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  • OrganichuOrganichu Registered User regular
    what i want is a webcam shot of everyone who thinks google glass looks stupid including the clothes they're wearing

    *steeples fingers*
  • Donkey KongDonkey Kong and a cast of thousands Registered User regular
    I'll be honest, I think that tumblr is dumb.

    Most people look dumb when someone takes a picture of them, and especially when they take pictures of themselves. The google glasses (or wait, it's singular? google glass? whatever) have almost nothing to do with the people looking stupid in those photographs, they're bad pictures regardless.

    Frankly I don't think the device itself looks that bad.

    It looks like an accessory out of a mad for TV scifi movie. You could play it up for retro fashion like fingerless gloves or something but at the end of the day, it looks stupid. And it implies that you need a screen in front of your face 24/7. It's like walking around with a feedbag on. No matter how enjoyable or convenient, it implies a certain lack of self control.

    Really? I dunno, I guess I don't get the last part. Does anybody doubt that this is the future? Or rather, doesn't everybody want the equivalent of google glass but without the stupid looking accessory? Why does wearing it now imply a lack of self control, when presumably everybody is going to want it if/when it becomes contact lenses, i.e. less noticeable?

    People will notice that you seem to be in your own world. They'll be unsettled by the idea of these people possibly taking video. I don't think everybody will want it. I don't want it and I love technology.
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  • Irond WillIrond Will Super Moderator, Moderator mod
    applecare wont give me the info either

    satisfaction with company dropping rapidly

    is a quote to replace your hdd on your imac?

    they've been pretty good about getting back to us when we needed work done in the past.
  • PodlyPodly RUDEASS TITTIESRegistered User regular
    tough titty meat
    follow my music twitter soundcloud tumblr
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  • So It GoesSo It Goes Sip. Sip sip sippy. Dumb whores. Best friends.Registered User regular
    MrMister wrote: »
    I've been going to the gym with my friend recently, so in the morning I'll send her an e-mail asking when she wants to go. The title is always a gym-related pun or word substitution of some sort (kind of like a chat title, but with gym instead). Some of them so far:

    gymmocent until proven guilty
    gym crow
    bring out the gymp
    in the gym of thrones, you gym or you die
    gymstice as fairness
    turning and turning in the widening gymre, the falcon cannot gym the falconer

    where have youuuuuuuuu beeen
    NO.
  • FeralFeral Who needs a medical license when you've got style? Registered User regular
    So It Goes wrote: »
    MrMister wrote: »
    I've been going to the gym with my friend recently, so in the morning I'll send her an e-mail asking when she wants to go. The title is always a gym-related pun or word substitution of some sort (kind of like a chat title, but with gym instead). Some of them so far:

    gymmocent until proven guilty
    gym crow
    bring out the gymp
    in the gym of thrones, you gym or you die
    gymstice as fairness
    turning and turning in the widening gymre, the falcon cannot gym the falconer

    where have youuuuuuuuu beeen

    at the gym
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  • evilbobevilbob Registered User regular
    I think my blood pressure might be really high this morning. I can feel the blood pumping around my face.
  • ronyaronya hmmm over there!Registered User regular
    Kalkino wrote: »
    ronya wrote: »
    once nerve interfaces become non-terrible, I can guess quite a lot of people are going to want to dispense with large parts of their fleshy selves

    I misread this as "nerve stapling", Chairman Yang
    Learn to overcome the crass demands of flesh and bone, for they warp the matrix through which we perceive the world. Extend your awareness outward, beyond the self of body, to embrace the self of group and the self of humanity. The goals of the group and the greater race are transcendent, and to embrace them is to achieve enlightenment.
  • HamurabiHamurabi Registered User regular
    Kagera wrote: »
    Hamurabi wrote: »
    The online application for this chain of donut stores has fully twelve pages of 'do you agree with this statement' questions wtfffffff

    Donuts are delicious

    Strongly agree
    Agree
    Slightly agree
    No opinion
    Slightly disagree
    Disagree
    Strongly disagree

    I am not a terrorist

    Strongly agree
    Agree..

    See, they expect you to say "Strongly Disagree," because obviously a terrorist would never admit to being a terrorist, so that doesn't actually shake their suspicion. What you gotta do is be like, "Strongly Agree: Am Definitely a Terrorist." Then they have no choice but to be like, "Well, no self-respecting terrorist would ever admit to being a terrorist, so he's clearly not one."

    Outfoxing the White Man.
    MrMister wrote: »
    I've been going to the gym with my friend recently, so in the morning I'll send her an e-mail asking when she wants to go. The title is always a gym-related pun or word substitution of some sort (kind of like a chat title, but with gym instead). Some of them so far:

    gymmocent until proven guilty
    gym crow
    bring out the gymp
    in the gym of thrones, you gym or you die
    gymstice as fairness
    turning and turning in the widening gymre, the falcon cannot gym the falconer

    Now You're Just Arguing Gymantics.
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  • MrMisterMrMister 7 cards in hand Registered User regular
    So It Goes wrote: »
    MrMister wrote: »
    I've been going to the gym with my friend recently, so in the morning I'll send her an e-mail asking when she wants to go. The title is always a gym-related pun or word substitution of some sort (kind of like a chat title, but with gym instead). Some of them so far:

    gymmocent until proven guilty
    gym crow
    bring out the gymp
    in the gym of thrones, you gym or you die
    gymstice as fairness
    turning and turning in the widening gymre, the falcon cannot gym the falconer

    where have youuuuuuuuu beeen

    Here, there

    errywhere
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  • redxredx Dublin, CARegistered User regular
    Feral wrote: »
    I'll be honest, I think that tumblr is dumb.

    Most people look dumb when someone takes a picture of them, and especially when they take pictures of themselves. The google glasses (or wait, it's singular? google glass? whatever) have almost nothing to do with the people looking stupid in those photographs, they're bad pictures regardless.

    Frankly I don't think the device itself looks that bad.

    It looks like an accessory out of a mad for TV scifi movie. You could play it up for retro fashion like fingerless gloves or something but at the end of the day, it looks stupid. And it implies that you need a screen in front of your face 24/7. It's like walking around with a feedbag on. No matter how enjoyable or convenient, it implies a certain lack of self control.

    Really? I dunno, I guess I don't get the last part. Does anybody doubt that this is the future? Or rather, doesn't everybody want the equivalent of google glass but without the stupid looking accessory? Why does wearing it now imply a lack of self control, when presumably everybody is going to want it if/when it becomes contact lenses, i.e. less noticeable?

    The whole reason that bluetooth headsets are bad is because the social action of putting down your device or taking out your headset denotes that you're paying attention to what's happening around you.

    With Google Glass or a BT headset, there's no way for somebody interacting with you to know if you actually give a shit about what you're saying or if you're actually reading your email or listening to your boss.

    If you legitimately have a job that requires you to be standing up and walking around while connected to the Internet, then that's understandable. Maybe you're Agent Coulson.

    But most people don't have jobs like that; the BT/Glass wearer is actively choosing to be connected while buying groceries or ordering coffee. There's a dismissiveness to this; it's ostentatiously saying, "my job is way more important than my interactions with the people immediately around me."

    You can go outside and do healthy athletic things, while still dicking about getting your nerd on.

    I think it's fantastic and desperately want some.
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  • evilbobevilbob Registered User regular
    Organichu wrote: »
    what i want is a webcam shot of everyone who thinks google glass looks stupid including the clothes they're wearing

    *steeples fingers*

    Too bad, I don't have a webcam.
  • Irond WillIrond Will Super Moderator, Moderator mod
    I'll be honest, I think that tumblr is dumb.

    Most people look dumb when someone takes a picture of them, and especially when they take pictures of themselves. The google glasses (or wait, it's singular? google glass? whatever) have almost nothing to do with the people looking stupid in those photographs, they're bad pictures regardless.

    Frankly I don't think the device itself looks that bad.

    It looks like an accessory out of a mad for TV scifi movie. You could play it up for retro fashion like fingerless gloves or something but at the end of the day, it looks stupid. And it implies that you need a screen in front of your face 24/7. It's like walking around with a feedbag on. No matter how enjoyable or convenient, it implies a certain lack of self control.

    Really? I dunno, I guess I don't get the last part. Does anybody doubt that this is the future? Or rather, doesn't everybody want the equivalent of google glass but without the stupid looking accessory? Why does wearing it now imply a lack of self control, when presumably everybody is going to want it if/when it becomes contact lenses, i.e. less noticeable?

    People will notice that you seem to be in your own world. They'll be unsettled by the idea of these people possibly taking video. I don't think everybody will want it. I don't want it and I love technology.

    it doesn't really sound like it's for me, if for no other reason than the input is bound to be a goddamned nightmare of blinking and craning your neck.
  • matt has a problemmatt has a problem Six pack on a dick Registered User regular
    I'll be honest, I think that tumblr is dumb.

    Most people look dumb when someone takes a picture of them, and especially when they take pictures of themselves. The google glasses (or wait, it's singular? google glass? whatever) have almost nothing to do with the people looking stupid in those photographs, they're bad pictures regardless.

    Frankly I don't think the device itself looks that bad.

    It looks like an accessory out of a mad for TV scifi movie. You could play it up for retro fashion like fingerless gloves or something but at the end of the day, it looks stupid. And it implies that you need a screen in front of your face 24/7. It's like walking around with a feedbag on. No matter how enjoyable or convenient, it implies a certain lack of self control.

    Really? I dunno, I guess I don't get the last part. Does anybody doubt that this is the future? Or rather, doesn't everybody want the equivalent of google glass but without the stupid looking accessory? Why does wearing it now imply a lack of self control, when presumably everybody is going to want it if/when it becomes contact lenses, i.e. less noticeable?

    People will notice that you seem to be in your own world. They'll be unsettled by the idea of these people possibly taking video. I don't think everybody will want it. I don't want it and I love technology.

    It really serves no purpose at all. Everything it does, other devices do better already. There is no reason at all to have a constant web-connected visual overlay every waking moment.

    I can see it being an excellent device in a commercial or industrial setting, a personal HUD displaying real-time information for manufacturing jobs, stock levels etc, but just walking around with it in your everyday life is completely excessive.
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  • MortiousMortious Move to New Zealand Move to New ZealandRegistered User regular
    Feral wrote: »
    I'll be honest, I think that tumblr is dumb.

    Most people look dumb when someone takes a picture of them, and especially when they take pictures of themselves. The google glasses (or wait, it's singular? google glass? whatever) have almost nothing to do with the people looking stupid in those photographs, they're bad pictures regardless.

    Frankly I don't think the device itself looks that bad.

    It looks like an accessory out of a mad for TV scifi movie. You could play it up for retro fashion like fingerless gloves or something but at the end of the day, it looks stupid. And it implies that you need a screen in front of your face 24/7. It's like walking around with a feedbag on. No matter how enjoyable or convenient, it implies a certain lack of self control.

    Really? I dunno, I guess I don't get the last part. Does anybody doubt that this is the future? Or rather, doesn't everybody want the equivalent of google glass but without the stupid looking accessory? Why does wearing it now imply a lack of self control, when presumably everybody is going to want it if/when it becomes contact lenses, i.e. less noticeable?

    The whole reason that bluetooth headsets are bad is because the social action of putting down your device or taking out your headset denotes that you're paying attention to what's happening around you.

    With Google Glass or a BT headset, there's no way for somebody interacting with you to know if you actually give a shit about what you're saying or if you're actually reading your email or listening to your boss.

    If you legitimately have a job that requires you to be standing up and walking around while connected to the Internet, then that's understandable. Maybe you're Agent Coulson.

    But most people don't have jobs like that; the BT/Glass wearer is actively choosing to be connected while buying groceries or ordering coffee. There's a dismissiveness to this; it's ostentatiously saying, "my job is way more important than my interactions with the people immediately around me."

    Finally a way to indicate to people that I don't want to interact with them, without me actually having to interact with them.
  • SammyFSammyF Registered User regular
    edited May 2013
    Hamurabi wrote: »
    I like to understand other people's feelings.*
    SD D N A SA
    Most people are hard workers.*
    SD D N A SA
    Organizations should be logical.*
    SD D N A SA
    Safe routines bore me.*
    SD D N A SA
    I am always happy.*
    SD D N A SA
    I am able to adapt quickly to a variety of work situations.*
    SD D N A SA
    Coworkers would describe me as someone who likes to work alone.*
    SD D N A SA
    Over the course of the day, I can experience many mood changes.*
    SD D N A SA
    I will spend personal time if necessary to make up for mistakes I have made.*
    SD D N A SA
    If I am given the responsibility for a task, then I should be held accountable for the outcomes.*
    SD D N A SA
    It is important that ideas at work include practical ways to implement them.*
    SD D N A SA
    To motivate people to improve their performance, it is more important to tell them what they did wrong than what they did right.*
    SD D N A SA
    When making a major purchase, I often spend months to learn all the issues.*
    SD D N A SA
    Before I try something new I have to be assured that it is safe.*
    SD D N A SA
    Whether I succeed or fail is ultimately left up to me.*
    SD D N A SA
    Coworkers will always select me to be the leader of the group.*
    SD D N A SA
    I always come up with the best solution to a problem.*
    SD D N A SA
    It is okay to bend the rules in order to do a better job.*
    SD D N A SA
    It is important to follow directions from supervisors even when you disagree with them.*
    SD D N A SA
    One of the reasons I will work hard is because I want to get promoted into higher-level jobs.*
    SD D N A SA

    I worked for a hotel chain one year that had questions like these.

    They should have only had one question: I like to steal money from the register when I think no one is looking and flee the state. SD D N A SA.

    Alt post: for the question about whether you experience many mood changes during the day, circle all the bubbles and erase them again multiple times.
    SammyF on
  • syndalissyndalis Aballah Can Tah Advancing the Human ConditionRegistered User regular
    I totally want google glass, but I want it in 4-5 generations, when it works seamlessly with other devices (like iPhones, iPads, Windows Phone, etc), can disappear into the frames of a pair of normal looking glasses, and can be controlled by means other than touching my head and talking to myself on the street like a homeless person.

    Like, leave those as options for when I'm driving, but let me use my Android / iPhone to send commands to the thing.
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  • OrganichuOrganichu Registered User regular
    yeah it is cool to watch snap-out UIs and voice commands in minority report or whatever but i'm not interested in participating in the century between now and then of clunkiness and tedium
  • ThomamelasThomamelas Registered User regular
    @jacobkosh, @bogart

    The Silver Samurai poster for The Wolverine.

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    There's no living with a killing. There's no goin' back from one. Right or wrong, it's a brand... a brand sticks. There's no goin' back. Now you run on home to your mother and tell her... tell her everything's alright. And there aren't any more guns in the valley.
  • skippydumptruckskippydumptruck FAK U HODGEHEG Registered User regular
    applecare wont give me the info either

    satisfaction with company dropping rapidly

    From 2011 but

    https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3035552?start=0&tstart=0
    To follow this up I went into the Apple store and they quoted me £200 to replace it.
    I've seen rates from $150 to $600 USD.

    For a 2011 Macbook pro my boss' son got quoted "around $400" just recently to replace a 500 gig drive, but that was from an authorized repair place, not an actual Apple store.

    googling, i've seen 250-300

    fff
  • ElldrenElldren Registered User regular
    Organichu wrote: »
    what i want is a webcam shot of everyone who thinks google glass looks stupid including the clothes they're wearing

    *steeples fingers*

    fuck no

    Like I wear clothes at home
  • HonkHonk Registered User regular
    Google glass with the shades attached looks decent for sports glasses or w/e. But the sans glass version is prohibitively ugly. Subject to change I am sure.
  • syndalissyndalis Aballah Can Tah Advancing the Human ConditionRegistered User regular
    edited May 2013
    applecare wont give me the info either

    satisfaction with company dropping rapidly

    From 2011 but

    https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3035552?start=0&tstart=0
    To follow this up I went into the Apple store and they quoted me £200 to replace it.
    I've seen rates from $150 to $600 USD.

    For a 2011 Macbook pro my boss' son got quoted "around $400" just recently to replace a 500 gig drive, but that was from an authorized repair place, not an actual Apple store.

    googling, i've seen 250-300

    fff
    So 50-100 for the drive depending on build quality, and 150 for the labor.

    It's expensive, but not totally unreasonable for a service center.

    edit: I also assume they will try and mount the drive and recover your data for that price; thats what apple stores usually do.
    syndalis on
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  • MimMim Registered User regular
    Elldren wrote: »
    Organichu wrote: »
    what i want is a webcam shot of everyone who thinks google glass looks stupid including the clothes they're wearing

    *steeples fingers*

    fuck no

    Like I wear clothes at home

    As soon as my period ends, it's naked time all over this house while I clean.
  • KalkinoKalkino Buttons LondresRegistered User regular
    ronya wrote: »
    Kalkino wrote: »
    ronya wrote: »
    once nerve interfaces become non-terrible, I can guess quite a lot of people are going to want to dispense with large parts of their fleshy selves

    I misread this as "nerve stapling", Chairman Yang
    Learn to overcome the crass demands of flesh and bone, for they warp the matrix through which we perceive the world. Extend your awareness outward, beyond the self of body, to embrace the self of group and the self of humanity. The goals of the group and the greater race are transcendent, and to embrace them is to achieve enlightenment.

    The Foreman and I disagree

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  • GooeyGooey Registered User regular
    wait what happened on 4/19/13

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  • Casual EddyCasual Eddy Registered User regular
    neat an interview for an editorial asst position this thursday

    and it would be close to my new place
  • ArchArch Trust me, I'm a scientist Registered User regular
    edited May 2013
    Elldren wrote: »
    Organichu wrote: »
    what i want is a webcam shot of everyone who thinks google glass looks stupid including the clothes they're wearing

    *steeples fingers*

    fuck no

    Like I wear clothes

    Fix'd for my state
    Arch on
  • ThomamelasThomamelas Registered User regular
    I'll be honest, I think that tumblr is dumb.

    Most people look dumb when someone takes a picture of them, and especially when they take pictures of themselves. The google glasses (or wait, it's singular? google glass? whatever) have almost nothing to do with the people looking stupid in those photographs, they're bad pictures regardless.

    Frankly I don't think the device itself looks that bad.

    It looks like an accessory out of a mad for TV scifi movie. You could play it up for retro fashion like fingerless gloves or something but at the end of the day, it looks stupid. And it implies that you need a screen in front of your face 24/7. It's like walking around with a feedbag on. No matter how enjoyable or convenient, it implies a certain lack of self control.

    Really? I dunno, I guess I don't get the last part. Does anybody doubt that this is the future? Or rather, doesn't everybody want the equivalent of google glass but without the stupid looking accessory? Why does wearing it now imply a lack of self control, when presumably everybody is going to want it if/when it becomes contact lenses, i.e. less noticeable?

    People will notice that you seem to be in your own world. They'll be unsettled by the idea of these people possibly taking video. I don't think everybody will want it. I don't want it and I love technology.

    It really serves no purpose at all. Everything it does, other devices do better already. There is no reason at all to have a constant web-connected visual overlay every waking moment.

    I can see it being an excellent device in a commercial or industrial setting, a personal HUD displaying real-time information for manufacturing jobs, stock levels etc, but just walking around with it in your everyday life is completely excessive.

    Pushing video feeds to security staff.
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  • KageraKagera Registered User regular
    Gympocalypse now
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  • matt has a problemmatt has a problem Six pack on a dick Registered User regular
    applecare wont give me the info either

    satisfaction with company dropping rapidly

    From 2011 but

    https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3035552?start=0&tstart=0
    To follow this up I went into the Apple store and they quoted me £200 to replace it.
    I've seen rates from $150 to $600 USD.

    For a 2011 Macbook pro my boss' son got quoted "around $400" just recently to replace a 500 gig drive, but that was from an authorized repair place, not an actual Apple store.

    googling, i've seen 250-300

    fff

    You can always search iFixit for your year and see if they have a guide, see how hard it'd be to do it yourself.
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  • TavTav Registered User regular
    i have what i feel is a reasonable question

    WHO HAS SUCTION CUPS JUST LYING AROUND?
  • HamurabiHamurabi Registered User regular
    evilbob wrote: »
    Organichu wrote: »
    what i want is a webcam shot of everyone who thinks google glass looks stupid including the clothes they're wearing

    *steeples fingers*

    Too bad, I don't have a webcam.

    I'm on a day trip atm.

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  • skippydumptruckskippydumptruck FAK U HODGEHEG Registered User regular
    syndalis wrote: »
    applecare wont give me the info either

    satisfaction with company dropping rapidly

    From 2011 but

    https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3035552?start=0&tstart=0
    To follow this up I went into the Apple store and they quoted me £200 to replace it.
    I've seen rates from $150 to $600 USD.

    For a 2011 Macbook pro my boss' son got quoted "around $400" just recently to replace a 500 gig drive, but that was from an authorized repair place, not an actual Apple store.

    googling, i've seen 250-300

    fff
    So 50-100 for the drive depending on build quality, and 150 for the labor.

    It's expensive, but not totally unreasonable for a service center.

    edit: I also assume they will try and mount the drive and recover your data for that price; thats what apple stores usually do.

    id rather spend 300 toward a new computer I think
  • FeralFeral Who needs a medical license when you've got style? Registered User regular
    Tav wrote: »
    i have what i feel is a reasonable question

    WHO HAS SUCTION CUPS JUST LYING AROUND?

    lots of people?
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  • ronyaronya hmmm over there!Registered User regular
    augmented reality whilst doing paperwork would be nice
  • visiblehowlvisiblehowl Registered User regular
    Feral wrote: »
    I'll be honest, I think that tumblr is dumb.

    Most people look dumb when someone takes a picture of them, and especially when they take pictures of themselves. The google glasses (or wait, it's singular? google glass? whatever) have almost nothing to do with the people looking stupid in those photographs, they're bad pictures regardless.

    Frankly I don't think the device itself looks that bad.

    It looks like an accessory out of a mad for TV scifi movie. You could play it up for retro fashion like fingerless gloves or something but at the end of the day, it looks stupid. And it implies that you need a screen in front of your face 24/7. It's like walking around with a feedbag on. No matter how enjoyable or convenient, it implies a certain lack of self control.

    Really? I dunno, I guess I don't get the last part. Does anybody doubt that this is the future? Or rather, doesn't everybody want the equivalent of google glass but without the stupid looking accessory? Why does wearing it now imply a lack of self control, when presumably everybody is going to want it if/when it becomes contact lenses, i.e. less noticeable?

    The whole reason that bluetooth headsets are bad is because the social action of putting down your device or taking out your headset denotes that you're paying attention to what's happening around you.

    With Google Glass or a BT headset, there's no way for somebody interacting with you to know if you actually give a shit about what you're saying or if you're actually reading your email or listening to your boss.

    If you legitimately have a job that requires you to be standing up and walking around while connected to the Internet, then that's understandable. Maybe you're Agent Coulson.

    But most people don't have jobs like that; the BT/Glass wearer is actively choosing to be connected while buying groceries or ordering coffee. There's a dismissiveness to this; it's ostentatiously saying, "my job is way more important than my interactions with the people immediately around me."

    I guess there needs to be a shift in social norms, then. I mean, I can't tell you how many emails I get from older relatives that have pictures of kids typing on their phones in various situations going "KIDS TODAY HAVE NO RESPECT".

    The problem is that this is the direction we're headed. We're already halfway there with our smartphones. "Cell phones" are a different animal than "smartphones". Pulling out your smartphone to look something up is a lot different from pulling out your cell phone to check a text message, although honestly I don't find that to be that heinous either.

    The fact is we're moving towards a society where everything is more and more interconnected, and I think it's something people are just going to have to get used to. Twenty years from now when everybody has google contacts, people aren't going to think twice about it.

    Also, I don't think the mere act of wearing the glasses means you are being ostentatious or dismissive. I can still show that I'm engaged with whoever I'm talking to by, you know, being engaging. At Starbucks I can still say "Hi how are you?" to the cashier or the barista or whatever and maintain a conversation. If I choose to stay wrapped up in my google glass instead of interacting with them, that's what makes me dismissive, not wearing the glasses.
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  • ronyaronya hmmm over there!Registered User regular
    Tav wrote: »
    i have what i feel is a reasonable question

    WHO HAS SUCTION CUPS JUST LYING AROUND?

    .. I've got one. It's meant for installing light-bulbs.

  • visiblehowlvisiblehowl Registered User regular
    That post was kind of disjointed, I was sort of mind-dumping, but hopefully my main point got across.
    "I believe in evidence. I believe in observation, measurement, and reasoning, confirmed by independent observers. I'll believe anything, no matter how wild and ridiculous, if there is evidence for it."

    "Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do."
  • TehSlothTehSloth On that ass like Charmin Registered User regular
    Hmm, poop, looks like when I get home I need to actually replace my laptop screen. I've had a replacement for a while but I need to actually install it.

    I also need to reformat the drive since I need to use it for actual stuff at this training thing tomorrow.
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