No, what makes it really ironic, is that one year later (1996), ICQ was released. The first social network. (Yes, it had all the functions to count as a real social network. I know because I had my first blind date because of it. [Turned out not so well though.;])
Actually, ICQ solved that problem in 1996! It already had the ability to create user profiles, (chat) groups, and search for people with similar interests. Then came the imitators (AIM, MSN, etc), who chose to imitate it in a way that was basically only good for instant messages anymore. And then, much much later, came Facebook, MySpace, etc. Who did the same thing. Except in the crappy website fashion. Plus they sold off the users’ data.
Meanwhile, I still use ICQ. (Amongst others like XMPP or IRC.) Via Kopete, but still...
P.S.: Perhaps you could say, that IRC preceded them all. But IRC did not really have much of a user profile and matchmaking functionality. But it could have easily. Sad that that was missed.
Well, they are old. That something different. Your learning rate naturally falls with the age. Give them some drugs that raise the learning rate again, and see it do wonders. ^^ You know: The good stuff.;)
Also for many people, it’s a really long walk from where they are to being able to think freely. I know because I know how deep in the delusions I was. I was extremely introverted and always though I were the loser. Well, since I redefined what I am, I’m literally getting random strangers in the club nearly hugging me and wanna be friends. Even the boss and the DJ. It’s weird, and I totally don’t know how to handle it yet. ^^ But good to know that whoever you think you are inside: You can change everything of it. Declare it, and so be it! Just one thing: You might get into trouble with old friends assuming you are still the same and pushing you into that role again. I sometimes make fun by pushing people outside their roles. Like being the actual boss and your boss being the one coming to me to beg. ^^
I think young age and motivation are key. Motivation as in: Finding the best possible balance between too easy and too hard. To drag you in the flow. Then season with a bit of structural thinking (like memorizing things as differences of base patterns and grouping things in graphs) to be able to put more than 7-10 things in your head at the same time....and out you get a genuine genius. (There is no such thing as talent or people born as geniuses, according to a well done study I read. Instead what they found is, that the only ingredients are what I just described.)
It’s like religion, but without as much power. Kinda like a predecessor.
The only revelation that ever stunned me, was the following: I was still a teenager, and I read in the German computer magazine PC Welt about Nostradamus and what of that “actually happened” in the computer area. And one prediction for the very close future was, that a new OS would come, to rule the world. Something big. Mind you that was long before Linux (created 1991-92) was even remotely mainstream. I constantly read computer magazines, and know that it was not mentioned once or known. They joked that maybe Nintendo would create a Yoshi OS. (Super Mario World, the first game to feature Yoshi, was released in 1990-91. Which gives you a feeling of when this was written.)
Years later, when I heard more and more about Linux, and even IBM started to pick it up, I started to realize that this was that OS! Doesn’t mean anything, but somehow that was such a moment that really made me think. Like: Was he an Alien and/or time traveler from the future?;)
To this day I wish I could get that article back. I know it was in the summer as we were at the beach. But the oldest issues they have in their archive are from 2007. So if you got an old archive from maybe 1990-92, please contact me!:)
Nah. Same old light. I kinda expected him to do even worse things.
And that’s why I am very cautious, since all that happened, is somebody accusing him. It’s illegal to leave out the “accused” (e.g. in newspapers) in Germany for a very good reason.
Let’s see how it turns out in court. It could just still also be a competitor who tries not-so-nice methods to get some of Facebook’s user share.
While we must note, that accusations are only accusations. I could accuse you of rape right now. Wouldn’t make it a single bit more true.
But Zuckerberg to me has no better moral standards than a criminal. You know. Like an agent of some totalitarian state. Or like someone who steals other people’s identities for a living.
I really want Facebook to die and be replaced by a version that honors privacy. Something with an ethical code. Oh, even better: A P2P social network. Wouldn’t that be something?
Agent Skid-Row: Now tell me, Mr. Ubisoft... with the current state of your servers, how are you going to identify them... when you can’t... connect to them?:D
Why would you touch type at another person’s laptop? It’s a laptop! Move it! And how much of a loser does one have to be to be so ashamed of one’s own choices, even when they are clearly superior? Just to be in the mass of dumb cattle who always go with the default that “everyone does”? (See the circular logic in that argument?) No thanks!
I don’t refrain from learning a custom layout because of someone else not doing so too. I try to be a role model so that they choose my new layout!:) If everybody imitates off of everybody else, there has to be someone who started it. My goal is to be that guy. ^^
(such as not using my little and ring fingers when I really should)
No, that is an error of the layout! Your rind and little finger are weaker. Basically your little finger is just an outreaching touch sensor, and not meant for grabbing. Especially not on such an incredibly convoluted and stupid layout as the default one. And I’m not talking about the position of the letters, but about the shape and layout of the physical keys!
If you want to make it a bit better, I recommend this keyboard (if it’s still sold): http://www.datadesktech.com/desktop_base.html I had it, and it was the best keyboard I ever had. Like an IBM one, but ergonomic. Not that fake-“ergonomic” style that e.g. Microsoft uses. Look at the upper outside keys (those for the smaller fingers). They are wider, and easier to press. Also the columns are exactly aligned. Not slanted. And you raise the front, not the back. So it’s really nice. (I recommend buying the black USB variant.)
Why do I tell you this? Simple: Because the new layout forces you to re-learn touch-typing. In which case you can learn it properly and comfortably right from the start.:)
But a note: Even those keyboards are not perfect, since you still have to raise your elbows to type in that V shape. (Much better than default keyboards though!) So you will get a bit of strain in your shoulders. The only way around that, that I know, is using two Datahands, mounted right on the chair. But it looks like they aren’t sold anymore. Also the last time I checked, they were at $700 per hand!
About Dvorak: Go for it! I doesn’t even come close to our German version of an alternative layout (NEO 2.0), which has 6 levels, but it’s still much better than the default one. I just left the default key stickers on my keyboard when learning NEO. Which made it impossible to look on the keys, and so I learned touch-typing much quicker.:)
This group of girls armed with screwdrivers starting taking apart the laptops and reseating the cables. Sometimes they'd change out a screen, or a speaker. They learned about the hardware of their laptops. They got to see what was inside. They got better and better at fixing things by learning as they went.
5-11 years old. Not told by anything to do so but in their own interest. Sorry, but that’s humanity at its finest. If I learned one thing about our abilities, it’s to simply assume you can do it. I see so many people who say and think that they can’t do this and can’t do that. We all are incredibly intelligent. Everyone can fix electronics. Everyone can write software. Everyone can learn quantum physics! It’s just a matter of allowing oneself to assume that one is able to do it. And then do it. That one rule, worked for me my whole life.:)
Ministers of Education had a tough time believing that these girls could fix the hardware, so they would visit - to see it with their own eyes - and start thinking differently about maintenance of hardware.
And here we see that exact mindset of “we can’t”. Just as most people here would assume a 5 year old girl couldn’t fix a computer. Let alone one from a 3rd world rural area. Turns out that’s bullshit!:)
Man, if everyone could just see the tiny box of social conditioned pointless rules that he is caught in... “You can’t do that! Only rich good looking men get girls! Obey! Buy, buy, consume and buy! You are ugly! There is another side, that is against you! Believe! You must do this, and must not do that!... ”
Yeah because grammar skills are exactly the same as electronics skills! Also, your interpreter seems to be buggy, since you mistook an undefined identifier for a language grammar error.;) If I would judge the technical skills of the Slashdot crowd by its social skills and manners, I would assume that they all use AOL.;)
P.S.: I know someone will find an error in the grammar of this sentence. If you do so, go ahead, and answer me in my own native language: Luxemburgish! Good luck with that!;)
Then again, in California, if you “unwrap” them, they probably have a label saying “Warning: 90% plastic!”.
And for funny reasons, this is true for Scandinavian girls too. But instead it’s what they are wrapped in. Unfortunately it also still is the reason for the big tits though.;)
But hey, some here might sound like it’s a fight about who has the biggest dick. But actually, we’re with you, and hope you all get great bandwidth without caps. After all, it raises our torrent speed too!:D
"It is well-known in our community that there is no scientific, firm way of actually completely verifying and validating software."
It’s called Haskell with QuickCheck, idiots! Look it up! And yes! It gives you guarantees on the level of mathematical proof, that it’s doing what it’s supposed to do!
How can someone work in an area where it’s about life and death of real people, and not know that?? Imagine someone saying that who works in the business of heart-lung-machine development. It’s hair-raising!
What good is it not to touch water, when you are touching a spider hair surface instead? I can keep dry just as well, by covering it in a rubber suit. ^^
I know the “paywall” gets bashed a lot around here. But if you actually have valuable information, it’s a valid concept. In fact it’s the only concept at all, that guarantees you will get something in return. But other than you might think, once the information is passed on trough the paywall, control of that information is split between the sender and the recipient. So then the client can choose if he wants something in return himself. And so the value of information is inversely proportional to the amount of people having it.
But passing the information on for free, and then expecting something in return, is like making music in the streets, an suing everyone who walked by without throwing something in your hat.
Yeah, about as parasitic, as taking stuff that someone else throws out there for free, for everyone to see.
It doesn’t matter what you ask for AFTER you passed on the information. It’s too late. Passing on information equals splitting control with the destination. You can ask for something in exchange, before doing that. But afterwards it’s too late.
Besides: You seem to not even realize how browsing works: Let’s use a snail mail analogy: When “going” to a page, thats’s like doing this: You submit a letter to the site, containing a message that says: Could you please send me that page X? Then the server of that site can decide whether to honor your request. And the thing is: They do. They send you that page X for free, just like that. They don’t say: “No, that’s valuable! Nobody else has it! I had much work with it! I want something for it!”. So OK, you get that packet in mail, open it, and there is your page X. But in it, there are other things referenced. Images, scripts, etc. Now you can submit additional request letters. But obviously there is no obligation to do that. Since there were no strings attached to that packet. It was specifically sent to you without any conditions.
Demanding that you now request a ton of large advertisement packets is the wrongdoing here. The server should have asked for something in return if he wanted something. Now it’s too late. So stop bitching and fix your imaginary business model!
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No, what makes it really ironic, is that one year later (1996), ICQ was released. The first social network. (Yes, it had all the functions to count as a real social network. I know because I had my first blind date because of it. [Turned out not so well though. ;])
Actually, ICQ solved that problem in 1996! It already had the ability to create user profiles, (chat) groups, and search for people with similar interests. Then came the imitators (AIM, MSN, etc), who chose to imitate it in a way that was basically only good for instant messages anymore.
And then, much much later, came Facebook, MySpace, etc. Who did the same thing. Except in the crappy website fashion. Plus they sold off the users’ data.
Meanwhile, I still use ICQ. (Amongst others like XMPP or IRC.) Via Kopete, but still...
P.S.: Perhaps you could say, that IRC preceded them all. But IRC did not really have much of a user profile and matchmaking functionality. But it could have easily. Sad that that was missed.
What the... WHYY?
My battery charger takes four batteries and goes into the power socket. That’s it.
I don’t see why in the world a charged would need more than this.
It’s like having a supercomputer to control a toaster. It makes no sense at all.
In my eyes, those who bought that thing, deserve what they got.
Well, they are old. That something different. Your learning rate naturally falls with the age. Give them some drugs that raise the learning rate again, and see it do wonders. ^^ You know: The good stuff. ;)
Also for many people, it’s a really long walk from where they are to being able to think freely.
I know because I know how deep in the delusions I was. I was extremely introverted and always though I were the loser. Well, since I redefined what I am, I’m literally getting random strangers in the club nearly hugging me and wanna be friends. Even the boss and the DJ. It’s weird, and I totally don’t know how to handle it yet. ^^ But good to know that whoever you think you are inside: You can change everything of it. Declare it, and so be it!
Just one thing: You might get into trouble with old friends assuming you are still the same and pushing you into that role again.
I sometimes make fun by pushing people outside their roles. Like being the actual boss and your boss being the one coming to me to beg. ^^
I think young age and motivation are key. ...and out you get a genuine genius. (There is no such thing as talent or people born as geniuses, according to a well done study I read. Instead what they found is, that the only ingredients are what I just described.)
Motivation as in: Finding the best possible balance between too easy and too hard. To drag you in the flow.
Then season with a bit of structural thinking (like memorizing things as differences of base patterns and grouping things in graphs) to be able to put more than 7-10 things in your head at the same time.
It’s like religion, but without as much power. Kinda like a predecessor.
The only revelation that ever stunned me, was the following:
I was still a teenager, and I read in the German computer magazine PC Welt about Nostradamus and what of that “actually happened” in the computer area.
And one prediction for the very close future was, that a new OS would come, to rule the world. Something big.
Mind you that was long before Linux (created 1991-92) was even remotely mainstream. I constantly read computer magazines, and know that it was not mentioned once or known.
They joked that maybe Nintendo would create a Yoshi OS. (Super Mario World, the first game to feature Yoshi, was released in 1990-91. Which gives you a feeling of when this was written.)
Years later, when I heard more and more about Linux, and even IBM started to pick it up, I started to realize that this was that OS! ;)
Doesn’t mean anything, but somehow that was such a moment that really made me think. Like: Was he an Alien and/or time traveler from the future?
To this day I wish I could get that article back. I know it was in the summer as we were at the beach. But the oldest issues they have in their archive are from 2007. So if you got an old archive from maybe 1990-92, please contact me! :)
Nah. Same old light. I kinda expected him to do even worse things.
And that’s why I am very cautious, since all that happened, is somebody accusing him. It’s illegal to leave out the “accused” (e.g. in newspapers) in Germany for a very good reason.
Let’s see how it turns out in court.
It could just still also be a competitor who tries not-so-nice methods to get some of Facebook’s user share.
Best comment on the story.
While we must note, that accusations are only accusations. I could accuse you of rape right now. Wouldn’t make it a single bit more true.
But Zuckerberg to me has no better moral standards than a criminal. You know. Like an agent of some totalitarian state. Or like someone who steals other people’s identities for a living.
I really want Facebook to die and be replaced by a version that honors privacy. Something with an ethical code.
Oh, even better: A P2P social network. Wouldn’t that be something?
Agent Skid-Row: Now tell me, Mr. Ubisoft... with the current state of your servers, how are you going to identify them... when you can’t... connect to them? :D
OK, and in case anyone wonders why Ubisoft is the young lady: ;))
Do you want to fuck them hard, maybe punish them for being a bad girl, etc?
See...?
Users: Our relationship is headed for an EPIC FAIL, young lady!
Ubisoft: But I LOVE my DRM!
Why would you touch type at another person’s laptop? It’s a laptop! Move it!
And how much of a loser does one have to be to be so ashamed of one’s own choices, even when they are clearly superior? Just to be in the mass of dumb cattle who always go with the default that “everyone does”? (See the circular logic in that argument?)
No thanks!
I don’t refrain from learning a custom layout because of someone else not doing so too. I try to be a role model so that they choose my new layout! :)
If everybody imitates off of everybody else, there has to be someone who started it. My goal is to be that guy. ^^
I disagree. I lost the hang of it. I’m back to the circling vulture technique.
But NEO 2.0 is notably very different from qwertz (the German qwerty). It has 6 levels. With caps lock being the left Mod3 key, etc.
(such as not using my little and ring fingers when I really should)
No, that is an error of the layout! Your rind and little finger are weaker. Basically your little finger is just an outreaching touch sensor, and not meant for grabbing. Especially not on such an incredibly convoluted and stupid layout as the default one. And I’m not talking about the position of the letters, but about the shape and layout of the physical keys!
If you want to make it a bit better, I recommend this keyboard (if it’s still sold): http://www.datadesktech.com/desktop_base.html
I had it, and it was the best keyboard I ever had. Like an IBM one, but ergonomic. Not that fake-“ergonomic” style that e.g. Microsoft uses. Look at the upper outside keys (those for the smaller fingers). They are wider, and easier to press. Also the columns are exactly aligned. Not slanted. And you raise the front, not the back. So it’s really nice. (I recommend buying the black USB variant.)
Why do I tell you this? Simple: Because the new layout forces you to re-learn touch-typing. In which case you can learn it properly and comfortably right from the start. :)
But a note: Even those keyboards are not perfect, since you still have to raise your elbows to type in that V shape. (Much better than default keyboards though!) So you will get a bit of strain in your shoulders.
The only way around that, that I know, is using two Datahands, mounted right on the chair. But it looks like they aren’t sold anymore. Also the last time I checked, they were at $700 per hand!
About Dvorak: Go for it! :)
I doesn’t even come close to our German version of an alternative layout (NEO 2.0), which has 6 levels, but it’s still much better than the default one.
I just left the default key stickers on my keyboard when learning NEO. Which made it impossible to look on the keys, and so I learned touch-typing much quicker.
See. There is already an error in it: I wanted to say: “...in the grammar of this comment”.
This group of girls armed with screwdrivers starting taking apart the laptops and reseating the cables. Sometimes they'd change out a screen, or a speaker. They learned about the hardware of their laptops. They got to see what was inside. They got better and better at fixing things by learning as they went.
5-11 years old. Not told by anything to do so but in their own interest. Sorry, but that’s humanity at its finest. :)
If I learned one thing about our abilities, it’s to simply assume you can do it. I see so many people who say and think that they can’t do this and can’t do that.
We all are incredibly intelligent. Everyone can fix electronics. Everyone can write software. Everyone can learn quantum physics!
It’s just a matter of allowing oneself to assume that one is able to do it. And then do it.
That one rule, worked for me my whole life.
Ministers of Education had a tough time believing that these girls could fix the hardware, so they would visit - to see it with their own eyes - and start thinking differently about maintenance of hardware.
And here we see that exact mindset of “we can’t”. Just as most people here would assume a 5 year old girl couldn’t fix a computer. Let alone one from a 3rd world rural area. :)
Turns out that’s bullshit!
Man, if everyone could just see the tiny box of social conditioned pointless rules that he is caught in... “You can’t do that! Only rich good looking men get girls! Obey! Buy, buy, consume and buy! You are ugly! There is another side, that is against you! Believe! You must do this, and must not do that! ... ”
Yeah because grammar skills are exactly the same as electronics skills! Also, your interpreter seems to be buggy, since you mistook an undefined identifier for a language grammar error. ;) ;)
If I would judge the technical skills of the Slashdot crowd by its social skills and manners, I would assume that they all use AOL.
P.S.: I know someone will find an error in the grammar of this sentence. If you do so, go ahead, and answer me in my own native language: Luxemburgish! Good luck with that! ;)
But all you get to touch will still be the plastic... of the winter jackets. ;))
Then again, in California, if you “unwrap” them, they probably have a label saying “Warning: 90% plastic!”.
And for funny reasons, this is true for Scandinavian girls too. But instead it’s what they are wrapped in. ;)
Unfortunately it also still is the reason for the big tits though.
But hey, some here might sound like it’s a fight about who has the biggest dick. But actually, we’re with you, and hope you all get great bandwidth without caps. After all, it raises our torrent speed too! :D
"It is well-known in our community that there is no scientific, firm way of actually completely verifying and validating software."
It’s called Haskell with QuickCheck, idiots! Look it up!
And yes! It gives you guarantees on the level of mathematical proof, that it’s doing what it’s supposed to do!
How can someone work in an area where it’s about life and death of real people, and not know that??
Imagine someone saying that who works in the business of heart-lung-machine development. It’s hair-raising!
What good is it not to touch water, when you are touching a spider hair surface instead? I can keep dry just as well, by covering it in a rubber suit. ^^
The simpler the game, the easier it is to pull it off. E.g. a game that only needs one button and basic OpenGL, is very easy to port everywhere.
Sounds extremely oversimplified to me... I don‘t think that organic material necessarily has a different spectrum.
I know the “paywall” gets bashed a lot around here. But if you actually have valuable information, it’s a valid concept. In fact it’s the only concept at all, that guarantees you will get something in return.
But other than you might think, once the information is passed on trough the paywall, control of that information is split between the sender and the recipient. So then the client can choose if he wants something in return himself. And so the value of information is inversely proportional to the amount of people having it.
But passing the information on for free, and then expecting something in return, is like making music in the streets, an suing everyone who walked by without throwing something in your hat.
Yeah, about as parasitic, as taking stuff
that someone else throws out there for free, for everyone to see.
It doesn’t matter what you ask for AFTER you passed on the information. It’s too late. Passing on information equals splitting control with the destination. You can ask for something in exchange, before doing that. But afterwards it’s too late.
Besides: You seem to not even realize how browsing works:
Let’s use a snail mail analogy: When “going” to a page, thats’s like doing this:
You submit a letter to the site, containing a message that says: Could you please send me that page X?
Then the server of that site can decide whether to honor your request. And the thing is: They do. They send you that page X for free, just like that. They don’t say: “No, that’s valuable! Nobody else has it! I had much work with it! I want something for it!”.
So OK, you get that packet in mail, open it, and there is your page X. But in it, there are other things referenced. Images, scripts, etc.
Now you can submit additional request letters. But obviously there is no obligation to do that. Since there were no strings attached to that packet. It was specifically sent to you without any conditions.
Demanding that you now request a ton of large advertisement packets is the wrongdoing here. The server should have asked for something in return if he wanted something. Now it’s too late. So stop bitching and fix your imaginary business model!