How does one know if one is burnt out? Recently I've been
wondering if I am, but I dismiss it as hypochondria.
I don't have anywhere near the motivation I used
to have, but I don't really know whether to attribute
it to getting older, getting jaded, or actually burning out.
I had actually stopped playing GTA:SA after only an hour or two because it just wasn't that interesting. I'd liked GTA3, even. Now that everyone's talking about the game, I strangely have an urge to reinstall it....
I didn't mean for my comment to be a flame. I guess it's ironic that a comment intended to ward off grammar Nazis (there, I even managed to capitalize it) ended up attracting some.;) Now who will let me know that I didn't
use the word "ironic" correctly?:)
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Anyway, good luck in school. If you're at all as clever as you think you are, you'll get over yourself. (Trolling an article which probably only I, one person, will ever read? Ouch, talk about bored....)
Would someone actually pay to see an advertisement?
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my motivation.. to see crowdist wankers like you cry when something you adore so much is brought down to smoldering ashes
my goal is to disrupt the crowd and bring you information that, while factual, will also bother you
I doubt it. First of all, you can't conclude from
three sentences that I'm a "crowdist wanker" (wtf is a
crow dist, anyway...). I notice for one thing that you
have read my comment. If you really think posting a comment to a web forum is being a crowd-ist wanker, then why do you post and read things there? Why do you read or care about the comments? Also, nothing that was bulk-pasted in the comments gave me any information that I couldn't get from a wine-o begging me for money in the subway. And there was too much to read, so why would I bother? It didn't seem interesting, just normal trollish spew. The only thing the person accomplished was to disrupt information exchange between people in the forum.
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I wonder what motivated whoever cut-n-pasted the trolling text into the comments section of the site. Jealousy? Do they want
to try to stop people from doing constructive things so that
they also don't have to? Don't have the balls to strap bombs
to your waist, so to be annoying you troll in web forums
instead?
Bricolage is a mod_perl-based CMS which is currently (as it happens)
being worked on by 4 GSoCers. It's hard to set up at first,
but is powerful and flexible.
You should look for a Morse code trainer. I used
a free DOS program a few years ago, that was kind of like
a Simon game. You'd hear an 'e', type the 'e'; hear it again,
type it again; then it'd throw in a 't'; get it wrong, go back to 'e'; hear 'e' several times, get another random character; try 't' again now? get it right this time, hear an 'e' again.... After playing with that for a while, you build
up a lot of letters. And they're all in real-time, not slowed
down, so you really learn how the letters sound (they say 5 wpm has the same speed of letters, just the spacing between
them is bigger than say 20 wpm).
The way that question is phrased it is almost as if there should be some kind of OSS organized effort to specifically attract women to the community. What would be gained by such a movement and why is it even implied to be necessary?
Yeah, and what about the hermaphrodite and sexless people?
I don't think what's in that Orwell essay is the same, no.
His essay mentions things like the sloppiness of language leading to sloppiness of thought, but he doesn't bring up
things like the commercialization of our thoughts. The fourth
point of his article is along the same lines, though. Also, the examples given by Orwell are very boring, whereas the ones
given in the interview were amusing. I only found the last few
paragraphs of Orwell's essay to be interesting. I wonder if those people
gushing over how brilliantly Orwell's essay was written even
bothered to read it.
(As a final layer of security, booksellers have been forced to sign legal forms acknowledging that if they break the embargo, they will never again be supplied with a book by Scholastic). [...] it seems we keep getting closer and closer to the world described in Stallman's visionary The Right To Read article."
I don't see how that follows. First of all, a world without "Harry Potter"? Who cares? Are you going to make the same
argument about pro wrestling? And if Scholastic doesn't
want to "supply" these booksellers with books, it
works both ways. Scholastic can go out of business.
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How does one know if one is burnt out? Recently I've been wondering if I am, but I dismiss it as hypochondria. I don't have anywhere near the motivation I used to have, but I don't really know whether to attribute it to getting older, getting jaded, or actually burning out.
I had actually stopped playing GTA:SA after only an hour or two because it just wasn't that interesting. I'd liked GTA3, even. Now that everyone's talking about the game, I strangely have an urge to reinstall it....
I didn't mean for my comment to be a flame. I guess it's ironic that a comment intended to ward off grammar Nazis (there, I even managed to capitalize it) ended up attracting some. ;) Now who will let me know that I didn't
use the word "ironic" correctly? :)
Anyway, good luck in school. If you're at all as clever as you think you are, you'll get over yourself. (Trolling an article which probably only I, one person, will ever read? Ouch, talk about bored....)
Would someone actually pay to see an advertisement?
I doubt it. First of all, you can't conclude from three sentences that I'm a "crowdist wanker" (wtf is a crow dist, anyway...). I notice for one thing that you have read my comment. If you really think posting a comment to a web forum is being a crowd-ist wanker, then why do you post and read things there? Why do you read or care about the comments? Also, nothing that was bulk-pasted in the comments gave me any information that I couldn't get from a wine-o begging me for money in the subway. And there was too much to read, so why would I bother? It didn't seem interesting, just normal trollish spew. The only thing the person accomplished was to disrupt information exchange between people in the forum.
I wonder what motivated whoever cut-n-pasted the trolling text into the comments section of the site. Jealousy? Do they want to try to stop people from doing constructive things so that they also don't have to? Don't have the balls to strap bombs to your waist, so to be annoying you troll in web forums instead?
Bricolage is a mod_perl-based CMS which is currently (as it happens) being worked on by 4 GSoCers. It's hard to set up at first, but is powerful and flexible.
Well, when I think of mead, I think of the very anglo-saxon Beowulf. Speaking of which, imagine.... :)
What confabulates me is that this isn't a KDE app.
[To grammar nazi's, yes I know that's not the meaning of confabulate. To Brits, yes I know you have a different sense of "humour".]
That looks similar to the one I used, except it was a DOS version. :)
Something else that might boost MS profits. Free advertisement as three MS-related stories were posted to slashdot within 4 hours.
...why did you bring it up again? Selling something?
You should look for a Morse code trainer. I used a free DOS program a few years ago, that was kind of like a Simon game. You'd hear an 'e', type the 'e'; hear it again, type it again; then it'd throw in a 't'; get it wrong, go back to 'e'; hear 'e' several times, get another random character; try 't' again now? get it right this time, hear an 'e' again.... After playing with that for a while, you build up a lot of letters. And they're all in real-time, not slowed down, so you really learn how the letters sound (they say 5 wpm has the same speed of letters, just the spacing between them is bigger than say 20 wpm).
Yet another embrace-and-extend (YAEE?) by the boys in Redmond.
Then you'd need to run it with whatever is the equivalent of a cron job on Windows.
For example, witness that paradigm of open-source code, slashcode, tested by hundreds of thousands of users every day. Quel joie!
Yeah, and what about the hermaphrodite and sexless people?
Just like with regular spam, I wouldn't reply to them.
In the easter egg in GTA3, they show a clear bias toward badly filmed porn flicks and old-school arcade game graphics.
I don't think what's in that Orwell essay is the same, no. His essay mentions things like the sloppiness of language leading to sloppiness of thought, but he doesn't bring up things like the commercialization of our thoughts. The fourth point of his article is along the same lines, though. Also, the examples given by Orwell are very boring, whereas the ones given in the interview were amusing. I only found the last few paragraphs of Orwell's essay to be interesting. I wonder if those people gushing over how brilliantly Orwell's essay was written even bothered to read it.
Diet Coke through nose. Ow.
I don't even read Wired any more, let alone subscribe to it. Bunch of articles posing as advertisements in between the normal advertisements.