Uuum... I think the problem is, that creativity (also as in “artsyness”) somehow isn’t seen as intelligence. There is not even an “IQ” test for it. IQ tests seem to concentrate on one quarter of the main abilities of the brain. Which are the right and left half (logic and creativity, in simplified terms), the older “primitive” emotional center/stem, and the motor cortex & co. They all are equally important. But we concentrate on only one.:/
And that is, why we don’t even think about any creative work as being able to be science. Hell, it’s not that long ago, that we dismissed the sole idea of the whole emotional intelligence as “not being real”. And people who are good at sports still are seen as being dumb *in general*.
But I don’t think that the artistic value is dominated by education. I mean we (nearly the whole world) did not have any creative education before that either. We always were “unlearned” in it. (Yes, there are art schools, but they somehow always work around the core of creativity, focusing on method, techniques, and other secondary stuff.) Which is like focusing on handwriting and using a keyboard, to write good program code.
The main reason certainly is greed. With stupid “blockbusters” blewn up and marketed to death, just to get people into the cinema. The rest does not matter. They can hate it for being the worst crap in history, right after that (remember Plasticb... uum I mean... Hell...boy?). Doesn't matter. They payed, they won't get the money back. It's a hit-and-run strategy. For the quick buck.
That’s th ‘free market’ for you...:) Oh, by the way, I found out something interesting: A totally free market is like a totally “free” society. In that the only law left is the law of the jungle. But this is the complete opposite of democracy. So if anyone who claims to be a democracy-lover praises the “free market”, tell him that he praises the opposite of democracy. ^^
We should use this as a hook to annoy the hell out of creationists and other religious crazy people by using the same delusional methods that they use to tell them that this is irrefutable PROOF that god does not exist! ^^
There are some people who still struggle with the right-click, let alone anything more complicated.
So? Some people are too dumb to set the blinking 00:00 on their clock so a time. Some people are too dumb to not wear their t-shirt the wrong way and bind their shoes. Some people are too dumb to *eat*.
Nature has a great way of solving that problem, for the good of us all. It’s called natural selection!
Strange, how nowadays, the concept of “being social” became the complete opposite of that, and actually punishes every non-idiot, by not rewarding him, assisting him everywhere, throwing money at him, and even wiping his ass.
There are certain people who now knee-jerk react with the trained default-pattern of “oooh, you can”t say that. ‘one’ can’t do that!’, without ever thinking about it. And I bet one of ’em got mod points again. As if I were therefore somehow for the punishment of not so intelligent people... (Which is just as messed-up.)
If we actually follow our oh-so-great ideal, and really treat everyone the same, no matter if it’ harder for some and easier for others, then maybe we don’t continue backwards-evolution and don’t end up in a full-scale real Idiocracy...
Here is what I’d tell them: “You struggle with right-clicking? Well tough shit. How about you go and learn to do it! Because: So did I. And now I can do it. Imagine that. And stop complaining. That strategy does not work with me. I do not feed leeches.”
And all these go away, when a mobile phone gets just as much a basic commodity item as a watch. Think about your phone being on your wrist, just as small as a watch, but with a display that can get much bigger. Or maybe like an arm band. There are a thousand possibilities.
I don’t think the first mobile clocks, had any of those features that you describe. They did not survive water or were cheap either. And there were enough wristwatch thieves.
Uuum, even some of the first of all mobile phones could show time when in standby mode. And unless you got thight tube pants: What takes you so long??
3 seconds, I say. Which works for me for me.
But about your weird experiences: Oh boy am I happy that all Nokias I ever had did properly keep time and had their own clock, even when without a net.:) What did you buy again? I need to avoid that company...
Antidepressants and having fun are roughly equally effective,
That is wrong. Antidepressants only are “effective”, as long as you take them! If you stop, you’re worse off than before. That is the whole idea. After all it was a company that made them. A company that by definition only exists because it made more money than the others. Whose reason of existence is to make money by selling health-related products. And healthy people don’t make them money. Sick people will die. So the optimum is to sell either placebos/dreams or something that will keep you too sick to stop buying but too healthy to stop buying too. That’s the whole point of the (mainstream) pharma industry.
In terms of addictiveness, some antidepressants easily share one level with heroin et. al.
The sad thing is when I see people and even doctors say they have depression, as if it were a disease. It’s not! It’s a symptom. One that will never go away because of the ignorance that comes with acting as if it were the final item on the path to the source of the problem. And doctors with their arrogance are responsible for that misconception. Because they usually have such a huge god-complex, that they rather say that something does not exist, as to admit that they don’t know it.
For your own “depression”, I recommend to identify the real cause. And that is simpler that you might think. Because it can only be one of those things:
Resources: food, water, air (pollution) (One can throw drugs in here too.)
Environment:
Physical. (House, furniture, clothes, cleaning agents, hygiene products, other chemicals, general pollution, etc.)
Psychological. (More important than most people think. Boss, family, partner, problems with some government or company, past/parents, situational, etc.)
Genetics (more rare than most people think)
That’s basically it.
So now you go ahead, and do the old process of elimination, until it’s gone. But beware that there is an effect of inertia in that process. Which can be up to 10 years, and sometimes decades! (What most people call “age-related diseases”, but actually nearly every time does not come because of age, but with age.*)
Of course this is a bit much, and since you’re perhaps not that old anyway... I recommend living a completely different life for a year. Move somewhere else, work something else, eat something else, have contact to other people, etc. Apart from this making you so much of a better human than one can’t even imagine, you will then very likely have living proof for what problems were really not genetic but related to anything you did wrong. For very many of your diseases. (Depending on how complete your changes are.)
Then after that, you can go back, and methodically find the level between those lifestyles that gives you the best trade-off what you want in your life.
Good luck, and let’s hope it’s not a genetic problem. Drugs that can change your genetics in a targeted way are only in the early experimentation stages. ^^
___ * Yes, I have proof with over 30,000 people in 50 years, for this.
No. You THINK you’re immune. Because MS censors anyone who openly talks about the bugs. Behind closed doors (Russian cracker forums), IE8 and Windows 7 are as open a barn doors.
The best hosts for your botnet client are those who are too arrogant to think that they could be the targets. ^^
Well, if the IT department knowingly insists on using (insecure and horrible anyway) IE, it knowingly insists on destroying the company. Which is a reason to tell the boss that either he kicks the IT department’s asses for trying to destroy his company, or you quit because there is no reason to work for a dying business.
Personally, I feel like metaprogramming is an integral part of Ruby programming, whereas, in Python, it runs contrary to the spirit of "one way to do it", but Python does support metaprogramming and plenty of people are putting it to good use.
You have heard of the concept of functional programming, have you? If functions are first-class citizens in data-type world, there is no separation between functions and data (or algorithms and data structures) anymore. So there is no point in a word like “metaprogramming”. What those languages support, is metaprogramming. And it’s sometimes shocking how much it exactly looks like Haskell (where everybody steals from nowadays). ^^
JavaScript also belongs into that family.
As soon as you understand Haskell, suddenly, all those languages become much more intuitive, expressive and useful. (I love higher-order functions! ^^)
I have long said that Webbrowsers should be scripting language independent. They should be (like) plug-ins. With the same API exposed into it.
JS is actually pretty great, if you know how to use it. Which most that complain about it don’s. Or how many of those actually do functional programming in it, or really understand prototype-based object orientation?
I am for adding Python, Ruby, Haskell, OCaml, Erlang, but NOT C/C++, Perl or Lua. Maybe Java. Big maybe. ^^ Then again, I am a friend of well-designed languages, and thereby have an obvious preference.:)
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So you're saying that Apple realized, that their clients care more for looks than even for their friends?
Who woulda thunk of that? ^^
which allows users to share content directly between all of their own devices
What, Opera users couldn’t copy a file (or copy/paste content) before??
They just want a reasonable translation so they don't end up looking like an idiot to the cute foreign girl they are trying to bed.
Guess what: So does the cute foreign girl! :P
My hoovercraft is full of eels
But it seems to be financed through subconscious advertising.
Uuum... I think the problem is, that creativity (also as in “artsyness”) somehow isn’t seen as intelligence. There is not even an “IQ” test for it. IQ tests seem to concentrate on one quarter of the main abilities of the brain. Which are the right and left half (logic and creativity, in simplified terms), the older “primitive” emotional center/stem, and the motor cortex & co. They all are equally important. But we concentrate on only one. :/
And that is, why we don’t even think about any creative work as being able to be science. Hell, it’s not that long ago, that we dismissed the sole idea of the whole emotional intelligence as “not being real”. And people who are good at sports still are seen as being dumb *in general*.
But I don’t think that the artistic value is dominated by education. I mean we (nearly the whole world) did not have any creative education before that either. We always were “unlearned” in it. (Yes, there are art schools, but they somehow always work around the core of creativity, focusing on method, techniques, and other secondary stuff.) Which is like focusing on handwriting and using a keyboard, to write good program code.
The main reason certainly is greed. With stupid “blockbusters” blewn up and marketed to death, just to get people into the cinema. The rest does not matter. They can hate it for being the worst crap in history, right after that (remember Plasticb... uum I mean... Hell...boy?). Doesn't matter. They payed, they won't get the money back. It's a hit-and-run strategy. For the quick buck.
That’s th ‘free market’ for you... :)
Oh, by the way, I found out something interesting: A totally free market is like a totally “free” society. In that the only law left is the law of the jungle. But this is the complete opposite of democracy. So if anyone who claims to be a democracy-lover praises the “free market”, tell him that he praises the opposite of democracy. ^^
What do you expect, this is the closest they evert got to a beaver: http://www.fnal.gov/pub/today/archive_2009/today09-11-23.html (Scroll to the end of the page.)
Shhh... don’t tell them. Rather tell them that now it’s PROVEN that god does not exist, and can by definition not exist. ^^
We should use this as a hook to annoy the hell out of creationists and other religious crazy people by using the same delusional methods that they use to tell them that this is irrefutable PROOF that god does not exist! ^^
Isn’t this why CAPTCHA was invented?
I mean just add captchas an a place where is slows him down too much for spamming to still make sense.
And freakin’ use reCAPTCHA, if you don’t want to get laughed at! ^^
Wooosh... So BD&M, Cumfast and Vagizon run Google? You know... The Internet industry... As opposed to the Internet provider industry.
There are some people who still struggle with the right-click, let alone anything more complicated.
So? Some people are too dumb to set the blinking 00:00 on their clock so a time. Some people are too dumb to not wear their t-shirt the wrong way and bind their shoes. Some people are too dumb to *eat*.
Nature has a great way of solving that problem, for the good of us all. It’s called natural selection!
Strange, how nowadays, the concept of “being social” became the complete opposite of that, and actually punishes every non-idiot, by not rewarding him, assisting him everywhere, throwing money at him, and even wiping his ass.
There are certain people who now knee-jerk react with the trained default-pattern of “oooh, you can”t say that. ‘one’ can’t do that!’, without ever thinking about it. And I bet one of ’em got mod points again.
As if I were therefore somehow for the punishment of not so intelligent people... (Which is just as messed-up.)
If we actually follow our oh-so-great ideal, and really treat everyone the same, no matter if it’ harder for some and easier for others, then maybe we don’t continue backwards-evolution and don’t end up in a full-scale real Idiocracy...
Here is what I’d tell them:
“You struggle with right-clicking? Well tough shit. How about you go and learn to do it! Because: So did I. And now I can do it. Imagine that. And stop complaining. That strategy does not work with me. I do not feed leeches.”
It doesn’t need to.
With that diet, you will have died,
and be covered with dirt before it’s covered with dirt. ^^
In 8th? We did it in 4th, and earlier. To what “school” did you go exactly? ^^
Or do you call backwards, like the french? ^^
And all these go away, when a mobile phone gets just as much a basic commodity item as a watch. Think about your phone being on your wrist, just as small as a watch, but with a display that can get much bigger. Or maybe like an arm band. There are a thousand possibilities.
I don’t think the first mobile clocks, had any of those features that you describe. They did not survive water or were cheap either. And there were enough wristwatch thieves.
Uuum, even some of the first of all mobile phones could show time when in standby mode. And unless you got thight tube pants: What takes you so long??
3 seconds, I say. Which works for me for me.
But about your weird experiences: Oh boy am I happy that all Nokias I ever had did properly keep time and had their own clock, even when without a net. :) What did you buy again? I need to avoid that company...
Uuum, what made you think there is an either-or?
You know that can set time, just as with any other watch, when you restore power, do you? ^^
Antidepressants and having fun are roughly equally effective,
That is wrong. Antidepressants only are “effective”, as long as you take them! If you stop, you’re worse off than before. That is the whole idea. After all it was a company that made them. A company that by definition only exists because it made more money than the others. Whose reason of existence is to make money by selling health-related products. And healthy people don’t make them money. Sick people will die. So the optimum is to sell either placebos/dreams or something that will keep you too sick to stop buying but too healthy to stop buying too. That’s the whole point of the (mainstream) pharma industry.
In terms of addictiveness, some antidepressants easily share one level with heroin et. al.
Having fun, on the other hand... :D
The sad thing is when I see people and even doctors say they have depression, as if it were a disease. It’s not! It’s a symptom. One that will never go away because of the ignorance that comes with acting as if it were the final item on the path to the source of the problem. And doctors with their arrogance are responsible for that misconception. Because they usually have such a huge god-complex, that they rather say that something does not exist, as to admit that they don’t know it.
For your own “depression”, I recommend to identify the real cause. And that is simpler that you might think. Because it can only be one of those things:
That’s basically it.
So now you go ahead, and do the old process of elimination, until it’s gone. But beware that there is an effect of inertia in that process. Which can be up to 10 years, and sometimes decades! (What most people call “age-related diseases”, but actually nearly every time does not come because of age, but with age.*)
Of course this is a bit much, and since you’re perhaps not that old anyway... I recommend living a completely different life for a year. Move somewhere else, work something else, eat something else, have contact to other people, etc. Apart from this making you so much of a better human than one can’t even imagine, you will then very likely have living proof for what problems were really not genetic but related to anything you did wrong. For very many of your diseases. (Depending on how complete your changes are.)
Then after that, you can go back, and methodically find the level between those lifestyles that gives you the best trade-off what you want in your life.
Good luck, and let’s hope it’s not a genetic problem. Drugs that can change your genetics in a targeted way are only in the early experimentation stages. ^^
___
* Yes, I have proof with over 30,000 people in 50 years, for this.
Why would that one not be you? Made-up excuses? ^^
No. You THINK you’re immune. Because MS censors anyone who openly talks about the bugs. Behind closed doors (Russian cracker forums), IE8 and Windows 7 are as open a barn doors.
The best hosts for your botnet client are those who are too arrogant to think that they could be the targets. ^^
You’re just jealous, that it’s not you who infected those computers. ^^
Well, if the IT department knowingly insists on using (insecure and horrible anyway) IE, it knowingly insists on destroying the company. Which is a reason to tell the boss that either he kicks the IT department’s asses for trying to destroy his company, or you quit because there is no reason to work for a dying business.
Simple as that. :D
Personally, I feel like metaprogramming is an integral part of Ruby programming, whereas, in Python, it runs contrary to the spirit of "one way to do it", but Python does support metaprogramming and plenty of people are putting it to good use.
You have heard of the concept of functional programming, have you? If functions are first-class citizens in data-type world, there is no separation between functions and data (or algorithms and data structures) anymore. So there is no point in a word like “metaprogramming”. What those languages support, is metaprogramming. And it’s sometimes shocking how much it exactly looks like Haskell (where everybody steals from nowadays). ^^
JavaScript also belongs into that family.
As soon as you understand Haskell, suddenly, all those languages become much more intuitive, expressive and useful. (I love higher-order functions! ^^)
I have long said that Webbrowsers should be scripting language independent. They should be (like) plug-ins. With the same API exposed into it.
JS is actually pretty great, if you know how to use it. Which most that complain about it don’s. Or how many of those actually do functional programming in it, or really understand prototype-based object orientation?
I am for adding Python, Ruby, Haskell, OCaml, Erlang, but NOT C/C++, Perl or Lua. Maybe Java. Big maybe. ^^ :)
Then again, I am a friend of well-designed languages, and thereby have an obvious preference.