Well yeah, that's how consent works, you amazing douchenozzle. If you don't have it, you're assaulting someone.
Nonetheless, his point stands. I work with a guy that can go up to a girl he doesn't know, fondle her arse, say "Sorry gorgeous, I just couldn't resist", give her a cheeky smile and get a giggle and flirtatious smile back.
There's no prior consent involved. Most other men try that, they're getting arrested. The rules are not unambiguous, and it's hardly surprising that some people get it wrong at times.
Except in the UK, where a shared raising of eyebrows with someone that also picked up on an accidental innuendo by someone else is one of the best ways of connecting (and showing a sense of humour).
Or if you know the people well, just bursting into giggles. It doesn't take long for everyone else to cotton on and join you.
You can gauge her reaction to them as you do them to judge her interest. If she's not interested, remember, there's plenty of other girls out there.
Actually, no. A lot of 'hackers' can't gauge her interest. It's linked to the prevalence of (very mild) autism amongst those people.
I know that I haven't got a fucking clue whether a woman's interested in me, unless she makes it exceedingly obvious. When I was younger I misread things at times and that let to emotional scarring that means I'm now very conservative in my interpretation, but I just can't read body language. It doesn't work. It doesn't happen. No matter how well I flirt, I just can't tell if she's interested, being polite or just a friendly flirtatious girl.
There are a lot of friendly flirtatious girls. Half the time it's because they don't think I'm a threat so they're comfortable flirting, knowing that I wont misread it as being interested. Oddly enough, this doesn't help me work out who is.
11) If you can get her to dance, now is a good time. It's a good excuse to increase the touching (just so long as you remember that it's *also* about actual, you know, *dancing*). Good targets for touching include the hair, small of the back, and eventually the face.
I dance with between 30 and 80 women a week. I touch all of them on the arms, the hips, the small of the back, the back of the back, the shoulders. I touch most of them on the front of the hips while stood behind. Several of them I'll stroke their hair, in a seductive manner, as part of the dance.
They (almost) all enjoy it. They all respond. Most of them push their bodies closer for greater contact. Many of them come back for another dance, even if I'm trying to take a rest.
Almost all of them would react very badly if at this point I tried kissing them.
However, as mentioned before, I can't tell which of them wouldn't. And as mentioned before, bad experiences in the past mean I'm not going to try and find out the hard way.
4) A little alcohol is fine. Blind-drunk, however, is not cute.
In the UK it's rape to have sex with a drunk woman. It's a stupid law (with good intentions), but men have been prosecuted under it.
Curiously, I can't find evidence of any women being prosecuted under it, despite being sexually assaulted on a number of occasions by very drunk women that don't know how to control themselves (and indeed, don't realise just how unattractive they are when drunk).
I was just modded +4 Insightful about a week ago by making the exact same comment here on/.
That's nice for you.
Oh, and which Asus tablet is this? And "better" HOW?
The Transformer Prime (available in multiple variants). Better how? Well, it has an OS you can install your own apps on for a start. It has better battery life. It has a hardware keyboard. At the top end, it has a faster processor too. I think it has better aesthetics, but that's more subjective.
Or did you mean the 7" Galaxy Nexus?
From a purely hardware perspective, the iPad is price competitive. But do feel free to try and counter this: http://slate.me/ND5qus
In your response, do please let us all know where Apple's fucking massive cash pile came from if it isn't their profit margins. Margins that some people would indeed call an Apple tax.
So which is it?
I think it's pretty clear that you're making wild spurious claims with no evidence. Slashdot mods aren't a reliable source of confirmation bias.
We're talking contiguous time, not a single day. I'm paying for it today: Wake up, go to toilet, fall asleep. Wake up, have a shower, fall asleep. Wake up, get dressed, fall asleep. Wake up, have breakfast, fall asleep. Wake up, read Slashdot.. feeling tired:(
The only thing I've ever found is that you MUST get up every 20 minutes or so and walk around and stretch.
When gaming I can do 20 hours without standing up. (Then I have to limp to the toilet).
Changing position regularly is something I find essential, but getting up? Just not necessary. Shifting from leaning right to leaning left gives a whole other bunch of muscles something to do.
Then again, I'm about to go dancing for five hours, so I don't worry quite as much about exercise during the day. And I've had a broken foot since April which is definitely hampering my desire to walk about.
Notice the difference. You're expecting Slashdot to treat you like an idiot. I'm assuming the reader is familiar with Hello World and drawing their attention to something fun that a number of other people have put together, that's also educational, that they might enjoy contributing to.
Ignore the computer scientists. They tend not to be the best programmers anyway.
Learn how to program. Learn software engineering. Learn how to deliver working software quickly, that meets the needs of its users. Learn how to re-use the work of others, in particular those nice computer scientists that did the research, wrote the standard libraries and included them in the basic language spec.
It doesn't hurt to be good at maths, to be able to understand it, but it sure as hell isn't important to have a degree level understanding for most programming jobs. It certainly isn't as important as strong people skills. Linus isn't a living god because he's the best mathematician in the Northern Hemisphere, it's because he's able to coordinate and manage a large, diverse and intelligent team and get them working together.
disclaimer: I didn't do computer science at university, it was too easy. I did financial analysis, where the computing element was merely automation of the complex analytics and mathematical models being used.
a lot of people need proprietary video player software to stream rented non-free films and non-free TV shows. The software is non-free due to compliance and robustness rules imposed by the movie studios.
Which is interesting. I can stream live football from my preferred club's site (which requires paid subscription), I can stream live sport, movies and other TV programmes from my satellite TV provider's website and I can stream a whole ton of shit from the BBC, ITV and Channel 4 all without having to install any applications I didn't already have on my PC.
Unless you count Firefox as proprietary and non-free. I guess you could. Some people would include Flash and Silverlight too, but they're technologies I have installed rather than media streaming applications.
I'm having trouble thinking of a proprietary piece of software I need
Excluding games, I only have a couple myself - the software that came with my satellite HD tv decoder, and Adobe Lightroom.
There is however a massive market out there for desktop applications, and several for which there just aren't capable Free alternatives (such as, indeed, Adobe Lightroom).
Thanks for articulating a point I made elsewhere in this thread rather more eloquently than I managed.
Assuming people use a single PC is a naive and archaic assumption. I can't even support it as an anti-piracy facility as I should be able to loan games to friends - I have a dozen game CDs out of my house right now..
My view is similar but opposite: I get distressed that I can't play game 1 on PC 1 and at the same time play game 2 on PC 2.
I've bought both games, and I've been multi-gaming since the early 90s. Steam sadly doesn't allow this.
It's a shit system, and an unnecessary artificial constraint on games that I've purchased. Fortunately much of what Steam does is good and I'm less likely these days to be at two game-capable PCs at the same time.
However, introduce non-gaming software and it's going to become bloody stupid. Can't work on PC 1 because you have a document open on PC 2? Maybe this'll finally end that ludicrous Steam constraint.
People don't come to Slashdot for the stories. They're badly written, usually days behind the mainstream and other tech media and frequently misrepresent stuff.
People come to Slashdot for the comments.
I don't want to read comments from people too fucking stupid to use Google to work out how to set up a proxy. I don't expect regular readers of Slashdot to need to use Google to find out how to set up a proxy.
I don't understand why this story exists. I'm reading it for the comedy value, and so that I can help feed back to Slashdot admin that dumbing down the content on Slashdot will be a great way of killing the site.
they are not giving an option to us and we're asking for it
The BBC lack international broadcast rights for much of their content.
The olympics is licenced to the BBC for UK broadcast and Internet distribution. It's licenced to someone else in North America. The BBC can't legally transmit it to America.
Similar constraints apply to almost all of the content they don't create in-house, and they create remarkably little these days.
Of the content they do create, international sales (e.g. Top Gear and the output from their Natural History unit) are a significant source of funding for the BBC and help keep the licence fee down.
There are *a lot* of people, expats and otherwise, that would be absolutely fine with paying for some sort of international license for the BBC.
This is why the BBC have a premium channel in the US. They still can't broadcast the Olympics on it.
In almost all cases, the recommendation was to adopt the iPhone's approach. Among other observations, this shows how much work goes into defining the Apple iPhone user experience
So a document showing UI issues through comparison with someone whose implementation demonstrates those issues concludes that the other implementation might be worth learning from?
Really? There's a sodding surprise.
Had this been written by the marketing team rather than an engineering department then it would've highlighted all the superior (usability) features in the S1 and failed entirely to draw attention to the things mentioned in this doc.
Samsung may or may not have copied elements of Apple's design, but relying on this document to prove it would be naive.
The thing is, vanilla Android is extremely usable. So you can treat is as a black box and ignore its customisability.
Of course, you can ignore 98% of it and really fix that 2% that's bothering you. This isn't an option on iOS.
. I could design a door a thousand different ways, and 950 of them would be terrible. (Don't believe me? Read "The Design of Everyday Things". You'll never look at a door the same again.)
And having read it, would I design a device that's got one fucking button with sixteen different functions, depending on whether you're pressing, pressing it twice, holding it or farting as you lick it?
A device that works? Sure, unless you want to install software that Apple don't like, or want to compete with. Good fucking luck with that.
A device without any malware? So jailbreaking doesn't involve exploits and bugs then?
A device that's easy to use? So I can update the OS, install apps, install music, transfer files to arbitrary USB hosts, all without using a PC? (Note: Macs are personal computers too). I can install execution engines that enable automation of various tasks? I can do my own scripting? I can install an IDE?
Apple do deliver what most people WANT: something that's been marketed as cool and desirable. Please, don't go pretending it's so fucking superior to the alternatives. It competes, and may well be the better choice for many people, but it's seriously fucking inferior by several measures and that's why it's being outsold by the competition.
Or do Samsung, Google et al generate all those sales wihtout knowing what people WANT?
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Well yeah, that's how consent works, you amazing douchenozzle. If you don't have it, you're assaulting someone.
Nonetheless, his point stands. I work with a guy that can go up to a girl he doesn't know, fondle her arse, say "Sorry gorgeous, I just couldn't resist", give her a cheeky smile and get a giggle and flirtatious smile back.
There's no prior consent involved. Most other men try that, they're getting arrested. The rules are not unambiguous, and it's hardly surprising that some people get it wrong at times.
From that guide:
8. That amusing sexual innuendo? So not amusing.
Except in the UK, where a shared raising of eyebrows with someone that also picked up on an accidental innuendo by someone else is one of the best ways of connecting (and showing a sense of humour).
Or if you know the people well, just bursting into giggles. It doesn't take long for everyone else to cotton on and join you.
If I don't talk about penises, how will you know that I'm not gay?
My brain can't cope with this statement.
You can gauge her reaction to them as you do them to judge her interest. If she's not interested, remember, there's plenty of other girls out there.
Actually, no. A lot of 'hackers' can't gauge her interest. It's linked to the prevalence of (very mild) autism amongst those people.
I know that I haven't got a fucking clue whether a woman's interested in me, unless she makes it exceedingly obvious. When I was younger I misread things at times and that let to emotional scarring that means I'm now very conservative in my interpretation, but I just can't read body language. It doesn't work. It doesn't happen. No matter how well I flirt, I just can't tell if she's interested, being polite or just a friendly flirtatious girl.
There are a lot of friendly flirtatious girls. Half the time it's because they don't think I'm a threat so they're comfortable flirting, knowing that I wont misread it as being interested. Oddly enough, this doesn't help me work out who is.
11) If you can get her to dance, now is a good time. It's a good excuse to increase the touching (just so long as you remember that it's *also* about actual, you know, *dancing*). Good targets for touching include the hair, small of the back, and eventually the face.
I dance with between 30 and 80 women a week. I touch all of them on the arms, the hips, the small of the back, the back of the back, the shoulders. I touch most of them on the front of the hips while stood behind. Several of them I'll stroke their hair, in a seductive manner, as part of the dance.
They (almost) all enjoy it. They all respond. Most of them push their bodies closer for greater contact. Many of them come back for another dance, even if I'm trying to take a rest.
Almost all of them would react very badly if at this point I tried kissing them.
However, as mentioned before, I can't tell which of them wouldn't. And as mentioned before, bad experiences in the past mean I'm not going to try and find out the hard way.
4) A little alcohol is fine. Blind-drunk, however, is not cute.
In the UK it's rape to have sex with a drunk woman. It's a stupid law (with good intentions), but men have been prosecuted under it.
Curiously, I can't find evidence of any women being prosecuted under it, despite being sexually assaulted on a number of occasions by very drunk women that don't know how to control themselves (and indeed, don't realise just how unattractive they are when drunk).
Yeah, sexual harassment goes both ways.
I was just modded +4 Insightful about a week ago by making the exact same comment here on /.
That's nice for you.
Oh, and which Asus tablet is this? And "better" HOW?
The Transformer Prime (available in multiple variants). Better how? Well, it has an OS you can install your own apps on for a start. It has better battery life. It has a hardware keyboard. At the top end, it has a faster processor too. I think it has better aesthetics, but that's more subjective.
Or did you mean the 7" Galaxy Nexus?
From a purely hardware perspective, the iPad is price competitive. But do feel free to try and counter this:
http://slate.me/ND5qus
In your response, do please let us all know where Apple's fucking massive cash pile came from if it isn't their profit margins. Margins that some people would indeed call an Apple tax.
So which is it?
I think it's pretty clear that you're making wild spurious claims with no evidence. Slashdot mods aren't a reliable source of confirmation bias.
Asus already sell a 10-11" tablet with a 1920x1200 screen. I'm happy to admit that frankly, that's good enough for me.
Until I get one, I'll stick with the 4" 1280x780 screen on my phone, which is again about as dense as I need, given it fits in my pocket.
If there is an "Apple Tax" on tablets, then how come NO ONE has been able to even MEET, let alone BEAT the iPad's price-performance metric?
You mean, someone like Asus? Who sell a tablet better than the ipad for a lower price? Who sell a 7" tablet for the same price as an ipod?
Shit, that's just one manufacturer and I haven't even done any research.
Apple do have great control over their supply chain but try and take the blinkers off.
We're talking contiguous time, not a single day. I'm paying for it today: Wake up, go to toilet, fall asleep. Wake up, have a shower, fall asleep. Wake up, get dressed, fall asleep. Wake up, have breakfast, fall asleep. Wake up, read Slashdot.. feeling tired :(
The only thing I've ever found is that you MUST get up every 20 minutes or so and walk around and stretch.
When gaming I can do 20 hours without standing up. (Then I have to limp to the toilet).
Changing position regularly is something I find essential, but getting up? Just not necessary. Shifting from leaning right to leaning left gives a whole other bunch of muscles something to do.
Then again, I'm about to go dancing for five hours, so I don't worry quite as much about exercise during the day. And I've had a broken foot since April which is definitely hampering my desire to walk about.
A Hello World prompt? Never done one. It's not a prompt.
I wrote my first Hello World application 28 years ago. I don't expect Slashdot to teach me. I don't expect Slashdot to teach anybody.
I do expect Slashdot to link to Hello World in 441 different languages. Here, have a peek: http://www.roesler-ac.de/wolfram/hello.htm
Notice the difference. You're expecting Slashdot to treat you like an idiot. I'm assuming the reader is familiar with Hello World and drawing their attention to something fun that a number of other people have put together, that's also educational, that they might enjoy contributing to.
Is that being superior? Really?
Ignore the computer scientists. They tend not to be the best programmers anyway.
Learn how to program. Learn software engineering. Learn how to deliver working software quickly, that meets the needs of its users. Learn how to re-use the work of others, in particular those nice computer scientists that did the research, wrote the standard libraries and included them in the basic language spec.
It doesn't hurt to be good at maths, to be able to understand it, but it sure as hell isn't important to have a degree level understanding for most programming jobs. It certainly isn't as important as strong people skills. Linus isn't a living god because he's the best mathematician in the Northern Hemisphere, it's because he's able to coordinate and manage a large, diverse and intelligent team and get them working together.
disclaimer: I didn't do computer science at university, it was too easy. I did financial analysis, where the computing element was merely automation of the complex analytics and mathematical models being used.
a lot of people need proprietary video player software to stream rented non-free films and non-free TV shows. The software is non-free due to compliance and robustness rules imposed by the movie studios.
Which is interesting. I can stream live football from my preferred club's site (which requires paid subscription), I can stream live sport, movies and other TV programmes from my satellite TV provider's website and I can stream a whole ton of shit from the BBC, ITV and Channel 4 all without having to install any applications I didn't already have on my PC.
Unless you count Firefox as proprietary and non-free. I guess you could. Some people would include Flash and Silverlight too, but they're technologies I have installed rather than media streaming applications.
I'm having trouble thinking of a proprietary piece of software I need
Excluding games, I only have a couple myself - the software that came with my satellite HD tv decoder, and Adobe Lightroom.
There is however a massive market out there for desktop applications, and several for which there just aren't capable Free alternatives (such as, indeed, Adobe Lightroom).
Thanks for articulating a point I made elsewhere in this thread rather more eloquently than I managed.
Assuming people use a single PC is a naive and archaic assumption. I can't even support it as an anti-piracy facility as I should be able to loan games to friends - I have a dozen game CDs out of my house right now..
My view is similar but opposite: I get distressed that I can't play game 1 on PC 1 and at the same time play game 2 on PC 2.
I've bought both games, and I've been multi-gaming since the early 90s. Steam sadly doesn't allow this.
It's a shit system, and an unnecessary artificial constraint on games that I've purchased. Fortunately much of what Steam does is good and I'm less likely these days to be at two game-capable PCs at the same time.
However, introduce non-gaming software and it's going to become bloody stupid. Can't work on PC 1 because you have a document open on PC 2? Maybe this'll finally end that ludicrous Steam constraint.
People don't come to Slashdot for the stories. They're badly written, usually days behind the mainstream and other tech media and frequently misrepresent stuff.
People come to Slashdot for the comments.
I don't want to read comments from people too fucking stupid to use Google to work out how to set up a proxy. I don't expect regular readers of Slashdot to need to use Google to find out how to set up a proxy.
I don't understand why this story exists. I'm reading it for the comedy value, and so that I can help feed back to Slashdot admin that dumbing down the content on Slashdot will be a great way of killing the site.
they are not giving an option to us and we're asking for it
The BBC lack international broadcast rights for much of their content.
The olympics is licenced to the BBC for UK broadcast and Internet distribution. It's licenced to someone else in North America. The BBC can't legally transmit it to America.
Similar constraints apply to almost all of the content they don't create in-house, and they create remarkably little these days.
Of the content they do create, international sales (e.g. Top Gear and the output from their Natural History unit) are a significant source of funding for the BBC and help keep the licence fee down.
There are *a lot* of people, expats and otherwise, that would be absolutely fine with paying for some sort of international license for the BBC.
This is why the BBC have a premium channel in the US. They still can't broadcast the Olympics on it.
In almost all cases, the recommendation was to adopt the iPhone's approach. Among other observations, this shows how much work goes into defining the Apple iPhone user experience
So a document showing UI issues through comparison with someone whose implementation demonstrates those issues concludes that the other implementation might be worth learning from?
Really? There's a sodding surprise.
Had this been written by the marketing team rather than an engineering department then it would've highlighted all the superior (usability) features in the S1 and failed entirely to draw attention to the things mentioned in this doc.
Samsung may or may not have copied elements of Apple's design, but relying on this document to prove it would be naive.
Apple could close up the App Store tomorrow and only notice a small hit in their revenue
Sure. People will buy a phone with only Apple's apps on it. I believe that.
HELLO? It's 2012 here.
Scripps is authorised to act for NASA? Because they're the copyright holder of the work that was allegedly being infringed.
Oh, the fucking irony.
The thing is, vanilla Android is extremely usable. So you can treat is as a black box and ignore its customisability.
Of course, you can ignore 98% of it and really fix that 2% that's bothering you. This isn't an option on iOS.
. I could design a door a thousand different ways, and 950 of them would be terrible. (Don't believe me? Read "The Design of Everyday Things". You'll never look at a door the same again.)
And having read it, would I design a device that's got one fucking button with sixteen different functions, depending on whether you're pressing, pressing it twice, holding it or farting as you lick it?
Having a feature means nothing if using it is to complicated.
So not having a feature is better than having a feature that you have to learn how to use?
Get off my fucking planet, you're damaging the gene pool.
Stop talking bollocks.
A device that works? Sure, unless you want to install software that Apple don't like, or want to compete with. Good fucking luck with that.
A device without any malware? So jailbreaking doesn't involve exploits and bugs then?
A device that's easy to use? So I can update the OS, install apps, install music, transfer files to arbitrary USB hosts, all without using a PC? (Note: Macs are personal computers too). I can install execution engines that enable automation of various tasks? I can do my own scripting? I can install an IDE?
Apple do deliver what most people WANT: something that's been marketed as cool and desirable. Please, don't go pretending it's so fucking superior to the alternatives. It competes, and may well be the better choice for many people, but it's seriously fucking inferior by several measures and that's why it's being outsold by the competition.
Or do Samsung, Google et al generate all those sales wihtout knowing what people WANT?
Your aggression seems unwarranted: http://www.compusa.com/retailstores/compusaStores/index.asp