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American v. British health care http://om.ly/dTDj
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Leigh Peele - http://www.leighpeele.com
Great blog and sound nutritional/exercise advice.
- iSteeve
Steven Pinker takes a touch of the fun out of Malcolm Gladwell's latest book. Pinker says: - http://www.nytimes.com/2009...
"An eclectic essayist is necessarily a dilettante, which is not in itself a bad thing. But Gladwell frequently holds forth about statistics and psychology, and his lack of technical grounding in these subjects can be jarring. He provides misleading definitions of “homology,” “saggital plane” and “power law” and quotes an expert speaking about an “igon value” (that’s eigenvalue, a basic concept in linear algebra)."
- iSteeve
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Hot Tuan - True Religion - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Really spelled Hot Tuna
- iSteeve
Dear Facebook, just because I am spending 3 days in London doesn't mean that I want to translate your site into "British". :)
Zulema ◕ ◡ ◕, James Myatt, Brandon Ratliff and 37 other people liked this
@louisgray you can't pick your language from the bottom of the screen?
- Prolific Programmer
from IM
Of course I can. But Facebook is being "smart" by deciding that I might know English (UK) because my computer tells the network I am here. Just a cute offer on their part.
- Louis Gray
Hello? Louis? Habla English? You need a translator if you want any chance of getting aroun London, I mean, hello?:p
- Josh Haley
I thought I was doing well with "tube", "lift" and "chips", Josh! Blimey!
- Louis Gray
No need to get yer knickers in a twist, luvvie.
- Spidra Webster
They need Southern English, Boston English and Californian English.
- CAJ, somewhere else
I want to know if when you log in from outside of Somalia, does it ask you if you speak Pirate?
- Louis Gray
Louis, be sure and get a copy of Spotify for the iPhone while you're over there
- Jesse Stay
I tried, Jesse. My account is only enabled for the US version of the iTunes Store. Did that this morning.
- Louis Gray
@louisgray I'm English, living in the US, set my language once on FB, and never touch it since
- Prolific Programmer
from IM
Louis, you can create a new account - just specify "none" for the payment option. However, you're going to need a UK credit card to get a premium account once you have the app unfortunately.
- Jesse Stay
Not that I've done it or anything ;-)
- Jesse Stay
MIND THE GAP.
- Josh Haley
Time, Gentlemen, please! :)
- Prolific Programmer
from IM
What language is "British"? ;-)
- 1x29
Does that just convert dollars to Euro?
- Jason Williams
from iPhone
@jwilliams it also adds random 'u's to many words and we don't use the euro
- Prolific Programmer
from IM
You can still translate it into (English) Pirate or upside down English if you'd like.
- iSteeve
@hdiwan Like colour? You guys use the pound right?
- Jason Williams
yes on both counts
- Prolific Programmer
from IM
LOL, Facebook fail there.
- Kol Tregaskes
@Jason yes we use the pound. I don't get why facebook needs users to convert U.S. english to british, surely $color="colour" is just one line of code
- Richard Cunningham
Welcome to London! Good luck for the different events you have here.
- 77Agency
Richard, there's a few subtle differences between The Queen's English and American English. like 's' instead of 'z', and 'ou' instead of 'o'
- Bryce Roney
The same thing goes for Google.
- Lester Greenberg
Excuse me, does Britain use those silly feet and inches too?
- John W Lewis
John: Feet and inches are long gone as are gallons at the petrol station (read: gas station ;-)) Pounds and ounces [weight] are dragging their feet somewhat in giving way to kilos and grams yet miles are still the unit of measure where distance [travel] is concerned - no kilometres here. In summary, a complete mish-mash :)
- 1x29
Thanks, Adrian, I'd agree with your assessment. However, in aviation feet are used to measure vertical height, altitude and separation, with horizontal distance in metres for short and nautical miles for longer distances; a mish-mash, as you say, and don't even think about fuel quantity (approx 5 units used!). My (British) quip was a reference to the joke about that line being used by...
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- John W Lewis
John: Yeah, I was being more general day to day. I grew up with my father building house extensions and it was nothing but imperial measurements [beneficial given my current project in SE Texas and a previous one in Bahamas which was also imperial]. I actually visualize smaller dimensions better in feet and inches than in metres - although my [UK] construction education has all been...
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- 1x29
Adrian: so does Facebook ask you, "Hello Adrian, do you speak Welsh?" ?!
- John W Lewis
Genetic Secrets Of Date Palm Unlocked - http://www.sciencedaily.com/release...
Next is the iPhone genome
- iSteeve
Vitamin D, Curcumin May Help Clear Amyloid Plaques Found In Alzheimer's Disease - http://www.sciencedaily.com/release...
Vitamin D and Exercise - what else could you possibly need? :-)
- iSteeve
How Long Did It Take for the World to Identify Google as an AltaVista Killer? - http://technologizer.com/2009...
Hutch Carpenter, (jeff)isageek, Save As : Panos and 51 other people liked this
I love this kind of stuff. I try to explain this to my younger students. Nothing is forever.
- TonyatMATC
so important to remember that everything is point in time. and time keeps on changing.
- Richard Zeidel
"But at a time when other popular search sites such as Yahoo!, Excite, and Lycos have all morphed into diversified entertainment portals, is there really a future for a pure, advertising-supported search tool?"
- Paul Buchheit
"Leslie, have you visited our online t-shirt store?" Where is friendfeed's t-shirt store? lol
- Ashwani Kumar
I don't know, but I gained instant expertdom when in 2000 I entered firstname lastname of a present party into the searchbox, pressed "I'm feeling lucky" (not a concept easily portable to non-AngloSaxon cultures btw), and landed on Firstname Lastname's dental clinic's page. While the AltaVista drew blank. Go figure.
- ianf ⌘
I'm pretty sure it was that PC magazine article on Google that got me to try it. I could tell immediately that it was better than what I was using at the time, and switched to it. I spread the word around our lunch table at Bell Labs, and pretty soon we were all using it. Rob told me about Amazon, I told him about Google :)
- Howard Trickey
"as good as Google was in 1998 and 1999, it ... wasn’t as good as it would later become". Measured by what? Is it possible that the results quality distance to the next best search engine might have been higher back then than it is today?
- Philipp Lenssen
Philipp, you're of course aware that "results quality distance" is a pretty esoteric metric?
- ianf ⌘
No, I think it's actually the most intuitive thing, though I might have failed to word it well. The quality distance to the search engine you're used to is simply the thing that 1) makes you want to switch, 2) tell your friends, 3) determines the "wow" factor, 4) determines how useful you feel it is etc. It's much less abstract than a comparison towards a hypothetical tool of the future...
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- Philipp Lenssen
Tried Google for the first time in 1998 or 1999 and never switched back to Altavista (same thing happened when switching from Archie to Altavista and sometimes FTPSearch a few years earlier). btw. according to "A Brief History of Search Engines" - http://www.isrl.illinois.edu/~chip... - archie was the first internet search engine and it used the grep...
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- Amund Tveit
How long did the switch from Mosaic to Netscape take? :-) That happened before it was out of beta.
- iSteeve
What I got from this history isn't that Google got better, but that all of its competitors didn't realize the value of the search engine and "killed" themselves. The big idea at the turn of the century was that portals were going to be king due in part to Yahoo's success. When all the search engines went that route and failed, Google was the only one left. If we're supposed to learn...
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- Mark Trapp
I can't say "how long it took the world to supplant AltaVista with Google," but, in global terms, it wasn't very long, two years perhaps, before AltaVista fell into disrepute. I believe the key to Google's success was PageRank and persistence of its vision, which at the time was largely unfathomable to outsiders: daisy-chained containers filled with racks of cheap hardware doing massive...
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- ianf ⌘
YouTube - The Kills - Last Day of Magic (Friday Night w Jonathan Ross) - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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From 2008, does this count as an "oldie"?
- iSteeve
from Bookmarklet
Anyone got any good anime recommendations?
Marcus5s, andrei_c, Phil G and 22 other people liked this
Code Geass is fantastic.
- Sarah Peterman
What kind of anime? Series, movie, family-friendly, mecha/sci-fi, drama...?
- Cheryl Jones
full metal panic.
- alphaxion
Grave of Fireflies (powerful drama), Death Note (Freaky angst driven anime), Ruoroni Kenshin (anime series - humorous & fun Samurai tale)
- iSteeve
series, good mecha or sci-fi or ninja stuff...i like it all really...And I've seen full metal panic, cowboy bebop, trigun, naruto, fruits basket, initial D, outlaw stars, big O, full metal alchemist and a bunch of other stuff. Haven't seen the newer full metal panic series though.
- Alex Scoble
Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann (so awesome), The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (make sure you watch in airdate order, not chronological order), Speed Grapher, if you haven't seen Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex then get that
- Brooks Bishop
your list is pretty much the list of what I've watched, one other one I liked is Dennou Coil, it's a slow starter but its really good.
- Richard Lawler
@ITBlogger +1 for Code Geass R2 (or Death Note.)
- Czar
One Piece - the uncut, Japanese version. (I'm not a "Japanese only" fanatic, but the US version seriously re-edited the show.) Irresponsible Captain Tylor (space humor), Hana Yori Dango (drama/romance), You're Under Arrest!(police comedy), Rose of Versailles(melodrama, in France).
- Jennifer Dittrich
LAST EXILE.
- Steven Perez
Check out Paprika - trailer here - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- triple t
Seen Last Exile, great stuff, love the theme song. And Paprika, total mind screw. Also saw Grave of the Fireflies, way too depressing. Going to get Samurai Champloo and Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann for now.
- Alex Scoble
man, this thread shows me how much I've fallen out of watching anime. Soul Eater and Kekkaishi are two manga that I like to read that have been turned into anime. Not sure if they're any good in anime form, though.
- Chieze Okoye
No, but bookmarking so I can raid the recommendations later. :)
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
These are old but I really dig Ninja Scrolls and Vampire Hunter D
- Bill Pennington
from twhirl
speaking of old, I watched Area 88 recently and really dug that series too.
- Richard Lawler
Off the top of my head: Video Girl Ai (it gets way trippy at the end), Chobits, Kimagure Orange Road, My Neighbor Totoro, Kiki's Delivery Service, Voices of a Distant Star, Cardcaptor Sakura (it's so girly and silly, but it's cute! Kero-Chan is so funny. :) ), Ghost in the Shell... There's probably a lot more but I can't remember them right now. You already mentioned Initial D; we're in the middle of rewatching that.
- Cheryl Jones
I've watched most of those except for Video Girl Ai, which I'll check out and Cardcaptor Sakura (not really in to that sort of thing).
- Alex Scoble
Yeah, CCS is not for everyone. :) You have quite a varied anime viewing history, glad to see that.
- Cheryl Jones
Gintama - best anime ever. And I would know; I've seen them all :)
- vijay
Damn, how did I miss this thread before? Must've been asleep. Or watching anime. ;-p
- ronin
Detective Academy Q. Marvellous stuff.
- Jamie
He he Saeba. Where were you? And looks like the FF beta is working well for you already! :D
- vijay
GUNDAM ANYTHING. Macross. Death Note. Detective Conan. Sailor Moon. Just kidding.
- Mike Nayyar
Sola. very beautiful
- Jamie
Kimagure Orange Road
- adf
Yeah, Kimagure Orange Road (at least the first 2 OVAs) is good stuff. Didn't like the 3rd OVA. Haven't seen the TV series but should.
- Alex Scoble
Have you watched Black Lagoon, yet, Alex?
- Chris, Taskerrific Guy
Nope, that's a new one I haven't heard about. What's it about?
- Alex Scoble
Tsubasa, XXXholic, Noir.
- Alix Whitmire
Legend of Black Heaven is great fun. Aliens are attacking and the only ones who can stop them are a washed up heavy metal band. In staying with the fun robot series, you could do worse than Martian Successor Nadesico.
- James Ferguson
Outlaw Star, Perfect Blue, Excel Saga, Trigun,
- Outsanity
DAMN YOU STEVEN PEREZ FOR NOT GETTING OUTSANITY TO READ COMMENTS BEFORE POSTING!
- Alex Scoble
If you love Naruto, you'd love Bleach and One Piece
- LouCypher
Any comments over 15 is not to be read
- Outsanity
I'll second Gintama, GitS, and Irresponsible Captain Tylor. Martian Successor Nadesico too although I think that one petered out a little bit towards the end. But it started off uproariously funny. Samurai Champloo you already picked so I'd add Hellsing Ultimate (or the original) if you haven't seen it already, Macross Frontier, Patlabor and Darker than BLACK.
- ronin
Does it have to fit your definition of pure anime? Because Avatar: the Last Airbender ROCKS! and FIRES! and it's TOO COLD! and it's a breath of FRESH AIR! Have you seen it?
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
I think I've seen all of Martian Successor Nadesico. Saw the original Hellsing. Also saw two of the Patlabor movies and they kind of sucked, so not sure if I'd give the TV series a watching.
- Alex Scoble
Lain Serial Experiements, Witchunter Robin, Cowboy BeeBop.
- Fa La La La Lindsay
The Patlabor movies are nothing like the TV series which was always puzzling to me. The TV series and P-OAVs are great stuff.
- ronin
Haven't seen Lain, but did see Witchhunter Robin and Cowboy Bebop.
- Alex Scoble
Alex: Black Lagoon is an amusing, violent romp through southeast Asian crime.
- Chris, Taskerrific Guy
Second/Third Last Exile, add Ai Yori Aoshi.
- Victor Ryden
Legend of the Ov--oh, wait, you said GOOD anime.
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
Some people would say Legend of the Overfiend is good anime. It's certainly an example of "good" hentai.
- Alex Scoble
Naruto Shippuuden is so awesome right now. And Also bleach.
- ZOD
Yeah, I liked Naruto, I just don't have time for series that are that long.
- Alex Scoble
I loved a few of the Gundam series. Theres a cool vampire anime by the name of Hellsing, which I loved. Ugh, just when I thought Hellsing was an original recommendation, someone beat me to it. Sigh...
- Colby Olson
Some extra ones: Berserk is fantastic, Basilisk and Claymore are very good, Tytania is intelligent, Full Metal Alchemist is excellent, Kenichi is fun, Mushishi is slow but beautiful, check also Bounen no Xamdou. But the most special of all is Kaiji !!! (even better than Gintama !)
- Zack Brandit
Futari Ecchi ;)
- LouCypher
How much would you pay to e-mail your doctor? - http://www.kevinmd.com/blog...
Just need to make sure my Twiter liability insurance is paid up.
- iSteeve
The New Pocket Protectors for Geek 2.0s - http://www.designboom.com/weblog...
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haha
- Rodfather
I know! hahhahahaha!
- Mona Nomura
Is that a pack of smokes in his neck? Why would he stash it in his neck brace? Stick some side mirrors on there.
- Rodfather
No dude, it's an EFin PDA or a phone with a QWERTY. , geek cred = diminished!
- Mona Nomura
whoa, those are tooo hot to wear Ack! great for the dude trying to fake that care accident injury tho
- Susan Beebe
You sure? Looks like a deck of cards too haha.
- Rodfather
This is all kinds of bizarre! HAHA
- Mona Nomura
No
- Outsanity
If cell phones do cause cancer, the dude in picture #1 is toast.
- Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)
Perfect for the plane.
- l0ckergn0me
it looks like a designer neck brace
- Mike Hussein Cohen
The dude has a pack of Marlboro's in his neck.
- Rodfather
er. no?
- Admiral Anika
Is this because geeks get beat up a lot?
- Patrick Beard
from twhirl
instantly improve your douche cred with the Fucktard Neck Purse
- Mattb4rd
is that even comfy! OMG FAIL hahahahaha
- *Tiffany Diamond*
*Eyes roll* —But here's the scary thing: not that many years ago the picture of _that guy_ you know the one with a bluetooth earpiece, complete with flashing blue LED, walking around in pubic with it permanently affixed would have gotten a similar reaction as we have here. Like I said, scary thought.
- Micah Wittman
Clearly designed with that accident in mind that you'll be in after texting or tweeting while driving. Perfect!
- iSteeve
I thought that was President Obama with his neck in a sling at first.
- Sharron Field
from twhirl
Laugh but you know you WANT
- sofarsoShawn
Oh dear.
- Kol Tregaskes
o_O
- Manuela
o.0
- Caroline
Funniest thing I have seen today. LOL P.S. the PDA says Marlboro !!!
- Eric Logan
The "neck plinth" must be great at keeping your neck straight. That one I wish I had :) (the wire thing on the girl's neck in the last pic)
- Zulema ◕ ◡ ◕
'Don't wear anything that says AIG on it': Insurer gives employees security tips as fury over bonuses grows | Mail Online - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news...
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"American International Group has sent a secret memo to employees giving them security tips as fury grows in the U.S. over millions paid out in bonuses at the bailed-out insurer. Employees were warned not to wear any clothing with the AIG logo, to travel in pairs and park in well-lit places, and to phone security if they notice anyone 'spending an inordinate amount of time near an AIG facility'. The memo was leaked to American website Gawker.com. A spokesman for the company has confirmed it is legitimate."
- Thomas Hawk
from Bookmarklet
Wow, and here I was thinking to wear my AIG shirt (from Halloween) as a joke to see how people would react in public. Here's a pic of my costume btw ;) http://photos-b.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos...
- Rob
That just sounds responsible to me! I would hate to think that people who worked for me were in danger for lack of warning.
- Ladybug Heather
You'd think that with over 100 Billion dollars of taxpayer injected funding they would hire a decent crisis management team that would have provided them with the proper solution to their self-created current problems. Not taking the bonuses and returning all bonus money would have worked. Too bad they did not have or did not listen to the proper advice.
- iSteeve
Aren't they a sponsor of one the big European football (aka soccer) teams?
- Andy Roth
Andy, AIG is a sponsor of Manchester United. The $78 million deal will expire May 2010.
- Tapio Kulmala
You reap what you sow, karma is a bitch ...
- Rene Wirtz
If AIG has any concern for its employees, that would be news indeed. If only half, or even a quarter, of the stories we used to whisper 'round the office were true, the company mentality was paranoid through and through.
- Rebecca
IMO, this seems to be sound advice for any company that garnered some media attention, whether positive or negative.
- Tudor Bosman
Moderate Intensity Walking Means 100 Steps Per Minute - http://www.sciencedaily.com/release...
Pedometers can measure time over steps per minute - Omron HJ-112
- iSteeve
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SERIOUSLY geeky question but how much space do you usually leave free on your laptops (not desktop) HDD?
Nicholas James, VC Freak, Aaron Macom and 20 other people liked this
i'm in the 10gb range...
- Zee.
ok, clearly far too geeky a question for most of you... :P
- Zee.
at least 15%
- xero
about 20gb
- jamar78
Currently I have 14gb free.
- Carmen - Happy 2010!
At least 30 or I get the shakes.
- Mona Nomura
from fftogo
I leave in the 10-15% range
- Bastard Operator From FF
LOL Mona...
- Zee.
My laptop is my desktop, and I don't necessarily "guarantee" myself space. If I use it up, I'll back up somewhere -- but I don't limit myself to any "you can't have less than 3GB" restriction.
- Tamar Weinberg
20% is probably a better idea, the lower you go the greater chance for fragmentation that the OS will start to not manage... thus the slower your machine will get.
- mjc
I like to have 20gb--though I only have 8.25gb free at the moment... :-/
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
I try to keep at least 20 - 25 GB at the least. Right now I'm around 90 GB.
- Mathew™ one of a kind
10-15% on any boot disk.
- fn (fairnymph)
Currently 90 Gig with most recent laptop. Previously 6 to 12 uncomfortably tight gigs. I know what Mona means :-)
- iSteeve
10% at least
- Eric @ CSTechcast.com
Is it an old skool thing? I am so OCD about open HD space - it's borderline frightening.
- Mona Nomura
from fftogo
At least 20% to avoid the fragmentation gremlins
- Peter Ghosh
Maintain 10-15% on the boot partition. Data partition I don't care about since it fills up with photos as the year progresses.
- ronin
3GB minimum
- Rodfather
20%
- Jeff (the マクダジ of FF)
8GB
- Shailesh S. Khandekar
Currently 60GB, but I rarely let it go below 20GB.
- Timothy Griffin
Photoshop gets cranky when I let the space drop below 30 GB. I try to keep 40-50% free, as I eat up file space pretty quickly.
- Rebecca
At least 10-20 if I can help it. But that's because of the ridiculous amounts of tv shows I have just kept on my computer for no good reason.
- Brandon Titus
i'm with you Mona, i get the same sweats and shakes. "nobody talk to me until i get this baby back up to at least 10"
- Zee.
I try to leave at least 15 GB free. My MacBook Pro freaks if it gets less than that.
- Bill Sodeman
I don't intentionally set a level. If it runs out, then I'll worry, but the Macbook Pro has 160gb total
- Duncan Riley
10-20% of total drive capacity, less than that and you risk performance and/or data corruption issues.
- Susan Beebe
Not geeky, important. Leave 10% plus free on a normal modern laptop, and, if you run a SAN, leave 20% free on its volumes. (there. THAT was geeky :-)
- Rick Cogley
I'd like to leave around 20GB free (about 20%) but it is most of the time closer to 5-10GB
- Alexander Kucera
I try and leave at least half, but normally it's closer to about 30% free. Out of that 30, about 10 fills up weeks and gets cleaned out, just from app testing/downloads. I shift most of my movies/music/tvshows over to one of two external hard-drives, so those end up saving me a lot of room.
- Angelo Rodrigues
With all these series almost nothing is left :( About 8Gbs on each drive.
- Sasha Kovaliov(.com)
photos go on and off as I process them, usually 5gb to 40gb.
- Thomas Hawk
usually don't fill a laptop all that much - have network storage and a pocket usb drive for all the files, so it's mostly apps and work in progress
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
1Gb (I try) but will change to 2GB
- Marcos Marado
from fftogo
I try to have 5GB free at a time on my 1TB of drives. I have lots of archived files that I'm happy to delete though.
- Will Higgins™
I don't pay too much attention but I'd say I don't want to go lower than 10GB free. I assume this question is about the actual internal hard drive on the laptop.
- Becca
I'm really weird about my laptop. I don't use the HDD as storage. I just install apps on there and anything like Word dox, img files, MP3's...they all go onto a porty HDD. So I regularly have like 75% of my HDD free. I think it's latent stress from back in the day of my old laptops and never having enough room and bogging the system because I'm eating up my swap file space. :)
- tinypants - Hagitha of FF
I used to only have 6G free on my main drive, but I moved all my photos "into the cloud," so it's now about 35G free. However, I can't fit all my videos onto my main drive, so they reside on a 500G external HDD that has about 45% free at the moment.
- Mistletoe Glen
right now i'm at about 80% of a 160G HD free. I like to keep as much free as possible and I usually track that by percentage. If I get lower then 70, I break out in a cold sweat.
- Jim Addz No Value
I'm old school...Space obsessed. I offload the big stuff to externals and leave at least 40% free.
- ‘-.-’ Tutivillus Grift
I try for 20-30% on active drives
- Matt Jones
Now at 6GB, but should at least 10-12GB, for a new leopard install..
- George Tziralis
1gb but it's hard
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
optimally about 35-40% free space
- Cee Bee
I have about 100gb free currently. I try to keep it like that for large files and new virtual machines.
- Uncle CW™
I saw at Fry's last night there are 500Gb sata drives for laptops now, I might go looking for a 7200RPM version and upgrade yet again. I've gone through 5 HD upgrades since I had my original 120gb drive.
- Uncle CW™
I always end up having around 10gigs free left on my mac. I tried getting a bigger external hdd, but no matter how much space I have, I end up filling it up :)
- Dragos Ilinca
from twhirl
i average between 30-50gb free
- Adam Matthews
I have about 26gigs left, but I'm using my iPod as a portable HD, so it could be worse
- Ciaoenrico
no lower than 10-15%
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
Usually a good 75% free. I live on the web as does much of my data. I should disclose that my digital audio files are stored on an external USB drive, although I'm moving them slowly online as well.
- Kevin C. Tofel
52 GB free (25%). I usually like to leave at least 10% (depends on the size of the VM cache)
- Mitchell Tsai
I usualy run down to 0 bytes on both the two 40GB partions on my laptop when downloading netcasts! I have too many files, so rarely have more than 4GB free to start with, and The Totally Rad show is like 250MB! :)
- Rui Pereira
I got down to 1% and then bought an external drive
- Sean Carmody
from Nambu
I don't usually attempt to keep space free. However, I rarely reach capacity.Not enough downloadin'!
- Arlan Koizumi
I am not gonna lie. Some of the corn on the cob answers are grossing me out. Pre-chew and inhale w/ straw? Mash and turn to paste? Gross LOL
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Mash and turn to paste is how you make tortillas and tortilla chips, you know :)
- Bob M. Montgomery
from twhirl
Creamed corn on the cob? heard that joke about the farmer & his daughters? Use your imaginiation on how the corn got it's cream
- sofarsoShawn
Have you heard the joke about the farmer & his daughters: creamed corn is the punchline
- sofarsoShawn
Late night flights of imagination can be dangerous :-). Perhaps viewing the straw thing as sort of like how you might drink bubble tea. Only the tapioca bubbles don't usually get stuck in your teeth. (Bubble tea is a more pleasant image.) Did you come up with a solution?
- iSteeve
Any OmniFocus/iPhone users here? I have a question..Does it not drive you nuts that you have to remember to sync every time you grab your iphone after making a few adjustments on your OmniFocus desktop app?
or am I doing it wrong?
- Zee.
Go to Omnifocus app. Go to settings, synch. I use mobile me and set it to auto-synch. It works fine on it's own then! The adjustments were on the iPhone app.
- iSteeve
hi iSteeve, yeah i've enabled that setting but it's not fast enough. I *wish* it would change just as fast as Google when making changes to the calendar for example... So just to clarify though, you've had no problems with sync issues with Omnifocus?
- Zee.
Only sync problems are at work when mac is on secure wired connection and iPhone on wireless, open network. They don't talk to each other, which drives me nuts. But that's a network problem not an OF one. Otherwise works well. I tend to process tasks in bursts anyway...
- Chris Cotsapas
my wish is for them to sync and fast after every single change...
- Zee.
my wish is for tasks to be pushed without the OF app even open....one can dream...
- Franz Sittampalam
Not a huge problem with me, I would prefer having it run all the time and sync every hours. Maybe with the iPhone OS 3.0... We shall see.
- Joshua
When I used OmniFocus, I never had that problem because I had it syncing from WebDAV which it could do from anywhere. It was just astonishingly slow.
- Akiva Moskovitz
It can be slow. But it is faster now with 3G than before. (I'm ashamed to say I'm stuck on dial-up at work on my laptop.... ). It still works, but it scares me :-) I tend to just use the iPhone more often there, since it is faster!
- iSteeve
Lol, you poor fella :)
- Zee.
I agree with iSteeve. It has worked fine for me also over mobileme.
- Mark Powell
LXer: wordpress teh suck: Host a personal diary on your PC using WordPress - http://lxer.com/module...
Lately it is teh suck. Slow loading. I believe it must be something with database calls, but I don't know for certain.
- iSteeve
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Verizon Customers - Just Say No! - http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive...
A new and unbelievable share your phone calls with whoever pays Verizon as an "affiliate"
- iSteeve
Why I Still Prefer Twitter and FriendFeed to Facebook - http://www.louisgray.com/live...
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Post by Eric Berlin: http://friendfeed.com/ebrage
- Louis Gray
Me too!
- Jim Connolly
Yeah, me too. You can even call me FriendFeed Fanboy. But I found on Faceboot what I couldn't find on Twitter and FriendFeed: my high school and college friends.
- LouCypher
thanks Louis, will link this blog post to people asking me why I'm not using FB anymore!
- Jean-Charles VERDIE
from twhirl
Thanks guys -- it does seem that this piece did resonate with a lot of people, very cool !
- Eric Berlin
Twitter/FriendFeed are meant to be used differently than Facebook. Twitter/FriendFeed is for what Louis says in the post. Facebook to me is more about strengthening the relationships I have with friends I actually know in real-world.
- Andre P. Siregar
I prefer Twitter / FF to FB as well. For me FB is gated community.
- Nilesh
I prefer LinkedIn groups discussions rather than Facebook, but FF is much better to keep me updated on "Best of Day".
- Luis F. Solórzano
for me, facebook is about enhancing the real life relationships that I have. out of 249 friends that I have on facebook, I've actually had a face to face conversation wtih at least 200 of them in the past year. Conversely, friendfeed exposes me to people, perspectives, ideas, and content that I wouldn't otherwise have access to.
- Chris Hollander
+1 to Chris H.
- Jack Frizzell
+2 Chris H.
- Jamie
FB is little more than a layer of abstraction for FriendFeed anyway. I much prefer Twitter and FriendFeed.
- Bill
Isn't it crazy tho how everyone in the world seemed to 'discover' Facebook at about the same time about 6ish weeks ago? That's so weird! Facebook can be a pain and full on inane junk and hyper promoters. I don't want to relive high school, nor do I want to get into any MLM scheme. ugh ;)
- Cheryl Allin
The FaceBook phenomenon escapes me. The Twitter,FriendFeed, Google Reader trio provides a great set of tools to learn, discover, and share knowledge and information with people that have similar interests. And I recently started using Feedly which brings the process to a whole new level. FaceBook seems to be nothing more than a way to reconnect with all the people you lost contact with...
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- Mike Elliott
Great post. "Talking to everyone I know/have known at the same time is not so appealing as it might sound" is right on. Facebook lets long-lost friends find you, but so does a Google search or an eponymous domain name. Why do people think that in five years, we won't look back and laugh like we often do about AOL or MySpace? Facebook just isn't a compelling experience for me.
- LogEx
It comes down to this. I'm a professional. I own my content - period. Facebook has a crap track record on privacy and they are underhanded with their tactics. I no longer have a profile with them and I don't plan to every have one again in the future.
- ‘-.-’ Tutivillus Grift
Great article. As far as relaxing goes, still a mix on Twitter. Google and other sites will take your twitter feed and index it for posterity also. Hence, no twitter feed into Friendfeed for me. My best tweets may be ephemeral - trashed 10 minutes later before they get indexed. Or else my main web presence would soon be dwarfed by my tweets. I am more than the sum of my tweets :-)
- iSteeve
Not quite sure why everyone is crapping on FB...I think it has a very strong use case as Chris H and others state: it's for enhancing and supplementing relationships that already exist IRL (which is a different - but related I guess - use case than FF and Twitter). I suppose it could become an AOL-style joke in the near future, but I don't see why people can honestly dismiss out of hand the possibility of it becoming a mainstream medium of communication akin to email or cell phones.
- Chieze Okoye
@Chieze... the main difference of course being that FB is privately owned and tightly controlled, rather than an open standard.
- LogEx
@LE: That's a very good point. Hmm, didn't think of that, actually. However, I don't think it changes the meat of what I'm saying too much. Cell phones are technically built on open technology, but the market is definitely controlled by a few companies in it to make boatloads of revenue. **coughSMScough** You have given me something interesting to think about, though.
- Chieze Okoye
The cell market is controlled by a few companies that benefit from economies of scale, but they're pretty much completely interoperable these days. I can call your cell from mine without ever having to worry about which carrier you're on. They might give preference to in-network calls (particularly from a rate standpoint), but the phone system is fundamentally "open"
- Ken Sheppardson
Yeah, but I think that there's a push towards interoperability in this space. OpenID, importing feeds, etc...In the early days of both email and cell phones, they weren't interoperable, right? I think that social-networking-as-communication-medium is getting there, too, and I honestly think that FB will be the main one in the space when it does.
- Chieze Okoye
Chieze: I totally agree there's a push towards interoperability, but I don't think anybody could say Facebooks anywhere near the front on that. Facebooks approach sorta seems like "We're willing to be open, as long as we're in control." with the expectation they're the hub/portal/home page for the social web.
- Ken Sheppardson
Ken: yeah, I agree with you there...I'm not really saying that Facebook is going to be at the head of interoperability, per se...just that they're at the front of the market now and will, due to their already near de facto standard status, probably be the main tool of choice once it's a truly mainstream market. I think it won't be able to escape being forced to be more open at that point, though (demand in the market, gov't intervention, etc)
- Chieze Okoye
I use Google Reader and friendfeed more for professional development and facebook strictly to keep up with friends and relatives. I like all in one services, but with these I like to keep work and social life separate.Twitter is another story. I just can't engage with it at all.
- Matt Soreco
I have to say facebook seems to view the rest of the web as chaotic and messy and that it shouldn't be allowed on their site, to an extent they are right. But I believe they may be bordering on fascism. If I'm using the term correctly.
- Wesley Robin Guerrero
@Wesley and Ken great comments: yes Facebook seems to want to sanitize itself from the outside web and by doing so has become the "Bubble Boy" of the internet
- sofarsoShawn
In a way it seems Facebook knows that many of us are more Twitter/FriendFeed type people. That is why they are mimicking several of their best features. I debate dumping my Facebook account all the time; it just has very few redeeming qualities in my view.
- Missionary Broadcasting
Twitter is for talking to/with everyone. Facebook is for talking to/with some people. Two totally different things.
- Tara Kelly
Interesting thoughts and comments on what what type of SN tools fit which type of personalities.
- Kivivi
i wonder why my disqus comment i left on your blog (instead of here in FF) didn't show up. that's kinda...well, dumb.
- stanleyyork
Crystal Method ft. John Garcia "Born Too Slow" - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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For the Muybridge inspired video.
- iSteeve
Glad Chrome + Facebook = working out! It was problematic during launch - separate tab processes = WIN. Firefox only purpose is GReader.
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What's wrong with GReader in Chrome?
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
Does adblock live on chrome yet?
- Matthew DeVries
And google toolbar bookmarks?
- Matthew DeVries
Nope
- Justin Yost
No again, no extensions yet for Chrome though coming soon mostl likely
- Justin Yost
Each has their merits but when Chrome becomes as extendable as Firefox I won't be able to defend my use of the fox any longer.
- Mitch
I use firefox primarily and chrome as my "other" browser but chrome crashes a lot more, with flash especially. I don't really see using it over FF even with extensions unless it starts using a lot less resources and becomes more stable.
- Richard Lawler
so no extensions, not faster, and not better on resources? I guess the next question would be "Why use it?" I drink Google Kool-Aid as much as anyone, but I'm not jumping to an inferior product that's not even pretending to be an upgrade.
- Matthew DeVries
Chrome has a limited adblock+, and a few bookmarklets ( subscribe FF, Twitter, GoogleReader, etc.) plugins here; http://bit.ly/8KoLK
- Wallace
Patiently waiting for the Mac version beta to be released...
- iSteeve
My Firefox is absolutely useless. And Jesse Stay mentioning Gmail doesn't work on Safari is really bizarre. Is it a Safari or WebKit issue? Also, I am all for "zen computing" ala Vijay. Simplicity = key.
- Mona Nomura
Mona, I think it has something to do with sessions. I haven't put my finger on it yet, but Webkit does seem to handle sessions slightly different than Mozilla. I've had some things work in Mozilla on SocialToo, that give a 500 error due to the session in Safari/Webkit/Chrome. It's very odd. I have a feeling Gmail is going to have to fix whatever the problem is.
- Jesse Stay
Woz to compete on Dancing with the Stars http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technol...
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That may not be a pretty sight. I'd rather watch Woz do stand up comedy.
- iSteeve
Amazon Kindle 2 Images and Price Leaked - http://www.crunchgear.com/2009...
Can't be real. The two equally sized buttons for "Next Page" make no sense from a design perspective. The current one with a large "Previous Page" on the left and large "Next Page" on the right make more sense from usability principles. Looks good, not likely to be real.
- iSteeve
Woo! I now have 1001 subscribers! That is all. :)
Nia, (jeff)isageek, Kol Tregaskes and 7 other people liked this
It's peanut butter jelly time!
- Helen Sventitsky
Did you win?
- MVB (Grinch of FF)
Peanut Butter Jelly Time! http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Alex Scoble
No, Mark, but I did level up!
- Alex Scoble
And you subscribe to 1277. Time to adjust that ratio, or perhaps use the strategy of some Twitter bots to get to 5K followers. Follow everyone :-). But grats. And I follow you too :-)
- iSteeve
dude! Did you see the one with the cat? It's hilarious!
- Helen Sventitsky
Yay!
- Tyson Key
I only subscribe to people who participate in friendfeed now, which limits my new subscription possibilities. I hide most twitter posts unless they've been liked.
- Alex Scoble
Peanut butter jelly time with a cat? No, I have not! Share the link!
- Alex Scoble
I aim to please: http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Helen Sventitsky
OMG I can't believe Bill Gates just released a swarm of mosquitos into the crowd at TED, sez "not only poor ppl should experience this!" WOW
Sean Oliver, David Recordon, Niv and 68 other people liked this
I know! I just wonder if they were disease ridden!
- Clay Newton
I saw the tweets about this, but I thought they were figurative, not real. Holy cow.
- Gregory Pittman
from twhirl
Sorry... I grew up in Minnesota - big deal 40 or 50 mosquitoes.
- Brian Roy
Brilliant!
- Patricia
Zol.
- ralphsaunders
from twhirl
What's the point?!
- `aziz´ Alihan ÇETİN
Alihan: he was trying to get people to care about mosquitos, which spread disease around the world.
- Robert Scoble
Somebody should have sprayed some insecticide, and explained how that could help the situation. Oh goodness the drama.
- Spencer
there is great fix for those things, it's called DDT
- Christian Burns
Mosquitos carry all kinds of diseases..I guess he wants to unload his riches in the courts too
- Bwana ☠
DDT shouldn't be used for human reproduction. For every study on DDT, there is another that refutes it.
- Robert Hafer
The simplest solution for malaria are bed nets. Just providing bed nets to all the kids in malarial zones would drastically cut down on incidents of the disease.
- Alex Scoble
There are also people like me who never get bit by the nasty critters. Maybe a little genetic defacement is in order?
- Todd Hoff
Lindsey - I mean DDT is no substitute for Viagra.
- Robert Hafer
Please tell me there is video.
- Sonya Smith
Sonya: all TED Talks are recorded, but the videos usually come out over the next year at http://www.ted.com/
- Robert Scoble
He has the ultimate experience in the distribution of bugs. A master indeed :-) Now available to nearly all. Perhaps later in a $150 computer. Couldn't resist. But I agree that his global efforts in health are exceptional.
- iSteeve
Gates Guerrilla Theater how outside the box is that? Have to admit that wow my respect just went up for him.
- Phil Boiarski
Alex: spot on. DDT is nothing to mess with. Lindsey you are correct. It belongs to the organo-chlorines class of chemicals and these are known endocrine disruptors. That and other organo-chlorines are responsible for hermaphroditic offspring in large species such as alligators. It is lazy and violent solution to situation. Mosquito netting does work.
- Melanie Reed
Lindsey - I wouldn't know anything about tiny penises. :)
- Robert Hafer
What an asshole
- Dave Winer
Bill has been getting spectacularly bad advice on how to behave in public for some time now... remember the Seinfeld 'shoe' shtick?
- Chris Gulker
Alex got it spot on earlier.... Mosquito Nets are perhaps the cheapest and most effective intervention to improving health in these regions. Malaria is the number one killer of Refugees in Africa (women and children are especially at risk of infection) .... the cost of a net is a couple dollars....even counting distribution costs etc. a net can be provided where and when its needed (just before breeding season) for about $10 per person.... Nothing but Nets Campaign...http://www.nothingbutnets.net/
- David HC Soul
On another front, in September Gates announced that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation would provide $168.7 million to the PATH Malaria Vaccine Initiative to help develop a vaccine for the deadly disease. .... prevention and cure....both should be tackled, but only one (Nets) gives immediate results.
- David HC Soul
Bill Gates playfully frees swarm of mosquitoes - Yahoo! News - http://news.yahoo.com/s...
Gates releases bugs on unsuspecting group of predominantly Mac users at TED conference. The bugs were potential vectors for viruses. This was a proof of concept that Mac users were potentially as susceptible to bugs and viruses as are Windows users. Bill's Philanthropic work though, does seem to be leading to a vaccine for Malaria, with Phase 3 testing scheduled soon.
- iSteeve
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Think Bruce Springsteen was a poor choice for the Super Bowl halftime show? Here's why you're wrong. - http://www.medialifemagazine.com/news200...
Tom Stocky, Trish R, Ladybug Heather and 4 other people liked this
While the NFL TV audience is younger than that of baseball, the average male viewer is 44. The average female is 46. Both of these graduated High School and entered college in the early 80s, when the Boss was in his heyday. For the target Super Bowl audience, Springsteen is a direct hit. 18 to 34 year olds only make up 22% of NFL viewership. This is why it's not quite time for Papa Roach to headline, and why Janet Jackson/Justin Timberlake were a bad call -- with or without the wardrobe failure.
- Chris Baskind
So quit whining, kids. And get the hell off my lawn.
- Chris Baskind
Yes indeed. Put a Ring on It!
- iSteeve
I love Bruce, and have been to two of his concerts, but I think the show was a sell out. All of the fireworks, cut off songs, over production, a choir were too much. That is not what Bruce is about. This and the Walmart exclusive bring me back to the sell out, marry the model period. Tonight's show looked like they were legends in their own minds.
- Jeff Tunnell
Alright grandpa. Can you tell us again about the war?
- Rob Spectre
Did you fight for the damn yankees or the confederates grandpa?
- Jason Shultz
from twhirl
You kids and your newfangled music. It's all noise -- NOISE, I tell you!
- Chris Baskind
GETOFFAMYLAWN!!!
- Ladybug Heather
YouTube - The Beatles A Hard Days Night (Live) Shea Stadium - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Impressive raw sound!
- iSteeve
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