How is meeting a girl online any different then meeting a girl in real life? Certainly meeting a chick via an online dating site or AIM or something isn't any different then meeting a chick in a singles bar. How could it be?
I'm speaking from experience, a few years ago I dated and then moved in with a girl I met online. Of course we both had the same social problems that led us to need that avenue to meet in the first place, and it didn't work out in the long run.
If you're really a psych major, you should know better then to draw inferences from single data points. There could be a lot of factors that caused you to break up, aside from the fact that you were both nerds. Hell, most relationships don't last in the long run; you're likely to go through a couple of SOs/relationships in your life before you find the "right one" (if you ever do).
And of course distance can be a problem, but some people, I guess, desperate or romantic enough to move for someone they haven't spent much time with. And it can work out. Personally, I've met a pretty cute, and definitely cool chick over the net. We seem to have great chemistry and are interested in each other (and she's Asian!). But unfortunately she lives in Canada... And again, I'm not one who would uproot my life for a chick, and nether is she. Unless something catastrophic happens we probably won't be anything other then friends (keeping my fingers crossed for benefits:P)
But say you can meet someone from nearby. What, exactly, is wrong with that? Maybe it would be better if a person wasn't as shy (or in my case lazy), but if they can hookup despite, why is it really such a huge issue? Who knows, maybe they go to an engineering school without a lot of chicks.
As far meeting people in online games like EQ, well, if you are doing that you probably have a problem, not the least of which is a distorted sense of reality (looking for chicks in a game where 70% of the populous is male and 80% of the chicks are in relationships?). But if you incidentally meet a girl who shares your interest in the game, and reflects your interest in her, well, how is that unhealthy? I mean, maybe they shouldn't be spending so much time staring at a computer monitor... but they are, they both are. And what could be better then finding someone who shares your passions? And how would it be different then meeting a chick in a collage class or a gym or something?
Maybe you had a bad experience, but any reall social scientist (or any scientist for that matter) would tell you that one data point does not give you the write to castigate a huge set of people as being 'unhealthy'.
I mean, what really is so bad about using the internet to find love or get laid
When you get a degree in Psychology, you most likely won't become a professor, or a shrink in some office. You'll go to work in "Industrial Relations". What's that, you ask? Its the application of Psychology to the business world.
Knowing this stuff could make Sony a lot of money, in who they market the game, and even how they develop it.
This game is popular because it, apparently, touches is something deep inside a lot of people. And it doesn't let go. If you know what, or why, or if you can reproduce that. You can make yourself a lot of money.
Understanding why Everquest "works" is valuable for its insight into human nature, and it's valuable in the most literal sense of the word.
Actualy, I think you'd have a higher chance of having the chick actualy be a chick then a guy pretending to be a chick. Based on the numbers presented.
On the other hand, she probably wouldn't be hot. And certanly not an elf:P
You know what's interesting about this, is how 'addictive' these games are. A lot of people playing them seem to joke about it, and those who no longer do say they've 'quit' the same way a smoker would. A poster here a while ago mentioned 'nerfing' the game - making advancement based on repetitive tasks rather then pure skill - and how doing so makes the game more addictive.
Now, I'm sure ever quest was designed the way it was to be fun, not purely addictive, but suppose a game truly were? It might be an interesting thing to do, design a game purely for its addictive qualities, maybe a little immoral though:P.
I also wonder if perhaps as interactive entertainment becomes more pervasive if we aren't going to see something truly addictive... so much so that it could ruin someone's life (not that EQ hasn't. There are a couple instances of marriages being ruined by the game/ jobs lost, etc). Would the government step in and regulate the games industry? Should it?
Personally, I'm against the 'war on drugs', but I don't think a totally unregulated drug market would be a good thing either. Are non-chemical psychological 'drugs' really that different?
"Java 2" has been out for quite some time. Ever since JDK1.2 was released with a hugly expanded API. It goes like this:
JDK1.0 - Java 1
JDK1.1 - Java 1
JDK1.2 - Java 2
JSDK1.3 - Java 2 (JSDK = java standard dev kit, but everyone still calls it JDK)
JSKD1.4 - Java 2
etc...
Hrm, the thing dosn't look quite as cool as the ipod. Not that I don't hate apple or anything, but there don't seem to be a lot of players out there that have both a high capacity and the esthetic styling approaching or surpassing the iPod. There are some cool looking mp3 players, and there are some that are better technically then the iPod. But unfortunately, they don't seem to be in the same group. (of course, given the price you could just get a real PDA that can play mp3s for a bout $100 more...)
Personally, I doubt the voice nav in the current system is really that great, especially since you have to manually stop the music in order to use it. Of course with 200 or so songs it might come in handy (if it scales that well).
Ogg is just the name of the, uh, 'group' doing the work. The actual audio format is called Ogg Vorbis, in contrast with Ogg Tarken, their proposed video codec.
Obviously there may be more sides to this story then phillip and eve's. I'm sure the VCs probably have their own version, but don't want to apear as idiots in spouting off publicly.
For those of us who read Greenspun's account of the lawsuit this isn't to surprising. The two forces of PHB VCs and a weakened (to say the least) dotcom economy were probably way too much for the company to handle.
I think if the company had stayed private, they probably could have pulled through the worst of it, but they didn't. Oh well.
It's always nice to hear about the downfall of people you don't like though:P
(there's a german word that would apply here, but I couldn't spell it for the life of me:P)
I'm personally a java fan myself, and I use JSPs for autopr0n.com. But as much as I would like to see that technology succeed, I don't really think there's anything 'wrong' with.net.
Java itself is not any kind of 'true' general standard, sun can do whatever they want to with it. There's no real reason that Microsoft should bind itself to sun's implementation. So.net is pretty much just a ripoff of java, there are some 'evolutionary' enhancements like XML serialization and that sort of thing.
This won't kill java anymore then java would have killed windows. Microsoft's CLR will provide a better way to write windows-only programs. I don't see why everyone needs to be up in arms about it.
Ok, those people may have been drawing a government check, but some physicist at Sandra or a major university is not the same as someone who works for 'the government' as in, the part that actually interacts with citizens.
The US government may have paid for the internet, but they probably didn't even notice until they tried to regulate it.
The best ones are the paper sheets with a pen ( not pencle obviously, because it could be changed post-facto) And you don't have all the retarded issues you did with the florida stuff
A voting system where five percent of the balots fuck up is not a good one. You'd get better accuracy with a damn telephone poll
But, knowing how well the government functions, I'd be surprised if they realized it.
I don't mean to be cynical, but it seems in this country that the people who end up working for the government are the ones who couldn't cut it in the private sector, especially in the IT field. I can't imagine the 'best and brightest' out there would really be interested in working on some of the most boring code available... and at ridiculously low wages compared to what they could be earning in the IT industry.
A document you type in word is just a 'variable' So is the text I'm writing now (both in IE and slashdot). What's your point? When you write something, you own the copyright it doesn't matter how small it is, it doesn't matter where you wrote it or in what software program.
It would do you a lot of good to learn the difference between 'intellectual property' and real property 'Intellectual property' doesn't even appear in the law, unlike 'real' property. IP is just a buzzword thought up by pro-IP groups to give themselves more moral authority.
In reality, there are four kinds of IP. Patents, copyrights, trademarks and trade secrets. None of this has anything to do with trademarks, patents or trade secrets. It's all about copyright.
But, the fact that they have copyright over something doesn't give them any extralegal control over you. I buy your book, I can sell it to whomever I want for however I want. The book is your 'Intellectual property' but it's my actual property. Copyright doesn't give you control over what's done with something, copyright gives you the right to copy. No one is copying these objects. They are just selling them.
Yes, the creator of a GPL'd program can do whatever he or she wants with the code they wrote.(although they can't retoactively remove the GPL, or do things with contributions people make under the GPL)
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How is meeting a girl online any different then meeting a girl in real life? Certainly meeting a chick via an online dating site or AIM or something isn't any different then meeting a chick in a singles bar. How could it be? I'm speaking from experience, a few years ago I dated and then moved in with a girl I met online. Of course we both had the same social problems that led us to need that avenue to meet in the first place, and it didn't work out in the long run.
:P)
If you're really a psych major, you should know better then to draw inferences from single data points. There could be a lot of factors that caused you to break up, aside from the fact that you were both nerds. Hell, most relationships don't last in the long run; you're likely to go through a couple of SOs/relationships in your life before you find the "right one" (if you ever do). And of course distance can be a problem, but some people, I guess, desperate or romantic enough to move for someone they haven't spent much time with. And it can work out. Personally, I've met a pretty cute, and definitely cool chick over the net. We seem to have great chemistry and are interested in each other (and she's Asian!). But unfortunately she lives in Canada... And again, I'm not one who would uproot my life for a chick, and nether is she. Unless something catastrophic happens we probably won't be anything other then friends (keeping my fingers crossed for benefits
But say you can meet someone from nearby. What, exactly, is wrong with that? Maybe it would be better if a person wasn't as shy (or in my case lazy), but if they can hookup despite, why is it really such a huge issue? Who knows, maybe they go to an engineering school without a lot of chicks.
As far meeting people in online games like EQ, well, if you are doing that you probably have a problem, not the least of which is a distorted sense of reality (looking for chicks in a game where 70% of the populous is male and 80% of the chicks are in relationships?). But if you incidentally meet a girl who shares your interest in the game, and reflects your interest in her, well, how is that unhealthy? I mean, maybe they shouldn't be spending so much time staring at a computer monitor... but they are, they both are. And what could be better then finding someone who shares your passions? And how would it be different then meeting a chick in a collage class or a gym or something?
Maybe you had a bad experience, but any reall social scientist (or any scientist for that matter) would tell you that one data point does not give you the write to castigate a huge set of people as being 'unhealthy'.
I mean, what really is so bad about using the internet to find love or get laid
When you get a degree in Psychology, you most likely won't become a professor, or a shrink in some office. You'll go to work in "Industrial Relations". What's that, you ask? Its the application of Psychology to the business world.
Knowing this stuff could make Sony a lot of money, in who they market the game, and even how they develop it.
This game is popular because it, apparently, touches is something deep inside a lot of people. And it doesn't let go. If you know what, or why, or if you can reproduce that. You can make yourself a lot of money.
Understanding why Everquest "works" is valuable for its insight into human nature, and it's valuable in the most literal sense of the word.
There's still a diffrence between coding OSS, or a job or a girlfriend or whatever and sitting around playing EQ (or in my case posting crap on /.)...
Actualy, I think you'd have a higher chance of having the chick actualy be a chick then a guy pretending to be a chick. Based on the numbers presented.
:P
On the other hand, she probably wouldn't be hot. And certanly not an elf
You know what's interesting about this, is how 'addictive' these games are. A lot of people playing them seem to joke about it, and those who no longer do say they've 'quit' the same way a smoker would. A poster here a while ago mentioned 'nerfing' the game - making advancement based on repetitive tasks rather then pure skill - and how doing so makes the game more addictive.
:P.
Now, I'm sure ever quest was designed the way it was to be fun, not purely addictive, but suppose a game truly were? It might be an interesting thing to do, design a game purely for its addictive qualities, maybe a little immoral though
I also wonder if perhaps as interactive entertainment becomes more pervasive if we aren't going to see something truly addictive... so much so that it could ruin someone's life (not that EQ hasn't. There are a couple instances of marriages being ruined by the game/ jobs lost, etc). Would the government step in and regulate the games industry? Should it?
Personally, I'm against the 'war on drugs', but I don't think a totally unregulated drug market would be a good thing either. Are non-chemical psychological 'drugs' really that different?
It's sad to see, EverCrack, just like real crack hits the lower classes the hardest. for shame.
Btw, did any one else notice that most female everquest players seem to be married and almost/ greater then 30?
Thats ultima online.
Not that I don't feel, somehow "dirty" knowing that...
Say you have: ComplexNumber a, b, c, d, e, f;
. add(b)))))
Would you rather have:
((a^b+e)/c*(d+b+a+b)
Or
(a.power(b.add(e)).divby(c.multiply(d.add(b.add(a
"Java 2" has been out for quite some time. Ever since JDK1.2 was released with a hugly expanded API. It goes like this:
JDK1.0 - Java 1
JDK1.1 - Java 1
JDK1.2 - Java 2
JSDK1.3 - Java 2 (JSDK = java standard dev kit, but everyone still calls it JDK)
JSKD1.4 - Java 2
etc...
I have a dream, that one day people will know what they are talking about before they spout off like morons.
Hrm, the thing dosn't look quite as cool as the ipod. Not that I don't hate apple or anything, but there don't seem to be a lot of players out there that have both a high capacity and the esthetic styling approaching or surpassing the iPod. There are some cool looking mp3 players, and there are some that are better technically then the iPod. But unfortunately, they don't seem to be in the same group. (of course, given the price you could just get a real PDA that can play mp3s for a bout $100 more...)
Personally, I doubt the voice nav in the current system is really that great, especially since you have to manually stop the music in order to use it. Of course with 200 or so songs it might come in handy (if it scales that well).
Ogg is just the name of the, uh, 'group' doing the work. The actual audio format is called Ogg Vorbis, in contrast with Ogg Tarken, their proposed video codec.
:P
So your sylable count is really incorrect
two comments!? From One person!? Say it isn't so!
Obviously there may be more sides to this story then phillip and eve's. I'm sure the VCs probably have their own version, but don't want to apear as idiots in spouting off publicly.
For those of us who read Greenspun's account of the lawsuit this isn't to surprising. The two forces of PHB VCs and a weakened (to say the least) dotcom economy were probably way too much for the company to handle.
:P
:P)
I think if the company had stayed private, they probably could have pulled through the worst of it, but they didn't. Oh well.
It's always nice to hear about the downfall of people you don't like though
(there's a german word that would apply here, but I couldn't spell it for the life of me
Are you trying to say desktop software written in java dosn't run on Linux?
I'm personally a java fan myself, and I use JSPs for autopr0n.com. But as much as I would like to see that technology succeed, I don't really think there's anything 'wrong' with .net.
.net is pretty much just a ripoff of java, there are some 'evolutionary' enhancements like XML serialization and that sort of thing.
Java itself is not any kind of 'true' general standard, sun can do whatever they want to with it. There's no real reason that Microsoft should bind itself to sun's implementation. So
This won't kill java anymore then java would have killed windows. Microsoft's CLR will provide a better way to write windows-only programs. I don't see why everyone needs to be up in arms about it.
Spoken like a true Ayn Rand fan
What!? Ayn Rand == satan!
Ok, those people may have been drawing a government check, but some physicist at Sandra or a major university is not the same as someone who works for 'the government' as in, the part that actually interacts with citizens.
The US government may have paid for the internet, but they probably didn't even notice until they tried to regulate it.
unpunching a hole dosn't really sound so difficult...
The best ones are the paper sheets with a pen ( not pencle obviously, because it could be changed post-facto) And you don't have all the retarded issues you did with the florida stuff
A voting system where five percent of the balots fuck up is not a good one. You'd get better accuracy with a damn telephone poll
But, knowing how well the government functions, I'd be surprised if they realized it.
I don't mean to be cynical, but it seems in this country that the people who end up working for the government are the ones who couldn't cut it in the private sector, especially in the IT field. I can't imagine the 'best and brightest' out there would really be interested in working on some of the most boring code available... and at ridiculously low wages compared to what they could be earning in the IT industry.
Google only gets a non-exclusive license. That would be like the ISP or pencle owner demanding that they get a (single) free copy of the book.
A document you type in word is just a 'variable' So is the text I'm writing now (both in IE and slashdot). What's your point? When you write something, you own the copyright it doesn't matter how small it is, it doesn't matter where you wrote it or in what software program.
It would do you a lot of good to learn the difference between 'intellectual property' and real property 'Intellectual property' doesn't even appear in the law, unlike 'real' property. IP is just a buzzword thought up by pro-IP groups to give themselves more moral authority.
In reality, there are four kinds of IP. Patents, copyrights, trademarks and trade secrets. None of this has anything to do with trademarks, patents or trade secrets. It's all about copyright.
But, the fact that they have copyright over something doesn't give them any extralegal control over you. I buy your book, I can sell it to whomever I want for however I want. The book is your 'Intellectual property' but it's my actual property. Copyright doesn't give you control over what's done with something, copyright gives you the right to copy. No one is copying these objects. They are just selling them.
This I don't understand. Why does it take 5 CDs? for 57mbs of data?
What are you going to do, sue yourself?
Yes, the creator of a GPL'd program can do whatever he or she wants with the code they wrote.(although they can't retoactively remove the GPL, or do things with contributions people make under the GPL)