Jeremy, perhaps there's a misunderstanding. As a rule, FriendFeeders celebrate Festivus - maybe someone mistook this thread for the Airing of the Grievences ceremony. In any event, I got a lot of problems with you people! And now you're gonna hear about it!
- John Craft
Actually, as far as I can tell, Like in FB does do something: it's basically an empty comment, so you get notified of new comments that occur after you Like it.
- Glen Campbell, esq.
@Glen: it's true but what bothers me most is that unlike friendfeed, fb delivers a separate mail for every person that comments on that post. #lame
- 'Like' robot (frɐnc)
I would just like to go on record here and clearly state that, were I able to do what this lion is doing, I WOULD NOT! NO! NEVER! EVER! Thank you.
- Mark "Godt Nyt Ǻr"
Mark, not even if they were dipped in chocolate?
- Adrian
Yau'll are some sick _ucks. Let the King have a private moment for God's sake. Shame on you people. Can't yau'll see he's welcomed by his peeps in the jungle. He went down south for a royal visit :)
- Jeunelle Foster
""It's a thrill for me to see the TWiT logo right up there next to Amazon, Netflix and Major League Baseball" via the Roku, Laporte told me in a phone interview. "I want to be seen as a (media) peer." Laporte is ramping up how much programming he offers per week, from about 30 to 40 hours to 100 or 200 hours. He has just hired the popular Dr. Kiki Sanford to be a host on some shows, since he can no longer do it all. Eventually, he says, he aims to be come the "CNN for geeks," with a laser focus on his nerdier audience, and no ambitions to duplicate the super-expensive production values of a top TV network."
- Chris Heath
from Bookmarklet
yes, this IPTV stuff is going to the TV in 2010 - yahoo widget enabled tv's will have the content via the mediafly widget, roku, popcorn hour, all the mobile apps (bb, android, pre, etc) -- hopefully mediafly will be on the ps3 and xbox soon -- revision 3 is also moving in this direction (not sure if they're dealing thru mediafly or not, but i know they're moving onto tv's as well
- Chris Heath
This one is VERY hard for me. I had no problem picking I, Robot over Reservoir Dogs because it sucked less, but this one I'm stumped. They were both good for different reasons. I even own both. I think I'll go with Lebowski since I watch it more often.
- Admiral Anika
But they pissed on his fucking rug! And it really tied the room together.
- Morgan Haley
Ultimately, after the sands of time have run their course, there will only be one movie left in the world. That one movie will be about the Dude.
- Adrian
An appology to my Year 9 Japanese teacher: You know how I dismissed the art of business card exchange as something I would never need... I just busted it out to our very
important visiting Japanese customers... I'm top shit right now :)
That was the first thing I was told when meeting our Korean and Chinese clients for the first time... always have business cards to present, or you will have lost a key opportunity to assert your standing in their eyes.
- Mark "Godt Nyt Ǻr"
And when you receive theirs (with both hands, as you gave them yours) look it over, front and back, and ask them something about it. "This is your mobile number?" or something. It shows you're paying attention and respect the gift of shared identity.
- Kevin Fox
Contrast that with American Psycho, where the appropriate response is "Is this Ecru or Eggshell? Holy Crap, is that the new Mr. Eaves? Fucking nice."
- Kevin Fox
"The way a person becomes smart is to store in their brain only the information that they have to know, dismissing the rest. If it’s written down, I don’t need to know it. That’s what Albert Einstein would have you believe. But not Damjan Stanković. In an ideal Damjan Stanković world, you’d know how long you were at that stoplight because it would tell you what it’s up to. Tell me what you’re up to, stoplight! Don’t hold back your secrets, you stoplight you! I would love to know how much time I have before I am able to race to the next copy of you. I want to know how much time I have so I can hurry up and stop again!"
- AJ Batac
from Bookmarklet
Waiting for green with one's foot on the gas, and being able to anticipate that moment more quickly just doesn't sound like good defensive driving to me. IMO, the light turns green and you're still obligated to look both directions before going. This doesn't do anything for safety. It amazes me how impatient people are while driving. It's something I've thought about a bit: http://www.culturesculptor.com/bloghtm...
- SAM
Oh and just realized I wasn't subbed to you AJ... that is now fixed!
- SAM
You could probably design it to be safer: less segments on the red-light countdown so you know if you are minutes or seconds away from getting a green (but far enough apart that you can't accurately predict the change).
- Matt Mastracci
Or you could do what is done in Britain, and other countries no doubt - the light changes from red to orange and then to green.
- Buds
I think SAM's on the mark with this one. It's bad enough having people trying to sneak through the last second of a yellow light, but having them revving the engine to jump the beginning of a green light is a recipe for disaster. Maybe Matt's fix would work (make the timing granularity low), but I think it would have to be unpredictable, or of an extremely low granularity (e.g., 10-30s) to prevent gaming.
- Joel Webber
In Amsterdam the light goes yellow+red a few seconds before it turns green. The downside of this is that people who run yellows (or run reds) are far, far more likely to get hit by someone racing out of the gate on a green light they were ready for. These timers would be nice, but there needs to be a corresponding increase in the pause between one side's new red and the other side's new green.
- Kevin Fox
On a related note, how many drivers here use the pedestrian walk countdown timer as a hint as to whether they need to speed through their green and beat the yellow/red?
- Kevin Fox
I'm less likely to speed through intersections with countdown timers, but I don't know if that's a universal experience. If anything, this design prompts some interesting explorations in psychology and civil engineering. :)
- Matt Mastracci
This is a brilliant idea for those looking to follow the 8 second rule (of thumb). If you're idling for more than 8 seconds, it is more efficient to turn off your vehicle than to stay idling beyond that point.
- Mitch
Kevin, I use that to anticipate the yellow/red (pedestrian walk light) but not to speed through green.
- AJ Batac
Oh what an awesome idea! Perfect for turning city streets full of pedestrians and cross-traffic into a race track.
- April Russo (app103)
When the light changes yellow, I know it will soon be time to cross.
- Raphael, Raphael
Loading 'bar' or not, people already do what Scott is afraid of. (I'm guilty every now and than) Drivers watch the lights for the other lanes; when those turn yellow they know their light will be green soon and begin to inch forward. Implementing something like this will only cause drivers to continue staring forward rather than looking to the side and watching the wrong light.
- Joshua
Timer lights are common in China and everyone uses them to get a head start, which as you can imagine, leads to a number of accidents as others are racing to catch the other light before it change. While I can understand the value in moving cars along a road, timing/pacing lights (and letting drivers know the appropriate speed) does so as well.
- Andrew Leyden
There is another advantage to non boy racer and more lazy types, myself included, atleast when the timer bar is full, you know can look away and not get honked at, rather than staring wide eyed and giving yourself a bad neck.
- Leighton Gough
I use the pedestrian walk lights all the time, to gauge how much green is left and how quickly it's going to turn from red to green. Doesn't mean you don't still have to pay attention to the cars, though, because everyone in LA turns left on yellow/red.
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
there's a gap between lights on the different directions (depending on the intersection's programming) so knowing when one light will turn green does not mean that the other light just turned red... it could have turned red 2 seconds ago... people who will jump the gun and run a light are going to do it with our without this cool countdown red light timer
- Chris Heath
"VLC Remote lets you control your VLC Media Player on your Mac, PC or Linux machine. VLC is a great, free and popular media player that is particularly good at handling almost any file format. VLC Remote lets you sit back and let it handle the movies while you control things from your easy chair."
- See-ming Lee 李思明 SML
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Piece of Cake - Credit Card Dutch System Calculator by Jung You Chul, Her Miran, Lee Chang Ho, Lee Kiho & Shin Youngmi » Yanko Design - http://www.yankodesign.com/2009...
"You can now use the URL of your Google Profile to confirm your identity on any website that supports OpenID. When the site asks you for an OpenID identifier, just plug in the URL of your Google Profile and you’ll be directed to Google, where you confirm the request. OpenID Foundation board member Chris Messina has posted a screenshot of what the user flow looks like when using your Google Profile URL to log in on a website that supports OpenID:"
- See-ming Lee 李思明 SML
from Bookmarklet
This is clearly not my cat. If this was my cat he's have one arm shoved down into the printer trying to tear up all the internal whirling bits with his bare claws.
- Soup
Too Funny! Reminds me of the San Mateo Cat Shelter where one of the cats loves to sleep on top of the laster printer where the paper comes out...
- Greg Lato
1600+ to beat the FFundercats live chat thread. I think with this real time now on all threads we're going to see some truly epic comment numbers.
- Simon Wicks
Ivan, no the picture speaks for itself. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Petr, I have no idea what you mean, but thank you. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
@Kol .. :] that, partially, might have been the purpose.... I don't know it exactly either. :] .. was I reflecting on a cat under the fax, and that it is hard to fax that way ... /?:] ... "underfaxing at its worst" ..
- Petr Buben
there ya have me ! :] .... see, to be honest with you, i saw this pic couple days ago, but i let it go, without posting it ..... what does that make me? :]
- Petr Buben
even a flat cat... faxes just can't handle the hair. You'd have to shave the cat first, else the hair will burn and stick to the drum... a mess! (I am extrapolating from transparencies, mind, i don't have access to a cat to test)
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
Hehe, Joelle. This is now tied for the 'likes' top stop. One more then, hehe. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Hehe, Greg. Blimey! Erm, is that not far from 500 likes now? ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Bloody marvelous, Kol. Wish I could like it again... too cute (and help u to 500 likes).
- Roberto Bonini
I couldn't believe it when I logged on from the morning over posting it and saw it was at something 200 likes! You all have a strange fetish with cats and fax machines, hehe. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Am I the only one who saw this and their first thought was - My goodness did someone break that cats neck? It still freaks me out a little
- Steve C
Steve, it does look a little out of place, but cats are pretty bendy. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
They fax much better if you flatten them first. What?
- Kevin Pedraja
So we can put this post to rest now. :-) 505 likes final count, wow! :-D Good night all!
- Kol Tregaskes
My like is the last one so far :) - 509 afaik
- getalifejerk
did 3 people really un-like this? now at 506. wtf (edit: uh, oh, yeah, me and 2 + 506 others makes 509. dammit, jim, i'm an artist, not a mathematician)
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
One of the best funny cat pictures I've seen! :-)
- John Collis
Kristian, it appears to be. Hehe, John.
- Kol Tregaskes
ای بابا این پیشول بی خیال نمی شود، بابا پاشو برو دنبال یه بازی دیگه ، از هفته پیش تا حالا تو فکس ولو شدی حوصله ات سر نرفته، پاشو اقلا بپر رو کیبوردی چیزی
- Maryaminaa
It's really only social convention which regards it as inappropriate, same with Xeroxing it, like one does with their b__tocks. Wait are we still talking about cats cats here or...
- sofarsoShawn
OMGosh 700+ likes now!! LOL. Thank you all 702 of you. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
@maurizio cosa intendi che non ha personalità? mi piace lo sitle "minimalista" senza quadri statuette etc.. solo l'essenziale. :) Poi bisogna vedere tutto il resto .... dispersione termica inclusa :D e costo!!
- albybisy
intendo che sulle riviste sono tutte così, non c'è la personalità di chi vi abita, non è personalizzata
- Maurizio Goetz
That's my girlfriend! Hell yeah, bitch. You are the fucking winner at life, you hear me? AT LIFE! Keep that shit up and many, many fantastic shoes will be only a portion of your reward. <3 <3 <3
- nakachi
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- MASTER OF THE OBVIOUS
It makes me very happy that when cancer darkens her door, Mary assrapes it and sends it home crying. It's a Machiavellian way to do battle. #nomercyforcancer
- Archangel ωαřмaiden
Thought For The Day: As a community, we have to accept that some of the Tech Set have left or lost interest in FriendFeed and their love goes with it... But they have to accept that their leaving doesn't devalue or deminish the community that remains
Steve, I think that may be part of the issue. I have observed that there are certain groups of people who always gravitate to either the new thing or the hip thing. The problem comes when they leave a service, and their group goes with them, they loose the interaction on their issues and therefore they deem it to have died. Little consideration is given to content or the fact that the...
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- Johnny Worthington
I still visit several times per day and try to contribute where I can. It has lost something though.
- Mattb4rd
Matt, I agree it has changed but change isn't always a bad thing. I prefer the term 'Flushing'
- Johnny Worthington
from iPhone
Eh, screw you guys. I'm onto the next thing, FriendFeed is worthless to me. Have you guys heard about this awesome new thing called Google Wuv? It's like Wave, but Wuv-ier.
- Mike Nayyar
Aye Aye captain.. I'm here until the decks get wet and I have to step up into the liferaft (or they peel my bloodied hands from my keyboard)!! I still love it.. http://ff.im/a57K2
- Chris Myles
In fact, maybe it actually speaks more for the quality of the community.
- Martha
To celebrate the occasion, we thought we’d try a fun experiment – starting today and ending on October 19, you can buy World of Goo at whatever price you like – one cent, a million dollars, the usual twenty, or any creative number they let you type into the text field.
- Joshua Schnell
from Bookmarklet
Great game, if you haven't played it you should check it out.
- Joshua Schnell
Thanks to this free shirt, Twitter can do no wrong. Twitter is amazing and beautiful and perfect and amazing and beautiful and perfect and amazing and beautiful and perfect and amazing and beautiful and perfect and amazing and beautiful and perfect. #ftc
- Louis Gray
FireFox: I used to love you. Really. You remember!! But now I feel like, I dunno... you're not the Fox I fell in love with. These days I can barely stand you enough to even get near you. 2 GB of memory? Spikes to 100% of CPU? Unwatchable Flash video? Sorry, but I've really gotta find a way to quit you.
I'm so glad I'm not the only one. I've tried disabling all extensions... but then why not Chrome?
- Richard pancakhaus Walker
I have had issues with firefox for a while. I don't use extensions and it is the slowest thing around. I I have found Safari and Stainless to be the most reliable browsers that I use. Chrome is way to unstable. It crashes within a couple minutes every time I try to use it.
- Corey Harris
I stick with Firefox cuz she knows all the special tricks I like. Opera is my mistress... she's always waiting in the background for the times I lose my patience. :)
- Gus
Works OK here on Linux with more than 60 extensions installed. My machine is pretty old and has only 1GB of RAM. I think it's some add-on or combination of add-ons that causes it, not FF itself.
- prozacfield
Chrome is simply not ready for prime time, especially for us Mac kids. I only have FF extensions installed that I really need/use; nothing extraneous. I've also - like Corey and Richard - tried disabling *all* my add-ons for extended periods and the issues persist. It's the product, not the add-ons. Finally, if I can't use my add-ons, I might as well not use FireFox, because that's the main reason I've stuck with FF so long.
- Anthony Citrano
Holy crap, 100% CPU usage? Wtf are you doing on Firefox?? 0_o
- Itachi
Chrome's great on Windows - not so good on OSX
- Don Bonaddio
I found CoolIris was slowing down my Firefox so I uninstalled it and installed it on Flock instead. Now when I need to use it I just go to Flock. I think I'm going to install anything bloaty that I like on Flock. Then keep Firefox really zippy with only greasemonkey and a few key extensions while going to Flock for the other stuff whenever I need to.
- Thomas Hawk
Thomas Hawk: How you find that ex. made your FF slow?
- Amin
Agree with Thomas that CoolIris slows down FF but removing CoolIris doesn't seem to make FF much more usable from here...
- Anthony Citrano
I've already given up on FF ... i stuck with it way too long and the problems just wouldn't go away. So far i am liking Chrome on the Mac for what i want it to do ... that is not to say that i feel seriously crippled trying to use Chrome like i used to use FF. Can't wait for it to become stable enough for regular use. But i wonder where the FF i knew has gone to :(
- Bhowmik Shah
the extensions and plugins can really wreak havoc on FFox... especially on windows. switched to Mac and using a minimal set of extensions, much better now...
- Juho Tunkelo
And then there was a flash of light, and Chrome..
- Rohit
I moved to Chrome on Windows at the beginning of this year, and Safari 4 on Macs. Their speed at opening is similar, and paramount for me to the point that I am willing to do without extensions. I found that FF has become as bloated as IE and - unfortunately - as much of a security risk. One good drive-by malware install off an ad, and it took me days to recover. That simply doesn't...
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- Cole Jolley
If you keep upgrading Firefox instead of reinstalling every major release, the gunk accumulated over time *will* wreak havoc with your Firefox. If your Firefox starts behaving strangely or annoyingly, try a complete reinstallation: Uninstall, remove your Firefox profile dirs, then reinstall. This is not Firefox's fault per se, but because of complex interaction between Firefox, extensions, and plug-ins. Not to mention some extensive datastore evolution (e.g., migration to SQLite)
- Pandu ● IT Optimizer
from fftogo
I gave up on Firefox and switched to Chrome.
- Mike Reynolds
I didn't give up on ffx but I've been using chrome primarilly for almost a year now.
- Chris Heath
from iPhone