> I mean, most of us wouldn't care that deeply about what we use.
1st. Yes, **some** of us DO care about what (mobile) phone we use -- based on functionality and usability -- not some iHipster fad.
2nd. FTFY: The fact that Samsung thinks:
That people actually give a shit what phone some nobody (*), er "Samsung brand ambassador" Ksenia Sobchak, is using
-- a politician, no less -- also known as Russia's "Paris Hilton", is freaking hilarious!
(*) Yet another Russian politician, TV anchor, journalist, socialite and actress, that no one gives a fuck about.
I guess Samsung didn't hear of the Streisand effect. Not that it matters. Now that people are aware that Ksenia broke her contract I seriously doubt the negative news will have a meaningful impact on Samsung sales.
You were too busy trying to figure out How that you never stopped to ask Why.
Science by definition is amoral. Most of programming is too since you are just implementing a Mathematical (*) function. There is no ethics involved.
(*) For sake of argument (and simplicity) programming is a higher level order of calculus then Mathematics since it is a combination of Logic, Pattern Recognition, Mathematics, Linguistics, Art and a few other disciplines I'm probably missing.
Most consumers DON'T want to wear some bulky, fugly VR glasses.
Furthermore people who wear glasses find it annoying having to wrangle with headsets and glasses.
Second, the lack of haptic feedback along with contradictory MIXED messages your brain is receiving (eyes tells your brain you are moving, your ears tells your brain you aren't) is one of the reasons of nausea. Not extactly a great selling point.
Third, good VR required high end GPUs. Most consumers don't care about having the latest and greatest GPU.
Fourth, there is no "killer app" that everyone must have.
Fifth, it is hard to demo VR. Chicken and egg problem that dovetails with point 4.
There are always exceptions. While Google Earth is a great VR experience there are more gimmicky / novelty apps then anything serious / productive.
VR will *always* be a niche market until these are addressed. These have been true for the past 20 - 40+ years and I don't see that changing *anytime* soon.
In a lot of ways VR is like 3D movies or hi fi audio. Most people don't care, they need to have a good experience to understand what it brings to the table before they are convinced. VR has as much a marketing problem as it does a hardware problem.
> Slashdot won't let me post it as a list because then there are too few characters per line, so now you'll have to read it all mashed together.
/sarcasm Gee, if only there were a way (*) to have paragraph breaks every N sentences...
1 In the first place to love the Lord God with the whole heart, the whole soul, the whole strength... 2 Then, one's neighbor as one's self (cf Mt 22:37-39; Mk 12:30-31; Lk 10:27). 3 Then, not to kill... 4 Not to commit adultery...
5 Not to steal... 6 Not to covet (cf Rom 13:9). 7 Not to bear false witness (cf Mt 19:18; Mk 10:19; Lk 18:20). 8 To honor all men (cf 1 Pt 2:17). 9 And what one would not have done to himself, not to do to another (cf Tob 4:16; Mt 7:12; Lk 6:31). 10 To deny one's self in order to follow Christ (cf Mt 16:24; Lk 9:23).
... or as a code:
1. In the first place to love the Lord God with the whole heart, the whole soul, the whole strength... 2. Then, one's neighbor as one's self (cf Mt 22:37-39; Mk 12:30-31; Lk 10:27). 3. Then, not to kill... 4. Not to commit adultery... 5. Not to steal... 6. Not to covet (cf Rom 13:9). 7. Not to bear false witness (cf Mt 19:18; Mk 10:19; Lk 18:20). 8. To honor all men (cf 1 Pt 2:17). 9. And what one would not have done to himself, not to do to another (cf Tob 4:16; Mt 7:12; Lk 6:31). 10 To deny one's self in order to follow Christ (cf Mt 16:24; Lk 9:23). 11 To chastise the body (cf 1 Cor 9:27). 12 Not to seek after pleasures. 13 To love fasting. 14 To relieve the poor. 15 To clothe the naked... 16 To visit the sick (cf Mt 25:36). 17 To bury the dead. 18 To help in trouble. 19 To console the sorrowing. 20 To hold one's self aloof from worldly ways. 21 To prefer nothing to the love of Christ. 22 Not to give way to anger. 23 Not to foster a desire for revenge. 24 Not to entertain deceit in the heart. 25 Not to make a false peace. 26 Not to forsake charity. 27 Not to swear, lest perchance one swear falsely. 28 To speak the truth with heart and tongue. 29 Not to return evil for evil (cf 1 Thes 5:15; 1 Pt 3:9). 30 To do no injury, yea, even patiently to bear the injury done us. 31 To love one's enemies (cf Mt 5:44; Lk 6:27). 32 Not to curse them that curse us, but rather to bless them. 33 To bear persecution for justice sake (cf Mt 5:10). 34 Not to be proud... 35 Not to be given to wine (cf Ti 1:7; 1 Tm 3:3). 36 Not to be a great eater. 37 Not to be drowsy. 38 Not to be slothful (cf Rom 12:11). 39 Not to be a murmurer. 40 Not to be a detractor. 41 To put one's trust in God. 42 To refer what good one sees in himself, not to self, but to God. 43 But as to any evil in himself, let him be convinced that it is his own and charge it to himself. 44 To fear the day of judgment. 45 To be in dread of hell. 46 To desire eternal life with all spiritual longing. 47 To keep death before one's eyes daily. 48 To keep a constant watch over the actions of our life. 49 To hold as certain that God sees us everywhere. 50 To dash at once against Christ the evil thoughts which rise in one's heart. 51 And to disclose them to our spiritual father. 52 To guard one's tongue against bad and wicked speech. 53 Not to love much speaking. 54 Not to speak useless words and such as provoke laughter. 55 Not to love much or boisterous laughter. 56 To listen willingly to holy reading. 57 To apply one's self often to prayer. 58 To confess one's past sins to God daily in prayer with sighs and tears, and to amend them for the future. 59 Not to fulfil the desires of the flesh (cf Gal 5:16). 60 To hate one's own will. 61 To obey the commands of the Abbot in all things, even though he himself (which Heaven forbid) act otherwise, mindful of that precept of the Lord: "What they say, do ye; what they do, do ye not" (Mt 23:3). 62 Not to desire to be called holy before one is; but to be holy first, that
Microsoft Windows 8 and 10,noun: A 64-bit compilation of 32 bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16 bit patch to an 8 bit operating system originally coded for a 4 bit microprocessor written by a 2 bit company that can't stand 1 bit of competition with 0 bit of understanding good UI.
Wow, for a flagship chip, with the i7-9700K lacking HyperThreading Intel must *finally* be starting to be concerned about security. Guess performance isn't everything when you can get p0wned. =P
/sarcasm You didn't get the memo? The company can no longer afford "walls" so they went the cheap route and bought everyone virtual walls via blinders.
Also I hear you are having a problem with your TPS reports. Are you sure you are getting the memos and emails?:-)
Worse is when the call "appears" to be coming from your phone number. Really? How am I supposed to block that? And aren't the telcos flagging the spammers doing this? Oh wait, because they don't care about spam as long as they get paid./sarcasm
What specific UI fixes do you need? List in detail the repro. steps of what you are trying to do please.
Have you tried Notepad++ ?
If you want a text editor that does search-and-replace without needing a GUI then use gVim. You type in:
:%s/foo/bar/g
Legend:
: enters command mode % selects the entire file s search and replace mode / begins what text to find foo what you are searching for / begins what text you want it replaced with bar is the text to replace foo / begins options g replace all instances on same line
While the legend descriptions may not technically be accurate they should be close enough.
> do you have any understanding clinical depression whatsoever?
Gee, only ALL of my life.
> The problem is that _nothing_ makes you happy.
Bullshit.
The correct phrase is: Nothing makes me happy Right Now.
1. Depression is TEMPORARY. One day it WILL end. That right there is HOPE.
Notice how I also said "right now." No one lives being depressed 100% of their life. We all have an innate curiosity -- especially as children. So what killed yours?? Use the "peeling an onion analysis" technique.
* I am feeling _x_. * Why? * Because _y_ happened. * Why? * Because _z_ did that. * How did make you feel? * I felt like _w_. * Why? * etc.
You are slowly peeling the layers off getting to the core of the issue(s).
2. You don't overcome a problem by doing nothing. You overcome it by pushing through it -- in spite of it.
3. *EVERYONE* has talents. The secret to life is find out what they are. You can't find out what they are if you don't try! Even if it means "just going through the motions", eventually SOMETHING will catch your interest. To use an old adage "Shit or get off the pot."
4. "I'm bored" is a fucking excuse. EVERYTHING one does CAN be interesting -- IF one allows it. You can ALWAYS learn from every situation or experience. Boredom is A CHOICE. Start making different choices!
Progress is impossible without change; and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything -- George Bernard Shaw
Anytime someone whines "I'm bored" that is an excuse for "I'm too fucking lazy to actually learn HOW to appreciate the moment for what it is."
5. You are 99.99999% responsible for EVERYTHING that happens in you life. Yes, (almost) EVERYTHING -- regardless if is positive or negative. You chose your life BEFORE HAND -- you just haven't experienced it -- yet. The sooner one accepts this truth the sooner they can start to make (positive) CHANGES. You have the gift of Free Will. Use it to do something positive.
But the fucking "blamethrower" away and take responsibility for your life. No one else will.
6. Viewing everything as a "problem" shows you don't have the correct mindset. You have literally been brainwashed into the propaganda of failure.
EVERY experience you partake is is NOT a problem but an OPPORTUNITY (to learn about yourself and/or others.)
7. Everyone loves to bitch about how hard life is -- especially the Lie of Buddhism: Life is suffering. No, the correct understanding is:
Life contains suffering. It ALSO contains compassion, and (unconditional) love -- funny how the POSITIVE is left out. Focusing only on the negative doesn't solve the problem.
The reality is Western life is a total joke compared to ACTUAL war victims who have/had survived torture. Is depression hard? No one is arguing that it isn't! BUT compared to THOSE war victims we have no "justification" for excuses. I found Viktor Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning -- which changed my life -- to be a brilliant book that describes the human condition. These people had absolutely ZERO reason to stay alive but they did IN SPITE OF the external evil environment.
These people learnt how to surrender to the moment because they knew they weren't DEFINED by the external.
READ books that people have found to be life altering. Anyone of these are good:
Gee, people posting crap about their shitty lives that no one gives a fuck about. Color me surprised./sarcasm
If people actually *did* things with (or without) their friends instead of posting idiotic selfies maybe they wouldn't feel so lonely instead of living a meaningless life hoping to get likes. I guess they would rather whine about it instead of *doing* something. Doesn't anyone have hobbies anymore??
Irony: And now I'm posting crap about people posting crap. DOH.
Slashdot Mirror
> I mean, most of us wouldn't care that deeply about what we use.
1st. Yes, **some** of us DO care about what (mobile) phone we use -- based on functionality and usability -- not some iHipster fad.
2nd. FTFY: The fact that Samsung thinks:
That people actually give a shit what phone some nobody (*), er "Samsung brand ambassador" Ksenia Sobchak, is using
-- a politician, no less -- also known as Russia's "Paris Hilton", is freaking hilarious!
(*) Yet another Russian politician, TV anchor, journalist, socialite and actress, that no one gives a fuck about.
I guess Samsung didn't hear of the Streisand effect. Not that it matters. Now that people are aware that Ksenia broke her contract I seriously doubt the negative news will have a meaningful impact on Samsung sales.
Agree 100% !
To paraphrase / quote a famous cliche:
You were too busy trying to figure out How that you never stopped to ask Why.
Science by definition is amoral. Most of programming is too since you are just implementing a Mathematical (*) function. There is no ethics involved.
(*) For sake of argument (and simplicity) programming is a higher level order of calculus then Mathematics since it is a combination of Logic, Pattern Recognition, Mathematics, Linguistics, Art and a few other disciplines I'm probably missing.
Agreed.
Their bullshit "No Trivia" section just proves how clueless / out-of/touch-of-reality they are.
One mans's trivia is another man's data.
**I** decide what information has value -- not you. I personally **like** finding out who has cameos, etc. in movies.
Most consumers DON'T want to wear some bulky, fugly VR glasses.
Furthermore people who wear glasses find it annoying having to wrangle with headsets and glasses.
Second, the lack of haptic feedback along with contradictory MIXED messages your brain is receiving (eyes tells your brain you are moving, your ears tells your brain you aren't) is one of the reasons of nausea. Not extactly a great selling point.
Third, good VR required high end GPUs. Most consumers don't care about having the latest and greatest GPU.
Fourth, there is no "killer app" that everyone must have.
Fifth, it is hard to demo VR. Chicken and egg problem that dovetails with point 4.
There are always exceptions. While Google Earth is a great VR experience there are more gimmicky / novelty apps then anything serious / productive.
VR will *always* be a niche market until these are addressed. These have been true for the past 20 - 40+ years and I don't see that changing *anytime* soon.
In a lot of ways VR is like 3D movies or hi fi audio. Most people don't care, they need to have a good experience to understand what it brings to the table before they are convinced. VR has as much a marketing problem as it does a hardware problem.
ELI5: Why is their long term debt so high? And isn't that a bad thing?
What are their gross and net profits?
Indeed.
It's a pity more professional athletes don't have sportsmanship and respect these days.
> Slashdot won't let me post it as a list because then there are too few characters per line, so now you'll have to read it all mashed together.
1 In the first place to love the Lord God with the whole heart, the whole soul, the whole strength... 2 Then, one's neighbor as one's self (cf Mt 22:37-39; Mk 12:30-31; Lk 10:27). 3 Then, not to kill... 4 Not to commit adultery...
5 Not to steal... 6 Not to covet (cf Rom 13:9). 7 Not to bear false witness (cf Mt 19:18; Mk 10:19; Lk 18:20). 8 To honor all men (cf 1 Pt 2:17). 9 And what one would not have done to himself, not to do to another (cf Tob 4:16; Mt 7:12; Lk 6:31). 10 To deny one's self in order to follow Christ (cf Mt 16:24; Lk 9:23).
1. In the first place to love the Lord God with the whole heart, the whole soul, the whole strength...
2. Then, one's neighbor as one's self (cf Mt 22:37-39; Mk 12:30-31; Lk 10:27).
3. Then, not to kill...
4. Not to commit adultery...
5. Not to steal...
6. Not to covet (cf Rom 13:9).
7. Not to bear false witness (cf Mt 19:18; Mk 10:19; Lk 18:20).
8. To honor all men (cf 1 Pt 2:17).
9. And what one would not have done to himself, not to do to another (cf Tob 4:16; Mt 7:12; Lk 6:31).
10 To deny one's self in order to follow Christ (cf Mt 16:24; Lk 9:23).
11 To chastise the body (cf 1 Cor 9:27).
12 Not to seek after pleasures.
13 To love fasting.
14 To relieve the poor.
15 To clothe the naked...
16 To visit the sick (cf Mt 25:36).
17 To bury the dead.
18 To help in trouble.
19 To console the sorrowing.
20 To hold one's self aloof from worldly ways.
21 To prefer nothing to the love of Christ.
22 Not to give way to anger.
23 Not to foster a desire for revenge.
24 Not to entertain deceit in the heart.
25 Not to make a false peace.
26 Not to forsake charity.
27 Not to swear, lest perchance one swear falsely.
28 To speak the truth with heart and tongue.
29 Not to return evil for evil (cf 1 Thes 5:15; 1 Pt 3:9).
30 To do no injury, yea, even patiently to bear the injury done us.
31 To love one's enemies (cf Mt 5:44; Lk 6:27).
32 Not to curse them that curse us, but rather to bless them.
33 To bear persecution for justice sake (cf Mt 5:10).
34 Not to be proud...
35 Not to be given to wine (cf Ti 1:7; 1 Tm 3:3).
36 Not to be a great eater.
37 Not to be drowsy.
38 Not to be slothful (cf Rom 12:11).
39 Not to be a murmurer.
40 Not to be a detractor.
41 To put one's trust in God.
42 To refer what good one sees in himself, not to self, but to God.
43 But as to any evil in himself, let him be convinced that it is his own and charge it to himself.
44 To fear the day of judgment.
45 To be in dread of hell.
46 To desire eternal life with all spiritual longing.
47 To keep death before one's eyes daily.
48 To keep a constant watch over the actions of our life.
49 To hold as certain that God sees us everywhere.
50 To dash at once against Christ the evil thoughts which rise in one's heart.
51 And to disclose them to our spiritual father.
52 To guard one's tongue against bad and wicked speech.
53 Not to love much speaking.
54 Not to speak useless words and such as provoke laughter.
55 Not to love much or boisterous laughter.
56 To listen willingly to holy reading.
57 To apply one's self often to prayer.
58 To confess one's past sins to God daily in prayer with sighs and tears, and to amend them for the future.
59 Not to fulfil the desires of the flesh (cf Gal 5:16).
60 To hate one's own will.
61 To obey the commands of the Abbot in all things, even though he himself (which Heaven forbid) act otherwise, mindful of that precept of the Lord: "What they say, do ye; what they do, do ye not" (Mt 23:3).
62 Not to desire to be called holy before one is; but to be holy first, that
> but a lot of the rules do make sense for any community:
And a lot don't.
No humor? Wow, talk about sticks in the mud.
ANY ideology taken to an extreme is (idiotic) fundamentalism.
--
cult, noun, any group of people who believe their (self appointed) way is the ONLY way.
Kind of like that old MS joke:
Microsoft Windows 8 and 10, noun: A 64-bit compilation of 32 bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16 bit patch to an 8 bit operating system originally coded for a 4 bit microprocessor written by a 2 bit company that can't stand 1 bit of competition with 0 bit of understanding good UI.
Wow, for a flagship chip, with the i7-9700K lacking HyperThreading Intel must *finally* be starting to be concerned about security. Guess performance isn't everything when you can get p0wned. =P
Well PHP does stand for PHucked uP =P
(Lighten up, it was a joke)
There is even a cliche for this:
Don't bite the hand that feeds you.
/whoosh
Or is OpenBSD still best used as a firewall / server / NAS ?
When did FreeBSD adapt the Code of Cancer?
/sarcasm You didn't get the memo? The company can no longer afford "walls" so they went the cheap route and bought everyone virtual walls via blinders.
Also I hear you are having a problem with your TPS reports. Are you sure you are getting the memos and emails? :-)
Nothing -- that's the problem.
Worse is when the call "appears" to be coming from your phone number. Really? How am I supposed to block that? And aren't the telcos flagging the spammers doing this? Oh wait, because they don't care about spam as long as they get paid. /sarcasm
What specific UI fixes do you need? List in detail the repro. steps of what you are trying to do please.
Have you tried Notepad++ ?
If you want a text editor that does search-and-replace without needing a GUI then use gVim. You type in:
Legend:
: enters command mode
% selects the entire file
s search and replace mode
/ begins what text to find
foo what you are searching for
/ begins what text you want it replaced with
bar is the text to replace foo
/ begins options
g replace all instances on same line
While the legend descriptions may not technically be accurate they should be close enough.
> do you have any understanding clinical depression whatsoever?
Gee, only ALL of my life.
> The problem is that _nothing_ makes you happy.
Bullshit.
The correct phrase is: Nothing makes me happy Right Now.
1. Depression is TEMPORARY. One day it WILL end. That right there is HOPE.
Notice how I also said "right now." No one lives being depressed 100% of their life. We all have an innate curiosity -- especially as children. So what killed yours?? Use the "peeling an onion analysis" technique.
* I am feeling _x_.
* Why?
* Because _y_ happened.
* Why?
* Because _z_ did that.
* How did make you feel?
* I felt like _w_.
* Why?
* etc.
You are slowly peeling the layers off getting to the core of the issue(s).
2. You don't overcome a problem by doing nothing. You overcome it by pushing through it -- in spite of it.
3. *EVERYONE* has talents. The secret to life is find out what they are. You can't find out what they are if you don't try! Even if it means "just going through the motions", eventually SOMETHING will catch your interest. To use an old adage "Shit or get off the pot."
4. "I'm bored" is a fucking excuse. EVERYTHING one does CAN be interesting -- IF one allows it. You can ALWAYS learn from every situation or experience. Boredom is A CHOICE. Start making different choices!
Anytime someone whines "I'm bored" that is an excuse for "I'm too fucking lazy to actually learn HOW to appreciate the moment for what it is."
5. You are 99.99999% responsible for EVERYTHING that happens in you life. Yes, (almost) EVERYTHING -- regardless if is positive or negative. You chose your life BEFORE HAND -- you just haven't experienced it -- yet. The sooner one accepts this truth the sooner they can start to make (positive) CHANGES. You have the gift of Free Will. Use it to do something positive.
But the fucking "blamethrower" away and take responsibility for your life. No one else will.
6. Viewing everything as a "problem" shows you don't have the correct mindset. You have literally been brainwashed into the propaganda of failure.
EVERY experience you partake is is NOT a problem but an OPPORTUNITY (to learn about yourself and/or others.)
7. Everyone loves to bitch about how hard life is -- especially the Lie of Buddhism: Life is suffering. No, the correct understanding is:
Life contains suffering. It ALSO contains compassion, and (unconditional) love -- funny how the POSITIVE is left out. Focusing only on the negative doesn't solve the problem.
The reality is Western life is a total joke compared to ACTUAL war victims who have/had survived torture. Is depression hard? No one is arguing that it isn't! BUT compared to THOSE war victims we have no "justification" for excuses. I found Viktor Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning -- which changed my life -- to be a brilliant book that describes the human condition. These people had absolutely ZERO reason to stay alive but they did IN SPITE OF the external evil environment.
These people learnt how to surrender to the moment because they knew they weren't DEFINED by the external.
READ books that people have found to be life altering. Anyone of these are good:
* A Man called Ove,
* Hinds' Feet on High Places,
* The Four Agreements,
* The Shack
Well played!
> What's wrong with 'gasp' walking?
I nominate asshat. =P
(Yes, Technocrat is the actual word that is too sophisticated for the pompous author.)
There is a reason it's called FecesBook:
Gee, people posting crap about their shitty lives that no one gives a fuck about. Color me surprised. /sarcasm
If people actually *did* things with (or without) their friends instead of posting idiotic selfies maybe they wouldn't feel so lonely instead of living a meaningless life hoping to get likes. I guess they would rather whine about it instead of *doing* something. Doesn't anyone have hobbies anymore??
Irony: And now I'm posting crap about people posting crap. DOH.
Gee, if only language could only be used in a non-literal form such as allegory. /sarcasm
You are placing the emphasis on the WRONG part of the sentence:
What part of "invented a way" do you not understand???