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Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] dev null> wrote:
> "You know how on Facebook you can set your current status to be a
> short snippet of text?"
> "Yeah?"
> "THAT'S ALL TWITTER DOES!"
> "...why? That sounds pointless."
> "I KNOW!"
Competition is not pointless. It entices betterment and progress.
--
- Warp
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Stephen <mcavoys_at@aoldotcom> wrote:
> On 15/07/2011 4:14 PM, Alain wrote:
> > As one of the last eleven people on Earth without a Facebook
> >> page,
> >
> > Count me in that list, also, my brothers, my mother,...
>
> Me too
Me too. I equally don't see the point of Google + except as a way for Google to
readily know who are my friends, family and coworkers. Seemingly it's not
enough that I should classify links for them...
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On Fri, 15 Jul 2011 13:06:20 +0100, Invisible wrote:
> utterly
> plastered with ads,
Hmmm, I don't see those on Facebook or Google+....Oh, wait, because I use
one of those intractably-difficult-to-implement ad blockers that couldn't
possibly solve the impossible problem of blocking ads. ;)
<scnr>
Jim
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On 7/14/2011 10:04, gregjohn wrote:
> I have them.
http://www.explosm.net/comics/2486/
--
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
"Coding without comments is like
driving without turn signals."
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On Sat, 16 Jul 2011 01:23:51 +0100, Stephen wrote:
> On 15/07/2011 4:14 PM, Alain wrote:
>> Le 2011/07/15 07:30, Mike the Elder a écrit : As one of the last eleven
>> people on Earth without a Facebook
>>> page,
>>
>> Count me in that list, also, my brothers, my mother,...
>
> Me too
Thought you should've gotten one from me - the system seems to indicate
that invitations are sent out to people you add to circles who are not in
the system.
Odd that it didn't.
Jim
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On 16/07/2011 08:52 AM, Warp wrote:
> Competition is not pointless. It entices betterment and progress.
Sure. But given the choice between (say) a document editor that can
handle bold and italic text, verses Microsoft Word 2010... it's not much
of a competition, is it?
--
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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On 16/07/2011 06:55 PM, Jim Henderson wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Jul 2011 13:06:20 +0100, Invisible wrote:
>
>> utterly
>> plastered with ads,
>
> Hmmm, I don't see those on Facebook or Google+....Oh, wait, because I use
> one of those intractably-difficult-to-implement ad blockers that couldn't
> possibly solve the impossible problem of blocking ads. ;)
>
> <scnr>
Now try reading what I actually wrote: I said that the *other* social
sites are ad-encrusted. :-P
Although, Facebook does have ads. But it's trivially easy to ignore
them, because they're in a segregated area that you can just ignore.
A while back I saw a big documentary on TV making this big deal about
how Facebook will shortly be "using your personal data to target adverts
at you". My reaction at the time was "...and?" Today, now that I
actually /have/ a Facebook account, I can see that the nature of this
"targetting" is pittiful. Like, I write a message such as "Well, the
band was really weak last night", and the adverts scream "WANT TO BUILD
MORE MUSCLE?"
--
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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On Sun, 17 Jul 2011 11:26:12 +0100, Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> On 16/07/2011 08:52 AM, Warp wrote:
>
>> Competition is not pointless. It entices betterment and progress.
>
> Sure. But given the choice between (say) a document editor that can
> handle bold and italic text, verses Microsoft Word 2010... it's not much
> of a competition, is it?
Depends on what you need. If you just need to do bold and italic text,
why spend the money on Word 2010 or the full office suite? If the need
is just those two things, getting Office 2010 is like using a nuke to
kill a midge.
Jim
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On Sun, 17 Jul 2011 11:45:48 +0100, Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> On 16/07/2011 06:55 PM, Jim Henderson wrote:
>> On Fri, 15 Jul 2011 13:06:20 +0100, Invisible wrote:
>>
>>> utterly
>>> plastered with ads,
>>
>> Hmmm, I don't see those on Facebook or Google+....Oh, wait, because I
>> use one of those intractably-difficult-to-implement ad blockers that
>> couldn't possibly solve the impossible problem of blocking ads. ;)
>>
>> <scnr>
>
> Now try reading what I actually wrote: I said that the *other* social
> sites are ad-encrusted. :-P
Actually, that's not what you said. You said:
"At the behest of various people I know, at one time or another I've been
signed up to various "social" websites. Which was a rather baffling
experience, in that they were all horrifyingly broken (if you thought MS
Word was unreliable, it's rock-solid compared to this crap!), utterly
plastered with ads, and more to the point they DON'T ACTUALLY DO ANYTHING.
Really strange."
'various social websites' = not excluding Facebook. :P
> Although, Facebook does have ads. But it's trivially easy to ignore
> them, because they're in a segregated area that you can just ignore.
It's even easier to ignore them with FB Purity and an ad blocker
installed - and an ad blocker will help with all the other sites as well,
as we talked about earlier.
Jim
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On 17-7-2011 21:24, Jim Henderson wrote:
> On Sun, 17 Jul 2011 11:26:12 +0100, Orchid XP v8 wrote:
>
>> On 16/07/2011 08:52 AM, Warp wrote:
>>
>>> Competition is not pointless. It entices betterment and progress.
>>
>> Sure. But given the choice between (say) a document editor that can
>> handle bold and italic text, verses Microsoft Word 2010... it's not much
>> of a competition, is it?
>
> Depends on what you need. If you just need to do bold and italic text,
> why spend the money on Word 2010 or the full office suite? If the need
> is just those two things, getting Office 2010 is like using a nuke to
> kill a midge.
1) I prefer LaTeX, so bold and italic are an unnecessary luxury.
2) Word until now was unable to save a document and layout in a
internationally recognized standard format. I haven't seen Word 2010,
but if it still isn't able to save in e.g. .odt I prefer not to use it.
--
Apparently you can afford your own dictator for less than 10 cents per
citizen per day.
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