There is the developed eye which is inexplicable which I mentioned earlier. I take similarities to indicate a common designer as that is the simplest explanation it causes all that complexity to collapse into a single idea.
What's inexplicable about eyes? They are one of the best proofs of evolution in action. The same type of thing originated in a myriad of different ways and at all scales in different creatures.
Desktop Linux does not matter no. Great for doing some types of coding and learning about how computers work and making fantastic servers, but useless as a general desktop. Win7 is lovely these days, I only run Linux in vm's. Speaking as a person who discovered Linux in 98 and exclusively ran a Linux desktop for several years.
He's definitely not kidding. I don't even know where I keep my files anymore, just type a few words from the document, song, video, series, whatever I want and boom, instantly. That's with it scanning 4 terabytes of data. It's the best windows functionality change ever.
Have you tried windows 8 yet? It's shocking bad, I think win7 will be king for the next release still. They really went way to far down the tablet road just like unity, it's utterly unusable on a desktop. Granted still a long way from release and these are dev previews but it doesn't look good IMO.
One of the things that amazes me most is the lack of ability to think people have in college just fresh out of school. I'm 28, but just starting college and it's shocking to see how they know answers to some things and can do simple problems but they never learned to treat the knowledge they gained as cohesive concepts not just individual things. I kill them in maths because I can see the bigger picture, but they are far quicker at actually solving the resultant equations. Really tells me I was right to leave school early, it's only gotten worse at teaching people how to learn.
I'd argue that US universities are actually effectively corporations looking at how they run anyway. I dont think anyone thought the uni's weren't as bad as the gov or corps. Just looking at the ridiculous fees make that obvious.
No, but they won't grow or learn, as has been shown by the various stories of people who kept a child locked in a room and just took care of it. If you don't learn to speak by teen years your fucked for example you can ever learn it, your brain has changed.
You can be good at sports get picked and still hate sports cause team mates are total dicks. I've yet to see a competitive team sport where the members arent dicks. I'll stick to alternative sports like skateboarding and snowboarding where we cheer for each other, not shout at teammates for mistakes.
What about wrestling or rugby, probly applies to American football, lower centre of gravity. I'm naturally really strong and not tall hence was really good at rugby or wrestling type stuff cause you couldn't knock me over.
It implies you need to drink water to stay hydrated when in fact you don't, you get plenty of water from food most of the time. Hence it's misleading. You can in fact die of dehydration by drinking to much pure water while sweating and getting your electrolytes all out of whack. Dehydration does not nessecessarily mean a loss of water.
Seriously though, there's a huge difference in taste between waters. I think any regular tap water is incredibly hard to drink, but Evian is lovely, almost sweet, yet volivc tastes like ashes.
That is the most disgusting thing ive ever heard, who does this? I've never heard of anyone actually doing it outside of a trailer trash sitcom. I didn't think people really did it.
Indeed, Linux still sucks as a desktop os, that why I run it in a vm. It's fine as a desktop os as long as you never do anything more than use it as an Internet kiosk.
It's very rare for normal people to use cd, I'm in college now as a mature student, everyone just moves files on USB or net books, no CDs. I see the same thing with my older friends, the only things they use CDs for are the Xbox. Pc games and apps are all bought online, I haven't had a disk drive for years.
Why couldn't you work out metrics for those, it sound easy. For poems there's loads of rules that poetry follows to be considered good or not. Wine you could analyse using robotic noses. For chicks asses you can measure cellulite content, shape, dimensions etc and easily classify asses into distinct groups.
Both of ye are confusing popular and cool. At least where I'm from cool kids are like skateboarders and djs and shit, alternative people, and what ye are describing sounds more like the popular jock crowd.
Completely misunderstanding what an introvert is there. Introverts can be very social, they just hate the usual social interactions, for example small talk. Nothing annoys me more than a random person asking me the score of the match or something similar. On the Internet people skip all the small talk bullshit and just talk about the idea or problem or whatever. Irc is like introvert heaven. Being in a social group is actively tiring for me, but I can talk away to people over Facebook for hours usually cause they won't talk as much useless bollocks. They usually talk to me cause they have a question or problem to solve or similar.
I am the guy the parent was referring to. I hate going into shops and having the fear that some sales droid is gonna start talking to me. The Internet lets me be really social without the actual physical hassle of dealing with people in the real world. You can also just disappear online after talking to someone for 10mins and it's not weird, lots of little things you wouldn't realise are important make the Internet amazing for people with introverted tendencies.
I think you may have been living in a cave for the last 10 years or so:p What about the ipod? Or the iphone, losing market share doesnt mean that the devices dont appeal to regular people. It means theres been a huge influx of cheap android devices. Market share is not a zero-sum game for phones. And although the market share of mac in the pc space appears small, if you go to a university or coffee shop and look at how many people are sporting macbooks, it seems clear that regular people like apple products very much. Apple products are expensive, hence not everyone who wants one can get one, but they certainly appeal to regular people because they are simple and clean. I think you may be confusing yourself for a regular person. If you read slashdot, you are not a regular person:p My sister would be a regular person, her and all her friends are obsessed with apple products. They think android is clunky. Yet she has an android phone, because its really cheap.
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There is the developed eye which is inexplicable which I mentioned earlier. I take similarities to indicate a common designer as that is the simplest explanation it causes all that complexity to collapse into a single idea.
What's inexplicable about eyes? They are one of the best proofs of evolution in action. The same type of thing originated in a myriad of different ways and at all scales in different creatures.
Desktop Linux does not matter no. Great for doing some types of coding and learning about how computers work and making fantastic servers, but useless as a general desktop. Win7 is lovely these days, I only run Linux in vm's. Speaking as a person who discovered Linux in 98 and exclusively ran a Linux desktop for several years.
He's definitely not kidding. I don't even know where I keep my files anymore, just type a few words from the document, song, video, series, whatever I want and boom, instantly. That's with it scanning 4 terabytes of data. It's the best windows functionality change ever.
Have you tried windows 8 yet? It's shocking bad, I think win7 will be king for the next release still. They really went way to far down the tablet road just like unity, it's utterly unusable on a desktop. Granted still a long way from release and these are dev previews but it doesn't look good IMO.
One of the things that amazes me most is the lack of ability to think people have in college just fresh out of school. I'm 28, but just starting college and it's shocking to see how they know answers to some things and can do simple problems but they never learned to treat the knowledge they gained as cohesive concepts not just individual things. I kill them in maths because I can see the bigger picture, but they are far quicker at actually solving the resultant equations. Really tells me I was right to leave school early, it's only gotten worse at teaching people how to learn.
You put you lives in the hands of for profit airline companies and car makers. Don't be ridiculous
Europe uses pal so the games have to be pal anyways, unless they wanna ignore 700million customers.
I'd argue that US universities are actually effectively corporations looking at how they run anyway. I dont think anyone thought the uni's weren't as bad as the gov or corps. Just looking at the ridiculous fees make that obvious.
They only unifiy at high energies, normally they're pretty separate.
yea I've no issues with computer use, but children do need some social interaction or they will be broken cavemen effectively
No, but they won't grow or learn, as has been shown by the various stories of people who kept a child locked in a room and just took care of it. If you don't learn to speak by teen years your fucked for example you can ever learn it, your brain has changed.
You can be good at sports get picked and still hate sports cause team mates are total dicks. I've yet to see a competitive team sport where the members arent dicks. I'll stick to alternative sports like skateboarding and snowboarding where we cheer for each other, not shout at teammates for mistakes.
What about wrestling or rugby, probly applies to American football, lower centre of gravity. I'm naturally really strong and not tall hence was really good at rugby or wrestling type stuff cause you couldn't knock me over.
It implies you need to drink water to stay hydrated when in fact you don't, you get plenty of water from food most of the time. Hence it's misleading. You can in fact die of dehydration by drinking to much pure water while sweating and getting your electrolytes all out of whack. Dehydration does not nessecessarily mean a loss of water.
Seriously though, there's a huge difference in taste between waters. I think any regular tap water is incredibly hard to drink, but Evian is lovely, almost sweet, yet volivc tastes like ashes.
That is the most disgusting thing ive ever heard, who does this? I've never heard of anyone actually doing it outside of a trailer trash sitcom. I didn't think people really did it.
Indeed, Linux still sucks as a desktop os, that why I run it in a vm. It's fine as a desktop os as long as you never do anything more than use it as an Internet kiosk.
It's very rare for normal people to use cd, I'm in college now as a mature student, everyone just moves files on USB or net books, no CDs. I see the same thing with my older friends, the only things they use CDs for are the Xbox. Pc games and apps are all bought online, I haven't had a disk drive for years.
Why couldn't you work out metrics for those, it sound easy. For poems there's loads of rules that poetry follows to be considered good or not. Wine you could analyse using robotic noses. For chicks asses you can measure cellulite content, shape, dimensions etc and easily classify asses into distinct groups.
Both of ye are confusing popular and cool. At least where I'm from cool kids are like skateboarders and djs and shit, alternative people, and what ye are describing sounds more like the popular jock crowd.
A kingdom of mod points to that ac
Completely misunderstanding what an introvert is there. Introverts can be very social, they just hate the usual social interactions, for example small talk. Nothing annoys me more than a random person asking me the score of the match or something similar. On the Internet people skip all the small talk bullshit and just talk about the idea or problem or whatever. Irc is like introvert heaven. Being in a social group is actively tiring for me, but I can talk away to people over Facebook for hours usually cause they won't talk as much useless bollocks. They usually talk to me cause they have a question or problem to solve or similar. I am the guy the parent was referring to. I hate going into shops and having the fear that some sales droid is gonna start talking to me. The Internet lets me be really social without the actual physical hassle of dealing with people in the real world. You can also just disappear online after talking to someone for 10mins and it's not weird, lots of little things you wouldn't realise are important make the Internet amazing for people with introverted tendencies.
Win8 should really have been its own tablet os, it's a disaster of a thing to use on a desktop, and I was well excited after win7 :/
Indeed, we have girls in the games dev course in my uni. Maybe if guys weren't such douches in general we would have more.
I think you may have been living in a cave for the last 10 years or so :p What about the ipod? Or the iphone, losing market share doesnt mean that the devices dont appeal to regular people. It means theres been a huge influx of cheap android devices. Market share is not a zero-sum game for phones. And although the market share of mac in the pc space appears small, if you go to a university or coffee shop and look at how many people are sporting macbooks, it seems clear that regular people like apple products very much. Apple products are expensive, hence not everyone who wants one can get one, but they certainly appeal to regular people because they are simple and clean. I think you may be confusing yourself for a regular person. If you read slashdot, you are not a regular person :p My sister would be a regular person, her and all her friends are obsessed with apple products. They think android is clunky. Yet she has an android phone, because its really cheap.