Hmm. At least one part of that is almost a self-forcing result. Most everyone develops at least a partial understanding of connotation semantics, and picks up on the difference between Josephus and Joey.
Because schools are notorios for "Roll Call First and ask preferences later", a kid tagged as "Josephus" will garner early social experiences that then begin to influence him.
It's not really socially acceptible right now to randomly change names like clothes, so that option is not yet here.
Every good name under 5 characters is taken - and many longer ones. I almost created a specific use account with a very fancy name, only to discover someone else has a myspace by that handle.
I have to think we have a model for this already - big cities, with 25 "John Smiths", etc. We might have to create a culture such that "the site I give you is the site you're supposed to look at, and I am not responsible for web searches". Yea, I know, then people will complain about scammers round 2, etc.
There's a concept called Attestation, which says that someone (with the web, including "digital entities") who establishes themselves as a quality source of info, and therefore other direct recommendations by that source get weighted. (/. is one, but far from the only example.)
I've done a passable job with my Web Branding, or so the/. Mod comments seem to tell me.
The Seething Masses will latch onto the scurrilous results, howeve! "Did you know that _____, of AmazingBlog fame really owned a purple venezuelan trucking company that ran over baby animals because it was cheaper than professional meat packing!!?"
I eventually landed on an approach that at least seems to stall the absolute laziest scammers, but is mostly solid enough for people to take me seriously.
AS the DogDude who likes/promotes Phydeaux Pets, you happily have a presence. I agree you have taken some steps to shield yourself from the worst of online scamcrushers.
This is becoming one of the signs the Web, having graduated from its 1.0 origins, is now thrashing out the conceptual implications. A few stories over, there's talk of felonies for "not having a web presence".
Either you can be a brilliant anonymous, a brilliant presence, or some average blend of both like everyone else just trying to play nice on the web.
There was a study or two a little while ago that mentioned that the mind has trouble with negative constructions over time.
"Your data is safe with me. That's right, I am not going to *broadcast your data all over the internet where all the world can see it, reverse engineer your life, and tag it in the southeastern dialect of Klingon attached to a mashup of Steve Ballmer and Jack Thompson. Nosirree, I promise to take good care of you and not *rip your life to shreds and offer your data as bait to the CIA, or Viacom."
The mind melts and forgets it is in "reversal mode", and becomes exhausted from the scare words.
Some of these rural places are on Dialup because the major providers don't bother to carry a line out there. If the customer *has* the money, they can try a satellite connection, though those are a little shaky in stormy weather.
I was a cell-luddite for many years; I'm not an always-on guy, so I basically chucked my phone in the car for calling the tow service.
Once I hunkered down to change providers and buy a real phone ( ditched Sprint, went to AT&T, got a Tilt) the phone question came up. I went for a Dry-Loop DSL- Internet only! This really is pretty cheap.
I'm used to being an outlier, so generic study recommendations don't work properly for me.
It depends on the type of duty. At work, the lights are very bright, which is good when I have to survey a spread of exhibit materials and formulate plans of what to update.
At home, I sometimes put the lighting way down as you mentioned. If I am well awake and can "churn", it is great. But if I start to lose focus, that feels accelerated as well.
I just watched the entire first three seasons of House MD on the DVD sets. Took me about a month. Between the 20 hours commercials not watched and the time saved by not wrenching my schedule to "be sure to watch it", I figure I gained a year on my life.
Can I back you up and skip the programming requirement?
At least the poster is being honest, and saying "Sorry, but y'know, I made it through exams but 400,000 lines of code would kill me". I said the same thing when OrgoChem busted me out of science, but there's room in this world for informed adjunct people.
Maybe this guy might not know exactly how to catch some weird zombie-null variable pointed straight to Utah, but if one of the Dev's reports in "Listen man, the backend code just went to hell and took the handbasket with it, we're 3 days out to fix it plus 2 hours check-in", at least he can translate it to the Senior guys as "Give 'Em BS Speech #147 and plan to ship with a week's delay."
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Hmm. At least one part of that is almost a self-forcing result. Most everyone develops at least a partial understanding of connotation semantics, and picks up on the difference between Josephus and Joey.
Because schools are notorios for "Roll Call First and ask preferences later", a kid tagged as "Josephus" will garner early social experiences that then begin to influence him.
It's not really socially acceptible right now to randomly change names like clothes, so that option is not yet here.
Every good name under 5 characters is taken - and many longer ones. I almost created a specific use account with a very fancy name, only to discover someone else has a myspace by that handle.
I have to think we have a model for this already - big cities, with 25 "John Smiths", etc. We might have to create a culture such that "the site I give you is the site you're supposed to look at, and I am not responsible for web searches". Yea, I know, then people will complain about scammers round 2, etc.
There's a concept called Attestation, which says that someone (with the web, including "digital entities") who establishes themselves as a quality source of info, and therefore other direct recommendations by that source get weighted. (/. is one, but far from the only example.)
Misc. scam accounts should be weighted less.
You're partly right.
I've done a passable job with my Web Branding, or so the /. Mod comments seem to tell me.
The Seething Masses will latch onto the scurrilous results, howeve! "Did you know that _____, of AmazingBlog fame really owned a purple venezuelan trucking company that ran over baby animals because it was cheaper than professional meat packing!!?"
I eventually landed on an approach that at least seems to stall the absolute laziest scammers, but is mostly solid enough for people to take me seriously.
AS the DogDude who likes/promotes Phydeaux Pets, you happily have a presence. I agree you have taken some steps to shield yourself from the worst of online scamcrushers.
This is becoming one of the signs the Web, having graduated from its 1.0 origins, is now thrashing out the conceptual implications. A few stories over, there's talk of felonies for "not having a web presence".
Either you can be a brilliant anonymous, a brilliant presence, or some average blend of both like everyone else just trying to play nice on the web.
"It sounds a little absurd - I was born to spread the word;
The music hits my soul - I was born to Rock & Ro-oo-lll..."
Except posting Youtube links might be mean now given Viacom's little game.
Are we reaching Alternate Universe X-Men territory?
Magneto is now the good guy & Professor X is evil?
My business management books say that FORD (Motors) went from 1 to 1000 on the quality scale in those years in response to competitive pressures.
Now Linux communities will FORK 1 kernal to 1000 distros.
To get Wisdom, you Take a Course in international relations.
Bush decided instead to Stay the Course.
Maybe someone can run a browser through Acid3. I'm sure it will score beter than IE.
How far can you strip Linux so it qualifies as "running" (crawling) on a Commodore?
There's rumors of a new Commodore OS in terminal Beta.
25 Poke 53281,6
I stayed with Blue & Black Trim ever since.
The parody rules allow me to go with the great riff you set up:
Discovery, Discovery, Discovery, Discovery! Come on!!!!
And as you wished, it does that too.
I am getting hard "missing file" errors. I know it's only Alpha, but at least it should be able to open the very initial part of the app.
The first example is "phonon.dll"... but there are more. Randomly looking on the web returned a blog entry by a guy who hated the phonon concept.
There was a study or two a little while ago that mentioned that the mind has trouble with negative constructions over time.
"Your data is safe with me. That's right, I am not going to *broadcast your data all over the internet where all the world can see it, reverse engineer your life, and tag it in the southeastern dialect of Klingon attached to a mashup of Steve Ballmer and Jack Thompson. Nosirree, I promise to take good care of you and not *rip your life to shreds and offer your data as bait to the CIA, or Viacom."
The mind melts and forgets it is in "reversal mode", and becomes exhausted from the scare words.
I'll throw some options out I haven't seen yet.
Some of these rural places are on Dialup because the major providers don't bother to carry a line out there. If the customer *has* the money, they can try a satellite connection, though those are a little shaky in stormy weather.
I was a cell-luddite for many years; I'm not an always-on guy, so I basically chucked my phone in the car for calling the tow service.
Once I hunkered down to change providers and buy a real phone ( ditched Sprint, went to AT&T, got a Tilt) the phone question came up. I went for a Dry-Loop DSL- Internet only! This really is pretty cheap.
I'm used to being an outlier, so generic study recommendations don't work properly for me.
It depends on the type of duty. At work, the lights are very bright, which is good when I have to survey a spread of exhibit materials and formulate plans of what to update.
At home, I sometimes put the lighting way down as you mentioned. If I am well awake and can "churn", it is great. But if I start to lose focus, that feels accelerated as well.
For me, it's all about the mood of the color scheme. It's a subliminal nudge to keep focused.
I use combinations of red window trim and dark blue desktops to frame the white page.
I get bored with generic pastel colors.
In the Soviet Union
Oh wait... the Soviet Union already broke into smaller cores.
"Problem #6.
If Intel makes a machine with 875 cores and there are 413 machines in your Beowulf Cluster, how many total cores are there?"
That's because Marshall Mathers has been spending his efforts at the **AA's.
I just watched the entire first three seasons of House MD on the DVD sets. Took me about a month. Between the 20 hours commercials not watched and the time saved by not wrenching my schedule to "be sure to watch it", I figure I gained a year on my life.
Can I back you up and skip the programming requirement?
At least the poster is being honest, and saying "Sorry, but y'know, I made it through exams but 400,000 lines of code would kill me". I said the same thing when OrgoChem busted me out of science, but there's room in this world for informed adjunct people.
Maybe this guy might not know exactly how to catch some weird zombie-null variable pointed straight to Utah, but if one of the Dev's reports in "Listen man, the backend code just went to hell and took the handbasket with it, we're 3 days out to fix it plus 2 hours check-in", at least he can translate it to the Senior guys as "Give 'Em BS Speech #147 and plan to ship with a week's delay."
Another poster above did
What brand of refrigerator was Harrison Ford Product Placing for such contingencies?