I completely agree with this. I have family and friends in the UK, friends & colleagues in Germany, school-friends all over the world, ex-colleagues all over the world and I live in Canada.
I like to keep up with old friends, see what they are up to, talk to them about it if it's something interesting, post pics for family & friends.
If I had to do all this without FaceBook i'd have to write creepy mass-e-mails to all my acquaintances asking what they are up to or if they have done anything interesting of late. These are the sort of e-mails you only tend to send to closer friends and on a more individual level. Doing that for everyone, every day/week/month/whatever would be a huge inconvenience.
Or maybe you could rely on people to e-mail their friends with everything they are doing. When Johnny from school decides to, say, start building a homebuilt car from scratch, he'd have to e-mail everyone he knows about it, distant friends probably wouldn't be on that list. By posting it on FB, I would get to see it and could talk to him about it and maybe re-spark that friendship.
Likewise, I would have to e-mail everyone-i-know about every-interesting-thing-i-do and it would get annoying & cumbersome, quickly.
FB is a fantastic aggregator tool for distant friend networks like this. Yes there are privacy concerns and other options would be great, but it's the only aggregation service that everybody and their mother can and will use. Just be careful with what you put on there.
Now I get that if you don't have friends/family that you want to keep up with, or you live in the same town and see them all the time, or if you are happy just e-mailing/calling/SMSing/visiting whatever friends/family/clients/colleagues you have then sure, FB aint for you and that's OK.
Not really related to guns, i'm not into them, but i've seen this in convo a few times now and always wondered...
How much is 'worth as much as a car' exactly? My first car was 50 quid. Lots of cars are a hundred or two, or a thousand or two. Or maybe you mean new cars. They start at what, 5K? So I guess you mean 'a significant multiple of thousands'. Or maybe you mean a new car you'd actually want, so like 20K+? 'a significant multiple of ten thousand'? Or maybe you mean a couple of million?
So, it's somewhere between 50 quid and 2 million. Got it:)
How soon after (I assume, cranial) impact would the archer's hand unintentionally release the tensioned bow? And would it be soon enough that the archer's body has moved enough to make said shot go too far off-target? Maybe you need to aim lower in this scenario just in-case this does happen and then it aims higher as you start to fall back. At least that way, if he gets you, you still get him.
"There are also some bizarre inconsistencies in the design of Ubuntu apps. All the preinstalled apps have the Close, Maximise and Minimise buttons in the top left-hand corner of the window. Yet, others – such as the Linux version of Google Chrome – adopt the Windows convention of placing them in the top right."
Not so on mine, I wonder what they did wrong.
Not that I like the new placement or anything, but i'm getting used to it...
Just yesterday I was talking with my colleagues about this. How I would find and fortify a building, a few petrol lorries, raid a few supermarkets for non-perishables etc etc when someone pointed out the first thing they'd do, something that would enable them to easily get my aforementioned petrol, food & shelter from me.
Guns lol.
Not being a yank, it's not my first thought, but it's a very valid point in such a world.
When I was a kid, I had an old fashioned chunky cassette recorder in my bedroom. I discovered that with a spool of telecoms wire my Grandad gave me, I could run a wire from the cassette recorders output stage to a hidden speaker in the living room downstairs so I could 'talk' to my parents. It was just something to play with.
Every now and then, I would hear French (I was in Surrey in the UK) radio coming from the speaker in the cassette recorder. Even though the device had no radio, it seems the length of wire somehow turned it into a short wave radio.
Another time, I had my 1000W alpine amp in my Mini (250W on my Pioneer 6x9's and 500W on the 12" Pioneer sub in the back seat). At the time, I had no head unit in the car, but the amp was still powered up and the RCA cables still snaked from the amp in the boot to the front of the car.
I was driving past an emergency situation, with my windows shut when all of a sudden I heard a short blip of police comms radio blasting out of the amp. Ouch.
Saying "don't make them smaller, make them cheaper instead" is like saying "don't add horsepower to my car, just make it go faster"*.
Sorry, bad car analogy, I'm currently thinking of building a ~120hp(at an entry level, at least) beast of a car. Not much power, but very, very much, faster than a *typical* car with similar power.
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Yeah, cos my mum knows how to do this.
I completely agree with this. I have family and friends in the UK, friends & colleagues in Germany, school-friends all over the world, ex-colleagues all over the world and I live in Canada.
I like to keep up with old friends, see what they are up to, talk to them about it if it's something interesting, post pics for family & friends.
If I had to do all this without FaceBook i'd have to write creepy mass-e-mails to all my acquaintances asking what they are up to or if they have done anything interesting of late. These are the sort of e-mails you only tend to send to closer friends and on a more individual level. Doing that for everyone, every day/week/month/whatever would be a huge inconvenience.
Or maybe you could rely on people to e-mail their friends with everything they are doing. When Johnny from school decides to, say, start building a homebuilt car from scratch, he'd have to e-mail everyone he knows about it, distant friends probably wouldn't be on that list. By posting it on FB, I would get to see it and could talk to him about it and maybe re-spark that friendship.
Likewise, I would have to e-mail everyone-i-know about every-interesting-thing-i-do and it would get annoying & cumbersome, quickly.
FB is a fantastic aggregator tool for distant friend networks like this. Yes there are privacy concerns and other options would be great, but it's the only aggregation service that everybody and their mother can and will use. Just be careful with what you put on there.
Now I get that if you don't have friends/family that you want to keep up with, or you live in the same town and see them all the time, or if you are happy just e-mailing/calling/SMSing/visiting whatever friends/family/clients/colleagues you have then sure, FB aint for you and that's OK.
Why didn't you just post the link?
Like this? http://unshorten.com/
I just 'thought of' that only to find it was done aages ago...
Not really related to guns, i'm not into them, but i've seen this in convo a few times now and always wondered...
:)
How much is 'worth as much as a car' exactly? My first car was 50 quid. Lots of cars are a hundred or two, or a thousand or two. Or maybe you mean new cars. They start at what, 5K? So I guess you mean 'a significant multiple of thousands'. Or maybe you mean a new car you'd actually want, so like 20K+? 'a significant multiple of ten thousand'? Or maybe you mean a couple of million?
So, it's somewhere between 50 quid and 2 million. Got it
How soon after (I assume, cranial) impact would the archer's hand unintentionally release the tensioned bow? And would it be soon enough that the archer's body has moved enough to make said shot go too far off-target? Maybe you need to aim lower in this scenario just in-case this does happen and then it aims higher as you start to fall back. At least that way, if he gets you, you still get him.
If you pay more for a non-crippleware version of Windows 7, yeah.
"There are also some bizarre inconsistencies in the design of Ubuntu apps. All the preinstalled apps have the Close, Maximise and Minimise buttons in the top left-hand corner of the window. Yet, others – such as the Linux version of Google Chrome – adopt the Windows convention of placing them in the top right."
Not so on mine, I wonder what they did wrong.
Not that I like the new placement or anything, but i'm getting used to it...
Informative? Seriously?
"what do you get if you multiply six by nine"
Well it'd be a bit of a 'round-the-houses' method, but we'd have invented AI.. Finally!
This. And quickly, i'm running out of time.
I'd worry if I were you. I'm not a surgeon.
I thought the same.
Now grab a handful of sand and try throwing it in the direction of a target *without* hitting it.
Definitely commercial-only. The world only needs five quantum computers.
Don't do that! Don't you fucking do that! Don't blow this shit off! What just happened was a fucking miracle!
Wow, if your code can get me an instant +2 interesting on /. , just imagine what it could do with my bosses!!
similarly the fully integrated test program recognizes the importance of other systems and the necessity for the top-down development method
You also haven't seen ME and Davros in the same place at the same time. You better be careful.
Just yesterday I was talking with my colleagues about this. How I would find and fortify a building, a few petrol lorries, raid a few supermarkets for non-perishables etc etc when someone pointed out the first thing they'd do, something that would enable them to easily get my aforementioned petrol, food & shelter from me.
Guns lol.
Not being a yank, it's not my first thought, but it's a very valid point in such a world.
Well, why don't you go and tell him you want games?
When I was a kid, I had an old fashioned chunky cassette recorder in my bedroom. I discovered that with a spool of telecoms wire my Grandad gave me, I could run a wire from the cassette recorders output stage to a hidden speaker in the living room downstairs so I could 'talk' to my parents. It was just something to play with.
Every now and then, I would hear French (I was in Surrey in the UK) radio coming from the speaker in the cassette recorder. Even though the device had no radio, it seems the length of wire somehow turned it into a short wave radio.
Another time, I had my 1000W alpine amp in my Mini (250W on my Pioneer 6x9's and 500W on the 12" Pioneer sub in the back seat). At the time, I had no head unit in the car, but the amp was still powered up and the RCA cables still snaked from the amp in the boot to the front of the car.
I was driving past an emergency situation, with my windows shut when all of a sudden I heard a short blip of police comms radio blasting out of the amp. Ouch.
So yeah, sometimes you can pick up odd stuff.
By which, I meant you don't have to add power, you can add lightness instead.
Saying "don't make them smaller, make them cheaper instead" is like saying "don't add horsepower to my car, just make it go faster"*.
Sorry, bad car analogy, I'm currently thinking of building a ~120hp(at an entry level, at least) beast of a car. Not much power, but very, very much, faster than a *typical* car with similar power.