oh well, at least there is still P2P. - Thomas Hawk
If I were a musician, I might be very unhappy about how decisions seem to be decided before my eyes, without my input. Kinda sounded like Arrington argued that "piracy" = "free market" and "copy protection" = "artificial barrier." - Paul Rodriguez
The most straightforward way to address this issue to stop buying music produced by large recordig companies. It seems until they feel the utmost pain thy wil not understand that the market has changed. They are blaming the problem in the very people who are promoting and buying music. - Douglas E. Welch via twhirl
Well, if you're a musician, you could always release your music via creative commons. Now, if you want to get PAID for your product, that is a different matter. I eat my own dog food, btw... http://stretta.blogspot.com/se... - Matthew Davidson
By all means, if you don't want to support the large production companies then don't buy their stuff. That is a completel reasonable and ethical way to bring pressure to bear and encourage the changes you want. If your a musician, release your stuff on your own for free or try an alternative means. All that is good. What would be silly is the proposals of some to destroy the idea of intellectual property ownership. - Soulhuntre
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:-( Eventually they reach adolescence and hate being seen with you. I don't know which I'd rather take. - Dread Pirate PJ via Alert Thingy
It gets better... your heart will break more the day you drop him off and he says "okay!!! goodbye mom!" and means "go away now" trust me! :) ((hug)) - Lucretia Pruitt
give it a day to a week and all will be fine - Josh Haley
They wil make friends and then you will complain that they don't hug you goodbye when you drop them off. Circle of Life, ya know :) - Douglas E. Welch via twhirl
Adolescence?!! Mine started that when he was still in elementary school. He's 17 now and will be seen with me in only certain circumstances. However, at home I still get hugs. - Beth Tribe
The teenage years are the worst. There will come a time that they don't want to be around you as much Erin. Cherish them while they are young, they grow up way too fast. - TDavid
My adult children will go anywhere or be seen anywhere with me -- the only question seems to be; "Are you buying?" - Brian Sullivan
mine used to do that too, but a couple times when I hid and watched how they behaved after I was out of sight, I realized that it took them about ten seconds to switch gears, stop crying, and start playing happily with their friends - nathan
Heh, i'm 17 and i don't mine being seen with my Mom or Dad:) - Gordon Swaby
Mine isn't upset to leave me...he's in 'why don't we get to play and why is this so much work and so hard' mode. - Erin Kotecki Vest
It does get better. Honest. Hang in there. And yes, you'll be sad when it does. :) - Abby Martin
It does! By the time you pick them up they're saying they don't want to leave Kindergarten. Promise! :-) I've been dropping off kids at school for almost 20 years now. :-) - Lisa L. Seifert
Poor sweetie. It does get better. Though I felt like a criminal the *one time* I dropped my godson off at daycare. I'm not sure who cried more. - Ayşe E.
It does... and then they ask you to "come back later when I'm done playing" - Barry Wynn
Aw Erin... that just broke my heart =( But!! Wouldn't you be worried if your kinderkid didn't cry? :) - Mona N.
- in time it does...usually after they tell you they have more fun at school than at home! - JA Castillo
Are you doing better? Hopefully your child is home and telling you all the wonderful things he or she did today. Hang in there! - Abby Martin
It is already better. I'm reading this a day later. Wait till you drop them off at college. - Francine Hardaway
Thinking that neither app really takes advantage of iphone UI. e.g like Google Maps peel up or SMS conversation bubbles. Personally like i.ping.fm combined with FF i.e broadcast out everywhere and aggregate everything in once place. - sam sethi via Alert Thingy
Finally, geez. Spatial social networking, where someone else's crappy content is in plain view and relation to yours, possibly diminishing the value. - Eric Rice via Bookmarklet
Most people aren't qualified to have opinions about Second Life and most are probably too stupid or in the closet to get past things like furries to see shit like hordes of people who WANT DRM, don't like open source and various other delightful things more relevant to your pristine elitist 'first life'. Yes, I'll be a dick about it because I'm right. - Eric Rice
amazing thing about private property is it is private property. I found that out the hard way on twitter. In the end all their pretensions went out the door and I lost all my tweets. These networks are theirs. NEVER FORGET THAT. you have no say fools. - Noah David Simon
Well yeah there's that. People prop up that whole 'it's a world thing' read: it's a community, but it's owned by a company. - Eric Rice
Ok Louis,,, can you torture us with clichés any more? ;-) - Aaron Brazell
There's a hungry hamster off his wheel at Google? - jeneane sessum
Part of the problem is feedburner. We won't see the new post until they update, and sometimes that takes a while. We monitor blog pinging services and can often pick up new blog posts within a few minutes, but unfortunately the ping is useless if your feedburner feed hasn't updated yet. - Paul Buchheit
Well DANG! everywhere that Louis goes the answer's sure to go! Thanks Paul! Is there a way to mooove feedburner along or is it a hands-off process? - jeneane sessum
ou are pinging Feedburner's ping service, right? That should force an update pretty quickly on any feed. - Douglas E. Welch via twhirl
You can manually ping feedburner at http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a... and then refresh your feed here as soon as they update. I don't know why feedburner doesn't consume Google's blog ping service (which blogger pings by default). - Paul Buchheit
@Douglas - I'm not sure if I am. I think Blogger used to have a setting that asked if you want to ping. I do want to ping. Am I pinging? How do I tell? - jeneane sessum
Jeneane, I've notice Feedburner is really slow lately, and I've taken to manually pinging FB with updates. They usually hit FF a short time later - Duncan Riley
I just ran into this with FeedFlare. It won't show up on my new posts until I ping, so I added their ping service to Wordpress. - Rahsheen Porter
so THAT'S how you make the big bucks Duncan! ;-) Thanks - off to ping! - jeneane sessum
If I remember right, Blogger used to have a ping thing, but I don't see it in the settings anymore. :-( you'd think since Google owns both Blogger and Feedburner maybe there'd be some synergy......... - jeneane sessum
GIF like the peanut butter JIF. The hard g sounds weird to me. Luckily the format seems to be on the way out. Eventually it won't matter. - Brian Norwood
Graphic - I think Leo said to say a hard G and I did it ever since. - John LeMasney
if you pronounce gif as JIF you can leave the internet now. kthnxbai - Allen Stern
being that it's an acronym, maybe it should be spelled out? like WTF. - clarke thomas
GIF like gift. JIF never even occurred to me. - Nick Munson
er... Gif like gift, but in French, it's prononced jif... who speaks french anyway? And most of all, who cares? ;))) (disclaimer: Sorry, I'm french) - Fabrice Epelboin via twhirl
I pronounced it with a hard "g" for ages, 'til around '93 when I popped into the GIF developers forum on Compuserve and they set me straight. Been "jif" ever since. - Roger Benningfield
roger - the only ones who ever called it jif were those on the compuserve channels - damn im old, i remember those. but normal people call it gif :) - Allen Stern
Jif/जिफ़. Hearing it as G(raphic)if/गिफ़ always confuses me for a second. - Vinay
here comes the etymology: "giraffe" is a word from Italian (giraffa, refer to Italian pronunciation: dʒˡ... ) and pronunciation is "jə-ˈraf" (originally derived from Arabic word "zirāfa"), so for me the GIF should be pronunciated as 'gift'. - Kemal Yaylali
In case that link gets slammed with too much traffic, the Exploratorium is carrying the live webcast from China along with some additional information at: http://www.exploratorium.edu/e... [they're also having viewing parties [simulcast from China] both at their site in SF as well as in Second Life] - Casey
You know, it was actually my first full solar eclipse and I have realized why broadcast versions are actually much worse - the most fascinating thing is when all of a sudden you are in complete darkness right in the middle of a day - and that feeling is amazing, not watching the sun itself. So I now at least understand all those thousands of tourists who arrived here to Novosibirsk for these 2 minutes of excitement. - Svetlana Gladkova via twhirl
Svetlana, you're in Novosibirsk? Very cool, it's beautiful there. I have fond memories swimming there with friends and visiting one of the open markets during the summer of '89. Доброе утро! - Casey
Hey Casey! Glad you have liked our city back in '89, believe me, it has grown much more beautiful now and the beaches are more civilized now as well so swimming could be more enjoyable :) And where are you from yourself? - Svetlana Gladkova via twhirl
Svetlana, sorry for delayed response, am in the midst of moving so I've been away from FF and juggling usual controlled chaos of moving process (ugh). I'm in San Francisco, originally from Boston area. Traveled throughout former USSR in '89 as a student ambassador, then lived with a host family in St Petersburg in '92 while studying at university there. Was interesting to see so much change just in that 3 year span, can only imagine it's that much more so now. - Casey
Casey: Hope that moving was not that damaging. We in Russia have a saying that moving is worse than a fire because so many things get lost somewhere on the way :) You really would have been surprised how everything changed from the early 90s here, I myself am often amazed. BTW, do you speak some Russian after those trips? - Svetlana Gladkova via twhirl
I prefer the total light! The White Nights of Leningrad! - Igor The Troll
Svetlana: Yes, I do speak Russian, although admittedly it's been a few years and it's fading for me. Definitely no longer fluent. :( I had studied it in a 6-week summer program before the first trip and then studied it throughout college (though my fluency was probably best while living and studying there). Still recall fondly going for a walk with my host mother and chatting for 45 minutes after 15 hours of flying (she didn't speak any English) -- thought my brain actually *hurt* after that crazy day.. - Casey
Casey: I have often heard that Russian is the most difficult language to learn so I invariably admire people who managed to learn it to any extent. I myself can't imagine myself learning Russian as a foreign language, I believe English and French (those two that I speak myself) are way easier. - Svetlana Gladkova via twhirl
Today's roll call is for those of us that are parents who are gamers (of any level) who also have kids of gaming age (I'd start the gaming age around 4-ish... right around where autonomy exists in a non-Putt Putt/Fatty Bear kinda way) :) - Eric Rice
I'm not sure if I count or not. They aren't my kids..they're my boyfriend's kids. I love them to pieces though. (Realized just saying they aren't my kids didn't look very nice) - Candace Holly
Present. Smash Brothers Melee and Brawl rule! But my daughter regularly kicks my butt in Brawl, and she's 10x better at Guitar Hero. - steplow
i would TOTALLY game w/ my kids. Wii FTW! - Mona N.
I've been gaming with our kids since they were old enough to hold controllers. All three are teens now. We've been rocking at the music games lately (Rock Band, GH). - TDavid
Present and accounted for. Even the two-year-old plays Ravin' Rabbits and Wii Play. - Cyndy
not yet, give me a few years though :) - sean percival
I wore a tie last week on Thursday for ugly tie day at work (mine was bright yellow with orange horses.) We have themed Thursdays during the summer, this week is Hawaiian shirt day. Other than that it has been a couple of years. - Mark Anderson
Last May for a wedding - and then a year ago today (literally - the job interview for my current job). Outside of weddings, I don't foresee myself wearing one anytime soon either. I do miss it though. Getting dressed up is nice - but I have no need for that here.... - George Smith
not sure, a while to say the least. The best part? the last time I wore a tie because I had to has even been longer. When you don't have to do it, doing it once a while is not bothering me at all. - berkay
Every Sunday and when I got to important meetings. - Jason Shultz via twhirl
I've been to three weddings this month and was in two of them (performed one), so I've been wearing all sorts of ties lately. - Mike Keliher via twhirl
if I said it was end-of-1995, would it scare you? :) - silpol
last friday - though i do tend to wear them less - used to have to wear one mon-fri so to louis' point i stopped wearing them on sunday's decades ago - figured god would understand ;) - mike "glemak" dunn
Went to a wedding a couple of years ago. - Dave Winer
i like feeling like i've grown out of tie - videopixil via twhirl
Months and months ago - I cannot remember when - Jim Duncan
