I love sugar gliders. I've considered getting one as a pet, but now that I have a Schnauzer that's probably not a good idea (Schnauzers are rodent catchers).
- Jason Huebel
sugar gliders are night creatures and makes all sort of noises.....so if you like sleeping at night this is not the pet for you............
- VAL D.
I'm a night owl myself. So I doubt it would bother me much.
- Jason Huebel
The reason I'm asking is I think I want to buy a relatively low cost surround sound receiver (under $500) for testing my system before I jump in with both feet on really expensive preamps and receivers.
- Cristo
And since I haven't been able to find any systems that can handle multiple surround sound zones, I want to keep looking. However, I also need something in the meantime to test my system and continue to iterate. I'd rather postpone the preamp purchase decision as well, so I was wondering if the receivers can operate standalone.
- Cristo
A receiver consists of a tuner, a pre-amp and a power amp. You can buy a receiver or buy the three components separately.
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
Mark, that's in the traditional audio world. But I think it's slightly different now for home theater systems. The tuner is no longer interesting, and for my purposes, the pre-amp is less important because I'm doing all the switching in the HDMI matrix switch.
- Cristo
not sure if this answers your question or not but my onkyo (i am pretty sure its a 706) has a preamp and does multi-zones.
- Carlos Ayala
Carlos, how many speakers does each zone support?
- Cristo
i'll have to check when i get home and get back to you, but my impression back when i bought it was two full 7.1 zones...but i can totally be making that up.
- Carlos Ayala
again, i think its the 706 but i will have to reconfirm that. my short term memory is failing me.
- Carlos Ayala
A preamp requires an amp, a receiver has amps built in.
- Alex Scoble
And if you find a receiver or preamp that outputs surround sound to multiple zones, please let me know.
- Alex Scoble
However, chances are that if you do find a receiver capable of outputting SURROUND sound to multiple zones that it will only be able to power the first zone. You'll have to get separate amps for the other zones.
- Alex Scoble
Alex this sounds like what i have. Mine will do multi-zones. But only a (independently) powered second with surround.
- Carlos Ayala
I highly doubt that your receiver does surround sound to the second zone...should only do stereo.
- Alex Scoble
My Onkyo TX-NR807 (newer than the mentioned 706) only supports 7.2 in the first zone. Zones 2 & 3 are stereo.
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
I have yet to find a single preamp or receiver that will do surround sound (5.1, 7.1 or 9.2) to more than the first zone. So it would be of great interest to me if anyone knows of one.
- Alex Scoble
Then again, I doubt such a device will exist in mass consumer gear as the additional zones are usually used to distribute music around a house. As far as consumer electronics companies are concerned, they seem to think that Chris White's requirements aren't monetizeable.
- Alex Scoble
I couldnt wait so I looked up my order and its the 807. Right Alex, i meant stereo not surround and as Mark mentioned its 3 zones. dont mind me, I'm all f'd up.
- Carlos Ayala
No. Preamps provide the functionality of decoding and processing surround signals, selecting a source and adjusting discrete signal levels (and lots of other goodies, depending on $ spent). HT receivers have all of this built in. As for multiple zones, most AV receivers I know of sacrifice the 6.1 and 7.1 channels to power speakers in different parts of the house. My Denons have two separate zones, each of which is two-channel audio.
- jcunwired
I've seen some good 'backyard critter' food mixes at the store lately (dried corn, seeds, etc.) that might be good for something like this.
- Jennifer Dittrich
We've got a privacy fence, so they couldn't see it. Also, this was between windows, so no looking out that way either. I realized this was the only snowless strip on the driveway. It's about 1.5 feet wide. The air exchange pipes for our furnace are about 3 feet from where the bunny way, so I think he/she is probably a smart bunny enjoying the warmer air coming from the house. I put out some corn, lettuce, and a turnip. I've got corn for our squirrel feeder.
- Junebug (aka Sarah Jill)
It should have read "When I came home for lunch, there was lunch huddled by my house"
- Frederick Bvalani
I haven't been outside yet today. I'm going to shower soon and go out to shovel. Will check then. Today it's not a good day to be on that side of the house since the wind is from the west and it is wicked! We're getting below zero windchills.
- Junebug (aka Sarah Jill)
watch out for cats too.............they are bunneh killers too
- VAL D.
No. I used to, but he ditched me about 8 months ago. Currently accepting applications for replacement. Have lots of really good friends, tho, which is nice (really nice, I love them all), but I miss having the bubble of it.
- Sarah G.
I guess so, I used to have a true one in high school, but then he just left one day and I haven't heard from him since. I have some that I consider really close friends, but no one I think I can put at best friend.
- Mathew™ one of a kind
Want one but haven't had one since the early '90s.
- Spidra Webster
not really. my old one got tired of me and i sort of hate saying my partner is my best friend even though it's probably accurate.
- Kendra <3 Three Lions
I have in the past, but right now, there isn't one person in particular that I'd call my *best* friend. I have a lot of very very good friends, though.
- josh neff, geek at large
I don't think I do. I have a lot of friends whom I love dearly -- a lot of them through FF, etc. -- but no one is at the top of that list. I don't know if they makes me sad or not.
- Derrick
Ummm yeah - been married 13.5 years! :D
- Internet's Tad
Yeah Niels, he's been there always. Even if I'm crap at picking up the phone and calling he never ever lets me know. He just knows that that's me so he is there. He was there when my mother had cancer. When I went into the dumps for a bit, he pulled me up and helped me find a job and get going again. I really don't deserve such a great friend but I am super happy that I do have him.
- Rasmus Lauridsen
Yes. My husband is truly my best friend. But I'll fill out an app to be Sarah's new female best friend.
- Junebug (aka Sarah Jill)
Yep - we've been best friends since early high school.
- Jennifer Dittrich
I guess not. A lot of lifelong friends though.
- Rodfather
I have one person I think I'd classify as a best friend outside of a relationship. My best friend Jameel has had the title since he moved in next door to me when I was 6 years old. We've been like peas and carrots for thirty years. Crazy. I still speak with him at least once a week.
- Cheryl
Okay maybe peas and carrots is little tame. We're more like...like...hot apple pie and ice cream? Cookies and cream? Chocolate cookies and milk? Great...now I'm hungry.
- Cheryl
Yep, maybe, I don't know. Do the ones in my head count?
- Jimminy
I don't know if I have a best friend or not. There's one guy that knows everything about me and my past, but he lives in Berlin most of the time. Then there's another guy that knows almost everything about me and my past, and we hang out a lot.
- Morgan Haley
So I guess it would depend on the definition really. does a best friend need to know EVERYthing about me and my past?
- Morgan Haley
No. My daughter has a problem understanding that. All people have best friends, she says.
- Baard @ Pixum
complicated... I have 3 very good friends from childhood on, but I won´t consider them as "best friends". there´s always someone closer for a period of 2 or 3 years. usually my life changes then, and I exchange my whole little universe and the bestest friend with it. (somehow creepy, I know..)
- esther ♥ ♫
@Baard, Freya seems like your best friend to me :)
- Michael W. May
if I enumerated all my friends (all 4 of them), and ranked them in some order, one of them would be better than the others. In that sense, yes, I have a best friend ;) In the colloquial "bff" sense, I don't really think so.
- DJF
First name "Tiny," second name "pants," although she goes by many other names. :)
- Jenny R.
I said "yes" before, but I have to admit I haven't had a best friend since I moved back from NYC. Rob mentions having a "hetero lifemate" and I suppose that's what Paul was. *feeling lonely*
- Jason Huebel
Yes, though he's currently living on the East Coast. My second best friend lives there as well.
- Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)
oh! I totally have a best friend! a couple of them! there's my girl Elizabeth back on the east coast. and there's my friend Chris (with whom I have been friends with since 1st grade!)
- Nathalie, Dreamer of FF
Also, I love the FreeBSD ports collection (which Gentoo tried to imitate). cd /usr/ports/devel/git; make install will fetch git, build it, and install it, and automatically deal with any dependencies as they arrive.
- Tudor Bosman
Another option is pkg_add -r git which will install a binary package compiled with default options, and resolve dependencies.
- Scott Ludwig
from iPhone
Okay, nested dependencies work just fine until you find a package that depends on TeX. Why does my little storage box need latex and amstex and mkfontdir and dvips and...?
- Tudor Bosman
Because you need PDFs of the documentation, of course!
- Eric Borisch
In many languages, apparently. /usr/ports/print/latex-cjk/scripts/installt1enc.sh arb5sung arb5sung.ttf Bg5 Generating Type 1 subfonts arb5sung from arb5sung.ttf [Bg5 planes: 1-55]:
- Tudor Bosman
This is apparently all caused by updating the freebsd-doc-en package, which regenerates all forms of documentation from scratch.
- Tudor Bosman
One of my disks appears bad, hopefully it's the cable.ad8: FAILURE - READ_DMA48 timed out LBA=766744255
- Tudor Bosman
Two more disks are showing read errors, including the boot disk. This is not good at all. Maybe WD actually qualifies RAID-level drives, and rebrands the crappy ones (with bad sectors which auto-remap) as consumer-level. With auto-remapping turned off, errors start creeping in within days.
- Tudor Bosman
I'll investigate this more, of course, by mounting the bad disks into a different machine and looking at SMART output, but so far it smells of a bad batch of drives.
- Tudor Bosman
How hot are they getting? (It's in the SMART data) ... We had a fan go out on a drive tower (and the 'dead fan' alarm didn't sound -- wonderful) and we smoked at least three drives before figuring out what was going on.
- Eric Borisch
Eric: While trying to stress the disks with a few dd commands running in parallel, I can't get them to heat up above 26 degrees Celsius. I'd say that cooling inside my box works well. The two newly failed disks have 5 UNCorrectable sectors each -- and that's just because the SMART buffer only remembers the last 5 errors.
- Tudor Bosman
Maybe I just got a bad batch, but at this point I would recommend against using WD20EADS drives for anything.
- Tudor Bosman
yeah, the EADS aren't so good. The ABYS series have been super reliable in comparison, but I don't think they go up to that many TB.
- Private Sanjeev
incidentally the drives are physically different (the mechanicals are more vibration-resistant on enterprise drives), so WD doesn't just rebrand flaky drives.
- Private Sanjeev
Any opinions on the new, 4-platter WD RE4 RAID edition drives? They're 2TB, expensive as hell, but there may be deals to be had. Alternatively, the Seagate Barracuda XT 2TB.
- Tudor Bosman
I have a bunch of EADS drives (4x1TB, 4x1.5TB) and I haven't seen any problems. Might just be a bad batch.
- Joe Beda ()
Currently leading the pack: Hitachi 7K2000.
- Tudor Bosman
I only have experience with ABYS and EADS in production :(.
- Private Sanjeev
I have 24 A7K1000s that have been going great for over a year. (Knocks on wood)
- Eric Borisch
Okay, I ordered 5 7K2000s. Let's see how this goes.
- Tudor Bosman
Congrats Bill. He looks like a wiseacre.
- Karma Martell
Thanks Karma...He peeing like a boy that has just left a long night at a bar. I've always had girl puppehs and they were always good. He's a dirty boy. lol...
- Bill Heslin
Guess I should state that like a dog person. Always liked bitches better....lol
- Bill Heslin
:-) I'm no cat person that's for sure...I like to visit the puppehs and then go home- sort of like visiting friends with little babies. No diapers and no crying in the night. :-) Still wanting a shar pei puppeh - a girl flowered one and a lavender boy. Got the names picked out & everything. :-) Your guy looks adorable, though.
- Karma Martell
Well, let's see... the Apple 30" is 27 inches wide, and standard ergo recommendations says you want a viewing distance of 20-40"... 6 would give you a polygon with a 23" viewing distance... 7 would give you you 28"... I'd say 7. Actually 14. Two "rows" of 7.
- Ken Sheppardson
It's really the 360 degree chair/desk rig that's the hard part, btw.
- Ken Sheppardson
Doesn't that leave you stuck inside, Ken?
- Tim Tyler
I too thought it was Al Gore & a post about his many computers' effects on global warming!
- beersage
I think the right number ignoring cost is the same as the right number including cost -- the massive energy consumption exerts downward pressure, just like the cost. But now the ideal number of 30" monitors if you ignore both cost and the effect on the environment...well I still think it's 1. Doing what Al Gore's doing here, to me, is like sitting in the very front row of the movie theatre.
- j1m
30" monitors are very effective internal wall insulation.
- Bernie Goldbach
I think maybe a 10' high by 30' wide wall of them would be about ideal. I can't decide if I would want the wall to be linear or circular, though, or what kind of seating choices I would like.
- ⓞnor
He should convert all those books and papers in his office into electronic format. Use his bookcase as a monitor wall with nine 30" monitors. A setup like this would rock: http://friendfeed.com/imabone...
- imabonehead
Put some of them on a hinged or sliding wall and the trapped problem goes away.
- Andrew C
I just hope his computer desktop isn't as messy as his actual desktop.
- j1m
I am only staring at two at the moment... (actually 2x30"+23"+20")
- Paulo Gaspar
I was thinking of some sort of turret-like setup where you climb up into the ring of monitors... or better yet: hydraulics
- Ken Sheppardson
Yes, ideally you'd want something that would make Professor X jealous. Maybe they could fold down from a petal-like ring arrangement from the ceiling.
- Andrew C
Aha... or think Darth Vader meditation chamber.
- Ken Sheppardson
Ken, now I'm picturing Al Vader surrounded by monitors, hilarious!!
- Lo is a Quitter
I'd say 3. Anymore and you'll start neglecting one of them.
- Mr. Gunn
Empirically speaking, zero. I've stopped plugging my laptop into my 30" monitor at work. All the windows get messed up. Plus, I have this theory that sticking to a single laptop screen helps me focus better.
- Jim Norris
Fighting climate change one flat screen at a time. Just think how much power he is saving when he turns it all off to go out. Does he have eyes in the back of his head or is the TV on just because he hates polar bears?
- John Cooper
Jim, I agree with you. When I had two monitors, I used one for actual work and the other for mail, friendfeed and other distractions. I do prefer using a 24" screen to my laptop screen.
- Gary Burd
@Jim, personally, I find that my laptop screen is too confining. I plug into a 23" LCD at work. I use the LCD for TextMate and a couple of Terminals, then I keep a browser open on the laptop for testing and search. That works really well for me. If all I have is my laptop screen, I spend a lot of time Alt-TABing between apps.
- Jason Huebel
I've settled in on a 3-screen setup: Center (24") has 2-4 terminal windows, either half of 1/4 of the screen each; Right (22") has a Chrome window, IM, and often a couple more terminal windows monitoring processes or logs; Left (20") has either media player software or live.twit.tv in a Chrome window :-)
- Ken Sheppardson
Ken - Are you using any special software to organize the windows on your screen? I'm using a 30" monitor at work as my main screen and my 17" laptop screen as my secondary. On the 30" screen, I use a proggie called WinSplit Revolution to split my screen into sections. It's a lifesaver. Keyboard shortcuts automatically move and size the focused window to any portion of the screen you choose.
- Curtiss Grymala
No, Curtiss. I've tried different apps over the years, but nothing ever really clicked. However, I just discovered that the Windows key plus arrow keys in Windows 7 will now resize windows, e.g. Win+Left expands the window to the left half of the screen, Win+Left again moves it to the next monitor, etc.
- Ken Sheppardson
Nice. That's kind of the way winsplit works, except it uses ctrl+alt. Ctrl+alt+left moves window to left monitor, ca+rt moves to right screen. It also uses ctrl+alt plus any key on the number pad to move the window to any quadrant/half of the screen.
- Curtiss Grymala
from iPhone
tell the drama causers to save the drama for their mama. then have a couple shots of Jaegermeister and call it a day. You have my blessing to do these things. So say we all.
- Morgan Haley
...you know, if you get off the merry-go-round before it starts spinning, you can save yourself a lot of headaches. Just sayin'...
- JA Castillo
Lol no, my pants stay on. How did this post about being stressed turn into me taking off my pants? I swear... FF can turn anything dirty... Inappropriate, yes....as well as mildly entertaining.
- Marissa
"It's a classic tale of how mediocrity is maintained. Evolutionary biologists in California have discovered that when males shower attractive females with attention, it actually undermines those females' fitness as mothers. That means fit females don't pass their genes on. Today PLoS Biology published a study of fruitflies, a species where the male flies show a marked preference for mating with larger females because they are more fecund. The problem is that the males show such aggressive preferences that they basically badger the females constantly to mate. What this means is that the females are so harried that they have less time to search for food, which degrades their health. Also, among fruitflies, the mating process is itself damaging to the health of the females - fruitfly sperm is toxic."
- RAPatton
from iPhone
"As a result, the most-desired females become far less capable of generating healthy offspring. And the smaller, less fit females wind up bearing as many offspring as the fitter ones. In the end, the males' aggressive mating with the fittest females ends up preventing their species from evolving into a much fitter group. Tristan A. F. Long, one of the authors of the study, said: These...
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- RAPatton
from iPhone
Geez... even dead guys get hot women more than I do!
- Mark Jepsen
No ha3rvey, we should be ignoring the fat fruit flies.
- Kenton
There may be a couple of things here that are not directly applicable to humans. Our sperm isn't very toxic and I think even our sexiest females are able to slip down to the grocery store every once in a while.
- Eivind
Hell yes it is! All the fine dudes and finest bitches still be rocking the Casbah daily and nightly here on the station with it all! K-FFD!
- Morgan Haley
Still alive but the momentum and will to live is gone -- and the sale and virtual abandonment was like shutting out the lights in the middle of a party -- a signal for everybody to go home.
- Brian Sullivan
The Google real-time announcement certainly didn't hurt!!!!
- Charlie Anzman
Honestly, it's not that much different -- plenty to chat about, and plenty to chat with -- and it's still storing all my web finds perfectly. There's an extremely considerate and passionate community. So... sure!
- Christopher Galtenberg
It is to me - it all depends on what you make of it
- Jesse Stay
Who is here is replying "yes". Who's not here any more just won't reply. The fact is few weeks ago you wouldn't have asked :) [ah, this means it is not kicking as in the past]
- Markingegno - Donato
from Android
I would say yes. It had a slump period for me for a couple of months, but now I'm putting more in it and getting more from it in return.
- Rasmus Lauridsen
Tricky question. Nothing else out there has this feature-set, and AFAIC that's the killer, I use FF because it's the best platform. Maybe some people drifting away since the sale, but OTOH there are new people joining. My buddies Nat and Brent from Calgary both joined around the time of the sale and have both really gotten into it. I have more discussions here than on Twitter, and I think that's true for a lot of people.
- Louis Simoneau
And @Scoble: the fact that you don't get 12 000+ followers on FF makes it less attractive to social media marketing types, which actually makes it BETTER as a platform for meeting and interacting with real people. I have 'friends' on Twitter that I've back-and-forthed with a few times but couldn't really tell you much about, whereas here, I feel like I really KNOW people like Derrick, Jandy, Monique, etc.
- Louis Simoneau
Only to some hardcore dedicated FF'ers. Other then that its just here for Robert Scoble to come on and preach how every worthy tech person he follows is on Twitter and how this site is dead.
- CW™
And regarding Robert's statement, OF COURSE a founder of Google will get thousands people who click the follow button. Then what? I look forward to Eric having 12,000 individual conversations this week, so someone ping me when that happens :) I've gleaned more valuable insights into the thought process and perspective of Google/Googlers from being in and around the conversations started by DeWitt on Friendfeed than I have in any other way.
- Micah Wittman
I have to excuse myself for not being very active for quite a while: I was being busy organising the Dutch Bloggies. I do think FriendFeed is still alive, but I sure wished there were more Dutch people to keep up a conversation with. It's making it difficult, now I'm out of organising for a week, to start up being involved again. I'm jealous at the Egyptian & Italian people, who seem to have a whole community here.
- Ton Zijp
Friendfeed is immortal, perfect, the best. Friendfeed will never die. ... in fact, the end of behemoths like Facebook and Twitter will be tweeted on Friendfeed.!
- Petr Buben
Just got back into using FF more heavily and find it much more enjoyable to any of the Twitter clients I've found. I can actually engage with the people that I "follow" and learn more about them and find interests instead of just trying to separate the wheat from the chaff like I feel I do on Twitter
- Ian Rudy
Am I the only one who got tired of responding to posts that ask if the site is still alive? "Charlie, you there? Can you hear me now? Can you hear me now? Can you here me *now*?....I gave up on 'em after Scoble's 2nd one. Just ignore
- Fulaan, inna Hebel
Indeed. Seems that it hasn't exactly received rave reviews...
- Tyson Key
Heh, I was just doing lots of research on it, considering stripping down TouchWiz on my Behold and start development on Bada
- Fulaan, inna Hebel
(They've made a lot of technical missteps already, and haven't learnt from the past - some of which were made by Symbian in the past, before they made the effort to rectify them over time).
- Tyson Key
Could you elaborate, I'm very interested and it'll be disappointing if I downloaded the SDK for nought ;)
- Fulaan, inna Hebel
Well, from what I can establish, the SDK itself is vapourware as far as public access is concerned - you can't download it, unless you happen to be employed by an "approved" company in order to obtain the necessary "Partner" account...
- Tyson Key
Of course, there aren't any handsets available capable of running software built for the Bada APIs, either.
- Tyson Key
Hmm, I see what you mean, I tried to download it after I posted that comment.
- Fulaan, inna Hebel
In the meantime, a set of incredibly scarce API documentation in a 6MB+ ZIP archive, and a set of PDFs are available...
- Tyson Key
Meh, and a major jailbreaking effort would need to be done to the Behold to even start dreaming of putting Android on it
- Fulaan, inna Hebel
Uncharitably, it could be called an attempt to clone J2ME in C++, or an attempt to create a BREW clone...
- Tyson Key
Re: Technical problems and limitations, I refer you to "There are no “properties” in bada. Everything is a method... This is total encapsulation... This means that you cannot directly access data in bada", and "Samsung bada uses error results instead of C++ exceptions. C++ exceptions require too large of a runtime for resource constrained devices and incur too much overhead" from the Fundamentals slide deck. On the other hand, there's supposedly a C++ STL port.
- Tyson Key
Naturally, the Symbian folks managed to reimplement their Traps and Leaves system to use standard C++ exceptions, with minimal performance issues, so I don't see why Samsung's excuse should be valid.
- Tyson Key
Bada also relies on the 2 Phase Construction model, although curiously, it apparently doesn't utilise either Bada Errors, or C++ exceptions. It seems that, as with the legacy Symbian OS Leaves/Traps system, you also have to build your own cleanup stack, too.
- Tyson Key
(Although as far as Exceptions is concerned, it sounds like Samsung are trying to avoid saying, "Our hardware is anaemic crap" directly, by spinning it as a "good limitation")...
- Tyson Key
@cdavieswashere and @symbian_markw had a field day with picking out the flaws in the APIs and implementation, today, for what it's worth. (See http://twitter.com/cdavies... - regarding the SSL implementation, http://twitter.com/symbian... related to their 2SC model being a slight riposte of Symbian's and not learning from previous mistakes, and...
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- Tyson Key
Real type on the web. All the kids are doing it. But maybe we’re doing it wrong. After testing several CSS @font-face syntax variants, including one used on this site, Paul Irish says the following is clearly best: @font-face { font-family: 'Graublau Web'; src: url('GraublauWeb.eot'); src: local('Graublau Web Regular'), local('Graublau Web'), url('GraublauWeb.otf') format('opentype'); } Read more: “Bulletproof @font-face syntax” at paulirish.com.
- Zulema ◕ ◡ ◕
"Groups of bicycle-riding vigilantes have been repainting 14 blocks of Williamsburg roadways ever since the city sandblasted their bike lanes away last week at the request of the Hasidic community. The Hasids, who have long had a huge enclave in the now-artist-haven neighborhood, had complained that the Bedford Avenue bike paths posed both a safety and religious hazard. Scantily clad hipster cyclists attracted to the Brooklyn neighborhood made it difficult, the Hasids said, to obey religious laws forbidding them from staring at members of the opposite sex in various states of undress. These riders also were disobeying the traffic laws, they complained."
- Michelle Jones
from Bookmarklet
Cite cyclists who disobey laws, but expecting other people to dress in the way your religion prefers is ridiculous in a multi-creed secular state. I happen to think it's also ridiculous that traffic markings were removed at the behest of a particular religious group. Did the Hasidic community pay the city's cost of removal?
- Spidra Webster
I agree Spidra. The last I saw the DOT never explained their decision to remove the bike lane. While I respect the Hasidim they shouldn't get to dictate traffic rules or dress codes on public streets.
- Michelle Jones
It's kinda hard to imagine anyone running around scantily clad in NY right now. ;-)
- Spidra Webster
Separation of church and state: FAIL
- Morgan Haley
I'm sorry, but I think that NYC should never of done this. Those are public streets, if the Hasids have a problem, they can stay inside. It's not the cyclists problem that these guys are afraid of becoming tempted.
- Bluesun 2600
The article isn't detailed but the mention of it being just pre-election leads me to believe there's a single politician responsible for it.
- Spidra Webster
The streets and infrastructure in Berkeley are shameful. Our city councilman ignores us for the most part. But a number of roads were mysteriously repaved a month before the election.
- Spidra Webster
If I lived closer I'd be out there with my paint brush!
- Shannon
Yep, that makes you a nerd, not a hippie.
- Alex Scoble
I only photoshop for the good of the earth
- Chris Greene
What does it make you if you want to go to Burning Man but think it is too hot and dusty and can't deal with that level of dirty without modern comforts like a shower?
- Rachel Lea Fox
Woohoo lazy hippies unite! (not rich enough to qualify as 'yuppie')
- Lo is a Quitter
I was thinking yuppie, but there is nothing professional about "wanting" to go to burning man or being too attached to the shower to really want to go. Maybe lazy hippie. Or hippie princess! ;)
- Rachel Lea Fox
Burning Man hasn't been around nearly as long as hippies. Are you saying all hippies ceased to remain hippies when they didn't go to the first Burning Man?
- Kenton
I have to say though, I think you also have to be a nerd to be the kind of hippie who wants to go to Burning Man!
- Rachel Lea Fox
No one born after 1969 can be a hippie. That is all.
- Kevin Pedraja
I never have enough money for Burning Man or Birkenstocks. :/ I prefer Crocs anyway. :P
- Alix Whitmire
Well I want to attend Burning Man. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
The book is good, but the cartoon is one of the most disturbing cartoons of all time.
- Jimminy
Like Jimminy says: Book = awesome. Cartoon = insanely disturbing
- Morgan Haley
I couldn't really handle either one of them (also avoided Where the Red Fern Grows and pretty much any other book where cute fuzzy things didn't make it.)
- Jennifer Dittrich
NEW BUSINESS VENTURE IDEA: Prisons. Put the inmates to work in manufacturing and assembly of high tech gadgets and have a lower labor rate than off-shore. No unions, no healthcare, barely any overhead... All paid for with good ole government money. And Apple can proudly fly the "Made in USA" label on it's products. Thoughts?
Make it so that high tech gadgets are ubiquitous everywhere among the populace. Make it full circle, like high tech gadgets for exercising to help the now obese users of the new high tech lose weight
- Fulaan, inna Hebel
Well... Freighting 'x' numbers of pieces all the way to one spot in the States from Asia vs freighting 'x' numbers of pieces to one spot in Asia from Asia then shipping 1 piece to the States...
- Johnny Worthington
I understand, Johnny. It surely wouldn't be a 'one-for-one' offset. I think I can make up the cost but not heating or cooling the plant.
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
And recruiting is so easy. Let's say I see MVB jaywalk after exiting a bar. His bartender and I are on the same social network. Welcome to my labor force.
- Todd Hoff
The issues that wouldn't make this work is purely ethical. Western countries are fine with slave labor as long as it's someone else somewhere else, not to mention the idea of slave labor with some races has history.
- Johnny Worthington
Prisoners get healthcare. We pay for that.
- Admiral Anika
And I could grow it horizontal, too. Think combination parole officer/distribution agent!
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
"We" pay for it, Anika. That means it wouldn't hit "MY" balance sheet.
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
Johnny, you assume this isn't being done right now, right here in the US. I just want to build it and franchise it.
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
I thought the prison industry in the US was already near saturation.
- Andrew C
I keep hearing about all the over-crowding, Andrew. And I bet the US prison system has never made a concerted effort to market themselves.
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
What about the companies who hired Ciavarella and Conahan ?
- Andrew C
Yes, and that's the point of treadmill mode.
- Ethan Gahng
I wish I could put the boxes in some sort of order. It's all a bit random atm. Also the refresh rate is too high. And I would like to be more specific in the tags, with excludes too.
- Kol Tregaskes
OK, Ethan. That's more than enough for me. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Peter, yeah it's all very pretty and a different way to look at things but the results are random and it's a little impractical. :-) If you are after new feeds or random news then use Lazyfeed. If you already have all your favourite feeds then use Google Reader.
- Kol Tregaskes
It doesn't seem to work that well though... In any case Lazyfeed is the perfect distraction to sit on my secondary monitor and look cool.
- Jan Ole Peek
Jan Ole, could you tell me which part doesn't work well, so that we can fix it? Would appreciate it!
- Ethan Gahng
But, but, but... WAAAANHHH. I've never had an issue with anything being broken in Opera except for people who decide to use the browser specific css(-moz or -webkit elements), and the occasional javascript issue. I just switch over to Firefox or Chrome.
- Jimminy
Sean, if only I knew. This was delivered directly to me fresh and hot.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Wow, whatever you do, don't google "Asian guys at beach licking" if you want to find the Flickr account for this. No, seriously. Just...don't. o.O
- tinypants - Hagitha of FF
changed my life forever...I will always go to the beach with a a few chubby buddies after porking myself up for those bosoms ~ and this image is most definitely going in the ol' spank bank
- sofarsoShawn
Remember ! I bring quality product to Friend Feed !:)
- Akiva Moskovitz
you know what would be funny: ok bear with me, if we blindfolded leather donut (you know the booby man) and...yeah fill in the blanks...something like this http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- sofarsoShawn
Sir, randomly linking to your FriendFeed from one of my posts is oh wait you'll never see this because you're blocked for spamming. Thanks anyway, kaghazrangy.
- Akiva Moskovitz
damn this picture just won't go away - you have forced me to hide it
- William Harryman
Akiva, wasn't that pic taken at your last BBQ?
- Paul
Every time I see this picture I smile. Their joy is infectious, like herpes.
- Sparky
Paul, I surely do wish I had a beach in my back yard!
- Akiva Moskovitz
Sparky, I'm going to have this blown up to poster-size and attaching it to the ceiling above our bed. That'll cause some infections!
- Akiva Moskovitz
makes me want to grow a rack and diddle with my own, know what I'm saying?
- sofarsoShawn
this. . . .this. . . ugh . . . so fucking wrong.
- Peter Ghosh
Akiva - you can put anything you want above our bed.
- Sparky
i've been trying to formulate a comment for this for days, but i just...can't.
- joey
I still want to know the motivation here. is this a gay marriage argument? or are we already pushing group social contracts on friendfeed?
- Noah David Simon
oh man this one keeps popping up on ma friendfeed,....must spread virus nao
- Chris Hofmann
I'm surprised no one's noticed old boy's red-framed glasses.
- Akiva Moskovitz
oh right... the glasses are so important when three asian men are licking his nipples and all the comments are by people who think gay marriage has something to do with equality... when it has everything to do with taking protections away from children. the red glass glasses.... um yeah. chicken and Oklahoma with milk
- Noah David Simon
Mark, you have uncovered the dark underbelly of humanity except in this case it isn't dark but is rather a pasty hue somewhere in the vicinity of undercooked flan.
- Akiva Moskovitz
This should be in the default noobie FF stream. Like the first thing anyone who signs up sees. If they stick around they're part of the family.
- Internet's Tad
Perhaps this can replace the kitty pic on the start page for non-members!
- Chris, Taskerrific Guy
I'm certain prop8 had nothing to do with Swine Flu
- Noah David Simon
I'm thinking that eventually, it will have been hidden by every user on FriendFeed. It'll be the most hidden post in FriendFeed history.
- Akiva Moskovitz
WHY WHY KEEP BRINGING BACK THE EYES THEY HURT ME
- Neal Jansons
from IM
Herpes (and this): the gifts that keep on giving.
- Sparky
I wonder if the FriendFeed guys see this and say to themselves, 'Well, this isn't exactly what we had in mind when we started started FriendFeed.'
- Akiva Moskovitz
I look at it and think, "Not again."
- Steven Perez
from IM
Just about the time you FF is getting some class .. Oh well we is what we is.
- Brent Smorgen Bleg
I can't believe after all this time some diligent FF'er hasn't dug up the identities (I said "titties") of this bunch and invited them to join the service that made them famous. Mitchell Tsai, get to work!
- Sprague D
i think if you unlike and delete all your comments anna it'll go away, but hide in general would be nice too (this photo makes me smile every time it pops up so don't mind it)...
- mike "glemak" dunn
*sigh* This is never going away, is it? It's gonna end up like James Bond movies and Swedish meatballs - always existing in the same form. never diminshing, never forgotten. :( :( :(
- Steven Perez
from IM
It will go away, to be replaced with photoshops of the original. It's all part of the meme lifecycle.
- Sparky
I am too new on friendfeed to know anything about record comments.. I love gmail tho, puts all the comments in one threaded email and I can delete them all later in one shot or not if I choose..
- David Gross
from email
well we should aim to beat the record.. i mean jeez there are tons of things that could be said about this.. like.. does it taste like chicken?
- ed fry
I'm gonna have nightmares now. thanks ed. ;)
- Alejandro
ok, in Japanese: "an, an, soko dame!"
- Rick Cogley
You can't close this thread. A lot of people say that this place is a Scoble-fest but, truly, it is this thread that is at the very heart of FriendFeed.
- Akiva Moskovitz
I'm officially going to proclaim that this is the FF equivalent of Goatse or FFoatse if you will. Lets all refer to it as that from this point forward.
- Mark Krynsky
Sparky has left 57 comments. The rest of you are slacking. Hop to it!
- Christopher Harley
Chrisitan just walked by and said "It's too early in the morning for Japanese titty licking." It's NEVER too early for Japanese titty licking.
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
THIS is the first thing I see here this morning?
- l0ckergn0me
Chris, you just woke up? C'mon, man! It's 10:30!
- Akiva Moskovitz
I knew he would break eventually - it's fitting that it's on this thread *now to find out how to hide a thread once you've commented....*
- WorldofHiglet
As much as I am loathe to bump this post, I have to do it to say, You, sir, are a master. Well played, sir. Well played. This is why I take every opportunity to say, in my next life, I want to be Akiva. I've already called it! Don't anybody go getting any more ideas.
- ♥patricia♥
I, for one, refuse to "bump" posts...it's very unseemly...
- Live4Emma (L4S)
I wish FF-search allowed to do GROUP BY -aggregations so I could COUNT(*) who are the biggest *bump*ers. :)
- Jemm
Makes me laugh everytime I see it. Such a happy yet silly scene by the sea.
- Toby Graham
There is nothing silly about it. This is serious business.
- Sparky
The more I see this, the more I like it. Not for the ironic nipple-licking, but because these kids are genuinely enjoying themselves. :) Carry on.
- felicious
This photo looks so much better in iPhone 3.0!#!~
- Akiva Moskovitz
Seriously dude. What do I have to do to get rid of this disgusting picture!? Doh! Now I've just pushed it back to the top... yuck, I'm so sickened.
- Jason Nunnelley
I love this image, because I have no clue why it's happening. Randomness FTW!!
- Jimminy
from twhirl
I'm just thinking of all the new folks coming to friend feed and see this and wonder just what the hell did I get into anyway? And why in Gods name can't I spell Friend correctly the first time - GRRRRRR
- Brent Smorgen Bleg
Can't believe I never hit 'like' on this! Consider the situation rectumfied.
- Bec Rowe @d0tski
Oops! I hope I didn't just bump this up again... ;-)
- Sprague D
It's just so refreshing to see genuine juvenile humour at work. These kids are no different from any other, I think it's a great happy image, given all the other shite happening in this world on a daily basis. For those that are too pompous and prudish, 'up yours with brass knobs'
- ImJustCreative
Wow. 666. Nice! Actually, the reason Asashoryu is getting a divorce ( http://ff.im/4T0UA ), is because he wants to spend time with this lot.
- Rick Cogley
To this day, the pic still comes back. Just like Herpes. :D
- Danny Minick
Although unlike herpes this photo is fun to share with friends.
- Sparky
I would rather go to http://woot.com and buy the Acer Aspire One for $259.99, I do not care that it is a refurb.. but what would I do with two laptops? Maybe #hive knows? hmm..
- David Gross
from email
What's this? A real question in this thread? Two extra laptops? Make them fancy digital photo frames.
- Jordan Hofker
Reason #696 why the Internet can grant you immortality. ;-)
- darnell
from BuddyFeed
I can't believe this thing is still floating around Friendfeed. These poor guys... ha ha ha
- Bradley Farless
@SeanMcGee sorry about the spam, this thread is sorta spammy.. I get the messages in email perfect for replying with any message because it then gets posted on twitter and facebook.. I do not do it all the time, look at my other posts in this stream..
- David Gross
from email
Lactating, males last resort to save ourselves, now that they can create sperm in labs.
- Jimminy
This is the thread that never ends, yes it goes on and on my friend. Some people started feeding it, not knowing what it was, and they'll continue feeding it forever just because...This is the thread that never ends, yes it goes on and on my friend. Some people started feeding it, not knowing what it was, and they'll continue feeding it forever just because...This is the thread that...
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- David Gross
from email
I have 89 :( emails since july 10th.. that includes the ones I sent.
- David Gross
from email
gmail comes in handy, it keeps all the email in conversations, 100 messages at a time but because the subject " :( " it will not filter out so they dont go to inbox.
- David Gross
from email
*THOUGHT FOR THE DAY...* Women are like phones: They like to be held, talked to, and touched often. But push the wrong button and your ass is disconnected.
- David Gross
from email
all this oral stuff is just begging the question of when do they start with the money shots?
- Noah David Simon
I just use this image as a way to announce crap. no one really pays attention to my feed... except my enemies. so when I have something important to say I tell the Asian Titty lickers. it is my strong belief that this thread needs it's very own domain name. something like http://xrl.us/TittyLickers
- Noah David Simon
You know, every time this pops up, since FF hides the middle of the comments of which there are 804 or so, I see Akiva say "I'm sorry." at the top. It makes me wonder about how some things are just not possible to apologize for!
- Rick Cogley
wow, I can't believe tomorrow is Friday :o) no, wait, somewhere in the world it's ALREADY Friday :o)
- David Gross
from email
Thanks Rick, thats what I thought.. does that mean I can start with the #followfriday on twitter or do I have to wait till it is Friday here in NJ? would be funny to post it from this post LOL all my friendfeed goes to twitter..
- David Gross
from email
David - yeah, you can get an early start.
- Rick Cogley
Rick, I am not good at lists or #followfriday but there are lotsa good people in this thread.
- David Gross
from email
the thing that strikes me about this (aside from the obvious) is after seeing this thing pop up like 35-40 times since March its just occurred to me that I don't have any (guy) friends that a) would lick my nipples b) would lick my nipples for a photograph. Maybe I should get out more...
- J. Abdul-Qahhar
I'm a little scared that I've this has gotten more than 800 comments and almost 200 likes over nearly five months and I still haven't clicked "Hide."
- Scott of Two Countries
It's just a bit of fun. I mean watching how many comment, not the picture content (although I suspect that is all that was too!)
- Ian May
Allright, you guys ready to shoot "mirth and girth"?
- Rick Cogley
For the life of me, I'll never understand the emotion people have around this picture for or against. There's no nudity at all, not even implied nudity. Less dude nudity than a beer commercial or cigarette ad, yet there are people who really really really hate this picture.
- Matthew DeVries
I found a way to get a Tit Theme, and it involves this picture.
- Jimminy
Hahahaha! It's like a telethon. And after Joey Bishop goes off stage, they flash this picture on the screen. "Won't you think of the CHILDREN?"
- Spidra Webster
It's been a while, hope the magnetism still prevails...
- Aaman (Clone of FF)
I just had to bump this once more... gives me a whole new excuse to go look at Phoebe again!
- Mark Jepsen
Hmmm, where do you think they're from? My guess is Japan...
- sofarsoShawn
The bumping algorithm includes things like novel people posting to it, in addition to thread age, and rapidity of comments. If the same 3 people are talking in a thread, it quits bumping because it's obviously a closed tea party.
- Matthew DeVries
I forgot, also you're a very handsome guy(saw the wedding images), I don't understand why you don't like to share your face. Rochelle is a lucky lady.
- Jimminy
Jimminy, it's an irrational phobia. No different than people who are afraid of heights, spiders, clowns, or Canada.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Akiva, now I'm LMAO at the fear of Canada. People are actually afraid of Canada, or just the fact they don't know if they're British or French?
- Jimminy
I don't think even Canadians know that difference.
- Akiva Moskovitz
If Friendfeed had sound .. this thread would be all licks and slurps
- Mattb4rd
Sorry Akiva, I think it was the display picture.. I have known male and female Akivas.. Oh and by the way guys I am not afraid of Canada LOL will be there this weekend.. Dave Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach<http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes...> - "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day."
- David Gross
from email
I popped the 666 cherry and I will get 1000 also.
- Jimminy
If it gets to 1000 will Akiva lock it so it can sink from our feeds forever? Please?!?
- WorldofHiglet
I think locking this post would be un-FriendFeedian.
- Jason Huebel
This is the immortal post everyone who uses the service must see it so WoH it just wouldn't be good to lock it.
- Jimminy
Not everyone see's it, only the people with true class do.
- Sparky
It keeps on going and going and going....
- David Gross
from email
In the Hall of Great Posts at the FriendFeed museum, this shall be hung high on the wall with pride.
- Johnny Worthington
I'M THE ROCK AND ROLL CLOWN.. AND I LIKE COCAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAINE
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
*Wispering to Murderface* "Seriously man, I do... A LOT of cocaine."
- Matt Stoddard
It is now September 1st, and this has not reached 1000 comments. I am sorely disappointed. Yet, for some reason, I am uplifted by the smile of this young man, who was fortunate enough to have such great friends that fateful day on the beach.
- Josh Haley
Quick let's add some comments... Gee that guy on the far left is not really getting into the swing of things is he?
- Travis Koger
Travis... bear in mind that we don't know what "main chubby guy's" right hand is doing, or where it's doing whatever it's doing...
- Mark Jepsen
BUT WE CAN INFER WHAT "MAIN CHUBBY GUY'S" HANDS ARE DOING. BOTH OF THEM.
- Sparky
@Mark, of interest (well not really) is the location of Front Left guy's left hand.
- Travis Koger
The photo of Akiva in the jacuzzi with the Texas A&M cheerleaders would be so much more popular. Now if only someone would post it.
- Christopher Harley
Noooooooooooooooooooooo! Posted March 1st and we are still enduring the wrath! "Akiva's posts, now with more staying power than ever before!"
- Nicholas Kreidberg
YAY! OVER 1000 COMMENTS BLAAAARGBLBLLB
- Josh Haley
It feels like Groundhog Day whenever I see this.
- Andru Edwards
Except that unlike Groundhog Day this is AWESOME!
- Sparky
This thread was how I discovered Akiva. ROFL... Y.M.C.A.! BUMP BUMP BUMP BUMP! GAZE AT IT! DON'T LOOK AWAY! >:O I SED DON'T LOOK AWAY!!! ... ^_^
- Danny Minick
You have nothing to fear - I never look away.
- Sparky
On Fark, there was this one thread, that just kept growing and growing. On Fark, it was a single page per thread. And you could post images and gif inline. Well the thread wouldn't die, people just kept posting. I forget which one it was. Anyway, it got so monsterous, that few people going to read/post to it per day (which was only a handfull) accounted for 1/3 of the server load of the site. They eventually had to cull that thread.
- Matthew DeVries
I think everyone who has participated in this thread has 'culled' themselves privately.
- Akiva Moskovitz
What with all the copycat images this has inspired I hope our muse continues to stick around and not get lost in the shuffle of so many knockoffs.
- Sparky
SHUT UP SPARKY!!!!!!!!!!!!1111111!!!!
- Andru Edwards
I refuse to shut up about the glory that is this thread. REFUSE.
- Sparky
Yes, Vezquex, I'm jealous of those guys, it is warm there, nothing like a warm beatch..
- David Gross
from email
Yes, Sparky, they do not know how good they have it there frolicking on the beach while we freeze up here.. Hard to believe it is only 49 degrees, feels like 29.. I bet it's at least 85 degrees on that beach.
- David Gross
from email
Anyone who doesn't appreciate this thread is clearly not developing a FriendFeed iPhone client because this is a great stress test case. (It crashes BuddyFeed, by the way.)
- Akiva Moskovitz
from iPhone
Also it exercises the crap out of your thumb trying to scroll down to the bottom of it.
- Akiva Moskovitz
from iPhone
Do you need to appreciate the pic in order to appreciate the thread?
- Travis Koger
If I un-collapse this thread, will it break my computer?
- Eivind
Every time this thread gets a bumped, god kills a kitten
- Matthew DeVries
Matthew, you may have given some people more reason to keep bumping this thread.
- Victor Ganata
How does it give you thumb exercise? Whatever you're doing, why don't you either use the keyboard or switch to Linux so you can middle-click the scrollbar to jump to where you want? :P
- Tanath
actually this thread does not bother me because I get it in email and gmail groups them and starts new thread after every 100 comments. I have it autoarchived so I do not have to see on phone lol and just see when I look at my ffeed label in gmail.
- David Gross
from email
I want some of those Nutella/strawberry/whipped cream crepes that Darla Mack was going to throw out. I make 'em myself, if I could find crepes. I can't make crepes. Don't try to make me.
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
My wife said, "Wooooooooo. Wooooooooooooo. THAT is beautiful." I think that means I need to make these.
- ha3rvey (needs soup)
Crepes just seem to get into the way of the tasty stuff inside. And then there's my soggy bread issue.
- Admiral Anika
Hush, now. That just means more for you.
- Admiral Anika
I can see that. My first experience with crepes when I was a kid was as a breakfast food, so for a long time I didn't realize that people put things in them. I thought they just ate them like pancakes. These look good, but I actually prefer crepes with savory items.
- Katy S
yup I'm not using LR3 until it ships - I simply don't have the time to be a guinea pig
- Phill Price
I tried it on one batch, then deleted it.
- Russellreno
I DL'd it but haven't installed it. Getting tired of LR in general though.
- Adrian
it's frustrating. sometimes it works, other times I can only get two or three photos processed without rebooting. I wish I knew why. Adobe should give you the option to kill a process if you want to if it takes more than say 60 seconds.
- Thomas Hawk
killall -9 [name of process] ... terminal is your friend... assuming you are on mac...
- Terence Kearns
Adobe made it clear that this is a rough Beta. I would have to assume that all the bugs will be worked out by the time it is released.
- Jeff P. Henderson
Still, I'm glad Thomas let us know that it will be a time-consuming bitch to test for the techno-whores amongst us. I have been testing Bibble 5 beta with only slightly better results, but I think I will give LR3 beta a miss based on this thread. I use LR 2.x for my main workhorse (too lazy to photoshop).
- Terence Kearns
if you're looking for fast and solid, go Bibble Pro v4 ... Mac/PC/Linux ...
- Terence Kearns
Someone should bill these companies for all the time wasted by these activities and macro programing systems. This could be so much better. Too bad there's probably no money in it.
- Cristo
No money in it? Because these guys aren't selling millions of dollars worth of remotes now? You make a remote that's easy to program for the layman (means no Python or Javascript) and you could make bank.
- Alex Scoble
I'm not interested in making a remote that's easy to program by the layman. It's called programming for a reason. And it doesn't have the kind of money in it that I'm interested in making.
- Cristo
Yes, there's no money in making a remote that you can program with Python or Javascript.
- Alex Scoble
That's why all the Python and Javascript programmers create websites you use instead.
- Cristo
Out of interest... What would you program it to do?
- Johnny Worthington
I would program it to drive my loft, of course. Where have you been Johnny? :)
- Cristo
"Welcome to the Concordance homepage. This software will allow you to program your Logitech Harmony universal remote control! In addition to providing software that works in UNIX (which logitech's software doesn't support), our code also aims to be cross-platform. So you can use the same program in Linux or Windows, and hopefully soon, Mac too! We currently support all models except for the 890 and 1000. Support for these will hopefully come soon though." -- http://www.phildev.net/harmony...
- Ken Sheppardson
Ken, interesting. I wonder if you can program it in a different way then their 'activity model', which I find kind of sucky. Also, I have the 890, so this wouldn't help me right now.
- Cristo
I'm currently "programming" the URC R-50, and I put programming in quotes for a reason. :(
- Cristo
What I want in a remote control is room based. You can choose a room from the main menu, and then drive devices (or activities if you like) from there. Furthermore, I want technology to determine your default room for you, based on the remote control's location. I still want to be able to control other rooms sources and displays though if I choose.
- Cristo
I haven't used Concordance, but I sure know what you mean, having gone through a 550 and 880 before just reverting back to individual component remotes. Anything that would let me just tell it what to do by editing and pushing a text file would be godsend.
- Ken Sheppardson
Ken, yes! The whole idea of programming is saving time. When you program in today's world, you don't retype the program every time you want to change something. You back it up, even source control it, so you know when or who caused the mistake.
- Cristo
I think if I were going to tackle another remote, I'd eBay a Nokia N810 and try out http://www.mceguru.com But that project seems pretty dated these days.
- Ken Sheppardson
In practice, it doesn't work that well. You need a few things, like instant on, and having it automatically running the remote control app. Plus, touch screens don't work that well for frequently used media controls in my experience.
- Cristo
Yeah, I really can't imagine any screen-based remote is going to give you stuff like intuitive 30-sec skip on your DVR. Seems like one could put together a neat little system by having a PC drive the components, then have the remote trigger events in the PC software. Particularly if you could just take any cheap, off the shelf universal remote and just have it trigger the PC.
- Ken Sheppardson
I have a Harmony 1000, and it has a touchscreen plus remappable hard buttons. I thought I'd hate it (only got it because my wife preferred it to the harmony remotes with more hard buttons), but it hasn't been bad. One of the hard buttons would be perfect for a 30 second skip.
- Nick Lothian
Nick, my motivation for writing system software for my own purposes is fairly low. When you throw hardware and industrial design into the mix, it is barely measurable. I'm excited about quick scripting I can do to save time for myself and family, but otherwise I'm motivated by reaching a lot of people and I'm not that interested in universal remote controls as a business. :)
- Cristo
Nick, I had a Harmony 1100 (which is the next model from the 1000). I returned it. I currently have a Harmony 890 (One), and a Universal Remote Control R-50. They may both be returned soon.
- Cristo
Fair enough - I don't think I'd be up for the hardware build either. Have you tried any phone based remotes? In theory there should be some decent ones which could also do uPNP/dlna control. When I took a look a year or so ago the uPNP stuff sucked pretty badly (which was what I was interested in at the time)
- Nick Lothian
If you know how to program already, programming these remotes is particularly painful. You can choose between the braindead activity based, pseudo web program that Harmony uses, or you can choose the remedial visual macro based mechanism that URC uses. Both are bad, time consuming, and limiting.
- Cristo
Nick, I've done custom uPnP programming for Sonos control on mobile phones. As I said earlier, touch-based screens are not ideal for driving media devices when skipping commercials, rewinding, fast-forwarding, changing channels, muting, and volume changes are frequent.
- Cristo
This thread makes me think about building an Arduino based remote.
- Jason Wehmhoener
I don't know Alex personally, but he seems to me like he knows his shit and that he is a pretty decent fellow all around. He might be a KITTEN KICKING BASTARD, or he might not. I really don't have a way to know if he is a KITTEN KICKING BASTARD or if he's just a regular guy that loves young felines as much as the next guy. But in my book, he's a great guy and not a KITTEN KICKING BASTARD!!!
- Morgan Haley
Yahoo Serious is not a fair representation of the Australia population as a whole
- Johnny Worthington
It means if you actually read most of the conversations I'm in, you'd know that, in general, I'm not about winning. I'm about learning. But when people fail to learn when presented with facts, then I'm all about winning, because people who ignore facts and continue to drivel on about their own greatness are eschewing the greatest gift of all and just deserve to be treated like how Edna Mode treats capes.
- Alex Scoble
Alex, can you explain that again slower? I didn't really get all of it. I especially got confused during the "own greatness" part of the paragraph.
- Cristo
Johnny, I'm already wasting enough time here without compounding the time wastage by exploring your googling.
- Cristo
No, I don't misuse the word facts. You asked a question on cables, I gave you the reason why larger gauge cables are better and you said that doesn't matter to you. You used your opinion to refute the facts, ergo I won.
- Alex Scoble
If you are going to 'explore my googling'... you could at least by me a drink first...
- Johnny Worthington
The web page you posted was by a guy who 'recommended' a particular distance limit for wiring with particular gauges to 4 ohm speakers. I've seen other opinions that differ on the specifics. I value your input, but it wasn't relevant to my needs. Thanks. The "I win" part was all you. I wasn't trying to win.
- Cristo
Johnny, I think you may have had a few too many already. ;)
- Cristo
You most certainly were trying to make a point that there's no difference between specific gauges of wire. You were demonstrably wrong. I demonstrated. You refused to admit that you were wrong. I won.
- Alex Scoble
No, actually I wasn't trying to make a point in that thread, I was asking a legitimate question. I value your input. Thank you for providing it. Now I know that there is no difference for my usage. On this thread, I was trying to make a point, and I think I've proved it. :)
- Cristo
No, you didn't ask if there was a difference for your usage. You asked if there was a difference. There is. You still refuse to admit you are wrong. Thus showing why I win...yet again. And you were also wrong on this thread. Demonstrably.
- Alex Scoble
Alex, I *asked* if there was a difference. You said there was. So, yes. There is a difference. You answered my question. Thanks. Get it?
- Cristo
And then you argued that such difference didn't matter and I schooled you again. I won. Get it?
- Alex Scoble
I said it wasn't pertinent to my system. I didn't try to "win" against you or say your statement was false. I said it didn't matter for my purposes, but you turn things into a contest. It's all very schoolyard behavior.
- Cristo
You are correct, it's all me. Just like all the above arguing has been all me. So yeah, I'm the one who's always trying to win online. It's not you at all.
- Alex Scoble
Alex, I take your apology at face value. It's good you're able to recognize this in yourself, and I thank you for reassuring me of my own innocence. :)
- Cristo
For suckering you in with my sarcasm, I win again. You really do make this too easy.
- Alex Scoble
And you know what they say about winning on the internet!
- Morgan Haley
Yeah, yeah...it makes you just as much of an idiot as the idiot who's wrong that you are winning against.
- Alex Scoble
i heard it different, but yeah, pretty much that's it. but you are still my favorite non-KITTEN KICKING BASTARD person on FriendFeed. Hee hee.
- Morgan Haley
At the end of this round, Alex's unorthodox technique of arguing that he won a thread that started out to prove that he is overly-concerned with winning threads proves fatal as Cristo cleverly uses Alex's sarcasm against him. 8^D
- Chieze Okoye
idk but it seems to me you (Cristo) and Alex are in a pissing match about who can have the better home media setup and it's spilling over into other things. We get it: you're both loaded and can buy lots of nice things. And we're envious, if that makes you any happier. Just chill out with the other drama :)
- LANjackal
Morgan, lol, I just re-read and realized that I used he and him and his way too much in that statement. That said, LANjackal just came in from nowhere and schooled EVERYBODY. 8^D
- Chieze Okoye
LANjackal, no I think you're misinterpreting my (our) posts. I'm not bragging about what I'm doing with the system I'm building, anymore than I would discussing products I've built for others. I'm sharing what I'm learning by pushing the envelope. I'm completely uninterested in spending lots of money to show how good of a system I can build. However, since you don't know me, I can understand how you might misinterpret that at a surface level. To me, the speaker wire discussion had nothing to do with it.
- Cristo
Doesn't really matter to me what your motives are, dude ... I'm happy for both of you. I'm just recommending you both confine your egos to issues that actually matter.
- LANjackal
from IM
You're welcome to your opinion, but I don't see where in this discussion I've been egotistical. I might have been trying to be funny, and if I missed the mark, I apologize. Maybe you're taking this "drama" a little too seriously. Maybe if you post something interesting other than the latest girl you're trying to bang, I won't have to try so hard.
- Cristo
^!!!! That's a good one. Cheers!
- LANjackal
from IM
I suppose someone could have interpreted the original post as equivalent to that Noah guy complaining about the other basketball guy's dancing. The other guy's name escapes me right now. [and I TOTALLY try to win]
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
Yeah, because people without ego avoid admitting when they are wrong ALL THE TIME. And this has nothing to do with the penile size of our systems...My system is pretty good, but it could still be better and certainly would be if I had Chris's bank. I highly doubt that I have anywhere near the best system on friendfeed and wouldn't claim it to be so. Won't even compare my system to...
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- Alex Scoble