The only technology that's ever interfered with my sleep is my neighbour's sub-woofer.
A friend of mine experienced this in reverse. When the neighbors talked with him, he aimed his sub-woofer at the room, not at the wall. Load of difference for them.
And seriously, does the skinnierness even matter? Sure, the rounded edge looks a helluva lot better than the old flat edge, but if it was the same thickness would anybody die?
The iPad 1 weighs 1.5 lb (680 g), and the new iPad 2 weighs 1.33 lb (600 g). That's about 12% less which is nice when you're trying to hold it like a book.
And that's a reasonable assumption, looking at the standard iBooks e-reader app, and others like Amazon's Kindle app.
I'd much rather have a full-featured tablet than one that is 2mm thinner but doesn't have the features I want.
Probably a thicker tablet means a bit more weight, too. After using an iPad on the couch for some weeks, I noticed that it's slightly too heavy to hold it up like a book. Lesser weight means easier holding.
Hmm...strangely enough....using many of the same ways I've always done it over the years before FB, and yet I still have decent privacy, and my exploits aren't search-able by anyone...especially potential employers or customers for contracting.
Eh? Why would your exploits be searchable by employers or customers? Facebook has really fine-grained settings, and is easy to configure to default to 'friends only'. I don't see how any of your contents would be searchable by anyone other than that.
People talk to their pets all the time, and although most pets have just as much of a chance of understanding what's being said as most computers, that doesn't strike people as odd.
There I disagree. Your pet will be used to you, and "read" your tone of voice and body language. It's actually quite funny. When I get up from my desk chair, my cat will immediately take that spot. When I get back and want my chair back, I'll say something "come on, get off, chop chop", and wave my hand around.
When I figured out it doesn't really matter which words I say, I sometimes said something in the same tone "get off or drown you in a pool of liquid shit". Which is fine for the cat, but appalled the missus.
If you are going to Saudi...co-workers couldn't wait to get the hell out of there. VERY SCARY PLACE. Public beheadings on Fridays.
If you're going to point to public beheadings as scary, maybe you'd like to think about the difference between public beheadings and the following:
"[...] the gusto with which the State of Texas enforces the death penalty (during his six years as Governor, G.W. Bush signed a death warrant once a fortnight on average)" -- Richard Dawkins.
Causes of stress included deleting unwanted contacts
The cool thing about Facebook is the fine-grained control you have over posts. It's possible to create lists of friends, and then by default exclude them, or vice versa exclusively post to a certain list.
Also, Facebook provides excellent tools to shield off photo's and wall posts from certain (groups of) people.
I write poetry. Quite badly, I might add. I've created a list of people who will be subject to these posts, and whenever I put something on my wall, I change the visibility to that specific list.
This is nicely reflected in statistics on domestic violence. If you'd ask friends or colleagues what the statistics are on men at the receiving end of domestic violence, they'd probably laugh.
OK I see where you're coming from. I'm a bit of a geek so I like the useless bits of knowledge that come with art. When I go to some piece of classical music, I look it up on Wikipedia beforehand and often there's an interesting story behind it. So-and-so wrote this piece because it's thought he was in love with his best friend's wife. It makes the stuff more interesting (or palatable:-)). I also keep the brochures so I know afterwards what I like and don't like. When it comes to art, I don't like impressionism or weird, abstract stuff like Picasso. I do like modern art. When it comes to music, I don't like musicals, but I do like the pompous stuff from Mahler/Mozart/Beethoven.
I agree there's lots of creepy stuff out there. That's why I recommended DeAngelo's latest stuff. He's much more on the "good" side of the equation. He's done a couple of items together with Dr. Paul Dobransky, who's got a really theoretical/schematical angle on psychology.
The creepy stuff mainly comes from the immature guys out there. I've been to a seminar organized by the Love Systems people. Nice guys, but in the audience were a bunch of 20-year-olds asking creepy and weird questions. "How do I get laid in the bathroom of a club". They answered the questions, but followed up with "but why would you want to do that?"
I've seen it done right by friends. Below the surface, there's basically the quest for a nice woman to love and hold, not to keep horsing around for the rest of their lives.
It would be interesting to dive into research, to see what factors in upbringing influence social skills. Must be there somewhere.
Your anecdotal evidence sounds logical, and I could agree but in the meantime, I think that your character as given by nature (not nurture) plays a big role here, too. I'm not too heavy on the more 'manly' qualities, after having done a few psychological tests.
I felt it was hard to make bold moves, to get the women that I wanted. The available documentation shows that's only natural, and the latest evolutionary psychology provides good explanations. That was just the thing I needed to walk up to my current girlfriend and show her who's daddy:-)
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You didn't get the Manual? Heck, you can download it on PDF now!
I'm not going to spoonfeed those instructions to my baby. Let the little critter download it himself.
The only technology that's ever interfered with my sleep is my neighbour's sub-woofer.
A friend of mine experienced this in reverse. When the neighbors talked with him, he aimed his sub-woofer at the room, not at the wall. Load of difference for them.
And seriously, does the skinnierness even matter? Sure, the rounded edge looks a helluva lot better than the old flat edge, but if it was the same thickness would anybody die?
The iPad 1 weighs 1.5 lb (680 g), and the new iPad 2 weighs 1.33 lb (600 g). That's about 12% less which is nice when you're trying to hold it like a book.
And that's a reasonable assumption, looking at the standard iBooks e-reader app, and others like Amazon's Kindle app.
I'd much rather have a full-featured tablet than one that is 2mm thinner but doesn't have the features I want.
Probably a thicker tablet means a bit more weight, too. After using an iPad on the couch for some weeks, I noticed that it's slightly too heavy to hold it up like a book. Lesser weight means easier holding.
I wrote a very nice Lisp program once upon a time
That's not a very subtle troll. You fail for Troll University.
Oh, another good place to look for the oddities that are buried in your Unix system is to go to "info date"
I remember the Solaris "truss" man page (equivalent to Linux' strace command) documenting some option, closing with:
This option is for unredeemed hackers who must see the raw bits to be happy.
The original formatter was named roff, short for run off.
No, it was street slang for rough, because that's how Unix hackers like it.
Hmm...strangely enough....using many of the same ways I've always done it over the years before FB, and yet I still have decent privacy, and my exploits aren't search-able by anyone...especially potential employers or customers for contracting.
Eh? Why would your exploits be searchable by employers or customers? Facebook has really fine-grained settings, and is easy to configure to default to 'friends only'. I don't see how any of your contents would be searchable by anyone other than that.
Agreed. Universities are usually willing to sponsor students who submit their work to conferences .
Do factor in the costs of blackjack and hookers. Them young 'uns forget basic necessities when it comes to travel expenses.
I don't see any of that and I'm using FireFox on OS X and Linux, with tons of extensions. So there.
If the computer is plainly just presenting itself as a voice interface it won't feel creepy for very long if at all.
I wonder what 'plainly presenting' would mean.
"Hey, you, yes you silly human"
"Halt, meatbag"
"Hello there. Hello. Here, you idiot, the black PC on your left hand."
People talk to their pets all the time, and although most pets have just as much of a chance of understanding what's being said as most computers, that doesn't strike people as odd.
There I disagree. Your pet will be used to you, and "read" your tone of voice and body language. It's actually quite funny. When I get up from my desk chair, my cat will immediately take that spot. When I get back and want my chair back, I'll say something "come on, get off, chop chop", and wave my hand around.
When I figured out it doesn't really matter which words I say, I sometimes said something in the same tone "get off or drown you in a pool of liquid shit". Which is fine for the cat, but appalled the missus.
speech could be useful in communicating our desires to a computer, which then carries them out in a much more autonomous fashion than today.
"KILL THEM!"
If you are going to Saudi...co-workers couldn't wait to get the hell out of there. VERY SCARY PLACE. Public beheadings on Fridays.
If you're going to point to public beheadings as scary, maybe you'd like to think about the difference between public beheadings and the following:
"[...] the gusto with which the State of Texas enforces the death penalty (during his six years as Governor, G.W. Bush signed a death warrant once a fortnight on average)" -- Richard Dawkins.
an image the size of the screen ( 600x800, I think ) takes well over a second to render..
Do you have any good measurements for this? Or have you been working with old Kindles or something?
I regularly read comics on the Kindle 3, and I don't notice any difference between flipping a page of a comic, and a normal text page.
Causes of stress included deleting unwanted contacts
The cool thing about Facebook is the fine-grained control you have over posts. It's possible to create lists of friends, and then by default exclude them, or vice versa exclusively post to a certain list.
Someone on IRC already invented such a device.
Also, Facebook provides excellent tools to shield off photo's and wall posts from certain (groups of) people.
I write poetry. Quite badly, I might add. I've created a list of people who will be subject to these posts, and whenever I put something on my wall, I change the visibility to that specific list.
You know you don't have to go to the hospital to work on your computer, right? It's fine to do it at home.
Well, this IS Windows XP he's talking about.
I know one of the stores here in Australia, use the Zip (Post Code here) to decide whether it's worthwhile building stores in new areas.
Clever, shifting costs of marketing research onto the client.
On second thought, maybe it's not clever.
For the Netherlands, if you come from Rotterdam, we have something similar.
Your name will be: "Jan de Wit, Witte de Witstraat 1, Rotterdam".
There also used to be a tradition of giving a fake phone number ending at 4711, which was (is?) a famous brand of eau de cologne.
This is nicely reflected in statistics on domestic violence. If you'd ask friends or colleagues what the statistics are on men at the receiving end of domestic violence, they'd probably laugh.
Fact is, approximately 1.3 million women and 835,000 men are physically assaulted by an intimate partner annually in the United States. It's not like the 95%/5% distribution that most people think about.
OK I see where you're coming from. I'm a bit of a geek so I like the useless bits of knowledge that come with art. When I go to some piece of classical music, I look it up on Wikipedia beforehand and often there's an interesting story behind it. So-and-so wrote this piece because it's thought he was in love with his best friend's wife. It makes the stuff more interesting (or palatable :-)). I also keep the brochures so I know afterwards what I like and don't like. When it comes to art, I don't like impressionism or weird, abstract stuff like Picasso. I do like modern art. When it comes to music, I don't like musicals, but I do like the pompous stuff from Mahler/Mozart/Beethoven.
I agree there's lots of creepy stuff out there. That's why I recommended DeAngelo's latest stuff. He's much more on the "good" side of the equation. He's done a couple of items together with Dr. Paul Dobransky, who's got a really theoretical/schematical angle on psychology.
The creepy stuff mainly comes from the immature guys out there. I've been to a seminar organized by the Love Systems people. Nice guys, but in the audience were a bunch of 20-year-olds asking creepy and weird questions. "How do I get laid in the bathroom of a club". They answered the questions, but followed up with "but why would you want to do that?"
I've seen it done right by friends. Below the surface, there's basically the quest for a nice woman to love and hold, not to keep horsing around for the rest of their lives.
It would be interesting to dive into research, to see what factors in upbringing influence social skills. Must be there somewhere.
Your anecdotal evidence sounds logical, and I could agree but in the meantime, I think that your character as given by nature (not nurture) plays a big role here, too. I'm not too heavy on the more 'manly' qualities, after having done a few psychological tests.
I felt it was hard to make bold moves, to get the women that I wanted. The available documentation shows that's only natural, and the latest evolutionary psychology provides good explanations. That was just the thing I needed to walk up to my current girlfriend and show her who's daddy :-)