Delicious LiveJournal Links for 1-14-2010

[andrewducker]

• Turns x264 into a low latency video streaming protocol
  Absolutely fascinating look inside some recent changes. Some nifty stuff there.
  (tags: network performance technology video web x264)
• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 takes $1bn in sales
  In case you didn't realise how big the games market is nowadays...
  (tags: games)
• Evidential Issues in Rape Cases - the best thing I've read so far on today's rape case.
  (tags: rape law)
• Customers who bought Communion Wafers also bought...
  I love Amazon
  (tags: amazon funny AI EpicFail)
• Using Fibonacci Numbers to Convert from Miles to Kilometers and Vice Versa
  (tags: math fibonacci funny)
• The first positive review I've seen of Google Wave
  (tags: collaboration productivity googlewave technology)
• Complaining is like a drug. We get addicted to the euphoria of self importance, but inevitably it leaves us unfulfilled.
  (tags: inspiration psychology motivation)

Comments

[nancylebov.livejournal.com]

In my experience, complaining is like a drug-- there's an optimal dosage.

I found that if I paid attention to whether complaining made me feel better, complaining four or five times about most things was as much as it took, and after that I was merely repeating myself to no good effect.

I complain less these days. Occasionally there's an annoyance I don't complain about at all.

[andrewducker]

I complain whenever things build up too much - but by and large something has to be unusually large, or entirely unexpected for me to get too worked up about it.

[marrog.livejournal.com]

Evidential Issues in Rape Cases - the best thing I've read so far on today's rape case.

Yeah, that's pretty much what I'm always saying. I've found it gets you eviscerated by a certain brand of person.

[andrewducker]

Absolutely. I do remember the last occasion _very_ well :->

This is why I'm linking to someone rather than wading in myself - the joys of having a legal expert on my friends list!

[xquiq.livejournal.com]

IAWTC

Also, I think there's a difference between complaining with the hope of affecting change, or achieving a better outcome & just bitching.

I often see people who do too much of the latter & not enough of the former. (An example would be were someone at work behaves badly & it would be legitimate to call them on it(complain directly), but instead of doing that, the injured party bitches to 5 of their mates.)

[meltie.livejournal.com]

Google Wave guy - sounds like he simply needed a ticketing system. We use bugzilla in precisely the same way.

[undeadbydawn.livejournal.com]

I have heard that communion bread can get stuck on the way down