This only addresses a part of you problem, but maybe it will help.
When someone flames me or is trolling, I have a course of action I try to minimize the flamewar or feeding of trolls:
Type up a nasty fiery flame back at them full of all kinds of potty mouth words and really let them have it. I mean go all out in your reply, say stuff you wouldn't want anyone's mother to hear, let alone yours. Break the rules of etiquette and anything goes! Get at least half a page of total baiting, trollfeeding, trolling back, personal attacks and basically let your rage out. IMPORTANT: Then, don't post it. Instead, copy it to some file in a folder named "posts never meant to be posted" and put all kinds of password protection and encryption on it so it can't come back to haunt you. Strangely, this works for me. You just can't feck up the part where you -don't- click "post."
I have a friend that utilizes the 24-hour-rule. When someone does something that really riles him up, he waits 24 hours before responding because it drastically reduces the chances of him getting ban sited, sued, arrested, his arse kicked, fired, labeled a troll, etc... That can be good advice, but I prefer my way, because I get to express some emotion instantly, and the gratification is still there even if no one else sees it. I'm weird though.
Think of how/. would be so different if some users employed either of these methods...
I can't go as far as your second statement. You question though is what runs through my mind so often with any murder-suicide. If you are going to take your own life, why bother to kill innocent victims? I truly must not be able to grasp the concept of that kind of madness or lapse in mental state (perhaps its not a lapse but permanent.) In some sick way I might see a person who goes into a bank or some hostage situation killing hostages ending up committing murder-suicide because of sheer ignorance/poor planning--not that it gets them off the hook by any means.
This was 21 months in a minimum security facility. Sick sick sick sick. Someone failed to do a psych exam in my opinion. Not that I am a shrink--but it hardly seems like a sane act for what he got away with? Thats less than two years. I can't imagine taking a life for any reason--two freaking years in a non PMITA prison and he kills a kid? Someone failed to notice something! And no kudos for letting him escape...
Sheer tragedy over email harrassment. I'm a CO taxpayer and you can bet I'm pissed off almost as much as I am horrified.
This Wired article must have been where I read about it, if it wasn't linked on here. I remember the wrapped like a turkey in tin foil part conjuring up memories of Kramer, vegetable oil and some "Seinfeld" episode...gross.
Courtesy a few minutes of googling "Raytheon +"non lethal". I'm really surprised this wasn't on/. last year. It was on Fark and my other regular sites, and I have lousy memory. Anyway here are some links to the "non lethal" techno in the parent:
would it be easier to have two separate weapons, so you know what you're getting when you reach? i honestly have to ask this question seeing as i stay away from fire and sharp objects. because from a design point of view giving a user too many options can be pointless overkill. (no pun intended)
if it really does have 17 options like someone posted and it ends up being used in certain geographical locations that end up with incredibly hot temperatures it'd be nice if those soldiers had cooling jackets. the research about how body temperatures of over 97 degrees F starts to cause massive mistake making justifies this technology. yeah i don't have a citation for that, i saw it on some science channel. i'm sure the show was funded by someone trying to brainwash me about firefighters. besides that this is pretty offtopic anyway. i think i've just done too much user/gui research so it concerned me there were so many options.
if you're in a situation where you need a gun, do you honestly have time during your reaction to mess with setting it once it gets so fancy? good grief, you'll be fussing with the interface and making up your mind while your attacker prevails.
it was a text based adventure game on the Trash-80. Zork was a lot like it--i got further in Rakka Tu because there weren't any dang grues...
my memory is too lousy to remember if we (my dad and I--because I was fairly young he was helping me play) finished it or how far we got. i kept wishing someone would port it to my PDA like they did so many of the Infocomm text adventure games so i'd stuff to do in all-hands meetings.
I will agree to agree because I haven't married yet, am not male and don't want to spend time looking for sites to counter your one citation. My disagreement is based on the theory that unhappy people tend to spend more time posting detailed accounts and statistics, while content people spend more time enjoying life.
echtertyp posted nothing relevant to the OP:
Guys, you owe it to yourself to check out http://www.dont-marry.com/ Whatever happens, don't get married. Ever. It's just fsckin misery after a couple years, at best.
I honestly can't tell if you are a troll, a mysogynist or need some in-your-face advice about how to stop whining and dealing with real life. If you speak from experience and are expecting to finding it on some website like the one you posted, try taking the outlook that occasionally human beings (regardless of gender) make mistakes. No one is perfect, not me, not you and not the best woman on earth. If you think marriage is easy, always there for your pleasure and won't have its ups and downs--you need to come back down to earth.
Worst case, I have wasted a minimal amount of time; and damn, it sucks to be you with that kind of outlook or need for attention by trolling in such a pathetic manner.
I can't speak for the cops. My sister is an ADA and her best friend is a nurse that is often on call to pronounce accident victims for the county. Between those two and their friends (several of whom are police) I've heard a lot of disgusting work related stories that involved speeding. I honestly believe most of these people truly are sick of seeing mangled human bodies removed from vehicles that were speeding or finding remains on the pavement.
Sure they'll write a ticket if it will slow you down. However, if parking their car in a strategic location near where kids play on their day off will slow people down they are fine with that too.
they said crap like this about my Japanese laserdisc colletion about ten years ago too. i bought the last three laserdisc players i could find so they aren't obsolete to me. i don't care what you home-theatre-philes say, the Star Wars THX laserdisc boxset and WOW laserdisc are better than any DVD!!!
this will blow over, its not like CDs are beta or blu-ray.
I understand having a hobby, even a passion, but being offered a blowjob tends to cut through the fog a bit, at least for me.
I used to game a lot more and I used to date serious habitual gamers. The first not so much because I've learned moderation of anything is healthy. The second sort of because of what you posted. Its not that one couldn't always cut through the fog. It was more that no one should have to cut through name-the-game fog, regardless of their self-esteem issues.
To be fair, I'd like to point out that I've met some WoW-widowers too...so we can't just blame it all on boys.
"The more time kids spend on video games, the less time they will have socializing, the less time they will have with their families, the less time they will have exercising," Kraus said. "They can make up academic deficits, but they can't make up the social ones."
Playing a MMORPG can be incredibly social. In fact, one of the reasons that I felt that WoW was so fun. Compared with SWG, WoW seemed to push players to group up to achieve high end content. So I guilded with one of the high-end raiding guilds on my server (not pvp) and learned to play (I didn't have much else to do IRL as I was on medical leave from work. I was well enough to sit at a desk for 3 hours a night and hated tv so a buddy suggested WoW.) At any rate, I made all kinds of game friends, acquaintences, non-fans, romantic interests, etc.
My guild eventually became very competative, kicking people out that didn't meet standards and not letting anyone in--not something I really cared so much for. I did care for playing and progress--not the rewards. I was sick of raiding Onyxia and MC over and over though--boring. We were the only guild of two on the server that could kill that dragon that turned mages into farm animals at the time. (sry, my memory sucks so i can't remember its name, it was long ago.) So I stayed with them to see more content as it opened up.
I was very careful to try to keep all RL details out of the game because of a minor incident in SWG with a pervert. Eventually, though in WoW I gave in and began using teamspeak, on the huge raids. I realized this would give away my gender for sure. I figured I could deal with that, and I did. Using TS made the raids so much easier. My guild main was a rogue with most of the best non-pvp gear you could get at that time. (If you flame me here, accusing me of bragging about having a well geared rogue on a non pvp server then get a life. any WoW person knows its not hard to do this.) The only way to make playing her less boring was to find strategies to out DPS other rogues involving talking to the team. My point is I wasn't thinking that logging into the guild's TS server probably gave away more RL information than I understand because I haven't kept up with network tech. I know these details seem mundane but be patient, I have a point coming soon.
So, I was playing WoW and being very social with these people ingame. I mentioned my main was a rogue. Well everyone had a rogue, so I had some free time in game. Therefore I just sometimes hung out with some friends and did silly things like naked gnome races, the ever popular griefing of the major Horde and Alliance cities by sneaking into them, and trying to find fashion in WoW--something SWG had that WoW didn't. I made alts that made friends with characters that couldn't stand my main trying to figure out why they didn't like her. A good friend IRL that played on the server and I organized a server wide skinny-dip of Alliance NE's in Horde waters. The point is my player and many others were very very social. Many people opened up to me about in private chat about RL stuff that I really think proves this.
WoW became for me a social community just like the sports bar I'd go to with the new hires for the first year every Friday for happy hour. It was similar to the anime club I joined in college where we'd hang out once a week to watch new films and make new friends. The diversity of the community, the guild I was in and the other guilds even reminded me a lot of college intermurals mixed with the after game hanging out socialization at 24-hour diners. (There were no Starbucks when/where I was in college yet, we had nasty coffee.)
As for video game addiction, my wife happens to also be a specialist in addiction studies and she was actually one of the first people to write about video game addiction as a disorder back in the late 80s/early 90s. It was not widely-accepted at that point that video game playing could be addictive -- but now that it's becoming generally-accepted to be so, she's feeling vindicated. I'll vindicate her past documentations too. I've been in treatment for unipolar depression, generalized anxiety and self-injury since the early 90s. One of the only ways I could get talk therapy (as opposed to just medication) that was covered by insurance was to voluntarily go into an unvoluntary mental ward group therapy session. It was incredibly therapuetic because of the diversity of the group.
There was a patient in there that was dealing with three addictions/impulse control disorders. Cocaine, self-injury and MUDs. (For you younger readers, a MUD is like WoW without graphics--text adventure RPG multi-player on a smaller scale and usually free.) This poor woman was in the recovery stage from two and desperately fighting the third. She said getting off coke was cake compared to MUDs. She'd basically left her kids and computer with her ex, asked him to take the computer somewhere she'd never find it, and gone home to try to quit MUDing cold-turkey. She had trouble getting rehab for gamimg addiction, so she was doing the best she could. Well, she ended up selling every possession she had to get back online in a few days. Then, she'd miss the kids and try to just quit, cold-turkey again. Rinse. Repeat. Until she ended up selling other people's possessions to get online pay ISP and phone bills, etc... She would cry to us that wished she was "just a coke-head". The reason she was involuntarily locked up was that she decided the only way to quit gaming was to quit living.
My memory is poor on the exact year of that group, memory loss is common with depression. I've been in many support groups since. I already read a post from someone about their "Evercrack" experience. People who use the term evercrack, and I don't mean just the kids, I mean adults too, are still in a lot of the support groups for addiction and depression I attend. They may have recovered from addiction, but they are dealing with depression now because they lost their jobs, families and years of their lives to an addiction, impulse control disorder or whatever the AMA isn't calling it.
I'm not a shrink or doctor. I've spent 13 years surround by the mental health community though. I'm a recovering addict, I'm an addict that hasn't admitted yet, and I have a bloody addictive personality so I've been in these dark places that most people don't want to go. I've sat next to people that most of us don't want to have to admit exist because their minds are so broken that is just easier to push them to the back of your brain and leave it there to self-preserve. I'm not trying to get on soapbox here, just to offer you a point of view that I have because I have sat in those circles and not everyone has. Whether someone formally calls it a problem or labels it in some offical way, its there. If you don't have to see it, then I'm glad, it probably means you aren't stricken with some terrible mental illness, nor do you have a loved one battling one. Be thankful for that.
I just find it really odd that you're so interested in cleaning things, and then claim that you need extensive chemistry knowledge to understand how that works.
And sorry, but being proud of not owning a periodic table? Isn't that a bad female stereotype? Cleaning is different from ironing. I do enjoy cleaning as a way of mindlessly letting go of negative emotion. Baking does the same thing. When I moved to a high altitude location I didn't bother to learn the physics/chemistry or whatever is involved in the reason that I need to add more flour to my recipes. I just asked the guys at work how they keep their cakes from falling, they said to add 3 tablespoons of flour.
I don't think that being proud of not owning a period table is a bad female stereotype. I am proud of it because it was my choice to stop after Chem 101 and study coding. I sold my chemistry book back. I put my reasons for not having one in context too, by explaining that I chose a different career path in the previous post. Some of the greatest people on earth didn't own period tables.
And yes, I'm quite odd, something I'll never be apologetic for.
Imagine you have a desk with no monitor perched on it but instead it IS a touch sensitive monitor. Yeah, a monitor the size and shape of your desk, an actual desktop computer. Your keyboard would be a displayed on the desktop as would your mouse, if you needed a mouse. Your writing would behave like papers that you could drag around to where they were handy or you could drop into your calendar for follow-up or drop into your filing cabinent to file away or drop into your outbox for sending. If you wanted to do both, you could drag the paper with two fingers to make a link between the two or double-tap then double tap somewhere else on your desk to make a copy. The desktop display would have to be tough enough to take a hot cup of coffee dropped on it, tough enough to take a heavy lysol spraying and have a pretty high resolution.. but we're getting there.
It's just a thought, but I wonder how appealing it is to everybody else. For me it would mean no more papers cluttering up corners. It would mean an awful lot less power lines cluttering up the place and a tremendous improvement in being able to work as a group on a project (no more hauling the projector out, or mirror monitors and eye contact with everyone in the office rather than staring through a monitor at the one (un?)lucky enough to be behind one of them.)
I hope you don't mind me not answering your questions one at a time, perhaps after more discussion and i feel like I'm on the same page as you, I can do so. For now, this is the best I have.
As far as your virtual workspace...you know, the DoD contractor development world lags in desktop technology so badly that I'm still trying to take your idea in. The lag is there for security issues, red tape, and such. I came out of college in 96 all excited about this new Java stuff and had to take giant steps back drink a lot of the real java while waiting before we were allowed to even prototype with Java. Same with the big Oracle releseases and Solaris, etc... *lol* A free beer to anyone who's heard of ObjectStore. ~cringe~
I've been on medical leave for a possibly terminal condition for almost 4 years now, and its been so weird catching up. I honestly wish I could answer your question from a work point of view.
This is getting really OT, so I'll probably mod my karma down and go ahead and answer you this, which may be more or less or nothing of what you wanted to know:
A terminal disease changes your POV on life, and often if you recover or start to, like I am, you consider making some career changes as the news of your health gets better. Not totally dumping your career, but maybe merging it with something else more meaningful on a personal leve. I put my heart and soul in to Raytheon and they rewarded me with two trips overseas when I was young and the least senior because I could present without any fear and was willing to (hell I love to) teach. I was also single and had nothing to tie me down, so leaving on short notice working in my favor. Until the the illness struck. Then things changed, but the company, for all its problems stuck with me, becaues I do have talents and if I get well and come back... Well there are people that ask for me by name. I haven't done work for them in 4 years and they refuse to fire me. Go figure. I think because I did some really crappy stuff no one expected anyone would do. I did it well, and I saved some asses of supervisors and people who assumed because I was disabled I couldn't do anything. I don't believe in burning bridges. Raytheon is not the best company, but they have done me right, they haven't fired me, after being non-revenu for 4 years, they still pay my med bills. Thats loyalty. When I survive and beat this thing, I want to thank them before I finally move on.
Then I want to change careers to a writter or social worker and THAT would be when I could envision your virutal desktop being perfect for what I need. Because I take tons of paper notes and its har
1. Would that appeal to you as a clean freak? (I mean that as a flattering term.)
I should give my neat-freakness some reference and put it in context. I previously was located in a shared office for two with a guy who worked 5am-1:30pm. (Currently, I am on sick leave so who knows where my stuff sits.) The office was in between an IT mini-station and a confrence room designated for customer usage (mainly, we had overflow problems so other people used it too.) My workspace was closest to the door. My lovely, complicated, DoD, workspace, because of the type of work I do, requires the PC and my phone to be a certain distance away from the Solaris workstation I spend 70% of my day at on a normal day. Still the location of the entire workspace lends my phone, and both keyboards to the confrence room and IT guests. This is all despite my efforts to the naught. You'd think duct taping the phone receive down with a big sign that says "MINE" would work, someone still cut it loose while I was out. I had many signs over the area noting that it is a private workspace. I drew many arrows to the public workspace. People are lazy. Worse, type-A people wanting IT service get angry and really belligerant and will throw things too over the use of a keyboard. We are allowed to customize our workspace and mine was certainly unique. The company really has no defense. I was placed there because I had a broken foot, we were at max occupancy and they thought it was easier for me to get through two sets of fire doors than one on crutches. Yes, that didn't make sense to me either. My phone smelled, frankly, like men's cologne. I don't wear men's cologne, so I'm fairly sure someone else uses it on a regular basis--worse the same person. I know someone else uses the keyboards because there are orange glowy pieces in there and I don't eat anything neon or ATK.
I'm really not a genuine germ-a-phobe. I can't stand that crap you put on your hands that doesn't wash off. I'd rather just not touch my hands to anything than use it. I carry a wet-nap thing in my purse, but I'll be the first to admit its dry because its probably at least 5 years past due. I only wash my hands once, thorouly at each proper time, I just don't like that I'm somehow sharing peripherals with other people. I mean, I've been in restrooms and seen people not wash their hands. Thats gross, I don't care what you did in that stall. Unless you are Magneto, who shouldn't be in the girls bathroom, you still touched the door handle. That means you might pass along a cold or something that I would rather not get/spread. People also cough all over their hands, they chew on fingers, they pick their noses--can't deny that, I've busted some co-workers digging for gold. So its just that it boils down to...well, that whole grossness factor. That, and people lie.
I don't mean I have these huge mistrust issues, but have you seen the TV medical show House? One of Dr. House's diagnostic tools is that people always lie. I'm not really focusing on why they lie, though its an interesting question and great show. My point is whether or not they intend to, people are putting icky things in my peripherals. So I offered some advice about my experience and asked a question.
I'd say that qualifies more as cynicism than apathy. He's not saying he doesn't care, just that he doesn't think it's going to be actually followed through on.
Given past practices, I have to say that I agree with that sentiment. I think the chances are good that the administration is just going to ignore the demands.
Past practices... 'I can not recall' any past practices...
FWIW, chance has nothing to do with it--its completely intentional. I apologize for being so blunt, but I'm tired of walking on eggshells that are neither red nor blue.
{soapbox} (Assume ethnocentric American remarks when "us" used:)
I am cynical about the situation (if I weren't I'd be non-functional), I am not apathetic at all. Its easy to just post or whine about it. Slashbots have proved good about modkilling/promoting the messengers, but its time to do something about it. Thats what I'm interested in, policy happening, not all this debate. Am I not right that 73% of us are united in not being happy with the leadership? I vote, I tell my policy makers what I think, I participate in charity. I don't just sit in front of a tv and text vote for American Idol. How long is the damn turn-around time though? (No, not for AI, I have not actually watched that.) Checks and balances seem to be awful slow this time.{/soapbox}
You're telling me that because you're a "real female" you don't know that you ought to use distilled water? What else do you put in your iron?
Now think about why.
I never said "'real'" female. WTF THAT means. I just said female, FTR, RTFOP. I don't like to tolerate intolerance or want to get into stereotypes. (I think some of my friends that weren't born into bodies with medically female peripherals who choose to live as females would resent that remark though.)
I have never used an iron for anything other than to make grill cheese samiches in college. I don't have time for clothing that requires ironing, dry-cleaning and steaming. And before you keep stereotyping me further, please stop. There is plenty of clothing that doesn't require that kind of care that allows me to be who I am. I honestly wouldn't spend my time here posting if I had to make time to do more than wash and line dry my own clothes--I consider ironing about as socially fun as posting on/..
Finally, your post was totally OT from mine, which was on-topic. I think you are baiting me because I didn't get my jollies in Chem 101, and I'm not afraid to admit it. WTF difference does it make whether I want to understand why/how things work, beyond making them work, especially to you?
I was just trying to post useful information to a discussion and you are harrassing me and dragging out a topic into a non useful tangent. Maybe harrassing female posters who have zero interest in chemistry gets your rocks off, I don't know. If so, more power to you, but I'm not a good one to harrass because I'm going to vent back.
Please stop trying to save my unchemical soul and start some kind of 'you're not a real female because you never sweat with an iron campaign' and return to useful slashbotting. Sorry, I am a female who doesn't own an iron or a periodic table and proud of it. ~WBGG
This doesn't only apply to keyboards, but to all electronics, you can wash them if you remember to rinse them, and give them time to dry.
This is largely true. I'm a retired US Navy Electronic Technician and we used to have a dishwasher in the shop solely for washing electronic circuit boards taken from electronic test equipment. Most equipment is not harmed by exposure to water IF there's no electricity applied. That being said, take care and use common sense,
I'm a female who now has basic knowledge of soap and water residue, not a lot of electronics experience. I have spent hours getting rid of water-mineral-soap-scum from everything including my peripherals. Be careful what you wash with, don't use certain cleaners or clean delicate surfaces too often. You'd be surprised what builds up just from cleaning when you live in an area with lots of minerals in the water. I don't completely and fully understand why but I ended up with problems getting the keys to make contact back with the keyboard because of this. (I didn't bother to try to understand fully either because if I wanted to be a chemist I would have followed that path.)
Now granted, I wasn't washing my keyboard as much as my hair, but I did start getting this residue from my desire to have cleaner periphals. I don't like to name brands or anything but I had to switch to something with "oxi" in the name to get the mineral residue off the keyboards, controllers, clothing, showerheads, etc. If you live in an area with "hard water", I am just suggesting don't "over do" it--once or twice a month at most, unless you get off on scrubbing and chiselling tiny areas.
Unfortunately, I think that is not often enough and gross. What I'd really like is an option for at work where I don't want to think about who else uses my keyboard and phone, what they do with it when I am not looking, and where I am not allowed to clean beyond some lysol and q-tips.
why are all you cowards posting anonymously if you think I'm so fscking wrong? and branding me a Troll for trying to get my point across. a troll posts something completely OT and caustic meant to upset everyone with no purpose and malice aforethought, which was not my purpose at all. the overrated mod has no leash on it at all.
I'm done attempting to offer my opinion to a bunch of whining hiders and witch hunters on this topic. Last I checked that was still the point of a discussion though.
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When will this kind of feature be available on /. ?
This only addresses a part of you problem, but maybe it will help.
/. would be so different if some users employed either of these methods...
When someone flames me or is trolling, I have a course of action I try to minimize the flamewar or feeding of trolls:
Type up a nasty fiery flame back at them full of all kinds of potty mouth words and really let them have it. I mean go all out in your reply, say stuff you wouldn't want anyone's mother to hear, let alone yours. Break the rules of etiquette and anything goes! Get at least half a page of total baiting, trollfeeding, trolling back, personal attacks and basically let your rage out. IMPORTANT: Then, don't post it. Instead, copy it to some file in a folder named "posts never meant to be posted" and put all kinds of password protection and encryption on it so it can't come back to haunt you. Strangely, this works for me. You just can't feck up the part where you -don't- click "post."
I have a friend that utilizes the 24-hour-rule. When someone does something that really riles him up, he waits 24 hours before responding because it drastically reduces the chances of him getting ban sited, sued, arrested, his arse kicked, fired, labeled a troll, etc... That can be good advice, but I prefer my way, because I get to express some emotion instantly, and the gratification is still there even if no one else sees it. I'm weird though.
Think of how
I can't go as far as your second statement. You question though is what runs through my mind so often with any murder-suicide. If you are going to take your own life, why bother to kill innocent victims? I truly must not be able to grasp the concept of that kind of madness or lapse in mental state (perhaps its not a lapse but permanent.) In some sick way I might see a person who goes into a bank or some hostage situation killing hostages ending up committing murder-suicide because of sheer ignorance/poor planning--not that it gets them off the hook by any means.
This was 21 months in a minimum security facility. Sick sick sick sick. Someone failed to do a psych exam in my opinion. Not that I am a shrink--but it hardly seems like a sane act for what he got away with? Thats less than two years. I can't imagine taking a life for any reason--two freaking years in a non PMITA prison and he kills a kid? Someone failed to notice something! And no kudos for letting him escape...
Sheer tragedy over email harrassment. I'm a CO taxpayer and you can bet I'm pissed off almost as much as I am horrified.
This Wired article must have been where I read about it, if it wasn't linked on here. I remember the wrapped like a turkey in tin foil part conjuring up memories of Kramer, vegetable oil and some "Seinfeld" episode...gross.
Courtesy a few minutes of googling "Raytheon +"non lethal". I'm really surprised this wasn't on /. last year. It was on Fark and my other regular sites, and I have lousy memory. Anyway here are some links to the "non lethal" techno in the parent:
link to Raytheon's article
best title for an article so far
article about why not to be in a riot when this is used I will keep this in mind next time I'm downtown in Denver and one of the teams wins or loses...CO people like to riot?!?
a fairly descriptive article that sounds more like it should be on the food network
a tiny article about how it affected stock
this site/article is definitely not biased or anything
would it be easier to have two separate weapons, so you know what you're getting when you reach? i honestly have to ask this question seeing as i stay away from fire and sharp objects. because from a design point of view giving a user too many options can be pointless overkill. (no pun intended)
Try firing frozen turkeys... you can get a job testing jet engines at the same time you enjoy your fetish for launching fowl. Paid to work and play!
if it really does have 17 options like someone posted and it ends up being used in certain geographical locations that end up with incredibly hot temperatures it'd be nice if those soldiers had cooling jackets. the research about how body temperatures of over 97 degrees F starts to cause massive mistake making justifies this technology. yeah i don't have a citation for that, i saw it on some science channel. i'm sure the show was funded by someone trying to brainwash me about firefighters. besides that this is pretty offtopic anyway. i think i've just done too much user/gui research so it concerned me there were so many options.
yes but the OP calls it a gun... i'm arguing semantics
if you're in a situation where you need a gun, do you honestly have time during your reaction to mess with setting it once it gets so fancy? good grief, you'll be fussing with the interface and making up your mind while your attacker prevails.
it was a text based adventure game on the Trash-80. Zork was a lot like it--i got further in Rakka Tu because there weren't any dang grues...
my memory is too lousy to remember if we (my dad and I--because I was fairly young he was helping me play) finished it or how far we got. i kept wishing someone would port it to my PDA like they did so many of the Infocomm text adventure games so i'd stuff to do in all-hands meetings.
I will agree to agree because I haven't married yet, am not male and don't want to spend time looking for sites to counter your one citation. My disagreement is based on the theory that unhappy people tend to spend more time posting detailed accounts and statistics, while content people spend more time enjoying life.
echtertyp posted nothing relevant to the OP: Guys, you owe it to yourself to check out http://www.dont-marry.com/ Whatever happens, don't get married. Ever. It's just fsckin misery after a couple years, at best.
I honestly can't tell if you are a troll, a mysogynist or need some in-your-face advice about how to stop whining and dealing with real life. If you speak from experience and are expecting to finding it on some website like the one you posted, try taking the outlook that occasionally human beings (regardless of gender) make mistakes. No one is perfect, not me, not you and not the best woman on earth. If you think marriage is easy, always there for your pleasure and won't have its ups and downs--you need to come back down to earth.
Worst case, I have wasted a minimal amount of time; and damn, it sucks to be you with that kind of outlook or need for attention by trolling in such a pathetic manner.
I can't speak for the cops. My sister is an ADA and her best friend is a nurse that is often on call to pronounce accident victims for the county. Between those two and their friends (several of whom are police) I've heard a lot of disgusting work related stories that involved speeding. I honestly believe most of these people truly are sick of seeing mangled human bodies removed from vehicles that were speeding or finding remains on the pavement.
Sure they'll write a ticket if it will slow you down. However, if parking their car in a strategic location near where kids play on their day off will slow people down they are fine with that too.
they said crap like this about my Japanese laserdisc colletion about ten years ago too. i bought the last three laserdisc players i could find so they aren't obsolete to me. i don't care what you home-theatre-philes say, the Star Wars THX laserdisc boxset and WOW laserdisc are better than any DVD!!!
this will blow over, its not like CDs are beta or blu-ray.
I used to game a lot more and I used to date serious habitual gamers. The first not so much because I've learned moderation of anything is healthy. The second sort of because of what you posted. Its not that one couldn't always cut through the fog. It was more that no one should have to cut through name-the-game fog, regardless of their self-esteem issues.
To be fair, I'd like to point out that I've met some WoW-widowers too...so we can't just blame it all on boys.
"The more time kids spend on video games, the less time they will have socializing, the less time they will have with their families, the less time they will have exercising," Kraus said. "They can make up academic deficits, but they can't make up the social ones."
Playing a MMORPG can be incredibly social. In fact, one of the reasons that I felt that WoW was so fun. Compared with SWG, WoW seemed to push players to group up to achieve high end content. So I guilded with one of the high-end raiding guilds on my server (not pvp) and learned to play (I didn't have much else to do IRL as I was on medical leave from work. I was well enough to sit at a desk for 3 hours a night and hated tv so a buddy suggested WoW.) At any rate, I made all kinds of game friends, acquaintences, non-fans, romantic interests, etc.
My guild eventually became very competative, kicking people out that didn't meet standards and not letting anyone in--not something I really cared so much for. I did care for playing and progress--not the rewards. I was sick of raiding Onyxia and MC over and over though--boring. We were the only guild of two on the server that could kill that dragon that turned mages into farm animals at the time. (sry, my memory sucks so i can't remember its name, it was long ago.) So I stayed with them to see more content as it opened up.
I was very careful to try to keep all RL details out of the game because of a minor incident in SWG with a pervert. Eventually, though in WoW I gave in and began using teamspeak, on the huge raids. I realized this would give away my gender for sure. I figured I could deal with that, and I did. Using TS made the raids so much easier. My guild main was a rogue with most of the best non-pvp gear you could get at that time. (If you flame me here, accusing me of bragging about having a well geared rogue on a non pvp server then get a life. any WoW person knows its not hard to do this.) The only way to make playing her less boring was to find strategies to out DPS other rogues involving talking to the team. My point is I wasn't thinking that logging into the guild's TS server probably gave away more RL information than I understand because I haven't kept up with network tech. I know these details seem mundane but be patient, I have a point coming soon.
So, I was playing WoW and being very social with these people ingame. I mentioned my main was a rogue. Well everyone had a rogue, so I had some free time in game. Therefore I just sometimes hung out with some friends and did silly things like naked gnome races, the ever popular griefing of the major Horde and Alliance cities by sneaking into them, and trying to find fashion in WoW--something SWG had that WoW didn't. I made alts that made friends with characters that couldn't stand my main trying to figure out why they didn't like her. A good friend IRL that played on the server and I organized a server wide skinny-dip of Alliance NE's in Horde waters. The point is my player and many others were very very social. Many people opened up to me about in private chat about RL stuff that I really think proves this.
WoW became for me a social community just like the sports bar I'd go to with the new hires for the first year every Friday for happy hour. It was similar to the anime club I joined in college where we'd hang out once a week to watch new films and make new friends. The diversity of the community, the guild I was in and the other guilds even reminded me a lot of college intermurals mixed with the after game hanging out socialization at 24-hour diners. (There were no Starbucks when/where I was in college yet, we had nasty coffee.)
Then my social community disappeared fo
There was a patient in there that was dealing with three addictions/impulse control disorders. Cocaine, self-injury and MUDs. (For you younger readers, a MUD is like WoW without graphics--text adventure RPG multi-player on a smaller scale and usually free.) This poor woman was in the recovery stage from two and desperately fighting the third. She said getting off coke was cake compared to MUDs. She'd basically left her kids and computer with her ex, asked him to take the computer somewhere she'd never find it, and gone home to try to quit MUDing cold-turkey. She had trouble getting rehab for gamimg addiction, so she was doing the best she could. Well, she ended up selling every possession she had to get back online in a few days. Then, she'd miss the kids and try to just quit, cold-turkey again. Rinse. Repeat. Until she ended up selling other people's possessions to get online pay ISP and phone bills, etc... She would cry to us that wished she was "just a coke-head". The reason she was involuntarily locked up was that she decided the only way to quit gaming was to quit living.
My memory is poor on the exact year of that group, memory loss is common with depression. I've been in many support groups since. I already read a post from someone about their "Evercrack" experience. People who use the term evercrack, and I don't mean just the kids, I mean adults too, are still in a lot of the support groups for addiction and depression I attend. They may have recovered from addiction, but they are dealing with depression now because they lost their jobs, families and years of their lives to an addiction, impulse control disorder or whatever the AMA isn't calling it.
I'm not a shrink or doctor. I've spent 13 years surround by the mental health community though. I'm a recovering addict, I'm an addict that hasn't admitted yet, and I have a bloody addictive personality so I've been in these dark places that most people don't want to go. I've sat next to people that most of us don't want to have to admit exist because their minds are so broken that is just easier to push them to the back of your brain and leave it there to self-preserve. I'm not trying to get on soapbox here, just to offer you a point of view that I have because I have sat in those circles and not everyone has. Whether someone formally calls it a problem or labels it in some offical way, its there. If you don't have to see it, then I'm glad, it probably means you aren't stricken with some terrible mental illness, nor do you have a loved one battling one. Be thankful for that.
And sorry, but being proud of not owning a periodic table? Isn't that a bad female stereotype? Cleaning is different from ironing. I do enjoy cleaning as a way of mindlessly letting go of negative emotion. Baking does the same thing. When I moved to a high altitude location I didn't bother to learn the physics/chemistry or whatever is involved in the reason that I need to add more flour to my recipes. I just asked the guys at work how they keep their cakes from falling, they said to add 3 tablespoons of flour.
I don't think that being proud of not owning a period table is a bad female stereotype. I am proud of it because it was my choice to stop after Chem 101 and study coding. I sold my chemistry book back. I put my reasons for not having one in context too, by explaining that I chose a different career path in the previous post. Some of the greatest people on earth didn't own period tables.
And yes, I'm quite odd, something I'll never be apologetic for.
Imagine you have a desk with no monitor perched on it but instead it IS a touch sensitive monitor. Yeah, a monitor the size and shape of your desk, an actual desktop computer. Your keyboard would be a displayed on the desktop as would your mouse, if you needed a mouse. Your writing would behave like papers that you could drag around to where they were handy or you could drop into your calendar for follow-up or drop into your filing cabinent to file away or drop into your outbox for sending. If you wanted to do both, you could drag the paper with two fingers to make a link between the two or double-tap then double tap somewhere else on your desk to make a copy. The desktop display would have to be tough enough to take a hot cup of coffee dropped on it, tough enough to take a heavy lysol spraying and have a pretty high resolution.. but we're getting there.
It's just a thought, but I wonder how appealing it is to everybody else. For me it would mean no more papers cluttering up corners. It would mean an awful lot less power lines cluttering up the place and a tremendous improvement in being able to work as a group on a project (no more hauling the projector out, or mirror monitors and eye contact with everyone in the office rather than staring through a monitor at the one (un?)lucky enough to be behind one of them.)
I hope you don't mind me not answering your questions one at a time, perhaps after more discussion and i feel like I'm on the same page as you, I can do so. For now, this is the best I have. As far as your virtual workspace...you know, the DoD contractor development world lags in desktop technology so badly that I'm still trying to take your idea in. The lag is there for security issues, red tape, and such. I came out of college in 96 all excited about this new Java stuff and had to take giant steps back drink a lot of the real java while waiting before we were allowed to even prototype with Java. Same with the big Oracle releseases and Solaris, etc... *lol* A free beer to anyone who's heard of ObjectStore. ~cringe~
I've been on medical leave for a possibly terminal condition for almost 4 years now, and its been so weird catching up. I honestly wish I could answer your question from a work point of view.
This is getting really OT, so I'll probably mod my karma down and go ahead and answer you this, which may be more or less or nothing of what you wanted to know:
A terminal disease changes your POV on life, and often if you recover or start to, like I am, you consider making some career changes as the news of your health gets better. Not totally dumping your career, but maybe merging it with something else more meaningful on a personal leve. I put my heart and soul in to Raytheon and they rewarded me with two trips overseas when I was young and the least senior because I could present without any fear and was willing to (hell I love to) teach. I was also single and had nothing to tie me down, so leaving on short notice working in my favor. Until the the illness struck. Then things changed, but the company, for all its problems stuck with me, becaues I do have talents and if I get well and come back... Well there are people that ask for me by name. I haven't done work for them in 4 years and they refuse to fire me. Go figure. I think because I did some really crappy stuff no one expected anyone would do. I did it well, and I saved some asses of supervisors and people who assumed because I was disabled I couldn't do anything. I don't believe in burning bridges. Raytheon is not the best company, but they have done me right, they haven't fired me, after being non-revenu for 4 years, they still pay my med bills. Thats loyalty. When I survive and beat this thing, I want to thank them before I finally move on.
Then I want to change careers to a writter or social worker and THAT would be when I could envision your virutal desktop being perfect for what I need. Because I take tons of paper notes and its har
I should give my neat-freakness some reference and put it in context. I previously was located in a shared office for two with a guy who worked 5am-1:30pm. (Currently, I am on sick leave so who knows where my stuff sits.) The office was in between an IT mini-station and a confrence room designated for customer usage (mainly, we had overflow problems so other people used it too.) My workspace was closest to the door. My lovely, complicated, DoD, workspace, because of the type of work I do, requires the PC and my phone to be a certain distance away from the Solaris workstation I spend 70% of my day at on a normal day. Still the location of the entire workspace lends my phone, and both keyboards to the confrence room and IT guests. This is all despite my efforts to the naught. You'd think duct taping the phone receive down with a big sign that says "MINE" would work, someone still cut it loose while I was out. I had many signs over the area noting that it is a private workspace. I drew many arrows to the public workspace. People are lazy. Worse, type-A people wanting IT service get angry and really belligerant and will throw things too over the use of a keyboard. We are allowed to customize our workspace and mine was certainly unique. The company really has no defense. I was placed there because I had a broken foot, we were at max occupancy and they thought it was easier for me to get through two sets of fire doors than one on crutches. Yes, that didn't make sense to me either. My phone smelled, frankly, like men's cologne. I don't wear men's cologne, so I'm fairly sure someone else uses it on a regular basis--worse the same person. I know someone else uses the keyboards because there are orange glowy pieces in there and I don't eat anything neon or ATK.
I'm really not a genuine germ-a-phobe. I can't stand that crap you put on your hands that doesn't wash off. I'd rather just not touch my hands to anything than use it. I carry a wet-nap thing in my purse, but I'll be the first to admit its dry because its probably at least 5 years past due. I only wash my hands once, thorouly at each proper time, I just don't like that I'm somehow sharing peripherals with other people. I mean, I've been in restrooms and seen people not wash their hands. Thats gross, I don't care what you did in that stall. Unless you are Magneto, who shouldn't be in the girls bathroom, you still touched the door handle. That means you might pass along a cold or something that I would rather not get/spread. People also cough all over their hands, they chew on fingers, they pick their noses--can't deny that, I've busted some co-workers digging for gold. So its just that it boils down to...well, that whole grossness factor. That, and people lie.
I don't mean I have these huge mistrust issues, but have you seen the TV medical show House? One of Dr. House's diagnostic tools is that people always lie. I'm not really focusing on why they lie, though its an interesting question and great show. My point is whether or not they intend to, people are putting icky things in my peripherals. So I offered some advice about my experience and asked a question.
Given past practices, I have to say that I agree with that sentiment. I think the chances are good that the administration is just going to ignore the demands.
Past practices... 'I can not recall' any past practices...
FWIW, chance has nothing to do with it--its completely intentional. I apologize for being so blunt, but I'm tired of walking on eggshells that are neither red nor blue.
{soapbox} (Assume ethnocentric American remarks when "us" used:) I am cynical about the situation (if I weren't I'd be non-functional), I am not apathetic at all. Its easy to just post or whine about it. Slashbots have proved good about modkilling/promoting the messengers, but its time to do something about it. Thats what I'm interested in, policy happening, not all this debate. Am I not right that 73% of us are united in not being happy with the leadership? I vote, I tell my policy makers what I think, I participate in charity. I don't just sit in front of a tv and text vote for American Idol. How long is the damn turn-around time though? (No, not for AI, I have not actually watched that.) Checks and balances seem to be awful slow this time.{/soapbox}
Now think about why.
I was just trying to post useful information to a discussion and you are harrassing me and dragging out a topic into a non useful tangent. Maybe harrassing female posters who have zero interest in chemistry gets your rocks off, I don't know. If so, more power to you, but I'm not a good one to harrass because I'm going to vent back.
Please stop trying to save my unchemical soul and start some kind of 'you're not a real female because you never sweat with an iron campaign' and return to useful slashbotting. Sorry, I am a female who doesn't own an iron or a periodic table and proud of it. ~WBGG
This is largely true. I'm a retired US Navy Electronic Technician and we used to have a dishwasher in the shop solely for washing electronic circuit boards taken from electronic test equipment. Most equipment is not harmed by exposure to water IF there's no electricity applied. That being said, take care and use common sense,
I'm a female who now has basic knowledge of soap and water residue, not a lot of electronics experience. I have spent hours getting rid of water-mineral-soap-scum from everything including my peripherals. Be careful what you wash with, don't use certain cleaners or clean delicate surfaces too often. You'd be surprised what builds up just from cleaning when you live in an area with lots of minerals in the water. I don't completely and fully understand why but I ended up with problems getting the keys to make contact back with the keyboard because of this. (I didn't bother to try to understand fully either because if I wanted to be a chemist I would have followed that path.)
Now granted, I wasn't washing my keyboard as much as my hair, but I did start getting this residue from my desire to have cleaner periphals. I don't like to name brands or anything but I had to switch to something with "oxi" in the name to get the mineral residue off the keyboards, controllers, clothing, showerheads, etc. If you live in an area with "hard water", I am just suggesting don't "over do" it--once or twice a month at most, unless you get off on scrubbing and chiselling tiny areas.
Unfortunately, I think that is not often enough and gross. What I'd really like is an option for at work where I don't want to think about who else uses my keyboard and phone, what they do with it when I am not looking, and where I am not allowed to clean beyond some lysol and q-tips.
why are all you cowards posting anonymously if you think I'm so fscking wrong? and branding me a Troll for trying to get my point across. a troll posts something completely OT and caustic meant to upset everyone with no purpose and malice aforethought, which was not my purpose at all. the overrated mod has no leash on it at all.
I'm done attempting to offer my opinion to a bunch of whining hiders and witch hunters on this topic. Last I checked that was still the point of a discussion though.