http://www.talksfu.ca/forum/categories/general/p469/feed.rss Sun, 09 Aug 2026 11:06:29 +0000 General - talkSFU en-CA http://www.talksfu.ca/forum/discussion/1705/mac-vs-pc Mon, 19 Mar 2007 23:11:00 +0000 shadysimon 1705@/forum/discussions http://www.talksfu.ca/forum/discussion/1686/goodbye-long-hair Fri, 16 Mar 2007 20:02:41 +0000 Malakaiii 1686@/forum/discussions
I've been growing it out for a year and a half so it'd be long enough to donate. There are wig companies that take hair donations and make free wigs for kids with cancer or other diseases that make them go bald.

So now I have an 8" ponytail that will make a kid somewhere pretty happy! And I have a snazzy short new haircut just in time for spring. :smile:]]> http://www.talksfu.ca/forum/discussion/1703/anyone-know-about-motivated-social-cognition Mon, 19 Mar 2007 12:48:46 +0000 falco85 1703@/forum/discussions http://www.talksfu.ca/forum/discussion/1692/i-hate-cell-phone-companies Sat, 17 Mar 2007 11:59:44 +0000 falco85 1692@/forum/discussions
I'm not sure I'd recommend them because of this, but what choice does anyone have?
Secondly, my phone has a 500 mb harddrive on it. It has a 1.2 megapixel camera and mp3 player. It has it's own OS, running on Java. Why can't they create a program that simply takes messages like an answering machine? It's because the phone companies are greedy mother f#$%ers.]]> http://www.talksfu.ca/forum/discussion/1691/how-to-set-future-goals-together-in-a-relationship Sat, 17 Mar 2007 11:58:02 +0000 Kevin M. 1691@/forum/discussions http://www.talksfu.ca/forum/discussion/1620/favorite-musicians Tue, 06 Mar 2007 00:58:56 +0000 El_Cambumbo 1620@/forum/discussions
X Japan


2pac


Tego Calderon


Bob Marley


What are yours??]]> http://www.talksfu.ca/forum/discussion/1483/looking-for-a-part-time-job Thu, 08 Feb 2007 15:07:01 +0000 toast 1483@/forum/discussions http://www.talksfu.ca/forum/discussion/1696/science-vs-faith-pic Sun, 18 Mar 2007 17:16:17 +0000 Simon604 1696@/forum/discussions ]]> http://www.talksfu.ca/forum/discussion/1689/mind-blank-what-word-am-i-looking-for Sat, 17 Mar 2007 01:22:19 +0000 PoliChic87 1689@/forum/discussions
the word i'm looking for means umm like each person's own experience/assumption of something

i.e. in this sentence what word should go here

The aim of the study would be to see whether there are age differences in the (insert word )fear factors of amusement rides]]> http://www.talksfu.ca/forum/discussion/1694/check-this-out-interview-with-owner-of-isohunt Sun, 18 Mar 2007 01:05:00 +0000 TiNgLu_SiNgH 1694@/forum/discussions
[youtube]MXaALmVabpk[/youtube]]]> http://www.talksfu.ca/forum/discussion/1684/how-long-should-one-run-on-the-treadmill Fri, 16 Mar 2007 17:27:09 +0000 Thind 1684@/forum/discussions There is always one question in my mind that how long should I stay on treadmill ?
I don;t run to burn calories, but to remain fit or exercise. While on treadmill I only do running for
15-20 minutes at the speed of 6. Well If I gave a look around usually ppl run for
1 or 1/2 an hour. Some time I had a feeling of not being fit.
I like to prefer stairmaster more. I also feel that runing on track is much better than treadmill.
wuts your view bout it
RUN LOLA RUN (lol):teeth:]]> http://www.talksfu.ca/forum/discussion/1679/new-linkin-park-album Thu, 15 Mar 2007 19:44:58 +0000 shadysimon 1679@/forum/discussions
Titled: Minutes to Midnight - Comes out May 15

First single - 'What I've Done' - Comes out April 5th

This is gonna be redic!! The band with the best selling album of the 21st century is back...

Go to www.linkinpark.com, listen to the opening intro song

Also, check this out: LPTV

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vY7R4Ro0WSI

And to hear a clip of the new single, click HERE:

http://ringbacktones.vzw.com/pop_listen.jsp?title=What%20I%27ve%20Done&artist=Linkin%20Park&cid=00224073

PS. How do I do the thing where you just click on a word (like its in blue) and its the link to the website? I cant figure it out.]]> http://www.talksfu.ca/forum/discussion/1685/got-my-postcard-today-lol Fri, 16 Mar 2007 19:13:13 +0000 imelting 1685@/forum/discussions http://www.talksfu.ca/forum/discussion/1669/when-people-say-you-look-smart-does-it-imply-your-unattractive-or-attractive Tue, 13 Mar 2007 23:05:56 +0000 CollegeDude 1669@/forum/discussions http://www.talksfu.ca/forum/discussion/1680/myspace-is-over-facebook-is-next Thu, 15 Mar 2007 20:14:11 +0000 Simon604 1680@/forum/discussions
Social shift
IVOR TOSSELL

Globe and Mail Update

MySpace is over. You can forget about it; it's done with. I mean, it's still out there, and millions of people are still using it every day, but that's not really germane.

The crowds have moved on to something new -- something cooler and less mind-blowingly ugly. The social networking game is all about Facebook now.

Facebook isn't new, either, but it's only been open to the public for half a year. Started in 2004 by a Harvard sophomore, it was originally reserved for university students. In September, Facebook threw the doors open, putting it in direct competition with MySpace.

And while MySpace seems more and more like a ghetto for teenagers, Facebook is making inroads among people who were in school a decade ago. Right now, there's more talk than ever about its potential as the next multibillion-dollar takeover target.

Its basic idea isn't new. Users start with a profile page, which includes a mug shot and some basic details, and then need to build up a list of "friends," by searching the site for people they know.

This process can take weeks, as decades' worth of acquaintances -- all of whom, apparently, are now on Facebook -- crawl out of the woodwork one or two at a time, asking to be linked as friends.

Once you're signed in and networked, the site keeps you busy. Users can send Facebook messages to friends (as if you needed another inbox to check) and leave messages on each others' profile pages. They can post blogs, form clubs, invite people to events and hound them for RSVPs.

They can upload photos -- especially photos of themselves holding a drink, holding a friend, holding a friend with a drink or all of the above. An ingenious feature lets people match faces to names, which the system fastidiously catalogues. It's a bustling, immersive web-within-the-Web.

In concept, it's similar to MySpace, and many other networking sites before it. But in practice, the experience is markedly different, and not just because Facebook has that many more features. In fact, a lot of Facebook's success can be attributed not to what it does, but to what it doesn't do.

To begin with, it cuts users out of the design loop. It seems to have learned from MySpace, which gave users the freedom to customize their pages any which way; they responded with design inspirations that ranged from NASCAR chic to the Las Vegas strip.

The result was a post-aesthetic wasteland of blinking, honking, neon things; photos that cascaded down the page, animated baubles and all manner of widgets. If you didn't have junk on your page, there would be some on your friends' page, and you would be shamed by association.

Facebook, on the other hand, looks downright respectable, and that's because it gives users no say in the matter. Every page on the site has the same simple blue-and-white look; everything is structured, with the photos put neatly in one place, blog posts in another, and so on.

Now that there's no question of embarrassing yourself with your page's design, you can focus on embarrassing yourself with its contents.

Which brings us to the second thing that Facebook doesn't do: pseudonyms. MySpace, like virtually every other site out there, lets users pick a nickname. Sometimes, users pick nicknames that correspond with their real names, but just as often, they're totally abstract. Facebook, on the other hand, wants names -- real names, first and last.

And that might be the most genuinely innovative thing about Facebook. Anonymity or, at least, the option of anonymity is one of the Internet's most entrenched conventions, even if its effectiveness has been steadily eroded over time. Facebook throws down the gauntlet and asks people to dispense with anonymity entirely -- and people have responded.

(Facebook, of course, can't guarantee that there's no tomfoolery going on, but it tries. While trying, for research purposes, to register a Facebook page for a small stuffed animal, the system repeatedly told me that "Horse" is not a legitimate last name.)

Inevitably, Facebook walks a fine line on privacy. One of its most compelling features has raised hackles: Unless you instruct the site otherwise, every change to your Facebook profile is broadcast to your list of friends.

If somebody identifies you in a photo -- even if it's a photo you didn't take or upload -- everybody gets a message saying so. If you change your relationship status from taken to single, the breakup is announced with the help of a little broken-heart icon, just in case you weren't sure how you felt about it.

The service is audacious that way: It asks its users to live publicly. There's something refreshing about its frankness. Sites that allow pseudonyms, like MySpace or your blog of choice, give an impression of privacy when really there is none. Whatever is posted on your page is there for the Facebook network to see, with your name attached.

This is Facebook's day in the sun.

Just remember that it's transient, too. The site is so immersive, so demanding, that it's hard to say how long its new members will have the stamina to keep feeding updates into it. It's geared for the university lifestyle, but young crowds have no allegiance, and reserve a special antipathy for things that were cool five years ago. It will have its legacies -- most notably, a generation that's comfortable with living online under their real names -- but sooner or later, Facebook will be over.

webseven@globeandmail.com]]>