Most of them have lives that don't resemble their Facebook "facade", and they're kind of unhappy about it. They don't realize that everyone on Facebook is showing their highlight reel while actually living the bits that end up on the cutting room floor.
If you go on a date and the date goes poorly, the person may have been a jerk. If you go on 10 dates and they all go poorly, chances are you are actually the jerk.
And if you go on 500 dates and they go poorly (more or less), the problem is you beyond any reasonable doubt. I mean there's just no more room for doubt at that point, none.
"Goldman's gone on more than 500 dates in the past three years. 'Her experience... helps her quickly assess an online profile of a potential partner.'"
Lol, apparently her experience does NOT help "her quickly assess... a potential partner".
No offense, Ms Date-a-holic, but if you've gone on 500 dates and haven't found a partner...the problem is YOU, beyond any reasonable doubt.
After 50 or 100 dates you better start looking in the mirror at just who you are, and that goes for guys as well as gals. Either your standards are ridiculously high or unrealistic, or you're repulsive beyond belief.
"Bank Of America, a US-based banking conglomerate has announced that it will shut down its banks and all operations for up to 2 to 4 weeks following a cyber-attack this week. The bank took this step because it has not yet identified how the hackers infiltrated their systems."
No, of course not. And this is reason #67,866,371, 485 why I won't mess around with bitcoins. Banks can't get away with this kind of nonsense, but Bitcoin? Sure, why not?
Yeah, see, you don't really need your money for the next couple of weeks. That's why Bitcoins are so much better than everything else in the world, d00d, because they're always available no matter what (except when they're not), and umm, err, wait, they're safer than umm, err, wait...
You jest but have you actually *used* Facebook's web interface? Back 5 years ago I would have described it as a bucket of shit, but since then it got worse and I don't have a thesaurus on hand.
I don't use Facebook, so I've been spared both their craptastic web interface and their privacy-sucking app. And yet somehow my life doesn't seem to have suffered.
I'm not seeing the problem, here, either. Facebook on a mobile browser is, IMHO, a *better* experience than the Facebook App. No battery drain while you're not using it, no notification nonsense, no having Facebook code creeping through your private data.
Exactly.
My personal view is that apps in general are nothing more than a way to get you to install code so they can paw through your personal data and information for the purposes of monetization.
"Blackberry has had to replaced their official Facebook App with a native app that uses a simple web interface."
Oh no, those poor peasants, forced to use a filthy web interface! Oh the shame, oh the degradation, how will they ever be able to hold their heads up in public again??
Also, pay attention to your editing, lads. Allowing writing like "has had to replaced" is simply shameful. Tut-tut.
All of this stuff was fun once. I would spend DAYS getting it just the way I wanted it
Yeah, I was like that too, way back when.:) I loved configuring and tweaking everything, getting it just the way I wanted it....
But it gets old and tedious after a while, and these days I have stuff I have to get done. No more time or interest in fiddling with all that shit just to get it the way I want.
I put Mint on my laptop and everything worked right out of the box, no problem whatsoever. Everything worked and the desktop is just about perfect for me. The only thing I did was resize the icons to be a bit smaller and install Docky for a launcher, and I was done.
"...the packages needed to move the Unity Launcher of Ubuntu Linux to the bottom of the screen have finally landed in the main repositories"
Wow, such innovation, being able to move the launcher to the bottom of the screen. OMFG we're living in the FUTURE!!!!
Where will all this forward-thinking and amazing creativity end? Who knows what amazing ideas they'll come up with next- maybe being able to change the color of the desktop background, or making the background a picture??
The mind boggles at all these incredible new features. I mean, being able to put the launcher at the bottom...will wonders never cease??
The decision was one of the major reasons for the death of the Netscape browser. It was a terrible idea and led to Netscape (the leading browser at the time) disappearing from the market for all intents and purposes. The browser (and the company) sank like a stone, never to be a dominant player in that space again. Or ANY space as far as I can tell.
Years later (during the Netscape post-mortem) everyone agreed that "redoing the codebase from scratch" had been a stupid and horrible idea. It was an undeniably fatal move by the company.
The problem with sex bots, aside from cost, is that it'd be very hard to conceal from prying visitors. There's a social stigma today to just owning sex toys, and the amount of stigma depends upon the cost and complexity of the toy.
The key will be to sell them as domestic helper-bots, capable of doing household chores. At night you can activate the "social behavior" options, turning into a Boink-Bot.
It will happen. In the end, there will be no-one left but the One Percenters. Humankind will comprise of only them, the.01% richest people and their entourage, which will oversee the machines and reduced infrastructure to support their post-scarcity lifestyle. For the rest of us, the mass graves await.
I'm convinced that the only safe device these days is a Speak 'N Spell. (I heard the Etch A Sketch is vulnerable to "vibration-hacking" and "elbow-jogging" attacks by annoying younger brothers and sisters.)
For $700 I could buy 3 full-featured Android tablets and have money left over for a cheap not-so-full-featured tablet.
Seriously, $700 for an e-reader? If you're going to buy one of these, spend that money on an MRI instead to find out what kind of brain injury you have.
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Can you imagine this news article?
You really don't know anything about using bitcoins, do you?
I know enough to stay the fuck away from them and not pour my money down a digital toilet.
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Instead of this reply, I wish I had modpoints to mark you "-1 Clueless".
Well then you must be feeling very frustrated and unhappy right about now. :)
How would you know? Show me your control clone.
I just use the people around me. :)
Most of them have lives that don't resemble their Facebook "facade", and they're kind of unhappy about it. They don't realize that everyone on Facebook is showing their highlight reel while actually living the bits that end up on the cutting room floor.
If you go on a date and the date goes poorly, the person may have been a jerk. If you go on 10 dates and they all go poorly, chances are you are actually the jerk.
And if you go on 500 dates and they go poorly (more or less), the problem is you beyond any reasonable doubt. I mean there's just no more room for doubt at that point, none.
One of the absolute worst ideas is having a relationship with someone you work with.
^^^THIS, times a million trillion kabillion. Never date at work, NEVER EVER. It never ends well, and I've seen it more times than I can count.
"Goldman's gone on more than 500 dates in the past three years. 'Her experience ... helps her quickly assess an online profile of a potential partner.'"
Lol, apparently her experience does NOT help "her quickly assess ... a potential partner".
No offense, Ms Date-a-holic, but if you've gone on 500 dates and haven't found a partner...the problem is YOU, beyond any reasonable doubt.
After 50 or 100 dates you better start looking in the mirror at just who you are, and that goes for guys as well as gals. Either your standards are ridiculously high or unrealistic, or you're repulsive beyond belief.
"Don't let anyone tell you that engineering is only about math and science or that engineering expertise is all you have to offer the world."
Except no one has ever told me that, and if they did I've have told them to "shut up and fuck off."
We shut down trading on the stock market or on individual stocks when necessary for various reasons, how is this any different?
When was the last time the Stock Market was closed for a month because they'd had a break in and they couldn't figure out how the perpetrators did it?
Answer: That would be "never".
So, yeah, there's your difference.
Woaaaah! We've got a ceritified Internet badass here.
I'M RICK JAMES, BITCH! ;)
Can you imagine this news article?
"Bank Of America, a US-based banking conglomerate has announced that it will shut down its banks and all operations for up to 2 to 4 weeks following a cyber-attack this week. The bank took this step because it has not yet identified how the hackers infiltrated their systems."
No, of course not. And this is reason #67,866,371, 485 why I won't mess around with bitcoins. Banks can't get away with this kind of nonsense, but Bitcoin? Sure, why not?
Yeah, see, you don't really need your money for the next couple of weeks. That's why Bitcoins are so much better than everything else in the world, d00d, because they're always available no matter what (except when they're not), and umm, err, wait, they're safer than umm, err, wait...
You jest but have you actually *used* Facebook's web interface? Back 5 years ago I would have described it as a bucket of shit, but since then it got worse and I don't have a thesaurus on hand.
I don't use Facebook, so I've been spared both their craptastic web interface and their privacy-sucking app. And yet somehow my life doesn't seem to have suffered.
I'm not seeing the problem, here, either. Facebook on a mobile browser is, IMHO, a *better* experience than the Facebook App. No battery drain while you're not using it, no notification nonsense, no having Facebook code creeping through your private data.
Exactly.
My personal view is that apps in general are nothing more than a way to get you to install code so they can paw through your personal data and information for the purposes of monetization.
No designer is omniscient and can predict the needs of a particular user to the finest detail
Exactly. One size does not fit all, regardless of what some designed has deluded him- or herself into believing.
Any designer that doesn't understand this is not a "designer", they are a simple-minded authoritarian hack.
"Blackberry has had to replaced their official Facebook App with a native app that uses a simple web interface."
Oh no, those poor peasants, forced to use a filthy web interface! Oh the shame, oh the degradation, how will they ever be able to hold their heads up in public again??
Also, pay attention to your editing, lads. Allowing writing like "has had to replaced" is simply shameful. Tut-tut.
I really don't get why anyone still thinks that menu/task bars should be on the bottom.
Because that's where I fucking want it to be, okay? Is that clear enough for you?
All of this stuff was fun once. I would spend DAYS getting it just the way I wanted it
Yeah, I was like that too, way back when. :) I loved configuring and tweaking everything, getting it just the way I wanted it....
But it gets old and tedious after a while, and these days I have stuff I have to get done. No more time or interest in fiddling with all that shit just to get it the way I want.
I put Mint on my laptop and everything worked right out of the box, no problem whatsoever. Everything worked and the desktop is just about perfect for me. The only thing I did was resize the icons to be a bit smaller and install Docky for a launcher, and I was done.
Personally, I like Cinnamon as my desktop-environment when using Linux. It's clean and tasteful, without being too dumbed-down or anything.
Same here....I like Mint's look and I agree, it's clean and tasteful. It's also a straightforward and uncluttered design, looks very nice.
I've not seen the issue you mention with removable media but then I don't do a lot of that, mostly USB drives.
"...the packages needed to move the Unity Launcher of Ubuntu Linux to the bottom of the screen have finally landed in the main repositories"
Wow, such innovation, being able to move the launcher to the bottom of the screen. OMFG we're living in the FUTURE!!!!
Where will all this forward-thinking and amazing creativity end? Who knows what amazing ideas they'll come up with next- maybe being able to change the color of the desktop background, or making the background a picture??
The mind boggles at all these incredible new features. I mean, being able to put the launcher at the bottom...will wonders never cease??
Remember when Netscape did this?
The decision was one of the major reasons for the death of the Netscape browser. It was a terrible idea and led to Netscape (the leading browser at the time) disappearing from the market for all intents and purposes. The browser (and the company) sank like a stone, never to be a dominant player in that space again. Or ANY space as far as I can tell.
Years later (during the Netscape post-mortem) everyone agreed that "redoing the codebase from scratch" had been a stupid and horrible idea. It was an undeniably fatal move by the company.
The problem with sex bots, aside from cost, is that it'd be very hard to conceal from prying visitors. There's a social stigma today to just owning sex toys, and the amount of stigma depends upon the cost and complexity of the toy.
The key will be to sell them as domestic helper-bots, capable of doing household chores. At night you can activate the "social behavior" options, turning into a Boink-Bot.
It will happen. In the end, there will be no-one left but the One Percenters. Humankind will comprise of only them, the .01% richest people and their entourage, which will oversee the machines and reduced infrastructure to support their post-scarcity lifestyle. For the rest of us, the mass graves await.
Welcome to Planet Kanye-Trump-Kardashian.
Could I fall in love with that? Hell no, but make it look like a cute 19-year old and we'll see.
At least make it an attractive robot instead of this creepy mommy-bot.
"...our calculation of that distance would be off by perhaps less than the length of your little finger."
Or, by another measure, twice as long as Donald Trump's middle finger.
Ha ha, I'm safe because I'm still using 16-pin DIPs in my PC XT. Suck it, hackers!
I'm convinced that the only safe device these days is a Speak 'N Spell. (I heard the Etch A Sketch is vulnerable to "vibration-hacking" and "elbow-jogging" attacks by annoying younger brothers and sisters.)
For $700 I could buy 3 full-featured Android tablets and have money left over for a cheap not-so-full-featured tablet.
Seriously, $700 for an e-reader? If you're going to buy one of these, spend that money on an MRI instead to find out what kind of brain injury you have.