Hey, I *knew* exactly, how you would react to everything I said, because people react that way, no matter it really is.:) But who am I to judge. It was just a thought anyway. Who cares.:)
I wonder though, why you did associate dominance with disagreement or arguing. That would be bad. Real dominance is earned. With respect, and being wise. Being a man, being dominant, and disagreeing/arguing, are three different concepts, with no necessary relation.
Whatever. I wish you a happy relationship, and I'm out now.:)
No. It's no going to have an adverse effect on the economy, if you tax products according to their quality. That is: Good things also get a tax break, so that all in all, there in no difference an average taxation.
If anything, it will literally make everything better.:)
If they are wrong, and you know it, let them sue. They have to prove you were outside city borders. Well, this is pretty much impossible for them. So there you go.:)
Sorry. I knew this would not arrive well at your side.:/
You assumed right. Except that I noticed, that total equality is a bit of an illusion, that people in a relationship make up, to serve some irrational ideals. It is pretty much impossible for everything to be equal in nature. But it's ok, if one is a bit more in charge. Many people like not having to be in change. And many like to be.:) Whatever...
I did not call you a butch. That would not be nice. ^^
I think all i meant can be reduced to: The two girls I talked about... well, one of them did always wear pretty manly female clothes. Not manly in the butch way. But... well... she did mostly wear pinstriped suits, etc. I always, especially before I knew that she liked girls, thought that it looked a bit more manly, and not as much like a pink puppet. Strangely I found it pretty attractive. ^^
I thought long and hard about the real reasons behind prisons, punishments, something being "wrong", and so on.
The only morally right punishment, is separation of parties. Which nowadays would result in expelling the person from the country. (With the right to shoot him, if he re-enters it.)
The best example how well this can end, is the former prison colony Australia. (I don't know if it was OK in the beginning though. Most likely not.)
I Germany, we have a criminal offense, called "unterlassene Hilfeleistung" ("non-assistance of a person in danger"). And in the described case, one could have prosecuted the person(s) at Verizon who refused to help, with this. As far as I know, in case of death, the penalty is close to that of murder. and in other cases, it's also close to actively endangering and assaulting them. So it's nothing to joke about, or to let slide.
Well. If I understand you correctly, you said that you are not straight. Well... I should have known it.:)) So about the befriendings... I think they will drop off rather quickly.:P
I bet you are the guy in the relationship*.:)
* I want to add, that I do not mean this in any bad way. I was actually befriended to a girl who was the guy in the relationship (with another girl), *and* the head of a lesbian association. ^^ (I said "was" because she cheated on the other girl, which was unacceptable to me.:( ) Oh, and she also had below-average breasts. Fortunately I am not attracted at all by breasts. No idea why. For me it's many other body parts.:)
But he got a license! From the uploader! A "you can do everything you want" license. The fact that that person did not have any right for it in the first place (which is only true, if he did have the original cd), has nothing to do with their contract. The downloader can't know that he lied.:)
You have to check your reality for RIAA propaganda infection.:)
Ok, sorry for the subject. It's just, that Slashdot often has many people, giving you dangerous half-knowledge.
First and foremost, you have to realize, that every addiction is made up of two parts. The first one is, that it is always a substitute act for something that they do not get, but desperately need. (Like love.) The second one is massive repression of reality.
So in short, you first have to find out what he's replacing. Mind you that so matter what you do, NEVER EVER question his self-esteem or if he does the right thing! Do it once, and you lost the game, because now he stops listening to you. What you basically have to do, is to offer him what he did not get, do it an a way that lets him keep his reality and self-esteem intact, and offer it to him in a way that lets him make them both better. That's the key: Do not say "you are lower than you think, get up here". Say "you are ok, and hey, I have a gift for you". The other key is to let him realize and "come up with the idea", that it would be even cooler to change his life in the way "he came up with". ^^ Maybe you have seen "My Big Fat Greek Wedding", and how the women there manipulate the dad into thinking he came up with a great idea. That's how you do it! ^^
Now you got a wonderful glowing life in the next room, and he opened the door... but he won't come over anyway? Well... that's the human efficiency showing itself as inertial. You know. How people did not replace the Internet Explorer, for some stupid reason, like "I'm used to it.". Turns out it's usually not that stupid to think that way. Just now it is. But you can't say him that he is stupid.:) So you have to make it in a way, that lets him fall into that new life trough lazyness / being economical. ^^
Let's say his computer breaks down. Or loses his Internet connection, because he can't pay it anymore. That would get him up and anywhere he can play, in a matter of seconds. ^^ OR: To everything else that gives him what he really needs inside (and was replacing). Say he was lonely, and the MMOs offered friendships. Now if his PC breaks down, and then you offer him a party with nice girls and some new friends, you got a good chance of him coming to it. Then you would work that way. But of course, you do not have to kill his computer to help him. It's just one example of creating that needed gradient.
Now I know, that in reality, all this is very very hard. Most of the time, you can't offer him what he's missing. And it takes a big amount of commitment, hard thinking, putting yourself in his position, etc., over months, to solve it. Well... that is the reason it did not already happen. So you have to ask yourself if you are up to it. At least 99.9% of all people are not. (Oh, and at least 99.9% of all MMO players are also not addicted!)
Also I should mention the root of psychological healing, so you are prepared to react in the right way: Most people hide their problem very very deep, because it is so horrible to even think of it. (Like not having a girlfriend for ages. Or missing the dead mother.) So usually people of course will fight as if it were for their life, if you want to push them to look at it. The problem is, that you can only heal, when you are able to look straight at it, and go trough it, without having a problem with it. Many times. The only thing that lets them attack that problem, is to have a safety net. Which is the job of a professional psychotherapist. (If the guy so much as talks about medication, with average problems like your friend has, he is obviously incompetent, because he can't handle it. But be aware that nearly all professional therapists can't handle even average problems, because they only went into that field, to help themselves. And often failed, or only did it in a partial way, thereby making their own twisted views on the world even more sneaky. Which is very bad for heal
You forgot, that also at least five people will try to "befriend" you and kiss your ass (in both meanings of the term). ^^
I, for one, fix that little rule of Slashdot like this: There are no good looking women on Slashdot. Just as there are no good looking men here. ^^ (But I've seen some pretty hot (wo)manbearpigs around here.:P)
As a corporation, I acknowledge that Palm's only responsibility is to its shareholders.
It's funny how people sometimes do not think around the next corner. Most of the time, I see half-baked thoughts, that never got thought to the end, because... well... thinking is uncool??
What do they think, that the shareholders want? More money. And how to they think they get more money? By having more customers, who pay more.
Well... why would potential customers buy more from them? Because they offer them what they want. (Aka realize their dreams and hopes.)
But nowadays it's all: Just screw 'em over, and then bind them with the most expensive hidden fees, plans and contracts.
I remember, how an ex-coworker of mine took over the shopping portal of a large Internet portal. He single-handedly made it boom like crazy. People wanted to know, how he did it. His secret? Make them happy. Even if it costs more in the beginning. Not only did he try to fulfill the wishes of the customers. No. He also made all the business partners / suppliers happy. They had a wish? He was there. He gave them little presents. They gave him some. (Like better offers, better deals.) It was like real friendships. Sometimes suppliers just called him to chat and crack jokes. Others would have said, that this was bad. But he did not. He knew how to let it grow. And he was proven right.
Nowadays he works for ebay, and has tons of cash. And he really earned it... instead of tricking people into traps. The word earning really has lost its meaning.:(
No. Because if you even so much as think about layout and design, while writing HTML, you already have proven yourself to be an amateur.
(X)HTML is pure semantic structure and content. No layout or design involved. If you do it anyway, you are doing spaghetti hacks. Why do you think the <i> tag got replaced by the <em> tag, etc? CSS is the language for layout and design.
I really like that, because it extends the MVC pattern somehow. You now can split the view into data, structure and visuals.
I think all applications should be developed in that separated way. It would be much cleaner than to program the UI layout manually.
I'm with you! There are still way too many of those "WebDesigners" out there, that think they can build proper pages, because they read a book about HTML 4 back when they were driving a taxi, before they got the.com job, because of some manager who does not know shit about the web and uses AOL himself.
You think I'm exaggerating? Nope. Been there. Seen it. Including the woman with the HTML book in the taxi that drove me to the job on the first day. ^^ And including the AOL boss.
The date was 2001. The company was Lycos Europe. When I left (2006?), I told them I would buy them for an apple and an egg (German for "for a song"). Well... Turns out I really could have, because they went down in flames, some months ago.:D
Now, I know a lot of people are going to argue with me, but the most important tag in HTML is . Every single graphical trick done to either speed up or sexify your web site is done with tables inside tables inside tables--it's tables all the way down!
Wow. Seriously
Your skill is already deprecated for half a decade, and makes you look like an amateur. Update your skill, or you are going to be deprecated too. (Not meant in an evil way. I'm just not good at motivating people. ^^)
I've done quite some webapps myself. (Like AJAX CMS systems for the biggest Internet portals, before the word existed.) And I was the first one at my company to stop using tables for anything other than tabular data.
My view on this is, that HTML had some problems, that XHTML solved. HTML was made more for the casual hobbyist, where the browser overlooked the errors, and let you do sloppy work. But XHTML could be very strict, even blocking the whole page, if something was wrong. Which felt much more proper... like it really was a kind of (non-PHP ^^) compiler. So as you can imagine, I do not like HTML 5. I think it will bring us a ton of really crappy pages, that will make MySpace look like a candidate for a design award. In code and in visuals. So I see it as a step backwards in professionalism, in the name of (as usual) the simplification(/stupidification) for the stupid.
But I agree, that videos, audio, 2d vector graphics (SVG) and scripting (JS) are essential for really good pages too. (Additional to proper semantic structure and CSS,)
My only hope is that HTML 5 presents a competitive datagrid with pivot table functionality.
As for the datagrid: Wake me, when we got a graph element in there. Not a list. Not a table. Not a tree. Not a directed graph. A free graph. No limits. In a flexible visual format, with multiple views. With proper ontology support. Out of which you can build anything, while keeping proper semantics.
Then we can talk about the forefront of technology.:)
Slashdot Mirror
Hey, I *knew* exactly, how you would react to everything I said, because people react that way, no matter it really is. :) :)
But who am I to judge. It was just a thought anyway. Who cares.
I wonder though, why you did associate dominance with disagreement or arguing. That would be bad. Real dominance is earned. With respect, and being wise.
Being a man, being dominant, and disagreeing/arguing, are three different concepts, with no necessary relation.
Whatever. I wish you a happy relationship, and I'm out now. :)
You mean you prefer ignoring any emotions (like being happy) and only allow yourself to smile, in the deepest depths of your basement? :P
If you call me female, then I'm proud of what you think means to be "female". (To actually have emotions, and use them.)
...not immediately thing of "chroot" when he heard this?
No. It's no going to have an adverse effect on the economy, if you tax products according to their quality.
That is: Good things also get a tax break, so that all in all, there in no difference an average taxation.
If anything, it will literally make everything better. :)
You do not know much about women, do you? :P
Well. You will stop saying "yum", when she shows you her S/M studio in her basement. :P
(At least that's what I heard about her sexual preferences.)
Let's join, and destroy them from the inside!
Cheers,
osama/bin/rootkid
Why all the stress?
If they are wrong, and you know it, let them sue. :)
They have to prove you were outside city borders.
Well, this is pretty much impossible for them.
So there you go.
Sorry. I knew this would not arrive well at your side. :/
You assumed right. Except that I noticed, that total equality is a bit of an illusion, that people in a relationship make up, to serve some irrational ideals. It is pretty much impossible for everything to be equal in nature. But it's ok, if one is a bit more in charge. Many people like not having to be in change. And many like to be. :)
Whatever...
I did not call you a butch. That would not be nice. ^^
I think all i meant can be reduced to: The two girls I talked about... well, one of them did always wear pretty manly female clothes. Not manly in the butch way. But... well... she did mostly wear pinstriped suits, etc. I always, especially before I knew that she liked girls, thought that it looked a bit more manly, and not as much like a pink puppet. Strangely I found it pretty attractive. ^^
I don't know about him. But I absolutely do.
I thought long and hard about the real reasons behind prisons, punishments, something being "wrong", and so on.
The only morally right punishment, is separation of parties. Which nowadays would result in expelling the person from the country. (With the right to shoot him, if he re-enters it.)
The best example how well this can end, is the former prison colony Australia. (I don't know if it was OK in the beginning though. Most likely not.)
Well. I rather die, than letting a man die because he did not pay $20. Do you?
Do you realize how insanely egocentric this is of you?
I Germany, we have a criminal offense, called "unterlassene Hilfeleistung" ("non-assistance of a person in danger"). And in the described case, one could have prosecuted the person(s) at Verizon who refused to help, with this.
As far as I know, in case of death, the penalty is close to that of murder. and in other cases, it's also close to actively endangering and assaulting them. So it's nothing to joke about, or to let slide.
I wonder if one can prosecute Verizon for this...
Well. If I understand you correctly, you said that you are not straight. Well... I should have known it. :)) :P
So about the befriendings... I think they will drop off rather quickly.
I bet you are the guy in the relationship*. :)
* I want to add, that I do not mean this in any bad way. I was actually befriended to a girl who was the guy in the relationship (with another girl), *and* the head of a lesbian association. ^^ (I said "was" because she cheated on the other girl, which was unacceptable to me. :( ) :)
Oh, and she also had below-average breasts. Fortunately I am not attracted at all by breasts. No idea why. For me it's many other body parts.
But he got a license! From the uploader! A "you can do everything you want" license. The fact that that person did not have any right for it in the first place (which is only true, if he did have the original cd), has nothing to do with their contract. The downloader can't know that he lied. :)
You have to check your reality for RIAA propaganda infection. :)
Ok, sorry for the subject. It's just, that Slashdot often has many people, giving you dangerous half-knowledge.
First and foremost, you have to realize, that every addiction is made up of two parts. The first one is, that it is always a substitute act for something that they do not get, but desperately need. (Like love.)
The second one is massive repression of reality.
So in short, you first have to find out what he's replacing.
Mind you that so matter what you do, NEVER EVER question his self-esteem or if he does the right thing! Do it once, and you lost the game, because now he stops listening to you.
What you basically have to do, is to offer him what he did not get, do it an a way that lets him keep his reality and self-esteem intact, and offer it to him in a way that lets him make them both better.
That's the key: Do not say "you are lower than you think, get up here". Say "you are ok, and hey, I have a gift for you".
The other key is to let him realize and "come up with the idea", that it would be even cooler to change his life in the way "he came up with". ^^
Maybe you have seen "My Big Fat Greek Wedding", and how the women there manipulate the dad into thinking he came up with a great idea. That's how you do it! ^^
Now you got a wonderful glowing life in the next room, and he opened the door... but he won't come over anyway? :)
Well... that's the human efficiency showing itself as inertial. You know. How people did not replace the Internet Explorer, for some stupid reason, like "I'm used to it.". Turns out it's usually not that stupid to think that way. Just now it is. But you can't say him that he is stupid.
So you have to make it in a way, that lets him fall into that new life trough lazyness / being economical. ^^
Let's say his computer breaks down. Or loses his Internet connection, because he can't pay it anymore. That would get him up and anywhere he can play, in a matter of seconds. ^^
OR: To everything else that gives him what he really needs inside (and was replacing).
Say he was lonely, and the MMOs offered friendships. Now if his PC breaks down, and then you offer him a party with nice girls and some new friends, you got a good chance of him coming to it. Then you would work that way.
But of course, you do not have to kill his computer to help him. It's just one example of creating that needed gradient.
Now I know, that in reality, all this is very very hard. Most of the time, you can't offer him what he's missing. And it takes a big amount of commitment, hard thinking, putting yourself in his position, etc., over months, to solve it.
Well... that is the reason it did not already happen. So you have to ask yourself if you are up to it. At least 99.9% of all people are not. (Oh, and at least 99.9% of all MMO players are also not addicted!)
Also I should mention the root of psychological healing, so you are prepared to react in the right way:
Most people hide their problem very very deep, because it is so horrible to even think of it. (Like not having a girlfriend for ages. Or missing the dead mother.)
So usually people of course will fight as if it were for their life, if you want to push them to look at it.
The problem is, that you can only heal, when you are able to look straight at it, and go trough it, without having a problem with it. Many times.
The only thing that lets them attack that problem, is to have a safety net. Which is the job of a professional psychotherapist. (If the guy so much as talks about medication, with average problems like your friend has, he is obviously incompetent, because he can't handle it. But be aware that nearly all professional therapists can't handle even average problems, because they only went into that field, to help themselves. And often failed, or only did it in a partial way, thereby making their own twisted views on the world even more sneaky. Which is very bad for heal
You forgot, that also at least five people will try to "befriend" you and kiss your ass (in both meanings of the term). ^^
I, for one, fix that little rule of Slashdot like this: :P)
There are no good looking women on Slashdot. Just as there are no good looking men here. ^^
(But I've seen some pretty hot (wo)manbearpigs around here.
Greasemonkey them yourself! ^^
What's wrong with an RSS feed? Looks good to me...
Hmm... who stops you from building a site that just pulls the stuff in the background, and does fancy processing stuff with it? :)
I mean, after all, you own the data. (You belong to the people of the nation, who own the country and rule over the government, do you?)
As a corporation, I acknowledge that Palm's only responsibility is to its shareholders.
It's funny how people sometimes do not think around the next corner. Most of the time, I see half-baked thoughts, that never got thought to the end, because... well... thinking is uncool??
What do they think, that the shareholders want? More money.
And how to they think they get more money? By having more customers, who pay more.
Well... why would potential customers buy more from them? Because they offer them what they want. (Aka realize their dreams and hopes.)
But nowadays it's all: Just screw 'em over, and then bind them with the most expensive hidden fees, plans and contracts.
I remember, how an ex-coworker of mine took over the shopping portal of a large Internet portal. He single-handedly made it boom like crazy.
People wanted to know, how he did it.
His secret? Make them happy. Even if it costs more in the beginning.
Not only did he try to fulfill the wishes of the customers. No. He also made all the business partners / suppliers happy. They had a wish? He was there. He gave them little presents. They gave him some. (Like better offers, better deals.) It was like real friendships. Sometimes suppliers just called him to chat and crack jokes.
Others would have said, that this was bad. But he did not. He knew how to let it grow.
And he was proven right.
Nowadays he works for ebay, and has tons of cash. And he really earned it... instead of tricking people into traps. :(
The word earning really has lost its meaning.
No. Because if you even so much as think about layout and design, while writing HTML, you already have proven yourself to be an amateur.
(X)HTML is pure semantic structure and content. No layout or design involved. If you do it anyway, you are doing spaghetti hacks. Why do you think the <i> tag got replaced by the <em> tag, etc?
CSS is the language for layout and design.
I really like that, because it extends the MVC pattern somehow. You now can split the view into data, structure and visuals.
I think all applications should be developed in that separated way. It would be much cleaner than to program the UI layout manually.
I'm with you! There are still way too many of those "WebDesigners" out there, that think they can build proper pages, because they read a book about HTML 4 back when they were driving a taxi, before they got the .com job, because of some manager who does not know shit about the web and uses AOL himself.
You think I'm exaggerating? Nope.
Been there. Seen it.
Including the woman with the HTML book in the taxi that drove me to the job on the first day. ^^
And including the AOL boss.
The date was 2001. The company was Lycos Europe. :D
When I left (2006?), I told them I would buy them for an apple and an egg (German for "for a song"). Well... Turns out I really could have, because they went down in flames, some months ago.
Oh, and you can also use "line-height". Perhaps with values like 50%.
.centered { margin: auto }
Come on. Was it that hard?
Now, I know a lot of people are going to argue with me, but the most important tag in HTML is . Every single graphical trick done to either speed up or sexify your web site is done with tables inside tables inside tables--it's tables all the way down!
Wow. Seriously
Your skill is already deprecated for half a decade, and makes you look like an amateur. Update your skill, or you are going to be deprecated too.
(Not meant in an evil way. I'm just not good at motivating people. ^^)
I've done quite some webapps myself. (Like AJAX CMS systems for the biggest Internet portals, before the word existed.)
And I was the first one at my company to stop using tables for anything other than tabular data.
My view on this is, that HTML had some problems, that XHTML solved. HTML was made more for the casual hobbyist, where the browser overlooked the errors, and let you do sloppy work. But XHTML could be very strict, even blocking the whole page, if something was wrong. Which felt much more proper... like it really was a kind of (non-PHP ^^) compiler.
So as you can imagine, I do not like HTML 5. I think it will bring us a ton of really crappy pages, that will make MySpace look like a candidate for a design award. In code and in visuals.
So I see it as a step backwards in professionalism, in the name of (as usual) the simplification(/stupidification) for the stupid.
But I agree, that videos, audio, 2d vector graphics (SVG) and scripting (JS) are essential for really good pages too. (Additional to proper semantic structure and CSS,)
My only hope is that HTML 5 presents a competitive datagrid with pivot table functionality.
As for the datagrid: Wake me, when we got a graph element in there. Not a list. Not a table. Not a tree. Not a directed graph.
A free graph. No limits. In a flexible visual format, with multiple views. With proper ontology support. Out of which you can build anything, while keeping proper semantics.
Then we can talk about the forefront of technology. :)
HTML 5. Bah. ^^