Comment Re:One Resource (Score 1) 451
Besides, you look at the Middle East now, and there's an active fight against science.
So it's just like the United States, eh?
No, no it's not.
Besides, you look at the Middle East now, and there's an active fight against science.
So it's just like the United States, eh?
No, no it's not.
You miss the point. All it's saying is Apple can make a device strikingly similar to an iPhone but at long as it's not called "iPhone" it's not required to be on AT&T.
shoulda got it off the pirate bay...
That mindset of "the average person who uses some trendy service I reject because I'm trendily un-trendy is stupid" really gets to me.
For me, it's not about a "trendy service that I reject because I'm trendily un-trendy". A stupid idea is stupid whether it's trendy or not, and a good idea is good whether it's trendy or not. And in my opinion, sites that ONLY do social networking are stupid. (I also think Twitter - the great trend of the past month - is stupid.) Slashdot's friends/foes system is an awesome addition to this site - but none of us are on this site for the social networking aspect of it; we're all here because we want "news for nerds" and any social networking that happens is a bonus.
I don't see how Facebook is any different from IM or email, other than the reasons I gave above (persistence, centralization). If one uses Facebook purely as a way to get in touch with friends, why are MSN and email un-stupid? I'm unconvinced you reject it for any reason other than its popularity and that it's cool to hate popular things.
The average person using facebook is the average person commenting on youtube videos: incredibly stupid. Facebook does nothing better than any other method of communication, and you have to use a shitty interface and tolerate facebook users to do..what?
If you want asynchronous communication you can use any IM software out there, emails, forums, etc.
It's not true, though. Facebook is not as easy as email, IM, forums, etc. Everyone I know is on Facebook and all I need to remember to get in touch with them is their name.
I don't need lists of emails that are constantly needing updates; I don't need IM contact lists that are usually out of date as well; I don't need memberships at several forums and to remember who belongs to each.. just type a few letters of their name on Facebook and there they are. Persists through email changes, phone number changes, and all that.
Yeah, my good buddies who I hang out with every day I just phone. Everyone else I get on Facebook.
I'm not one of those fools who posts fifty thousand pictures of every stupid event that occurs in their lives. It's a communication tool and little more.
That mindset of "the average person who uses some trendy service I reject because I'm trendily un-trendy is stupid" really gets to me. I've never understood why techies find it cool to be arrogant and condescending.
I'd wager you couldn't make a beer that appeals to most folks like Bud does. Not to say that Budweiser is good beer, but most people don't like real beer.. and hell, making a light (in color and gravity) beer is harder than making a good heavy beer.
in space, no one can hear you punctuate
Internet tough guy much?
You are watching too many movies. Gasoline does not blow up. Ever.
Try this: Put a strip of cloth inside the tank, with one end in the gasoline, and the other outside the car. Let it soak full. Now light the cloth.
It starts to burn like a candle. No rush of fire into the tank. No explosion. Nothing special.
Imagine you being full of shit. Yikes!
Ah yes. Once you've got a flaming cloth inside your container of gasoline, give it a kick or agitate it somehow and watch how the oxygen gets to it and watch how your leg is on fire.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdCsbZf1_Ng - scroll to 3:00
Your friend needs some lessons in city living. Never ever leave your bag under the table without having the strap wrapped around your leg or the chair in some fashion.
Is this a joke? No way in hell would I ever let a school REQUIRE me to live in residence.
I try to avoid puking drunken 18 year olds as it is, forcing me to live amongst them would be a disaster.
You can see why - the person who supplies the computer keyboard/mouse is "enabling" the user to download a copyrighted work. So is the monitor manufacturer, and the ISP, and the electricity company.
Not to mention the most supreme enabler of them all - the artist who created the original copyrighted works. If those works hadn't been created, nobody would download copyrighted material!
Goddamnit, slashcode. Expose.
Get a Mac, use Exposé, thank me later. Seriously, I don't know how anyone can even bother with virtual desktops (and I've tried) - it's so much easier to just drag my mouse to the corner and pick from all my tiled windows.
The man you trusted isn't Wavy Gravy at all! And all this time I've been smoking harmless tobacco.
Intel CPUs are not defective, they just act that way. -- Henry Spencer
