most people (you included if you're telling us the whole story about your data storage strategy) Facebook will be much safer.
...if you lost contact with the hundreds of "friends"...
Who said there was a hundred? You did.
...you don't even know
Who said I didn't know them? You did.
So all in all you're saying that what you're imagining I said is stupid. Way to go.
You see, social networking (not in the internet sense) is like everything else in life: There are no absolutes. Some people I know intimately. Some a little less. Some barely. Some I've just seen. Some I don't know at all. There are various degrees. Not binary.
What you're saying is that below a certain level of "connection" there is no value at all. Which is utterly stupid of course.
I know, it's a hard concept. Not binary. I'll give you some time to think about it.
What FB provides is just one single contact point.
Exactly the value of facebook which you dismissed right out in your comment. The value of facebook is not in the chatrooms or in the pictures. It's in the contacts.
Tell me this:
If facebook (and other social networking sites such as G+, LinkedIn, etc.) would vanish overnight without warning, would you have a way of keeping in touch with EVERY last one of your contacts on facebook?
I'm not asking if you'd like to keep in touch with them, I'm asking if you COULD.
That is - for me - the only thing I'd lose. Again, I'm not saying it has great value, but you cannot dismiss it has SOME value.
There is one thing I have on facebook and nowhere else: contacts.
Of course, for family and friends I have their email address / phone number someplace else (namely Google) but there are quite a few "acquaintances" that I connect with exclusively on facebook / LinkedIn / etc.
I'm aware I'm doing it wrong, but these are not people I'd email to in a regular fashion or at all. They are old coworkers, friends of friends I've seen once or twice, etc. Sometimes I go and see what they have to say on facebook to get an update of how they are doing. And sometimes we "connect" for good due to some shared interest / goal.
These people are in touch with me exclusively on facebook. If the whole thing was to go down I could not connect easily with half of the 'friends' I have now on facebook.
there are darn few Christians who were alive when these policies were in place
True. I quite don't see why this is relevant, but it is true.
I'm not responsible for the unscriptural beliefs those who came before me
But nobody said you were.
nor should I quietly endure intolerant "jokes" from trolls on Slashdot
Troll is a relative term. We are each other's troll for example.
And if you can't take a joke about your religion it probably means there is something wrong between you and your religion. You should spend some time thinking about why you get angry / uncomfortable every time someone tries to say something you don't agree with on that topic.
Let's read that very same article, and let's start with the first sentence.
"Prior to the 20th century, contraception was generally condemned by all the major branches of Christianity (the Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodoxy, and Protestantism)[1] including the major reformers like Martin Luther and John Calvin."
Since reading comprehension seems to be low, I'll cite the very article you claim I didn't read, and the very first sentence:
"Prior to the 20th century, contraception was generally condemned by all the major branches of Christianity"
There. Does that makes it clearer? And remember I never claimed that "almost all christians are in a "no contraception" branch", but merely that " almost all christians come from a "no contraception" branch"
You didn't read at all what I wrote apparently. I wrote:
1. Most american are christians 2. Most christians have a history of having rejected contraception at a time 4. That was enough ground for my joke. 5. My humor is poor.
There is nothing contradicting your post in there. I can add one more step if you want, although I think you perfectly know what I mean and you are just nitpicking or trolling:
3. Given all this, people will know what my "religious don't want contraception" means.
Now, your turn to explain to me how it is possible that you believe in an imaginary friend at your age. It looks to me as if you're old enough to hold a constructed argument online, so you should be old enough to distinguish between fairy tales and reality.
I'll assume you use Linux then. And you don't use X11, but just the virtual consoles. ONE virtual console actually. There is nothing you can't do in ONE virtual console.
Come on. The balance is not necessarily the same for you, but if I forced you to do all your console work in ONE console you would be miserable.
If we're not the reason for the climate change, with all the crap we're releasing in the atmosphere, there is little chance we can have any effect on the climate change in a reasonable and timely fashion.
So I'd say yes, it matters if it is anthropogenic or not.
Let's see. How come GM doesn't have these tires factories that Firestone and Michelin has? I wonder... GM is making a heck of a lot more money than Firestone though...
Re:I'm a fan but they are STILL missing the boat.
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Blackberry still has lots of complex enterprise features that no one else has.
Sure they do. But as the numbers clearly demonstrate, it's not nearly enough to keep their customers. By a wide margin.
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To regain market share, RIM needs a product that will:
Whatever they need to do to regain market share they should have done 3 years ago. Now it is too late, unless they can revolutionize the market. I think we all know how likely that is.
Not only that, but BI is as related to Nerds than... say, knitting. Sure, it's related to CS at large, but there are no nerds interested in BI. Businesses are, not nerds. Thus, what does this have to do with slashdot?
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Is there some ingenious piece of software built into facebook that stops you copying contact information elsewhere and backing it up?
Like... Copying each facebook friend I have? How will that help me when facebook is down?
Tried it, didn't see the point. If I want to communicate using text I'll send email or an SMS.
My dad tried email once and he didn't see the point, so he went back to snail mail. Do you see a parallel here?
Yeah , oddly enough thats what normal do with *real* friends.
I have about half a dozen real friends but is a lot better than having 100 pretend ones that merely stroke your ego on facebook.
Do we have to understand than you communicate with 6 people (your real friends) and never ever communicate with anyone else? Hint: Facebook was never meant to be the best way of communicating with your 6 best friends. Another hint: Facebook was never meant to replace all other means of communication.
Yeah , you see calling the real world meat space really does make you sound like some nerd loser who hardly ever leaves his mums basement.
Hmm. This site's motto is "News for nerds, Stuff that matters". So I thought you'd understand the expression.
If you don't have phone numbers for those contacts then they're obviously not real friends so they don't matter.
It is not all black and white, there are shades of gray. The good thing about the Facebook way of communicating is that it is not intrusive. If the brother of my good friend (which I occasionally meet at his place) wants to check up on what's going on with me he can. Otherwise he won't bother. If I don't want to check my Facebook because I don't have time, I don't have to. I'll catch up later or never. My choice.
Facebook is a toy, its not a real way of keeping in touch with people.
It is as real as any other means of communication. WTF does "not real" means anyway? You mean that whenever I send you an email it is "real" but if I post on your Facebook wall it is not "real"? Looks like you never tried Facebook or that you never got how it works.
If you really want to keep in touch with someone you phone them occasionally or even - *gasp* - meet up.
So every time there is something going on in your life, you phone EVERY one of your friends that might be interested by it? Every time? Gosh, I guess you don't keep a lot of friends then. Phone calls are intrusive by nature. It's not better or worse, it is just a different way of communicating.
Yes, there's a radical idea , meeting in person. Who'd have thunk it?
Radical idea: Facebook users also meet other persons in meat space. Who'd have thunk it?
Hard drive's fail much more predictably then web sites.
Sometimes hard drives also fail without warning. Your strategy is most certainly going to lead you to the loss of ALL your data.
That said, I agree with you that having data in your hands put YOU in control. For most people (you included if you're telling us the whole story about your data storage strategy) Facebook will be much safer.
Nice backup strategy... ;) Let us know how that works out.
If he stores his slashdot password with the same storage strategy, chances are he'll never be able to let us know...
Typical troll.
Gosh, what a disaster it would be...
Who said it would be a disaster? You did.
...if you lost contact with the hundreds of "friends"...
Who said there was a hundred? You did.
...you don't even know
Who said I didn't know them? You did.
So all in all you're saying that what you're imagining I said is stupid. Way to go.
You see, social networking (not in the internet sense) is like everything else in life: There are no absolutes. Some people I know intimately. Some a little less. Some barely. Some I've just seen. Some I don't know at all. There are various degrees. Not binary.
What you're saying is that below a certain level of "connection" there is no value at all. Which is utterly stupid of course.
I know, it's a hard concept. Not binary. I'll give you some time to think about it.
What FB provides is just one single contact point.
Exactly the value of facebook which you dismissed right out in your comment. The value of facebook is not in the chatrooms or in the pictures. It's in the contacts.
Tell me this:
If facebook (and other social networking sites such as G+, LinkedIn, etc.) would vanish overnight without warning, would you have a way of keeping in touch with EVERY last one of your contacts on facebook?
I'm not asking if you'd like to keep in touch with them, I'm asking if you COULD.
That is - for me - the only thing I'd lose. Again, I'm not saying it has great value, but you cannot dismiss it has SOME value.
There is one thing I have on facebook and nowhere else: contacts.
Of course, for family and friends I have their email address / phone number someplace else (namely Google) but there are quite a few "acquaintances" that I connect with exclusively on facebook / LinkedIn / etc.
I'm aware I'm doing it wrong, but these are not people I'd email to in a regular fashion or at all. They are old coworkers, friends of friends I've seen once or twice, etc. Sometimes I go and see what they have to say on facebook to get an update of how they are doing. And sometimes we "connect" for good due to some shared interest / goal.
These people are in touch with me exclusively on facebook. If the whole thing was to go down I could not connect easily with half of the 'friends' I have now on facebook.
Photos? My photos are on my hard drive.
Your hard drive probably has a lifespan that is much much much shorter than facebook's. Good luck.
there are darn few Christians who were alive when these policies were in place
True. I quite don't see why this is relevant, but it is true.
I'm not responsible for the unscriptural beliefs those who came before me
But nobody said you were.
nor should I quietly endure intolerant "jokes" from trolls on Slashdot
Troll is a relative term. We are each other's troll for example.
And if you can't take a joke about your religion it probably means there is something wrong between you and your religion. You should spend some time thinking about why you get angry / uncomfortable every time someone tries to say something you don't agree with on that topic.
Let's read that very same article, and let's start with the first sentence.
"Prior to the 20th century, contraception was generally condemned by all the major branches of Christianity (the Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodoxy, and Protestantism)[1] including the major reformers like Martin Luther and John Calvin."
Since reading comprehension seems to be low, I'll cite the very article you claim I didn't read, and the very first sentence:
"Prior to the 20th century, contraception was generally condemned by all the major branches of Christianity"
There. Does that makes it clearer? And remember I never claimed that "almost all christians are in a "no contraception" branch", but merely that " almost all christians come from a "no contraception" branch"
You didn't read at all what I wrote apparently. I wrote:
1. Most american are christians
2. Most christians have a history of having rejected contraception at a time
4. That was enough ground for my joke.
5. My humor is poor.
There is nothing contradicting your post in there. I can add one more step if you want, although I think you perfectly know what I mean and you are just nitpicking or trolling:
3. Given all this, people will know what my "religious don't want contraception" means.
Now, your turn to explain to me how it is possible that you believe in an imaginary friend at your age. It looks to me as if you're old enough to hold a constructed argument online, so you should be old enough to distinguish between fairy tales and reality.
In your world religious means Catholic apparently. You did know there are other religions, right?
It's all about context. Given that this website is american, for americans and that 78.4% of them are Christians, and given that almost all christians come from a "no contraception" branch I assumed I could go with my little joke.
Of course, I did let out many other religions there. That's the price of poor humor.
It's probably more risky to have sex with religious/bigot folks than pr0n actors.
You can't have sex with religious people. You can only procreate with them, which leads to more religious people. So you don't want that.
... 100 points to anybody...
And what are those points exactly? And also how do you intend to deliver them?
I'll assume you use Linux then. And you don't use X11, but just the virtual consoles. ONE virtual console actually. There is nothing you can't do in ONE virtual console.
Come on. The balance is not necessarily the same for you, but if I forced you to do all your console work in ONE console you would be miserable.
If we're not the reason for the climate change, with all the crap we're releasing in the atmosphere, there is little chance we can have any effect on the climate change in a reasonable and timely fashion.
So I'd say yes, it matters if it is anthropogenic or not.
Let's see. How come GM doesn't have these tires factories that Firestone and Michelin has? I wonder... GM is making a heck of a lot more money than Firestone though...
Blackberry still has lots of complex enterprise features that no one else has.
Sure they do. But as the numbers clearly demonstrate, it's not nearly enough to keep their customers. By a wide margin.
To regain market share, RIM needs a product that will:
Whatever they need to do to regain market share they should have done 3 years ago. Now it is too late, unless they can revolutionize the market. I think we all know how likely that is.
He had the audacity to put function over form.
Which is an equivalent mistake to putting form over function. A well balanced amount of both is what makes a good product great.
Not only that, but BI is as related to Nerds than ... say, knitting. Sure, it's related to CS at large, but there are no nerds interested in BI. Businesses are, not nerds. Thus, what does this have to do with slashdot?
You asked a theological one.
Nope, I asked a rhetorical one.
But what should we do about the acronym for Bible? RTFB is already taken.
What is it for? Ride The Fucking Bitch?