As a freshman in highschool, I got this kind of advice from a senior girl. About the best piece of advice I got in my life, really.
She was rather eccentric, and explained to me that she'd had to survive a year of crap from other people. Then they got used to it, and nothing she'd do would faze them since.
It takes some courage to put up with the crap, though. Seems like the OP doesn't have it.
Modder's challenge: convert a netbook into a Monstrous Book of Monsters.
Add fur, lots of eyes and oversized "scary" teeth. But lots of fur, to be sure, and make it soft and fluffy and cute.
Speaking of Macs... I own a 15.4" MacBook Pro, and at the time I used to carry it with me to classes to type up my notes, surf the net during the boring lessons and so on. Nothing unusual, but a fairly rare sight in Croatia, at least in the humanities.
It got me a fair number of positive comments from girls, and I have no doubt a netbook would have got even more, had they been available at the time.
Anyway, my friend then got a HP 17" desktop-replacement laptop, and we would often sit together. Once, one girl turned to us and commented on our laptops, and I mockingly set myself up with "... but his is bigger." She replied "yeah, but yours is a Mac." In Croatian, "Mac" sounds very very close to "soft", as in opposite of "hard".
Served me right.
After Gnome 1.4, i.e. ever since the 2.0 switch, they've done the most they could to piss me off.
Nowadays I flutter from Gnome to KDE to Enlightenment, depending on the machine, and each has its good and bad sides. But Gnome I like the least.
Anyway, back on topic... it's the evolution vs. revolution debate, for the most part, and even though I am a big fan of the evolutionary approach, it is sometimes too slow to be of much use. I prefer KDE's approach in this matter: there are new technologies, new needs, new competition; therefore there is a need to redesign, even if it means starting from scratch. Good lessons do not become unlearned; in fact, they can be implemented even better, not as a fix, but as a design philosophy. Gnome's evolutionary approach often means sticking to a bad decision and then forcing it on new stuff, which is why I dislike it.
IANA Interface Designer. YMMV. IMO & the usual disclaimers.
Yes, but the parent had already mentioned those. And I am assuming a sound-based language because it does not need a line of sight.
While gestures can indeed be useful in a hunt, any kind of group coordination is rather slow and dificult without sound.
Though their voice box was less developed than ours, it does not mean they did not have language. Their language may have been less refined, sure, but I'd give odds they really did have language of some sort.
Besides, languages can also be whistled, clicked, drummed... the developed voice box surely makes it all the more convenient, but the cognitive abilities required for lanugage use are a tad different matter.
I see little point in the UN anyway. But that may be because I remember exactly how useless their so-called help had been in the increasingly less recent war.
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I do not know the law in Canada, but there is a difference between hating religion and hationg religious people.
Now, I, for one, despise religions, and barring some exceptions, I hold religious people in fairly low regard. Then again, barring some exceptions, I hold most people in low regard. Call me an elitist asshole, or at least a mysanthrope; it's fine by me.
However, all this does not mean I would ever go on to hate crime. I would not go and beat up Catholics just because of all the evil, immoral and even unconstitutional things the Catholic Church is getting away with in my country (raped retarded children in a Church-managed orphanage; religion taught in secular schools, to name but a few).
I cannot imagine anyone being convicted just because he uttered the words "you should hate religions". I can imagine and do support people getting convicted because they utter the words "all religious people should be burned at a stake".
Ceterum censeo, all extremists should be taken out and shot.
Does it also work when, I don't know, the USA goes off to war with some backwards country like Iraq? Should the USA's UN membership also be suspended while the war goes on?
Much as I'd like to see that happen, I cannot imagine a more swift way of the UN going the way of the League of Nations.
I can't see why people would click on ads they consider irritating even if they would see them.
You're seriously overestimating the rationality of human beings. Study after study after study shows that human beings are easily influenced by advertising, even when they claim they're not, even when they find the advertising "annoying." As the saying goes, there's no such thing as bad publicity.
Yes, there is.
This human not only reacts to heavy advertising with ad blocking, but also tends to boycott products whose commercials annoy him.
Now that I have fulfilled my monthly quota of talking about myself in the 3rd person, I withdraw.
I have not yet found a chatterbot which would put up with my style of chatting, i.e. hitting Enter not after a sentence or two, but whenever I feel like it. Thus the full sentence can sometimes only be read after the fourth line or so.
Furthermore, I highly doubt it that any one chatterbot would be able to cope not only with that, but also up to four parallel themes in a conversation, in both the chronological and the order of relevance.
My human IM buddies manage it without breaking a sweat.
So open format standards are more important than overall software quality? Not sure I really agree with that.
I would.
It does seem counter-intuitive, but an open standard at least guarantees that your documents will be readable if you conclude the software you are using does not meet your needs. You simply get a new program and leave the documents be.
An open standard means a more level playing field. And that means some evolution can occur.
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As a freshman in highschool, I got this kind of advice from a senior girl. About the best piece of advice I got in my life, really.
She was rather eccentric, and explained to me that she'd had to survive a year of crap from other people. Then they got used to it, and nothing she'd do would faze them since.
It takes some courage to put up with the crap, though. Seems like the OP doesn't have it.
No: emerge.
Modder's challenge: convert a netbook into a Monstrous Book of Monsters.
Add fur, lots of eyes and oversized "scary" teeth. But lots of fur, to be sure, and make it soft and fluffy and cute.
Speaking of Macs... I own a 15.4" MacBook Pro, and at the time I used to carry it with me to classes to type up my notes, surf the net during the boring lessons and so on. Nothing unusual, but a fairly rare sight in Croatia, at least in the humanities.
It got me a fair number of positive comments from girls, and I have no doubt a netbook would have got even more, had they been available at the time.
Anyway, my friend then got a HP 17" desktop-replacement laptop, and we would often sit together. Once, one girl turned to us and commented on our laptops, and I mockingly set myself up with "... but his is bigger." She replied "yeah, but yours is a Mac." In Croatian, "Mac" sounds very very close to "soft", as in opposite of "hard".
Served me right.
Ubiquity does have a torrent-search command or two.
But you cannot select an image on a random web page and say "email this to $contact", and have it compose a mail in Gmail for you.
If Ubiquity did nothing but that, it would be worth installing. And the more of it gets integrated in Firefox, the better.
After Gnome 1.4, i.e. ever since the 2.0 switch, they've done the most they could to piss me off.
Nowadays I flutter from Gnome to KDE to Enlightenment, depending on the machine, and each has its good and bad sides. But Gnome I like the least.
Anyway, back on topic... it's the evolution vs. revolution debate, for the most part, and even though I am a big fan of the evolutionary approach, it is sometimes too slow to be of much use. I prefer KDE's approach in this matter: there are new technologies, new needs, new competition; therefore there is a need to redesign, even if it means starting from scratch. Good lessons do not become unlearned; in fact, they can be implemented even better, not as a fix, but as a design philosophy. Gnome's evolutionary approach often means sticking to a bad decision and then forcing it on new stuff, which is why I dislike it.
IANA Interface Designer. YMMV. IMO & the usual disclaimers.
They are called Minichlorians, you nincompoop!
What kind of argument can you provide for this hypothesis?
Yes, but the parent had already mentioned those. And I am assuming a sound-based language because it does not need a line of sight.
While gestures can indeed be useful in a hunt, any kind of group coordination is rather slow and dificult without sound.
That's why I limit myself to despising instead of hating. And even then I do not go to the personal level unless I encounter a fanatic.
...as long as you dont point to people who are part of it.
I can't call John Travolta stupid for following scientology?
Don't. Can or cannot, doesn't matter. Don't.
He's probably high up enough to be evil, not stupid.
Maybe if doctors would have more kids instead of studying them in laboratories, then they would "discover" these insights immediately.
And maybe they would fall prey to the same misconceptions most parents do.
OTOH, have you at least considered the possibility that their own children provided the inspiration for the research?
Though their voice box was less developed than ours, it does not mean they did not have language. Their language may have been less refined, sure, but I'd give odds they really did have language of some sort.
Besides, languages can also be whistled, clicked, drummed... the developed voice box surely makes it all the more convenient, but the cognitive abilities required for lanugage use are a tad different matter.
Oh, good.
As long as we have that sorted out.
I see little point in the UN anyway. But that may be because I remember exactly how useless their so-called help had been in the increasingly less recent war.
I do not know the law in Canada, but there is a difference between hating religion and hationg religious people.
Now, I, for one, despise religions, and barring some exceptions, I hold religious people in fairly low regard. Then again, barring some exceptions, I hold most people in low regard. Call me an elitist asshole, or at least a mysanthrope; it's fine by me.
However, all this does not mean I would ever go on to hate crime. I would not go and beat up Catholics just because of all the evil, immoral and even unconstitutional things the Catholic Church is getting away with in my country (raped retarded children in a Church-managed orphanage; religion taught in secular schools, to name but a few).
I cannot imagine anyone being convicted just because he uttered the words "you should hate religions". I can imagine and do support people getting convicted because they utter the words "all religious people should be burned at a stake".
Ceterum censeo, all extremists should be taken out and shot.
Does it also work when, I don't know, the USA goes off to war with some backwards country like Iraq? Should the USA's UN membership also be suspended while the war goes on?
Much as I'd like to see that happen, I cannot imagine a more swift way of the UN going the way of the League of Nations.
Who?
Yeah, well, if you come to my site, you'll have to solve the Rubik version of your hypercube.
In 32-bit color.
Yeah. Imagine what the viruses could do... Oh, wait!
I can't see why people would click on ads they consider irritating even if they would see them.
You're seriously overestimating the rationality of human beings. Study after study after study shows that human beings are easily influenced by advertising, even when they claim they're not, even when they find the advertising "annoying." As the saying goes, there's no such thing as bad publicity.
Yes, there is.
This human not only reacts to heavy advertising with ad blocking, but also tends to boycott products whose commercials annoy him.
Now that I have fulfilled my monthly quota of talking about myself in the 3rd person, I withdraw.
I have not yet found a chatterbot which would put up with my style of chatting, i.e. hitting Enter not after a sentence or two, but whenever I feel like it. Thus the full sentence can sometimes only be read after the fourth line or so.
Furthermore, I highly doubt it that any one chatterbot would be able to cope not only with that, but also up to four parallel themes in a conversation, in both the chronological and the order of relevance.
My human IM buddies manage it without breaking a sweat.
I use an Adium Xtra which posts just this kind of test to anyone not on my contact list.
Fun fact: a Slashdotter from Finland was the first to pass the test.
So open format standards are more important than overall software quality? Not sure I really agree with that.
I would.
It does seem counter-intuitive, but an open standard at least guarantees that your documents will be readable if you conclude the software you are using does not meet your needs. You simply get a new program and leave the documents be.
An open standard means a more level playing field. And that means some evolution can occur.
Bad idea, the CLITORIS can not be found by man... certainly not a slashdotter.
Ever since there has been a bright red clitoris on every ThinkPad, this hasn't been true.