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  • TavTav Registered User regular
    i don't think i've ever seen a suction cup in real life
  • ArchArch Trust me, I'm a scientist Registered User regular
    Tav wrote: »
    i have what i feel is a reasonable question

    WHO HAS SUCTION CUPS JUST LYING AROUND?

    The suction cup is my

    well

    you know
  • MortiousMortious Move to New Zealand Move to New ZealandRegistered User regular
    Thomamelas 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?

    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.

    Telling you people's names during social gatherings.
  • LudiousLudious Registered User regular
    who has two thumbs and a FICO over 800
    this guy
    Google Talk: ludious83 My Blog: The Caustic Geek
  • HappylilElfHappylilElf Registered User regular
    edited May 2013
    I'm with Tav on this one.

    I mean, I got nothing against suction cups

    But, uh, why would you have a supply just randomly laying around?

    *edit*
    Obviously this doesn't apply to 'Chu
    HappylilElf on
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  • OrganichuOrganichu Registered User regular
    Tav wrote: »
    i don't think i've ever seen a suction cup in real life

    i have one on my nuts right now
  • HamurabiHamurabi Registered User regular
    ronya wrote: »
    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.

    A likely story.

    The mystery of who's been breaking into well-guarded safes in local highrises is solved.
    SammyF wrote: »
    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.

    It really is fucking absurd.
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  • FeralFeral Who needs a medical license when you've got style? Registered User regular
    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.

    I don't find it to be heinous, because the phone (usually) eventually goes away.

    If somebody spends an entire dinner with me on their phone, though, I'm likely to get a bit irritated.

    I don't think I'm unusual in that regard.
    I am comforted by Richard Dawkins’ theory of memes. Those are mental units: thoughts, ideas, gestures, notions, songs, beliefs, rhymes, ideals, teachings, sayings, phrases, clichés that move from mind to mind as genes move from body to body. After a lifetime of writing, teaching, broadcasting and telling too many jokes, I will leave behind more memes than many. They will all also eventually die, but so it goes. - Roger Ebert, I Do Not Fear Death
  • Irond WillIrond Will Super Moderator, Moderator mod
    neat an interview for an editorial asst position this thursday

    and it would be close to my new place

    wait are you actually moving out?

    whoa
  • GooeyGooey Registered User regular
    google glass is the silliest thing ever

    it will be the next thing to help you visually identify douchebags

    first it was phone holsters
    then it was BT headsets
    then it was people who take pictures with iPads
    now it will be Google Glass wearers
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  • evilbobevilbob Registered User regular
    I am not checking my phone right now. That really horrible not checking your phone where it's all you want to do but you know that every time you check it without seeing a new message you'll die a little.
  • spool32spool32 Contrary Library Registered User regular
    Feral wrote: »

    google glass is this decade's bluetooth headset

    Another decade where idgaf what the tech makes me look like!
    Successful Kickstarter get! Drop by Bare Mettle Entertainment if you'd like to see what we're making.
  • Irond WillIrond Will Super Moderator, Moderator mod
    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

    i assume you're going to need to pay for data recovery anyhow?
  • BeNarwhalBeNarwhal The Gatekeeper of D&D [chat] Toronto, CanadaRegistered User regular
    [chat]ters the US and Canada, Mother's Day is this coming Sunday.

    What is a good Mother's Day gift? I would cook, but that's what I do anyway! Also, I work on Mother's Day, feeding other people and their mothers.

    Things my mom enjoys include red wine, gardening, food, reading, exercise and grandchildren.
  • FeralFeral Who needs a medical license when you've got style? Registered User regular
    Tav wrote: »
    i don't think i've ever seen a suction cup in real life

    every supermarket, drug store, hardware store, and housewares store in the US sells these

    SuctionCupHooks_l.jpg
    I am comforted by Richard Dawkins’ theory of memes. Those are mental units: thoughts, ideas, gestures, notions, songs, beliefs, rhymes, ideals, teachings, sayings, phrases, clichés that move from mind to mind as genes move from body to body. After a lifetime of writing, teaching, broadcasting and telling too many jokes, I will leave behind more memes than many. They will all also eventually die, but so it goes. - Roger Ebert, I Do Not Fear Death
  • matt has a problemmatt has a problem Six pack on a dick Registered User regular
    Hamurabi wrote: »
    ronya wrote: »
    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.

    A likely story.

    The mystery of who's been breaking into well-guarded safes in local highrises is solved.
    SammyF wrote: »
    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.

    It really is fucking absurd.

    It's a psychological profile. I bet it's Unicru, too.
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  • ronyaronya hmmm over there!Registered User regular
    Oh my god, I've finally experienced a legit use-case for having three monitors
  • HamurabiHamurabi Registered User regular
    Ludious wrote: »
    who has two thumbs and a FICO over 800
    this guy

    ABOLISH THE CREDIT SCORE SYSTEM.



    At some point in the near future.
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  • TL DRTL DR Registered User regular
    Feral, were you for reals about openings on the Best Coast?

    Been thinking about it and came to the conclusion that it's not out of the question and I owe it to myself to explore the options and see what's out there, what percentage would be sysadmin versus helpdesk versus nude housekeeping, etc etc
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  • ThomamelasThomamelas Registered User regular
    Really I'm just in favor of making security guards look as dumb as possible.
    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
    Irond Will wrote: »
    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

    i assume you're going to need to pay for data recovery anyhow?

    I dont think so?

    I have shit backed up on time machine presumably there is a way to get important files off that if I go to windows

    I guess I should google that
  • visiblehowlvisiblehowl Registered User regular
    Feral wrote: »
    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.

    I don't find it to be heinous, because the phone (usually) eventually goes away.

    If somebody spends an entire dinner with me on their phone, though, I'm likely to get a bit irritated.

    I don't think I'm unusual in that regard.

    Yeah, I don't disagree with you on that.

    Honestly I'm not sure where I was going with that particular tangent.
    "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."
  • ronyaronya hmmm over there!Registered User regular
    Thomamelas wrote: »
    Really I'm just in favor of making security guards look as dumb as possible.

    360camera_mini.jpg
  • GooeyGooey Registered User regular
    spool32 wrote: »
    Feral wrote: »

    google glass is this decade's bluetooth headset

    Another decade where idgaf what the tech makes me look like!

    do you wear tommy bahama shirts and socks with sandals

    do you eat at tgi fridays and order drinks off the drink menu

    do you drive a minivan
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  • TTODewbackTTODewback Pink haired tyrant On my throne of forum faces.Registered User regular
    I haven't been watching LP's this entire time
    DONT JUDGE MEEEE
    WARGGLELELELELE
  • spool32spool32 Contrary Library Registered User regular
    Mortious wrote: »
    Thomamelas 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?

    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.

    Telling you people's names during social gatherings.

    Walking directions.

    Eyewitness accounts.

    Identifying part numbers by barcode scanning things you look at!!! Man, that will be fucking sweet. Just look at shit in a store and the Amazon price pops up in the air beside it.

    Successful Kickstarter get! Drop by Bare Mettle Entertainment if you'd like to see what we're making.
  • MortiousMortious Move to New Zealand Move to New ZealandRegistered User regular
    Thomamelas wrote: »
    Really I'm just in favor of making security guards look as dumb as possible.

    flashing-police-hat-1.jpg
  • CorehealerCorehealer The Apothecary Your Dark Descent FriendRegistered User regular
    Mim wrote: »
    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.

    I prefer boxer briefs and a comfy shirt usually, but yeah.
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  • FeralFeral Who needs a medical license when you've got style? Registered User regular
    TL DR wrote: »
    Feral, were you for reals about openings on the Best Coast?

    Been thinking about it and came to the conclusion that it's not out of the question and I owe it to myself to explore the options and see what's out there, what percentage would be sysadmin versus helpdesk versus nude housekeeping, etc etc

    yep, for reals

    Don't get me wrong - I wouldn't be hiring you and I can't promise you a job

    but I have been turning down interviews around here
    I am comforted by Richard Dawkins’ theory of memes. Those are mental units: thoughts, ideas, gestures, notions, songs, beliefs, rhymes, ideals, teachings, sayings, phrases, clichés that move from mind to mind as genes move from body to body. After a lifetime of writing, teaching, broadcasting and telling too many jokes, I will leave behind more memes than many. They will all also eventually die, but so it goes. - Roger Ebert, I Do Not Fear Death
  • LudiousLudious Registered User regular
    edited May 2013
    I think the thing we will bitch about in our old age (Young Gen Xers and Mellinials) will be privacy. Equality and all of that stuff will just about have sorted itself out (not completely, never completely).

    The fact of the matter is, anonymity is disappearing. Privacy is vanishing. Is it right? No. I hate it. But it's vanishing. You know how hard it is to stay anonymous? Impossible. If someone wants to Dox you, they fucking will. It's terrifying, but there it is. Stuff like Google Glass, whether it's a fad or an evolution, just goes to show that. Privacy as we know it, is done.
    Ludious on
    Google Talk: ludious83 My Blog: The Caustic Geek
  • matt has a problemmatt has a problem Six pack on a dick Registered User regular
    ronya wrote: »
    Thomamelas wrote: »
    Really I'm just in favor of making security guards look as dumb as possible.

    360camera_mini.jpg

    Why... why is he looking up at the cameras? Is he making sure it's still on his head?
    h1DI1.jpg
  • skippydumptruckskippydumptruck FAK U HODGEHEG Registered User regular
  • FeralFeral Who needs a medical license when you've got style? Registered User regular
    spool32 wrote: »
    Mortious wrote: »
    Thomamelas 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?

    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.

    Telling you people's names during social gatherings.

    Walking directions.

    Eyewitness accounts.

    Identifying part numbers by barcode scanning things you look at!!! Man, that will be fucking sweet. Just look at shit in a store and the Amazon price pops up in the air beside it.

    your wife walks out of the shower

    google image search matches her with porn pictures you never knew she took
    I am comforted by Richard Dawkins’ theory of memes. Those are mental units: thoughts, ideas, gestures, notions, songs, beliefs, rhymes, ideals, teachings, sayings, phrases, clichés that move from mind to mind as genes move from body to body. After a lifetime of writing, teaching, broadcasting and telling too many jokes, I will leave behind more memes than many. They will all also eventually die, but so it goes. - Roger Ebert, I Do Not Fear Death
  • HappylilElfHappylilElf Registered User regular
    For "I Am Not a Terrorist" there needs to be an option for "Wow this is the dumbest fucking thing are you kidding me who even thought of this because fire them"
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  • spool32spool32 Contrary Library Registered User regular
    Gooey wrote: »
    spool32 wrote: »
    Feral wrote: »

    google glass is this decade's bluetooth headset

    Another decade where idgaf what the tech makes me look like!

    do you wear tommy bahama shirts and socks with sandals

    do you eat at tgi fridays and order drinks off the drink menu

    do you drive a minivan

    No

    They closed the TGIF, those fuckers

    Yes

    Successful Kickstarter get! Drop by Bare Mettle Entertainment if you'd like to see what we're making.
  • evilbobevilbob Registered User regular
    ronya wrote: »
    Thomamelas wrote: »
    Really I'm just in favor of making security guards look as dumb as possible.

    360camera_mini.jpg

    That looks like a great way to strengthen neck muscles.
  • TavTav Registered User regular
    edited May 2013
    I hate people who share that "smart phones are making dumb people" picture on facebook

    they are either annoying hippies or people who claim to be part of anonymous
    Tav on
  • matt has a problemmatt has a problem Six pack on a dick Registered User regular
    Feral wrote: »
    spool32 wrote: »
    Mortious wrote: »
    Thomamelas 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?

    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.

    Telling you people's names during social gatherings.

    Walking directions.

    Eyewitness accounts.

    Identifying part numbers by barcode scanning things you look at!!! Man, that will be fucking sweet. Just look at shit in a store and the Amazon price pops up in the air beside it.

    your wife walks out of the shower

    google image search matches her with porn pictures you never knew she took

    Well now I want one.
    h1DI1.jpg
  • spool32spool32 Contrary Library Registered User regular
    IDGAF WHAT GOOGLE GLASS LOOKS LIKE! :)

    Straight up analyzing your heartrate and shit while I'm talking to you. Glass is tracking your eyes, telling me when you're lying.

    Fuck the haters, give me augmented reality.
    Successful Kickstarter get! Drop by Bare Mettle Entertainment if you'd like to see what we're making.
  • CorehealerCorehealer The Apothecary Your Dark Descent FriendRegistered User regular
    ronya wrote: »
    Thomamelas wrote: »
    Really I'm just in favor of making security guards look as dumb as possible.

    360camera_mini.jpg

    Why... why is he looking up at the cameras? Is he making sure it's still on his head?

    He's thinking about what he wants to take pics of next.
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