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17 Reasons Why Your Mac Runs Slower Than it Should - http://www.chriswrites.com/2009...
David Foucher, Vincent Chu, georgeker and 13 other people liked this
i had a pear :)
- Rachael Depp
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- patrick
Excel-Lookalike Twitter Client Helps You Goof Off At Work - http://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-...
Daniel Rowley, Marco(aureliusmaximus), Zee. and 27 other people liked this
"The premise behind Spreadtweet is simple: The interface looks just like a Excel spreadsheet, and the casual passer-by will probably be fooled into thinking it's real, actual work. Even the "dock" icon is a dead ringer for Microsoft's (MSFT) Excel icon."
- Jonathan Kong
from Bookmarklet
Kewl! :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
There's a web based version as well : ) http://spreadtweets.elliottkember.com/
- LouCypher
:) Awesome! Just what I needed.
- Aman
Thats pretty cool!
- Nicholas James
Totally Hilarious!
- Twittergator
oh that is PERFECT for my worker-bee friend's TwitAddiction! THANKS!
- Deborah Micek
Rackspace announcements: http://scobleizer.com/2008... Cloud Computing Price War to come?
Daniel Rowley, Anthony K. Valley ©, Greg Guitarbuster and 33 other people liked this
Wow, more of my vendors get thrown together into the same company. Yay, less bills! So I guess the next version of JungleDisk won't require S3?
- Mark Trapp
Awesome! Rackspace FTW! congrats guys!
- Susan Beebe
Mark: JungleDisk will give you the choice of either S3 or Rackspace's own services.
- Robert Scoble
This space needs more competition... I'd like to see more usability improvements (it shouldn't be so hard to set up a simple web host).
- Brian Roy
Nothing like healthy competition to benefit consumers.
- Tyler Golden
from twhirl
Interesting move as the cloud grows and is starting to have some outages
- Chris Miller
Robert: any indication of when the JungleDisk and Slicehost merging would be complete?
- Mark Trapp
Very nice! Posted this to Hacker News. I'm sure a lot of geeks will appreciate this move (http://news.ycombinator.com/item...)
- AJ Batac
Mark: the way they are talking, by the end of the year. I'll get an official answer after the event.
- Robert Scoble
The size, quality and resolution of the live video stream is amazing. The best I've ever seen. I even saw Scoble tapping away on his notebook :)
- Mark Krynsky
Mark: we're in the Austin CIty Limits studio. Good to hear the video is clear! :-)
- Robert Scoble
They just announced a partnership with Limelight Networks too.
- Robert Scoble
They also announced a partnership with http://www.sonian.net/ for email in cloud services.
- Robert Scoble
It's exciting, and Mosso is a leader in the cloud, but..erm...well...I think you'll see many guys who host websites with Mosso still 'iffy' about the reliability. Wonder if they are going to push some more resources into Mosso operations.
- Andrew Leyden
Andrew: Yes, is the answer to that.
- Robert Scoble
WOW. Thats huge. So RackSpace is going to need to create more data centers around the world to do this. It wasn't that long ago that they had a major power outage in their main facility knocking out many of my clients servers.
- Santa CW™
i'm trying to see what differentiators are vs S3, dropbox, MS Live Mesh etc
- adolfo foronda
I wrote a post with coverage from an amazing Cloud vendor called Workhabit who specializes using Amazon EC2 to host Drupal sites. Info & some great presentations from them here http://krynsky.com/highlig...
- Mark Krynsky
Christopher: SliceHost was a very profitable company. The founders told me they came to Rackspace because of how many data centers they were building and the resources that were available to them.
- Robert Scoble
One of the benefits of Amazon is seamless integration. I wonder how all these distinct services can be brought together into one cloud with an API and fast and favorable bandwidth pricing?
- Todd Hoff
Robert: Thanks. One of the things that scares me about cloud vs. server is if my server crashes for some random reason, I can call a techie at the data center who can focus on repairing 'my server' as soon as possible. If the cloud crashes, then I'm sort of at the mercy of when they can deal with the 'bigger issue' which might take longer than fixing say one box. (I should note I use both mosso & ded. servers)
- Andrew Leyden
Just a random aside about Friendfeed. Look at all the comments here in just 25 minutes. Definitely a tech interested audience on this site.
- Andrew Leyden
Andrew I think we're going to see a move to multi-cloud operations so that instance of the cloud was really down you failover to another cloud. Some cloud vendors are positioning themselves as a redundancy option to Amazon.
- Todd Hoff
Ooh, the slicehost offering sounds interesting for personal hosting. I've heard some good things about them and intro packages starting at $20 a month? I need to look into them.
- Mark Krynsky
Does this mean they're going to fix Jungledisk on Windows? Around here, we call it Crashy McCrashalot.
- Brett Kelly
Mark: I've used them for a few months for personal hosting, and they are definitely worth a look. We just started using them professionally for our low-end sites a month or so ago.
- Mark Trapp
@adolfo you're listing services across different layers in their integration of the Cloud. This stuff can be confusing and we need more people to start doing a better job of explaining this stuff.
- Mark Krynsky
The Limelight thing sounds very interesting, a lower cost way to take advantage of CDN. I wonder what Akamai are thinking...
- Elizabeth McLaughlin
@mark krynsky good point, it's a nice suite of offerings via aquisitions and partners. Guess it never hurts to have competition, heres to price drops across the board.
- adolfo foronda
I don't know if I should "like" this or not. I've been a loyal Slicehost customer for 8 months now and I have been very happy with things the way they were. Still, congrats to those guys.
- Benjamin Golub
Retweeting @lalorek Rackspace paid $11.5 million payable in cash and stock, with potential for up to $16.5 million more for Jungle Disk & SliceHost
- Robert Scoble
I just bought a copy of Jungle Disk this week.
- Jason Shultz
from twhirl
Thanks for the info Mark Trapp. I've wanted to look into personal hosting in the Cloud, but prior to this it was ~$100 a month to do it and not cost effective but now at $20 it might be worth dipping my toe. I feel there will be a major shift and the majority of sites will be using the Cloud in ~5 years.
- Mark Krynsky
I guess I'm a minority here but my favorite feature of S3 is BitTorrent seeding/tracking. Any sign of that coming from RackSpace or other cloud providers?
- Louis Choquel
Louis: I asked them about that. It's definitely on their list of features they want to do, but they have other stuff to do first.
- Robert Scoble
Did you see that Amazon EC2 just announced Windows installs and an SLA? Probably trying to one-up these announcements.
- Dan T
I have waited for the spark to light the silicon valley rebuilding process, let the ideas flow, and I would like to work for Robert and Rackspace.
- Nicholas Chase
I would love that. Please reduce my bandwidth costs from EC2 and I'll switch. All this communication with the Twitter API and Social Graphs is getting really expensive!
- Jesse Stay
Da Button Factory - Create shiny buttons online, quickly! - http://dabuttonfactory.com/#exampl...
denise, Morton Fox, Brad Nickel and 10 other people liked this
just out of curiosity Susan, where did u find this?
- Zee.
Nice find their Susan, Thanks for sharing.
- TrafficBug
twitter
- Susan Beebe
cool, cheers Susan
- Zee.
NIN releases 400gb of free HD concert footage via torrents! - http://www.nin.com
Mark, Phillip Stewart, Brian Tiede and 10 other people liked this
thats nuts
- Tim Broder
I hate this saying, but... "full of win"
- Enrique Gutierrez
Pirate Prisons Project Launches, Book Your Cell Now!|TFreak - http://torrentfreak.com/pirate-...
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Barbie: Manufactured by Mattel, designed by evolution V [Satoshi Kanazawa, Psychology Today - 9/28/08] - http://blogs.psychologytoday.com/blog...
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Why men prefer women with large breasts had long been a mystery in evolutionary psychology, especially since the size of a woman’s breasts has no relationship with her ability to lactate.
- Mitchell Tsai
from Bookmarklet
Harvard anthropologist Frank Marlowe makes the simple observation that larger, and hence heavier, breasts sag more conspicuously with age than do smaller breasts. Thus, it is much easier for men to judge a woman’s age (and her reproductive value) by sight if she has larger breasts than if she has smaller breasts, which do not change in shape as much with age.
- Mitchell Tsai
A study of Polish women shows that women who simultaneously have large breasts and a tight waist have the greatest fecundity, indicated by their levels of two reproductive hormones (17-β-estradiol and progesterone).
- Mitchell Tsai
The same logic is probably behind the stereotype that women with large breasts are dumb. In the ancestral environment, without plastic surgery or even bras, only very young women had large, firm breasts.
- Mitchell Tsai
Part I of article: http://friendfeed.com/e...
- Mitchell Tsai
Personally I would be happy to see 36A-26-36. Breast size is not so important to me, but I do like a nice shape. Since I like athletic builds, the women I like usually have small breasts.
- Mitchell Tsai
I am not a large breast guy myself, but @enigma it is worth noting that evolution does not always give us preferences that are perfectly achievable or even commonly available. Our evolutionarily driven tastes will often exceed what is common or average but study after study shows humans can and will "settle" for less than their personal idea it isn't an issue.
- Soulhuntre
'liked' for picture and "large, firm breasts" - I'm a man I can't help it. Remember it's not what you got it how you work it that counts.
- Toby Graham
There are ethnic shapes, no doubt. So yes Enigma but not just Sinapore, Asia as a whole. I think Gregory is much better travelled than I am so I'd take his word for it.
- Toby Graham
A flat and toned waist is sexy for both sexes isn't it? I'd never go out with a woman who was more ripped than me!
- Toby Graham
Thanks enigma! Here in England people are far too prudish for my liking. At the end of the day we're just a pretty clever animal, programmed to try and survive and hopefully replicate. The rest is just decoration :)
- Toby Graham
Toby, I'd love to go out with women with better abs than me (just as I'd love to date someone who played music better than me). More motivation to get in better shape (or be a better musician).
- Mitchell Tsai
Enigma: If one hangs around enough beautiful women/men and tries relationships with them, personality and other factors become more important. My last girlfriend and I had awesome sex, but the lack of emotional maturity in some areas made it a hellish relationship. For 1.5 yrs, I just swore off any relationships.
- Mitchell Tsai
Im scared to "like" this
- johnpiercy
fact
- Mystika
Why I Love Twitter - http://radar.oreilly.com/2008...
Glenn Batuyong, Chris Luckhardt, Pokai and 18 other people liked this
"Funny, I first saw your Tweet on FriendFeed. I think you're missing the point of FriendFeed, but that's OK. Out of the 4,600 I'm following on FriendFeed you're on my top 10 list for most interesting. When I see you later in the month we'll talk about why you have FriendFeed wrong. Oh, and FriendFeed will never kill either Twitter or Facebook. If I ever said that I was wrong to say that. I see FF as an add-on to Twitter now."
- Robert Scoble
the best place for meta-chatting ain't it?
- Louis Choquel
from twhirl
FF is just a complier. Twitter is where you get info firsthand.
- Bob Blunk
Bob, I see a lot on here first. Lots of tweets from twitterers I don't yet follow. It's easier here to find interesting folk to follow.
- Nicola Quinn
Nicola: I could not agree more, but FF still just mostly complies information that people enter on other sites.
- Bob Blunk
LOL I agree w/ Nicola, and it begs the question is it even necessary to follow then? I suppose here is where you could say twittrt & ff comepete w/ eachother$
- sofarsoShawn
FF is more conversational; Twitter is essentially a multicast/broadcast tool. I find myself commenting/replying here, but posting new things of my own to Twitter (knowing they'll be picked up by FF).
- John
John: just the opposite for me. i post to ff knowing it will go to twitter. ff is my dashboard at this point.
- Brendten Eickstaedt
I'm the other way around due to twitter 140 char limit.
- thomasrdotorg
yep. love that ff is smart enough to put an ff.im in the post 2 so that ur entire post is available to twitterers 2
- Brendten Eickstaedt
I find it kind of odd that Tim was responding to Robert's comments on Backtype, but didn't want to see "friendfeed with comments"...
- anna sauce
Mostly but not always Bob. I posted a message here which started a discussion that was only on here.
- Nicola Quinn
sofarsoshawn - Yes I still think it's necessary to follow people. I like to chat to people on Twitter I've found here.
- Nicola Quinn
John, yes FF is more conversational but I like the randomness of Twitter too.
- Nicola Quinn
Twitter is updates, fun and crazy, FF is the tool used to update all those applications like itself, and FF is information, updates, interesting, conversations..
- Brendon Wadey
FriendFeed is my Scoble filter :)
- Sam Pullara
Scoble: Interestingly, I've the opposite view, and see Twitter as more of an add-on to FF. I read tweets from those I follow on FF, which significantly cuts the number of dupes I see. FF's real-time feed makes running an app like Twitterrific unnecessary. I haven't noticed a significant lag time between a tweet arriving in Twitter vs. FF real-time.
- Lynn Garris
Robert: Good read. I enjoyed your discourse with Tim. I'm new to Twitter/FF (signed up, didn't stick & very recently returned) but saw your post about following you w/o an introduction, so here it goes: I work in the quantitative research department at an asset management co but hobbies include the sciences, political/economic theory & art/music. Usually my tweets are comprised of articles I find interesting, but plan on linking FF w/ Flickr etc. Anyway, greetings to you & I hope I pass the smart cutoff :)
- Jeffrey Marsh
Belkin's Switch-to-Mac USB Cable - http://www.tuaw.com/2008...
Louis Choquel liked this
Excellent!!
- Louis van Proosdij
Pretty cool.
- Louis Choquel
from twhirl
Next feature they should add is a Parallels Desktop bundle that transports your PC at the same time.
- Louis Choquel
from twhirl
Entreprise 2.0 : Comment les reseaux sociaux d'entreprises vont aider a optimiser votre business ? Conferen.. http://twitrss.dyndns.org/134...
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FeedBurner Failures Create Market Opportunity - http://getanewbrowser.com/2008...
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Ron Howard's Amazing Obama Video. - http://blog.steveisaacs.com/post...
Ryan, Joe Silence is not Santa, Give 'Em DBizness and 53 other people liked this
This is truly awesome. Director Ron Howard goes back to his acting roots to demonstrate his conviction for his desired Presidential candidate.
- Steve Isaacs
Kudos to Ron, Henry and Matlock. :)
- Chris Luckhardt
that's great
- Cee Bee
Looks like this is getting around pretty quickly, as well it should. Figure Olbermann will have it on his show tonight.
- Chris Reed
Awesome!
- cmiper
"I was so wr.. wr.. wro..." - "You were WRONG Fonz?" - classic.
- Steve Isaacs
I'll grant that Fred Thompson and Chuck Norris can't equal this one.
- Ontario Emperor
hehehe, awesome
- Andrei M. Marinescu
Um, why would having Obama as President make me trust the government "again"? And, if we have been on a wrong and divisive path for eight years, why would choosing a wrong and divisive path be a solution? Cute, but without substance. Not unlike the candidate he is promoting, I suppose. Well made video, though.
- ComicList
I like seeing Richie and The Fonz together again. They both look great,
- Capn' One Eye - adrift
sean you know exactly where that dude is coming from. spelling things out isn't going to make him see the light no matter how hard you try. can't reason with those kinds of people
- Cee Bee
Fantastic and fun. Way to go Ron Howard, Henry Winkler, and the guy before my time.
- Kenley Neufeld
awesome, now a PR agency is contacting me to present me a company...that is in the portfolio of my fund LOL
Zee. and Louis Choquel liked this
so you know how much PR budget they have?
- Louis Choquel
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles renewed by Fox - http://www.inquisitr.com/5695...
Louis Choquel, Stephen Jones, McFrugal and 3 other people liked this
Somewhat surprised until it sold the show to Dodge (?) which gave it shorter commercial breaks. Least for one show, which meant it was getting some traction. It's been half-way decent actually. Summer Glau is fantastic, Brian Austin Green is working out and Shirley Manson is a nice addition.
- AJ Kohn
They'll be back!
- LouCypher
I haven't downloaded this in ages, but should catch up, I quite enjoyed the first 6 or so episodes
- Duncan Riley
That's a pretty sweet promo pic - but then I'm a sucker for shotguns ;¬) I've been meaning to watch this, but my viewing habits these days revolve around seasons not episodes. I'd rather watch a string of them together than each individually, much like with Lost or Heroes. I like closure :¬P
- CannonGod
re-twitt @jmplanche http://twitpic.com/h8oi - Il ne viendra pas ... E. Besson le remplace // ah le plan loose total! comment il vous mépris
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YouTube Adds Full-Length CBS Content - Advertising Age - Digital - http://adage.com/digital...
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"NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- YouTube is getting its Hulu on. The Google-owned video site has partnered with CBS to air full-length TV shows, starting today."
- Michael Fidler
from Bookmarklet
Night crew : ?Romance? Division - http://hqbeauty.blogspot.com/search...
Louis Choquel, Andrew Trinh and Colide81 (James) liked this
Exclusive! Thanks to a time / space rift we have video of Palin's first day in Washington. - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Pro PR tip #11: Demo presenters are already contacting bloggers. Haven't heard from TechCrunch companies. Whos gonna get smarter coverage?
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Rafe: I have heard from several TC50 companies but they are freaked out by Arrington's rules. You leak and you lose.
- Robert Scoble
I wonder if a strategic leak from a TC50 company wouldn't be better for said company than preseting at the event and getting lost in the noise. Just a thought experiment.
- Rafe Needleman
from twhirl
I'm neither at Demo nor TC50, do I have any chance of getting eyeballs to my project? uh maybe I should unveil it at Le Web 3 - OK I'll see to that
- Louis Choquel
from twhirl
Yeah Rafe Needleman, Arrington is very strict, you can't say anything to anybody until they announce the list on Monday, September 8th
- Andrew Fielding
What would be funny is if all TC50 leaked.
- Morgan Warstler
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vintage-computer.com TOTAL AWESOME - http://www.vintage-computer.com/ibm_pc...
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LPH™ and his dog P™, timepilot, Rishabh Mishra (p248) and 21 other people liked this
...and expand for a picture of the IBM bibles LOL!!
- Mona Nomura
C-64 :)
- Michael W. May
from twhirl
Wow a command prompt! Say goodbye to punch cards yay
- Rodfather
"Enter today's date (m-d-y)" ...so much awesome
- Mona Nomura
Damn it even has up to 640K RAM. Nobody should need more than that ever
- Rodfather
Oh boy, those were the HOT new tech things when I was doing my doctoral research - a big step up from a Sage with double 8" floppy drives :)
- Sally Church
Floppy discs were SO hilarious. My dad used to freak out when I'd touch the magnetic part with my grubby little kid fingers...
- Mona Nomura
wow... this site brings back so many memories haha
- Mona Nomura
I used a hole puncher to make my floppies double-sided. Then later had a dedicated hole puncher for floppies so the notch would be neatly square. I hated having round holes on my floppies. Argh!
- Rodfather
Hole punchers LOL But the pixelated A> *flash flash* will forever be embedded in my brain
- Mona Nomura
That's what we had in computer classes back in high school, we were taught Logo programming, with that damn turtle. Weeeeeee! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
- Vincent X
Did you see the retro Macs on there too? And the Ataris? SO much awesome
- Mona Nomura
Blast from the past! My family's first computer was a Mac 512k, very similar to the Mac 128k in there. And I still have a PowerBook like the one in there, but it's a 180 instead of the 170 being pictured, and the trackball is the same color as the rest of the laptop. It's right beside me on the shelves. Unfortunately the power supply is messed up, but I was still using it from time to time about 5 years ago.
- Vincent X
I still remember the first time I saw a Mac II in a store, my first time seeing a Mac with a color screen and interface. I was amazed. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... ("A complete color-capable system could cost as much as $10,000 once the cost of the color monitor, video card, hard disk and RAM were added.")
- Vincent X
peek
- Michael W. May
disappointed there was no responding "poke" :(
- Michael W. May
Oh ye of little faith. Couldn't wait an extra minute? Poke!
- Dread Pirate PJ
from NoiseRiver
Here's some trivia, Michael: in all versions of BASIC except for two, the POKE's address and value had to be positive integers. The Apple and TI 99/4A BASIC were the only exceptions (that I'm aware of.) The lowest address you could poke on an Apple 2 was -32767, the highest was 32768
- Dread Pirate PJ
from NoiseRiver
I've still got my Amiga 1000, Amiga 500, and Atari 520STFM on a shelf in the garage. I sold my C64 and C128 twenty years ago, but I have no idea what happened to the TI99/4As... I had one working model, and a trashed one that I tinkered with.
- Roger Benningfield
Somewhere, I have two C-64s in storage; one working, one unknown. Though, by now, all are pretty unknown. 1998 was the last I recall powering one up.
- Michael W. May
My first computer. Commodore Vic-20. First software purchased. A terminal emulator that used a custom font on the Vic to display a full 40 columns. I actually enjoyed typing in programs from Byte Magazine. I then went on to Atari 800, C64, Atari ST, Amiga, then finally got my first PC which was an AMD 386/DX40.
- Mark Krynsky
Throwback!!
- ChaCha Fance
My first computer was a TRS-80 color computer. I put in a custom rom that connected BASIC to the serial port so PRINT and INPUT worked. Added an acoustic coupler and ran a BBS. Spent lots of time on compuserve. Then a Amiga 1000. I have an old blog post that talks about lots of this :) http://www.soulhuntre.com/2000...
- Soulhuntre
I love hearing all these stories... thank you for sharing everyone :)
- Mona Nomura
Soulhuntre: Ooh, nice! I used to spend a lot of my time on local BBS'es, I was having such a blast. I remember my first time chatting with a sysop, being impressed by how fast he was typing (real-time chat, and I was probably about nine back then), and I also used to play Trade Wars 2002 a lot, loved that game. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... Also ran a private BBS for some time for my friends. Ahhhh, memories.
- Vincent X
for me, PC always will be second-comer... true vintage is Big Iron, IBM 360 & 370... mainframes rule! ;)
- A.T.
I was SysOp of Basement BBS for five years.. miss those days... it started on a Tandy 1000 but toward the end I was running it on a clone 386SX!!
- Anthony Citrano
Check this out - great BBC radio piece in there too: http://www.cosmictap.com/phreaki...
- Anthony Citrano
Makes me feel, uhm, I donno. My first PC was a Celeron 133 MHz with 16 megs of RAM.*ducks, hides*
- Yuvi
My first computer was a Taiwanese PC clone.
- Morton Fox
LOL i demand pictures! @Yuvi: have you even seen a floppy??
- Mona Nomura
Great post on your blog, Anthony! Have you heard of this? http://bbsdocumentary.com/
- Vincent X
@Mona: Ofcourse! The 3.x ones (darn, I can't even remember if it's 3.5"), but mostly for "data transfer purposes". I was caught once at school for possessing them in 7th grade. Dad still uses them for "backup".
- Yuvi
Man, I rang up some killer LD phone bills dialing into BBSs around the Great Lakes *chuckle*
- Michael W. May
We had the old Apple Macintosh at school and some BBC Micros but to do lessons we had to go to the local college - ah the days of assembly language and Pascal. My first computer at home was a ZX81, the a Sinclair Spectrum, Amstrad CPC464, Amiga 600 (until it got stollen when my flat was broken in to). Eventually got a "PC" in '95 with a cyrix CPU (not good) and never looked back since...
- Colin Walker
from fftogo
Thanks Vincent. And yes, have heard of it - but not seen it.
- Anthony Citrano
I traded my beloved Redline BMX for my first TI99/4A. Ended up writing a shitty little BASIC program for it that my school used to run their '84 mock elections. The school itself had a Trash-80 Model III with a cassette drive, and no budget for a computer teacher... so I was put in charge. I was an utter failure as a teacher, as I just sat around writing games for my "students" to play while pretending to be learning.
- Roger Benningfield
LOL@ 386SX, 'dialing in', Redline BMX, TI... hahahaha Does Texas Instrument make anything besides Scientific calculators now a days??? (sorry for the late response, i think after a while this thread stays dormant and not brought to the top of my feed =\)
- Mona Nomura
btw, these stories are so awesome. I should blog them
- Mona Nomura
Mona: Back in '03, someone did an essay project on the subject. Here's mine... http://tinyurl.com/5qm2sv
- Roger Benningfield
My turn. First computer was a Commodore 128. Brother went to a friend's house and copied 200 disks the same day. Mostly all games. First modem was a Commodore 300 baud. Subscribed to Quantum Link and got addicted to downloading SIDplayer music. Grabbed a used Amiga 1000. Started BBS'ing. Later bought a Amiga 2000 and upgraded the CPU to a 68030 so I could render 3D stuff faster with the program Imagine. First PC was a built from scratch using a IBM Blue Lightning CPU/mobo combo so I could play Doom.
- Rodfather
If I can buy applications for my iPhone via iTunes shouldn't I be able to do likewise for my Mac? Surely that comes next. And books. And...
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Sounds great!
- Louis Choquel
from twhirl
There was an article the other night (TechCrunch I think) estimating $20 million annual revenue for Apple on App Store based on first day sales etc. - add Mac software sales to iTunes and ...
- Patrick Jordan
I think iTunes is a great platform to to this. But it will take a while...
- Alexander Oelling
from Alert Thingy
Buying an iPhone takes a long time. 12 minutes so far. 500 people in line will take forever.
Brandon, Rishabh Mishra (p248), Dru Kelly and 14 other people liked this
We posted live video at http://www.qik.com/scobleizer of what it was like to walk in store with first group.
- Robert Scoble
glad i didn't wait - i was at the end of a ~150 person line!
- Morgan
And then you wont be able to Activate it as all the servers are overloaded...big mess!!!
- Peter Cattell
Yeah I am seeing lots of people having problems. We are at the San Francisco store.
- Robert Scoble
Let us know what are the kinds of iphone apps that you liked :)
- Muthu Ramadoss
Any word on how many are in stock?
- Lois Gray
Tomorrow is another day. Sheesh.
- David Risley
You're a brave man.
- Jonathon
there seem to be plenty in stock but the computers are all down so we can't complete the sale yet. 20 minutes so far. Sigh.
- Robert Scoble
How far back are you?
- Jake (aka Jawee)
Jake we got in the first group. I am in the store right now.
- Robert Scoble
Guess all us folks on the East Coast clogged up their systems before you even got in the door
- Lois Gray
That's because they force you to activate on site. Sounds like a situation begging for a lawsuit. If I buy a phone I buy a phone. Why should I be forced to activate on site just because Apple and ATT want to fight the gray market? I call that collusion in treating customers as shit.
- Paul Denlinger
12 mins * 500 people = > 4 days
- Hao Chen
the message for the 2.0 upgrade showed up in my iTunes after I did a sync this morning. I ran the process and after about 30 minutes it failed putting the iphone into recovery mode. it says to restore, but it is trying to restore 1.1.4. I saw a message earlier in the process saying that it was upgrading the firmware so it seems odd that it would try to put 1.1.4 back on the iphone. anyway, my attempts to restore give me a error 20, unknown error, each time. i now have a pretty brick....
- Mark Heringer
no, the credit card system is down. Our salesperson just rebooted hers.
- Robert Scoble
i remember similar issues on 1.0 launch ? Din't apple learn anything from that ??
- Raza
from Alert Thingy
12 minutes, that's all (edit: I misread)? I just got back from an hour long purchase! AT&T's servers were unresponsive in addition to iTunes crapping out.
- Rob Haas
Robert: 29 minutes and counting. I am still trying to get my credit card approved.
- Robert Scoble
Waiting almost 3 hours in store now thanks to ATT servers. It's the pits.
- Tom Landini
Don't you think you'll be able to just walk in and buy one this afternoon?
- paul mooney
At this rate, the line from 6am will still be there this afternoon
- Rob Haas
Paul not at SF there are 500 in line and the first 20 people haven't completed their sales yet.
- Robert Scoble
It took me about 1.5 hours after the line started moving to get in the store. The were about 50 people in line in front of me.
- Phil G
It's official, the Twitter fail whale has gone to work for iTunes
- paul mooney
I guess this would be a bad time to DDOS AT&T?
- xero
I'm hearing that at some AT&T stores, they are letting customers take the phone home to activate, as the whole system is down..worldwide!
- Peter Cattell
Robert, I just saw an article on cnet news about you on the apple store! http://news.cnet.com/8301-10...
- George The Writer
In the UK this lunch time, all systems were down so they were letting customers take the phone away without completing a credit check, without allocating a phone number and without activating the SIM cards. And it still took around 15-20 minutes per person. So I've got one but it's not working yet...
- Tony Ruscoe
The husband has been waiting now for almost 4 hours.
- Cyndy
The boss waited for about 6 hours since about 2 this morning up in MI. But, he was one of the first people in and out.
- Candace
Here in Sheffield (UK) we queued for 20 minutes this morning and were then told all O2 stores were understocked. And then we found out one of the stores in town got some more stock at lunch time so we walked straight in and waited in the six-person queue for just 20 minutes. I guess we're super lucky in the UK (for a change).
- Tony Ruscoe
Over here, first person activation took 38 minutes. He's outside now doing a TV interview.
- Glenn Batuyong
Robert, did you see this one yet? http://tinyurl.com/5rh7rv
- David Cook
That's it. I'm waiting for 4G
- Charlie Anzman
People are having massive problems everywhere.
- Gary Bacon II
I only care about the 2.0 software, the hardware and 3G coverage isn't enough for me to upgrade the phone and to spend more money. I've been loving the apps over the past 24 hours <3 <3.
- Eric Rice
Two hours in line and then three in the store to get 3G in Columbus. And of course it still isn't activated. OTO I can complain about it here with the wifi on my old phone.
- Tom Landini
Got my UK Iphone by lunchtime UK via courier delivery (it took until lunchtime due to a rather slow delivery :( - but all was well and activated with no problems... havent fully road tested it yet - on the face of it it isnt a radical change from Iphone 1.0 to Iphone 3G but I keep finding nice little changes and I have activated MobileMe so we will see what that will offer..
- David W
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