"Normal" means majority/average in context of your post. Yes, many slashdotters have probably different definition of "normal"...but that's the thing - we don't fit that well with people from the broader one.
Actually, it's convenient to have automatic preselection methods (gossips are also great) - that way you don't have to waste your time figuring out you don't really see a point in particular reliationship.
As for the question of the submitter - it's not really "where?", but "what?", if you want to find ~like-minded people. "What happens there, what are they doing, what is this place about?"; "is it something that interests me or might interest me?" - basically, just looking for people/places which you would probably like.
Many people believe in fairy tales and think that such thing will indeed make a difference for them...
And so it has a chance of preventing similar lifestories in the future (as I usually say, you can't really get rid of religion at this point of our civilisation - nothing works better at controlling the masses; it's just unfortunate that many intelligent people are cought in the wake)
Even I have an idea how my "funeral" would look, because while I know it won't make a difference for me then, it makes it now. That's really the mechanism in most people - "I better respect others and their wishes, only then they will respect mine".
a) you can buy SIM-recharge code in many more places than SIM-cards
b) people buy them much more often than SIM-cards
And as for selling the old one...I don't know how it looks in Iran, but generally it's safer to destroy it. Or leave it in totally unrelated location, if you don't care about problems for the finder (but you already don't care about those for the buyer;p )
Well, and it's actually the other way around - if I want to buy any consumer electronics device it's substantially cheaper to do it in Germany (though I live near the border / Berlin is the closest really big city (and the roads take you there 2x faster; heck, if I travel to southern Poland it's better to do it through Germany))
Do you specifically require vim-style controls or simply a browser that has full keyboard-only navigation built in? (as one might understand from the last sentence...)
Because if the latter...that's not something new or unique.
Some of those "trolls" weren't about memory usage, but about overall degradation of user experience over time (hey, I have tons of memory, apps should use it).
I used Phoenix/Firebird/Firefox almost since its inception, plus functionality of few nice plugins isn't implemented in Opera (vast majority of features/plugins that, according to claims, keep people on Firefox, actually are), but the latter is the only browser which doesn't force me into managing it / using it in a particular way just so it remains usable (Chrome comes close to it, technically, but it lacks features; IE is of course even worse; didn't really try Safari; and what's funny...Mozilla Suite/Seamonkey is noticeably better than "leaner" Firefox)
As a matter of fact...Firefox 2.x was much better than 3.x (I check it every few months) when it comes to UI remaining responsive/etc. under heavy usage; which causes me to suspect they overshoot with memory usage reduction, missed that sweet spot of amount of memory required by particular codebase to work properly (and Gecko has it higher than others - how many years are we waiting for mobile version? Will it work on my 230MHz AMR phone with 12MB of user RAM? (Webkit and Opera do...))
Step 1: Get cheapest phone you can find with GPRS and USB. Right now that would be probably LG KP100 - a little over $20 without contract. Use this phone only for "secret" communication, with prepaid SIM cards.
Step 2: A netbook. Usual rules of secretiveness apply - make sure it doesn't transmit any identifiable information, keep "secret" OS separate and on a microSD card, transmit through Tor, and so on...
That plus the nasty little thing: most social networking sites force you into registering if you want to use even the smallest amount of functionality (only browse, for example)
They are control freaks. Don't expect their mail services to open soon (likewise, Facebook and few others wanted to move their chat into Jabber over a year ago...and nothing happened; I guess it was scrapped once they realized they wouldn't have good excuse for lack of interoperability)
Yeah, funny thing about high prices (among other things of course...) was that thanks to them you didn't have a problem of getting a Wii from day one (even though, in words of PL company that distributes them, the supply was "catastrophic"...but why would Nintendo send large batch into such immature market?)
Sony has a direct presence in Poland - Sony Poland. They deal with a lot of consumer products, they might just as well take PS3 on the ride.
Microsoft has a direct presence in Poland - Microsoft Poland. They deal with a lot of consumer products, they might just as well take X360 on the ride.
Nintendo presence in Poland relies on some local company name of which I even don't remember. It's not worth it to start direct operations in so immature market.
Somehow Nintendo, in this generation of consoles, is the only one doing things in a profitable way.
That could also mean it doesn't need small bragging rights it would get from also trying to dominate totally immature markets.
And don't pretend I don't know what I'm talking about, as an owner of on of very few non-chipmodded PS1s here. X360 dominates PL market because it easy to pirate.
Uhmmm...since you live _here_ you surely must know that it is, in large part, thanks to local distributors, not Nintendo/Apple/etc. (companies which, in reality, don't have a presence here; they rely on some 3rd party that takes silly cut for itself)
That's a misconception originally promoted by some to feel more elitist, I guess, and nowadays mostly to point fingers at consoles and yell "they dumb down our games!"
There are also "hardcore" (as you put it...whatever that means) games for consoles. And there was more of them in the past. As is the case for the PC.
Simply an effect of marginalizing early and "mid" adopters, now that both types of platforms have became much more mainstream.
Also, thank MS for bringing them so close together that it's "obvious" for publishers to aim games for both. Which means: the need to be compromise on both platforms, cutting out things that work great on one, but are not really doable on the other. "Jack of all trades..." and all that...
Gmail integrates nicely IM (open standard!), VoIP and videoconferencing (likewise; though right now only VoIP is implemented by 3rd parties afaik). With the same account you have pictures (virtually unlimited in comparison to "free" albums on social networking sites (well, that's the way at my place...), blogs, and forums. Few other things too, Youtube for example. But it's different in two important ways...
1) you can use any e-mail you want to create Google Account for all those services (you can use any Jabber server for IM & VoIP (with video likely coming; definitely Google doesn't mind))
2) Most of those services don't force you into registering just to use basic functionality.
Using "mail" provided by social networking sites is like going back to times when telephone networks weren't interconnected. Would you really defend cellphone network that doesn't interoperate?
Understand the difference might be determined only by judge (on basis of, for example, good will currently) if the parties can't agree on a solution (plus in this case one of the parties is institution representing the market itself).
Suggesting they should be let go just because right now they appear to play nice is at least naive.
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"Normal" means majority/average in context of your post. Yes, many slashdotters have probably different definition of "normal"...but that's the thing - we don't fit that well with people from the broader one.
Actually, it's convenient to have automatic preselection methods (gossips are also great) - that way you don't have to waste your time figuring out you don't really see a point in particular reliationship.
As for the question of the submitter - it's not really "where?", but "what?", if you want to find ~like-minded people. "What happens there, what are they doing, what is this place about?"; "is it something that interests me or might interest me?" - basically, just looking for people/places which you would probably like.
Only this time in...meatspace.
Many people believe in fairy tales and think that such thing will indeed make a difference for them...
And so it has a chance of preventing similar lifestories in the future (as I usually say, you can't really get rid of religion at this point of our civilisation - nothing works better at controlling the masses; it's just unfortunate that many intelligent people are cought in the wake)
Even I have an idea how my "funeral" would look, because while I know it won't make a difference for me then, it makes it now. That's really the mechanism in most people - "I better respect others and their wishes, only then they will respect mine".
Plus - it makes the son feel better.
Recharging might be ok, especially since:
a) you can buy SIM-recharge code in many more places than SIM-cards
b) people buy them much more often than SIM-cards
And as for selling the old one...I don't know how it looks in Iran, but generally it's safer to destroy it. Or leave it in totally unrelated location, if you don't care about problems for the finder (but you already don't care about those for the buyer ;p )
Well, supposedly you also need means to communicate from time to time...
Using a phone that's untraceable to you is a nice bonus on top of using Tor/etc.
I believe you are wrong, since Iran borders with Persian Gulf.
Well, and it's actually the other way around - if I want to buy any consumer electronics device it's substantially cheaper to do it in Germany (though I live near the border / Berlin is the closest really big city (and the roads take you there 2x faster; heck, if I travel to southern Poland it's better to do it through Germany))
Known orbit, easily blinded by sufficiently powerful laser.
A few hundred years ago, whole populations would gladly give up their lives for a cause they believed in.
And you know this how? From the dead?
Do you specifically require vim-style controls or simply a browser that has full keyboard-only navigation built in? (as one might understand from the last sentence...)
Because if the latter...that's not something new or unique.
Some of those "trolls" weren't about memory usage, but about overall degradation of user experience over time (hey, I have tons of memory, apps should use it).
I used Phoenix/Firebird/Firefox almost since its inception, plus functionality of few nice plugins isn't implemented in Opera (vast majority of features/plugins that, according to claims, keep people on Firefox, actually are), but the latter is the only browser which doesn't force me into managing it / using it in a particular way just so it remains usable (Chrome comes close to it, technically, but it lacks features; IE is of course even worse; didn't really try Safari; and what's funny...Mozilla Suite/Seamonkey is noticeably better than "leaner" Firefox)
As a matter of fact...Firefox 2.x was much better than 3.x (I check it every few months) when it comes to UI remaining responsive/etc. under heavy usage; which causes me to suspect they overshoot with memory usage reduction, missed that sweet spot of amount of memory required by particular codebase to work properly (and Gecko has it higher than others - how many years are we waiting for mobile version? Will it work on my 230MHz AMR phone with 12MB of user RAM? (Webkit and Opera do...))
Step 1: Get cheapest phone you can find with GPRS and USB. Right now that would be probably LG KP100 - a little over $20 without contract. Use this phone only for "secret" communication, with prepaid SIM cards.
Step 2: A netbook. Usual rules of secretiveness apply - make sure it doesn't transmit any identifiable information, keep "secret" OS separate and on a microSD card, transmit through Tor, and so on...
That plus the nasty little thing: most social networking sites force you into registering if you want to use even the smallest amount of functionality (only browse, for example)
They are control freaks. Don't expect their mail services to open soon (likewise, Facebook and few others wanted to move their chat into Jabber over a year ago...and nothing happened; I guess it was scrapped once they realized they wouldn't have good excuse for lack of interoperability)
Just so you know, your HP Mini doesn't have Core Solo 1.6, but Atom...which is around half the speed.
Yeah, funny thing about high prices (among other things of course...) was that thanks to them you didn't have a problem of getting a Wii from day one (even though, in words of PL company that distributes them, the supply was "catastrophic"...but why would Nintendo send large batch into such immature market?)
And comment I made wasn't directed at you per se. Just an observation about thought processes of believers.
People "expect" that just because they don't really realize it can be better. Put it another way: they don't expect that at all, they just accept it.
Ah, I see; well, I shouldn't be surprised that believers tend to ignore parts of reality they don't like...
Sony has a direct presence in Poland - Sony Poland. They deal with a lot of consumer products, they might just as well take PS3 on the ride.
Microsoft has a direct presence in Poland - Microsoft Poland. They deal with a lot of consumer products, they might just as well take X360 on the ride.
Nintendo presence in Poland relies on some local company name of which I even don't remember. It's not worth it to start direct operations in so immature market.
Somehow Nintendo, in this generation of consoles, is the only one doing things in a profitable way.
That could also mean it doesn't need small bragging rights it would get from also trying to dominate totally immature markets.
And don't pretend I don't know what I'm talking about, as an owner of on of very few non-chipmodded PS1s here. X360 dominates PL market because it easy to pirate.
Personally I think horses analogy to be quite refreshing.
Uhmmm...since you live _here_ you surely must know that it is, in large part, thanks to local distributors, not Nintendo/Apple/etc. (companies which, in reality, don't have a presence here; they rely on some 3rd party that takes silly cut for itself)
(The above does not mean that I necessarily believe that global warming is caused by CO2.)
Oh, I didn't realize it was a matter of beliefs...
That's a misconception originally promoted by some to feel more elitist, I guess, and nowadays mostly to point fingers at consoles and yell "they dumb down our games!"
There are also "hardcore" (as you put it...whatever that means) games for consoles. And there was more of them in the past. As is the case for the PC.
Simply an effect of marginalizing early and "mid" adopters, now that both types of platforms have became much more mainstream.
Also, thank MS for bringing them so close together that it's "obvious" for publishers to aim games for both. Which means: the need to be compromise on both platforms, cutting out things that work great on one, but are not really doable on the other. "Jack of all trades..." and all that...
Gmail integrates nicely IM (open standard!), VoIP and videoconferencing (likewise; though right now only VoIP is implemented by 3rd parties afaik). With the same account you have pictures (virtually unlimited in comparison to "free" albums on social networking sites (well, that's the way at my place...), blogs, and forums. Few other things too, Youtube for example. But it's different in two important ways...
1) you can use any e-mail you want to create Google Account for all those services (you can use any Jabber server for IM & VoIP (with video likely coming; definitely Google doesn't mind))
2) Most of those services don't force you into registering just to use basic functionality.
Using "mail" provided by social networking sites is like going back to times when telephone networks weren't interconnected. Would you really defend cellphone network that doesn't interoperate?
Understand the difference might be determined only by judge (on basis of, for example, good will currently) if the parties can't agree on a solution (plus in this case one of the parties is institution representing the market itself).
Suggesting they should be let go just because right now they appear to play nice is at least naive.