Why would you? If you don't really understand it, it's just not one of your characteristics. You have other strengths.
When I listen to music, or look at certain art, I sometimes get a bodily response. Hairs stand on the back of my neck, or I get a shiver up and down my spine. Just says I have some sort of sensitivity to this kind of stuff.
All the latest material by David DeAngelo is very good. It's available on torrent sites, if you're tight on money. He had a name as a "pick up artist", i.e. stupid, manipulative tricks instead of honest character building, but that's not the case anymore. The stuff by Love Systems is very good too, with a systematical approach that suits me (as a geek) perfectly. Their guide is called Magic Bullets and basically it's a step-by-step guide. If you need a hand, check out the forums at The Attraction Forums.
If you're a USian, there are a lot of master classes which take you by the hand and teach you all the social skills you need. They're given either by one of the above mentioned parties, or any number of small businesses that are in this market too.
Certainly some geeks could give a rat's ass about how they appear to others, so they come off as anti-social, but that's often by choice.
Funny thing is, if they choose to be social, then a geek would probably hit the mark. I've seen some friends of mine turn 30 and say, "I'm sick of this life as a single, I'm going out". Took a bunch of books on socializing, being yourself around women, etc, and they broke the code. They either have strained backs/hips or have found a woman for a stable relationship.
I'm convinced that geeks, who often have enough intelligence, can learn social skills very easily just by checking the available documentation.
no longer will you get hassle from the Mrs. when she finds out you accepted a friend request from a girl you used to date 15 years ago
Heh, that actually happened to me, as well. Party at a friend's place, but the missus stays home. I chat with a girl and really like her, but no schmoozing or anything. Via my smartphone, I 'friend' her on Facebook. Next morning missus pulls open my laptop, logs STRAIGHT into Facebook and sees the message from the girl "Hi, great party last night!".
I learned there's no denying the primal fears that run through a woman's mind when it comes to other women. You can say 'get rid of your SO' and I actually agree on that one (we split up), but still -- careful with this shit.
More on topic: the example above both shows the power and the weakness of Facebook. It works very powerfully, but on the other hand, it's JUST A FUCKING WEBSITE. It's not even selling anything real.
Here in The Netherlands, we had T-Mobile as the sole distributor of the iPhone. Since one or two months, the other carriers offer the iPhone as well. Problem is, they don't always specify what works and what doesn't. For example Vodafone doesn't offer Visual Voicemail. I think this is a very nice feature and if it's missing, this should be well-noted. Other carriers offer them with a very tight data limit, which makes watching Youtube and the evening news, or using Spotify, uninteresting.
So I applaud the fact that this freaking phone is available but I'd suggest other slashdotters that they are careful and look at the whole package. And there's something else as well: there's a new iPhone expected around June. Wait a little bit for a discount, or get the latest model.
"There's nothing fundamental in Android that would get in the way of a industrial-design and user-experience rock-star team, whether at Google or one of the handset makers"
Nothing fundamental in Android, no. Except the solid design/UI-experience from Apple doesn't have anything to do with technology, but rather with the whole company structure and culture. I don't think that can be emulated by putting together "an industrial-design and user-experience rock-star team" and then planting it at Google or HTC or Samsung or whatever.
Big numbers, but you have to be very careful what you pick. Do you want to go with community-based support? Pick the most-used module. Want to maintain it yourself? Pick the one with the best code quality. Do you need specific performance? Test them all. Et cetera.
Besides, it's pretty obvious that Perl usage is slowly declining. The idiosyncrasies of Perl 5 get very annoying. And Perl 6 has been 10 years in development and is still not very popular in production and everybody is switching to more modern languages like Python and Ruby. At my job (a scientific institute), we're ditching Perl 5 for Python.
Locate the following keys on the keyboard: Command, Option, P, and R. You will need to hold these keys down simultaneously in step 4. Turn on the computer.
Look, NOWHERE in the knowledge base article, Apple says that you need to use fingers to hold down those keys.
To suggest there's not much work behind it, well, you start thinking about the organization (in manpower as well as capital) necessary for running a publishing system.
Such a system needs a petabyte-sized database system system, including (S)FTP/rsync/tunneled/VPN'ed connectors which connect to many different kinds of users. These users need a rights management system for printers, typesetters, authors, reviewers and their managers. The content themselves can be in all sorts of different stages, from scanned hand written (yes, some profs write their papers by hand) to peer-reviewed to print ready, and this has to be reflected in the database. A helpdesk is necessary to handle the user management, a sales desk is necessary to talk to customers, and purchasers to handle printer and typesetter relations.
Sure, there's good money to be made. But you also need to make a good amount of costs.
The scientific literature world is pretty strange. Usually you pay around 90$ per page to get your article published in a paid journal. The journal doesn't have to do much for that. The reviewers work for free so they only have to send some letters around and do the typesetting. To have the article 'in the open' you pay a staggering 3000$ for which they do nothing! Amazing
That's pretty short-sighted. I've helped building a system for a well-known publisher which "sends some letters around" as you so succinctly describe. We've worked for it for two years, with a 10+ people team at the project peak.
"Can you build it? We don't have any money right now, but we'll give you a percentage of the profits."
I've encountered this many times as well. I've done freelance software engineering work. A couple of times, I considered investing some time as well, but I always required at least a thousand or so to see if they're really serious. I consider $1000 something that's pocket change and should be in any working person's savings account. So great was their trust in their ideas, that they weren't ready to put this in escrow for their AMAZING and LIFE CHANGING idea. I've gotten a bit jaded after that.
The embedded MOTD screen used some flaw in the embedded IE engine that was able to infect my system.
This wouldn't have happened if you just had logged in as a normal user (in Windows terms; restricted user) instead of administrator. You said:
go as far as to say I think I know what I'm doing.
but actually, I don't think you've taken into account the good practice of NOT logging in as administrator. And before you reply 'but Steam needs administrator rights', I say: Installing Steam on a Limited Windows User Account.
But somehow, it is "unforgivably" wrong when a man hits a woman, but not when a woman hits a man. That's the problem the OP is getting at, and I agree. If we are going to treat the sexes as equals, then they should both be equally strikeable for strikeable offenses. (EG, did they hit you? If so, you should be justified to hit back
Justified perhaps, yes. But would it be the right thing to do?
Besides, search the web and find the many references to abused women, and almost zero references to abused men. It's a taboo in Western civilization.
Each of which having to deal with systems far less redundant and scalable than what we can set up in IT.
Try dealing with my girlfriend, for god's sake. Very unreliable, and I haven't even tried the scalability. I've tried to set her up redundant but she wouldn't have any of it.
... yeah, until you start to fear the beer, because you realize that all that beer is slowly destroying you. Some people quit before that point, some do it at that point, and some do never quit. Which group do you belong to?
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I don't really understand art. I would like to.
Why would you? If you don't really understand it, it's just not one of your characteristics. You have other strengths.
When I listen to music, or look at certain art, I sometimes get a bodily response. Hairs stand on the back of my neck, or I get a shiver up and down my spine. Just says I have some sort of sensitivity to this kind of stuff.
If you don't, then you don't.
All the latest material by David DeAngelo is very good. It's available on torrent sites, if you're tight on money. He had a name as a "pick up artist", i.e. stupid, manipulative tricks instead of honest character building, but that's not the case anymore. The stuff by Love Systems is very good too, with a systematical approach that suits me (as a geek) perfectly. Their guide is called Magic Bullets and basically it's a step-by-step guide. If you need a hand, check out the forums at The Attraction Forums.
If you're a USian, there are a lot of master classes which take you by the hand and teach you all the social skills you need. They're given either by one of the above mentioned parties, or any number of small businesses that are in this market too.
Certainly some geeks could give a rat's ass about how they appear to others, so they come off as anti-social, but that's often by choice.
Funny thing is, if they choose to be social, then a geek would probably hit the mark. I've seen some friends of mine turn 30 and say, "I'm sick of this life as a single, I'm going out". Took a bunch of books on socializing, being yourself around women, etc, and they broke the code. They either have strained backs/hips or have found a woman for a stable relationship.
I'm convinced that geeks, who often have enough intelligence, can learn social skills very easily just by checking the available documentation.
applaud Fake Steve Jobs for his tact and judgment in this case
In this particular case, yes. Unfortunately, his second-to-last blog post compared pictures of Steve Ballmer and Jared Loughner.
no longer will you get hassle from the Mrs. when she finds out you accepted a friend request from a girl you used to date 15 years ago
Heh, that actually happened to me, as well. Party at a friend's place, but the missus stays home. I chat with a girl and really like her, but no schmoozing or anything. Via my smartphone, I 'friend' her on Facebook. Next morning missus pulls open my laptop, logs STRAIGHT into Facebook and sees the message from the girl "Hi, great party last night!".
I learned there's no denying the primal fears that run through a woman's mind when it comes to other women. You can say 'get rid of your SO' and I actually agree on that one (we split up), but still -- careful with this shit.
More on topic: the example above both shows the power and the weakness of Facebook. It works very powerfully, but on the other hand, it's JUST A FUCKING WEBSITE. It's not even selling anything real.
Here in The Netherlands, we had T-Mobile as the sole distributor of the iPhone. Since one or two months, the other carriers offer the iPhone as well. Problem is, they don't always specify what works and what doesn't. For example Vodafone doesn't offer Visual Voicemail. I think this is a very nice feature and if it's missing, this should be well-noted. Other carriers offer them with a very tight data limit, which makes watching Youtube and the evening news, or using Spotify, uninteresting.
So I applaud the fact that this freaking phone is available but I'd suggest other slashdotters that they are careful and look at the whole package. And there's something else as well: there's a new iPhone expected around June. Wait a little bit for a discount, or get the latest model.
Bwahahaha sir, that is truly evil! Life-wise, I'm not there yet, but I'll definitely take your sly tactics to heart.
Jim Getty, one of the original X Window System developers and editor of the HTTP/1.1 spec
I'd murder four people just to have TTY in my name. Five if I could capitalize them, and postfix with a number. I'd name my son Dev.
You'd get a business card with something like Dev GeTTY1, Armadillo Avenue 64, Seattle, Washington
Noise canceling headphones.[...] reduces all kinds of noise problems, not just cell phones
Holy shiiiite, that thing costs almost 400 bucks!
Quote FTFA:
"There's nothing fundamental in Android that would get in the way of a industrial-design and user-experience rock-star team, whether at Google or one of the handset makers"
Nothing fundamental in Android, no. Except the solid design/UI-experience from Apple doesn't have anything to do with technology, but rather with the whole company structure and culture. I don't think that can be emulated by putting together "an industrial-design and user-experience rock-star team" and then planting it at Google or HTC or Samsung or whatever.
My bill is usually in the sub 10 EUR range each month.
Then you don't have a smartphone. Because I live in NL and there's no way you can text, call AND have ~500MB data for 10 EUR.
Big numbers, but you have to be very careful what you pick. Do you want to go with community-based support? Pick the most-used module. Want to maintain it yourself? Pick the one with the best code quality. Do you need specific performance? Test them all. Et cetera.
Besides, it's pretty obvious that Perl usage is slowly declining. The idiosyncrasies of Perl 5 get very annoying. And Perl 6 has been 10 years in development and is still not very popular in production and everybody is switching to more modern languages like Python and Ruby. At my job (a scientific institute), we're ditching Perl 5 for Python.
Locate the following keys on the keyboard: Command, Option, P, and R. You will need to hold these keys down simultaneously in step 4. Turn on the computer.
Look, NOWHERE in the knowledge base article, Apple says that you need to use fingers to hold down those keys.
To suggest there's not much work behind it, well, you start thinking about the organization (in manpower as well as capital) necessary for running a publishing system.
Such a system needs a petabyte-sized database system system, including (S)FTP/rsync/tunneled/VPN'ed connectors which connect to many different kinds of users. These users need a rights management system for printers, typesetters, authors, reviewers and their managers. The content themselves can be in all sorts of different stages, from scanned hand written (yes, some profs write their papers by hand) to peer-reviewed to print ready, and this has to be reflected in the database. A helpdesk is necessary to handle the user management, a sales desk is necessary to talk to customers, and purchasers to handle printer and typesetter relations.
Sure, there's good money to be made. But you also need to make a good amount of costs.
The scientific literature world is pretty strange. Usually you pay around 90$ per page to get your article published in a paid journal. The journal doesn't have to do much for that. The reviewers work for free so they only have to send some letters around and do the typesetting. To have the article 'in the open' you pay a staggering 3000$ for which they do nothing! Amazing
That's pretty short-sighted. I've helped building a system for a well-known publisher which "sends some letters around" as you so succinctly describe. We've worked for it for two years, with a 10+ people team at the project peak.
But perhaps you can do the job for free.
A little googling informed me that in most cases, going down on her does not raise her chances of getting a yeast infection.
Do you have a good source on your statement?
As a male, I really like how the summary starts with "He or she has cheated". It doesn't paint infidelity as a typical male thing. I'm sick of the rosy picture in which this society paints our women. The most conservative statistics say that close to 50% of females admit to sexual infidelity. And yes, women are horny and have fun but not with their partner although in a different way from men, and yes, women frequently strike out at their partners, and not simply in self-defense; in 24% of violent American marriages, the woman is the only abuser. I vividly remember the Teen mom lashing out episode of the MTV show Teen Mom, where she throws a few jabs and a right hook in her boyfriend's face.
They're humans, just like men.
"Can you build it? We don't have any money right now, but we'll give you a percentage of the profits."
I've encountered this many times as well. I've done freelance software engineering work. A couple of times, I considered investing some time as well, but I always required at least a thousand or so to see if they're really serious. I consider $1000 something that's pocket change and should be in any working person's savings account. So great was their trust in their ideas, that they weren't ready to put this in escrow for their AMAZING and LIFE CHANGING idea. I've gotten a bit jaded after that.
Also, you are an idiot.
You must be a blast at parties.
I don't believe that everyone I know who has an iPhone (inculding myself, and my entire immediate family) is an overly emotional nutcase.
That seems hard to believe with Apple getting hit with an class-action law suit. There are plenty of people who will probably never going to buy an Apple phone again.
The embedded MOTD screen used some flaw in the embedded IE engine that was able to infect my system.
This wouldn't have happened if you just had logged in as a normal user (in Windows terms; restricted user) instead of administrator. You said:
go as far as to say I think I know what I'm doing.
but actually, I don't think you've taken into account the good practice of NOT logging in as administrator. And before you reply 'but Steam needs administrator rights', I say: Installing Steam on a Limited Windows User Account.
Someone mod this +5 goddamn funny, please...
But somehow, it is "unforgivably" wrong when a man hits a woman, but not when a woman hits a man. That's the problem the OP is getting at, and I agree. If we are going to treat the sexes as equals, then they should both be equally strikeable for strikeable offenses. (EG, did they hit you? If so, you should be justified to hit back
Justified perhaps, yes. But would it be the right thing to do?
Besides, search the web and find the many references to abused women, and almost zero references to abused men. It's a taboo in Western civilization.
Each of which having to deal with systems far less redundant and scalable than what we can set up in IT.
Try dealing with my girlfriend, for god's sake. Very unreliable, and I haven't even tried the scalability. I've tried to set her up redundant but she wouldn't have any of it.
... yeah, until you start to fear the beer, because you realize that all that beer is slowly destroying you. Some people quit before that point, some do it at that point, and some do never quit. Which group do you belong to?
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