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2009 Ink Blot Award winners: @louisgray @cgerrish @KevinCTofel @1938media @ginatrapani @leolaporte @ajkeen http://wickedstageact2.typepad.com/life_on... #inkblots
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Hey, thanks Warner.
- Cliff Gerrish
And the winner of the "Damn, that's a lot of awards award" toes to Warner Crocker!
- Robert W. Anderson
It bothers me that you can't run OS X inside of VMWare Fusion. I want to run 10.4 and 10.5 side-by-side to do some testing.
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It's interesting that Apple can get away with this be Microsoft can't.
- Paul Buchheit
I predict it will backfire on Apple eventually
- Jesse Stay
When you have 90% of the market, there are some things you can't do.
- Peng-Toh
Apple just doesn't want to open the door to running their OS on non-Apple hardware. Break up the company! ;)
- Robert W. Anderson
Heh, once Apple has a monopoly on hardware, then we'll have a case. I think it can be done (running OS X inside a VM) but not without some kludgery, and not without breaking the EULA http://blog.rectalogic.com/2008...
- Victor Ganata
AT&T sues Verizon over 'there's a map for that' ads - http://www.engadget.com/2009...
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"Let's just hope AT&T is working as hard to fight these ads with its actual service as it is with its lawyers." Ding Ding Ding! Fire a lawyer and build a tower!
- EricaJoy
Don't blame the lawyers, blame the business decision makers.
- Robert W. Anderson
It's more fun to blame the lawyers though! ;)
- EricaJoy
Pre-order new Canon EOS 1D Mark IV DSLR Camera with 1080p HD Video! - http://www.newdealfinder.com/2009...
I don't get putting video on a camera like that. Is it just because the electronics to do so are already in the camera, so they might as well do it? I can get behind GPS and auto time setting.
- Robert W. Anderson
I don't understand the 1080p either. I'd use 720p video but only occasionally. It's too high resolution for the web and I really don't see DSLRs being widely used for broadcast TV or DVD production. Even for capturing a bit of video for wedding DVDs it's a bit much. It's mostly marketing hype.
- Steve Mermelstein
Yeah, marketing hype, they can do it so they do.
- Robert W. Anderson
Harrison sings 'It don't come easy': http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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I am shattered! I always believed it was Ringo's song. Oh well, it really doesn't matter now, or does it?
- aTechDude
watch out or we're going to get that "the Beatles didn't break up nonsense". It is more critical that Ringo wrote the b/c: Early 1970. not critical to his income statement, mind you.
- Robert W. Anderson
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Seems like it was a Ringo/Harrison tune: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
- Cliff Gerrish
Absinthe is awesome.
Awesome for soaking the termites . . .
- Robert W. Anderson
The baby probably won't come until tomorrow. Ryan is playing games with us. @thekenyeung
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Are they kicking you out of the hospital with a come back tomorrow?
- Andrew Leyden
Nope. We came in this morning for an aversion proceedure (turn the baby into position). They were expecting to induce if they could get him aimed the right way. Five minutes before they were supposed to do the procedure he turned the right way by himself. Then 20 minutes later he turned again. Drat. Anyway, now they are in the process of inducing and watching. Won't know for sure what's going on until later tonight.
- Robert Scoble
Thanks, but homeopathic medicines killed my mom so I'll stick with what the doctors here say, thanks.
- Robert Scoble
Or more accurately, the over belief in alternative medicines killed my mom when she SHOULD have been in a real hospital listening to real doctors.
- Robert Scoble
That's a far better response than the put-down I was just composing.
- Mark H
Best wishes, Robert!
- Ayşe E.
Maryam is in our thoughts! :)
- Mona Nomura
break a leg Maryam & Robert. thinking of you all
- DC Crowley
Debby: when you need real medical attention and believe that alternative medicines will cure your illness, then, sorry, homeopathy kills. I really hate the idea that you should try to do your own medicine. I've seen the harm that belief causes up close and personal.
- Robert Scoble
It's an anti-science belief, too. You really think that science isn't the way to go? You're deluded.
- Robert Scoble
Dear Robert ~ I would never tell anyone not to see their physician. Everyone should have clinical information and complete care. All the best.
- Debby Bruck
Debby: the thing is, you were recommending using some stuff that our doctors would not approve and/or might not even know about. The doctors are asking that Maryamie not even eat food. They are serving up their own medicines that have been studied scientifically and you're recommending bringing something into that relationship that has NOT been studied scientifically and could even interfere with the medical help we're getting already. THAT is horrendously dangerous! Not to mention that homeopathic ...
- Robert Scoble
...practices stem from a disbelief that the scientific way is best. I've seen this, my mom soaked in that culture. It really is horribly destructive and you never hear about the destruction it does because most people just stay quiet about these things.
- Robert Scoble
Best wishes through it all, Robert.
- Robert W. Anderson
Who is deleting comments? I'm curious what was being said.
- Rochelle
Rochelle: I didn't see anyone deleting comments here.
- Robert Scoble
Robert: It seems there might be some gaps in the conversation. It appears you answer Debby up above before Debby has made a comment, that's all. Well, that's what's visible in my feed anyway.
- 1x29
BTW: All the best with the birth. My first daughter was a little stubborn entering the world. Even being over 2 weeks late, my wife was in almost a week with various inducement attempts. It's a very tiring experience - but the end result soon makes you forget :)
- 1x29
I see what Adrian sees. Looks like you're talking to Debby (and/or someone else, too?) before she even commented.
- Rochelle
wishing you a premature congrads, hope your wife is holding up
- chaz2b
Ahh, now I see that Debby deleted some comments. She was recommending a homeopathic medicine to cause contractions. No biggie, I just can't stand the alternative medicine types. Drive me wacko. It's fine to make you feel better about a headache or something but for serious stuff it just drives me nuts.
- Robert Scoble
Oh, that naughty baby! :>) Usually they do end up turning themselves around, hopefully M. won't have to have baby manually turned, that is NOT fun. Best wishes in this happy time!
- Wendy Boswell
Ah, self-censorship rears its head again. Yeah, the two deleted comments were 1) a recommendation for homeopathic some-nonsense-or-other which, apparently, not only helped with speeding up contractions but could also magically cause babies to spin around in the womb should they be in the breech position (because watery water with added water *does* have that power), and 2) an assertion/belief that homeopathy had never killed anyone.
- Mark H
Question #2: What is the response to "I am the Walrus"? I almost asked for the "correct" response, but I'll get in trouble for claiming there is only one.
I was looking for: "No you're not," said Little Nicola.
- Robert W. Anderson
While twitter is fantastic for connects new people + ambient intimacy with friends - never forget lots of voices NOT represented/present.
Because they are all in FriendFeed? ;)
- Robert W. Anderson
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Tomorrow's the day of Apple's event. Please fill in your predictions here:
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I'll start: Apple TV - larger size. New software for older models. Being able to support expandable storage via the USB port would be nice.
- Roberto Bonini
I don't know where you are but on this planet the event is tomorrow.
- Gilbert Harding
Whoops. Thought it was on the 8th??
- Roberto Bonini
Understandable error, Apple events are traditionally on a Tuesday.
- Gilbert Harding
Ah. My bad. Ah well. Tomorrow then. Still. Predictions people.
- Roberto Bonini
iPod with Cameras. I think the iPod touch is definitely getting one. Maybe Jobs too, because he needs to come back at an event where "his health isn't the main discussion of the press, and what better event than this one?" (-Leo Laporte). And iPhone OS 3.1 too.
- Michel
Definately OS 3.1 We've been waiting an age for it.
- Roberto Bonini
OSX for non-Apple hardware! Rah, rah, rah!
- abacab
Not gonna happen, abacab. Over Job's dead body.
- Roberto Bonini
I know that all too well. The unofficial "market" is doing quite well, though!
- abacab
Yeah. Its booming. But as you day, its very unofficial. I doubt many people know here is such a thing as a hackintosh.
- Roberto Bonini
That number can only go up (and continues to do so). The EULA challenge really needs finally resolved one way or the other... and Apple will end up having to take measures either way. Legally or not, I don't think the Hackintosh is going anywhere (read: away) anytime soon.
- abacab
Defiately, but its a major departure from Apple's mindset. IF they do change it, its going to be quite clear that Apple will offer no support on any hardwaare other than thier own. They are not going to try and support a gazillion different hardware combinations.
- Roberto Bonini
I imagine quite a few people would be happy to both offer and/or receive support that didn't involve Apple directly at all, were Apple to allow it. Not that Apple ever would, but I don't believe they can actually prevent it on any practical level.
- abacab
Back to the predictions: I guess that they are going to include bluetooth for the ipod touch so p2p for games works on those devices.
- Jorge Ortiz
Yep. That seems logical as well. You have to wonder tho, since the touch is inches away from being a VOIP phone with the Skype app installed.
- Roberto Bonini
Announcement that Apple have been bought by Microsoft... hey, it's just as likely as an apple tablet pc ;)
- alphaxion
If pigs [or insert appropriate animal here] could fly..... yeah.
- Roberto Bonini
Steve Jobs appears in public
- Andrew Leyden
Likely. el Steveo appears to calm the faithful (and Apple's stock price)
- Roberto Bonini
iTunes 9 with a bunch of social networking stuff built in. New iPods, incl. iPod Touch with mic and Bluetooth and a camera. The Beatles join the iTMS. Steve Jobs appears.
- Trent Hamm
@Jorge: Touch 2nd gen already has BT, if you upgrade to 3.0 fw
- spice3d
iPod Touch with full Bluetooth 2.0 profile, image and video camera.
- Khürt Williams
@spice3d The Bluetooth in iPhone OS 3.0 does not do anything more useful than enable Bluetooth headphones. I want full Bluetooth 2.0 profile enabled. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
- Khürt Williams
I think that we are going to see the Nano with built in wifi. I agree with others that we will see a camera in the Nano, my thoughts are what good is the camera if you cant share your pics on the fly? If Jobs focuses on one thing it is making things great. Being able to take a picture is nice but having to dock the iPod to get it off is lame. Give me wifi, share pictures, sync w/ iTunes. All goodness..
- Matt Martin
Matt: Wireless syncing has never been part of the iTunes feature list. The Zune had it years ago and everyone raved about it. I don't think that will be included. But wi-Fi for sharing directly to the web would be great for the Nano or for the Classics.
- Roberto Bonini
Its about the Beatles, full stop.
- Robert W. Anderson
I agree that the Beatles on iTMS is on the list. Apple plus the labels are going to make a pile of $$$$ out of that alone.
- Roberto Bonini
Continued convergence of iPhone/iPod and the computer; expansion of business platform (iTunes); and I'd like to see Paul and Ringo live with the announcement...
- Cliff Gerrish
Roberto: Wifi is a stretch but would be on my wish list for sure. Check out this post from MG Siegler on Apple's eventual move to iTunes in the cloud. http://bit.ly/54cdP Its an interesting read and when I see this paired with wifi on the Nano, I think wireless sync, wireless streaming. Putting your iTunes in the cloud opens a lot of options.
- Matt Martin
Yeah. I t would. Personally, I have more than enough HD space to store everythng so, storing stuuf on Apple's servers is only academically intersting ( most people tho will be relived). Yeah Wi-Fi plus cloud makes loads of sense.
- Roberto Bonini
Sounds like Yoko ono just pulled a fast one and let the cat out of the bad. Apparently the Beatles will be on iTunes tomorrow.
- Roberto Bonini
Beatles + iPhone with camera announcement... to steal the thunder of the Zune HD. Nothing more nothing less.
- Jim Goldstein
Was hoping for a iPod touch with a camera.
- Ahmed Khalil
I think I'd prefer the Beatles in Mono. In stereo it's sounds like my ears are refusing to listen to the same thing.
Using headphones? You need a headphone mixer to make classic stereo listenable.
- Robert W. Anderson
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The Beatles Box Sets – the Packaging - http://rwandering.net/2009...
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I bought 'Rubber Soul' today.
- Cliff Gerrish
Cliff, tell me how it sounds
- Michael Markman
Sounds as good as the first time I heard it. May be my favorite Beatles album.
- Cliff Gerrish
Excellent album, that.
- Robert W. Anderson
Hate the flipping 10minute default reminder on google calendar. Being warned ten minutes in advance has never once been useful to me.
Settings -> Calendars -> Notifications -> Remove
- Chris Lasher
Heh thanks. I have to do that for all of my calendars - but thanks for letting me know. :-)
- Michael Foord
I hate it when other people send me meeting invites with the default reminder turned on.
- Robert W. Anderson
@rwandering nah just didn't tweet correctly.
Not tweeting while driving, are you?
- Robert W. Anderson
Only when stopped.
- Robert Scoble
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Don't forget the unicorns with the purple hair.
- Robert W. Anderson
from what i've read, it's more of a streamlining than a bells and whistles upgrade. I like streamlining. Mine hasn't arrived yet...
- Karoli
Our company doesn't hyphenate "email." I disagree. What's next? Hyphenless tshirts, xrays, and aframe houses? #crotchetyoldcodger
Strange, when I turned I didn't get any crankier. Earlier in the month you weren't such a codger. You feeling OK?
- Robert W. Anderson
Oh, I've long since been a grammar codger.
- Dan Ciruli
You had me checking my grammar there . . . I would have called you a cop, not a codger.
- Robert W. Anderson
Reading the Rolling Stone Issue on 'Why The Beatles Broke Up.' @stevegillmor says it was Yoko. I say it was the recording of 'The Long and Winding Road.'
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Definitely neither. Plus it couldn't have been the recording of '...Road' but the post production which kills the track, and the Beatles weren't involved in that.
- Robert W. Anderson
That track was the opposite of what was going on in the basement at Big Pink.
- Cliff Gerrish
Some Beatles historians feel that it was the death of Brian Epstein and that Paul stepped into the leadership role to keep things together, but alas that couldn't last forever. I also suspect that business, legal issues and a killer schedule/burnout also contributed as well. My own thinking is that there's something about the English creative spirit that knows when to call it a day and...
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- Michael Pinto
I think saying it was Yoko isn't fair to John. I suspect that he would have drifted away if anything orthogonal came along. and whatever you think about Yoko, she was certainly orthogonal. It is also pretty clear that Paul was trying to get the group to perform and be more of a cohesive band than they could probably ever be again. There is nobody to blame. a Beatle fan I am, but their split was probably the right thing at the right time.
- Robert W. Anderson
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And the Beatles didn't totally break up either. Ever listen to the Ringo album? It's a Beatles album. http://www.amazon.com/Ringo-S...
- Dave Winer
My favorite song from that album, a Band/George Harrison/Ringo collaboration. http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Dave Winer
Paul was trying to get the Beatles to play "The Long and Winding Road" as a cohesive band. George was hanging with Dylan and the Band in Woodstock. John wanted to play rock and roll, and Ringo wanted Paul to stop telling him how to do fills.
- Cliff Gerrish
It was forty years ago. Get over it :-)
- Francine Hardaway
It's on the cover of the current The Rolling Stone.... (and a big thanks to Robert Anderson for introducing the word 'orthogonal' into the dialogue.)
- Cliff Gerrish
Just because everyone helped on Ringo doesn't mean they didn't "totally break up". I bet Ringo felt otherwise when Paul kicked him out of his house over the McCartney release date. And Ringo (the album) is a terrible stand-in for a Beatles album while most likely the best Ringo album.
- Robert W. Anderson
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John was my favorite Beatle, and I mourned the Beatle's breakup deeply... I was 13 years old, and they were everything to me. ...but I never felt that Yoko was intentionally divisive. John insisted she come into sessions at Abbey Road, he drove that, principally because he was a man who actually still needed mothering... ("Help, I need somebody, Help, not just anybody... HELP!!!" - I...
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- Simon Edhouse
Cliff, but yes, 'The Long and Winding Road'... that's a very funny observation. Its hard to put my finger on why it is so funny.... It just is. Maybe because the song (like Paul) took itself so seriously, and was sooo 'easy listening'. Like Paul had become Perry Como http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Simon Edhouse
God... now I had to open up iTunes and play the 'Long and Winding Road'... uuuurrrgh... hadn't heard it for so long... But speaking of the Beatles... Has anyone heard the Beatles amazing jam with Jimi Hendrix playing a version of Day Tripper with Hendrix singing along and playing crazy guitar licks?...AWSM! or the Beatles and Stones doing "yeh Blues" together? - or John's "Brian...
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- Simon Edhouse
How can I get so thirsty here when the air is like solid water?
Maybe its all the Double Down sandwiches.
- Robert W. Anderson
Epic: KFC Has A Bacon Sandwich That Uses Fried Chicken As “Bread” - http://www.zee.me/blog...
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Oh. No.
- Akiva Moskovitz
So now they're designing products for the FriendFeed market?
- Dave Winer
So they have shares in Cardiac Hospital Wards?
- Daryl Hunt on FF
lol, and we wonder why we have an obesity epidemic with people dropping dead in their 50's?
- Mark
Haha wow.
- Johnny
oh my. tempted to try to find it around here
- Imabug
I don't get the title. Doubling down on the gamble of heart disease? Exactly the opposite of brilliant.
- Robert W. Anderson
Short example of calling Ruby code from IronPython. http://ironpython-urls.blogspot.com/2009...
You seem to live in Pacific Time, your's are the last posts I see before I go to bed and the first in the morning.
- Robert W. Anderson
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You've discovered my secret - I'm actually a TwitterBot.
- Michael Foord
LANjackal to LANjackal's feed, Windows 7, Chrome, TheNextWeb Forum, RWW: The Future of Tech, building43
Chrome OS: But Will it Run Photoshop? - http://mashable.com/2009...
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"Windows 7 will come out before Google Chrome OS will; if it performs up to users’ expectations, it’ll be harder for Google to push through. By the time Chrome OS supports enough hardware and software to be deemed really usable by a significant portion of users, Microsoft will have a lot of time to fix things."
- LANjackal
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screw photoshop- we've got plenty of awesome online design tools that are getting better and better by the day
- Zee.
That actually wasn't the point of the article, it was just a baiting title. Read and you'll see what it's saying.
- LANjackal
Yeah, this isn't about building a direct competitor to windows. Established products get eaten from the margins, which in the case of Windows is mobile and now netbooks (and of course server).
- Paul Buchheit
@zee: you are not a pro photographer, do you? :) online design tools are more like microsoft paint today... i don't think that this will change soon. and this is one of the biggest problems for an online os: good for surf the web, read the news, send email, white some simple document and spreadsheet, but not for more specific jobs. i think i will install chrome os when the first beta comes out but i think i will need also windows... for photoshop!
- Alessandro
Well not everyone needs photoshop....They will probably have a web version of photoshop. Something like aviary.com
- Saad Kamal
Don't understand anyone would buy a netbook and run Photoshop onto. Limited screen size, limited processor, limited memory. Chrome OS is aimed squarely at people who do most other their productivity in the browser.
- Paul Grav
Remember guys, all Google is doing is taking the Linux Kernel, and writing a new Gnome/KDE competitor. That's all.
- Yuvi
Linux was already pushing down from the high end og the PC market, in server sales. Linux has been trying to push up from the low end, in netbooks and things like OLPC, but didn't get enough traction. Now it might.
- DGentry
If Android, Moblin, Ubuntu & KitchensinkLinux (joke) haven't gotten the traction of which you speak, how's ChromeOS going to make a difference? It's not gonna be able to run anything the others can't. If anything it will be *less* capable than they are. IMO the only thing ChromeOS is good for is super low cost web tablets ... like the Crunchpad
- LANjackal
from IM
By not trying to be a better Windows. The initial round of netbooks were pitched as "Linux is like Windows only BETTER, and FREE". People expected it to work like Windows, and it doesn't, so they were returned in droves. It sounds like Chrome will not be yet another desktop Linux distribution, but a system which expects everything to be a web service. People are willing to accept...
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- DGentry
It'll run Picnik :). Honestly, I don't have photoshop on my laptop, either.
- Steve Lynch
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For example, Linux ships in massive numbers into peoples homes today, in DVD players running on ARM7 CPUs. Nobody knows they are using Linux, they put a disk in the machine and their video plays. If the systems running ChromeOS are positioned as not being PCs, with a UI which doesn't look like Windows, there is a better chance of acceptance than in trying to be a better Windows.
- DGentry
@DGentry well I agree that people don't expect DVD players to work like windows..but they do expect their netbooks (which most of the ppl considers as "PC") to work like windows. And since Chorme plans to target the netbook market...I believe that they need to be better than Windows to some extent for people to buy.
- Saad Kamal
too snarky. most people don't use or need Photoshop.
- Robert W. Anderson
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There's a man sitting across from me in the library using a slide rule.
Where's the pic?
- Robert W. Anderson
@swhitley: I thought Michael Jackson put it all up as collateral. I don't know if he still has control over it.
Strange timing for this tweet.
- Robert W. Anderson
My iPhone 3GS has a terrible wireless signal - both wifi and the mobile network (Edge & 3G) jump from zero to full strength, and back, in the space of a minute. An iPhone 3G next to it is fine. Faulty handset..?
Rodfather liked this
Well the S for Speed means it just jumps from zero coverage to great coverage quicker! ;) Just kidding. Sorry to hear that.
- Brian Bufalo
I have to constantly restart my wifi for it to work. I can't tell of it is a faulty 3GS or the OS.
- Robert W. Anderson
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Now that my iPhone is in the USA, it is being held for a future undisclosed delivery date. Monday the 21st, I'll bet. Annoying but understandable.
Or maybe 19th.
- Robert W. Anderson
What's all this #squarespace nonsense anyway? ;-)
I'm on to you, #squarespace r.
- Robert W. Anderson
Peaches and blueberries on my cereal this morning...welcome back, summer!
You call this summer? It looks like it might rain.
- Robert W. Anderson
Tired of hearing the neighbor's dog's barking. I wish there was someway for me to find the mutt and ----- talk to its owner and kindly ask them to keep their dog from barking all night long.
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This is one of many reasons why I like cats more.
- April Buchheit
Cats rock
- Charlie Anzman
do you have a city ordance or byelaw or something you can use?
- WorldofHiglet
tell them about the fact. .. talk to them.
- Petr Buben
I think if you just leave pools of antifreeze in the right places, nature will take its course.
- Gabe
get bark transponders, device will emit natural dog like barking anytime the bark comes your way.
- Petr Buben
although i don not condone such actions, where there's a will, there's a way. for example: http://www.nydailynews.com/news...
- eviltom
We have had issues like this with various neighbors over the years. Some take responsibility for it, some don't, and yet others liken their barking dogs to the sounds of children . . . Certainly talk to them. Depending on where you live, you may need to find other like-minded neighbors before you really have any (legal) recourse.
- Robert W. Anderson
I agree with Robert, have you tried talking to the owner? Hearing about dog-murder fantasies makes me sad
- Stephen Mack
I agree with Stephen. :/
- Rochelle
Although having lived next to loud dogs before, I totally understand where April is coming from. When a neighborhood dog barks so loud it wakes up one of my kids, I get furious. Right now I'm checking out http://www.barkingdogs.net/yournei...
- Stephen Mack
I'm all for talking to the owner, but the thing is, I don't know which neighbor it is. It could be one of the neighbors up the hill above us or it could be the neighbors down the street. And there are a lot of dogs in my neighborhood, but it seems like the same dog based on how it barks (yes, I'm certain I can tell, I've been enduring its barking for many years now). I'd venture out at night while it happens to investigate, but it gets pretty dark in my neighborhood (no street lights).
- April Buchheit
brr ..scary neighbourhoods ... complete darkness .... dogs barking wild .. where is this? .. Mountain Castle?
- Petr Buben
had that happen while visiting Serbia. the neighbours were away but for some reason they left their dog behind. poor thing was barking day & night, I'm not even sure if it was even being fed! :S but shit, when you're trying to sleep in till 3pm...grrr
- Rudolf Olah
The site Stephen mentioned: "The chronic barking problem cannot be blamed on dogs, because dogs can be easily dissuaded from barking." Really? Pray tell how I can get my dogs to stop barking when people are walking through the park at all hours of the night? Oh, sorry, I thought the site would be interested in telling me how to convince the dogs that their territory doesn't extend outside the fence, but the creator isn't interested in helping out there. [edit: There's a link to pages on training, but...]
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
Toss some sleeping pills over the fence.
- Brandon
My dogs would not be able to get to them if I tossed them over the fence, and I doubt the folks who are breaking park rules will be kind enough to take them and pass out, thus giving my dogs no reason to bark.
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
April, keep in mind Friendfeed is a public and more or less permanent place. Imagine the low, low, LOW but existing chance that someone in your neighborhood googles your name, ends up on this thread, and takes your message not as sarcasm (as we do) but as some death threat against an animal or something.
- Philipp Lenssen
Yikes! You're right, Philipp. I'm going to edit it now...
- April Buchheit
Hate the wireless / passive charging idea. Haven't we been trading efficiency for convenience for too long? http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin...
The article suggests that the technology is 15% less efficient during charging but that it might be more efficient overall based on typical usage (most people don't unplug their chargers when they aren't using them, right?). Furthermore, the long-term possibility of an induction-based charging standard that eliminates the need for multiple chargers should eventually have a positive...
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- Lee
Right,but it seems to suggest that a wireless pad *could* work that way, not that they inherently do.Today's chargers already *could* stop drawing power when not connected, but they too aren't built that way.A standard sounds good.How about mini USB? Granted it doesn't support enough current to charge a car, but then I %15 efficiency loss for the convenience of charging your car over a mat is criminal. But of course, if you could also charge your iPhone on the floor of your garage, now *that* is progress!
- Robert W. Anderson
Bluelounge - CableDrop - http://bluelounge.com/cabledr...
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"CableDrop gently grasps your power and peripheral cords so they do not fall off your desk every time you unplug your laptop."
- clarke thomas
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man I want some of these! awesome.
- mikepk
That's damn neat, it's cool how cool a simple idea can be
- Gordon Swaby
Very cool. Reminds me of a favorite rant: USB ends should be shaped in such a way that they can be easily plugged in even if you can't see what you are doing. Could be in the connector itself, could be a standard for the casing. Has implications for the connector in the computer too, of course.
- Robert W. Anderson
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