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I am relieved every time there's drama on friendfeed and I wasn't involved. It's like those "x days without an accident" boards you see at places of work.
Kol Tregaskes, Andy Bakun, Rah-PM 2012 and 15 other people liked this
In this case the board resets to 0, but hey at least it wasn't me that lost a hand.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Those boards are for pussies. Wait. What?
- Kristin
I tune out FF for 90 minutes to watch a programme on science and science fiction and come back to find I've missed the drama and everyone's talking about the drama and I can't work out what the drama was. It *really* is like old FriendFeed.
- Mark H
Don't worry, Mark, I don't know what the drama is either. I left those rooms long ago.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
I'm usually like the USGS in that I can tell a nuke was detonated based on my earthymovingdetectorthingies, but I never get to see the actual blast.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
And all poor Michael Vick wants is to sniff some dog farts...
- Akiva
He should have thought about that while he was mistreating them.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
How about this? MICHAEL VICK'S PUPPY RENTAL OPEN NOW!!! ELECTRIFYING DEALS!!!!!!! COME ON DOWN. BALLOONS FOR MOM.
- Akiva
Too soon? :(
- Akiva
Too funny...you broke my ability to laugh.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
We had a bit of drama at the Drafthouse. I couldn't find Haggis and Glen. Then I found them because they yelled out "DAMN YOU STEVEN PEREZ!" The end. TRUE STORY.
- Steven Perez
Dear good people of friendfeed...please stop saying things like "how about googling that?" when someone asks a question. You are cutting off conversations before they can develop by doing so.
suze, Thierry R. Andriamirado, Sativa and 36 other people liked this
Yeah I ask lots of questions on here and Twitter etc that I could easily find the answer on Google but I prefer the conversation on here from asking. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
I don't know -- isn't it common courtesy to try to determine the answer to your question on your time before presenting it here? People are in a backhanded way just suggesting that.
- Brian Sullivan
No, Brian, often times I ask a question that could be easily answered by Google because I want actual insight by people that have experience with the stuff I'm asking. I can't get that from Google.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Or sometimes I'm at the mall on my Blackberry and it's much more effective to ask you all than it is to try to Google something
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
from IM
I google it before talking about it so I don't sound like too much of an idiot :D
- Renee Hendricks
Yeah, I don't have much fear on here about sounding like an idiot. If I did, I wouldn't say much.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Alex -- what is more effective for you can be really annoying to others -- I guess you realize that but don't care?
- Brian Sullivan
Nope, I never care about what other people think. ;)
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
from IM
Well, since there are so many librarians on friendfeed, I'm usually asking them too. :)
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
I'm with Scoble. I can easily get information about something, but if I want an opinion from people I already know, I'll come here.
- Jenthemum
If someone asks how many ounces in a gallon, a Google link is appropriate. I just asked a question that was seeking specific answers from folks who may have an opinion. And got the Google link from a FF'r. Fail.
- Kurt Starnes
Alex - dead on; Google gives me links; Friendfeed gives me opinions...
- Andrew Terry
How many ounces are in a gallon?
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
If you want an opinion -- ask for an opinion -- don't ask for facts or information - so it may all be in what you say or ask. I am all for crowdsourcing but I think there should be an etiquette for that. Maybe the medium just doesn't provide for that?
- Brian Sullivan
Alex are we talking US or Imperial gallon?
- Brian Sullivan
Yeah and I didn't specify what kind of ounces either, Brian. :)
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
i wonder if you're in the UK if w|a gives you a different answer... http://www.wolframalpha.com/input...
- Chris Heath
Tiffany - folks were claiming that Che Guevara was good and others that he was bad. I was asking for folks to state specifically why he was one way or the other based on their perspective. I think I was fairly clear in my query.
- Kurt Starnes
Feel free to add your own, Mark.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
from IM
MVB, laden? http://www.wolframalpha.com/input... or unladen?
- Chris Heath
one thing I've learned as a librarian is that people don't always ask what they really mean. Maybe they are just looking for quick info, maybe it's an opinion, maybe it's conversation... but unless you are them you can't know.
- Sir Shuping is just sir
African or European?
- Jenthemum
Andrew, bingo.
- Kol Tregaskes
tiffany, maybe it wasn't as clear as I intended, but the last sentence of my question, "Specifically, what are some of the good and/or bad things he has allegedly done?", is where I was seeking perspective. It's easy for folks to simply say "He/she was great/evil" -- I wanted to hear the facts/events from which those opinions were derived. *Edit: I was trying to take the discussion to a deeper level, FWIW.
- Kurt Starnes
Actually, I'm surprised more people aren't referred internally to an appropriate FF group
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
from iPhone
Agree completely. I've been guilty of that in the past. But now I go find out for my self and come armed with links :)
- Roberto Bonini
from iPhone
can we send them here instead? http://lmgtfy.com/ rather than saying "how about googling that?
- Comics Forge
I think of "just google it" as a troll, even if well intentioned. It isn't adding to the conversation, and it belittles the questioner. Nobody here has to answer a posted question. (And, while google is good, the answers are not always useful or in-depth enough.)
- Jennifer Dittrich
Yep, well said, Jennifer.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
trolling is meant to encourage (usually argumentative) responses, while telling someone to go search is more of a brush-off
- Mike Chelen
from IM
It's near and dear to my heart - people have a tendency to respond that way to deceptively simple technical questions, which ends up clogging the google search results for them, making their own reply even more useless.
- Jennifer Dittrich
Jenn makes a very valid point.
- Rah-PM 2012
√ Jennifer.
- Kurt Starnes
Cecily - I believe you have greatly misunderstood my intent -- it was not to derail behavior, it was to focus the discussion on something specific. Often folks will make general statements and it helps to understand the basis of those statements. Again, I was not asking for an education on the subject -- I am intimately familiar with the utility of search. In a discussion, instead of...
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- Kurt Starnes
I should add that I now understand that you think I may not have intended to derail, but I guess I don't see how my initial query can be viewed as derailment. I just wanted something material for the sake of discussion. Best to you.
- Kurt Starnes
It's ok, Kurt, this is tangentfeed after all
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
from IM
LOL. I guess so. This sub-discussion originated by an original post I made in another thread is somewhat surreal. My original question obviously did not convey my thoughts effectively.
- Kurt Starnes
I might have missed your question, Kurt, as I've been out and about and can only participate in limited fashion with friendeed via IM on my Blackberry
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
from IM
For some reason, work blocks friendfeed on the BB browser, but not Facebook or Twitter
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
from IM
You know what's funny, Chris? Is that this thread is now the number one result for that search. ROFL
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
from IM
One thing I like about Mark Zuckerberg: he is willing to piss off his users once a year to take Facebook forward.I
Amadou M. Sall, DC Crowley, ax0n and 18 other people liked this
When you see the mistakes Friendster, MySpace, Friends Reunited (UK) made that led to their irrelevance, it makes sense to keep pushing the art forward. I believe Facebook realise that and thus keep taking the best aspects of Twitter/FF etc. However they still need to retain their innovative edge, which I believe they have kind of lost over the past year.
- Jamie
Golden rule in software: you can't satisfy all your customers all of the time. So, in order to improve there is no way around pissing users off.
- Rene, Pro Button Pusher
Apple's Biggest Product Announcement Today: Steve Jobs - http://www.louisgray.com/live...
ax0n, Stephen Mack, Rishabh Mishra (p248) and 2 other people liked this
stealing this idea: "Every night, when I read to my twins as they settle to bed, I am not picking up Dr. Seuss or Goodnight Moon. I have been reading to Matthew and Sarah from the insightful book, Inside Steve's Brain."
- metalerik
Metalerik, it's true though. Not kidding. It's a great book, and Matthew and Sarah deserve to hear it. :)
- Louis Gray
dude, I'm not kidding either :) I'm always looking for new things to show her
- metalerik
Note to startups/app developers: If you have a great concept, give users a great intro/walkthru/demo video to get them started.
Gordon Saunders and ax0n liked this
Gratuitous screen shot of me talking on CNN.com Live. Sorry... just have to...http://www.cnn.com/video...
Meryn Stol, Mitch, Michelle M and 121 other people liked this
Should've rick-rolled 'em.
- Akiva
Dang, why couldn't they have called you Lindsey :/
- Daniel J. Pritchett
There you are!
- Micah
Oh snap, Ted's an engineer but you're a developer. What gives?
- Daniel J. Pritchett
Nice.
- phil baumann
Loved it, great stuff!
- Sally Church
ROCKIN'!
- Joe The Sausage
That's so awesome. Haha you said Meatspace
- Rodfather
awsomme !
- Peter Dawson
that's awesome...but i did have to laugh out loud when the host claimed the debate between twitter and facebook is "an age old question"...um, yeah, i tend to side with aristotle over plato on that one...
- Trent Olson
1UP for saying "meatspace" I wonder if the general public knows what that means :p
- Zulema ⋅ spicy cocoa tart
:D
- Joe The Sausage
Finally something that makes sense on CNN :)
- Jemm
I just watched this. Check you out! And + a gazillion for mentioning Friendfeed!
- Josh Haley
omg!!!
- Johnny
I should get your autograph on my conference program!!!
- Rochelle
nice
- sean percival
:) love it! And they, erm, spelled your name right..! :DD
- WoH: Minding her Steves
w00t! Love this. Nice job, Ted. ;-)
- Laura Norvig
she kept calling tad, ted, didn't she? what do i know... i wear a hearing aid. oh, good, laura heard it.
- Trish Haley
+++for meatspace use. :) and tad handled the facebook questions well. :)
- Trish Haley
Nice! :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Ha, she got your name right at the very end, Tad! BTW, Lindsay, I love your voice. Such a sweet accent.
- Laura Norvig
This program has always baffled me, but I'm glad they interviewed you! But one question lingers: do you both enjoy your titles?
- Amy℠
hey Congrats Lindsay!! woo hooo you're famous! :)
- Susan Beebe
yee haw!
- anna sauce
Why the southern accents?
- Vezquex
@Raphael - Tad and I are from Mississippi originally... the accent came with us.
- Lindsay
Awesome, congratulations!
- Nicholas Kreidberg
The three of you did very well, and I think that what you said was accessible enough so that a non-tech audience could get it also. I forget which one of you said that 40% of ALL conversation is babble; good line...
- John E. Bredehoft
Yay!
- LB shining
You're cnn.com famous. Rad.
- Pete D
hawt!
- imabonehead
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- AJ Batac :)
You Rock Lindsay! Great stuff
- Charlie Anzman
Loved it!
- joey
You know, if all the news anchors were as cute as Lindsay, I might be watching CNN all the time.
- Louis Gray
I second Louis Gray wholeheartedly!!! :-D
- Pandu ● IT Optimizer
So today, my mom and I went to the local dollar store and bought a crapload of school supplies, which we are boxing up and sending to an inner city first grade class. We are going to keep them in supplies this year. You don't need a fancy organized charity or even a Twitter drive to make a difference. Just Do It.
Mathew A. Koeneker, Ritesh Lal, alphaxion and 72 other people liked this
civic engagement!
- Jason
wow, that's awesome.
- Marie
Way to go!
- Geoff Schultz {TF}
Great idea. Although it could be a fun thing to organize and do with friends - but definitely bypass "the system." Sending email to "book club" now.
- Amy℠
Thanks guys. It felt totally great to do!
- Martha
Dave and I had a blast buying school supplies last year: we got all the stuff we wanted and couldn't afford when we were kids...
- FFing Enigma
Very cool! Great idea.
- Jeff P. Henderson
Good job, Martha and mom!
- Eivind
School supplies for Zambian children: http://cecilysfund.org/ (Sorry, but I felt this was a good post to promote it.)
- Eivind
Elvind - promote it away! Another thing my mom has been doing for years is making quilts, toys, handcrafts and sending them to an AIDs orphanage in South Africa. She and five of her friends send them to the kids and have sold the stuff stateside and have raised around $25,000 all on their own to send to the orphanages to help the kids. I am not that crafty, but I help with legal, graphic design and the selling of the stuff at their sales. Another thing she just does. There is so much that you can Just Do.
- Martha
Great idea and my congrats. You are making a difference! Good show! :-)
- Mathew A. Koeneker
Well done.
- Kevin J Hatton
Excellent way to make positive difference in society.
- Ashish
Thanks for the nice comments! All boxed up and sent south!
- Martha
High on the list of unforgivable sins is when hotel cleaning crews unplug the power for your laptop.
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KC-Bike.net with Jolie O'Dell - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Hey, um. That's me! Um. lol. I say "um" too much on camera.
- ax0n
Thats it I am setting up a BBS to take the place of FriendFeed :) think I will do 9600 baud. that should work!
Josh Haley, Kevykev, Rick Schmidt and 13 other people liked this
Multi-port so you can have up to 4 simultaneous users!
- T-Bone Tsali, FF Cherokee
and we will have a ton of MUDDs
- (jeff)isageek
LEGEND OF THE RED DRAGON & MAJOR MUDD FOR THE WIN!
- T-Bone Tsali, FF Cherokee
heh heh
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
I'm down. *looks for a modem on laptop*
- Rodfather
My wife's already running one via telnet with multi-line teleconference and a few games, including a totally hex-hax0r'd MajorMUD. Yes, my wife is a true hacker chick. telnet://forgottenages.no-ip.org:2300
- ax0n
19200 or i'm not there
- Charlie Anzman
YES!!!
- Tim Hoeck
Ooh! Will it support my C64? :)
- Kevin C. Tofel
let me see if this copy of RENEGADE BBS stills works :: dusts off flopies ::
- sean percival
kevin yes it will :)
- (jeff)isageek
Don't make me get my TRS-80 out of storage! I upgraded that mofo to 64k RAM and replaced the cassette drive with a 5 1/4 floppy. *oozes real time*
- Brian Daniel Eisenberg
RENEGADE BBS = WIN! I used Oblivion myself :D
- T-Bone Tsali, FF Cherokee
from IM
but, but...is there an app for that?
- Trent Olson
I got pipeline and vision (or vision-x, even better) if you prefer!
- Tim Hoeck
I'll hook up my old C=64 and the 1200 baud modem.
- Justin Rains
If you want followers don't turn off your autofollower like I did http://twittercounter.com/compare...
Jonathan.Rivera, Susan Beebe, JCunwired and 5 other people liked this
But do you regret it? Is less follower audience worth the cost of less noise for yourself?
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
No, I don't regret unfollowing and turning off the autofollower. My main goal is engagement, not fake followers.
- Robert Scoble
Agreed. However in Twitter, I wonder if these people also are RTers or just add no value besides a mutual number on the counters.
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
Holden: not true. I watched Loic's and Calacanis numbers flatten out when he turned off autofollower. Yes, mine will go up, but slowly, and maybe slower than yours did. Why? People are still unfollowing me because I unfollowed them.
- Robert Scoble
Mark: exactly. I'm still following new people, but only those who demonstrate that they are geeks, know me, or are bringing something else to the table I want to listen to.
- Robert Scoble
auto following is not a bad thing per se but it does allow lots of spam to get in
- Seth Goldstein
Robert, how come you're not following me..I know I'm not a geek but you know me and I have great posts :)))) I'm playing, you do know.
- Myrna
My God Scobe, setting a standard or something? Good to see someone from the IT geekdom say "you know what, I/we need connection here". That desire is what has gotten web 2.0 where it is. IMHO these internet marketers, etc are putting these tools (Twitter) at risk of abandonment by fostering the creation of a hollow shell with their focus on numbers (followers) without meaningful connection.
- Chad Gesser
from BuddyFeed
if you want followers, provide something of value to them. Then focus on the value you can get from those you follow. Aside from the stray person who just wants one more "guaranteed" re-follow, mass following people is actually a disservice to those who rely on you for up-to-date information or opinions since the signal:noise ratio sucks so badly.
- ax0n
+ Chad Gesser
- Myrna
Myrna: I am following you. But here where I can easily talk with you, rather than on Twitter.
- Robert Scoble
Robert, I told you I was playing! <3
- Myrna
I posted this a week or so ago but got limited opinion. But as Scoble just said, if I follow someone on Friendfeed (that links Twitter and is active), is there a value in following on Twitter as well? Seems like it's just an echo.
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
Robert, but thanks for answer!
- Myrna
While I'm not one that agrees with autofollows, do you think you would have near as may followers now if you only followed those 1,800 from the start? Or do you even care?
- Adam Reyher
from Alert Thingy
Ahhh.. but now you are followed by those who love you as opposed to those who just wanted a followback from Scoble! :-D Love is better!
- Amy Flynn
Adam: I'm sure that some of those that I now have as followers wouldn't have followed me if I hadn't autofollowed. True. But then if I really worried about such things I'd be begging @ev to add me to the suggested follower list. That's the REAL way to get followers you don't earn by doing great content.
- Robert Scoble
I still believe engaging and quality followers is better then Quanity
- Rob Cairns
ahhhh, see the future passionate ones integration of depth associated with conversation and content (FF) coupled with the ability to integrate personality and personal history (Fb) ..or something like that
- Chad Gesser
from BuddyFeed
Great way to get rid of all that SPAM. Good for you. I'm doing the same.
- Jonathan.Rivera
Toshiba to launch world's largest and fastest SD card - http://www.neowin.net/news...
Kamilah Reed (K. Gill), Courtney Engle, ax0n and 13 other people liked this
"Toshiba has announced it will be launching a 64GB SDXC card, which they claim will be the world's fastest and largest SD card. The card boasts write speeds of 32MB per second and read speeds of 60MB per second, and is compliant with the latest SD memory standard. In addition to the 64GB SDXC, Toshiba also announced they would be releasing two more storage cards: a 32GB SDHC card and a 16GB SDHC card – and importantly, both offer the same speeds as the 64GB SDXC."
- LANjackal
from Bookmarklet
Un;less i start taking 100meg shots , 64Gb is Waaayyyyyy too much
- Roberto Bonini
Or backing up my 60GB PS3 :) As long as reliability is the same or better, then bigger is almost always better... you'll always have a bigger backup on your card of stuff you've already offloaded.
- Tinfoil 2.0
Absolutely amazing!
- David Cook
RT @ebellis: my inaugural blog post is now up on CSO online -> http://blogs.csoonline.com/the_rel...
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OM NOM NOM - http://twistedfork.tumblr.com/post...
Lysender, Jason R. Hunter, Rochelle and 9 other people liked this
:D
- AJ Batac :)
Love it. Now I should photoshop a bicyclist kicking it in the gonads. :D
- ax0n
Reminder: Don't Forward that Funny Email [Cartoon] - http://gizmodo.com/5262466...
That's right. You should, instead, tweet it or share on gReader or tumblr or blog about it or Facebook it.... It's interesting that email seems to have moved up a notch on the privacy hierarchy.
- Marty
Oh, and note that I'm not trying to be snarky in that comment. Most of the stuff I love seeing on friendfeed would irritate the crap out of me in my inbox, even though I'm myself not certain what the difference it.
- Marty
My guns. - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
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Tanath, Sudeaux, Doug Jones and 83 other people liked this
Palin-worthy.
- The original Kevin
ACES!
- Iain Baker
Now, that is a BIG nasty gun
- Thomas Chai
It's a brunette Six ala BSG, only the more power version...
- Jude
Awesome.
- Christian (Simply X)
Let me show you them.
- Great Scott! Needs a Ham
You should get the Qore game programmers to put you into one of those mini-games!
- Jason Wong
Dang!!! That's a big gun for such a small lady(LOL)
- YoYo_P
That makes me emotionally errect
- RAPatton
lol. Your job owns. :)
- Amy
Sweet...
- Dan Krivolavek
from twhirl
BFG!!!!1
- Mike Lewis
But what size hole does it make?
- Jay Cuthrell
Where did the gun come from?
- Barry Biddlecomb
from twhirl
Hours in the gym, Barry. *OH!* you mean the plastic gun?? Sony :)
- Veronica
Woah talk about a gun show :D
- Fee501st
great pic veronica
- (jeff)isageek
That pic is very cool!!!
- Joey
God Bless America. *Salute*
- ax0n
Not sure what I think about that
- Kevin J Hatton
i like u
- DWAYNE REGAN
cool picture!!!!! lolxxxzzzz & tc bye!!!!!!!!!
- meerab solomon
cool picture !!!!! lolz
- leo rensius
Yikes! Veronica with a very BIG gun...
- doc normal
could you send me that gun
- onwuzurike myke
alright that's hot and does get me in the mood for star trek!
- Freddie Benjamin
I want - http://fit-pc2.com/wiki...
OnuRC, Tyler Ham, Ben and 144 other people liked this
"Introducing fit-PC2 CompuLab introduces fit-PC2 – the smallest, most power-efficient Intel Atom PC to date. fit-PC2 architecture is what sets it apart from other nettop PCs - fit-PC2 is designed around the Intel Atom Z530 1.6GHz and the ultra low power Intel US15W system controller hub, rather than the Atom N270 and 945G used in other nettop-PCs, thereby reducing power consumption by more than two thirds. US15W incorporates hardware video acceleration. This allows fit-PC2 to run Windows XP or Ubuntu Linux at just 6W and to play full HD 1080p H.264 video using less than 7W."
- Leo Laporte
from Bookmarklet
some limitations of the fit2pc: no n wifi, only 1gb ram & is soldered, reader is not sdhc, no wol, hdmi still needs sep audio line. if it could remedy those, then it would be more awesome than i originally thought it was. still cool idea. (edited to add: forums say hdmi does not support hdcp. boy, lots of surprises in what it *can't* do. almost a parody of an 'efficient' device.)
- sɹǝɥʇɐǝɟʞɔɐןq
Got error when clicked the link. Actually I thought I could show the screenshot, but ff can not add images to comments.
- ThinkEzy
Where and when can we buy this ??
- @LarsenTweet
Very nice
- Amit Morson
as sweet as a purring kitten
- Willem (@wim66) ☠
awesome. when do they start production?
- Chris Rutili
from BuddyFeed
And here I was waiting for netbooks to get better performance and instead we see the same low performance spreading from the mobile world, where it made sense, to our desks. Crud. It's nice that it's got low power requirements, but that seems to be it.
- Henrik
When do they start building the computer into the keyboard?
- Brian Sieker
I need a small, very low power consumption system with two ethernet ports to replace a home server. The fit-PC2 is so tantalizingly close; I'd have to add a USB ethernet dongle, and those are teh suck.
- DGentry
"Want" is a serious understatement. I could do some evil, evil things with that!
- ax0n
Very sexy! I can imagine having three or four of these with SSDs around my house.
- Barry Biddlecomb
from twhirl
With more HDMI ports and built-in blu-ray this would be an excellent choice for HTPC. Here's a better link to the data sheet http://www.compulab.co.il/fitpc2...
- JCunwired
For the right (low) price, even with it's flaws it could be a great little media server. And here I was wishing upon an eee-box-star.
- thepete
sɹǝɥʇɐǝɟʞɔɐןq: Thanks for those helpful pieces of info. Please consider using punctuation and capitalization in the future. I know it's not cool, but it serves a purpose (e.g. it helps knowledge transfer, the supposed reason for commenting in the first place) :P.
- coldbrew
I want this as well.
- Doug Slater
I doubt that 1080p H.264. is watchable. Need some proof. It would be a key factor for me.
- Dmitriy B
I want one of these.
- Robert Gregory Browne
The newer boards use a dual-core Atom and NVidia 9400M chipset. Even has CUDA support. I believe it could decode 1080p. http://mini-itx.com/2009...
- Rodfather
Looks great. I want also. I'll wait for Windows 7.
- Scott Kraatz
Smaller than a MacMini. I'll wait for Windows 7 too.
- Randy Caldwell
I'd love to attach this to the back of a monitor and hang it on a wall
- Camden
Brian Sieker: Asus already started stuffing the whole pc inside a (nice looking) keyboard, take a look at the Eee Keyboard http://gizmodo.com/5124985...
- Rui Pires
I wonder how well this will run Boxee.. Is it the perfect boxee box?
- raf
I'm always skeptical about the 1080P claims for nettops.
- Ryan Whitwam
Aline Ohannessian to Aline's feed, TheNextWeb Forum, RWW: The Future of Tech, The Apple Room: TNW Apple
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Quit spamming!
- Arch Draftsman
Sorry you feel you have to make a buck and reck such a cool site as FriendFeed.
- Arch Draftsman
I only ask you to stop spamming, I never lowered myself by calling you names.
- Arch Draftsman
you are harassing me...for nothing! and that IS LOWERING YOURSELF !
- Aline Ohannessian
I'm sorry you have decided to take it that way. Have a wonderful day!
- Arch Draftsman
@Frank: Although the topic of the post isn't personally of interest to me, I have a hard time seeing how it's spamming. It's appropriate for every group it's been submitted to IMO.
- LANjackal
@Frank: you are obviously uneducated in the field of internet marketing, not to be able to recognize the difference between an affiliate and straight forward recommendation/Sharing information. You should do YOUr research before making comments that are accusatory in nature!
- Aline Ohannessian
Internet marketing is a big negitive for the FriendFeed user. We want unaffiliate infomation. Frank must of hit a nerve with you and uncovered some truth here.
- Joe Gata
awesome - this could be fun...
- Chris Jackson
@Joe Gata: yes i may have reacted emotionally, caught off guard in the moment, as i do take spamming seriously, therefore to me this was an Unjust continued accusation on my lazy sunday afternoon - thanks for your input.
- Aline Ohannessian
I looked into your feeds and it is obvious you are doing advertising. I'm sure you do take spamming seriously thats how you make money, per click right? I like how you even tried to market yourself as a victim in your comment
- Joe Gata
@Fabian, ?
- Joe Gata
okay my LOVElies, it is very obvious that some of us are clearly more informed regarding links, internet use, social media, the purpose of such than others.....
- Roni Lipstein
The purpose of social media is to SHARE information.......
- Roni Lipstein
SPAM is sending people to junk sites, it is leading them astray.......
- Roni Lipstein
EVEN IF someone were to advertise as opposed to merely RECOMMENDING or SHARING information, {if one DID have an affiliate link- we can get into what that means as some clearly do not know}, which CLEARLY is NOT the case here with ArtWave, so long as that which they were "advertising" was upfront- no-one is "misdirecting" YOU, if they show you a pic of a new item and take u to the item's...
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- Roni Lipstein
furthermore, BEfore any comment on another taking specific action in any public forum, it is allways highly recommended to DO your research FIRST.
- Roni Lipstein
@Kelly W - Kelly, I think you may have read incorrectly.....ArtWave is NOT SELLING ANYTHING.............someone who is unaware of and uneducated regarding links made a FALSE ACCUSATION......ArtWave happens to BE amongst the foremost individuals whom offers FREE TIPS to GREAT Products, Information and Resources for ALL of WE at ABSOLUTELY NO PROFIT to herSELF........she's just AMAZING like that......you may want to investigate her feeds YOUr SELF to see what I am speaking to.
- Roni Lipstein
Got it-sorry about the misunderstanding. I was responding from my iphone and not able to read further. Comment deleted. :)
- Kelly W.
Well, REAL FriendFeed users such as Mitch Wagner wouldn't share things from InformationWeek in FriendFeed, and REAL FriendFeed users such as Robert Scoble wouldn't set up a Building 43 room in FriendFeed...what? Seriously, the logic that refers to this item as spam completely escapes me. I'm subscribed to Aline now...
- John E. Bredehoft
from fftogo
looks cool, thanks for sharing
- Brian Hendrickson
The only thing is that I'd be worried about storing things like database credentials in my PHP code, as well as my FTP login information "in the cloud". Other than that, it looks pretty slick.
- ax0n
Wow @Frank, someone pissed in your coffee this morning. How about you just go away, since you are coming off like a lousy troll? Maybe he's already gone, since he hasn't commented in a while. Thanks @Aline for the great link. Don't get frazzled by idiots.
- Fleagle
Nice link and interesting webapp, but I think I will stay with vim/emacs/Sublime/jEdit.
- Artem Daniliants
Mosler MT900 GTR XX Twin Turbo Land Shark: 2500 Hp! - http://www.automotto.org/entry...
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The power of a thank you: a United Airlines employee personally thanked me and another guy I was sitting next to for being loyal customers. We both looked at each other in amazement. Gives me some ideas for my own career. I don't say thank you enough.
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Thank you.
- Michael McKean
Thank me very much. ;)
- Craig Eddy
Thank you!!
- Roberto Bonini
Robert, thank you for that free consulting the other day. I've already implemented some of it.
- Bruce Lewis
from fftogo
Sincere thanks shows empathy and respect. Even thanks by protocol (less sincere) _can_ be good, and potentially leads to the real thing - even better. Great thought to share, Robert.
- Micah
Did the United Airlines employee thank you for your friendfeeds?
- Charbax
Starting at home, too. Maryam does a lot for me and I don't say thank you enough to her.
- Robert Scoble
Apology accepted
- Dave Hodson
It's too easy to take things for granted.
- Michael McKean
Robert, thank you for improving yourself by thanking others more often. ;)
- Chris Charabaruk
Saying "please" and "thank you" is always welcome, thanks, Robert. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
A great reminder. Another thing I'm learning is to be more gracious when others say 'thank you' and to say 'you're welcome.' Often, I say 'no problem,' which is kind of self-diminishing and also doesn't convey that they are worth doing a favor for. I don't know if this makes any sense, but I'm trying to train myself.
- joey
One airline used to say "Welcome Mr. xyz as soon as you were on your first class seat and asked what you wanted for a drink ... they have the list of passengers with the frequent flier level. Basic customer service.
- Julio F ~ @SocialJulio
I worked for some folks as a horseback trail guide when I was a kid. Everyday, no matter what, they thanks me for coming in and doing my job. Taught me the power of a thank you from a group that normally takes you for granted (your employer) - the same holds true for thanking customers.
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Julio: I have flown 300,000+ miles and hearing thank you is a rare enough occurence that it is notable when it happens.
- Robert Scoble
Wouldn't it be great if @ev said thanks to some of the early adopters who tirelessly promoted Twitter? It struck me when he tweeted from the Time awards dinner thanking his employees. He doesn't get how hard we work, for free, to make him successful.
- Dave Winer
@Dave - do you want some stock or something? If you feel like you need to be recognized and aren't, use another service
- Dave Hodson
"Thank you" is something you don't notice unless it's missing. My previous job I got very few "thank yous" from the management, it was a little upsetting. I still did the work of course but it would have been very nice if people simply replied to mails, for example, with a thank you. It seemed there that that was wasting an email. No it's not! :-(
- Kol Tregaskes
What does being a "loyal customer" mean? I have loyalty to ideals, to my country, to my family ... not so much to companies. There are exceptions, but I don't think any airline would apply ...
- John Koetsier
John: I did 120,000 miles with United last year. That is loyalty.
- Robert Scoble
I had a patient carry business type cards with a lovely verse about how little the world recognizes good service, kind nature and such. I truly was taken for a pause when she gave me one.
- Janet-The Bottley Crue
Janet, that is a fantastic idea.
- joey
Just give thanks that you actually have a career as many do not right now in this country.
- Steve
One of my friends trains dentists and their staffs how to boom their new patient numbers through word-of-mouth referrals without ever saying the "r-word". It's basically done through very well-worded thank you messages. Extremely powerful and the staff absolutely love doing it.
- Hans Eisenman
I agree and the power simple gestures have always amazes me.
- Craig Mische
You are welcome Robert, LMAO
- John (ColderICE)
Funny. My boss's birthday was today. We have to give words of wisdom on our birthday's at work. He told us a story about the importance of thanking and acknowledging.
- amarquart
Steve: I'm always thankful for that. Not to mention that about half the world's people live on $2 a day. I thank my dad for being the first to go to college in our family, get a PHD, and moving me to Silicon Valley. Of course if we had stayed in Jersey maybe I would be working with Gary Vaynerchuk now. That would be fun too!
- Robert Scoble
Awesome! Amazing how something so small can be so big
- Andy A.
Amazing how a simple "Thank You" goes a very long way..
- Ricardo Bueno
Look at all of the positive press UA is getting from this and it didn't cost them a cent! Just good policy and good employees.
- Jeff P. Henderson
When said honestly and properly, thank you can be very powerful. We all should use it more.
- arik
Thank you.
- Jack Humphrey
I like to ask speak to the manager of anyone who has been very helpful to me so that I can request that it be noted how great he or she was.
- metalerik
metalerik, that's great.
- Bruce Lewis
I had a very positive experience the other day after being delayed for five hours and being stranded overnight in Denver (United put me up for the night). About 20 minutes after landing at SFO, I got an apology email with a $250 credit for future travel. http://bit.ly/AMEH4
- Rocky
Robert, thank you.
- Michael Forian
I wish friendfeed had its own version of "@" -- instead if I want to send you to Doc Searls I have to paste his URL in: http://friendfeed.com/dsearls -- he has a house in Santa Barbara and is doing some great coverage of the fires there.
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I also wish that friendfeed would take the "@" character and point it at the same person's friendfeed account, if one exists. That's a tough problem to do, though.
- Robert Scoble
Since FF is suppose to be more conversational, one would think an @user or similar would be a given.
- Brian
Problem with doing that is people will mistakenly @ the display name rather than the username (what's in the URL). Honestly, I couldn't tell you the actual username for a lot of people I interact with on FF.
- FFing Enigma
They could make it so that clicking on an @name would get you a popup menu with a variety of choices. It could know that I am "davew" on Friendfeed and "davewiner" on Twitter and "dave" on identi.ca and "scriptingnews" on Flickr.
- Dave Winer
Brian: one reason I think friendfeed is resisting doing that is because they don't want to piss off Twitter (Twitter gives them a real time firehose feed and if it gets cut off friendfeed will dramatically change). Another reason? They are very heavy on ex-Google superstars and they know that by putting URLs (and forcing the same) they help the Google page rank of the whole system. Already I'm seeing some of my friendfeed items show up higher on Google than similar Tweets.
- Robert Scoble
I know if you click,drag and drop from a person's name (anywhere) to the comment box you get their FF url dropped. Not sure if that helps or not in this situation?
- Brian Sullivan
However it can be done it would be nice to have the ability to 'reply' to a user. Then those 'replies' could be on a separate page and we wouldn't need these not-so-perfect vanity searches maybe? :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Brian: that's cool, I didn't know you could do that.
- Robert Scoble
Brian, I didn't know that. Very cool! :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Robert: interesting, good points. Didn't think about that. Maybe FF will come up with an easy way to autocomplete our friend/subscriber list in a "To: user" box, and shorten the link.
- Brian
Brian http://friendfeed.com/briansu...: nice find! That is a good solution for now.
- Brian
Hmm and you are able to search by URL too, very interesting. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Mark: yes, that is what I would like to see as well.
- Brian
As there is no 140 character limit to posts here a drag'n'drop url solution that is only slightly worse that the hyperlink solution, could be the ff.im/username format instead.
- René Clausen Nielsen
that seems to be a firefox thing, it's not working in IE8 for me.
- Ben Reierson
If FF could tidy up the user URLs in some way to make it a little more presentable then that's a pretty good solution.
- Kol Tregaskes
René, yes definitely.
- Kol Tregaskes
Ben - I am using Chrome.
- Brian Sullivan
It works in Chrome.
- Kol Tregaskes
Working a bit in FF3.1
- Roberto Bonini
Robert, surely the best way of doing this is just to use the FF share function from the post in question? FF will then put the links in for you. I do agree with Dave though about some form of display on the username.
- Keith Bennett
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Another thing -- we really do need one place -- each of us -- where we want to be seen and contacted at. I have a single address in the physical world. I have a bunch of email addresses, but one "main" one. Twitter is becoming that, unfortunately -- because who wants a company to own us. I don't. And I think eventually that has to blow apart. I dread the day. It would be great to have a...
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- Dave Winer
I agree, I think it's necessary to allow people to easily refer to their or other user accounts
- Jan Ole Peek
I agree something like that is needed... I always cringe when @ is overused though...seems so Twitterish
- Bwana ☠
I 27th that movement.
- Malcolm Bastien
make it so
- andy brudtkuhl
That would be really helpful, I have been wondering how to track and continue friendfeed conversations off-site and that would make life a little easier.
- Abhimanyu Chirimar
I 28th it.
- Varun Mahajan
I like René's idea that it should use the ff.im but the display text should be the user's name to make it look tidy. So you drag the user's username into the comment, it links to your profile page and displays as your name (e.g. "Kol Tregaskes" instead of "koltregaskes"). #betakoltag-sg-postscomments
- Kol Tregaskes
Actually I'd just might prefer ff.im/shevy over a hyperlinked René Clausen Nielsen. A hyperlinked René Clausen Nielsen should preferably point to my home (ie. my personal blog). THAT is me. ff.im/shevy is my ff home. Just as @shevy is my Twitter home. I like the easily distinguishable pointers.
- René Clausen Nielsen
I'd say it should definitely link to your FF user page.
- Kol Tregaskes
Dave: for most people Facebook is that place. I have been spending more time over there and it has more things that will keep pulling you back in. For many people it is their rolodex now. It's amazing the quality of people over there and what they put into their profiles.
- Robert Scoble
why not take back the "!" that Pownce has now given up?
- clarke thomas
Whatever the ff version of @ will be; yes it should definitely point to the ff user page. No doubt. I'm just saying that in the great big web pond I'd like a hyperlinked my name to point to my web home as often as possible. And I like it when every service has it's own self-referencing standard.
- René Clausen Nielsen
Matthew: I said that about the # sign, but there are some use cases for that, even if technically we don't need it anymore to group things together. The @ sign, though? Nope, I didn't see someone say that.
- Robert Scoble
Matthew, yep Robert mentioned the # symbol only.
- Kol Tregaskes
this is my fundamental problem with FF - the lack of @ means within one conversation tracking who is responding to me requires me to scan the whole lot - that frankly sucks.
- Nick Halstead
Nick, yep. We rely on everyone using our names or usernames so we can track 'replies' with our vanity searches but it's wholly unreliable of course.
- Kol Tregaskes
Nick: agreed. We are all self interested and need much better alerting when someone talks about us. We already have that in "Direct messages." I hope they rethink this for something like "Discussions about me."
- Robert Scoble
Kol: and it sucks that I can't join vanity searches for my name on friendfeed with those that I do outside of friendfeed too. That's pretty lame.
- Robert Scoble
If FF added anchors to comments and perhaps a DM/CC for comments that might be interesting, though perhaps complicated and untidy?
- Kol Tregaskes
Robert, also, vanity searches only really work well if you have a unique-ish name (thank you Mum! ;-)).
- Kol Tregaskes
Matthew: I agree. Can't wait to see how they add new features. Kol: true, but I can see a world where you could filter based on your friends. "Find items written by Joe Smith, but only display those about the Joe Smith who is friends with Louis Gray and Robert Scoble."
- Robert Scoble
Man that would be sweet.
- Drew Lucas
Robert, yep.
- Kol Tregaskes
Why not add the person you're mentioning in the "To" field? Pings the person just like an @ mention and it adds a link to the person you're talking about so we can all check out the person, too.
- Mark Trapp
Dear Friendfeed, please copy the @replize feature as implemented by SocialMedian last year: http://mashable.com/2008... XOXO, Daniel
- Daniel J. Pritchett
Socialtext/'s Signals app has a type-ahead find in its @reply feature. They use an AIR client though.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
from IM
I think FriendFeed should implement something far more intelligent than simple @-username. It could scan for the mention of a name of a person you are subscribed to anywhere in a message, then make a hyperlink of it. I think I'd rather type someone's name in full than be forever stuk with @username. Also, I think name resolution within comments should be local to the conversation. In...
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- Meryn Stol
Meryn: good idea but what about if someone mentions Martin Bryant, the infamous 1996 Australian mass murderer? It'd link to my profile!
- Martin Bryant
Martin, good point. I had not thought about that. Indeed there are situations when people want to talk other people with the same name as a person they are subscribed too. Maybe very hard to make a good UI for this. Local name resolution within comment threads is more realistic: You just make a hard rule that when someone mentions a first name, he is assumed to be referencing a previous participant in the conversation.
- Meryn Stol
I really like Kol's idea: "it should use the ff.im but the display text should be the user's name to make it look tidy. So you drag the user's username into the comment, it links to your profile page and displays as your name (e.g. "Kol Tregaskes" instead of "koltregaskes")." so http://friendfeed.com/meryn would be replaced by "Meryn Stol", linking to my profile. This combined with a fast way to look up these urls ("find as you type") would greatly improve over the current situation.
- Meryn Stol
OTOH, @meryn could be replaced with "Meryn Stol" as well. I just don't like seeing these @'s displayed.
- Meryn Stol
Nick makes a good point that it's irritating that you don't know when anyone mentions your name inside conversations you participated in. I wish I'd be notified if anyone use my first name inside a thread that I have commented on earlier.
- Meryn Stol
this is a time for the tricky higher ascii characters. ƒ (mac, option-f) is one possible way... ƒ ƒ ƒ are other ways to write the character, according to this page of glyphs http://www.ebyte.it/library... (1st under Symbols and Greek letters). So I guess the proper use for it would be ƒsusankitchens or ƒscobleizer
- Susan A. Kitchens
Meryn, it was really taking from René's point but yes sounds good. Once you drag and drop the username into the comment, it changes to a hyperlink displaying the user's name. Not sure how technically possible that is though?
- Kol Tregaskes
Meryn, yep I don't like @s either, name of the user (not the username) please. :-) I know user's by their names not their usernames.
- Kol Tregaskes
Isn't this just the classic namespace problem? Kol et.al. have it right - FF should simply be it's own namespace, and figure a simple way to refer to users. Then display the user's display name with an href to their FF page. No need to point to whatever your *real* homepage is, cause why wouldn't FF want to continue capturing stuff? 8-) But better linking to FF users would be key, as would threaded comments. (Heck, I'd rather have threaded comments and let some client-side apps do the live streaming...)
- Shane Curcuru
I would be very happy if there was some common, linked way of identifying my FriendFeed identity in a conversation. Ideally, it would happen automatically somehow, but this is certainly problematic. One way might be to pick a special character (easily typed) and have FF drop down a list of commenters in the thread. Then it would be easy to identify even in the case of multiple Robs...
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- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
but the click and drag thing is cool. I think it should come up with my hyperlinked display name (not my URL) I find that I can drag another person's name from another conversation into the coments from another post as well. If that just caused me to be notified of a mention it would be cool (BUT training ALL of the FF users to do this might be a challenge)
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Agreed. @ = "at". That's always driven me crazy about Twitter. Makes some sense with email if you think of a domain as a physical location, but you're not talking "at" someone - you're talking "to" them or "about" them. I always thought ">Mike" would work better as a way of expressing that a message was directed at me. Maybe ":Mike" or "~Mike" if someone was just referring to me...
- Mike Hartman
But don't you like the slang "yo, at me later - I'll be online" lol!
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
I had to read that a couple times before my brain could parse it into a thought.
- Mike Hartman
how about using another character rather then @ could that work?
- (jeff)isageek
me too - that would be really useful
- Sharon Hurley Hall
I'm pretty sure the @ functionality needs to just to be standardized across the web at this point
- Zaki Manian
I'm pretty sure the @ functionality needs to just to be standardized across the web at this point
- Zaki Manian
friendfeed should just copy socialmedian's @reply feature. go for it. take it. seriously. you need it. we'd all love it.
- Jason Goldberg
sweet according the ffholic I am about to bust in the top 100 most active users on friendfeed.
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This does NOT surprise me. At all.
- ax0n
Awesome that's because you rock!
- Wayne Sutton
Work it.
- Derrick
Computer illiteracy and American Television - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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"I'll create a GUI interface using Visual Basic - see if I can track an IP address." [K, you do that. Sure hope your criminalistics are better than your infotech skills]
- Anthony Citrano
Just want to tear my eyes out and stuff them in my ears
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
And two weeks later someone thought of traceroute
- Eric
Oh man, that's going to have me smiling all morning. Thanks Anthony!
- Raoul Pop
@Raoul - glad to oblige. ;) I was watching "Without A Trace" tonight on CBS and the infotech elements in the story were just excruciatingly bad. It reminded me of this CSI episode from last season so I dug it up.
- Anthony Citrano
Slaps forehead in dismay.... would be much better if they just didn't try, wouldn't it?
- Bob Walder
Solid gold. I wonder how long it took her to learn that line, to make it sound like it's coming from a pro.
- Yuval Atzmon
Give it another 20 years or so; maybe then Hollywood will start to get it.
- Anthony Citrano
Whois and tracert will get you 90% of the way there.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
@Alex - I suggest you, Eric, and torque make your own CSI scene.
- Anthony Citrano
Her first mistake was "GUI interface". It was all downhill from there.
- Ken Sheppardson
"First let me run out to the ATM machine, stop at my car and write down my VIN number, then I'll come back and get started on that GUI interface..."
- Ken Sheppardson
Ken, be sure not to forget your PIN number.
- Michael McKean
You know, there's probably some dedicated device she could use instead. Something that recorded the data stream off the LAN network onto DAT tape. Maybe with an LCD display. It'll need a battery or she'll have to run it off AC current. Then she can generate graphs of the traffic in GIF format... and we can all make fun of her here in FF's approximation of IRC chat.
- Ken Sheppardson
Perhaps I should redirect you here ;) http://beta.friendfeed.com/isthiss...
- Michael McKean
But this isn't trivial, Michael. ;-)
- Anthony Citrano
It's not just TV. I can't remember the last time I saw a movie that something computer related that was reasonable. For years I've thought about forming a company that would specialize in tech-related script reviews for Hollywood. I don't know how much of a market there is for it, but there *should* be quite a big one.
- Joey Gibson
Anthony: I think Michael was talking about my struggle with RAS syndrome. :-)
- Ken Sheppardson
Ken, I was referring to both. :P
- Michael McKean
@Joey - I have a couple friends who write for TV. Not terribly close friends, but guys I've known a while. I've asked them about this issue, even offered to assist if they need. Their teams didn't seem particularly receptive. It's part of a broader problem - infotech, particularly online tech, is still seen as an abstract fad by much of Hollywood, believe it or not. I do like your idea, though. A small consultancy might do well, so long as no one was planning to make a living from it.
- Anthony Citrano
XAXAXAXA, I will so no more
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
This actually worries me quite a bit - and it seems to have got worse if anything. It's basically misinforming the general public about something that's central to our lives these days. Doesn't it border on immoral or propagandist? Imagine they did the same thing with medicine?
- Robin Barooah
You guys remind me of my daughter. She passed the Bar last year and now she drives me crazy if we watch a police or law show together, she gets so annoyed by and *vocal about at length* all the unrealistic stuff that happens. :)
- Dawn
"Imagine they did the same thing with medicine" -- don't they?
- Ken Sheppardson
...Oh! And then there was my late husband (a nuclear reactor operator for the Navy for 8 years) who couldn't watch a movie that had to do with nuclear power. I remember one where all the workers were freaking out and one fearful guy says "The reactor is going critical!" Even I knew that reactors *operate* at critical. That's the norm!
- Dawn
As Joey and I discuss above, it's an easy problem to solve (legal, infotech, medical, even nuclear) if they shed the arrogance.
- Anthony Citrano
from BuddyFeed
"We need to write a believable Hollywood script, stat!" ... "Right. I'll get our dialog coach to pitch a green light at the directory of photography. Give me 2 days" ... "I need it 5. Minutes." ... "You got it!"
- Micah
I for one welcome our new GUI interface Overlords.
- Matthew
One of my favorite moments was on "Eleventh Hour" when special science consultant Jacob Hood explained to an FBI agent what DARPA was.
- Sue Radd
What such a GUI might look like: http://bit.ly/JLjhI
- Alex Scrivener
The worst show for these types of comments is "Numbers". In one episode they went into a small computer repair shop to pick up their mainframe. In another Charlie began expounding on how he would use a pagerank algorithm to determine something in game theory.. It's painful.
- Bill Rawlinson
As an ex-scientist, I can say that the science on the crime shows is equally bad. I'm sure my wife is sick of me yelling at the TV when we watch CSI.
- Dave Roth
Can any show top 24 for repeated and ridiculous misuse of computer terminology? "Refresh the drives" and "Open a socket" are two of my favorites.
- The original Kevin
A federal agent I once knew said "don't get me started on 'the computer' in 24 - IF ONLY we had the computer". He said the rest of it was ludicrous too, but mostly in scale, whereas 'the computer' was about as realistic as them having teleporters.
- Robin Barooah
Back when I was a scientist, I would think 'popular media can't get chemistry right to save it's life'; now I'm thinking it's not just chemistry.
- Robert Hafer
new bike! - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
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Very nice! Friend of mine got a custom one a year ago and loves it.
- Andy Lewandowski
Sweet ride.
- Mike Nayyar
Nice bike!
- Fee501st
I prefer a Kawi Ninja. :)
- Scott Hubble
Where ya goin'?
- Christian Collins
What song was playing through your head as you first rode the bike?
- Jason Wong
That's the perfect machine for getting around town. I'd bet that basket holds a netbook nicely!
- ax0n
Great photo too!
- Paul Reynolds
^ Yea, she looks so happy :D
- Fee501st
You made it to Cyclelicious! http://www.cyclelicio.us/2009...
- ax0n
ax0n, I saw! although i'm not sure why i'm on there, i'm no great cyclist!
- Veronica
helmet?!
- Kiran Patchigolla
I was only riding on the sidewalk for a minute! I was walking it home from the shop!
- Veronica
Today was a nice day to ride your bicycle.
- imabonehead
I'm friends w/ Fritz. He likes to post celebs on their bikes. Internet fame: you has it!
- ax0n
Dear Oracle: I regret to inform you that the chance to win a 2 GB flash drive is not enough to entice me to attend your virtual seminar. I mean really, 2 GB? And don't you think I have enough flash drives already? Now, a free hour with a competent Ora DBA would have been another story altogether...
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A *CHANCE* to win a 2GB flash drive? Holy hell. Go to any convention and you get half a dozen of these for free. I would settle for a 2TB flash drive, though. And at least they didn't use the most annoying portmanteau ever... "Webinar"
- ax0n
Apparently there's one iPod Nano being given away as well. I'd get more use outta the flash drive =/ Still holding out for the free hour with a DBA giveaway....
- FFing Enigma
...but, it's a two gig flash drive!
- Rishabh Mishra (p248)
Seriously, it's usually pretty easy to go home from any conference with a pile of 512mg flash drives - which sit on my desk and do nothing. A 2gig one is not an enticement for anything.
- Elizabeth Parmeter
Suddenly things look smaller... - http://krisdedecker.typepad.com/photos...
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That's a big boat!
- Kol Tregaskes
What's the boat in the middle? Is that the QM 2? If so what's the outer boat?
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
great graphic. i saw this thing when it was in ny. it was like a moving city. the scale is unbelievable
- Cee Bee
Would like to see it compared to a US supercarrier or one of the latest oil tankers.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
And yes, this is a great graphic...but expand it out. This is the sort of thing that requires cool software where you can zoom it in or out at will.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Alex, that would be cool. Don't know ath the ship inside is. :-(
- Kol Tregaskes
RT @kriggins: RT @mattjay: @oneeyedcarmen I have CDO, it is kind of like OCD but the letters are in alphabetical order like they should be!
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@SecBarbie I know. My thinking is that all their effort is going to Win 7 instead of Vista but I don't think we need a new OS every 2 yrs
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Apple Disagrees with you. Feh. "Snow Leopard." - Leopard's been a pain in my ass. If Tiger had Time Machine, I'd retrograde.
- ax0n
w/ so many webapps shouldn't the underlying OS become less relevant. Give me a stable, modular, high performance OS & leave me alone
- Keith - @tsudo
Ted "Mr. Tubes" Stevens is out! Lost his reelection! Woot!
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