That was my first thought when I saw the headline. I don't really talk to teenagers these days, so I don't know about MySpace, but some time ago I read about somebody's "theory of cool" (I can't remember where) that seemed pretty accurate. The idea is that there are stages that pretty much everything "cool" goes through, and it went something like this:
1. First it's underground. Practically nobody knows about it, but the people who know about it are the "cool kids".
2. The other kids start finding out about it, and it becomes generally known as "cool". By this time, most of the "cool kids" have actually already moved on to something else
3. It starts popping up in the mainstream, and then even the geeky kids know about it. The cool kids have already left, and most of the regular kids start leaving because the inclusion of geeky kids means it's not cool anymore.
4. Finally, when it hasn't been cool for months, parents, and older people in general, start figuring it out. It might appeal to them, or it might not, but this is the stage where your Grandpa tries to rap because he thinks it's funny.
5. Every now and then the whole things starts up again 10 or 20 years later when a new generation of cool kids take it up, and it becomes "retro".
Yeah, but how do you know that they exist on the facebook network (it's because you clicked on their name in a group, someone's wall, or found them in the search engine) ?
The option that I described (you have to go a bit deep into your privacy settings to change it) is that your name will no longer come up in the search engine and if your name is displayed in a group, someone else's wall or friend's list, your name will be displayed in black text instead of a blue hyperlink that directs you to their small page that contains their friend list, avatar, name, avatar/pic.
It's been around for some time, I think.
/first sentence reminds me too much of the matrix.
Eh, besides the ability to make your profile really tacky by having a god-awful color scheme, flash, and a music stream; only noticible difference [between facebook and myspace] that I see is that you must 'friend' the other person in order to see their entire profile.
However, If you're not their 'friend', their name still comes up in the search engine and you can still see their name, school, a profile picture/avatar, and who they have listed as their friends.
Although the information coming up in the search engine seems like a bit much, you can configure it so that your information does not come up in the search engine. The caveat with that, though, is that no one outside of your school network can make a friend request to you. You would have to initiate all friend requests.
As a college student and facebook user, Facebook jumped the shark a long time ago .
(adding high school, companies onto there, the status updates...)
I'm not looking forward to having random middle-aged men sending me friend requests on facebook
(I got these even as a male on myspace, and the college ladies will have their inboxes filled... *shudders*)
I taught a basic math class at a community college. 40% of the students were there because they had forgotten the material (over 40 years old), 50% didn't learn it in high school (under 20 years old), 5% had to take it as a prerequisite, and 10% had no clue how to add percents.
The article fails to mention that there must be a straight strip of road every five miles on the highway system, so airplanes utilize these strips as landing strips in emergency.
I have learned quite a bit from my local LUG .
Fellow members give presentations on their particular interests and can provide the opportunity to ask in-person questions with other linux enthusaists who, with respects to my LUG, have a great variety of experience.
Not to mention, it is more sociable than to RTFM and use google ^_^
/ a bit obvious ?!
/ oh wait, most of us here are not that extraverted.
Yeah, as a college freshman, I empathize with you. At my high school of 1400 students, there were about 5 techs scattered across with different titles (director of technology, website maintenance, the digital art teacher, etc). The ones who knew their stuff were under the supervision of the ignorant, older ones just went their own ways and tried to keep out of each other's business.
Also, in the 325 students in my graduating class (and all Male, mind you), only about 5 or 6 of them knew any programming.
Although I don't know any programming besides some CSS and html, it's worked out pretty well, since I use skills in troubleshooting and general tech issues quite a bit in college.
I seriously ask, what's the big deal here ?!
I am currently going to a small liberal arts college right now; and after two quarters, I have not seen a student pull out a laptop in class. Granted, this is short time and I have taken all humanities and social science courses so far, but I've asked around from other kids (yes, I asked a couple upperclassmen about this awhile back) and they said it's very rare to see one in class. There's a couple people who use palm pilots for assignments and that's about it.
I guess I am missing something here since I don't attend a large state school ? Or is it just that I have not posted on slashdot in 3 months ?:P
I had my final in Philosophy and Artificial Intelligence class on Thursday, alas this wasn't posted before then...
Steps to ace the final:
- filtered the +4 and +5 posts - RTFA and the./ posts - study with some female classmates to study with me [btw, my class is 50/50%, M/F] - insert my response to the article into one of the essays on the test - profit on multiple levels !
~only in my dreams~/Hi steve [my prof] or any of my classmates
How he defines flow: being completely involved in an activity for its own sake. The ego falls away. Time flies. Every action, movement, and thought follows inevitably from the previous one, like playing jazz. Your whole being is involved, and you're using your skills to the utmost.
The quinessential example that would accurately describe "flow" for the slashdot crowd would be the lost sense of time, sort of euphoric feeling that you get when you've been coding for hours.
I've read most of his book, Creativity, for my seminar class (college frosh) that I'm currently taking. In it, he does devote a chapter of ~20 pgs to Flow, and the entire book is actually a very insightful read and recommend it to slashdotters.... /end cheap plug /His last name is pronounced: "chick-sent-me-hi-ee" /seriously, that alone should give you reason to buy the book or check it out from your local library...
Well, why not ?
Google could unleashing searching on the DVR's. This would allow users to just input a search term and have it record all episodes that the term returned in results. Who needs the TV guides or tvtome anymore ?
I'm not the only who predicts it -
[flash video] http://www.robinsloan.com/epic/
Just like Christopher McCandless, eh ?
Post college, I'd really like to leave 'the scene' for a bit. For my travels, I'd go to Europe and rent a small flat and live the European life. Supporting myself through bartending or being a waiter at some restaurant, maybe. Unfortunately, it might be a bit more difficult to do this, since I'd have to be using my passport to travel from the USA to EU.
The Constitution,Article VI states:
"This Constitution, and the laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance there of; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the United States, shall be Supreme Law of the land; and the Judges in every state shall be bound thereby, any thing in the Constitution or Laws of any state to the contrary notwithstanding."
States sold their souls awhile back...You Didn't know this ? You didn't read the fine print then, eh ?!
It's only a matter of time before we have a reality-TV show about this kind of lifestyle. But what the real dummies don't understand is that this is the same culture that has existed for decades.
Sadly, such a thing already exists - http://www.welcometothescene.com/
After watching a few minutes of it, I don't know if I should laugh or shudder....:D
I'll second this one. At my high school, one of the clubs was able to have semi-profitable and successful Halo and Madden tournaments [using consoles].
This way, the equipment is 'standardized' so fear of hacks/cheats is less than PC; as well as the kids don't have to haul in a $500+ computer [instead a console no more than $300]. Plus, instead of one huge room of a LAN, there can be multiple classrooms, where one segment or bracket [of 4-8 people @ a time] can be held, as the tourney progresses.
As you should know as well - most geeks are recluse ! This means to have flyers displayed around school and get some exposure on the school announcements./Linux troll
Or you could just use your Comp. lab, get a bunch of knoppixgames discs and have a bzflag tourney. Any kid capable of reaking havoc on that network should already be your ally:p
However, like all many other stereotypes, the acedemically competitive in America do quite exist, but are in the far minority.
I've attended private school all my life in the US of A [K-12, currently in 12th] and my fellow students are somewhat competitive. It's often subtle, but you notice it when we do modestly ask each other our SAT & ACT scores, GPA, or the amount of honors/AP classes we're taking.
Some of my friends go to public schools [suburban, somewhat affluent] and the competiveness exists there - But only among certain peers groups [i.e. the overachievers, Honors kids, etc.]. Other students at the same school, though, really don't give a shiat about academics, nor care that Pi DOES NOT equal 22/7 [Nor do they even know]. Instead, their concerns are based on the current pop culture trend @ the time.
The competitiveness of the students depends on the students themselves.
Well they are [representatives of the people], just not directly.
They five FCC comissioners, (which, no more than 3 of them can be from the same political party), are appointed by the President and approved by the Senate. They serve Five year terms.
The Head, Michael Powell [Colin's son] was put on by Clinton in 96, and Bush promoted Powell to head commissioner Jan. 2001.
Want them to change ? Vote for your electoral college candidates' choices on Nov. 2nd.
[Or just start a revolution:p]/just finished an outline on the FCC for AP Govt
[I'm going to 'hide' or lie about my habits.] [I'll admit I do it less than I used to; one of the main points, because it seems to be getting harder to find rare music and stuff from underground artists on p2p's...]
1) Roughly what percent of your music collection is unauthorized files from P2P like Kazaa, FTP, etc.? Probably 65 %
2) Roughly what percent of your music collection comes from sources like iTunes Music Store, eMusic, etc? zero, for now, once I get a CC, then yeah, more. [plus, its hard to entice a user to convert if an artist only gets 10 cents per song, out of your $1.00]
3) Roughly what percent of your music collection comes from shareable sources like Creative Commons-licensed music? 5%
4) Roughly what percent of your music collection comes from rips of your own CDs? 15 % [this includes songs AND albums that I once downloaded through P2P, wanted to help the artist, then bought them]
5) Roughly what percent of your music collection comes from rips of friends' CDs ? 15 % [includes stuff that I borrow from the library, then I listen to it, since it's more convenient for me to listen when I want to, and not worry about when the cd's are due..]/not afraid to spill the beans/if I never post again, you'll know why....^_^ [*goes off to answer the door*]
According to the s-nova page, you can no longer hotlink torrents, as its been eating up their bandwidth....*cough*...../....3rd-party extensions...*cough*
the torrent now only works if you directly get it from the suprnova page. [btw, its.org ]
Slashdot Mirror
That was my first thought when I saw the headline. I don't really talk to teenagers these days, so I don't know about MySpace, but some time ago I read about somebody's "theory of cool" (I can't remember where) that seemed pretty accurate. The idea is that there are stages that pretty much everything "cool" goes through, and it went something like this:
1. First it's underground. Practically nobody knows about it, but the people who know about it are the "cool kids".
2. The other kids start finding out about it, and it becomes generally known as "cool". By this time, most of the "cool kids" have actually already moved on to something else
3. It starts popping up in the mainstream, and then even the geeky kids know about it. The cool kids have already left, and most of the regular kids start leaving because the inclusion of geeky kids means it's not cool anymore.
4. Finally, when it hasn't been cool for months, parents, and older people in general, start figuring it out. It might appeal to them, or it might not, but this is the stage where your Grandpa tries to rap because he thinks it's funny.
5. Every now and then the whole things starts up again 10 or 20 years later when a new generation of cool kids take it up, and it becomes "retro".
So then, which stage (of coolness) is linux at ?
Yeah, but how do you know that they exist on the facebook network (it's because you clicked on their name in a group, someone's wall, or found them in the search engine) ?
/first sentence reminds me too much of the matrix.
The option that I described (you have to go a bit deep into your privacy settings to change it) is that your name will no longer come up in the search engine and if your name is displayed in a group, someone else's wall or friend's list, your name will be displayed in black text instead of a blue hyperlink that directs you to their small page that contains their friend list, avatar, name, avatar/pic.
It's been around for some time, I think.
Eh, besides the ability to make your profile really tacky by having a god-awful color scheme, flash, and a music stream; only noticible difference [between facebook and myspace] that I see is that you must 'friend' the other person in order to see their entire profile.
However, If you're not their 'friend', their name still comes up in the search engine and you can still see their name, school, a profile picture/avatar, and who they have listed as their friends. Although the information coming up in the search engine seems like a bit much, you can configure it so that your information does not come up in the search engine.
The caveat with that, though, is that no one outside of your school network can make a friend request to you. You would have to initiate all friend requests.
As a college student and facebook user, Facebook jumped the shark a long time ago .
(adding high school, companies onto there, the status updates...)
I'm not looking forward to having random middle-aged men sending me friend requests on facebook (I got these even as a male on myspace, and the college ladies will have their inboxes filled... *shudders*)
I taught a basic math class at a community college. 40% of the students were there because they had forgotten the material (over 40 years old), 50% didn't learn it in high school (under 20 years old), 5% had to take it as a prerequisite, and 10% had no clue how to add percents.
....
Must be one of the 10%
aha, thanks for letting me know.
I'm a fan of snopes, but I guess I don't spend enough time on there to read that one.
The article fails to mention that there must be a straight strip of road every five miles on the highway system, so airplanes utilize these strips as landing strips in emergency.
I have learned quite a bit from my local LUG .
Fellow members give presentations on their particular interests and can provide the opportunity to ask in-person questions with other linux enthusaists who, with respects to my LUG, have a great variety of experience.
Not to mention, it is more sociable than to RTFM and use google ^_^ / a bit obvious ?! / oh wait, most of us here are not that extraverted.
Yeah, as a college freshman, I empathize with you.
At my high school of 1400 students, there were about 5 techs scattered across with different titles (director of technology, website maintenance, the digital art teacher, etc). The ones who knew their stuff were under the supervision of the ignorant, older ones just went their own ways and tried to keep out of each other's business.
Also, in the 325 students in my graduating class
(and all Male, mind you), only about 5 or 6 of them knew any programming.
Although I don't know any programming besides some CSS and html, it's worked out pretty well, since I use skills in troubleshooting and general tech issues quite a bit in college.
I seriously ask, what's the big deal here ?!
:P
/I'm on spring break
/Quarter system, yeah !
I am currently going to a small liberal arts college right now; and after two quarters, I have not seen a student pull out a laptop in class. Granted, this is short time and I have taken all humanities and social science courses so far, but I've asked around from other kids (yes, I asked a couple upperclassmen about this awhile back) and they said it's very rare to see one in class. There's a couple people who use palm pilots for assignments and that's about it.
I guess I am missing something here since I don't attend a large state school ? Or is it just that I have not posted on slashdot in 3 months ?
I had my final in Philosophy and Artificial Intelligence class on Thursday, alas this wasn't posted before then...
Steps to ace the final:
- filtered the +4 and +5 posts
- RTFA and the
- study with some female classmates to study with me [btw, my class is 50/50%, M/F]
- insert my response to the article into one of the essays on the test
- profit on multiple levels !
~only in my dreams~
How he defines flow: being completely involved in an activity for its own sake. The ego falls away. Time flies. Every action, movement, and thought follows inevitably from the previous one, like playing jazz. Your whole being is involved, and you're using your skills to the utmost.
The quinessential example that would accurately describe "flow" for the slashdot crowd would be the lost sense of time, sort of euphoric feeling that you get when you've been coding for hours.
I've read most of his book, Creativity, for my seminar class (college frosh) that I'm currently taking. In it, he does devote a chapter of ~20 pgs to Flow, and the entire book is actually a very insightful read and recommend it to slashdotters....
I suppose you didn't RTFA - the 1up article does state in a big graphic "twelve games that defined the playstation"
esperanto....
Tivo.
Well, why not ?
Google could unleashing searching on the DVR's. This would allow users to just input a search term and have it record all episodes that the term returned in results. Who needs the TV guides or tvtome anymore ?
I'm not the only who predicts it -
[flash video] http://www.robinsloan.com/epic/
Just like Christopher McCandless, eh ?
Post college, I'd really like to leave 'the scene' for a bit. For my travels, I'd go to Europe and rent a small flat and live the European life. Supporting myself through bartending or being a waiter at some restaurant, maybe. Unfortunately, it might be a bit more difficult to do this, since I'd have to be using my passport to travel from the USA to EU.
Uhh...No.
While I don't agree with the act's passage;
The Constitution,Article VI states:
"This Constitution, and the laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance there of; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the United States, shall be Supreme Law of the land; and the Judges in every state shall be bound thereby, any thing in the Constitution or Laws of any state to the contrary notwithstanding."
States sold their souls awhile back...You Didn't know this ? You didn't read the fine print then, eh ?!
You are still paying for the archives at the libraries, those payments - they're called taxes. ^_^
It's only a matter of time before we have a reality-TV show about this kind of lifestyle. But what the real dummies don't understand is that this is the same culture that has existed for decades.
:D
Sadly, such a thing already exists - http://www.welcometothescene.com/
After watching a few minutes of it, I don't know if I should laugh or shudder....
I'll second this one. At my high school, one of the clubs was able to have semi-profitable and successful Halo and Madden tournaments [using consoles].
/Linux troll
:p
This way, the equipment is 'standardized' so fear of hacks/cheats is less than PC; as well as the kids don't have to haul in a $500+ computer [instead a console no more than $300].
Plus, instead of one huge room of a LAN, there can be multiple classrooms, where one segment or bracket [of 4-8 people @ a time] can be held, as the tourney progresses.
As you should know as well - most geeks are recluse ! This means to have flyers displayed around school and get some exposure on the school announcements.
Or you could just use your Comp. lab, get a bunch of knoppixgames discs and have a bzflag tourney. Any kid capable of reaking havoc on that network should already be your ally
However, like all many other stereotypes, the acedemically competitive in America do quite exist, but are in the far minority.
I've attended private school all my life in the US of A [K-12, currently in 12th] and my fellow students are somewhat competitive. It's often subtle, but you notice it when we do modestly ask each other our SAT & ACT scores, GPA, or the amount of honors/AP classes we're taking.
Some of my friends go to public schools [suburban, somewhat affluent] and the competiveness exists there - But only among certain peers groups [i.e. the overachievers, Honors kids, etc.]. Other students at the same school, though, really don't give a shiat about academics, nor care that Pi DOES NOT equal 22/7 [Nor do they even know].
Instead, their concerns are based on the current pop culture trend @ the time.
The competitiveness of the students depends on the students themselves.
Well they are [representatives of the people], just not directly.
:p] /just finished an outline on the FCC for AP Govt
They five FCC comissioners, (which, no more than 3 of them can be from the same political party), are appointed by the President and approved by the Senate. They serve Five year terms.
The Head, Michael Powell [Colin's son] was put on by Clinton in 96, and Bush promoted Powell to head commissioner Jan. 2001.
Want them to change ? Vote for your electoral college candidates' choices on Nov. 2nd.
[Or just start a revolution
[I'm going to 'hide' or lie about my habits.]
[I'll admit I do it less than I used to; one of the main points, because it seems to be getting harder to find rare music and stuff from underground artists on p2p's...]
1) Roughly what percent of your music collection is unauthorized files from P2P like Kazaa, FTP, etc.?
Probably 65 %
2) Roughly what percent of your music collection comes from sources like iTunes Music Store, eMusic, etc?
zero, for now, once I get a CC, then yeah, more.
[plus, its hard to entice a user to convert if an artist only gets 10 cents per song, out of your $1.00]
3) Roughly what percent of your music collection comes from shareable sources like Creative Commons-licensed music?
5%
4) Roughly what percent of your music collection comes from rips of your own CDs?
15 % [this includes songs AND albums that I once downloaded through P2P, wanted to help the artist, then bought them]
5) Roughly what percent of your music collection comes from rips of friends' CDs ?
15 % [includes stuff that I borrow from the library, then I listen to it, since it's more convenient for me to listen when I want to, and not worry about when the cd's are due..]
[*goes off to answer the door*]
According to the s-nova page, you can no longer hotlink torrents, as its been eating up their bandwidth....*cough*.... ./....3rd-party extensions...*cough* .org ]
the torrent now only works if you directly get it from the suprnova page. [btw, its
Well, with the page also has this oned ibles_tv_spots.zip
http://www.filerush.com/download.php?target=incre
as well, with TV Spots - 27 Mb's - with both direct http links and the torrent on it.
Torrent is availabe via http://www.filerush.com/download.php?target=the_in credibles-tlr_m480.mov
The bittorrent technology is vastly underused by the the media communities of movie trailers and game demos.