It is really sad that nerds feel the need constantly define groups of people out of their subcategory. Nerds have been given shit for a while but instead of breaking out of it, they embrace their shortcomings but to the unhealthy extent that they would rather lead a life that proves how nerdy they are rather than try and fix some of their shortcomings when given the opportunity. If you think weight lifting or fitness detracts from being a nerd, good for you. There are plenty of people who have "nerdy" interests but got fed up with the polarizing bullshit back it 10th grade and realized that they didn't have to be a walking stereotypical joke to get respect (quite the opposite).
Were you diagnosed? And the parent was trying to be helpful with some tough love. He was not insulting you. He was simply not feeding the bullshit "it's everyone else's fault not yours" line. Like it or not, the parent was just expressing what is in someone's best interest, not what is easiest or nicest to hear.
If you cannot accept that, the world will not change for you. The parent is simply informing you of reality.
These environments don't exist. As someone who got bullied, you don't get bullied because you are smart; that is incredibly self-serving to assume and forces people to embrace the concept that intelligence comes with the added benefit of being socially inept and works against people who feel they have to fill their intelligence shoes by NOT being "cool".
Bullying is related to picking off people who are socially on the outside. Generally, someone who has elementary school smarts will also be a bit slow to develop socially. But to let this stupid growing up inconsistency between when you get smart and when you get popular define the rest of your life is idiotic. Just because a kid is better at learning before he becomes better at interacting when he is 7 or 8 years old, does not mean the rest of your life has to be spent proving how smart they are by avoiding social interacting. There is no link, and it is disgusting to me that one is so readily created by the "nerds" themselves.
I think the point is that you are a bit melodramatic about the whole thing and speaking as someone who used to get bullied, I'm glad that I didn't go down the "I have to be a weirdo and scare people" route because for fucks sake I already had enough riding against me.
But yeah I guess making people think you have potential to be the next Columbine killer is one way to stop people from bullying you. I guess I just preferred making friends.
This entire post reads like a typical socially inept person whose only method to cope is by looking down on everyone else as inferior. I played D&D in high school, hung out with nerds, etc. I'm a compsci major in college and still like nerdy things. But I made the effort, in college, to break out of my typecast high school self instead of embracing it. It gets a bit old to fill out some cliquey stereotype after getting out of K-12. College gave me the opportunity to be a normal college kid without sacrificing the things I liked (but certainly sacrificing the things I hated, yet I felt needed to be embraced, in my stupid high school mind).
If you find solace in the clubs you mentioned, that is fine, but all I can say is if you only did them because you thought they were necessary to keep up the image you got stuck with in high school yet proudly embraced to avoid shame, you probably shouldn't have. I see this happen with a lot of people; everyone called them nerds so they respond by thinking they are better than everyone else and taking on the title proudly because it's a path of least resistance to embrace a negative title than to ignore it or fight it or heaven forbid, disprove it.
If I had gone out my way to make sure the status I was given against my will in high school stayed with me in college, I can only imagine how shitty things would have been. Hell, Freshman year was spent breaking out of these things for me thanks to a cool roommate and cool friends (and cool as in nice people not "awesome hotrod driving football watching A&F broskis").
As to getting over it... I have no stake in this at all, since I consider all online social networking as different varieties of snake oil, and recognized the Devil's bargain from the outset, but again, just because I have the sense to not fall afoul of hucksters and con-men, doesn't mean I have to stand silent while they work. There's an amazingly fine line between "getting over it" and "aiding and abetting".
This is a sentence about social networking. Social networking.
Then you go on to declare social networks as an evil. Once again, someone who has to create an imaginary enemy so that their fight against it feels that much more valiant. Go on, continue to white knight the masses who have no idea about the insidious hands that slowly wrap around their throats in the form of Facebook. You are saving everyone; everyone owes you a life debt for what you have done to help them. Alas, no one will ever know of your heroism because like a true tragic hero, you work behind the scenes, unknown to all.
This sounds like the shit a highschool reject would think was cool..but everyone else would just further distance themselves from you socially and not find you scary but pathetic.
The problem is that for some people, basic hand to hand to hand fighting or grappling (preferably a bullshit free low fat type such as boxing or jiu jitsu) is preferable because you can pick up the basics quickly and not invest huge amounts of time if you are content with knowing the basics of fighting and self defense but don't find it to be an enjoyable hobby. On the flip side, you can work your entire life to master akido.
No but you see kdawson, the humongous cocksucker that he is, has issued a decree in which trolls are people who like Apple. His contemptuous bias, apparent in the article summary, clearly states his opinions. People like the parent of this thread are simply put, out of line due to their inability to roll over a scream "GNU/Linux!" at the top of their lungs while weeping softly in the bed made for them by their mothers.
With every tear that hits the pillow, kdawson grows a little bit stronger. He feeds off of the shame of FOSSies everywhere.
Well every video I saw seemed to involve someone desperately trying to block the antenna using hand yoga for five minutes until finally choking back tears of joy when their reception was lost long enough to emit a gleeful screech of success quickly followed by a nasally "fuck Apple".
"If the iPad was the only computing platform" is not an argument. That changes the playing field completely. Since there IS competition in the computing platform world, the iPad is not a threat to freedom no matter how locked down it is.
You wish, no PRAY, that your melodramatic ramblings will come true to prove you right because you want there to be some sort of epic saga-worthy war between free software and corporate software but in the end your sophomoric battle for the freedom of people everywhere falls on deaf ears because like a white knight "rescuing" a girl from the arms of her lover (who you know FOR SURE is a total dick cause he's not you), you are trying to rescue an unaware and uncaring public from a percieved threat that everyone actually likes. You have no basis for your attacks except to build a fantasy world in which you save everyone around you from the mundane evils of non-FOSS software and that, my friend, is pathetic.
Haha yeah okay this really drives home support for academia right here I guess in this century it's about price gouging and raising tuition at twice the rate of inflation and back then it was about abusing people all in all i suppose we're better off now that we are forced to be subjected to such institutions in order to get better jobs we all win gee thanks academia
I think that is everywhere. Furthermore in NYC painting a toy gun to look real is illegal as is painting a real gun to look like a toy. They tell us this through ads on the subway lol
Oh I know what Lian Li's you mean I think, from back in the day. I forgot about them.
Anyway, OS X can run on a "hackintosh" but it takes a computer savvy person to put it together. Of course it takes a computer savvy person to put together any homemade machine. The catch is, Apple won't support it. However, AFAIK they don't give a shit if you do this for personal use and can handle your own problems. They get mad when vendors commercialize the process however and this is understandable.
The thing is with Apple, everything they do IS better than the competition in the eyes of the customer. You can look at specs and stats but they are meaningless for many people because the usability is just a lot better. This isn't opinion (well it is partially), but also the voice of the populace who consumed these devices to the point where they became number one. Even a Slashdotter can get too wrapped up in comparing meaningless specs if they think about it too long. Like certain numbers may be higher or lower on a spec sheet and you forget that the real differences may be imperceptible. If you are referring to, say, music formats like Ogg Vorbis not being playable on an iPod, well Apple fans generally use iTunes for iPod syncing and never run into these issues because iTunes doesn't rip into Oggs or download music in that format. The power user who needs Ogg support will get one of the open source Ogg->MP3 converters and know what to do.
I was a diehard PC user for my entire life up through high school. I would make fun of the iMacs in the computer lab, back when they were made of colorful plastic (remember when that was Apple's sense of design? Not brushed aluminum but colorful plastic? Interesting to see how every generation their OS X era hardware keeps the same image but the looks change dramatically over time and always seems sleeker than the last and the last looking unbearably clunky, at least IMO). Anyway that was also when I was heavily gaming and learning about programming. I never thought I would take Apple seriously. However, in college I brought my tower and a I bought an Apple laptop because Intel architecture was new and I figured I could get an OEM Vista Ultimate off of NewEgg and Bootcamp it or Parallels it onto a new MacBook Pro. I figured that going into computer science it would be best to represent as many OSes as possible and I needed a laptop for school. To make a long story short, XP started to show it's age and Vista sucked. I got rid of Vista from the Mac and just started using OS X. I stopped using my PC tower. The computer science department encouraged Mac use and this is at a big university. They liked Mac because it was BSD based and now had x86 instead of PPC architecture. It became increasingly clear that OS X was a great system for development and general use. All of the iLife programs work and all of the iWork programs work without the bloat of Office. All of my fears that it was too user friendly and I needed to have a Windows or Linux machine in order to actually have control over my system were proven wrong. Apple doesn't lock you out of playing with your system or hiding the internals from you, it just makes it very easy to use when you just want to do something or are a regular user but if you really need to do hardcore shit, you can go ahead and do it. You just don't NEED to do hardcore shit as much because so many things work without it and I grew out of the phase wear I thought if I didn't make things hard for myself, I was some sort of n00b.
After freshman year, I left my XP tower at home. It took up space and I did not use it. XP was dying and Vista sucked. I had made the transition to OS X and was not looking back. I do not have experience with Windows 7 but I know that Apple feels less clunky. To me, the interfaces for Windows before they tried to imitate OS X were much nicer and I generally go into the theme customization and turn the looks back into Windows 2000 or whatever makes the task bar and windows gray and simple. I like the way OS X pulls off the in
That's because so many Linux users have it ingrained in their head that Linux cannot get viruses and that it is inherently more secure that they don't take precaution and assume "well it's open source I'm sure someone else has audited it".
*nix and BSD systems may have an inherently more secure user system (at least from what I understand which is not much and maybe changed with Windows' newer OSes) but that doesn't mean sudoing an executable is fine and dandy.
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It is really sad that nerds feel the need constantly define groups of people out of their subcategory. Nerds have been given shit for a while but instead of breaking out of it, they embrace their shortcomings but to the unhealthy extent that they would rather lead a life that proves how nerdy they are rather than try and fix some of their shortcomings when given the opportunity. If you think weight lifting or fitness detracts from being a nerd, good for you. There are plenty of people who have "nerdy" interests but got fed up with the polarizing bullshit back it 10th grade and realized that they didn't have to be a walking stereotypical joke to get respect (quite the opposite).
Were you diagnosed? And the parent was trying to be helpful with some tough love. He was not insulting you. He was simply not feeding the bullshit "it's everyone else's fault not yours" line. Like it or not, the parent was just expressing what is in someone's best interest, not what is easiest or nicest to hear.
If you cannot accept that, the world will not change for you. The parent is simply informing you of reality.
These environments don't exist. As someone who got bullied, you don't get bullied because you are smart; that is incredibly self-serving to assume and forces people to embrace the concept that intelligence comes with the added benefit of being socially inept and works against people who feel they have to fill their intelligence shoes by NOT being "cool".
Bullying is related to picking off people who are socially on the outside. Generally, someone who has elementary school smarts will also be a bit slow to develop socially. But to let this stupid growing up inconsistency between when you get smart and when you get popular define the rest of your life is idiotic. Just because a kid is better at learning before he becomes better at interacting when he is 7 or 8 years old, does not mean the rest of your life has to be spent proving how smart they are by avoiding social interacting. There is no link, and it is disgusting to me that one is so readily created by the "nerds" themselves.
I think the point is that you are a bit melodramatic about the whole thing and speaking as someone who used to get bullied, I'm glad that I didn't go down the "I have to be a weirdo and scare people" route because for fucks sake I already had enough riding against me.
But yeah I guess making people think you have potential to be the next Columbine killer is one way to stop people from bullying you. I guess I just preferred making friends.
Hahaha holyyyy shitt
This entire post reads like a typical socially inept person whose only method to cope is by looking down on everyone else as inferior. I played D&D in high school, hung out with nerds, etc. I'm a compsci major in college and still like nerdy things. But I made the effort, in college, to break out of my typecast high school self instead of embracing it. It gets a bit old to fill out some cliquey stereotype after getting out of K-12. College gave me the opportunity to be a normal college kid without sacrificing the things I liked (but certainly sacrificing the things I hated, yet I felt needed to be embraced, in my stupid high school mind).
If you find solace in the clubs you mentioned, that is fine, but all I can say is if you only did them because you thought they were necessary to keep up the image you got stuck with in high school yet proudly embraced to avoid shame, you probably shouldn't have. I see this happen with a lot of people; everyone called them nerds so they respond by thinking they are better than everyone else and taking on the title proudly because it's a path of least resistance to embrace a negative title than to ignore it or fight it or heaven forbid, disprove it.
If I had gone out my way to make sure the status I was given against my will in high school stayed with me in college, I can only imagine how shitty things would have been. Hell, Freshman year was spent breaking out of these things for me thanks to a cool roommate and cool friends (and cool as in nice people not "awesome hotrod driving football watching A&F broskis").
As to getting over it... I have no stake in this at all, since I consider all online social networking as different varieties of snake oil, and recognized the Devil's bargain from the outset, but again, just because I have the sense to not fall afoul of hucksters and con-men, doesn't mean I have to stand silent while they work. There's an amazingly fine line between "getting over it" and "aiding and abetting".
This is a sentence about social networking. Social networking.
Then you go on to declare social networks as an evil. Once again, someone who has to create an imaginary enemy so that their fight against it feels that much more valiant. Go on, continue to white knight the masses who have no idea about the insidious hands that slowly wrap around their throats in the form of Facebook. You are saving everyone; everyone owes you a life debt for what you have done to help them. Alas, no one will ever know of your heroism because like a true tragic hero, you work behind the scenes, unknown to all.
This sounds like the shit a highschool reject would think was cool..but everyone else would just further distance themselves from you socially and not find you scary but pathetic.
The problem is that for some people, basic hand to hand to hand fighting or grappling (preferably a bullshit free low fat type such as boxing or jiu jitsu) is preferable because you can pick up the basics quickly and not invest huge amounts of time if you are content with knowing the basics of fighting and self defense but don't find it to be an enjoyable hobby. On the flip side, you can work your entire life to master akido.
But don't you see? I have anecdotal evidence that in my experience, I didn't need Facebook to do this, so you don't either!
Holy shit it's a website where people can talk to each other stop being so melodramatic about it
No but you see kdawson, the humongous cocksucker that he is, has issued a decree in which trolls are people who like Apple. His contemptuous bias, apparent in the article summary, clearly states his opinions. People like the parent of this thread are simply put, out of line due to their inability to roll over a scream "GNU/Linux!" at the top of their lungs while weeping softly in the bed made for them by their mothers.
With every tear that hits the pillow, kdawson grows a little bit stronger. He feeds off of the shame of FOSSies everywhere.
Well every video I saw seemed to involve someone desperately trying to block the antenna using hand yoga for five minutes until finally choking back tears of joy when their reception was lost long enough to emit a gleeful screech of success quickly followed by a nasally "fuck Apple".
Vapid cunts right?
Cause they so hot they have FEVERS ohhhhhhhhhhh
Enyo? The new age singer?
"If the iPad was the only computing platform" is not an argument. That changes the playing field completely. Since there IS competition in the computing platform world, the iPad is not a threat to freedom no matter how locked down it is.
You wish, no PRAY, that your melodramatic ramblings will come true to prove you right because you want there to be some sort of epic saga-worthy war between free software and corporate software but in the end your sophomoric battle for the freedom of people everywhere falls on deaf ears because like a white knight "rescuing" a girl from the arms of her lover (who you know FOR SURE is a total dick cause he's not you), you are trying to rescue an unaware and uncaring public from a percieved threat that everyone actually likes. You have no basis for your attacks except to build a fantasy world in which you save everyone around you from the mundane evils of non-FOSS software and that, my friend, is pathetic.
[citation needed]
I really hate to do this but unless you can back that up, then please...stop
This isn't insightful because iBooks did this word for word. Go to an Apple store and play with iBooks on an iPad.
The dean understands it's a business.
Haha yeah okay this really drives home support for academia right here I guess in this century it's about price gouging and raising tuition at twice the rate of inflation and back then it was about abusing people all in all i suppose we're better off now that we are forced to be subjected to such institutions in order to get better jobs we all win gee thanks academia
There is a fourth one, however.
I think that is everywhere. Furthermore in NYC painting a toy gun to look real is illegal as is painting a real gun to look like a toy. They tell us this through ads on the subway lol
Oh I know what Lian Li's you mean I think, from back in the day. I forgot about them.
Anyway, OS X can run on a "hackintosh" but it takes a computer savvy person to put it together. Of course it takes a computer savvy person to put together any homemade machine. The catch is, Apple won't support it. However, AFAIK they don't give a shit if you do this for personal use and can handle your own problems. They get mad when vendors commercialize the process however and this is understandable.
The thing is with Apple, everything they do IS better than the competition in the eyes of the customer. You can look at specs and stats but they are meaningless for many people because the usability is just a lot better. This isn't opinion (well it is partially), but also the voice of the populace who consumed these devices to the point where they became number one. Even a Slashdotter can get too wrapped up in comparing meaningless specs if they think about it too long. Like certain numbers may be higher or lower on a spec sheet and you forget that the real differences may be imperceptible. If you are referring to, say, music formats like Ogg Vorbis not being playable on an iPod, well Apple fans generally use iTunes for iPod syncing and never run into these issues because iTunes doesn't rip into Oggs or download music in that format. The power user who needs Ogg support will get one of the open source Ogg->MP3 converters and know what to do.
I was a diehard PC user for my entire life up through high school. I would make fun of the iMacs in the computer lab, back when they were made of colorful plastic (remember when that was Apple's sense of design? Not brushed aluminum but colorful plastic? Interesting to see how every generation their OS X era hardware keeps the same image but the looks change dramatically over time and always seems sleeker than the last and the last looking unbearably clunky, at least IMO). Anyway that was also when I was heavily gaming and learning about programming. I never thought I would take Apple seriously. However, in college I brought my tower and a I bought an Apple laptop because Intel architecture was new and I figured I could get an OEM Vista Ultimate off of NewEgg and Bootcamp it or Parallels it onto a new MacBook Pro. I figured that going into computer science it would be best to represent as many OSes as possible and I needed a laptop for school. To make a long story short, XP started to show it's age and Vista sucked. I got rid of Vista from the Mac and just started using OS X. I stopped using my PC tower. The computer science department encouraged Mac use and this is at a big university. They liked Mac because it was BSD based and now had x86 instead of PPC architecture. It became increasingly clear that OS X was a great system for development and general use. All of the iLife programs work and all of the iWork programs work without the bloat of Office. All of my fears that it was too user friendly and I needed to have a Windows or Linux machine in order to actually have control over my system were proven wrong. Apple doesn't lock you out of playing with your system or hiding the internals from you, it just makes it very easy to use when you just want to do something or are a regular user but if you really need to do hardcore shit, you can go ahead and do it. You just don't NEED to do hardcore shit as much because so many things work without it and I grew out of the phase wear I thought if I didn't make things hard for myself, I was some sort of n00b.
After freshman year, I left my XP tower at home. It took up space and I did not use it. XP was dying and Vista sucked. I had made the transition to OS X and was not looking back. I do not have experience with Windows 7 but I know that Apple feels less clunky. To me, the interfaces for Windows before they tried to imitate OS X were much nicer and I generally go into the theme customization and turn the looks back into Windows 2000 or whatever makes the task bar and windows gray and simple. I like the way OS X pulls off the in
That's because so many Linux users have it ingrained in their head that Linux cannot get viruses and that it is inherently more secure that they don't take precaution and assume "well it's open source I'm sure someone else has audited it".
*nix and BSD systems may have an inherently more secure user system (at least from what I understand which is not much and maybe changed with Windows' newer OSes) but that doesn't mean sudoing an executable is fine and dandy.