Friends of Friends on orkut bad enough
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Guilty By Association
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It's bad enough getting friends of friends contacting me on orkut. For some reason the religious right people think it's fair game to email me with all kinds of links to support their causes.
A swift "fuck off" does the job there, but you can't do that with an auto bot that then goes and pumps your details into Yet Another Mass Marketing Tool
If I come across anyone using this near me.. I will punch them in the face. That, or bring out a large camera with flash and continually photograph them every moment they're talking to me
They'll either go away or turn the gadget off. Freaks
SCO is appearing like a jealous partner who just can't bear the thought that they're not the entire world to their clients, and are playing the stalking game, and running around town spreading rumours about infidelity. Nothing more, nothing less.
That reminds me of something I heard about religion and the christian god.
If you knew a woman with a boyfriend who insisted she bow down before him, and if she didn't she'd be cast into eternal pain and be shunned by her friends, and she couldn't associate with others who didn't believe in his superiority, and MUST give parts of her wages to him and his friends, then you'd tell her to get the fuck out of that abusive relationship asap.
When that "abusive boyfriend" is god however, it's all OK. Which, considering darl's affection for mormonism, isn't surprising.
I've known 3 women who've been stalked by obsessive morons, and their stalkers have all used religion as a basis for their hold over the victim. I think you really have something there!
Oh there's definitely a difference in pure analogue vs cd quality vs lossy compression codecs. Just taking a compression ratio down to 96kbit will make most listeners wince when their favourite tracks are played
I think that's part of it for many people. We might not hear parts of the music just like we may not "see" parts of a video clip on the first run round, but after 3 years listening to Louis Armstrong direct from CD, hearing him on 128kbit MP3 can be harsh. Humans learn and learn well, and the repitition of that playing guarantees we'll hear things that we're not meant to! or rather, things that we don't need to in order to identify a particular artist and recording. But we don't just listen to something to identify it, we listen to enjoy. That's different.
Most of the time 128kbit is fine for me. 192kbit for the things I'm familiar with.
I used to work for an auto electronics installer, and the most discerning fuckers would pay out the nose for single directional cable which sounded JUST that bit better.
I used to get my jollies installing the cable the wrong way round on one side. Not one of the audionerds noticed by listening.
Want to know how much flowery crap they can go on with? Take a look here. You only have to read the descriptions of a few of those turntables to realise these guys are as wacked out as alien abductees and the guy on the street corner who tells you every morning he has the FBI after him.
Don't forget the hi-toro group which created the original Amiga, a project that was underway with a MULTITASKING gui far before any mac, and which has influenced gui design ever since. Two button mouse anyone? i don't see apple catching up there.
Tell me what's Amiga's market share again? go on tell me I dare you.
Only a complete moron would judge market share as important. Ever thought of technical excellence, quality and just plain FUN to use? Something nothing has matched the amiga for IMHO
Didn't apple at macworld just 2 months ago claim more than 3/4 of the market? that's 75%, now already down to around 50%. Looks like people are seeing the lock-in that apple are forcing. You buy ACC, you're stuck with ACC. All these other services are using WMA files and are hence cross compatible with such a massive range of players (basically "everything not an iPod") that it has to make sense somewhere.
Do I see a return to the use of "beleaugered" ? I think so
Yes. It's an example of WHY they should stay away from the terminal. I've seen far too many silly mistakes done by mac users because of the lack of a commandline culture among the users.
Anyone who has come through Linux will have no problem with using a command line, and should do so.
Maybe in 10 years there will be enough experienced mac command line people to help educate the rest but until then there's going to be some awfully bad use made of terminal apps. Thankfully apple's project builder don't provide as much support for creating command line tools as gui ones, or heaven knows what kind of stuff they would be churning out
Personally I'd recomment that a mac user NEVER touch terminal. Almost every other computer system has a large background culture of good terminal use (Windows, Linux, BSD, AmigaOS, BeOS etc) and there's the support and documentation around to keep correct usage of a tool like that under control.
I've seen mac users make the most inane scripts to do jobs they could easily put in cron jobs, and run them with infinite loops of sleeping. How much time and processor is that taking up in the end? And with nobody around to say how to really do it properly, it's just going to make a mess.
The mac has it's place certainly but GUI users raised and born and bred on a GUI shouldn't be mucking about in a terminal
It needs to pop out it's supply of ritalin. I think it went something like this...
*rove rove rove rove OOOH SHINY ROCK*
and then wasted half the day playing with the shiny rock
Re:Unless QuarkXPress or Type Reunion is involved.
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Mac v. Microsoft TCO
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*ahem*. yes there is. The superior windows "Safe Mode" not only boots up without some extensions, but returns the system to a simple safe mode bootable on any hardware any monitor. Can't say that for just booting with extensions off
Not that you can boot with extensions off under OSX anyway
I think he made them up. I wasn't sure how dubious the characters were until he started talking about GravityMan, The Planetaryelectricfield, StrongNuclearForceGirl and Mr.Inertia
The link between The Combustible and FartBoy was pretty neat, when explaining the hindenberg...
It ended and hasn't really returned (although I still do have a tendency to fear the worst whenever I have symptoms of uncertain origin). I guess it came as a side-effect of the focus of my life changing around that time (sadly to becoming preoccupied with other problems...).
Yes, I suspect that's likely, and in time I'll just get used to the oddities I do have ( such as slight tachycardia. That's the only verifiable thing I have for certain, and not a worry by itself.). I've had the anxiety problems now for 15 years, and remember in about 2001 thinking the tachycardia was kind of cool because it felt so odd!. Now it feels like death coming for me. It's all in perception. The core, still, is the anxiety. That needs treatment
I hope your other problems diminish in the same way, and whatever is causing your core problems finds a fix.
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Cyberchondria
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I tell you what though, this article could be me exactly. This post may sound like a joke but I'm laying out some of my personal life here, so you can all live with that.
Probably in the last few years I've had anxiety related problems and occasionally look up information on the medication I'm on (I've been on a few types). It's not hard to sometimes get the symptoms from just something you read about.
I had an ache down my left arm which in the end turned out to be from a pulled muscle that eased up, but I read all about heart attacks and convinced myself I was having one one night. Off to hospital in an ambulance all night to be checked and needled just to make sure. Everything was fine. Now I'm in the habit of rubbing my arm in that spot, and of course that triggers the nerve there which brings about chest pains, little stabbing pains in my back and side of my ribs.
Of course then reading about heart attacks I came across information on why they're caused, one being blood clots in veins caused by sitting still, so now any ache in my legs I get guilty feelings of having clotting, then I'll get a twitch in my eye or head, and think "OMG IT'S A STROKE". It's freaking weird how carried away my mind can get.
Looking at it logically, I visited my sister for a week, and forgot all about the problems, and the symptoms were gone. I came back home, no problems at all, then came across an old email from a heart attack forum. Suddenly my symptoms reappear!
This must make it terrible for doctors, as just by reading about problems I've been tested for blood clots, heart irregularities and heart attacks, blood pressure and beating monitoring 24 hours a day, blood sugar and you name it it just goes on.
I know most people don't have the tendency to anxiety and worry that I do, and really it's a middle sized problem in my life, but something I can mostly deal with and my doctor too, when there's nothing else on top, but with a large percentage of the population anxiety prone like me, and a large percentage of THOSE online, this has to be making some incredible extra work for doctors, while making them all the more skeptical of the genuine patients who do present with heart problems, etc.
as long as it's not slugged with the "Amiga Tax" (double the price for the privilege of being able to run AmigaOS4 if it's released).
You don't have to worry about "if" it's released, it's right around the corner now. Current Amiga 1 owners should get their copy's of the OS4 Beta in the next few weeks.
If they're anything like apple's woeful airport quality, then you'll easily be able to tell when an employee is scanning you for an RFID tag. They'll have to hold the scanner up to your flesh, and leave it there for ten minutes straight
Never seen an Apple product wireless work reliably more than 30 feet.
The problem with this is, anybody can now download your robots.txt and have a list of your unprotected sensitive data.
Not if the robots.txt file prevents you from accessing that data, which it does.
Catch 22. You can find out the data exists, but the very act of finding out it exists comes from the security that prevents you from accessing it. Somewhat quantum hey
Want to expand on that or are you just trolling? How did the existance of that page get from Opera to Google such that it could pin-point (not crawl) that page?
Complete and utter troll. Opera does not and never has submitted URLs to google for any reason. It's just an urban legend that's build up over time because people don't like the fact it's supported by adverts. Boo hoo, someone has to pay the coders who write Opera.
Heh. they might regret picking on the AmigaOS this time. Hints from the producers show it'll be out at the beginning of february, and sent to existing AmigaOne owners by the end of January
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It's bad enough getting friends of friends contacting me on orkut. For some reason the religious right people think it's fair game to email me with all kinds of links to support their causes.
A swift "fuck off" does the job there, but you can't do that with an auto bot that then goes and pumps your details into Yet Another Mass Marketing Tool
cool! excellent! awesome!
/., it's not a Mac story hiding in there is there?
Hang on, this is
If I come across anyone using this near me.. I will punch them in the face. That, or bring out a large camera with flash and continually photograph them every moment they're talking to me
They'll either go away or turn the gadget off. Freaks
SCO is appearing like a jealous partner who just can't bear the thought that they're not the entire world to their clients, and are playing the stalking game, and running around town spreading rumours about infidelity. Nothing more, nothing less.
That reminds me of something I heard about religion and the christian god.
If you knew a woman with a boyfriend who insisted she bow down before him, and if she didn't she'd be cast into eternal pain and be shunned by her friends, and she couldn't associate with others who didn't believe in his superiority, and MUST give parts of her wages to him and his friends, then you'd tell her to get the fuck out of that abusive relationship asap.
When that "abusive boyfriend" is god however, it's all OK. Which, considering darl's affection for mormonism, isn't surprising.
I've known 3 women who've been stalked by obsessive morons, and their stalkers have all used religion as a basis for their hold over the victim. I think you really have something there!
Oh there's definitely a difference in pure analogue vs cd quality vs lossy compression codecs. Just taking a compression ratio down to 96kbit will make most listeners wince when their favourite tracks are played
I think that's part of it for many people. We might not hear parts of the music just like we may not "see" parts of a video clip on the first run round, but after 3 years listening to Louis Armstrong direct from CD, hearing him on 128kbit MP3 can be harsh. Humans learn and learn well, and the repitition of that playing guarantees we'll hear things that we're not meant to! or rather, things that we don't need to in order to identify a particular artist and recording. But we don't just listen to something to identify it, we listen to enjoy. That's different.
Most of the time 128kbit is fine for me. 192kbit for the things I'm familiar with.
I used to work for an auto electronics installer, and the most discerning fuckers would pay out the nose for single directional cable which sounded JUST that bit better.
I used to get my jollies installing the cable the wrong way round on one side. Not one of the audionerds noticed by listening.
Want to know how much flowery crap they can go on with? Take a look here. You only have to read the descriptions of a few of those turntables to realise these guys are as wacked out as alien abductees and the guy on the street corner who tells you every morning he has the FBI after him.
Heh, This should change your mind
Don't forget the hi-toro group which created the original Amiga, a project that was underway with a MULTITASKING gui far before any mac, and which has influenced gui design ever since. Two button mouse anyone? i don't see apple catching up there.
Tell me what's Amiga's market share again? go on tell me I dare you.
Only a complete moron would judge market share as important. Ever thought of technical excellence, quality and just plain FUN to use? Something nothing has matched the amiga for IMHO
Didn't apple at macworld just 2 months ago claim more than 3/4 of the market? that's 75%, now already down to around 50%. Looks like people are seeing the lock-in that apple are forcing. You buy ACC, you're stuck with ACC. All these other services are using WMA files and are hence cross compatible with such a massive range of players (basically "everything not an iPod") that it has to make sense somewhere.
Do I see a return to the use of "beleaugered" ? I think so
You might find you'll be eating those words when AmigaOS 4 is released :-).
It should be out for sale beginning or mid March, and I think the whole world is going to have to sit up and take notice.
Yes. It's an example of WHY they should stay away from the terminal. I've seen far too many silly mistakes done by mac users because of the lack of a commandline culture among the users.
Anyone who has come through Linux will have no problem with using a command line, and should do so.
Maybe in 10 years there will be enough experienced mac command line people to help educate the rest but until then there's going to be some awfully bad use made of terminal apps. Thankfully apple's project builder don't provide as much support for creating command line tools as gui ones, or heaven knows what kind of stuff they would be churning out
Personally I'd recomment that a mac user NEVER touch terminal. Almost every other computer system has a large background culture of good terminal use (Windows, Linux, BSD, AmigaOS, BeOS etc) and there's the support and documentation around to keep correct usage of a tool like that under control.
I've seen mac users make the most inane scripts to do jobs they could easily put in cron jobs, and run them with infinite loops of sleeping. How much time and processor is that taking up in the end? And with nobody around to say how to really do it properly, it's just going to make a mess.
The mac has it's place certainly but GUI users raised and born and bred on a GUI shouldn't be mucking about in a terminal
It needs to pop out it's supply of ritalin. I think it went something like this...
*rove rove rove rove OOOH SHINY ROCK*
and then wasted half the day playing with the shiny rock
*ahem*. yes there is. The superior windows "Safe Mode" not only boots up without some extensions, but returns the system to a simple safe mode bootable on any hardware any monitor. Can't say that for just booting with extensions off
Not that you can boot with extensions off under OSX anyway
I think he made them up. I wasn't sure how dubious the characters were until he started talking about GravityMan, The Planetaryelectricfield, StrongNuclearForceGirl and Mr.Inertia
The link between The Combustible and FartBoy was pretty neat, when explaining the hindenberg...
If the physics are so right...
Where's superman? spiderman? batman? the xmen? omg. YOU'RE ALL HIDING THEM FROM ME
scuse while my childhood dreams go down the toilet.
It ended and hasn't really returned (although I still do have a tendency to fear the worst whenever I have symptoms of uncertain origin). I guess it came as a side-effect of the focus of my life changing around that time (sadly to becoming preoccupied with other problems...).
Yes, I suspect that's likely, and in time I'll just get used to the oddities I do have ( such as slight tachycardia. That's the only verifiable thing I have for certain, and not a worry by itself.). I've had the anxiety problems now for 15 years, and remember in about 2001 thinking the tachycardia was kind of cool because it felt so odd!. Now it feels like death coming for me. It's all in perception. The core, still, is the anxiety. That needs treatment
I hope your other problems diminish in the same way, and whatever is causing your core problems finds a fix.
I tell you what though, this article could be me exactly. This post may sound like a joke but I'm laying out some of my personal life here, so you can all live with that.
Probably in the last few years I've had anxiety related problems and occasionally look up information on the medication I'm on (I've been on a few types). It's not hard to sometimes get the symptoms from just something you read about.
I had an ache down my left arm which in the end turned out to be from a pulled muscle that eased up, but I read all about heart attacks and convinced myself I was having one one night. Off to hospital in an ambulance all night to be checked and needled just to make sure. Everything was fine. Now I'm in the habit of rubbing my arm in that spot, and of course that triggers the nerve there which brings about chest pains, little stabbing pains in my back and side of my ribs.
Of course then reading about heart attacks I came across information on why they're caused, one being blood clots in veins caused by sitting still, so now any ache in my legs I get guilty feelings of having clotting, then I'll get a twitch in my eye or head, and think "OMG IT'S A STROKE". It's freaking weird how carried away my mind can get.
Looking at it logically, I visited my sister for a week, and forgot all about the problems, and the symptoms were gone. I came back home, no problems at all, then came across an old email from a heart attack forum. Suddenly my symptoms reappear!
This must make it terrible for doctors, as just by reading about problems I've been tested for blood clots, heart irregularities and heart attacks, blood pressure and beating monitoring 24 hours a day, blood sugar and you name it it just goes on.
I know most people don't have the tendency to anxiety and worry that I do, and really it's a middle sized problem in my life, but something I can mostly deal with and my doctor too, when there's nothing else on top, but with a large percentage of the population anxiety prone like me, and a large percentage of THOSE online, this has to be making some incredible extra work for doctors, while making them all the more skeptical of the genuine patients who do present with heart problems, etc.
as long as it's not slugged with the "Amiga Tax" (double the price for the privilege of being able to run AmigaOS4 if it's released).
You don't have to worry about "if" it's released, it's right around the corner now. Current Amiga 1 owners should get their copy's of the OS4 Beta in the next few weeks.
If you don't get some identifying item like that it would be hard to use the technology like this...
I wouldn't be surprised if their built into the apple products themselves.
If they're anything like apple's woeful airport quality, then you'll easily be able to tell when an employee is scanning you for an RFID tag. They'll have to hold the scanner up to your flesh, and leave it there for ten minutes straight
Never seen an Apple product wireless work reliably more than 30 feet.
The problem with this is, anybody can now download your robots.txt and have a list of your unprotected sensitive data.
Not if the robots.txt file prevents you from accessing that data, which it does.
Catch 22. You can find out the data exists, but the very act of finding out it exists comes from the security that prevents you from accessing it. Somewhat quantum hey
Want to expand on that or are you just trolling? How did the existance of that page get from Opera to Google such that it could pin-point (not crawl) that page?
Complete and utter troll. Opera does not and never has submitted URLs to google for any reason. It's just an urban legend that's build up over time because people don't like the fact it's supported by adverts. Boo hoo, someone has to pay the coders who write Opera.
Paranoia at its worst, people
> 9. Amiga OS 4.0 (Amiga)
Heh. they might regret picking on the AmigaOS this time. Hints from the producers show it'll be out at the beginning of february, and sent to existing AmigaOne owners by the end of January