The point is, Ebay has figured out a way to make zillions while steering all possible risk to the consumer. This is genius. Unlike any other business I can think of. Sure, shopping on Ebay has changed - you can't move an inch without being cautioned to Know Your Seller and similar worthless crap.
It's gotten even more specific: don't buy from sellers who demand wire payment. Who refuse escrow. And above all, rest assured, your purchases are protected up to a big fat $200.
I have this incredible idea - but no one at Ebay seems interested. How about, don't give sellers the option in the first place to list high-ticket items without escrow service?
How about that?
And "Feedback?" Clap your hands three times if you believe in Feedback.
I figured it out. Ebay uses their customers for friggin' scam triage. I came across new Powerbooks at absurd prices, sent inquiries - and heard from five different guys. In Spain. At the same address. Special deal. Wire money first, please.
Emailed Ebay - next morning, all gone. Fine - but try finding the form to email Ebay. The least, the very, very least they could do is a small "report suspect listings" button.
A "community." "Built on trust." Sure, Meg. Need another wheelbarrow? or does the bank come to you.
Jesus, this is sooo depressing. I *just* got an agent interested in my novel last week! ... Yes, I have used Limewire. The new version is sooo fast, on OS X, it hardly feels like st-- Yes I'm in stealth mode, thanks for asking. But listen, could we hold off on the print thing just a little bit? Say (counts on fingers) a year? Is that asking too much?
His first sentence is dead on - it's that immediate leap to concentration camps. Boring. Hack thinking - and I couldn't be less interested in pointless martyrdom.
Posting radical thought to the web. ..and also providing *bomb* instructions. Duh?
Flawed, juvenile thinking. I hope the message this sends is, Adults only, please.
I'm always astonished in discussions of ADD how little people know, and how much they have to say about it.
If you have a genetic or environmental cause for low reuptake of dopamine, your Exectutive Function - the name of area of the brain that, yes, instigates, organizes and executes - will be crippled. To a larger or lesser extent, but crippled nonetheless. Evidence that this is an inheritied condition was discovered at Brookhaven, only a few years ago, a glitch on one of the dopamine aelles.
It is perfectly possible to be unable to execute a single shred of all the good advice on this thread. I am hopeful of the day when psycholgy is no longer confused with functional brain conditions.
One of the most common misunderstandings about ADD comes from people who say, Hell, I'm not ADD, I can focus for hours and hours! Attention Deficit does not mean you cannot pay attention, it means that your ability to direct your own attention is not entirely volitional; your brain cannot organize itself. One is thus vulnerable to any strong pull in the environment, pleasant or un-. ADDers can hyperfocus like nobody's business - on something that interests them. And of life of endless interests minus the ability to shape and direct them is most definitely a circle of hell.
With just enough dopamine to keep distrability in check, the ability to hyperfocus can make for an Einstein, a Tolstoy; that enviable state of being in the Flow. But the Flow is yet another hell, when you can't do anything else. When your life is a combination of endless periods of Flow - and endless periods when you cannot *do* a single thing at all.
Small doses of amphetamines have the seemingly paradoxical effect of organizing the thoughts, of focusing the lens of the mind. No one can judge what it means to someone with ADD to be being able to focus at will, yet just about everybody does.
It means being able to set goals, to begin work, to end work. To accomplish what others take for granted. Which has, in other words, nothing to do with moral fibre at all.
As to those who brag about getting by on caffeine instead of those nasty drugs - sheer ignorance. Bragging about the ability to make emotional judgements when simple science stares you in the face. Coffee, for example, is a poor way to self-medicate, having detrimental affects on blood sugar and mood, to name only two. Whereas 10mg of Adderall XR provides mixed amphetatines salts. Clean dopamine.
These are not the opinions of one woman, and that is part of the point. It is simply a case of looking at things as they are.
When you peel away everything else, intelligent choices become clear.
It's been a month now, and we still have not established, in the mind of my 60-ish housekeeper, that:
- turning her computer ON does NOT instantly connect her to the internet. (She lives in fear that it does.)
- there are ways to quit Outlook Express besides unplugging the macine.
- the alias on her desktop that says Mail is also Outlook Express.
"Where is Outlook Express?" "It's the same as Mail, remember?" "I want to see my mail." "And I made you a nice alias that says Mail." "I don't know where Outlook Express is." "We can change the name of the alias to Outlook Express." "But then I won't know where my mail is."
My lips are getting chapped from saying, Do the tutorial. She has (goes without saying) an old iMac. A friend told her about an ISP that charges a max of $10 a month. She has determined to resign AOL.
BUT THIS MEANS TWO SEPARATE APPLICATIONS.
NEITHER of which gets her online. For that, she must perform a THIRD action - and coordinate all three, you see - and press a tiny button in the Control Strip that says: Connect.
Oh, the humanity. ..
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HEY! I see the word "cunt" used one more time by one of you dickheads, and I'm comin' to your house.
You people are so far off in Linux-land, you really don't have a clue. Do you. Jobs is slowly. methodically, beautifully putting into place every piece of the future. I've nothing against Linux--but do have any idea how not on even on the screen (no pun intended) Linux is for normal people? Consumers? Have you not seen that kids want nothing but an iBook, OS X and wireless? The Digital Hub in not some cute little marketing device-it's the seamless kind of computing and data exhange we are all going to expect, and very, very soon.
Look, I'm as creatively alienated as anyone--and kinda geeky--but I'm also a writer who appreciates tools that work. That are a pleasure to use.
There are incredibly significant issues emblematic in the Microsoft / non-Microsoft divide. We know who the good guys are, and it's going to be train wreck-interesting, watching Microsoft code crumble under its own weight.
Nonetheless, when you diss Mac, you betray a certain ignorance of, like, the rest of us? The future rest of us?
If I see Mac users referred to as a cult one more time, I'm, I'm. . . I'm gonna slash some dots around here. ..is what I'm going to do.
So shape up.
Zo
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Best like in. ..I'm A Cool, Open Source Kinda Guy?
Or best as in, I Actually Want To Surf The Web. From page to page. No glitches, no weirdness. Nobody looking over my shoulder, taking note if my browser is cool.
I've tried them all, I have given my heart to Netscape and Moz and Opera and even little putt-putt iCab (what a strange little outfit) . ..hoping to become a devotee of anything, anything but Microsoft. (Which I believe is two medical conditions in one, is it not?)
And I think that people who extoll Mozilla are, currently, full of shit.
Lemme know when Open Source is fixed. A real download link would also be nice.
Just stay out of the slushpile. Which means including the name of *someone* in your cover letter. Work your six degrees. To get the work read, no matter how fine a work it may be, it's pretty much a necessity these days to have a referral. That's why people go to writer's conferences. Contacts contacts contacts.
Kind of sickening, but forget that part, just do it.
Yessss. The winnah is. . Kerouac. Because he typed On The Road, famously, on one long roll of teletype paper, without stopping.
My dad brought these home from Bradley Field when I was a kid. For reasons I forget -- any teletype freaks? -- the rolls were changed out way before the paper was used up.
This no doubt gave Kerouac the marvellous sense (not easy to come by, on a manual typewriter) of being in the Flow. A little snort and one loooong sheet of paper, free, and hey -- the road was the manuscript, and the manuscript was The Road.
Slashdot Mirror
Hell, mod this AC up with one of my point. This is obviously - well, now that I read it - The Single Perfect post to this thread.
Oops. Did I say AC? Sorry.
But wasn't it a nice thought.
The point is, Ebay has figured out a way to make zillions while steering all possible risk to the consumer. This is genius. Unlike any other business I can think of. Sure, shopping on Ebay has changed - you can't move an inch without being cautioned to Know Your Seller and similar worthless crap.
It's gotten even more specific: don't buy from sellers who demand wire payment. Who refuse escrow. And above all, rest assured, your purchases are protected up to a big fat $200. I have this incredible idea - but no one at Ebay seems interested. How about, don't give sellers the option in the first place to list high-ticket items without escrow service? How about that? And "Feedback?" Clap your hands three times if you believe in Feedback. I figured it out. Ebay uses their customers for friggin' scam triage. I came across new Powerbooks at absurd prices, sent inquiries - and heard from five different guys. In Spain. At the same address. Special deal. Wire money first, please. Emailed Ebay - next morning, all gone. Fine - but try finding the form to email Ebay. The least, the very, very least they could do is a small "report suspect listings" button. A "community." "Built on trust." Sure, Meg. Need another wheelbarrow? or does the bank come to you.
Dear God-of-all-Slashdotters,
.. Yes, I have used Limewire. The new version is sooo fast, on OS X, it hardly feels like st-- Yes I'm in stealth mode, thanks for asking. But listen, could we hold off on the print thing just a little bit? Say (counts on fingers) a year? Is that asking too much?
Jesus, this is sooo depressing. I *just* got an agent interested in my novel last week! .
Yr humble servant yada yada,
Zo
His first sentence is dead on - it's that immediate leap to concentration camps. Boring. Hack thinking - and I couldn't be less interested in pointless martyrdom. Posting radical thought to the web. . .and also providing *bomb* instructions. Duh?
Flawed, juvenile thinking. I hope the message this sends is, Adults only, please.
I'm always astonished in discussions of ADD how little people know, and how much they have to say about it.
If you have a genetic or environmental cause for low reuptake of dopamine, your Exectutive Function - the name of area of the brain that, yes, instigates, organizes and executes - will be crippled. To a larger or lesser extent, but crippled nonetheless. Evidence that this is an inheritied condition was discovered at Brookhaven, only a few years ago, a glitch on one of the dopamine aelles.
It is perfectly possible to be unable to execute a single shred of all the good advice on this thread. I am hopeful of the day when psycholgy is no longer confused with functional brain conditions.
One of the most common misunderstandings about ADD comes from people who say, Hell, I'm not ADD, I can focus for hours and hours! Attention Deficit does not mean you cannot pay attention, it means that your ability to direct your own attention is not entirely volitional; your brain cannot organize itself. One is thus vulnerable to any strong pull in the environment, pleasant or un-. ADDers can hyperfocus like nobody's business - on something that interests them. And of life of endless interests minus the ability to shape and direct them is most definitely a circle of hell.
With just enough dopamine to keep distrability in check, the ability to hyperfocus can make for an Einstein, a Tolstoy; that enviable state of being in the Flow. But the Flow is yet another hell, when you can't do anything else. When your life is a combination of endless periods of Flow - and endless periods when you cannot *do* a single thing at all.
Small doses of amphetamines have the seemingly paradoxical effect of organizing the thoughts, of focusing the lens of the mind. No one can judge what it means to someone with ADD to be being able to focus at will, yet just about everybody does.
It means being able to set goals, to begin work, to end work. To accomplish what others take for granted. Which has, in other words, nothing to do with moral fibre at all.
As to those who brag about getting by on caffeine instead of those nasty drugs - sheer ignorance. Bragging about the ability to make emotional judgements when simple science stares you in the face. Coffee, for example, is a poor way to self-medicate, having detrimental affects on blood sugar and mood, to name only two. Whereas 10mg of Adderall XR provides mixed amphetatines salts. Clean dopamine.
These are not the opinions of one woman, and that is part of the point. It is simply a case of looking at things as they are.
When you peel away everything else, intelligent choices become clear.
"Very little reason not to"?
Troll. Poseur.
It's been a month now, and we still have not established, in the mind of my 60-ish housekeeper, that:
.
- turning her computer ON does NOT instantly connect her to the internet. (She lives in fear that it does.)
- there are ways to quit Outlook Express besides unplugging the macine.
- the alias on her desktop that says Mail is also Outlook Express.
"Where is Outlook Express?"
"It's the same as Mail, remember?"
"I want to see my mail."
"And I made you a nice alias that says Mail."
"I don't know where Outlook Express is."
"We can change the name of the alias to Outlook Express."
"But then I won't know where my mail is."
My lips are getting chapped from saying, Do the tutorial. She has (goes without saying) an old iMac. A friend told her about an ISP that charges a max of $10 a month. She has determined to resign AOL.
BUT THIS MEANS TWO SEPARATE APPLICATIONS.
NEITHER of which gets her online. For that, she must perform a THIRD action - and coordinate all three, you see - and press a tiny button in the Control Strip that says: Connect.
Oh, the humanity. .
HEY! I see the word "cunt" used one more time by one of you dickheads, and I'm comin' to your house.
Zo.
You people are so far off in Linux-land, you really don't have a clue. Do you. Jobs is slowly. methodically, beautifully putting into place every piece of the future. I've nothing against Linux--but do have any idea how not on even on the screen (no pun intended) Linux is for normal people? Consumers? Have you not seen that kids want nothing but an iBook, OS X and wireless? The Digital Hub in not some cute little marketing device-it's the seamless kind of computing and data exhange we are all going to expect, and very, very soon.
.is what I'm going to do.
Look, I'm as creatively alienated as anyone--and kinda geeky--but I'm also a writer who appreciates tools that work. That are a pleasure to use.
There are incredibly significant issues emblematic in the Microsoft / non-Microsoft divide. We know who the good guys are, and it's going to be train wreck-interesting, watching Microsoft code crumble under its own weight.
Nonetheless, when you diss Mac, you betray a certain ignorance of, like, the rest of us? The future rest of us?
If I see Mac users referred to as a cult one more time, I'm, I'm. . . I'm gonna slash some dots around here. .
So shape up.
Zo
Or best as in, I Actually Want To Surf The Web. From page to page. No glitches, no weirdness. Nobody looking over my shoulder, taking note if my browser is cool.
I've tried them all, I have given my heart to Netscape and Moz and Opera and even little putt-putt iCab (what a strange little outfit) . . .hoping to become a devotee of anything, anything but Microsoft. (Which I believe is two medical conditions in one, is it not?)
And I think that people who extoll Mozilla are, currently, full of shit.
Lemme know when Open Source is fixed. A real download link would also be nice.
Just stay out of the slushpile. Which means including the name of *someone* in your cover letter. Work your six degrees. To get the work read, no matter how fine a work it may be, it's pretty much a necessity these days to have a referral. That's why people go to writer's conferences. Contacts contacts contacts.
Kind of sickening, but forget that part, just do it.
And, good luck!
Spelling, people! Spelling spelling spelling! What is this, some kinda Unix thing? Linnux? B&D?
IMHO: Score:5, Funny
Okay, subtract 1 for being too lazy to look up dialysis.
But then add 1 for Informative (he's right, geekdudes)
Equals, lemme see, four plus one, carry the two = 5.
Like I said.
Yessss. The winnah is. . Kerouac. Because he typed On The Road, famously, on one long roll of teletype paper, without stopping. My dad brought these home from Bradley Field when I was a kid. For reasons I forget -- any teletype freaks? -- the rolls were changed out way before the paper was used up. This no doubt gave Kerouac the marvellous sense (not easy to come by, on a manual typewriter) of being in the Flow. A little snort and one loooong sheet of paper, free, and hey -- the road was the manuscript, and the manuscript was The Road.