I, for one, am appalled. Perhaps Twitter should have some cutsie, cartoony icon with which they could notify people of errors. Hmmm... - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)
It's up now but flaky. Some tweets weren't showing up in the timeline. - Morton Fox
It's down? Oh man... Wait, did I miss it being down? Dang! Oh wait, is it down again, I gotta screengrab that dang whale on my new iphone/blackberry thingy. Oh wait. Is it down? - JMac of Earth
"Browsers should be afforded flexibility as to which image formats they support. Xbm and Xpm are good ones to support, for example." lol niiiiice. if only they had known the horror of the "Hampster Dance" that was in store for them, in the future, they would have never allowed this tag to begin with... - Karim
good thing marc's suggestion was supported. Tim Berners-Lee wanted to overload the anchor tag instead <a name=fig1 href="fghjkdfghj" REL="EMBED, PRESENT">Figure </a> instead http://1997.webhistory.org/www... - Alan Le
let me guess... closed-source drivers? huh... - silpol
@silpol - and yer point for such a stupid comment?? open source is not the end all be all ya know and gawd forbid some company out there that actually wants to make that thing they call money and the fact that the money goes to people who have rent / mortgages to pay or a family to feed - fuck comments like that really piss me off sometimes. - Steven Hodson
I so didn't expect the conversation on this link. Microsoft makes a mouse and designed it to work against Windows, I don't see anything wrong with that. - Alan Le
@Alan: You just don't understand! The world *will* come to an end if MS doesn't release GPL drivers for all of their hardware products. - Chad Myers
@stevenhodson: There's nothing wrong with either closed or open source... Nothing to get angry for, come on :) - directeur
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@steven conversely, your comment is extremely smart and to the point, leave alone impersonallity and wittiness... just one little thing tho some people get paid for open source - silpol
[obligatory meta-conversation] It's weird how a MOUSE can cause a conversation about opensource drivers. just sayin. - Yuvi (has IRL friends!)
Steven: Aren't we talking about mouse drivers? Is Microsoft planning on charging for the mouse AND the drivers, or just the mouse? If they're charging for just the mouse, isn't it in their interest to make it as usable as possible on as many different OSes as possible? I personally don't care if they make the drivers open or closed source, it just seems to me that open source drivers would spur more sales of the hardware, which is the bit they make their money from. - David Worrell
@David: Err, you mean I need to install SEPERATE MOUSE DRIVERS for Linux? I never quite remember installing one for windows.... (I could be wrong - maybe fancy ones do require sep. drivers. But, I've got a wireless one that needs no special drivers) - Yuvi (has IRL friends!)
@silpol - true enough some folks do get paid for working on open source projects that are then used by companies to either directly or indirectly to make money from. The problem is that the *common* perception of open source is that is all about free software. While you may not have intended for that reaction I get really tired of people taking potshots at companies in the software busines because they want to make money and this is seen most often by the rabid OSS advocates. Why there is this assumption that everything software companies do *must* be open source or they are just being thieves irritates me to no end. It is also extremely irritating that this attitude is 99% of the time directed to MS and the Windows OS but Apple can do anything it likes in locking down it's software path and make money from it. - Steven Hodson
Yuvi, that's just the problem and quite astute: some open source (and Apple) evangelists can't help but interlope into any conversation they can to proselytize their politic. - Akiva Moskovitz
@David yes we are talking about Drivers here and they *are considered* to be free but the fact is that they as has been pointed out something that they use to make money from the products that use them. Does this mean though that being open sourced is going to benefit companies that are making money from those products - no it doesn't and I really don't care if the things are open or closed source either. It just really irtritates me - this assumption that open source is the cure for all our ills. - Steven Hodson
posting token freetard crack, also, sexy! - Eric Rice
If its got trackball capabilities, I'm all for it. Once I got used to trackball I never wanted to go back to a movable mouse. - Melanie Reed
@Yuvi I had my Windows desktop and my Linux box on a PS/2 KVM. My Logitech trackball drove Ubuntu nuts. - MiɳiMagɘ (Sexy Scimitar)
I still use a touchpad attached to my PC. Never liked that mice required desk real estate to be useful. Much better to keep the pointer peripheral stationary. - Sprague D
Wow, that looks like RSI waiting to happen... - Brad Brooks
@Sprague D Same here. My desk real estate is too valuable for the price of a mouse. lol - Melanie Reed
I bought an IntelliMouse Explorer 2 to change the one I used with my former powerbook -apple's mouse sucks- and still works fine. The only thing I got from MS that works as it should. - david medina
I love MS keyboards but never liked their mice. Never seem to fit my hand and the scroll wheels always seem to loose. - Scott Bauer
@Shawn: durable, archival quality paper, pocket in the back, tons of styles to choose from (i prefer reporter style), hackable, cool history (Bruce Chatwin used nothing but moleskines)...i'm sure there's more reasons... - Trent Olson
this is something that I just realized that I would really really like to have - along with a pen that wouldn't keep disappearing :) - Steven Hodson
I didn't have a moleskine, but had something similar that I was using as my notetaker...but kept losing the pen, or leaving it at home or in the office when I was out and about the building....Got a PDA instead, it seems to work for me.... - the_IT_factor
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What is the big deal if a Twitter spammer follows you? You don't have to follow them back, so you'll never see what they spew.
I know it sucks that they can take your tweets and use them as spam if they follow you, but honestly, if I tried to vet every single follower I get on Twitter in a day, to make sure they're not a spammer, that's all I'd have time to do. :-)
A certain percentage of the internet is always going to be full of spam, because a certain percentage of the human beings on the internet are always going to be butt munch slimeballs. Learn to live with it. You'll be much happier. - Josh Bancroft
I don't have a huge group of people trying to following me, and I can usually recognize if someone trying to follow me on twitter is an arsian or someone I'm communicating with in some way or another. I keep my twitter and friendfeed private, and I block the oddball requests that look like spammers. But I do get lots of requests by spammers. - Tom Veatch
I'm starting to find the same thing, I just came back kfrom a mini vacation and found that I am in gReader more but friend feed get's me everything i need for the most part - Chris Jones
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I'm posting on twitter to get more of my network there over here as well :-) - Alan Le
Because of FF I visit twitter much less too - I still use GReader though - haven't mastered the ability to use FF as a replacement - Kevin Cearns
