Because then their claims could easily be proven false when it turns out that those people don't exist. Though I don't see how it's much better when those people haven't agreed to have a profile. It would also be funny to see how accurate it is about telling whether someone is gay/bi/straight.
No, I agree. I also think that we try too hard to push out all the natural parts of taking care of our body, and this affects the rest of our life negatively. I feel much better when I'm keeping active for example.
I read this article recently and it makes a couple of really good points about many guys thinking that being fit means having big muscles, or people thinking of exercise as a mind numbing and agonising punishment for overeating rather than something to enjoy.
I do Parkour, which is very similar to that MovNat stuff in its philosophy, seeing as they both were inspired by the teachings of George Herbert. There are a lot of great things about modern life, but most people would be happier if they got "back to the trees" a bit more often, figuratively speaking.
What about for those that don't want to let themselves go? Urgh. Once I realised I was past the teenage "eat whatever the hell you want" phase and was heading towards being overweight, I corrected it by learning how to eat right, and getting more regular exercise, and now I'm in better shape than most guys. As someone who grew up feeling pretty ugly, it's nice to now feel at least average and get the occasional admiring look or compliment:p
Plus, I'd rather only date people that have a little self respect and care about being healthy. That makes a person more attractive to me.
In either case, it was a staggering waste on so many levels. You've wasted your own time
Haha:)
It was obvious from the comment it was probably bot generated. A quick look to the sig confirmed it was definitely for advertising purposes.. just learn to ignore this stuff or you'll die a very early and stress filled death!
Well, given the legions of/.ers all going for FP, this simply has never happened.
Actually, I've done that several times. Either there are not many other UK Slashdotters who post in the mornings (while most of the US ones are asleep), or I visit a little too often.
So it's unfair that you didn't know that getting FP removed yourself from the dating pool? Welcome to life. Nobody gets a rulebook completely filled in.
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If the goal is to increase the signal to noise ratio by finding a good match
That's clearly not the goal, otherwise they wouldn't be doing it. It's just so they can say "we have the largest membership of any dating site! Come find your match today!" type of thing. Then the poor suckers will pay for an account, or at the very least become another pair of eyes that may for some god forsaken reason want to click on an ad. Probably for a fleshlight.
What's the difference between a "heterosexually oriented" dating service and a gay one? The ones that I've seen always ask your sex and sexual preference.
I think this practice is pretty despicable unless they make it obvious which profiles were autogenerated. If they don't do that then it could spoil the trust in a lot of relationships if someone finds out their partner is on a dating site (best friend: hey I googled your gf's name for uh.. research.. never mind, and I saw she's totally got a live account on a dating site!).
If you can't kill them, they're definitely an NPC. If they keep repeating themselves or try sending them on a quest they're probably an NPC too. It's worth trying to kill these ones just for bug testing purposes. Careful though, if you're too obvious with the killings, the admins often send guards after you. The guards are harder to kill as they often work in groups, so running away is the best idea here.
Actually you can already do video calls if you just plug in a webcam. If they have exemptions for phones, they should have it for consoles. They should have it for everything..
What, and I can't still play my PS3 if I keep it in good condition, or buy second hand units? You don't have to be online to play these games, you just buy them and you're done. The PS3 has a backup and restore option, so as long as you have a working PS3 I suppose you can potentially restore all your games to it.
Besides, you can play NES games on the Wii. You can play PS1 games on PS2, PS3 and PSP, and even play PS2 games on some PS3s, though whatever douche is currently in charge of Sony's gaming division cut out support for that. The PS4 may even play PS3 games if they get their act back together, I can't imagine it would be that hard to do if they stick with PPC/Cell for the PS4 (though of course they may not, everyone makes a big deal about how hard it is to code for).
Agreed. Finctional entertainment isn't usually about the details, it's about the story and the atmosphere. Any novels that focus too often on long winded descriptions (especially geographical details as in LOTR and Dune.. doubt I'll ever want to finish LOTR, though I might get back to Dune at some point) tend to make me lose interest. IMO a good storyteller is one that keeps the narrative flowing and can paint scenes, characters and moods without needing to fill a whole page. For example plays often hardly have any description of the scenery or characters - it's the dialogue and actions that drive everything.
For those interested after reading that, my favourite author is Pratchett. I think he manages to create fantastic worlds and describe them in just enough detail to have you picture a scene, but without going so far that you fall asleep. His stories and themes are often quite deep, especially in recent years, and his many main characters or groups of characters are very interesting and varied. He mixes Douglas Adams style absurd comedy with philosophy, politics, and insightful social critique. Or something.
I didn't say it was "right", I just said it was what you needed to do to do "as well as you can", and for a company that basically means maximising profit. Companies very often do things which your average person would think of as wrong, but is not necessarily illegal.
There's a difference between "right" and legal. It's very hard to keep the two in line. Especially since "right" is such a nebulous term.
I see no reason not to treat all corporate executives as dishonest scum who should be looted at every opportunity, based on exactly the reasoning you just gave.
After all, if I can bend the rules without getting caught--the bet execs are making every day--then there's nothing wrong with my doing so. It's a business decision, and I'm in the business of maximizing my own benefit, just like they are. There's nothing wrong with that, is there?
That is indeed how a lot of people think, and act. I sometimes wonder if I'm being a fool for not acting the same, especially with that story in the last week about the big publishers selling songs which weren't even legally licensed, and not passing on any of the profits from such to the artist either.
In the end "right" and "wrong" are just something we've made up, and the only thing that really makes us choose right a lot of the time is our conscience. I could be saving hundreds and even thousands of pounds on movies, games, books, etc if I wanted, but I choose to do it legally for the sake of my own conscience. If I wanted to "do as well as I can", I could have saved all that money and have enough for a downpayment on a mortgage by now.
So, just because I'm discussing something and expressing an idea doesn't mean that's how I actually think or act myself, I often play devil's advocate. But a lot of people do clearly think that way (or of course, don't think at all of the possible consequences, only about the immediate benefits)
Well, I can't blame employees for goofing off on Slashdot either, seeing as people do need to take a break every so often. Of course, I probably do it just a teeny bit too much. I think that makes my position pretty consistent. I get my coding done, and part of my job is just being around in case things go wrong anyway.
I don't think there is any solid evidence, though this interview at least shows that they try to keep the customer in mind when designing their DRM. I really wouldn't be surprised if they did have a mode they could leave the server in that would unlock everyone's games, and just leave it in that mode for a week if they had to close down for whatever reason. Or of course if they somehow get bought over, the buyer would probably keep Steam running anyway, as it's a very profitable service.
I remember being able to clip recordings down in sound recorder. Of course you couldn't see the waveform so you just had to listen, drag to the right place then choose the menu option. Have they not made the program any better since those days? I haven't used it since probably Windows 98.
Sad that they probably would have thought of Sound Recorder as better than Audacity just because it's a Microsoft product.
I note that you haven't tried but you felt qualified to comment, anyway.
That's because I used to use Steam, and it was fine for me. I did just copy over folders sometimes to stop it having to download content, and I'm pretty sure you could still run the original Half-Life direct from the executable, but I understand that things may be different with more modern games.
If Valve were bought over, the new parent company would likely continue running Steam. I've just had a look at the Steam forums to see other people discussing this scenario, and I think that makes sense.
If you want to talk about naivete, try Googling "Steam crack" and you will see that it doesn't actually matter what Valve or any other company deos with DRM. If you really want to get rid of it, or download games without DRM, you can do that. Valve know this, but they also know that for those that want to do things to be what I'd consider the "right" way, Steam is a great system. Personally I do think that since they have such a strong stance on DRM that they would actually release an official patch to remove their own DRM if they went down, though obviously I can't know for sure. But I don't see the point in being bitter and cynical about everything in life. Some companies do actually have people like you or me running them, people who actually care about what their customers want. If they get bought over or get a new CEO or whatever then that could change, but right now things are good, and we know how to handle it if things turn bad.
This all only applies to single player games really anyway. With multiplayer games you're at the mercy of individual companies' servers, unless again you want to crack the game and run unofficial servers.
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Because then their claims could easily be proven false when it turns out that those people don't exist. Though I don't see how it's much better when those people haven't agreed to have a profile. It would also be funny to see how accurate it is about telling whether someone is gay/bi/straight.
No, I agree. I also think that we try too hard to push out all the natural parts of taking care of our body, and this affects the rest of our life negatively. I feel much better when I'm keeping active for example.
I read this article recently and it makes a couple of really good points about many guys thinking that being fit means having big muscles, or people thinking of exercise as a mind numbing and agonising punishment for overeating rather than something to enjoy.
I do Parkour, which is very similar to that MovNat stuff in its philosophy, seeing as they both were inspired by the teachings of George Herbert. There are a lot of great things about modern life, but most people would be happier if they got "back to the trees" a bit more often, figuratively speaking.
What about for those that don't want to let themselves go? Urgh. Once I realised I was past the teenage "eat whatever the hell you want" phase and was heading towards being overweight, I corrected it by learning how to eat right, and getting more regular exercise, and now I'm in better shape than most guys. As someone who grew up feeling pretty ugly, it's nice to now feel at least average and get the occasional admiring look or compliment :p
Plus, I'd rather only date people that have a little self respect and care about being healthy. That makes a person more attractive to me.
In either case, it was a staggering waste on so many levels. You've wasted your own time
Haha :)
It was obvious from the comment it was probably bot generated. A quick look to the sig confirmed it was definitely for advertising purposes.. just learn to ignore this stuff or you'll die a very early and stress filled death!
Well, given the legions of /.ers all going for FP, this simply has never happened.
Actually, I've done that several times. Either there are not many other UK Slashdotters who post in the mornings (while most of the US ones are asleep), or I visit a little too often.
So it's unfair that you didn't know that getting FP removed yourself from the dating pool?
Welcome to life. Nobody gets a rulebook completely filled in.
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If the goal is to increase the signal to noise ratio by finding a good match
That's clearly not the goal, otherwise they wouldn't be doing it. It's just so they can say "we have the largest membership of any dating site! Come find your match today!" type of thing. Then the poor suckers will pay for an account, or at the very least become another pair of eyes that may for some god forsaken reason want to click on an ad. Probably for a fleshlight.
What's the difference between a "heterosexually oriented" dating service and a gay one? The ones that I've seen always ask your sex and sexual preference.
I think this practice is pretty despicable unless they make it obvious which profiles were autogenerated. If they don't do that then it could spoil the trust in a lot of relationships if someone finds out their partner is on a dating site (best friend: hey I googled your gf's name for uh.. research.. never mind, and I saw she's totally got a live account on a dating site!).
How dare he try to keep his immune system healthy! Won't somebody please think of the infections?
How the hell is it worse than making dogs and cocks (hur hur hur) fight each other? Puppies are way cuter than parameciumseses.
sending you on a quest*
If you can't kill them, they're definitely an NPC. If they keep repeating themselves or try sending them on a quest they're probably an NPC too. It's worth trying to kill these ones just for bug testing purposes. Careful though, if you're too obvious with the killings, the admins often send guards after you. The guards are harder to kill as they often work in groups, so running away is the best idea here.
Double sided tape. Forehead. Problem solved.
And who says he was even using his own PlayStation?! :p
Actually you can already do video calls if you just plug in a webcam. If they have exemptions for phones, they should have it for consoles. They should have it for everything..
I still play my NES.
What, and I can't still play my PS3 if I keep it in good condition, or buy second hand units? You don't have to be online to play these games, you just buy them and you're done. The PS3 has a backup and restore option, so as long as you have a working PS3 I suppose you can potentially restore all your games to it.
Besides, you can play NES games on the Wii. You can play PS1 games on PS2, PS3 and PSP, and even play PS2 games on some PS3s, though whatever douche is currently in charge of Sony's gaming division cut out support for that. The PS4 may even play PS3 games if they get their act back together, I can't imagine it would be that hard to do if they stick with PPC/Cell for the PS4 (though of course they may not, everyone makes a big deal about how hard it is to code for).
You know what else is eventually lethal if something else doesn't kill you first? Being human, or in fact just being alive*.
*Unless you're a bacteria hibernating in a salt crystal, apparently.
Not that strange. It's the groupthink talking for ya.
No, I RTFA and there were at least bacteria and algae.
Agreed. Finctional entertainment isn't usually about the details, it's about the story and the atmosphere. Any novels that focus too often on long winded descriptions (especially geographical details as in LOTR and Dune.. doubt I'll ever want to finish LOTR, though I might get back to Dune at some point) tend to make me lose interest. IMO a good storyteller is one that keeps the narrative flowing and can paint scenes, characters and moods without needing to fill a whole page. For example plays often hardly have any description of the scenery or characters - it's the dialogue and actions that drive everything.
For those interested after reading that, my favourite author is Pratchett. I think he manages to create fantastic worlds and describe them in just enough detail to have you picture a scene, but without going so far that you fall asleep. His stories and themes are often quite deep, especially in recent years, and his many main characters or groups of characters are very interesting and varied. He mixes Douglas Adams style absurd comedy with philosophy, politics, and insightful social critique. Or something.
Save it for Twitter, Anon
I didn't say it was "right", I just said it was what you needed to do to do "as well as you can", and for a company that basically means maximising profit. Companies very often do things which your average person would think of as wrong, but is not necessarily illegal.
There's a difference between "right" and legal. It's very hard to keep the two in line. Especially since "right" is such a nebulous term.
I see no reason not to treat all corporate executives as dishonest scum who should be looted at every opportunity, based on exactly the reasoning you just gave.
After all, if I can bend the rules without getting caught--the bet execs are making every day--then there's nothing wrong with my doing so. It's a business decision, and I'm in the business of maximizing my own benefit, just like they are. There's nothing wrong with that, is there?
That is indeed how a lot of people think, and act. I sometimes wonder if I'm being a fool for not acting the same, especially with that story in the last week about the big publishers selling songs which weren't even legally licensed, and not passing on any of the profits from such to the artist either.
In the end "right" and "wrong" are just something we've made up, and the only thing that really makes us choose right a lot of the time is our conscience. I could be saving hundreds and even thousands of pounds on movies, games, books, etc if I wanted, but I choose to do it legally for the sake of my own conscience. If I wanted to "do as well as I can", I could have saved all that money and have enough for a downpayment on a mortgage by now.
So, just because I'm discussing something and expressing an idea doesn't mean that's how I actually think or act myself, I often play devil's advocate. But a lot of people do clearly think that way (or of course, don't think at all of the possible consequences, only about the immediate benefits)
Well, I can't blame employees for goofing off on Slashdot either, seeing as people do need to take a break every so often. Of course, I probably do it just a teeny bit too much. I think that makes my position pretty consistent. I get my coding done, and part of my job is just being around in case things go wrong anyway.
I don't think there is any solid evidence, though this interview at least shows that they try to keep the customer in mind when designing their DRM. I really wouldn't be surprised if they did have a mode they could leave the server in that would unlock everyone's games, and just leave it in that mode for a week if they had to close down for whatever reason. Or of course if they somehow get bought over, the buyer would probably keep Steam running anyway, as it's a very profitable service.
I remember being able to clip recordings down in sound recorder. Of course you couldn't see the waveform so you just had to listen, drag to the right place then choose the menu option. Have they not made the program any better since those days? I haven't used it since probably Windows 98.
Sad that they probably would have thought of Sound Recorder as better than Audacity just because it's a Microsoft product.
I note that you haven't tried but you felt qualified to comment, anyway.
That's because I used to use Steam, and it was fine for me. I did just copy over folders sometimes to stop it having to download content, and I'm pretty sure you could still run the original Half-Life direct from the executable, but I understand that things may be different with more modern games.
If Valve were bought over, the new parent company would likely continue running Steam. I've just had a look at the Steam forums to see other people discussing this scenario, and I think that makes sense.
If you want to talk about naivete, try Googling "Steam crack" and you will see that it doesn't actually matter what Valve or any other company deos with DRM. If you really want to get rid of it, or download games without DRM, you can do that. Valve know this, but they also know that for those that want to do things to be what I'd consider the "right" way, Steam is a great system. Personally I do think that since they have such a strong stance on DRM that they would actually release an official patch to remove their own DRM if they went down, though obviously I can't know for sure. But I don't see the point in being bitter and cynical about everything in life. Some companies do actually have people like you or me running them, people who actually care about what their customers want. If they get bought over or get a new CEO or whatever then that could change, but right now things are good, and we know how to handle it if things turn bad.
This all only applies to single player games really anyway. With multiplayer games you're at the mercy of individual companies' servers, unless again you want to crack the game and run unofficial servers.