WTF? Yes you are right. You don’t remotely understand anything.
Do you even know the concept of trust? Some you trust more, some you trust less. And trust is a gradient! That is the point trust is relative and trust is a gradient!
But 1. Facebook only has an either/or black/white switch, with only two groups (friends and non-friends) and only two settings (can always see, and can never see). And 2. worst of all: It’s all on their servers, under their control. And their choice is that the advertisers and everybody who pays, always get to see everything. Since according to Zuckerberg “there is no such thing as privacy” (you don’t want to be friends with such a type of person), and any privacy setting to him is merely a nuisance of some “retarded delusional people”.
No. Fuckin. Thanks.
What we need, and what I was the first to say, is a p2p network of trust. With easy to set up server nodes (so that you don’t have to leave your computer online for others to load your profile & co), a standardized open protocol with encryption, rights management and authentication that maps the social structures that people have anyway, and at least one client for it. Oh, and a Facebook importer and auto-inviter for all your friends.
I bet disallowing all software and business method “patents” kills off 90% of the patents in the blink of an eye. I’d also retroactively void all such “patents” that already “exist”.
Roundup should be locked into class 5 biochemical laboratories, and the Monsanto people who sell it should be round up and killed. Slowly. With a spoon.
So your suggestion is to give in to peer pressure?
Don’t misunderstand me, as I don’t think of you as a bad human or anything. But: How old are you? I think you’re better than this! You’re better than someone in puberty, trying to “suck up to the big guys”.
If you give in to peer pressure, you will be abused. That’s not a good way to do any social interaction.
Be nice and all, but draw your line. As early as possible. If there are no things that you say no to, then that is what you will get. And frankly, you’re a human. A impressive specimen of the most intelligent life-form on this planet. You’re too valuable to be abused like that! You have the right to your own set of values and your own sense of reality. You deserve it, just like everybody else.:)
:( First of all: I know how I felt when I was in your place. My first real job: a 1500 people company, which was part of 3 large companies who all had 5-digit internal phone numbers.
But I will take the shortcut and move right to the end: Don’t ask others how to behave and how to be. Don’t let others define your sense of reality, of right and wrong, and of morale.
Build your OWN system of values. This is extremely important. But somehow we geeks are expected to be the beta humans in school and everywhere. So we act like that. But that’s completely arbitrary. We don’t have to. Just define what you think is right and wrong. What you think you are and want to be. How you want to behave. But beware, since everything we start out with, is usually socially conditioned into us. So before deciding on something, give it some thought, and do a reality check. Often you will find that physical reality is very different from what we thought was right all our life. (Like this “geeks are not the cool guys” thing.)
If you have build your own system of values, you do not have to ask others for right and wrong anymore. You know it yourself. And you know what you accept and what you don’t accept. And they can’t mold you into their “cattle”. This “standing by your rules” is very important, if you ever in life want to be dominant in anything at all. So learn to say no as early as possible. To establish what you accept. And don’t fear that they would not like you anymore, if you don’t go on your knees and suck their dicks. As people who have a spine are always the ones who are more respected and successful. Now of course this doesn’t mean going into the other extreme and being a dick, or telling your boss to go fuck himself over irrelevant shit. Just establish an equal relationship of fairness, and acceptance for each other.
One example: In summer, I usually wear good looking airy clothes, and either wear expensive flipflops or go barefoot. I make it look good and clean. (Ok, I also usually work in clean areas.) So my rule for the summer is that I walk barefoot, at least indoors. Except maybe when clients come in who would be prejudiced and this risking the deal. I want our company to succeed (obviously). But other than the exception, this is a rule. And I stand by it. The reason I could do this, was that I established value. I was valuable.
And now guess what made me valuable: The fact that I didn’t do everything for my boss, and didn’t do anything for free. Someone who always says yes and amen, IS going to be abused, because one can take everything from him for free.
Especially dominant people (like your boss) understand other dominant people. And in a job this creates a bit of a friendly/jokingly “fight” for power. As long as you see it as fun, and respect him, he will usually do the same. Which is why the fear that he might hate that he can’t abuse you, is just a misunderstanding.
Oh, and don’t worry too much. Only if you accept that you are valuable and that things will become great, can they become great.:)
they're not only concerned about software piracy, but also a growing tolerance for it.
Fact is, that we started out with information being free. Because that is physical reality. Fact is also, that only the reproduction and artist extortion industry’s recent insanity-based delusion started this “IP” bullshit. And they are ramping it up. Because it is their business that is dying more and more.
This behavior is called “projection” in psychology. And it is a staple defense of e.g. schizophrenic people that know what they do is wrong. They hate it, and want to get the hate out. So instead of hating themselves, they project their own problem upon someone else, and can then hate that one.
Which means that in their minds we have already won. And they actually would love to have a way to get out of this, without losing face. We just have to offer them a way out that makes this possible. So it’s not “You are idiots and wrong. Accept reality, dickheads!” bot “Hey, I bet you know this great way to make your great business even more successful:...” (Who wouldn’t like that?:) Another example of how being nice can even make your enemies your allies, if done right (= without losing power).
It’s not a tree. It’s a graph. A tree is a graph’s retarded incomplete brother.
I wish people would stop using trees, and use full ontologies instead. It only creates problems. In file systems. In OO class hierarchies, in categories and tags, etc.
What are they trying to appeal to? Birds? Reptiles?
Because if we can see the yellow pixels, it only means it’s even harder to get the colors right.
And if they want to do intermediate colors (colors triggering more than one rod), at least make them complementary colors for all 3 types or something balanced that makes sense.
Except for the ability to use YouTube on it. Or play J2ME games on it. Or make phone calls. Or make photos. Or install what you like. Or have infinite space trough a memory card slot. Etc, etc, etc.;) (I’m not informed on the latest from Apple, so feel free to remove what is now available.) I’m not saying you shouldn’t use what you like. Go ahead, have fun!:)
I’m just saying that my mobile phone does all of the above, and lots more, costs less, and the sound quality is great. I use a Internet flat-rate with it that costs me 20€ a month.
So in some way I agree, but think an Apple product is a bad example. (For the above reasons.)
Internet Radio is already completely affordable. I have lots of ShoutCast streams on there. And I can stream my whole collection from home.
That is because they ALL are selling crap food. The exceptions are negligible. Your “baked angel poop” comparison does not hold, since there is no chain selling anything resembling food (that could be called healthy). Let alone that “angel poop”.
It’s all dependent on the definition of “crap”. To me, everything that is not species-appropriate is by definition crap “food”. And I have yet to see species-appropriate processed food. It always contains one of: very short carbohydrates (make you fat and retarded), denatured proteins (which cause allergies, as I can prove from first-hand experience), lots of saturated omega-6 fats (make you fat and clog up your blood vessels), no vitamins/minerals/micronutrients (causing imbalances which cause most known so-called age-related diseases), lots of salt, chemicals that belong to a factory for biochemical weapons and not in food (like the highly cancerous ”diluted weapon” aspartame), extremely high energy densities that nobody needs and yet do not satiate (make you fat very fast).
You can get back at me, when you find a single chain that sells anything that is species-appropriate.
Hey, I bet you could seriously fuck up their speed recognition algorithm, by having two cars (or just car fronts) that look similar enough to fool the algorithm. If you can make the first measurement show the first car close, and the second still far away, and you do it, so that those are the only two data points, you could make the system show insane negative speeds. Like -5000 mph. ^^
No, what he meant, was that the cartrige IS the memory that it is already loaded in. No need to transfer anything anywhere. Think of it like a DIMM of RAM for your mainboard. Except that it’s ROM and in a cartridge. If it is fast enough, you only need a tiny amount of ram for the really often used critical state data.
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WTF? Yes you are right. You don’t remotely understand anything.
Do you even know the concept of trust? Some you trust more, some you trust less. And trust is a gradient! That is the point trust is relative and trust is a gradient!
But 1. Facebook only has an either/or black/white switch, with only two groups (friends and non-friends) and only two settings (can always see, and can never see). And 2. worst of all: It’s all on their servers, under their control. And their choice is that the advertisers and everybody who pays, always get to see everything. Since according to Zuckerberg “there is no such thing as privacy” (you don’t want to be friends with such a type of person), and any privacy setting to him is merely a nuisance of some “retarded delusional people”.
No. Fuckin. Thanks.
What we need, and what I was the first to say, is a p2p network of trust. With easy to set up server nodes (so that you don’t have to leave your computer online for others to load your profile & co), a standardized open protocol with encryption, rights management and authentication that maps the social structures that people have anyway, and at least one client for it.
Oh, and a Facebook importer and auto-inviter for all your friends.
I bet disallowing all software and business method “patents” kills off 90% of the patents in the blink of an eye.
I’d also retroactively void all such “patents” that already “exist”.
There. Done.
And most important of all: Don’t let others define your sense of reality and your system of values! (Including patent poster’s AND mine.:)
English: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hErvV5YEHkE
German: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7781121501979693623#
French: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8723985684378254371#
Roundup should be locked into class 5 biochemical laboratories, and the Monsanto people who sell it should be round up and killed. Slowly. With a spoon.
I just wish they would finally come up with something that is production-ready.
There are so many uses for FFT, it’s not even funny. And all normal algorithms always will be imperfect and slow.
Instant FFT (and inverse FT) would (also) instantly change the world.
So your suggestion is to give in to peer pressure?
Don’t misunderstand me, as I don’t think of you as a bad human or anything. But: How old are you?
I think you’re better than this! You’re better than someone in puberty, trying to “suck up to the big guys”.
If you give in to peer pressure, you will be abused. That’s not a good way to do any social interaction.
Be nice and all, but draw your line. As early as possible. If there are no things that you say no to, then that is what you will get. :)
And frankly, you’re a human. A impressive specimen of the most intelligent life-form on this planet. You’re too valuable to be abused like that! You have the right to your own set of values and your own sense of reality. You deserve it, just like everybody else.
:( First of all: I know how I felt when I was in your place. My first real job: a 1500 people company, which was part of 3 large companies who all had 5-digit internal phone numbers.
But I will take the shortcut and move right to the end:
Don’t ask others how to behave and how to be. Don’t let others define your sense of reality, of right and wrong, and of morale.
Build your OWN system of values. This is extremely important. But somehow we geeks are expected to be the beta humans in school and everywhere. So we act like that. But that’s completely arbitrary. We don’t have to. Just define what you think is right and wrong. What you think you are and want to be. How you want to behave.
But beware, since everything we start out with, is usually socially conditioned into us. So before deciding on something, give it some thought, and do a reality check. Often you will find that physical reality is very different from what we thought was right all our life. (Like this “geeks are not the cool guys” thing.)
If you have build your own system of values, you do not have to ask others for right and wrong anymore. You know it yourself. And you know what you accept and what you don’t accept. And they can’t mold you into their “cattle”.
This “standing by your rules” is very important, if you ever in life want to be dominant in anything at all.
So learn to say no as early as possible. To establish what you accept.
And don’t fear that they would not like you anymore, if you don’t go on your knees and suck their dicks. As people who have a spine are always the ones who are more respected and successful.
Now of course this doesn’t mean going into the other extreme and being a dick, or telling your boss to go fuck himself over irrelevant shit.
Just establish an equal relationship of fairness, and acceptance for each other.
One example: In summer, I usually wear good looking airy clothes, and either wear expensive flipflops or go barefoot. I make it look good and clean. (Ok, I also usually work in clean areas.) So my rule for the summer is that I walk barefoot, at least indoors. Except maybe when clients come in who would be prejudiced and this risking the deal. I want our company to succeed (obviously). But other than the exception, this is a rule. And I stand by it.
The reason I could do this, was that I established value. I was valuable.
And now guess what made me valuable: The fact that I didn’t do everything for my boss, and didn’t do anything for free.
Someone who always says yes and amen, IS going to be abused, because one can take everything from him for free.
Especially dominant people (like your boss) understand other dominant people. And in a job this creates a bit of a friendly/jokingly “fight” for power. As long as you see it as fun, and respect him, he will usually do the same. Which is why the fear that he might hate that he can’t abuse you, is just a misunderstanding.
Oh, and don’t worry too much. Only if you accept that you are valuable and that things will become great, can they become great. :)
And the key. Don’t forget the key.
No?
Ok, Tommy, go get the baseball bat!
they're not only concerned about software piracy, but also a growing tolerance for it.
Fact is, that we started out with information being free. Because that is physical reality.
Fact is also, that only the reproduction and artist extortion industry’s recent insanity-based delusion started this “IP” bullshit. And they are ramping it up. Because it is their business that is dying more and more.
This behavior is called “projection” in psychology. And it is a staple defense of e.g. schizophrenic people that know what they do is wrong. They hate it, and want to get the hate out. So instead of hating themselves, they project their own problem upon someone else, and can then hate that one.
Which means that in their minds we have already won. And they actually would love to have a way to get out of this, without losing face. We just have to offer them a way out that makes this possible. So it’s not “You are idiots and wrong. Accept reality, dickheads!” bot “Hey, I bet you know this great way to make your great business even more successful: ...” (Who wouldn’t like that? :)
Another example of how being nice can even make your enemies your allies, if done right (= without losing power).
It’s not a tree. It’s a graph. A tree is a graph’s retarded incomplete brother.
I wish people would stop using trees, and use full ontologies instead. It only creates problems. In file systems. In OO class hierarchies, in categories and tags, etc.
What do you mean? he’s a famous knight at camelot!
What are they trying to appeal to? Birds? Reptiles?
Because if we can see the yellow pixels, it only means it’s even harder to get the colors right.
And if they want to do intermediate colors (colors triggering more than one rod), at least make them complementary colors for all 3 types or something balanced that makes sense.
Oh and: Fuck it, we’re going to five! ;)
Except for the ability to use YouTube on it. Or play J2ME games on it. Or make phone calls. Or make photos. Or install what you like. Or have infinite space trough a memory card slot. Etc, etc, etc. ;) (I’m not informed on the latest from Apple, so feel free to remove what is now available.) :)
I’m not saying you shouldn’t use what you like. Go ahead, have fun!
I’m just saying that my mobile phone does all of the above, and lots more, costs less, and the sound quality is great. I use a Internet flat-rate with it that costs me 20€ a month.
So in some way I agree, but think an Apple product is a bad example. (For the above reasons.)
Internet Radio is already completely affordable. I have lots of ShoutCast streams on there. And I can stream my whole collection from home.
Safer? If you call security theater and constant fearmongering safety, then yes. But we lost a lot of freedom for that illusion of smoke and mirrors.
*clicks on [x] to close window*
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(*program transfers money*)
Who is to say that you mom isn't being routinely buying crack for sex, and somebody goofed the size of the planned "bump"? ;)
P.S.: You are employing Glenn Beck “logic”. Please don’t.
In this day and age because of the use of such complex technology,
There, fixed that for ya.
Great. Guess who lived in the country that is marked as the path for the Nazis on this map:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f9/Maginot_Linie_Karte.jpg
ME! (Or rather: My grandparents.)
Way no channel them trough us, dickheads!
It’s called crab mentality. You are doing it. Look it up. Stop it. Prevent it from happening.
ALL HEIL CONROY, OUR BIG BROTHER!
And now for something completely different...
15 minutes of hate!
You forgot that the Lords are responsible for the stupidity of the commoners in the first place.
Can you say: 3 foot retard padding all around?
That is because they ALL are selling crap food. The exceptions are negligible.
Your “baked angel poop” comparison does not hold, since there is no chain selling anything resembling food (that could be called healthy). Let alone that “angel poop”.
It’s all dependent on the definition of “crap”. To me, everything that is not species-appropriate is by definition crap “food”. And I have yet to see species-appropriate processed food. It always contains one of: very short carbohydrates (make you fat and retarded), denatured proteins (which cause allergies, as I can prove from first-hand experience), lots of saturated omega-6 fats (make you fat and clog up your blood vessels), no vitamins/minerals/micronutrients (causing imbalances which cause most known so-called age-related diseases), lots of salt, chemicals that belong to a factory for biochemical weapons and not in food (like the highly cancerous ”diluted weapon” aspartame), extremely high energy densities that nobody needs and yet do not satiate (make you fat very fast).
You can get back at me, when you find a single chain that sells anything that is species-appropriate.
Hey, I bet you could seriously fuck up their speed recognition algorithm, by having two cars (or just car fronts) that look similar enough to fool the algorithm. If you can make the first measurement show the first car close, and the second still far away, and you do it, so that those are the only two data points, you could make the system show insane negative speeds. Like -5000 mph. ^^
So now you can still lose the keys, and not get in, but also lose the padlock, and not be able to lock it. Yeah, a real improvement. SNAFU. ^^
No, what he meant, was that the cartrige IS the memory that it is already loaded in. No need to transfer anything anywhere.
Think of it like a DIMM of RAM for your mainboard. Except that it’s ROM and in a cartridge. If it is fast enough, you only need a tiny amount of ram for the really often used critical state data.