One thing that I would find handy is support for smartphone OSes in standard VMWare. Combine that with a laptop with a capacitive multitouch screen and you have the optimal workstation for smartphone development.
My last mod point would have went to you if you weren't already scored a 5 on this. Great idea! Which brings up a very obvious point in that current games don't innovate enough (or intelligently enough) to keep people interested for very long, and do nothing to resolve long standing issues in games (like grinding).
I hope both of these douches exhaust all their available resources fighting each other. Obviously, Zuckerberg will barely flinch from this, but one can hope otherwise.
Give people a reason to actually like themselves in society and not feel like they have to be attention whores 24/7 and privacy becomes much less of an issue in the context of these sites.
The argument was not:
... if people had confidence they wouldn't have a reason to put their personal information out there.
If you want to argue on whether or not privacy becomes less of an issue with increased self-esteem, go nuts. But don't argue on something you conjured up yourself and say that's countering my point. You're interpreting my words as you want to see them, rather than trying to understand what I was trying to say in the first place.
Social networking isn't going away whether people like themselves or not. However, when people allow themselves to be slaves to how society views them, they may weigh their popularity over any concerns of privacy. When you're confident enough to not care much about how society views you, then you leave your mind freer to prioritize over other things such as privacy.
Doesn't that just mean you're a statistical outlier in the context of this study? This is a trend, not a mathematical equation. One contradicting piece of data doesn't disprove a trend, whereas in math, one contradicting piece of data can disprove a whole equation.
The study also found that those with higher self-esteem are more likely to protect their personal information.
Pretty much sums up the driving force behind social networking. Give people a reason to actually like themselves in society and not feel like they have to be attention whores 24/7 and privacy becomes much less of an issue in the context of these sites.
Maybe Ubuntu's Unity should have used Scroll Lock as the application menu button rather than robbing use of the super key as a useful macro. (I refuse to use that *blankety-blank* DE, FYI, same goes for Gnome Shell)
1) Hold yourself to a high standard (hygiene, fashion, confidence [the real kind, not the knock-all-others-down-a-peg kind], health, well-roundedness [have lots of other things to do than obsess over girls and sex])
2) Pay attention to her every nuance, her reactions to what you say and do, her favorite ice-cream or wine, where she likes to be touched, anything. Everything she does is data to be stored in your internal database. Pay attention to detail like you do with code, it's an underrated talent that programmers have but don't apply to anything else IRL.
3) Do not internalize, you will only shoot yourself down
4) Make her miss you, be available, but not too available, YMMV depending on her interest
5) Know when to call it quits and move on, some girls will appreciate your company while others will give an inch while they take your mile.
6) Don't be negative and don't rant about shit she obviously isn't interested in. Some girls DO think nerds are cute, even hot ones, but don't want to hear a long-winded passage about the Prime Directive (whatever that is, I'm a Star Wars fan:p)
7) Layman's terms, layman's terms, layman's terms, I can't stress this enough. You can't connect with a girl if you can't relate to her. Even with layman's terms, most of our professions are still to complicated to understand. They are just fine with hearing that you really love your job and consider it like an art form and how your work helps people (depending on the profession, that is).
8) Clean your house, make it spotless and keep it that way. Your living quarters are a reflection of who you are as a person, and girls pick up on this.
9) Money is (almost) no object, IF the girl appreciates it. Don't look cheap, but don't look desperate either. Pay for her dinner, get her good seats to the hockey game, etc. Be wary of gold diggers (see #5)
10) Get help from someone more experienced than you who is willing to help you (someone who isn't a PUA who only cares about getting into panties anyway, they fail at just about everything else regarding women). Search the internet, but be wary of the sources. Advice from men has priority over advice from women by a huge margin. Ignore tips from movies, TV, romance novels, your mom at all possible costs!
*Coming from 15+ years experience of being an abject failure at romance, and finally getting some well deserved poetic justice:)
Any web "app" that aims to be actually useful will ensure that it can operate on any browser. Otherwise, we would be just as well off without the "app".
The only reliable platform for developing software and prototyping hardware is the PC. When we can do absolutely everything on other devices that we can do on a PC, that's when PCs will "go the way of the vacuum tube". Otherwise, they won't be going away any time soon.
Keep in mind that this was said by an engineer who isn't doing things like developing the ISA bus anymore. Anyone who isn't a software developer may be tempted to say such a thing as "the PC will become a thing of the past" simply because they don't have to use one day to day. From their standpoint, the PC is becoming extinct, but that's only for them. For many others, it is still an essential piece of machinery needed to get meaningful work done so that people like Mark Dean can enjoy their precious tablets. Idiot? Probably not. Arrogantly/Ignorantly overstepping his bounds? Definitely.
Did Voltare or The Artist (formerly known as Prince) have any problem hiding under their pseudonyms?
Prince Rogers Nelson is his real name and he had to use a pseudonym, the unpronounceable Love Symbol, because Warner Bros. trademarked his real name which is pretty much his identity. It's no better than stealing someone's soul if you ask me. If we are not allowed to use pseudonyms on social networking sites, how will we be assured that we won't someday be hoodwinked out of the right to use our given names like Prince was? I'd much rather lose a pseudonym that I created than the name that my parents gave me at birth.
IIRC, certain viruses leave their signature on blank sections of our DNA. Here is something I looked up mid-comment. Given this, I have all confidence that this drug may someday backfire with disastrous results and, therefore, I hope this is priced so high that only the extremely wealthy can afford it >:)
It would be interesting if all life on this planet was nothing more than an elaborate experiment designed by some ancient race who hurled a bunch of their DNA to some random part of space. We may someday (in the distant future) have to resort to the same so that we could (very, very indirectly) travel through intergalactic space, possibly to survive (via proxy) some sort of (self-inflicted?) calamity on Earth.
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One thing that I would find handy is support for smartphone OSes in standard VMWare. Combine that with a laptop with a capacitive multitouch screen and you have the optimal workstation for smartphone development.
Electoral system reform. You know, so my vote actually counts for something?
My last mod point would have went to you if you weren't already scored a 5 on this. Great idea! Which brings up a very obvious point in that current games don't innovate enough (or intelligently enough) to keep people interested for very long, and do nothing to resolve long standing issues in games (like grinding).
I hope both of these douches exhaust all their available resources fighting each other. Obviously, Zuckerberg will barely flinch from this, but one can hope otherwise.
The walls of a weak sandbox can break, both in real life and in code.
Give people a reason to actually like themselves in society and not feel like they have to be attention whores 24/7 and privacy becomes much less of an issue in the context of these sites.
The argument was not:
... if people had confidence they wouldn't have a reason to put their personal information out there.
If you want to argue on whether or not privacy becomes less of an issue with increased self-esteem, go nuts. But don't argue on something you conjured up yourself and say that's countering my point. You're interpreting my words as you want to see them, rather than trying to understand what I was trying to say in the first place.
Social networking isn't going away whether people like themselves or not. However, when people allow themselves to be slaves to how society views them, they may weigh their popularity over any concerns of privacy. When you're confident enough to not care much about how society views you, then you leave your mind freer to prioritize over other things such as privacy.
Doesn't that just mean you're a statistical outlier in the context of this study? This is a trend, not a mathematical equation. One contradicting piece of data doesn't disprove a trend, whereas in math, one contradicting piece of data can disprove a whole equation.
The study also found that those with higher self-esteem are more likely to protect their personal information.
Pretty much sums up the driving force behind social networking. Give people a reason to actually like themselves in society and not feel like they have to be attention whores 24/7 and privacy becomes much less of an issue in the context of these sites.
Maybe Ubuntu's Unity should have used Scroll Lock as the application menu button rather than robbing use of the super key as a useful macro. (I refuse to use that *blankety-blank* DE, FYI, same goes for Gnome Shell)
Because there's not enough profit in allowing consumers to expand their hardware and delay having to buy yet another appliance at an exorbitant price.
Even in the .NET world IE6 is a pain...
You must really hate me today :)
1) Hold yourself to a high standard (hygiene, fashion, confidence [the real kind, not the knock-all-others-down-a-peg kind], health, well-roundedness [have lots of other things to do than obsess over girls and sex])
2) Pay attention to her every nuance, her reactions to what you say and do, her favorite ice-cream or wine, where she likes to be touched, anything. Everything she does is data to be stored in your internal database. Pay attention to detail like you do with code, it's an underrated talent that programmers have but don't apply to anything else IRL.
3) Do not internalize, you will only shoot yourself down
4) Make her miss you, be available, but not too available, YMMV depending on her interest
5) Know when to call it quits and move on, some girls will appreciate your company while others will give an inch while they take your mile.
6) Don't be negative and don't rant about shit she obviously isn't interested in. Some girls DO think nerds are cute, even hot ones, but don't want to hear a long-winded passage about the Prime Directive (whatever that is, I'm a Star Wars fan :p)
7) Layman's terms, layman's terms, layman's terms, I can't stress this enough. You can't connect with a girl if you can't relate to her. Even with layman's terms, most of our professions are still to complicated to understand. They are just fine with hearing that you really love your job and consider it like an art form and how your work helps people (depending on the profession, that is).
8) Clean your house, make it spotless and keep it that way. Your living quarters are a reflection of who you are as a person, and girls pick up on this.
9) Money is (almost) no object, IF the girl appreciates it. Don't look cheap, but don't look desperate either. Pay for her dinner, get her good seats to the hockey game, etc. Be wary of gold diggers (see #5)
10) Get help from someone more experienced than you who is willing to help you (someone who isn't a PUA who only cares about getting into panties anyway, they fail at just about everything else regarding women). Search the internet, but be wary of the sources. Advice from men has priority over advice from women by a huge margin. Ignore tips from movies, TV, romance novels, your mom at all possible costs!
*Coming from 15+ years experience of being an abject failure at romance, and finally getting some well deserved poetic justice :)
You are absolutely right, Apple isn't doing jack here. Nintendo doesn't need help to reach it's inevitable demise.
Of course, as a web developer, I don't consider IE6 a browser and don't bother supporting it :).
Any web "app" that aims to be actually useful will ensure that it can operate on any browser. Otherwise, we would be just as well off without the "app".
The only reliable platform for developing software and prototyping hardware is the PC. When we can do absolutely everything on other devices that we can do on a PC, that's when PCs will "go the way of the vacuum tube". Otherwise, they won't be going away any time soon.
Keep in mind that this was said by an engineer who isn't doing things like developing the ISA bus anymore. Anyone who isn't a software developer may be tempted to say such a thing as "the PC will become a thing of the past" simply because they don't have to use one day to day. From their standpoint, the PC is becoming extinct, but that's only for them. For many others, it is still an essential piece of machinery needed to get meaningful work done so that people like Mark Dean can enjoy their precious tablets. Idiot? Probably not. Arrogantly/Ignorantly overstepping his bounds? Definitely.
Did Voltare or The Artist (formerly known as Prince) have any problem hiding under their pseudonyms?
Prince Rogers Nelson is his real name and he had to use a pseudonym, the unpronounceable Love Symbol, because Warner Bros. trademarked his real name which is pretty much his identity. It's no better than stealing someone's soul if you ask me. If we are not allowed to use pseudonyms on social networking sites, how will we be assured that we won't someday be hoodwinked out of the right to use our given names like Prince was? I'd much rather lose a pseudonym that I created than the name that my parents gave me at birth.
Very informative, glad someone RTFA (A as in abstract).
Given that it most likely has a TPM chipset, no self-respecting/informed geek will want it so you might as well give it to Apple for some cash.
If anyone knows what else may have TPM I'd like to know, I may feel like sending some hardware Apple's way :)
IIRC, certain viruses leave their signature on blank sections of our DNA. Here is something I looked up mid-comment. Given this, I have all confidence that this drug may someday backfire with disastrous results and, therefore, I hope this is priced so high that only the extremely wealthy can afford it >:)
It would be interesting if all life on this planet was nothing more than an elaborate experiment designed by some ancient race who hurled a bunch of their DNA to some random part of space. We may someday (in the distant future) have to resort to the same so that we could (very, very indirectly) travel through intergalactic space, possibly to survive (via proxy) some sort of (self-inflicted?) calamity on Earth.
work --> word
Yes, I know, I've got work on the brain
I'm copyrighting the work 'the'. I suspect by the end of the year, I'll have successfully owned 95% of the planet.