The problem is - so far there has been no place except the forums for non-techies to participate and make their voices heard.
Not true actually. I investigated Linux distros a while back and was quite amazed at how hard it was to get your ideas for nerw features heard; Ubuntu was actually one of the only ones that did anything to listen. They've had the Idea Pool for a while now.
Only slight problem is, no one reads it. My idea has been on there for about a year now.
Possibly... then again, without MS and other conventional commercial outfits selling lots of closed source, companies may have sprung up contributing to FOSS projects and making money from selling support and associated services (bespoke development, etc.)
The side-effects remind the user that he or she is taking a wow-must-be-powerful drug, which increases its placebo effect.
So why not just search for a drug that has no positive effects, and a few minor side-effects? It would be a pretty effective treatment against most diseases! Actually, probably quite a minor one; although I believe the placebo effect probably does exist, it's nothing like actually effective medication to tackle a problem.
Ironically, the one category of drugs that I've found do work pretty well against depression (benzodiazepines) are now recommended against because some people get addited to em. Bah, so what. I'm addicted to food and drink, I don't mind. At least these babies will really make you feel a noticable happiness effect.
If you think about it, courts are murder simulators, or at least very damaging to society. I mean, you can go there any day of the week, and see ruthless criminals! This would definitely damage impressionable young childrens' minds.
I suppose its time for someone to sit on the toilet for a week and come up with a cryptographic algorithm that resists a quantum computer, whatever that happens to be.
So that's where cryptographic algorithms come from? Damn, I've never felt so dirty to do online banking in my life.
Why do people create fonts that have NO distinction between capital I and lowercase l? I can understand them being similar, but you'd think someone would have the braincells to try and make SOME distinguishing feature.
And I write as a very satisfied Be Unlimited customer. Here's betting I don't pay much more than you for ADSL, but get a comparible level of bandwidth and NO capping or significant traffic shaping.
Don't reward those dickheads. Go with the better ISPs.
Have you all thought of the other possibility - the ISPs become honest and ignores their competition overnight, as you want them to, and we all get completely unlimited 512kbps connections for our £20 per month.
Frankly, I used to have a 512k/sec connection for about £25/mo from Zen Internet, until they discontinued it, and I was perfectly happy with it. The 0.001% of the time I could do with more than that bandwidth, I lived with it.
Why can't ISP's offer this package, exactly? Maybe only 1% of users would take it up, but they could still offer it. Instead you absolutely *HAVE* to go for 50 billion mbps cappet at 20 gigs per month transfer, at this price range.
Yeah, and in the UK you used to (still do?) get to pay for your local phone calls too. Which is ironic because a truly local phone call (i.e: one that stays within the same CO) costs the phone company nothing.
On the other hand, I hear that mobile phone owners in the US have to pay to *receive* phone calls, which seems absurd to me. The person with the time to research the cost of the phone call and the identity and location of who they're calling is the caller, and they should accept the full bill.
The other prime offender in this, I'm afraid, is the BBC. Just this evening I've been hearing from some asshole 'business correspondent' on Radio 5 Live who was interviewing a representitive of ISPs. He said something like "what's the problem here - these guys (the record labels) tell you who's breaking the law, and you chuck them off the internet." With idiocy like that going unchallenged on the mainstream media, no wonder the record industry and government get away with this.
Yeah! That's a really good idea, MS would be well advised to take it up.
(keep going peeps, we can get them to really believe this! then in a few years' time when interest rates rise, their $50 billion debt will cause them to collapse!)
And where are you, geographically? I have a theory that people in New England and California curiously seem to have vastly better returns on OkC than those in most other areas of the world...
I did it the old fashioned way myself--just as well because matching my geeky interests and my non-geeky interests would require polygamy--and it still feels attractive, intellectually.
Out of interest, what do you define as 'the old fashioned way'? There pretty much has never been one 'standard' way of meeting a good partner, and I don't think most people who do appreciate how lucky they've been. I guess common ways are bars or meeting them in school/college, but what are you defining as 'old fashioned'? Me, I can't find ways to meet women in the real world. Bah, maybe I shouldn't have said that, but what the hell it's Slashdot.:-P
I'm gonna ask you a genuine question here: how the heck do you get OkC to work for you? Seriously, I don't think my profile is bad, nasty, or even uninteresting. I'm not bad looking, and I search for women based on criteria that match the kind of people that I might match; I also answer a ton of their questions. And you know what? I send out 50 non-sexually-charged messages to women, I get maybe 1 response. And that's usually a grudging 'yeah whatever' type thing.
Maybe it's because I'm in the UK, and OkC is mainly US-based, I dunno. But I never got anywhere with that site.
That site is bizarre. A lot of those comments identify a man's location and give a photo, spouting negative stuff about him. Whilst I'm sure much of it is true, surely there are some bitche$ who just feel like being nasty about someone. That stuff is libellous, I'm not sure how it hasn't been sued out of existance yet. Maybe it's hosted in.nl?
This will sound bitter, but I'm gonna say it anyway.
OkCupid is the shittiest dating site I've ever had the misfortune to use. Because it is free, my experience is that many people use it as a blogging site, and have no intention of dating at all. At least with match.com, etc. people have PAID to sign up and should be half-serious about actually dating.
In addition, OkCupid's freeness seems to give it a male:female ratio of about 5 billion to 1. This means that females' accounts (with pics) tend to receive HUNDREDS of messages a day (I'm not exaggerating), and males' accounts usually receive none.
Don't waste your time with it, unless you don't give a shit about finding a date.
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The problem is - so far there has been no place except the forums for non-techies to participate and make their voices heard.
Not true actually. I investigated Linux distros a while back and was quite amazed at how hard it was to get your ideas for nerw features heard; Ubuntu was actually one of the only ones that did anything to listen. They've had the Idea Pool for a while now.
Only slight problem is, no one reads it. My idea has been on there for about a year now.
I vote for switching Ubuntu to an NT kernel. :-)
How old is the MS Windows NT kernel?
Possibly... then again, without MS and other conventional commercial outfits selling lots of closed source, companies may have sprung up contributing to FOSS projects and making money from selling support and associated services (bespoke development, etc.)
The side-effects remind the user that he or she is taking a wow-must-be-powerful drug, which increases its placebo effect.
So why not just search for a drug that has no positive effects, and a few minor side-effects? It would be a pretty effective treatment against most diseases! Actually, probably quite a minor one; although I believe the placebo effect probably does exist, it's nothing like actually effective medication to tackle a problem.
Ironically, the one category of drugs that I've found do work pretty well against depression (benzodiazepines) are now recommended against because some people get addited to em. Bah, so what. I'm addicted to food and drink, I don't mind. At least these babies will really make you feel a noticable happiness effect.
If you think about it, courts are murder simulators, or at least very damaging to society. I mean, you can go there any day of the week, and see ruthless criminals! This would definitely damage impressionable young childrens' minds.
I suppose its time for someone to sit on the toilet for a week and come up with a cryptographic algorithm that resists a quantum computer, whatever that happens to be.
So that's where cryptographic algorithms come from? Damn, I've never felt so dirty to do online banking in my life.
It's the whole package the search, the messenger and
... looks like it's not the whole package after all.
Why do people create fonts that have NO distinction between capital I and lowercase l? I can understand them being similar, but you'd think someone would have the braincells to try and make SOME distinguishing feature.
And I write as a very satisfied Be Unlimited customer. Here's betting I don't pay much more than you for ADSL, but get a comparible level of bandwidth and NO capping or significant traffic shaping.
Don't reward those dickheads. Go with the better ISPs.
Have you all thought of the other possibility - the ISPs become honest and ignores their competition overnight, as you want them to, and we all get completely unlimited 512kbps connections for our £20 per month.
Frankly, I used to have a 512k/sec connection for about £25/mo from Zen Internet, until they discontinued it, and I was perfectly happy with it. The 0.001% of the time I could do with more than that bandwidth, I lived with it.
Why can't ISP's offer this package, exactly? Maybe only 1% of users would take it up, but they could still offer it. Instead you absolutely *HAVE* to go for 50 billion mbps cappet at 20 gigs per month transfer, at this price range.
Yeah, and in the UK you used to (still do?) get to pay for your local phone calls too. Which is ironic because a truly local phone call (i.e: one that stays within the same CO) costs the phone company nothing.
On the other hand, I hear that mobile phone owners in the US have to pay to *receive* phone calls, which seems absurd to me. The person with the time to research the cost of the phone call and the identity and location of who they're calling is the caller, and they should accept the full bill.
Swings and roundabouts.
Why, because 10% of the population shoplift, or commit assault?
Hey, be greatful you even have him. My MP is this. Yeah, Ms. New Labour Bignose herself.
No, but it will be the ISPs' responsibility to make sure that content being downloaded doesn't have a record label's copyright. :-(
Our silly, stupid government.
Yep, this shit from our government is disgusting.
The other prime offender in this, I'm afraid, is the BBC. Just this evening I've been hearing from some asshole 'business correspondent' on Radio 5 Live who was interviewing a representitive of ISPs. He said something like "what's the problem here - these guys (the record labels) tell you who's breaking the law, and you chuck them off the internet." With idiocy like that going unchallenged on the mainstream media, no wonder the record industry and government get away with this.
The BBC need to clue up.
New idea:
Send MP3s by snail mail?
Yeah! That's a really good idea, MS would be well advised to take it up.
(keep going peeps, we can get them to really believe this! then in a few years' time when interest rates rise, their $50 billion debt will cause them to collapse!)
Of course it's obsolete.
Another thing that's obsolete is like maths, because we always have calculators now.
And where are you, geographically? I have a theory that people in New England and California curiously seem to have vastly better returns on OkC than those in most other areas of the world...
I did it the old fashioned way myself--just as well because matching my geeky interests and my non-geeky interests would require polygamy--and it still feels attractive, intellectually.
:-P
Out of interest, what do you define as 'the old fashioned way'? There pretty much has never been one 'standard' way of meeting a good partner, and I don't think most people who do appreciate how lucky they've been. I guess common ways are bars or meeting them in school/college, but what are you defining as 'old fashioned'? Me, I can't find ways to meet women in the real world. Bah, maybe I shouldn't have said that, but what the hell it's Slashdot.
I'm gonna ask you a genuine question here: how the heck do you get OkC to work for you? Seriously, I don't think my profile is bad, nasty, or even uninteresting. I'm not bad looking, and I search for women based on criteria that match the kind of people that I might match; I also answer a ton of their questions. And you know what? I send out 50 non-sexually-charged messages to women, I get maybe 1 response. And that's usually a grudging 'yeah whatever' type thing.
Maybe it's because I'm in the UK, and OkC is mainly US-based, I dunno. But I never got anywhere with that site.
That site is bizarre. A lot of those comments identify a man's location and give a photo, spouting negative stuff about him. Whilst I'm sure much of it is true, surely there are some bitche$ who just feel like being nasty about someone. That stuff is libellous, I'm not sure how it hasn't been sued out of existance yet. Maybe it's hosted in .nl?
This will sound bitter, but I'm gonna say it anyway.
OkCupid is the shittiest dating site I've ever had the misfortune to use. Because it is free, my experience is that many people use it as a blogging site, and have no intention of dating at all. At least with match.com, etc. people have PAID to sign up and should be half-serious about actually dating.
In addition, OkCupid's freeness seems to give it a male:female ratio of about 5 billion to 1. This means that females' accounts (with pics) tend to receive HUNDREDS of messages a day (I'm not exaggerating), and males' accounts usually receive none.
Don't waste your time with it, unless you don't give a shit about finding a date.
He did get a blog, it's just CmdrTaco's. :-)