The $%*! frustration thread

[Shadow D. Darkman]

STOP THIS FOOLISHNESS!!!

[KebreI]

Shadow is right.

[HyperNerd]

Hmph. You are all fools. I regret nothing, all of you.

*POOF*

Hey guys, what just happened?

[chrono eric]

Shadow is right.

What, so when Shadow says it people listen but when I say it nobody does? 

That's somewhat ironic.

[Shadow D. Darkman]

Hmph. You are all fools. I regret nothing, all of you.

*POOF*

Hey guys, what just happened?

The fuck? Hyper, don't be in-character when you answer this, but WTF did you just do?

Shadow is right.

What, so when Shadow says it people listen but when I say it nobody does? 

That's somewhat ironic.

*shrug* I was just pissed. That's all.

[HyperNerd]

I was bored so I pretended to be Magus. Very Bored.

[Ramsus]

OK, OK, I confess. My name is not really Eric. It is Justin. And not only Justin, but the one and only Justin to which Shadow holds a grudge against. I tried to conceal my identity, but alas - my conscience got the best of me.

/end sarcasm

See how pointless it is to make assumptions about people on the internet Shadow? Even if he was the Justin that you apparently hate, who cares? The internet is like a vast sea of anonymity. I could really be Mr. fucking T for all anyone knows.

I'm not sure whats more foolish, assuming someone may be the person that you despise because he shares the same first name, or everyone else starting an argument over it, thus perpetuating further nonsense. That's a rhetorical statement of course, since I assume everyone takes equal blame for the idiocy that abounds in this thread -  not Shadow alone, because I'm an equal-opportunity offender.

Actually, the information logged on the server regarding IP addresses, e-mail addresses, passwords, usernames, and access times can be used to create a pretty informative profile of a single person that can then be used with Google to track a person down.

Which is why I'm tempted to start my own 4chan style anonymous board, simply because the information you could collect on people under the guise of perceived anonymity is pretty large, and as long as you don't let on that you're using that information, they'll even go so far as post self-incriminating content that you can later use against them.

So always consider before you register on a site, "Do I want to trust the person running this place?"

[chrono eric]

Hmm, shows why I went to college for biochem and not for computer science. 

Or english. Who needs english? I'm never going to england.

I'm a tad computer illiterate when it comes to stuff like that.

[Ramsus]

Some cross-discipline knowledge is essential to creating new breakthroughs in technology and society. Otherwise, you're stuck in your box.

As far as computers go, access to most information now and in the future requires a working knowledge of how computers and networks work, so that you can easily adapt to changes in superficial aspects like user interfaces and file formats or network systems. It's like the advantage of knowing how to use books and a library while at a university.

Also, the ability to use computers to analyze, filter, and visualize large quantities of (mostly unfocused and probably irrelevant) data or run simulations to test models or evolve new ones comes in handy.

But it's one of those things, it's only really useful if you have something else you want to do with it. In other words, it's not the computer science guys who need their skills the most, but other people in other fields.

[chrono eric]

Yes I agree. I try to be as well-rounded as I possibly can, but the fact remains that life is short and you can only stuff so much relevant information into your brain. So the relevant information I choose to stuff into my brain is the knowledge immediately useful to me in the present and which will be useful to me in the future - biology, chemistry, medicine. These three fields alone hold so much information that a person could study one for an entire lifetime and never learn everything.

I guess I always figured if I needed computer help I'd hire a tech guy. That's why specialists exist. People often say the stuff I have devoted my life to is "over their heads", but to me - much computer-tech knowledge is over my head. Everyone has something they are especially good at.

[BROJ]

I guess I always figured if I needed computer help I'd hire a tech guy. That's why specialists exist. People often say the stuff I have devoted my life to is "over their heads", but to me - much computer-tech knowledge is over my head. Everyone has something they are especially good at.

True enough, however on the whole, one needs to have some level of knowledge in the aforementioned specialist's field. This is to make sure that one can communicate effectively with said specialists in order to get projects done.

[chrono eric]

True enough, however on the whole, one needs to have some level of knowledge in the aforementioned specialist's field. This is to make sure that one can communicate effectively with said specialists in order to get projects done.

I agree, some level of comprehension is necessary. But I, for example, am going into the medical field - and I wouldn't expect someone to fully comprehend necessary medical treatment. I would expect them to understand that it is necessary, and for what reasons it is.

[Ramsus]

You don't have to know everything. The important thing is that you know a friend -- not some hired specialist or an acquaintance, but a friend -- who understands things that you don't, and that you communicate with them openly and frequently.

There are a lot of things that Zeality thought would have been impossible or difficult to do with the site, but that I recognized as actually being rather simple fixes. Not because of some skill difference, but because I was simply more familiar with what makes something easy or difficult to do when it comes to computers.

That's also why I try to get people to make wish lists of features or fixes for the site, without making any consideration about how difficult or troublesome it would be to make happen.

So finally the last ingredient for creating new breakthroughs is to share your problems. Sometimes someone else may have the solution you never knew existed.

Computers are a special case though because in the future, it'll be easy to fall behind the power curve of information and technology if you don't understand the basics of computers and can write your own code. After all, computers and the Internet aren't a field of science, but tools to manage the flow of information -- to manage communication.

[teaflower]

You know what frustrates me right now?

Cat food.

Because wet cat food has a tendency to reek, we usually get the dry kind. Here's the problem, though. Our cat, Maud, can't seem to chew the dry food. So she sort of munches at it, loks over her shoulder for Rosie, then keeps munching. Rosie devours it.

Now, once we run out of dry, before we next go shopping we use wet cat food. Both of them love the stuff. Here's a couple of problems, though. When they crap it out, it stinks worse than when it came in. They fight over it. You can't overfill their bowl so that you don't necessarily have to feed them in the morning. And the worst part?

It comes in cans.

I can open the cans up, but I can't get that chickeny goodness out of there. So this morning I tried pulling it out with the lid, right? Lid is sharp. Lid cut my pinky. And now I can barely do anything with said pinky. And that includes the p key, punctuation on that side of the keyboard, and hitting the enter key. Fun, eh?

[HyperNerd]

We have THREE Cats, and one attacks the others all the time, one thinks shes a dog and Jumps into walls for no apparent reason (Really!) and the other one is really old and just sits on the couch all day  dropping cat hair on  it.