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- Mike Nayyar
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- LogEx
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- LogEx
So it's since Tuesday huh? The ultimate thread. How will the thread die then? We must have a limit for that, let's say 24h without one comment.
- ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0,
As a side note, I do have to applaud the endurance and pettiness of those of us on FriendFeed. No one on Facebook gave this status update a second look!
- Mike Nayyar
We pride ourselves in our pettiness and obsessiveness. Um, wait.
- LogEx
Remember. It's not whole Scoble likes. It's who likes Scoble.
- Akiva Moskovitz
According to FriendFeed, that's everyone. And some Twitter marketers and SEO experts.
- Mike Nayyar
Mike will get in the last word. Eventually. Everyone else is an idiot for playing his little game. Me included. :-)
- Robert Scoble
I'm not actually playing. Or, if I am, I'm playing to lose.
- Akiva Moskovitz
HAHA! You see that? Robert Scoble acknowledges I will eventually win! HAHA! FINALLY! For once in my life, I win! :) :) :) :) Unless Logical shows up...
- Mike Nayyar
Only mostly dead. There's a big difference between mostly dead and all dead. Mostly dead is slightly alive. With all dead, well, with all dead there's usually only one thing you can do.
- LogEx
We're testing the limit on the number of comments.
- DGentry
Nah, the FFundercats live chat pushed that one way over the top. We are, however, testing the limits oh how sick people are getting of setting my face.
- Mike Nayyar
This thread has a lot of comments, that must mean Mike is an expert of some kind...or maybe an A-Lister. Must stalk^H^H^H^H^Hinvestigate him...
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
Wow losts of comments...shame this is the last comment though.
- Nicholas James
Olympus too? Good thing Logical doesn't know any Japanese mythological figures.
- Mike Nayyar
All right, if you're going to play that way, Raijin AND Ajisukitakahikone are BOTH mad at you. And Raijin was especially unhappy because you interrupted his NOMmage of children's bellybuttons.
- LogEx
Dude, my best friend's sister's boyfriend's brother's girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid who's going with the girl who saw Raijin put down the platter.
- LogEx
We'd be content, of course, if you (Mike) issued a public retraction of the assertion in your post, followed by allowing someone else to post the last comment in the thread ;-)
- LogEx
LE: Someone is going to go "last" again and it will continue ;)
- Nicholas James
Logical made it into a competition and now alot of people want to hold the title as the last comment on this thread. It will eventually stop when people give up and/or another one is made ;)
- Nicholas James
Gordon: No-one is going to give up. Well about 85% of the people on here already have...its just time to wait for the remaining people to give up and let me post "LAST"
- Nicholas James
Someone will eventually win this. However, since everyone else will have clicked "Hide" by then, they won't be able to tell anyone about it.
- Glen Mistletoe
You know at some point, expanding this comment will really put a strain on mortal browsers. It already has a 3 second pause to expand it.
- Mark Philpot
I wonder if at some point we will hit a soft limit and FF won't let it keep going. That or they look at this as a great high-bounds test case for the system.
- Sparky
I'm scared to expand the comment thread :)
- Roberto Bonini
There are few computers with the processing power capable of handling the comments in this thread. Except for, you know, quantum computers.
- Mike Nayyar
from iPhone
i'm afraid to click on the link to see all comments. so i'm just typing this so another guy (or gal) can read it and comment to make this comment disappear.
- Alfredo
If anyone gets these emails in their gmail and got sick and tired of them like me, just press 'm' to mute the conversation (if you have keyboard shortcuts enabled) (haha i got the last word)
- Daniel Morgan
No you just don't know I posted this.
- John D Reasor
cant the person that started this block the comments now? and thereby win.
- Morgan Haley
If you can get buddy buddy with mike and figure out his schedule, you can prevent him from stopping the comments because you'll always be able to get the last word in. We must prevail for great justice!
- Jon, the Beartato of FF
That would be cheating, and he knows it :)
- LogEx
That's how the FriendFeed Mob rolls. :-D
- Steven Perez
from IM
you didn't disable the comments yet? you could comment and then do it and then you really would get the last word. but then again, that's cheating. and cheaters never prosper.
- Trish Haley
You're not supposed to make sense of it. It exits only as an opaque, monolithic data structure that is constantly being updated and evolving. ;)
- Tyson Key
Attempting to parse it in a manner that is not approved by FriendFeed, Inc may result in disruption of the space-time continuum, and a series of Bad Things(R) occurring.
- Tyson Key
Now that I have the option of telecommuting, we upped our bandwidth to 50/10. However, http://speedtest.net is showing us maxing out at around 35-49Mb/s. THIS IS UNACCEPTABLE OMG!!!!!!!!!!!! A tech is coming on Monday.
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- Colby Olson
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- Colby Olson
I would rather everyone be anonymous than no one.
- jeneane sessum
Gerard: as I said in the other thread this would be impossible to enforce so I wouldn't worry about it too much.
- Robert Scoble
I commented on your blog: I think anonymity is both a horrible thing and a great tool, it depends on how it's used. In some countries complete anonymity is needed, otherwise they would be put to death or jail. I find its far more respectable when someone puts a real name and face to their opinion, though it isnt always needed.
- Colby Olson
Robert: I just think it's interesting that you want to abolish anonymity, that in itself is an odd thing to say, I suppose. Perhaps you could explain your reasoning?
- Colby Olson
Robert I think we all realize it would not be enforceable but what I'm going after is the idea behind it - that *were it enforceable*, it would be a good thing. To me, the underlying idea that anonymous speech is a bad thing and should be eliminated is rather authoritarian and terrifying.
- Anthony Citrano
Colby: everything that I have seen negative on the Internet is due to anonymity. Can you link to one positive thing? Mini Microsoft but even that would be much better if the guy who wrote it would sign his name.
- Robert Scoble
Anthony: well, I don't see it as a good thing. I have freedom of speech already and would die to defend that. Anonymity is for cowards.
- Robert Scoble
Robert, speaking out on the internet against oppressive governments is not a bad thing. And as I have stated previously, many revolutions start in anonymity. Again, rules of absolutism don't allow for both sides. Anonymity is a tool and it can be used for good and bad.
- Tim Finucane
Kind of a night of drastic comments from the Scobleizer, huh?? Everything negative on the internet is due to anonymity. Yikes thats a whole new round of overstatement. I love following you Robert and agree way more often than not but that's silly.
- Cody Heitschmidt
tim: what revolution started with anonymity? Certainly NOT the American one.
- Robert Scoble
It most definitely did start with secret meetings. The crown didn't know identities until after things got under way.
- Tim Finucane
Robert: You just spawned numerous blog posts and threads with that one. I agree with you up to a point. One of the two that I have blocked on FF was determined to be a troll and supposedly anon. However, there are many countries that speaking up and signing on the dotted line will get both your head and hand chopped off.
- Mathew A. Koeneker
Cody is right. I did overstate that and I am sorry about that.
- Robert Scoble
Robert... i would follow you into the fire.. and here is why we all follow you: Your are passionate. Sometimes it gets in your way because you overstate things but then you admit you are wrong. A guy with 30,000 followers could be big headed enough not to admit something he said wasn't quite right. It's cool that a little guy in Ks can make a contrary statement at you and not just get blocked and you roll over him. Now admit you were wrong on the rule against anonymity too. lol just kidding.
- Cody Heitschmidt
The Internet is and should be about choice. You should be able to choose your level of anonymity. It is not one shoe fits all.
- Jauder Ho
Robert -- There is legitimate reason for anon speech, especially on the internet. What I think you really want is a "Personal Global Internet Filter" that allows the removal of the ugliest side-effects. Even looking to the American revolution, pen names and aliases were used countless times by the likes of Thomas Jefferson, et al. There is a legitimate purpose to it... the statement that no revolution was started by anonymous is a bit of a stretch.
- Mark Philpot
There are a ton of reasons for a person to use a pseudonym on the internet. Especially when you look at people in other countries who can only speak by being "nameless". I even have reasons for using a name that isn't my real name.
- Candace
Don't admit you were wrong on the rule unless you believe it... until you believe ! hehe lol Great freaking discussion who started this whole mess with the rule comment?
- Cody Heitschmidt
I believe it was started by Robert's response to Laura Fitton's question: "What one "rule" would you make about the Internet?"
- Tim Finucane
i'm sorry he's wrong or right depending i've been batting this question lately and i use the internet not to shield who i am but to get people to talk to me who wouldn't do to disability. and if i ever meet any net folks in RL my hope is that they will be over it quicker due to knowing I'm capable and cool to begin with
- Cecil Sandus
To all those under pseudonyms: Why? Are you truly in fear of reprisal? @Dtrizzle a link to your blog profile quickly reveals you. @Corvida do you have a reason?
- Mathew A. Koeneker
@Robert Scoble (scobleizer): What's so negative about my blog? Well, other than the fact that I don't apply myself. Sorry, there've been too many firings and too many "we won't hire you" situations because of uptight control freaks in power who can't stand employees who have their own minds. Anyone who really desires it can find out who MiniMage is, but I feel the better for not broadcasting my real name, and so do my parents.
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
from NoiseRiver
One rule for the internet is that all data is equal. The second rule is that there are no other rules. I think Scoble's idea of not anonymity is becoming more a reality with people's lives becoming intertwined with their online identity. I would like to preserve anonymity for whistle blowers, etc. Anonymity is a tool that can be used or abused.
- Erik Weese
Pseudonyms mean nothing. People do find out who you are. I spent two days in a courtroom reading my blog entries aloud that were posted under a pseudonym. If you don't want people to read what you write, buy a pen and a blank journal and stick it under your mattress.
- Trish R
MiniMage many many more people have been hired for their blogs than fired for them and I can't think of an instance where someone who was fired wasn't behaving stupidly. We have a whole chapter in our book about that.
- Robert Scoble
yes Dtrizzle that makes sense to me and Trish as for your idea it's an oldie but a goodie...
- Cecil Sandus
corvida isn't anonymous. I have talked with her on the phone. Minimicrosoft is pretty anonymous but I know at least one person who knows who he is.
- Robert Scoble
Dtrizzle - The bit on your educational background while perfect for a resume can provide an easy way to start skip-tracing you. Not that I am. Just one of the little tricks I learned where tech meets accounting.
- Mathew A. Koeneker
it is amazing the conversations that can start with a simple word or two. I am at a wedding with people who have left Iran to get the freedom of speech so understand well the problems with using your real name. One guy here was in Iranian prisons for years. He is not afraid to stand up in public against injustice.
- Robert Scoble
@Robert Scoble (scobleizer): Do you remember the Chronicle of Higher Education article where someone talked about being on an interview committee? These EDUCATED folks attitudes were explained thus, "Several committee members expressed concern that a blogger who joined our staff might air departmental dirty laundry (real or imagined) on the cyber clothesline for the world to see. Past...
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- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
from NoiseRiver
Scoble I think he was referring to the fact that I don't use my real name online at all. As for the person who asked why, because I don't want people Googling me. I like to keep my personal life separate from my online life. Same person, different interactions and I don't want them overlapping in any way, shape, or form.
- Corvida
@Corvida - Why keep yourself so fragmented? Then you have to remember who you with whom. I am with Robert for the most part on this one. You instantly gain more respect from me if your are proud enough of your name to attribute ALL of your actions whether in the VW or RW to it. You are an American are you not? Unless, you have a TS like my folks then who or what are you hiding from. Telling me that it is just a personal choice is a cop out. @Dtrizzle gives some valid rationale for his decision.
- Mathew A. Koeneker
There are certain place on the net that you NEED anonymity !! Take a look at some Forums that ONLY focus on vulnerability disclosures. Each and every one of them is only known by a handle. Chances that you actually associate a handle w/ real name /face is near impossible.
- Peter Dawson
I could argue the same. Most in my situation do take that approach. My disease is just that a disease. It is what it is. Like I commented earlier there can be valid reasons; I just wanted to hear Corvida's rationale both from a personal interest as she is just another human being as well as from the pov of the well known blogger.
- Mathew A. Koeneker
Interesting convo. I actually talked to Mark Hopkins about this. He brought his anon handle into his identity. I've kept mine apart. I don't agree with no one being anonymous; I happily existed online for years and can still write about personal issues and my children without compromising their (or my) privacy.
- Cyndy
I vote for anonymity. If you are anonymous and threatening though, realize that I also support using every tracking method possible to make a community safer. People can not yell "FIRE" in a crowded room. I can not call my neighbor a "RAPIST" just because I feel like it. Regulated Free Speech is ok. Unregulated free speech is not, just as I can not go around town physically hitting anyone I want to ("Freedom of Action").
- Mitchell Tsai
The vast majority of my college friends (Harvard 1982-89, age 40-50) are still petrified of Facebook due to Corvida's concerns - and I have mostly techy friends. There are discussions on our alumni boards (on & off Facebook) about all the potential career dangers. About 30-40% of my college friends are on LinkedIn because they understand resumes & how you can control the presentation of...
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- Mitchell Tsai
P.S. I've spoken with Corvida on the phone also. We were going to visit Georgia Tech together, but plans didn't work out (and my college friend who's a professor there turned out to be out-of-town also). Bummer.
- Mitchell Tsai
Assume ANYTHING you e-mail, post on the Internet, or say on a phone is recorded somewhere and scanned for verbal/textual keywords. My first company is now partially owned by the C... and we process information to find ter...... Over 10 years ago (1992-98), I attended academic data-mining conferences where people from the phone company presented the algorithms they were using to scan...
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- Mitchell Tsai
“regulated free speech”, Mitchell? Can you be serious?
- Anthony Citrano
well i think the concept is absurd, myself. but i'm out. also, why post 5-6 messages in a row instead of 1? it's messy and inelegant.
- Anthony Citrano
Paragraph marks in a comment would work too. I don't like how everything runs together in one comment...
- Mitchell Tsai
@Robert people tend to act differently online than they do in real-life, anonymous or not. They perceive a disconnect between their online profile and life. Makes people be more direct, confrontational, and sometimes hostile. They don't feel bound by the same social rules (have respect for each other).
- Alexander van Elsas
I can fully understand that some wish to be anonymous on the web. But thinking that the things you do online are disconnected from your offline life is stupid. I am not anonymous online and I am aware that my interactions are always visible.
- Alexander van Elsas
I'll just add here that I don't agree that we should chop off our whole arm but if someone can point the finger and label me negatively knowing full well that I am public and not hiding behind a fake avatar, I should be able to see who is doing the labeling and so should the community since the insult was brought to the community's attention by the hiding labeler/harasser. We should...
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- Jeunelle Foster
Even aside from my opinion that the Imus thing was a bunch of BS from a clueless Outrage Nation, I disagree that providers ought strip away anonymity every time someone's feelings get hurt.
- Anthony Citrano
There are good (edit: adequate) legal processes for handling truly abusive cases.
- LogEx
This is a long thread and I may have missed it in a later response, but what about people finding you in person through the internet? I play WoW and my guild leader was stalked by someone who knew only her first name, state, and profession. He called her and flew to her area to find her. This is just a simple case of a nut job, but the internet is full of them. When you bring other countries, with less freedom into the mix things just get messier.
- Heather
The thing is, he never defined his terms either. Is creating a bogus account and logging in through a proxy for a one-time flame the same as using a long-term pseudonym for mostly constructive purposes? I think not. There are so many good and valid reasons for not living completely transparently.
- LogEx
@Anthony it's your opinion that you found the Imus thing BS and I'm not talking about when people's feelings get hurt, I disagree in cases where someone can get physically hurt, here is an example. Blogcatalog was in heat a few months ago when some of these members who I see as negative while hiding behind fake persona, fake avatars, hiding their Ip addresses and whois information took...
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- Jeunelle Foster
WOW. I was trying to figure out why I had this pop up from a year ago. I still pretty much side with The Scoblezier with a few exceptions. If you are blogging, chatting, or even surfing on-line....odds are pretty good that a determined individual or govt entity can find you out. You may think that you are "anon" but in reality you are not at all. Plus, I have a lot less respect for folks esp in this country that are unwillling to put their real names in their posts.
- Mathew A. Koeneker
I didn't feel like cutting and pasting so sorry. But if you think that your on-life persona is somehow sacred and secure from your real life identity then you have some harsh realities to wake up to. This is the information age people.
- Mathew A. Koeneker
What is Deskography? Deskography is a simple little service where you upload photos of your workspace. Why? Well, the idea is that it's fun to invite the world to see where you work.
- Colby Olson
As an added bonus, I always name my hard drives one of the following names: Wedge, Bunk, Pudgy, Puch, Guch, Gorch, Gorsuch, or Porluch. There are probably some others that I'm forgetting but those are the most common.
- Akiva Moskovitz
I change it every few years; it's currently philosophers & theologians (occam, aquinas, aristotle, bede). It used to be Roman poets (ovid, catullus, virgil, etc.)
- Glen Mistletoe
Mine is horribly simple, but I base network access on MAC address.
- nat
I admit that I've used anime names a lot (depending on what we were watching at the time I got a new box). But I've also used Greek gods/demigods before too.
- Lindsay
lol@Glen..is that the Elder or Younger Bede? We don't have a consistent naming protocol...my wife's box is Femputer, my Mac is Max, the laptop is Clark when booted into Windows and Kal when properly booted into Lunix and not making a spectacle of itself.
- Neal Jansons
I used to use planets, then Greek gods, now I suppose its by function.
- Brian Daniel Eisenberg
YES! ALL OF YOU! I say nothing interesting, but keep me in mind.
- nat
At work, they've started naming personal computers with two randomly-selected words from the dictionary. My dev box is "starburst" (not too bad), but my laptop is "wornfather". One of my former employee's machine's name was "spreadwhole". o_O
- Glen Mistletoe
Zelda characters. My network is Hyrule. My primary computer is Zelda. Primary laptop is Link. Secondary laptop is Ganon. My iPhone is Triforce.
- Rob Haas
from iPhone
Mine is cheesy. Hierarchy of angels. Seraphim, cherubim,etc.
- Bryan Lee
from iPhone
the names of various cheesy Italian and Japanese electric guitars from the 60s and 70s.
- Joe Silence is not dead
Oh yeah, and my network is called Birdhouse. It was that or either Birdcoop.
- Colby Olson
That's a shame, really, tags are very useful. But if people don't tag you can't be sure about your searches. I would say warn them and delete their posts if they are not tagging but sounds like a medicine that's worse than the illness, doesn't it
- Cristian Vidmar
I think getting people to use consistent tags is like herding cats (or as Alex Scoble likes to make the distinction, herding FED cats): it's just not worth the energy because you can't get them to meet in the middle.
- Lindsay
Herding fed cats or pushing a rope. Too bad.
- Russellreno
Zee, what are the advantages of tags over no-tags for searching on FriendFeed? I thought you can find anything with FF's search?
- Kol Tregaskes
Push the FF guys to install a real tagging/filtering system so people don't have to resort to #hacks. It's a feature desperately needed here.
- Sprague D
give up zee. It is a good idea, but people don't seem to do it :)
- TheHenry
maybe if someone showed others on FF how/where to use them... I still have no idea what you guys are talking about... secret options? Hidden fields somewhere? I know what they are on other sites because they're obvious in the UI but here haven't seen them
- Glenn Batuyong
dawn & glenn: for example, "adolfo, pls remember the #web#mac#iphone#blackberry#mobile tags - Zee." those hash signs [#] plus the "tag" itself to identify something.
- edythe
I would not say give up. We needs tags badly for searching. Searching is difficult. even for something in your own feed. Reminders are good and we all need to set the examples. Zee, also a good example or two would help and I think it would catch fire.
- Amani
Oh so you guys have been inserting pseudo twitter hashtags? That's all good but honestly I haven't noticed any FF posts with them at all. And where would they go? Title only? In first comment? FF doesn't currently parse them as links so they're pretty useless
- Glenn Batuyong
Tagging would be a good idea if the FF UI gave you the option of choosing from a delicious.com style "popular tags" cloud or type your own
- Glenn Batuyong
I just modified my behavior to remember to use them. Now you are thinking of doing away with them?
- Seth Greenblatt
from twhirl
It's too soon to tell Zee. You cant ask those to implement them and then do away with it days later. Give it time, some will catch on, some wont. No worries.
- Colby Olson
Tags are great for any content creating/sharing community - however there needs to be a very clear and immediate motivation for individual members to create and use them. I don't see that happening without support from friendfeed.
- Alexander Kohlhofer
Why are these #tags not mentioned in the guidelines? I think that would be a good place to start. Otherwise how are people to even know this is something you want? Personally, I prefer a different way of tagging things, and with more than searching in mind, prefixing the title in this style: [web] [mac] [iphone] [blackberry] [mobile]. My reason is that it sets it off better, visually and scanning down the page looking for what pertains to what you use, is much easier. (am I showing my p2p underwarez?)
- April Russo (app103)
April i had them in the header of this page until i removed them this morning. I have given up on the tag idea, it's just too big a waste of my time chasing people up
- Zee.
I think that, as long as people CLEARLY describe the link in a comment, it doesn't really matter. That seems to have taken on just fine, btw., people are selective that way ;)
- Vincent van Wylick
I'm assuming everyone who posted their link here would like to connect on Facebook? (I'm not a facebook fan, but was just wondering if FriendFeeders want to befriend on Facebook too).
- Jannifer @wordsforliving
I was saddled with http://www.facebook.com/JDPierc... because everything else was taken..well not true. /LordAlfredHayesJr was in fact available, but I went with something slightly truer.
- Joe Pierce
http://www.facebook.com/cains I'm not proud to admit that I actually set my alarm to wake me up at 5am so I could get that name, even though I never actually use facebook.
- Steven Cains
I just stuck with /waltruppar, but my Pug Marley is: http//facebook.com/FreelanceG33k I really wish pages didn't need 1000+ fans b4 being able to snag a name. Maybe they will wave this in the future after things calm down and allow pages in place prior to 31-May to get a name....
- Walt Ruppar
Walt: The 1000 user limit will be lifted on June 28, then we get another free-for-all
- Ken Sheppardson
boring but works: facebook.com/richardgoodwin . If I'd have known how easy it was to grab them I would have tried for something more original
- Richard Goodwin
from twhirl
http://www.facebook.com/matthew... - This is in effect the same as filling out a change of address card at the post office, but people are acting like it's a bikini party with a pony and a pinata.
- Matthew DeVries
I DON'T HAVE ONE!!!!!! "tamar" was unavailable but there's no page pointing to it! And um, we DID have someone check in at 12:01:01 AM! I am royally angry. btw, zee, gonna be really hard to get "zee" given the 5 char minimum - get to know someone working at FB and you may get lucky. (I've been trying to get tamar@gmail.com but the minimum character count is 6 and my Google contacts couldn't help..)
- Tamar Weinberg
mmm contacts :-) i hope you both get what you like
- Majento
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- Anamarie
MS Office, ACDsee (though running the new beta atm), Allway Sync (but if there is any further upgrade charges I'll find a free alternative) and Photoshop. I won't be paying for anything else from now, though, and will use free alternatives where possible.
- Kol Tregaskes
@Zee, GoToWebinar & 1Shoppingcart accounts, used to have a paid SurveyMonkey account too.
- Alex Schleber
@zee, i haven't paid for anything online except merchandise, domains and hosting. web apps, none.
- AJ Batac
Flickr, Mailplane, Highbrow, TextMate, MS Office, MobileMe, iLife
- Carlos Granier-Phelps
Mac OS X, TextMate, LittleSnitch, Tweetie. Flickr, Mozy, GitHub, Last.fm (no more!), Amazon S3/CloudFront/EC2/SQS, Skype credits, some e-books.
- Berk D. Demir
Evernote, CS3, Flickr, SmugMug, mIRC (years ago), ACDsee (for my wife's machine). Two machines have Windows that came bundled. The rest run Linux. All other software is legally free (such as OpenOffice).
- Ian May
I have a GoToAssist monthly account from Citrix - basically it's gotomeeting and a reverse gotomypc, but geared more for remote assitance. as long as we're both online and you can figure out how to accept the software install it only takes a minute - i will admit that it is pricey, but for someone like me (that gets paid by the people i'm helping remotely) it is worth it to be able to have remote support access anywhere
- Chris Heath
I'm sure I'll forget some but: MobileMe (will no renew it though), Things, Blogo, 1Password, Evernote Premium, Tweetie for Mac, latest MacHeist bundle, Skitch, Skype Out credits ...
- Patrick Jordan
Recently? Notezilla, PS Tray Factory, Trout (so nice I donated twice), Callwave, Last.fm (1 yr subscription), and if you consider that it was included in the price of my PC, XP & Vista. Everything else on my PC is either freeware, won in a drawing, a gift, a freebie (either direct from company or something like GiveAwayOfTheDay), written by me, or too old to be worth mentioning (6+ yrs).
- April Russo (app103)
You don't have to hear the DVD drive while playing the game and games load much faster, but yeah I agree it's lame. Content management lameness.
- Alex Scoble
I don't see how you can be negative on something you couldn't do at all until six months ago. Of course, you could always play just downloadable games.
- Richard Lawler
Anthony just bought his 360, Richard. It's all new to him.
- Alex Scoble
@richard - there are undoubtedly a lot of pointless things I can do now that I couldn't have six months ago.
- Anthony Citrano
except, it's clearly not pointless. @alex - how long have pc games installed and still required the disc? The question is what, 15 years late?
- Richard Lawler
Richard, on the PC it's very easy to turn off that requirement. Not so on the 360.
- Alex Scoble
@richard - back when i was on the Wintel platform, I can't recall a time when I had installed a game (or any application, for that matter) on the HDD and still needed to insert the DVD/CD every time I wanted to play/use it. but it's been a while, so maybe they've since gone stupid. i've also never encountered this on a Mac.
- Anthony Citrano
I think it was a requirement for Diablo II, for one example, but it was so easy to negate that requirement by dropping a replacement executable.
- Alex Scoble
I really don't think you never played a game with a disc check Anthony, unless you never played PC games. Sim city/The sims? Half Life? Quake? Starcraft? Theme Park? .....pretty much any game that ever shipped on CD. Yes you could hack it, but it was still there. The same thing existed for mac games. Maybe you didn't know it was a disc check?
- Richard Lawler
@richard: Maybe I'm just forgetting. Never played any of thise -- the last PC game I played was Empire Earth. Don't remember a disc check on that. Anyway, it's still dumb. Apps should not do this (and thankfully, the vast majority of them don't.)
- Anthony Citrano
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*shrug* at least in this case, you have the option not to install altogether. In the vast majority of history of PC games and in the case of some PS3 games, it requires an install and a disc check. Playing disc based games without the disc? not on consoles yet.
- Richard Lawler
At least the iPod doesn't require you to insert the CD. Actually, imagine how annoying this would be for software. Hard media should just be for backups.
- Cristo
This is the illogical world we live in thanks to media studios.
- Alex Scoble
@cristo - that's my point; imagine if every time you launched an MS Office app you had to insert the DVD. (p.s.: games *are* software) ;-p
- Anthony Citrano
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Anthony, games are software? I must have skipped that CS class. :)
- Cristo
@Richard: I hear you, but might quibble with your "vast majority" statement.. In the "history of PC gaming", optical media (which this practice seems to be uniquely tied to) has only been around for about a third of it. But to your point about consoles, yes, in the old days, the idea of playing a "cartridge" game without the cartridge was unheard of.
- Anthony Citrano
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I'll give you a good example why this sucks. I want to create a media server with all my media on it, including games. I want to be able to play a game from any screen in the house. Having to go to the media closet to put the actual disk in completely defeats the purpose.
- Cristo
Ehh, anthony I don't know, although I was talking about just disc games this kinda thing existed on older games too, albeit even more easily beaten. All the games I played as a kid were cracked, but I didn't realize it until I was older.
- Richard Lawler
Richard, although it's slightly useful to cache a game on an xbox disk drive, it's still lame to not allow having all your games available without putting a physical CD/DVD in the unit. The box per room paradigm is going to fade, and there has to be a better solution.
- Cristo
Chris - I completely agree, there's no one lazier when it comes to discs than me. My #1 love of Netflix streaming is the lack of discs and/or hard drive space for storage. But I'm looking forward from the persepctive of "we're stuck with this antiquated disc delivery system this generation, at least there's an option to let them load faster if I want to do it" instead of looking back from a disc-check free future I haven't had the pleasure of experiencing -outside of Steam- yet.
- Richard Lawler
Very true, it's lame but it's anti-piracy. It is a technique used to prevent you from renting games, installing them, and then returning the game to continue to play it indefinitely. Or borrowing the game from a friend, then always having the full game when you returned the game to your friend. But on PC games, as stated before by someone, there is always a "No CD" hack.
- Jason Citrano
Also, I don't think you're seeing the end product just yet. I believe it's the beginning of something bigger with XBL. Very soon, X-Box will validate your games rather than having a disc in the drive. Microsoft is researching different ways of validation, one of them being install keys embedded within the game.
- Jason Citrano
@Bryan - is that regarding the recent possibilities of bandwidth caps? Because TWC New England's preliminary tests are say that anything over 250GB downloaded per month will possibly incur a fee. (now we're getting a bit off subject).
- Jason Citrano
@bryan Cloud gaming isn't going to happen for a LONG time unless someone wants to light money on fire. Even if you can render a frame in 1ms, to get 60fps on the client you need to be able to get that entire datagram over the wire in under 16ms. I have a pretty nice Internet connection at home and my default gateway is 11ms away.
- matthew john ernisse
It would be funny to reply to her saying "Please let me know where the location of the money is, I've done this before, do you need my creditcard number?"
- Colby Olson