If I don't recognize the name and the friend doesn't leave a note saying how they know me then I push them into the game friend group. Problem solved.
Why don't you just ignore the friend request if you don't know them? I don't understand this - why would you want someone on your friends list if they're not a friend, nor even acquaintance?
They are excited about things that other countries like Russia have been doing for decades? Huh? Progress? I will gladly be corrected, but it just seems to me that this is a step backwards in comparison to the stuff that they were doing before...
Russia has NOT been launching Atlas rockets for decades.
One thing that strikes me about my mac is that it doesn't treat me like an enormous retard. I don't have stupid little dogs popping up to "find" files for me, I don't have to click through 5 warnings about how what I'm about to do will end the world when I try to navigate out of my home directory, and the whole experience isn't dumbed down to the level of a 2 year old.
Yes, I know you can turn all that shit off in windows, but why do I have to? Every time I use a windows computer it leaves a sour taste in my mouth.
You're right. I forgot how brain damaged the Windows security model is...
In Linux, of course, you would need admin privilege to run an executable which is one reason Linux doesn't get viruses. But in Windows, anyone can download and execute anything... dumb.
So I guess I should rephrase that as "So what happened to the IT administrator who installed Windows computers in a situation where patient privacy and security could be compromised?"
What? Any user can set something executable and run it in a Unix system. It'll just run with the privileges of the user, which in this case is more than enough.
Why is it necessary that we go back and explore what was accomplished in the past?
Because the relics of the past visits will give us valuable insight into long-term exposure of our machinery in the environment of the Moon - something that is surely relevant to future efforts of colonization. All the things we left behind have been sitting (hopefully?) untouched for 40 years getting bombarded with micrometeoroids, experiencing huge temperature swings and moonquakes, and generally experiencing the reality of existing there.
I find it fascinating and am excited to see pictures of how the sites have weathered.
What amazes me is that you use the confusion of "it's" and "its" as a sign of actual education. Actual knowledge, instead of (ahem) actual knowledge, like understanding the scientific process, or mathematics, or how to balance a checkbook.
No, the average person gets to spend about a man-year over the 12 years focusing on things like spelling, because... ? The only thing that makes spelling important is that people who know how to spell use that to insult those of us who don't. It's largely an utter waste of time.
I'm a natural-born good speller, I haven't used a spell-check in at least a year, and manage to communicate quite effectively via the written word. Yet I think that spelling is a waste of intellectual energy that we could all well do without.
When you think about it, the confusion is natural. The apostrophe is commonly used to show possession. EG: "That is Bob's shovel.". Yet, as soon as you replace "Bob" with "it" - the apostrophe suddenly disappears. "Don't bother its shovel.". WTF?
Personally, I'd like to see spelling dropped entirely - let's just learn the vowel and consonant SOUNDS, and let's use the 1 or 2 man-years saved on REAL education like Science, Mathematics, or how to balance your check book.
I wud be haapy tu adopt pyerly fohnetik speling.
Don't be ignorant. In the overall picture, the inability of someone to differ between two similar (but distinctly different) words is a clear sign of their general intelligence.
Sending people off to a math or science education without giving them a solid foundation in communication is doomed to fail.
It's hard for people who have spent most of their life being told that "correctness isn't important, so long as you're understood" to have proper spelling and grammar.;)
That's what bugs me - correctness is CRUCIAL to being understood. If you use properly-spelled words in correct grammatical syntax the likeliness of you successfully communicating your message goes way, way up. If I have to read it five times to figure out what you're trying to say, it's WRONG.
Proper spelling isn't that hard, anyways. People are just lazy fuckers.
You miss the point. All it's saying is Apple can make a device strikingly similar to an iPhone but at long as it's not called "iPhone" it's not required to be on AT&T.
That mindset of "the average person who uses some trendy service I reject because I'm trendily un-trendy is stupid" really gets to me.
For me, it's not about a "trendy service that I reject because I'm trendily un-trendy". A stupid idea is stupid whether it's trendy or not, and a good idea is good whether it's trendy or not. And in my opinion, sites that ONLY do social networking are stupid. (I also think Twitter - the great trend of the past month - is stupid.) Slashdot's friends/foes system is an awesome addition to this site - but none of us are on this site for the social networking aspect of it; we're all here because we want "news for nerds" and any social networking that happens is a bonus.
I don't see how Facebook is any different from IM or email, other than the reasons I gave above (persistence, centralization). If one uses Facebook purely as a way to get in touch with friends, why are MSN and email un-stupid? I'm unconvinced you reject it for any reason other than its popularity and that it's cool to hate popular things.
The average person using facebook is the average person commenting on youtube videos: incredibly stupid. Facebook does nothing better than any other method of communication, and you have to use a shitty interface and tolerate facebook users to do..what?
If you want asynchronous communication you can use any IM software out there, emails, forums, etc.
It's not true, though. Facebook is not as easy as email, IM, forums, etc. Everyone I know is on Facebook and all I need to remember to get in touch with them is their name.
I don't need lists of emails that are constantly needing updates; I don't need IM contact lists that are usually out of date as well; I don't need memberships at several forums and to remember who belongs to each.. just type a few letters of their name on Facebook and there they are. Persists through email changes, phone number changes, and all that.
Yeah, my good buddies who I hang out with every day I just phone. Everyone else I get on Facebook.
I'm not one of those fools who posts fifty thousand pictures of every stupid event that occurs in their lives. It's a communication tool and little more.
That mindset of "the average person who uses some trendy service I reject because I'm trendily un-trendy is stupid" really gets to me. I've never understood why techies find it cool to be arrogant and condescending.
You are watching too many movies. Gasoline does not blow up. Ever. Try this: Put a strip of cloth inside the tank, with one end in the gasoline, and the other outside the car. Let it soak full. Now light the cloth. It starts to burn like a candle. No rush of fire into the tank. No explosion. Nothing special.
Imagine you being full of shit. Yikes!
Ah yes. Once you've got a flaming cloth inside your container of gasoline, give it a kick or agitate it somehow and watch how the oxygen gets to it and watch how your leg is on fire.
Your friend needs some lessons in city living. Never ever leave your bag under the table without having the strap wrapped around your leg or the chair in some fashion.
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If I don't recognize the name and the friend doesn't leave a note saying how they know me then I push them into the game friend group. Problem solved.
Why don't you just ignore the friend request if you don't know them? I don't understand this - why would you want someone on your friends list if they're not a friend, nor even acquaintance?
People _laughed_ at that?
Ok here is my question...
They are excited about things that other countries like Russia have been doing for decades? Huh? Progress? I will gladly be corrected, but it just seems to me that this is a step backwards in comparison to the stuff that they were doing before...
Russia has NOT been launching Atlas rockets for decades.
One thing that strikes me about my mac is that it doesn't treat me like an enormous retard. I don't have stupid little dogs popping up to "find" files for me, I don't have to click through 5 warnings about how what I'm about to do will end the world when I try to navigate out of my home directory, and the whole experience isn't dumbed down to the level of a 2 year old.
Yes, I know you can turn all that shit off in windows, but why do I have to? Every time I use a windows computer it leaves a sour taste in my mouth.
You're right. I forgot how brain damaged the Windows security model is...
In Linux, of course, you would need admin privilege to run an executable which is one reason Linux doesn't get viruses. But in Windows, anyone can download and execute anything... dumb.
So I guess I should rephrase that as "So what happened to the IT administrator who installed Windows computers in a situation where patient privacy and security could be compromised?"
What? Any user can set something executable and run it in a Unix system. It'll just run with the privileges of the user, which in this case is more than enough.
why don't you clean your desk?
Why is it necessary that we go back and explore what was accomplished in the past?
Because the relics of the past visits will give us valuable insight into long-term exposure of our machinery in the environment of the Moon - something that is surely relevant to future efforts of colonization. All the things we left behind have been sitting (hopefully?) untouched for 40 years getting bombarded with micrometeoroids, experiencing huge temperature swings and moonquakes, and generally experiencing the reality of existing there.
I find it fascinating and am excited to see pictures of how the sites have weathered.
What amazes me is that you use the confusion of "it's" and "its" as a sign of actual education. Actual knowledge, instead of (ahem) actual knowledge, like understanding the scientific process, or mathematics, or how to balance a checkbook.
No, the average person gets to spend about a man-year over the 12 years focusing on things like spelling, because... ? The only thing that makes spelling important is that people who know how to spell use that to insult those of us who don't. It's largely an utter waste of time.
I'm a natural-born good speller, I haven't used a spell-check in at least a year, and manage to communicate quite effectively via the written word. Yet I think that spelling is a waste of intellectual energy that we could all well do without.
When you think about it, the confusion is natural. The apostrophe is commonly used to show possession. EG: "That is Bob's shovel.". Yet, as soon as you replace "Bob" with "it" - the apostrophe suddenly disappears. "Don't bother its shovel.". WTF?
But, just to add confusion, "It's" isn't a possessive "his" it is instead an abbreviation of "it is" which are two words and for which the apostrophe adds very little value intellectually. (Ohz noez! - there's a missing "i"!) The only thing saved is a space. w00t! And there's plenty of evidence that even extreme examples of mis-spelling have virtually no impact on our ability to comprehend the material.
Personally, I'd like to see spelling dropped entirely - let's just learn the vowel and consonant SOUNDS, and let's use the 1 or 2 man-years saved on REAL education like Science, Mathematics, or how to balance your check book.
I wud be haapy tu adopt pyerly fohnetik speling.
Don't be ignorant. In the overall picture, the inability of someone to differ between two similar (but distinctly different) words is a clear sign of their general intelligence.
Sending people off to a math or science education without giving them a solid foundation in communication is doomed to fail.
It's hard for people who have spent most of their life being told that "correctness isn't important, so long as you're understood" to have proper spelling and grammar. ;)
That's what bugs me - correctness is CRUCIAL to being understood. If you use properly-spelled words in correct grammatical syntax the likeliness of you successfully communicating your message goes way, way up. If I have to read it five times to figure out what you're trying to say, it's WRONG.
Proper spelling isn't that hard, anyways. People are just lazy fuckers.
Wasn't the John Connor of T1 just like.. a sperm?
they're both cunning linguists...
Frontpack?
How come every sentence you write is punctuated with an exclamation point! Every sentence surely cannot be as important as the last!
Touche.
What in the hell's a "leach"?
Besides, you look at the Middle East now, and there's an active fight against science.
So it's just like the United States, eh?
No, no it's not.
You miss the point. All it's saying is Apple can make a device strikingly similar to an iPhone but at long as it's not called "iPhone" it's not required to be on AT&T.
shoulda got it off the pirate bay...
For me, it's not about a "trendy service that I reject because I'm trendily un-trendy". A stupid idea is stupid whether it's trendy or not, and a good idea is good whether it's trendy or not. And in my opinion, sites that ONLY do social networking are stupid. (I also think Twitter - the great trend of the past month - is stupid.) Slashdot's friends/foes system is an awesome addition to this site - but none of us are on this site for the social networking aspect of it; we're all here because we want "news for nerds" and any social networking that happens is a bonus.
I don't see how Facebook is any different from IM or email, other than the reasons I gave above (persistence, centralization). If one uses Facebook purely as a way to get in touch with friends, why are MSN and email un-stupid? I'm unconvinced you reject it for any reason other than its popularity and that it's cool to hate popular things.
The average person using facebook is the average person commenting on youtube videos: incredibly stupid. Facebook does nothing better than any other method of communication, and you have to use a shitty interface and tolerate facebook users to do..what?
If you want asynchronous communication you can use any IM software out there, emails, forums, etc.
It's not true, though. Facebook is not as easy as email, IM, forums, etc. Everyone I know is on Facebook and all I need to remember to get in touch with them is their name.
I don't need lists of emails that are constantly needing updates; I don't need IM contact lists that are usually out of date as well; I don't need memberships at several forums and to remember who belongs to each.. just type a few letters of their name on Facebook and there they are. Persists through email changes, phone number changes, and all that.
Yeah, my good buddies who I hang out with every day I just phone. Everyone else I get on Facebook.
I'm not one of those fools who posts fifty thousand pictures of every stupid event that occurs in their lives. It's a communication tool and little more.
That mindset of "the average person who uses some trendy service I reject because I'm trendily un-trendy is stupid" really gets to me. I've never understood why techies find it cool to be arrogant and condescending.
in space, no one can hear you punctuate
Internet tough guy much?
You are watching too many movies. Gasoline does not blow up. Ever.
Try this: Put a strip of cloth inside the tank, with one end in the gasoline, and the other outside the car. Let it soak full. Now light the cloth.
It starts to burn like a candle. No rush of fire into the tank. No explosion. Nothing special.
Imagine you being full of shit. Yikes!
Ah yes. Once you've got a flaming cloth inside your container of gasoline, give it a kick or agitate it somehow and watch how the oxygen gets to it and watch how your leg is on fire.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdCsbZf1_Ng - scroll to 3:00
Your friend needs some lessons in city living. Never ever leave your bag under the table without having the strap wrapped around your leg or the chair in some fashion.
Is this a joke? No way in hell would I ever let a school REQUIRE me to live in residence.
I try to avoid puking drunken 18 year olds as it is, forcing me to live amongst them would be a disaster.