Because they don't. The average person doesn't tell anyone when they change their email address. The average person is disorganized and does not follow due diligence.
First off, saying a message is a message regardless of the medium does not in any way, shape, or form, imply that no one would paint or write a poem. I'm not sure how you got from point a to point b there.
Second off, nobody on Facebook pokes! I've heard of it happening, but for the most part, it's a strawman for people like you to attack. I have 450 friends and have been on for about 4 yrs. A few cute girls have been poked by a few guys who weren't their friend. That's it. Nobody I've ever spoken to has been poked by a friend they actual know. So go ahead and pretend like what I said is "Nobody should paint, pokes rule." But that's not what I said, and if that's the best response you have, you're just fooling yourself.
I do wonder how people stay in touch with people who change their email address. Not everyone emails their whole addressbook to say they changed email. But the funny thing is - with a social networking site, you can contact that person even after losing their email. I'd rather not lose touch with friends over technical laziness. But hey, some people are so snobby that they would.
Meh. I don't want to individually email my parents about my details. I don't have that kind of time for them. I make one effort for all people, and whoever wants to hear about it can. And I know a lot of people. I can't keep up with them individually. I forget who I need to talk to. In fact, if it weren't for facebook, I would actually have to maintain a text file listing who I need to talk to. I mean, I already use gmail groups to track my friends [all friends, party friend, hangout friends, geek friends]. Not everyone falls out of touch because they suck -- sometimes it's actually a damn tragedy because we didn't have email and easy ways of getting in touch back in high school and college. I mean, it's not like I can't filter on keyword. I eliminate the football talk. Not interested.
I don't think it was the communication you missed. A message is a message regardless of medium. Books are not the smell and feel of the pages; music is not the sound of a needle on a record. You miss your old-fashioned aesthetic.
Firefox does suck, but there's an AdBlock equivalent for Chrome. I don't exactly have a lot of sympathy for the IE crowd... But you can simply edit your etc/hosts file to nullify the majority of ads anyway. I just think someone saying "this site is full of ads haha it's not l33t" is pretty lame. Ads are a separate problem. Any large platform is going to use them. It's not really a Facebook issue. Hell, I got a lot more spam with MySpace than Facebook - because adblock doesn't block fake webcam slut private messages.
Uh... I didn't use my real name. And I ignore people I want to ignore. And I can filter statuses on keywords.
You need to grow a pair and learn to properly use systems. Facebook is bigger than ever, and it certainly isn't dying. And if you're seeing ads, I question why you don't take the 1 minute to install AdBlock, but take 1 minute to complain about ads on facebook. You're just a whiny baby as AFAIK.
That's so people can delete people without being overcome by guilt. MySpace was exactly the same. Pretty much every site is. But there's a Greasemonkey script you can use, Facebook Friend Checker, if you want to know about such things.
))))))))))))))) Smiley closings don't count, especially when you consider they are often replaced with graphics. Also, closing 1 only closes it in the current moment. It doesn't make up for all the opened time that the open one was there without a closed one. You gotta think four-dimensionally. This is war.
Also, closing things extra times doesn't generally create compiler errors;)
Network shares don't detract from drive count -- not if you're smart about it and give the drive the same letter that it would be mapped at on other computers. For example the drive that is mapped as T: on the other 3 computers -- is natively T: on the computer it's actually in. So a single drive takes a single drive letter in all computers. The exception is C: drives -- I have a thing about wanting them to actually be C: natively. Call it superstition. I also make Z:=burner, Y:=reader, X:=usb, which makes sure that the large D:-W: swath -- 20 drives -- is open. Fill that with 20 1.5TB drives and we're talkin' 30TB before any issues arise. By the time I buy those many, capacity will have grown.
I'm not into Daemon Tools or drive mounting. I just kind of think it's stupid, personally. ISOs are for burning. Want it on your computer? Decompress it. Especially true if someone is actually running out of drive letters. I can understand not wanting to use the suckfest that is ISOBuster, but I was delighted when I found out that WinRar uncompressed ISOs.
Anyway, I have about 7TB or so, and if I were to comprise that with 1.5TB drives, I'd only need 5 letters to do it all. Obviously it's not quite so simple. I use C,E,F,G,H,I,J,K,L, [M,N,O on 1999 computer], P,Q,R,S,T,U,V,W. So It's getting close. The computer that we hook 3 cameras up to, however, still has no problems grabbing an additional 2 drive letters [the canon doesn't map to a drive]. It will take B:, or X: if no thumbdrive is in, or M: N: or O: because the 1999 computer is only turned on every few months.
Basically, even with every computer having access to every drive, and us having some 15 physical drives, usb drive in 2 out of 4 computers, 1-2 optical drives in every computer, and yes, even a floppy in every computer -- I've still not run out of drive letters. The worst thing that's happened is that I can't map a drive on a certain computer because that computer grabbed the letter first. But I'm still not shit out luck in that situation, because I can simply move the file with any other computer in the house. It's rare that that affects me. I might VNC in and do a copy command from a computer I'm not sitting at, in a worse case scenario.
I'm saying using enclosures that are powered on is more power -- the enclosure itself has a power supply. I'm expecting my drives to be powered on, or shut down due to inactivity, pretty much 24/7. I just don't want to also be running a power supply on a USB enclosure. I might be misguided here, but that seems like more. Of course the ultimate savings would be to turn stuff off - that's not gonna happen!:) Well, my wife's computer has a noisy fan, so we turn it off when she's not using it so that it doesn't interfere with watching movies...
And no, I don't have to remember names of things. That's silly. If I want to watch, for example, Nip/Tuck, and I have 100 episodes in a folder, I just have to know where the folder is, and watch the next episode. I type "vchk nip.tuck", and it gives me the list from my text file index -- which includes all drives on all computers plus all discs I've ever burned in my life. I see that it's in L:\media\live\NipTuck. So I navigate there, watch my episode, then move it into the 'watched' folder, or delete it. At no point do I have to remember anything. I even have a text file reminding me of which shows I'm currently watching, so I don't forget:)
And oh, after I finish a show, I have another command that lets me tack it on to the list of shows I've watched that year, so I can conclusively know when I watched something. Very helpful because I try not to watch something a 2nd time until 7 years have passed.
Basically my whole point in bothering to respond to this slashdot post is: There is no substitute for diligence.
1) I've never seen a computer with 26 drives in my life. And by computer, I mean something someone has in their house, not something on a server rack at work. So the idea that it's a huge limit that Microsoft is kicking themselves for is a bit of a laugh to me. The real limit is much lower: How many drive bays in your case? I have 11.
And no, I don't want stacks of external USB drives that the cat can knock over and that increase my electric bill and drop connection during large transfers. [I have one enclosure, and found out that USB kinda sucks compared to sata/esata, and e-sata is only supported on 1 of my computers.] Also, I *think* you can have a USB drive without giving it a letter. Not sure on that one, since even with 4 computers having access to all each other's drives and having over 6.5TB in my lan, I *still* don't use every letter.
2) Being limited to 26 (or 11. or 6. or however) devices is exactly why you don't want to have computers that don't have a bunch of drives in them. The idea of a central file server that has all your files is not only a single point of failure, but also very limiting. I get one computer case full of harddrives, and then when it's full, I can't have any more space? Shyeah right! Those drives are going into anything that'll take them. My wife's computer has 3 SATA controller cards in it! There's no reason to stop when one computer gets full. And no, the drive letters are not the bottleneck.
p.s. You might want to tell all the linux users here that their way of accessing files is esoteric...:)
p.p.s. You're still making false dichotomy comparisons. "To me it would seem easier to remember that the 'bedroom' computer had the file I needed rather than drive P:". To me, it would seem easier TO NOT REMEMBER. Query file location, execute file. No memory necessary. But I can tell you, it's fewer keypresses with drive letters than with mount paths. (Yes, I use tab completion a-plenty.)
p.s. i used to use e.exe in the DOS days for text editing... Now I'm a big fan of editplus. And yeah, the filelist is basically what I do, but it's a dir/b/s with another script that puts the file size after each entry. Plus I append my offline catalog [we're talking over 2000 CD-Rs and over 3000 DVD-Rs] to the file. So if it's not online, I get the disc number I need to pull to get that file...
I don't really do GUI navigation -- banging a regex against a filelist gives instant response. Anything else is just clicking around and hoping. The caveat is if my filelist isn't current, or if I've moved a file since it was indexed. Mainly an issue for incoming files that haven't found their home yet [incoming->review->burn->find a home]. In which case, I might look for it. But I still tend to use the command-line for that, though. dg alias (dir [/s] | grep). Looking at filelists is mentally taxing. I'd rather say what I'm looking for, and get a list of 1 - 2 files, and then fire 'em off.
Mapping/mnt to X: doesn't make sense to me since the whole/mnt was brought up as an alternative to drive letters. So why would I do an alternative just go then put my original way of doing things on top of that?:)
But again, I need all drives on all computers. Since some have identical folder names (c:\util\, c:\bat\ on every computer), I'm assuming the computer name needs to be in the path too? Now I'm looking at/mnt/hell/bat and/mnt/hades/bat vs p:\bat and s:\bat. So... It's just more to type for me. And I'd type it every file. Yuck.
I just dislike the notion that "drive letters are bad because they aren't a path". I think they specify a location in 1 keystroke that would take more keystrokes under operating systems that don't have them. I kind of file disdain for drive letters under "fallacious technical snobbery". No biggie.
There's no set-up. It's a script. In fact, the exact same script run on every computer. It's faster than manually mapping them.
The extra letters come from having to type "c:\mnt" instead of "x:" or "q:". If you count, it's 6 letters vs 2.
Remembering? Who remembers where 6 terabytes of files on 10-15 harddrives spread across 3 computers are? Not any human I know. My index tells my where my files are. I hit it with a regular expression, and it tells me all files matching it -- both online and offline -- in about a second or so.
Furthermore, if you're watching a 120 minute movie over the lan, it can be interrupted if EITHER computer crashes in 120 minutes. That's 240 minutes of uptime. If you spend 5 minutes copying it, it's only 125 minutes of uptime [120 on the one playing it, and 5 on the one you moved it from]. So if the other computer crashes, hangs, decides to reboot for windows update, runs out of power because your secondary UPS is currently dying, crashes because it's downstairs and the cat hair finally finished clogging up the CPU fan.... Believe me, the watching experience is more important than some technical "i can't wait 5 minutes wah wah" idealism.
Uh.... Yes. Let's make the movie-watching experience of everyone in the room depend on two computers. That way, if either one crashes, the movie is interrupted.
Been there, done that. It's GREATLY worth waiting 5 minutes to know that your secondary computer can't fuck up your viewing experience. You only need to have it happen 2 or 3 times before you learn.
I use junctions a-plenty... But basically, I'd be doing a lot of work to change over to having longer paths. No thank you... I'd rather get it done in 2 characters.:)
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Because they don't. The average person doesn't tell anyone when they change their email address. The average person is disorganized and does not follow due diligence.
Second off, nobody on Facebook pokes! I've heard of it happening, but for the most part, it's a strawman for people like you to attack. I have 450 friends and have been on for about 4 yrs. A few cute girls have been poked by a few guys who weren't their friend. That's it. Nobody I've ever spoken to has been poked by a friend they actual know. So go ahead and pretend like what I said is "Nobody should paint, pokes rule." But that's not what I said, and if that's the best response you have, you're just fooling yourself.
I do wonder how people stay in touch with people who change their email address. Not everyone emails their whole addressbook to say they changed email. But the funny thing is - with a social networking site, you can contact that person even after losing their email. I'd rather not lose touch with friends over technical laziness. But hey, some people are so snobby that they would.
Too self-centered to allow your friends to contact you automatically, huh? Singing telegrams only? Sounds like a great strategy.
I use Facebook Friend Checker :)
Meh. I don't want to individually email my parents about my details. I don't have that kind of time for them. I make one effort for all people, and whoever wants to hear about it can. And I know a lot of people. I can't keep up with them individually. I forget who I need to talk to. In fact, if it weren't for facebook, I would actually have to maintain a text file listing who I need to talk to. I mean, I already use gmail groups to track my friends [all friends, party friend, hangout friends, geek friends]. Not everyone falls out of touch because they suck -- sometimes it's actually a damn tragedy because we didn't have email and easy ways of getting in touch back in high school and college. I mean, it's not like I can't filter on keyword. I eliminate the football talk. Not interested.
I don't think it was the communication you missed. A message is a message regardless of medium. Books are not the smell and feel of the pages; music is not the sound of a needle on a record. You miss your old-fashioned aesthetic.
Of course... That's what I *should* have said! :)
I know too little about Safari and Opera to comment :)
Firefox does suck, but there's an AdBlock equivalent for Chrome. I don't exactly have a lot of sympathy for the IE crowd... But you can simply edit your etc/hosts file to nullify the majority of ads anyway. I just think someone saying "this site is full of ads haha it's not l33t" is pretty lame. Ads are a separate problem. Any large platform is going to use them. It's not really a Facebook issue. Hell, I got a lot more spam with MySpace than Facebook - because adblock doesn't block fake webcam slut private messages.
You need to grow a pair and learn to properly use systems. Facebook is bigger than ever, and it certainly isn't dying. And if you're seeing ads, I question why you don't take the 1 minute to install AdBlock, but take 1 minute to complain about ads on facebook. You're just a whiny baby as AFAIK.
That's so people can delete people without being overcome by guilt. MySpace was exactly the same. Pretty much every site is. But there's a Greasemonkey script you can use, Facebook Friend Checker, if you want to know about such things.
Blaming facebook for your friend choices. Classy.
except when it colonized a great swath of the known [at the time] world...
Also, closing things extra times doesn't generally create compiler errors ;)
I support censoring people who don't close their open parenthesis :) ))))))))))))))
I'm not into Daemon Tools or drive mounting. I just kind of think it's stupid, personally. ISOs are for burning. Want it on your computer? Decompress it. Especially true if someone is actually running out of drive letters. I can understand not wanting to use the suckfest that is ISOBuster, but I was delighted when I found out that WinRar uncompressed ISOs.
Anyway, I have about 7TB or so, and if I were to comprise that with 1.5TB drives, I'd only need 5 letters to do it all. Obviously it's not quite so simple. I use C,E,F,G,H,I,J,K,L, [M,N,O on 1999 computer], P,Q,R,S,T,U,V,W. So It's getting close. The computer that we hook 3 cameras up to, however, still has no problems grabbing an additional 2 drive letters [the canon doesn't map to a drive]. It will take B:, or X: if no thumbdrive is in, or M: N: or O: because the 1999 computer is only turned on every few months.
Basically, even with every computer having access to every drive, and us having some 15 physical drives, usb drive in 2 out of 4 computers, 1-2 optical drives in every computer, and yes, even a floppy in every computer -- I've still not run out of drive letters. The worst thing that's happened is that I can't map a drive on a certain computer because that computer grabbed the letter first. But I'm still not shit out luck in that situation, because I can simply move the file with any other computer in the house. It's rare that that affects me. I might VNC in and do a copy command from a computer I'm not sitting at, in a worse case scenario.
I'm saying using enclosures that are powered on is more power -- the enclosure itself has a power supply. I'm expecting my drives to be powered on, or shut down due to inactivity, pretty much 24/7. I just don't want to also be running a power supply on a USB enclosure. I might be misguided here, but that seems like more. Of course the ultimate savings would be to turn stuff off - that's not gonna happen! :) Well, my wife's computer has a noisy fan, so we turn it off when she's not using it so that it doesn't interfere with watching movies...
And no, I don't have to remember names of things. That's silly. If I want to watch, for example, Nip/Tuck, and I have 100 episodes in a folder, I just have to know where the folder is, and watch the next episode. I type "vchk nip.tuck", and it gives me the list from my text file index -- which includes all drives on all computers plus all discs I've ever burned in my life. I see that it's in L:\media\live\NipTuck. So I navigate there, watch my episode, then move it into the 'watched' folder, or delete it. At no point do I have to remember anything. I even have a text file reminding me of which shows I'm currently watching, so I don't forget :)
And oh, after I finish a show, I have another command that lets me tack it on to the list of shows I've watched that year, so I can conclusively know when I watched something. Very helpful because I try not to watch something a 2nd time until 7 years have passed.
Basically my whole point in bothering to respond to this slashdot post is: There is no substitute for diligence.
And no, I don't want stacks of external USB drives that the cat can knock over and that increase my electric bill and drop connection during large transfers. [I have one enclosure, and found out that USB kinda sucks compared to sata/esata, and e-sata is only supported on 1 of my computers.] Also, I *think* you can have a USB drive without giving it a letter. Not sure on that one, since even with 4 computers having access to all each other's drives and having over 6.5TB in my lan, I *still* don't use every letter.
2) Being limited to 26 (or 11. or 6. or however) devices is exactly why you don't want to have computers that don't have a bunch of drives in them. The idea of a central file server that has all your files is not only a single point of failure, but also very limiting. I get one computer case full of harddrives, and then when it's full, I can't have any more space? Shyeah right! Those drives are going into anything that'll take them. My wife's computer has 3 SATA controller cards in it! There's no reason to stop when one computer gets full. And no, the drive letters are not the bottleneck.
p.s. You might want to tell all the linux users here that their way of accessing files is esoteric... :)
p.p.s. You're still making false dichotomy comparisons. "To me it would seem easier to remember that the 'bedroom' computer had the file I needed rather than drive P:". To me, it would seem easier TO NOT REMEMBER. Query file location, execute file. No memory necessary. But I can tell you, it's fewer keypresses with drive letters than with mount paths. (Yes, I use tab completion a-plenty.)
p.s. i used to use e.exe in the DOS days for text editing... Now I'm a big fan of editplus. And yeah, the filelist is basically what I do, but it's a dir /b /s with another script that puts the file size after each entry. Plus I append my offline catalog [we're talking over 2000 CD-Rs and over 3000 DVD-Rs] to the file. So if it's not online, I get the disc number I need to pull to get that file...
Mapping /mnt to X: doesn't make sense to me since the whole /mnt was brought up as an alternative to drive letters. So why would I do an alternative just go then put my original way of doing things on top of that? :)
But again, I need all drives on all computers. Since some have identical folder names (c:\util\, c:\bat\ on every computer), I'm assuming the computer name needs to be in the path too? Now I'm looking at /mnt/hell/bat and /mnt/hades/bat vs p:\bat and s:\bat. So... It's just more to type for me. And I'd type it every file. Yuck.
I just dislike the notion that "drive letters are bad because they aren't a path". I think they specify a location in 1 keystroke that would take more keystrokes under operating systems that don't have them. I kind of file disdain for drive letters under "fallacious technical snobbery". No biggie.
The extra letters come from having to type "c:\mnt" instead of "x:" or "q:". If you count, it's 6 letters vs 2.
Remembering? Who remembers where 6 terabytes of files on 10-15 harddrives spread across 3 computers are? Not any human I know. My index tells my where my files are. I hit it with a regular expression, and it tells me all files matching it -- both online and offline -- in about a second or so.
Furthermore, if you're watching a 120 minute movie over the lan, it can be interrupted if EITHER computer crashes in 120 minutes. That's 240 minutes of uptime. If you spend 5 minutes copying it, it's only 125 minutes of uptime [120 on the one playing it, and 5 on the one you moved it from]. So if the other computer crashes, hangs, decides to reboot for windows update, runs out of power because your secondary UPS is currently dying, crashes because it's downstairs and the cat hair finally finished clogging up the CPU fan .... Believe me, the watching experience is more important than some technical "i can't wait 5 minutes wah wah" idealism.
Been there, done that. It's GREATLY worth waiting 5 minutes to know that your secondary computer can't fuck up your viewing experience. You only need to have it happen 2 or 3 times before you learn.
I use junctions a-plenty... But basically, I'd be doing a lot of work to change over to having longer paths. No thank you... I'd rather get it done in 2 characters. :)
so how does that get the harddrives on the other computers?
so, uh, what's the command-line for that?