Posts by Martin 42

Facebook growth slows in stalkerbase heartlands

Fb's bad, needy people, blah blah blah

Much better to not use facebook and sit back judgementally berating it's users, eh?

Facebook is a tool like any other. It has done a lot of things extremely well, some things not so well, and attracts a wide range of people from our diverse world.

I use it, I like it, and with any other tool I apply it in the way that suits me - I keep in touch with my circle of friends, share my interests and keep up-to-date with how other people are getting on. At mid-thirties I have fallen into and out of contact with a large group of people, and fb is a great way to keep a link. I am well aware of what facebook does and what data it collects, and use it accordingly.

I am far from a 'needy' person, I have no want to feel like I have hundreds of friends, and my 'real friends' get the concentration I feel appropriate. And if others choose to use facebook as a way to generate 'hundreds of friends' because they are 'needy', I feel no need to feel superior and mock them.

Next time you think to yourself 'I haven't heard from from Joe Bloggs for years now, I must get in touch' for the 10th time in a year, you might considering using a tool to make it easier. If you don't get such thoughts, you don't need it.

Brit censor stamps on The Human Centipede

Doesn't sound great.

I really enjoyed the human centipede - it was what it was - a poorly acted (except for the doctor), very unorigional (except for the premise), silly horrorfest, and it delivered. But by what I have read of the sequel, it is doing a 'saw', making zero attempt at a plot or characters, and just throwing as much gore as it can at the viewer. With the first one, the horror was in the idea, it actually contained very little in the way of real gore.

Ubuntu board rejects slippery Flash installs

Reverse

"Nothing wrong with leaving the default to no. And lets be honest here, anybody who wants them, will know what they are, and tick the damn box themselves."

I think the point is that the reverse is true - many who want to watch youtube will not realise it is '3rd party', whereas those that don't want 3rd party software will understand what this includes.

It's the age old open source idealism against usability, and there is no 'right answer', just what direction ubuntu which to go in.