Antidepressants may help a lot of people get up in the morning
That’s not like taking Ecstasy and Cocaine to “get up in the morning”. It IS taking Ecstasy and Cocaine to “get up in the morning”.
Please tell me he was only joking. I’m serious. I’m very confused right now. This can’t be real, can it? He GOT to be kidding, and I just majority wooshed myself, right? ^^
Although, no offense my fellow Americans, but I hope you’re not surprised that I can actually imagine it being true.:/
Do you know how science calls religion? Schizophrenia. It’s when you don’t base your inner model on reality, but base reality on your inner model. Your twisted inner model. It’s just a disease. As common as a head ache or the common cold. But one that infected those in power too. And since it is a mental disease, of course it manages to protect itself quite well. The only disease that managed to make healthy people cave in and sick ones to act offended.
But please don’t get me wrong: I don’t say they are worse people or anything. People with the cold are also not worse, are they? It’s just a problem. Fix it. For the own happiness, freedom and ability to live a full life.
The sad thing is, that in psychology, we’re still in the dark ages. We just came out of where it was pitch black. So there are maybe a hand full of people on the planet who can actually cure that type of disease. Because most simply don’t have the nerves to work it through and keep the person on track. They give up and throw symptom-ignoring pills at the patient. Hey, that’s the same thing they do with headaches. Motto: Just ignore the cause, and don’t ever learn from it. Except that for this kind of disease, that horrible. Because it only makes things worse. Much worse. Until they are so far off that they can’t ever be brought back to reality anymore.
I worked hard to at least become able to help such people a bit. Without them losing their self-respect. Making their lives happier. But it’s so damn nerve-wrecking. And I could need some nerve-empowering person myself.:/ So...
You are right. Interesting, since I never realized that.
It’s the same thing as with shoes and feet. The whole “support” thing is just as much bullshit.
And if I can also go the other way, than I guess this “support” will actually weaken your hand’s own statics, just as with your feet when wearing shoes.
Protip: If you got back pain, additionally to not sitting on a chair for too long or lying on a bad bed, just kick off your shoes as often as you can. You hot two high-tech machines there. It’s just silly to give them “assistance”, unless the temperatures or terrain are extreme. As silly as giving glasses to an eagle, or putting wheels on a cheetah. (And we humans are actually the most enduring walkers on the whole planet. We did not hunt animals. We followed them until they gave up. We always had the best endurance.)
Because “KISS” makes people who use it sound smart. But only because nobody checks its actual correctness anymore. I did. And unfortunately it has a horrible flaw. A flaw that it then used on itself.
See, the original point of all that, was to make the human-machine interaction as efficient as possible. As little work for as much result as possible. But this is no simple direct relation. Instead, when you make it easier, and easier, there is a point below which the thing becomes less efficient. Or in other words: Worse again.
The flaw of KISS, is oversimplification. And the error is, that it used that oversimplification on the concept of maximum efficiency. By reducing it no “maximum simplicity”.
Consider our prime example: Clippy! Remember, how MS Office became barely usable, because it was so “simple”. And Windows pushed you further and further away from the reality of how your computer worked. Into some weird fantasy world where the top of your file system was not even existing in your actual file system, and everything was hidden away. But it was not better to use. Instead it slowed you down, caused countless problems with users not being able to understand why things did not work as expected, and annoyed the hell out of everyone. You basically had to dumb yourself down to use the whole Windows + Office “experience”. And when their “simple” model had a hole, you were stuck.
The thing is, that there we don’t need it. We don’t need compromises. And we don’t have to care about nature’s next batch of even “better” idiots feeling entitled to the computer reading their minds, when even they themselves not know what they actually want.;) There is a point, where it’s worse to simplify things. At that point, the user has to wise up, to be able to do more. There is no way around this. And what’s so bad about it anyway? Isn’t it rather pretty cool to be better?
So the better way, is to let your interface grow and shrink (!) with the abilities of the user. Start out with a Notepad (not a Clippy), and end with a personalized VIM/Emacs. Then when he needs it less, allow him to go back a step or ten. It’s not hard. It’s actually a pretty fun task for a programmer. The growing UI. That everyone can use at the top of his efficiency, and that is comfortable to use for everyone, from the master genius to the sentient fungus next door.;)
But school “math” has absolutely nothing to do with actual math! (See Lockhart’s Lament. But I think this is true for pretty much everything that got raped into the dull shit that is “school”, instead of being a fun game, like nature intended.)
As always, this is a oversimplification of a false dichotomy.
First of all, the base value is how interested a child is in learning new stuff anyway. Normally, a healthy child always wants to learn. Because it is fun. But we raped learning, and formed it into this dull and horribly wrong thing we call “teaching” and “school”. For humans, and all intelligent life, the quality of learning is actually hard-wired to the fun it brings. Via the successful growth of you with the challenges of your goals. So, believe it or not, but games are, how learning is actually supposed to be like. (Just that what current games don’t exactly focus on the right skills, if you know what I mean...;)
Then it depends on how much there actually is to learn. There is no doubt that nothing can even remotely reach the Internet in that aspect. If you are dedicated, you can go from only knowing your local language, to knowing all the important languages of the world, quantum physics and relativity theory, social sciences and everything without problems, with just having access to the Internet (not just WWW).
And finally it depends on the interface. Is it an actual computer you are using, or just an appliance of colorful pre-digested clickables? An actual computer interface supports and fosters automating and abstracting your tasks away, and doing experiments/simulations. A appliance conceals details of the system and tries to make everything so “simple”, that you don’t learn anything, and often even have to dumb yourself down, just to use it.
This is why learning how to at least script your stuff in a high-level language, and having a OS that allows you to automate it, is a must for a education computer. From my experience, the only “OS” that fits that, is Linux. (I put OS in quotes, because it’s such a vague term, meaning any combination of kernel, shell, userspace utilities, libraries and “desktop frameworks” [I despise “frameworks” as “libraries minus flexibilities”.])
So give your kid a computer that can run games and runs Linux, and make the learning process 1. relevant to the kid (which often even means: not to you. to the kid!) (Learn what “beauty”, “resonance” and “relevance” actually mean and how they are defined.) 2. a game that is fun! (Learn what “a game”, “fun”, “problem solving“, “a toy”, “curiosity”, “pleasure” “surprises”, “flow” and “(fractal) interest curves” actually mean and how they are defined.)
Then your kid will not only learn. It will WANT to learn! It will protest if it can’t learn. It will be proud of it. It will compete with other kids and brag about it. And it will be much more successful than any “traditionally ‘educated’” kid ever.
Well, it IS in fact an “automated religion”. Or in other words: An automated distortion of reality, twisted to repress something you can’t stand. Your own little North Korea / China. Your own little schizophrenia.
True to the popular motto to never ever face your fears, but always run away from them, ’till the end on time, no matter what the costs (in freedom) may be.
Face it, everything your ex loved will still remember you of her. You can not run away from it all, and still live a normal and healthy life.
It’s sad that most of medicine still lives deep in the dark ages on this class of problems (not being able to stand something, and your brain coping with some distortions or running away), despite them being as common as a headache (something that a pain killer also is no cure but just a “ignorer” for.), and also as easy to solve.
The thing is, to actually get over it, you also actually have to face it and win. If that sounds too hard, that does not make you a wuss, as it sometimes simply is. What people need in this case, is assistance in the form of someone giving security at the price of not letting them run away anymore. That way, it becomes manageable. And once you can stand right in the flames of it, and be OK with it, the problem is gone. Cured. I mean REALLY cured. Not just hidden away.
But of course the best way, is to not get into that situation in the first place. By splitting up in a way, that both sides are OK with. (Cause even if your partner won’t admit it, they just as much feel bad for leaving you. Ask any psychotherapist.) But for that, you also have to stop making your happiness dependent on one person. Stop with the one-itis. Stop with the unhealthy fixation on one person. Or do you, as a grown up person, still always have to wait until you split up, to notice that she/he is NOT special. She is NOT “the one”. Ever. (She/he’s just a normal person. Like everyone else.)
And now a primitive slogan: Real men don’t run away anyway! Real men fight their dragons, and win! Oh, and it took me a long time, to realize and accept, that real men don’t cry in public, BECAUSE they cry in private.:)
Technically that is not emission. Since the “emitted” particle of the pair never was inside the event horizon at any time. It just came close enough for its partner to get swallowed and then escaped.
At least according to our history textbooks, the increasing poverty after the great depression, the very successful plan of corporations, was a big factor in the rise of fascism. Lots of poor people willing to support anyone for empty promises.
Little known secret: All people who use “feet” as a measuring unit, are foot fetishists.;) Even less known secret: All people who don’t, quietly assume it anyway. ^^
Well, I love the effect that when I hold my phone’s super-high-DPI screen at just the right distance and angle, it looks like I’m looking trough a window when watching a good quality video on it. From what I heard, this is also the case for UHDV. If it feels *that* real, then it will be worth it for me. But please fill out my whole viewing angle. Those few degrees are really crappy. I want 180x180 degrees! In (visual) stereo! Or even better: all depths at the same time, so your eyes can do the refocusing. Now the only thing to solve, is, how to make binaural recordings work for everyone...;)
Protip: Nokia was leading so strongly in terms of UI, that it’s well known that for at least 10 years, people working at Motorola usually bought Nokia phones. It was the single biggest strength of S40 and S60
So what the hell are you talking about?
Oh, and sorry, if you don’t even offer the ability to install my own choice of software, you can fuck right off. So iOS does not even get to compete here. It’s simply not an OS. And the thing it runs on it not a computer. It’s an applicance. It’s a computer to Apple. But once the freedom has gone, it’s nothing more than a shiny washing machine, microwave or TV. To be a computer, it would have to be programmable by the one calling it that.
Oh, you mean like Apple? Oh wait... they don’t have a SINGLE great product. Except if you’re from the deprived US market, where Apple’s crap is acceptable, simply because of how horrible the market is.
Nokia actually does not care whatsome rich dude in a rich country thinks of their product line. They make and sell what works. And in 99% of the world, that means a phone that’s not too expensive, and is usable in daily life, while still having lots of functions. That’s what gives you sales.
Oh, and protip: Every time I read a comparison in an European mobile phone magazine / site (like Xonio), the Apple phone gets far less points for the simple fact that they lack half the functions and features expected to be standard nowadays. Like, for example, a replacable battery. Or like a good quality cam. Or all the small but nice things. Like copy and paste and a full keyboard. Sure, Apple catches up. But why go with mediocre just because the thing is shiny and faggy?
Bullshit. Nokia smart phones are so common here in Germany and around, that you can mostly just assume others have a Nokia S60 or S40. Usually you’re right. So actually, there is no real point to developing for anything else than Symbian. I mean Apple just kills your app off because you got a ooohhh-soo-evil “forbidden” word in it. (Caused by the mental illness that is religion, which creates mind distortions like these). [And good games tend to surpass such boundaries almost by definition.] And Windows Mobile? Just as much a lock-in OS. And a crappy one too. Since it has no Java, it’s a goner anyway. (Just like iOS.) This leaves Linux-like OSes like MeeGo and Android as alternatives. And they are way too tiny to be worth it.
Ok, actually if performance is not an issue, you just develop for Java MIDP2+ and be done with 99% of the target market.
Oh, and I’m an actual phone software developer.
P.S.: While Symbian itself is pretty shitty to program in, you gotta love the tons of APIs they have. It’s really already a full grown gaming station that just has way too little power... yet.
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Antidepressants may help a lot of people get up in the morning
That’s not like taking Ecstasy and Cocaine to “get up in the morning”. It IS taking Ecstasy and Cocaine to “get up in the morning”.
Please tell me he was only joking. I’m serious. I’m very confused right now. This can’t be real, can it? He GOT to be kidding, and I just majority wooshed myself, right? ^^
Although, no offense my fellow Americans, but I hope you’re not surprised that I can actually imagine it being true. :/
Do you know how science calls religion? Schizophrenia. It’s when you don’t base your inner model on reality, but base reality on your inner model. Your twisted inner model.
It’s just a disease. As common as a head ache or the common cold.
But one that infected those in power too. And since it is a mental disease, of course it manages to protect itself quite well.
The only disease that managed to make healthy people cave in and sick ones to act offended.
But please don’t get me wrong: I don’t say they are worse people or anything. People with the cold are also not worse, are they? It’s just a problem. Fix it. For the own happiness, freedom and ability to live a full life.
The sad thing is, that in psychology, we’re still in the dark ages. We just came out of where it was pitch black.
So there are maybe a hand full of people on the planet who can actually cure that type of disease.
Because most simply don’t have the nerves to work it through and keep the person on track. They give up and throw symptom-ignoring pills at the patient.
Hey, that’s the same thing they do with headaches. Motto: Just ignore the cause, and don’t ever learn from it.
Except that for this kind of disease, that horrible. Because it only makes things worse. Much worse.
Until they are so far off that they can’t ever be brought back to reality anymore.
I worked hard to at least become able to help such people a bit. Without them losing their self-respect. Making their lives happier. :/
But it’s so damn nerve-wrecking. And I could need some nerve-empowering person myself.
So...
Obligatory XKCD: http://xkcd.com/751/
You are right. Interesting, since I never realized that.
It’s the same thing as with shoes and feet. The whole “support” thing is just as much bullshit.
And if I can also go the other way, than I guess this “support” will actually weaken your hand’s own statics, just as with your feet when wearing shoes.
Protip: If you got back pain, additionally to not sitting on a chair for too long or lying on a bad bed, just kick off your shoes as often as you can. You hot two high-tech machines there. It’s just silly to give them “assistance”, unless the temperatures or terrain are extreme. As silly as giving glasses to an eagle, or putting wheels on a cheetah.
(And we humans are actually the most enduring walkers on the whole planet. We did not hunt animals. We followed them until they gave up. We always had the best endurance.)
Because “KISS” makes people who use it sound smart. But only because nobody checks its actual correctness anymore.
I did. And unfortunately it has a horrible flaw. A flaw that it then used on itself.
See, the original point of all that, was to make the human-machine interaction as efficient as possible. As little work for as much result as possible. But this is no simple direct relation. Instead, when you make it easier, and easier, there is a point below which the thing becomes less efficient. Or in other words: Worse again.
The flaw of KISS, is oversimplification. And the error is, that it used that oversimplification on the concept of maximum efficiency. By reducing it no “maximum simplicity”.
Consider our prime example: Clippy!
Remember, how MS Office became barely usable, because it was so “simple”. And Windows pushed you further and further away from the reality of how your computer worked. Into some weird fantasy world where the top of your file system was not even existing in your actual file system, and everything was hidden away. But it was not better to use. Instead it slowed you down, caused countless problems with users not being able to understand why things did not work as expected, and annoyed the hell out of everyone. You basically had to dumb yourself down to use the whole Windows + Office “experience”. And when their “simple” model had a hole, you were stuck.
The thing is, that there we don’t need it. We don’t need compromises. And we don’t have to care about nature’s next batch of even “better” idiots feeling entitled to the computer reading their minds, when even they themselves not know what they actually want. ;)
There is a point, where it’s worse to simplify things. At that point, the user has to wise up, to be able to do more. There is no way around this. And what’s so bad about it anyway? Isn’t it rather pretty cool to be better?
So the better way, is to let your interface grow and shrink (!) with the abilities of the user. Start out with a Notepad (not a Clippy), and end with a personalized VIM/Emacs. Then when he needs it less, allow him to go back a step or ten. ;)
It’s not hard. It’s actually a pretty fun task for a programmer. The growing UI. That everyone can use at the top of his efficiency, and that is comfortable to use for everyone, from the master genius to the sentient fungus next door.
Or something that sounds like a gun shot!
The reason is, that they never learned how to do that.
But luckily there’s a book that can solve that:
http://navid.radiantempire.com/pix/Lustiges/TfTfD.png
But school “math” has absolutely nothing to do with actual math!
(See Lockhart’s Lament. But I think this is true for pretty much everything that got raped into the dull shit that is “school”, instead of being a fun game, like nature intended.)
As always, this is a oversimplification of a false dichotomy.
First of all, the base value is how interested a child is in learning new stuff anyway. ;)
Normally, a healthy child always wants to learn. Because it is fun.
But we raped learning, and formed it into this dull and horribly wrong thing we call “teaching” and “school”.
For humans, and all intelligent life, the quality of learning is actually hard-wired to the fun it brings. Via the successful growth of you with the challenges of your goals.
So, believe it or not, but games are, how learning is actually supposed to be like. (Just that what current games don’t exactly focus on the right skills, if you know what I mean...
Then it depends on how much there actually is to learn. There is no doubt that nothing can even remotely reach the Internet in that aspect. If you are dedicated, you can go from only knowing your local language, to knowing all the important languages of the world, quantum physics and relativity theory, social sciences and everything without problems, with just having access to the Internet (not just WWW).
And finally it depends on the interface. Is it an actual computer you are using, or just an appliance of colorful pre-digested clickables?
An actual computer interface supports and fosters automating and abstracting your tasks away, and doing experiments/simulations. A appliance conceals details of the system and tries to make everything so “simple”, that you don’t learn anything, and often even have to dumb yourself down, just to use it.
This is why learning how to at least script your stuff in a high-level language, and having a OS that allows you to automate it, is a must for a education computer. From my experience, the only “OS” that fits that, is Linux. (I put OS in quotes, because it’s such a vague term, meaning any combination of kernel, shell, userspace utilities, libraries and “desktop frameworks” [I despise “frameworks” as “libraries minus flexibilities”.])
So give your kid a computer that can run games and runs Linux, and make the learning process
1. relevant to the kid (which often even means: not to you. to the kid!) (Learn what “beauty”, “resonance” and “relevance” actually mean and how they are defined.)
2. a game that is fun! (Learn what “a game”, “fun”, “problem solving“, “a toy”, “curiosity”, “pleasure” “surprises”, “flow” and “(fractal) interest curves” actually mean and how they are defined.)
Then your kid will not only learn. It will WANT to learn! It will protest if it can’t learn. It will be proud of it. It will compete with other kids and brag about it. And it will be much more successful than any “traditionally ‘educated’” kid ever.
Well, it IS in fact an “automated religion”. Or in other words: An automated distortion of reality, twisted to repress something you can’t stand. Your own little North Korea / China. Your own little schizophrenia.
True to the popular motto to never ever face your fears, but always run away from them, ’till the end on time, no matter what the costs (in freedom) may be.
Face it, everything your ex loved will still remember you of her. You can not run away from it all, and still live a normal and healthy life.
It’s sad that most of medicine still lives deep in the dark ages on this class of problems (not being able to stand something, and your brain coping with some distortions or running away), despite them being as common as a headache (something that a pain killer also is no cure but just a “ignorer” for.), and also as easy to solve.
The thing is, to actually get over it, you also actually have to face it and win.
If that sounds too hard, that does not make you a wuss, as it sometimes simply is.
What people need in this case, is assistance in the form of someone giving security at the price of not letting them run away anymore.
That way, it becomes manageable.
And once you can stand right in the flames of it, and be OK with it, the problem is gone. Cured. I mean REALLY cured. Not just hidden away.
But of course the best way, is to not get into that situation in the first place.
By splitting up in a way, that both sides are OK with. (Cause even if your partner won’t admit it, they just as much feel bad for leaving you. Ask any psychotherapist.)
But for that, you also have to stop making your happiness dependent on one person. Stop with the one-itis. Stop with the unhealthy fixation on one person.
Or do you, as a grown up person, still always have to wait until you split up, to notice that she/he is NOT special. She is NOT “the one”. Ever.
(She/he’s just a normal person. Like everyone else.)
And now a primitive slogan: Real men don’t run away anyway! Real men fight their dragons, and win! :)
Oh, and it took me a long time, to realize and accept, that real men don’t cry in public, BECAUSE they cry in private.
Man, you missed such a great opportunity for a “yo momma” joke!
Technically that is not emission. Since the “emitted” particle of the pair never was inside the event horizon at any time. It just came close enough for its partner to get swallowed and then escaped.
Non, je veux
mit dir auf
Lëtzebugesch weiderschwätzen!
Because in Dutch, I only know
Sinaasappelsapp een Zeeeent!
Then we will walk in the nude!
I hear it will be quite hot anyway.
In the right climate, clothes are a pointless socially conditioned habit anyway. :) :D)
(At least the women around you have to believe that.
On the other hand, you actually get those 3.8 Mbit/s instead of having a “maximum” of 32 Mbit, but still only getting 2. ;)
Also, it says “average”. I guess in a big city, it will be much faster. Oh, and cheaper anyway.
Sorry, but using Apple products AND Facebook, is just asking for it. Why not just go all the way, and move to UChinA?
At least according to our history textbooks, the increasing poverty after the great depression, the very successful plan of corporations, was a big factor in the rise of fascism. Lots of poor people willing to support anyone for empty promises.
There, fixed that for ya.
Ahh, there’s nothing than “Profit over all!”... :/
Little known secret: All people who use “feet” as a measuring unit, are foot fetishists. ;)
Even less known secret: All people who don’t, quietly assume it anyway. ^^
They transport penis enlargement spam all day long. They should be able to do that by now. ;)
Well, I love the effect that when I hold my phone’s super-high-DPI screen at just the right distance and angle, it looks like I’m looking trough a window when watching a good quality video on it. ;)
From what I heard, this is also the case for UHDV. If it feels *that* real, then it will be worth it for me. But please fill out my whole viewing angle. Those few degrees are really crappy. I want 180x180 degrees! In (visual) stereo! Or even better: all depths at the same time, so your eyes can do the refocusing.
Now the only thing to solve, is, how to make binaural recordings work for everyone...
Protip: Nokia was leading so strongly in terms of UI, that it’s well known that for at least 10 years, people working at Motorola usually bought Nokia phones. It was the single biggest strength of S40 and S60
So what the hell are you talking about?
Oh, and sorry, if you don’t even offer the ability to install my own choice of software, you can fuck right off. So iOS does not even get to compete here. It’s simply not an OS. And the thing it runs on it not a computer. It’s an applicance. It’s a computer to Apple. But once the freedom has gone, it’s nothing more than a shiny washing machine, microwave or TV.
To be a computer, it would have to be programmable by the one calling it that.
Oh, you mean like Apple?
Oh wait... they don’t have a SINGLE great product. Except if you’re from the deprived US market, where Apple’s crap is acceptable, simply because of how horrible the market is.
Nokia actually does not care whatsome rich dude in a rich country thinks of their product line. They make and sell what works. And in 99% of the world, that means a phone that’s not too expensive, and is usable in daily life, while still having lots of functions. That’s what gives you sales.
Oh, and protip: Every time I read a comparison in an European mobile phone magazine / site (like Xonio), the Apple phone gets far less points for the simple fact that they lack half the functions and features expected to be standard nowadays. Like, for example, a replacable battery. Or like a good quality cam. Or all the small but nice things. Like copy and paste and a full keyboard. Sure, Apple catches up. But why go with mediocre just because the thing is shiny and faggy?
Bullshit. Nokia smart phones are so common here in Germany and around, that you can mostly just assume others have a Nokia S60 or S40. Usually you’re right.
So actually, there is no real point to developing for anything else than Symbian.
I mean Apple just kills your app off because you got a ooohhh-soo-evil “forbidden” word in it. (Caused by the mental illness that is religion, which creates mind distortions like these). [And good games tend to surpass such boundaries almost by definition.]
And Windows Mobile? Just as much a lock-in OS. And a crappy one too. Since it has no Java, it’s a goner anyway. (Just like iOS.)
This leaves Linux-like OSes like MeeGo and Android as alternatives. And they are way too tiny to be worth it.
Ok, actually if performance is not an issue, you just develop for Java MIDP2+ and be done with 99% of the target market.
Oh, and I’m an actual phone software developer.
P.S.: While Symbian itself is pretty shitty to program in, you gotta love the tons of APIs they have. It’s really already a full grown gaming station that just has way too little power... yet.
Yeah, because it has never happened.
Oh, wait...
Those who make up numbers.. ...and those who don’t get caught. ;)