Frostburg

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Yeah, I also find facebook to be somewhat anti-social. I don't think it was ever intended to be a website meant for socialization. It is really meant for "networking." If I want to be social, I will call up one of my friends and go out and do something. You can't really do that on facebook. Facebook is great for sharing ideas and keeping in touch with long distance friends who you do not speak to regularly on the phone or email.

This is why I only access facebook through a computer. Not only that, I don't have the ability to access facebook through my phone, or I just don't know how. ---------- Post added at 05:08 AM ---------- Previous post was at 04:57 AM ---------- Yeah, it will make it easier for insurgents to get phones to use as triggering devices. However, atleast most military vehicles are equipped with some sort of radio wave type jamming devices. But there are a trillion other ingenious ways to set off IEDs. I mean they are virtually impossible to spot... Hidden inside dead animals or soda cans, loose wiring strewn about, simple pressure plates, command wire, loose wire, "christmas light" wire, extremely rarely timer... etc. But cellphone detonated ones are especially dangerous because besides jamming the signal, there's not a whole lot you can do to prevent detonation unless you have an idea where the trigger man is located. But the military is aware of these techniques and has implemented considerable time, training, and energy to counter them. These countermeasures do work most of the time. ---------- Post added at 05:08 AM ---------- Previous post was at 05:08 AM ---------- But this is a discussion of facebook, not issues with counter-insurgency.

Has anyone tried to create a new facebook account lately? I tried to create a new one today. It asked me to provide a cellphone number to verify my identity. I have created facebook pages in the past and have never had this come up. Facebook's statement is that this is a new rule they are implementing to reduce scams and spamming on facebook. Basically to ensure that everyone on facebook is a real person. They also said they wanted to ensure that everyone only has one facebook page. Well, I am not stupid enough to provide facebook with my cellphone number, so I immediately went out to walmart, and paid cash for a prepaid cellphone(TracFone) as well as additional minutes(which I also paid cash for). I was not asked for ID, and I easily activated and tested my new phone's ability to send and receive texts and calls without giving out any personal info. Not even an email address. Well, I got my new facebook account activated, anonymously. I understand the desire to get rid of the scammers and crap, however, I still cannot support this policy. It is an obvious breach of privacy. Even though facebook assured me that my cellphone number would not be given out for any reason without my permission, I was still very annoyed that the number to my new anonymous prepaid phone was listed in my personal info. I gave it out for verification purposes ONLY. Including it in my personal info only supports the idea that facebook is just greedy for more personal info on its users. Just another way to get personal info... assholes! If you really want to reduce or eliminate scammers or spam, use your noodle Mark! Seriously. I'm sure a smart and crafty man such as yourself can think of a way without further invading honest people's privacy. Craigslist does this as well. I understand craigslist is scammer/spammer paradise, but you guys are gonna lose alot of users with policies like these. Has anyone tried making a new facebook account lately? I want to hear other's experiences and thoughts.

That would actually be a nice slogan. It would increase sales from people like me, and all the grandpas and grandmas and young girls who all probably know a little more than me, lol. It would, however, embarrass all the computer gurus who own apples for different reasons.

I was just wondering if anyone else has had this happen to them. Just to go back to my example of trying to implement bullets in MsWord. I have come to learn that there are two types of computer "experts" to be found in typical college dorms. Ones who truly ARE computer experts, and those who only have a moderate level of understanding of how to efficiently do things, or they just prefer to do things the complicated way. When trying to get the bullets in my paper, I finally found a guy who had time to help. He gladly came into my room and investigated the problem, assuring me that it would be an easy fix. Well he sits at my computer and starts to play with the settings. Anyways, after a several minutes of looking around he apparently found some backwards way of getting the bullets on the page by manipulating some settings that were totally out of the way. By this I mean he seems to have taken the "long-cut", not the "short-cut". He happily announces that the bullets are now enabled and I should be able to continue on with my paper. I thank him profusely and he leaves content that he helped out a fellow college student in need(I really like the comraderie of college students trying to earn their degrees) I sit down ready to continue, and my happiness of this achievement disappears when I notice that my margins, indents, font size, etc are all changed, and not the way I intended them to be. I reluctantly go back to this nice fellow's room to where he has returned to his usual afternoon activity of playing StarCraft and explain the new predicament. He shows genuine surprise as to how this happened. Having previously seen my complete level of technological incompetence, he gladly accompanies me back to my room after pausing his game. Several more minutes pass and eventually the problem is finally rectified. After expressing my sincere apology and deep thanks for taking the time to help me with my simple problem, he takes his leave to continue with his business. I felt really bad about doing this to so many different people, but some are friends, and others are just people I see or chat with now and then, and sometimes you have to take whatever help you can get. This is the life of the tech illiterate college student man.

I agree, educational games should be encouraged as long as they are realistic and help with real world understanding and thinking ability. Games like that one where you go around and slicing peoples throats and stabbing people and strangling people should be discouraged. Especially for young people or kids. I was taught young to learn and do "good" things that will better society, not harmful things like frying ants and setting things on fire. Although setting fires can be fun, that should only be done when you actually need to burn something such as bank statements or income tax returns, not just for sheer amusement.

Yea yea, I know what I said was a little extreme. I just get soo frustrated with computers. I really wish no harm against the person who invented computers. I still manage to maintain a 3.8 GPA despite my computer difficulties. Have made the Dean's list every semester I have been in college, and I hold the position of officer in various clubs and organizations. Offering people free beer is a good way to get computer help. I am no dum dum when it comes to academics, but computers and math are my achiles heel. Don't like them, and they don't like me. When I get done with grad school and whatnot, I am sticking to a computer free lifestyle if at all possible.

BangTail, The only reason I was talking about my finances is because others were discouraging me from buying a mac because they are overpriced. I am just saying that I would rather pay more for a better laptop. As for them being easier to grasp. That's a good thing for me. I have NEVER used any computer that did not make me want to smash it to little pieces with a baseball bat. I came close last night, but since I am in college, I can't be doing that. Anyways, like you have NO idea how bad I am at computers. Hell, even turning it on and off can be a major frustration for me. I just need something that works, and doesn't feed me any bs constantly. I keep having "health checks" and crap like that pop up on my computer. It keeps asking me to update shit. I do I know that stuff isn't a hidden virus? Seriously, computers piss me the fuck off. I hope whoever it was that invented them smashes his kneecaps in a skiing accident. They just make things 100 times more complicated than they need to be. Do you have any idea how many times I have gone to several different students in my dorm for help EACH??? Since August 28th, probably about 20 -25 times each on average. There are four different computer type students in my dorm that I regularly ask for help. If they are not around do you know what I do?? If I am desperate and seriously need to get a paper done, I walk around campus hoping to bump into someone I know for help. Otherwise I walk up to and ask random students on campus. Like for example, about a week ago I could not figure out how to make "bullets" for my MsWord document. You know, BULLETS? The little dots used to list different things. It took me four hours to find someone who could help me do it so I could continue my paper. Seriously man, FUCK computers. Sorry for my language, but I can't wait til the day that I don't have to use them anymore.

That's pretty cool. I would rather that my kids play a game like this instead of some game where you mindlessly mow down a bunch of ugly monsters.

Hmm, looked at the wikipedia page. Seems like it would be an unusual choice of video game for many kids. But that's not a bad thing. It is probably more intellectually stimulating than all the kids playing doom or whatever. I give it a thumbs up!

Yeah, seriously. Screw that part of facebook. I remember about six months ago I had a suggestion by facebook to friend a girl who I dated a while ago. I didn't like her and I definitely don't want her on my facebook page. How facebook linked me to her, I don't know. Seriously facebook? Do you want us to be friends with everyone? It seems that way sometimes. And I'm not interested in any of your crap ads or dating site ads that I see on my page. Give me a break. There must be some gullible people out there for these ads to continue running.

I've heard about simcity for years. What is it? Basically a tool for city planners to design cities? It doesn't really sound like a video game.

I honestly don't know. That's why I am asking. I don't know anything about apples. But I read the reviews and asked friends at college and they all say "get a mac book pro." Personally, I don't give a hoot about money. I have plenty of it. If paying a bit more gives me a remotely better laptop that doesn't constantly freeze and shit out on me than, maybe that is worth it. I'm just soo pissed at my current laptop and need to find a quality replacement for me needs at university. Please people, MORE input. I don't know what to do.

Maybe I should just buy a typewriter, like the kind I used in highschool. Atleast that way I won't lose my word documents when the power fails in the dorms. Haha.

I don't know what a URL, or script blocking, or cookies, or browser, or firewall, or proxy means. All I know is I type things into google, and things come up.

I went to the apple mac website and liked what I saw in terms of it saying that macs rarely freeze up and crash, all the software and hardware are made by the same company, so there are no compatibility issues, and that it is user friendly as well as high quality. I mean I understand that the website was from the apple company so it is definitely biased, so I will not base my decision on that. I still don't know. ---------- Post added at 02:39 AM ---------- Previous post was at 02:38 AM ---------- Yeah, but if paying extra means I get a better quality laptop that doesn't constantly shit out on me like my current one, then that is worth the price in my opinion. ---------- Post added at 03:14 AM ---------- Previous post was at 02:39 AM ---------- Speaking of freezing up all the time. My laptop has frozen twice since my last post simply because I had a couple different web pages open at the same time I'm guessing. Not only that, my current laptop freezes EVERYTIME I try to watch an internet video such as youtube. Damn machines!

Are macs different from regular laptops? I mean I need something that I would be familiar with. I already know how to use firefox, you know? Can you play video games on macs? Do they act differently from regular laptops? I dunno man.... I think maybe the macs are too advanced for me. I mean maybe if I was a computer science major, but unfortunately I don't know shit about comps. If they are no different from an ordinary computer, then that would be cool.

Seriously dude? Cmon, aside from the example where if you are running for political office or are working in the political field, there really isn't much to fear. My buddy used to look up all sorts of crazy crap on the internet. When he was 20 he looked up how to make explosives on the anarchists cookbook. He even got a call from the FBI saying they were going to monitor his internet activity for 6 months. Now he has a nice govt job with a top-secret clearance with alot of responsibily. They conducted a full background check, calling all his school teachers, even talking to the parents of his friends to screen him for his job. I know several people who work in the intelligence field for various govt agencies, and they look up porn on their personal computers at home. I personally don't do much of those things. I no longer watch porn. I don't care about making home made silencers or anything like that. Sometimes I do look up info on various activist groups or even look at terrorist webpages such as militias or islam. But so do millions of 13, 19, even 21 year old college students who are simply curious as to what they will find. Noone even in the govt will care that I am looking those things up. I'm not saying my computer isn't on some watch list because I looked up those sites, but I highly doubt anyone would really care unless they honestly believed that I had some insidious motive. When I was in highschool, I even looked up and contacted members of the KKK. Why you ask? Because I had a project where I had to interview a person who has a unique way of looking at things. I chose something rather extreme. Seriously, you are WAAYYY tooo paranoid. People look up all sorts of random crap on the net, and unless you have already raised some legitimate red flags, noone will give it more than a passing glance. I mean look at some prominent politicians. Some have histories of being drunken womanizers in their youths. Many are still in political office. Example: John McCain.

Sounds like a conspiracy theory to me. Whenever any organization gets really big and powerful, everyone makes up conspiracy theories. Just like the illuminati, NWO, and 911/conspiracies. Seriously man? Why would facebook care enough to track down every users actions on the net after logging out? I mean if they are stopping pedophiles, sexual predators, and terrorists and meth dealers, then they have my best wishes. Seriously, I don't have anything to hide. If the FBI wanted to come to my house or go through every detail of my life and past, I really have no objection. Seriously, if you have done nothing wrong, then why worry? And if you are dumb enough to post pictures and status updates of being smashed drunk during your sick days from work and whatnot, then that is your fault. I never put anything on my facebook that I wouln't want the govt or my grandma to see.

Ok, I will try to answer each of your questions as accurately as possible. First off, I started posting here because as a student of psychology in college, I thought it would be interesting to get an idea of how people who play video games, especially military ones think about things. I have friends who play these alot and just wanted to understand people who play video games. I like this forum and think I will hang around for a while and see what there is here. I really don't know anything about apples or tablets. Yes, I HAVE heard of apple computers. The reason I said that the one you linked to me wouldn't work is because I need a laptop for college work/activities/extracurricular work, not games. I am a member and officer of a few student organizations and need to have all the fancy gadgets and gizmos that college laptops need, such as MsOffice with both Word AND powerpoint, video making or editing stuff, ability to make posters, and flyers, make spreadsheets, and all that stuff. Being a treasurer for one organization, I definitely need a spreadsheet program to keep track of finances. I also need the ability to view internet videos such as youtube and such. This is why I said that I need a "college type laptop", not a laptop for video games. I am willing to pay max around $2,000 for a laptop that will have all those features and will not crap out on me in 6 months. I want the screen size to be roughly the same size or if necessary, slightly smaller than mine. I don't have a ruler or tape measure, so I took a standard piece of printer paper, and used that to measure. The printer paper wrapping paper states that the printer paper is 8 1/2" by 11". I used the long side of the printer paper and measured the length of my screen. If you take the long side of the paper, divide it into thirds, then add that third to the original length of the long side of the paper, that looks to be roughly the length of the screen. The height of the screen is roughly the same as the long side of the printer paper, so that would be probably about 11" tall. Sorry, like I said, I don't have a measuring stick. And I asked my friends around the dorm. I felt like such a moron lol. Also, I measured not from the actual "glass" part of the screen, but the whole lid thing including the edge or frame. I don't want a laptop that is excessively heavy or thick. Average weight or thickness will do. Also, I bought my current laptop in 2008 so it is very old.

Dude, I understand you are trying to help by posting info on good laptops, but I really didn't understand any of it. I checked out the website. It looks really cool, but I am not looking to pay alot extra for a laptop just for "gaming." Games would be just an "extra" bonus. What good would such a laptop be if I could play all the new hit games, yet not be able to get my school work and such done? I'm not really into games. The last time I seriously tried to sit down and get into one was little under a year ago. I just need something high quality for school work/projects that I wont have to replace in 6 months.

Froggyluv, That laptop you linked to looks cool. I don't really know. The price is $1,630. Don't take this as bragging, but that's pocket change for me. However, I am not really looking for something for videogames. I did buy one video game last year that I thought looked interesting and I only played it for like two weeks. I lost interest because noone else played it. I just don't think that I'm big into video games. That doesn't mean I don't want to try one. I see my college buddies playing them ALL the time. Sometimes I feel like I want to join them just so I can be "in" on their hobby/hobbies. To me, it would be more of a social thing to bond with my college friends by learning about their hobbies. The one that my two good buds play is this star wars game. Basically they can pick between these three types of creatures. Insect aliens, high tech aliens, and human(Marines). They control hundreds of soldiers and send them to fight other players on the map. It is a birds eye view type game. I tried it once as the Marines and quickly got killed. The game started up and I decided to send what I thought were my combat units on a little reconnaissence/combat patrol and they all got destroyed by the bugs. Then my one building at my base got attacked and I lost. After talking to my friends, apparently I mistook my worker-bees who collect resources for combat troops. Anyways, they didn't tell me how to play. I just tried it after many days of watching them. I just sat at their computer when the game was on, and they were busy drinking, and setup a game for myself. Anyways, it is always interesting watching them play. They both have their separate laptops in their one room and play against each other or as a team against others. Anyways I like how deeply involved they are in their game. They get really excited and shout things to each other like "My base is getting attacked! Help!", or "My guys are coming to you in like 2 secs". Haha, it's just cool to see the interaction in these games and meeting people who play them and watching them play. Like I said, I want a laptop mostly for academic/college things. My main thing is I want it to be high end/high quality so that I don't have to constantly deal with issues like I am having with my current laptop. I want to be able to do all the things I ever would want to do for school/extracurricular stuff. If I want to create flyers for my club or society, then that would be cool. Also, I don't want to get a laptop, and then realize a month down the road that there is something that it cannot do that I would like to do. I soon may have to create advertisements/flyers for my psychology club, I may want to have the capability to make/edit videos for events, I will definitely need to do presentations, make posters, manage club/organization finances, make logos/emblems, view all sorts of media on the web or through other means, watch DVDs, play music in my room, write research papers, etc... You get what I'm saying. And as I stated earlier, I know NOTHING about computers. Like PuFu was mentioning things that I don't know about like "CPUs, ram, HDD, GFX cards etc. I definitely don't know about any of those things or what they mean. Once I buy my laptop, I will have one of my tech geek friends teach me how to use it for my purposes. I know one guy in my dorm who's door I regularly knock on for help with my daily shit. I try not to be too much of a pain when he is busy. But sometimes, I just have no clue what to do. Another thing. I want it to be light and portable, and have good battery power. My current one will die within like 15 minutes if it is not plugged in. Hope this helps. Keep those suggestions coming. Thanks

13 year old kids bullying 46 year old men. That's not something I ever thought I would ever hear of. Maybe this 13 year old has a history of anti-social behavior? This type of bullying can cause serious psychological issues for the victim, which in this case is a 46 year old grown man who has kids strangely enough. ---------- Post added at 08:39 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:26 PM ---------- This is something I just noticed. Walker, if you are a 1st Lt, then why do you have Captains bars? Perhaps you are a Navy Lt? Or is it from a military besides the U.S.?

My mistake. I will copy and paste my and your response into the PC discussion thread. Then this one can be deleted. ---------- Post added at 08:35 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:29 PM ---------- Okay, I've copied and pasted my post here and PuFu's response to the PC thread. You guys can delete this thread if you want. Sorry again. Didn't see that main thread above.