I don't understand the appeal of sites like "Facebook" or "Myspace". What they look like to me is web-based personal-website-creation tools. What is so interesting about a site that lets people make web sites about themselves? What am I missing? Well, apparently, you don't have, or have ever had any friends. I'm so sorry for you.:-)
It might be easy for you to make a website about yourself, and then other people who know you could perhaps google for your name and find it and know what you are up to. However, most people really really can't or would never do a website of themselves, or buy a domain name, or start a blog. And if you had a lot of friends who did, you wouldn't really check their blogs regularly, and you wouldn't bookmark fifty different website that may or may not change addresses to keep track of those people. And if they're the kind that don't have their own website, they would NEVER ever find yours. So you remain disconnected.
Facebook, like most other social networking sites, lets you find and connect with people you know. However, Facebook does a few things differently and better, which is why it's such a big success right now.
First, people use their real names. There are no "usernames" or other shit I'm supposed to know about people. Instead, they just use their real ones, which makes it a helluva lot easier to find people. I have a few friends who, like me, sign up to every social networking site just to check out the features, to see where the market is going, and we all noted something special about Facebook, we found a lot more friends and acquaintances than we have ever done on other sites. I reconnected and talked to old, old friends I haven't seen in 15 years. That's awesome.
Second, Facebook is actually tighter than most similar sites, since you can only really see people that are your friends, or are in the same network as you. This actually makes a lot of sense, since the absolute majority of users are not interesting to me and vice versa. There's a small subset of users I'm interested in, and I really couldn't care about the rest. If the irrelevant users are shoved out of my way, I can focus on the ones that are interesting.
Third, Facebook has internal feeds so that I can get to know, at a glance, what my friends are doing. Most of the people I've added are people I speak to pretty rarely, I would probably never email them or call them and ask how their lives are, but now, I get a little feed of it straight to my facebook homepage. Relationships starting or ending, babies born, travels done, where people work, what people do. It's ok if most only update their stuff every month, I get a slow trickle of interesting events.
Fourth, Facebook Apps allows every user to customize Facebook into what THEY like to do online, it's customized stickiness. If I want to compare movie-tastes with my friends, send funny links, find old classmates, find old colleagues, play web games, or a lot of other stuff, I don't need to get my friends to sign up to a different website for each of those functions, we can do it all on Facebook via different Apps.
It's even in the tip system, they explicitly say that soldiers and demomen can rocket-jump (and grenade-jump).
Also, in the developer's commentary, they talk some more about it how it's a trade-off between health and position. They mention a few positions, and that you can get there, they are very good positions, but you lose some health getting there, and you can't be healed while up there, so it's a trade-off.
I'm constantly amazed at the amount of work that has gone into the maps for TF2, they've really thought about where you can double-jump to and where you can rocket-jump to, and even made those places balanced so that there really is nowhere you can safely camp, which is very nice. It's a very balanced game, and it's more a rock-paper-scissors contest than a headshot skill contest, which at least I like. I have friends who absolutely hate it though, but hey, everyone's taste is different.:-)
Fnuliny egonuh, yuo cna get aawy wtih ptrtey mcuh any oerdr as lnog as the fsirt and lsat lteetr are in the smae pacle as the oigrinal wrod, bsead on how the bairn wkros.
So, Stallman helps create GPL v3, and then when interest is mild among the big, successful, commercial open source projects, he starts slamming them? My way or the high way?
Yes, there's a difference between Free Software and Open Source Software, and both kinds will exist, whatever Stallman wishes, and OSS is more successful. That's also not what Stallman wishes, but.. wake up and smell reality. Do something constructive about it instead of this whining.
RTFA. The author isn't interested in getting various strings correct, he's interested in getting class names, variable names and function names correct.
The parent of your post understood that perfectly, unlike the vast majority of comments to this story. I think your remark should have been a reply to one of those, and not to this...:-)
the key skills of programming, spelling and pretty much any other ability you'll ever attempt to acquire. In English enumerations, you have a comma before the last and. You should have written:
programming, spelling, and pretty much any other ability Oh beautiful irony. Now go to a library and pick up a grammar book. Or maybe, just maybe, realize that everyone isn't perfect and that spelling isn't viewed as really important by that many, and that a spellchecker is a really useful tool.
We'll really know we've reached this point when hard drives are used as a medium for delivering software. That will never happen, it is much more likely that you will receive software on flash memory. A 2GB Micro SD is already smaller than my thumbnail, and a lot more resilient than a hard drive with moving parts, and weighs A LOT less. Why would you distribute a chunk of metal when you can distribute a small piece of plastic instead?
You are only the five billionth reader that points out that "flash drives have limited writes". This is true, but, as five billion other readers have responded already, this is not an issue. The SSD drives that are being sold have have an integrated controller that spreads out the writes evenly over the disk. That way, the expected lifespan of a SSD drive is 10-20 years at least, which is about the same as regular hard drives.
So please stop spreading the myth that SSD drives should somehow be inferior to regular hard drives in this area. The REAL disadvantages of SSD drives is that the sequential read time is lower, maybe a tenth of a regular hard drive. On the other hand, it is possible to improve this, so it will of course not always be so. In all other areas, power consumption, seek time, random reads, heat, and noise, the SSD drives completely outclasses regular hard drives. The only disadvantage that will last is that of cost, but given the superiority of the technology, demand will be crazy, and prices will go down a lot.
This will be pretty similar to how flat screens took over the market from CRT monitors.
It will always happen, if something is really good and funny, news of it will spread, more people will come, and for every new person that comes, the original will be somewhat diluted, less good, less funny. Some people are true creators that add value, most are just consumers unfortunately. But people move on, and there will be a new place as good as/b/ was, it probably exists even now, but you and I don't know about it, and *if* I knew about it, I sure as hell wouldn't tell you.:-)
There is a place on the internet called 4chan. It is an imageboard, where you can post pictures of.. stuff. There is a lot of porn on it. There is a lot of very weird porn on it. There is a lot of funny pictures, and people modifying them to become even funnier. It's home to a lot of anonymous posters that enjoy poking fun at idiots on the internet.
If you think tubgirl, lemonparty and goatse is funny, this is where they came from. If you think lolcats and ORLY is funny, this is where it came from.
Also, the biggest crime you can commit is to ask for information, just like you did. You clearly need to lurk moar.
If there's anything else the victims have in common is that they take themselves way too seriously.
The internet is a wonderful place, everyone can get their 15 minutes of fame, and more. However, it might not be the fame they want, and trying to control it is absolutely futile. Maybe posting some sob story on your livejournal that everyone on the internet can read isn't such a good idea, maybe posting too much skin on your myspace is a bad idea too. It's as if people forget why it's a good idea to protect your privacy when they go on the internet, and some of these people get burnt by it. I hope they learn something at least.
I was gonna say "mod parent up funny", then I realised you weren't joking.
I understand that you don't want to carry around an expensive high-maintenance unreliable gadget, I wouldn't either. But when mobile phones are as cheap as landlines, and possibly even cheaper, and when you have a reliable continent-wide GSM network, and phones that are cheap and just work, interesting things happen.
Over here, almost all schoolkids have their own phones, and they're using it ways that you and me cannot imagine. I'm 30. I'm an old geezer. I don't use my mobile that much, but I always have it with me. I like the fact that I can be reached instead of only reaching my home where my landline goes.
But for the kids, it's much more, it's their social lifeline, it's their way to constantly keep in touch with their friends, all the time, every day. It's not a one-on-one device, groups of kids will call other groups of kids and talk about I don't know what. They send pictures like crazy, and are absolutely insane when it comes to text messaging.
For teenagers today, the mobile phone have revolutionized social interaction, foor good and bad. They provide something that landlines, no matter their quality, can never do. Freedom from your parents, essentially.
It has also changed for a lot of people in the twenties, I know several who simply don't have a landline in their homes anymore. Why should they, they have their mobile, everyone that needs to reach them has that number, and why pay for an extra phone number, which costs more than your mobile, and is tied to one place? It's pretty low on your list of stuff to buy when you move into your own first home.
I have a phone of roughly the same generation (Nokia 6310i), I have dirt cheap bluetooth USB dongle for my computer. I put it in, and my phone opens up as a drive in my windows. I navigate to the ringtones folder, and drop whatever file I want in there,.midi,.mp3,.wav, and can then select any of these as my ringtone.
I have a micro SD card in the phone, if I had a card reader on my PC, I could pop it in and transfer files that way.
Certainly a few people will read about this product on the front page and jump at a good deal (and they saw it on the front page of./). Slashdot posted this story without checking the facts, and I would ask an attorney if I got rooked what their liability is for presenting this story as fact. Get real.
If you had actually bothered to RTFA you would have known that it's not about self-control.
Regular sugar triggers insulin and makes you feel full. Fructose doesn't, but contains the same amounts of calories as regular sugar. We have a digestive system that is very good at telling us how much to eat to not gain weight, but if we feed it the wrong things, it will not tell us.
I think he means intake as in actually taken up by your body and then stored. Stress is our old primal mechanism for making it easier to escape predators. It readies the body for intense energy use, i.e. running like crazy from some predator, and also makes sure your body regains the energy it used up, i.e. store whatever you eat afterwards as fat.
In the modern world, when we are stressed, we usually never need to expend a lot of energy. We get the adrenalin, we get the cortisol, and we sit and stare at our monitor, trying to finish this piece of code with the pointy-haired boss screaming at you. But we do get the signals to store food as fat. And if you're continously stressed, your body is continously trying to store as much fat as it can from the food you eat.
If you're not stressed, your body will be ok with not storing all the energy it can, it will regulate itself and not digest all the energy from the food you eat, only the energy you need.
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http://www.nonoba.com/as
:-)
It's like asteroids, only multiplayer. Pew pew pew pew pew!
It might be easy for you to make a website about yourself, and then other people who know you could perhaps google for your name and find it and know what you are up to. However, most people really really can't or would never do a website of themselves, or buy a domain name, or start a blog. And if you had a lot of friends who did, you wouldn't really check their blogs regularly, and you wouldn't bookmark fifty different website that may or may not change addresses to keep track of those people. And if they're the kind that don't have their own website, they would NEVER ever find yours. So you remain disconnected.
Facebook, like most other social networking sites, lets you find and connect with people you know. However, Facebook does a few things differently and better, which is why it's such a big success right now.
First, people use their real names. There are no "usernames" or other shit I'm supposed to know about people. Instead, they just use their real ones, which makes it a helluva lot easier to find people. I have a few friends who, like me, sign up to every social networking site just to check out the features, to see where the market is going, and we all noted something special about Facebook, we found a lot more friends and acquaintances than we have ever done on other sites. I reconnected and talked to old, old friends I haven't seen in 15 years. That's awesome.
Second, Facebook is actually tighter than most similar sites, since you can only really see people that are your friends, or are in the same network as you. This actually makes a lot of sense, since the absolute majority of users are not interesting to me and vice versa. There's a small subset of users I'm interested in, and I really couldn't care about the rest. If the irrelevant users are shoved out of my way, I can focus on the ones that are interesting.
Third, Facebook has internal feeds so that I can get to know, at a glance, what my friends are doing. Most of the people I've added are people I speak to pretty rarely, I would probably never email them or call them and ask how their lives are, but now, I get a little feed of it straight to my facebook homepage. Relationships starting or ending, babies born, travels done, where people work, what people do. It's ok if most only update their stuff every month, I get a slow trickle of interesting events.
Fourth, Facebook Apps allows every user to customize Facebook into what THEY like to do online, it's customized stickiness. If I want to compare movie-tastes with my friends, send funny links, find old classmates, find old colleagues, play web games, or a lot of other stuff, I don't need to get my friends to sign up to a different website for each of those functions, we can do it all on Facebook via different Apps.
It's even in the tip system, they explicitly say that soldiers and demomen can rocket-jump (and grenade-jump).
:-)
Also, in the developer's commentary, they talk some more about it how it's a trade-off between health and position. They mention a few positions, and that you can get there, they are very good positions, but you lose some health getting there, and you can't be healed while up there, so it's a trade-off.
I'm constantly amazed at the amount of work that has gone into the maps for TF2, they've really thought about where you can double-jump to and where you can rocket-jump to, and even made those places balanced so that there really is nowhere you can safely camp, which is very nice. It's a very balanced game, and it's more a rock-paper-scissors contest than a headshot skill contest, which at least I like. I have friends who absolutely hate it though, but hey, everyone's taste is different.
Fnuliny egonuh, yuo cna get aawy wtih ptrtey mcuh any oerdr as lnog as the fsirt and lsat lteetr are in the smae pacle as the oigrinal wrod, bsead on how the bairn wkros.
SO FCUK YOU!
So, Stallman helps create GPL v3, and then when interest is mild among the big, successful, commercial open source projects, he starts slamming them? My way or the high way?
Yes, there's a difference between Free Software and Open Source Software, and both kinds will exist, whatever Stallman wishes, and OSS is more successful. That's also not what Stallman wishes, but.. wake up and smell reality. Do something constructive about it instead of this whining.
It obviously never occurred to you that there are a lot of programmers who are not native English speakers?
RTFA. The author isn't interested in getting various strings correct, he's interested in getting class names, variable names and function names correct.
What the... I'm an idiot, I could have sworn your comment was attached to #20461667
*searches for the delete button*
The parent of your post understood that perfectly, unlike the vast majority of comments to this story. I think your remark should have been a reply to one of those, and not to this... :-)
You are only the five billionth reader that points out that "flash drives have limited writes". This is true, but, as five billion other readers have responded already, this is not an issue. The SSD drives that are being sold have have an integrated controller that spreads out the writes evenly over the disk. That way, the expected lifespan of a SSD drive is 10-20 years at least, which is about the same as regular hard drives.
So please stop spreading the myth that SSD drives should somehow be inferior to regular hard drives in this area. The REAL disadvantages of SSD drives is that the sequential read time is lower, maybe a tenth of a regular hard drive. On the other hand, it is possible to improve this, so it will of course not always be so. In all other areas, power consumption, seek time, random reads, heat, and noise, the SSD drives completely outclasses regular hard drives. The only disadvantage that will last is that of cost, but given the superiority of the technology, demand will be crazy, and prices will go down a lot.
This will be pretty similar to how flat screens took over the market from CRT monitors.
Ah, Paradise Lost, the oldest story of them all.
/b/ was, it probably exists even now, but you and I don't know about it, and *if* I knew about it, I sure as hell wouldn't tell you. :-)
It will always happen, if something is really good and funny, news of it will spread, more people will come, and for every new person that comes, the original will be somewhat diluted, less good, less funny. Some people are true creators that add value, most are just consumers unfortunately. But people move on, and there will be a new place as good as
I think u need to lurk moar.
There is a place on the internet called 4chan. It is an imageboard, where you can post pictures of.. stuff. There is a lot of porn on it. There is a lot of very weird porn on it. There is a lot of funny pictures, and people modifying them to become even funnier. It's home to a lot of anonymous posters that enjoy poking fun at idiots on the internet.
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If you think tubgirl, lemonparty and goatse is funny, this is where they came from. If you think lolcats and ORLY is funny, this is where it came from.
Also, the biggest crime you can commit is to ask for information, just like you did. You clearly need to lurk moar.
It's not Fox News, it was Fox 11, a local channel in LA.
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The moar you know.
They bought a dog. How are you gonna get past their dog? Huh? Huh? Didn't think of that, did you?
If there's anything else the victims have in common is that they take themselves way too seriously.
The internet is a wonderful place, everyone can get their 15 minutes of fame, and more. However, it might not be the fame they want, and trying to control it is absolutely futile. Maybe posting some sob story on your livejournal that everyone on the internet can read isn't such a good idea, maybe posting too much skin on your myspace is a bad idea too. It's as if people forget why it's a good idea to protect your privacy when they go on the internet, and some of these people get burnt by it. I hope they learn something at least.
I was gonna say "mod parent up funny", then I realised you weren't joking.
I understand that you don't want to carry around an expensive high-maintenance unreliable gadget, I wouldn't either. But when mobile phones are as cheap as landlines, and possibly even cheaper, and when you have a reliable continent-wide GSM network, and phones that are cheap and just work, interesting things happen.
Over here, almost all schoolkids have their own phones, and they're using it ways that you and me cannot imagine. I'm 30. I'm an old geezer. I don't use my mobile that much, but I always have it with me. I like the fact that I can be reached instead of only reaching my home where my landline goes.
But for the kids, it's much more, it's their social lifeline, it's their way to constantly keep in touch with their friends, all the time, every day. It's not a one-on-one device, groups of kids will call other groups of kids and talk about I don't know what. They send pictures like crazy, and are absolutely insane when it comes to text messaging.
For teenagers today, the mobile phone have revolutionized social interaction, foor good and bad. They provide something that landlines, no matter their quality, can never do. Freedom from your parents, essentially.
It has also changed for a lot of people in the twenties, I know several who simply don't have a landline in their homes anymore. Why should they, they have their mobile, everyone that needs to reach them has that number, and why pay for an extra phone number, which costs more than your mobile, and is tied to one place? It's pretty low on your list of stuff to buy when you move into your own first home.
But it has bluetooth? And memory stick?
.midi, .mp3, .wav, and can then select any of these as my ringtone.
I have a phone of roughly the same generation (Nokia 6310i), I have dirt cheap bluetooth USB dongle for my computer. I put it in, and my phone opens up as a drive in my windows. I navigate to the ringtones folder, and drop whatever file I want in there,
I have a micro SD card in the phone, if I had a card reader on my PC, I could pop it in and transfer files that way.
What's stopping you from doing the same?
If you had actually bothered to RTFA you would have known that it's not about self-control.
Regular sugar triggers insulin and makes you feel full. Fructose doesn't, but contains the same amounts of calories as regular sugar. We have a digestive system that is very good at telling us how much to eat to not gain weight, but if we feed it the wrong things, it will not tell us.
I think he means intake as in actually taken up by your body and then stored. Stress is our old primal mechanism for making it easier to escape predators. It readies the body for intense energy use, i.e. running like crazy from some predator, and also makes sure your body regains the energy it used up, i.e. store whatever you eat afterwards as fat.
In the modern world, when we are stressed, we usually never need to expend a lot of energy. We get the adrenalin, we get the cortisol, and we sit and stare at our monitor, trying to finish this piece of code with the pointy-haired boss screaming at you. But we do get the signals to store food as fat. And if you're continously stressed, your body is continously trying to store as much fat as it can from the food you eat.
If you're not stressed, your body will be ok with not storing all the energy it can, it will regulate itself and not digest all the energy from the food you eat, only the energy you need.
When will 3.2 be released, and when will Novell include it in SUSE?