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 - Loving Life
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 - Loving Life
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...
more...
- 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 "DerBingle" J
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 "DerBingle" J
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
disgusting? HOW DARE YOU, SIR! That is j-love! and it's beautiful (in it's own way.. a way that shouldn't be seen in public)
- Kyle Johnson
this is probably the most popular feed of 2009 in FF. lol.
- Bora Mesut PALAS
I think the one where Robert Scoble gave away money easily beats this one, but this post has staying power. ;-)
- Jason Huebel
I think that Chinese at FF post was a marriage proposal thing. They were all trying to bump the guy's photo so that it would be the first thing his girlfriend would see when she logged onto FF.
- Kamilah Gill
I'm leaning more towards a netbook now (over a mobile phone). I'll be able to work on a netbook far faster than I ever could on a mobile phone.
- Kol Tregaskes
I think most netbooks run Win7 pretty well. I was running it on a Dell Mini 9 with 1GB ram and an 8GB SSD and it wasn't terrible. Win7 is the first version of windows that's more efficient than it's predecessor.
- invariant - farewell FF
Yeah, it's the best OS from Windows.
- Kol Tregaskes
Go for it. I had a NC10 before upgrading to an Insprion 11z. Great build quality and overall look.
- Adi
Heh, you can right click perfectly fine in OS X, and it looks like you can even build xnu if you want http://shantonu.blogspot.com/2009... but it doesn't like it's for the faint of heart.
- Victor Ganata
@Victor -- How do you right click (aside from pressing "Control")? I hate having to "two hand" when using the boyfriend's MacBook.
- Miss Elle
Ah, yes, that could definitely be a problem with the trackpad, which I'm not overly fond of anyway. I actually use a Bluetooth Logitech mouse with my MacBook.
- Victor Ganata
Miss Elle, there should be an option under System Preferences > Trackpad that allows you to do a two finger tap on the trackpad to register as a right click. Or, if it's an older macbook that has the one button, you should be able to keep a finger (or two?) on the trackpad part and click the button, iirc.
- Arlan Koizumi
PC, plotting to buy a mac next
- Dave
from BuddyFeed
I would always be a Windows person, I guess. Not because I am uncomfortable with KDEs and command lines, but WIndows got the icon idea, windows, maximize, minimize, etc. right first.
- TrafficBug
Switch hitter, I'm a Mac on my desk, Windows mostly for games, Linux for server stuff and serious code. I believe in... whatever works... not so much in the religion.
- Ed Millard
PC. Flexibility, Cost, Applications(not having to wait for ports), gaming, and control over hardware.
- Adi
Both....or neither. I was a Linux guy for almost a decade. Moms got me an XP laptop a few years ago, which is still my primary, but I have a Mac in the studio. I have no allegiance to any OS, though. Most of what I do is inside the browser (except in the studio, but a PC runs Pro Tools just fine).
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
PC - Windows and Linux (SimplyMepis). They should add a *ChromeOS guy* to the picture:)
- Citronella
с этой недели и Мак тоже :) а так на работе линух дома винда была
- Vinsent
I'm Adi. No, wait... I am PC (Flexibility, Cost, Applications(not having to wait for ports), gaming, and control over hardware). But I just might buy my next laptop from apple, because they pack good hardware nicely. And then I'll put Windows 7 on it.
- Павел Романовский
Used both systems for 20 years. Each has its function, though time has shown me more uptime and lower cost of ownership for Mac. We have an entire department, read priesthood, set up to take care of Windows (mostly security issues;) all Mac people take care of their own needs. When I buy for home use, it's all Mac.
- Phil Boiarski
Mac for the last 6 years. Because I work in graphic design, video and photography. When I used to do a lot of database work a PC was better for me, but now I will only use a PC if I need to do rare database stuff or help a client. However I do like John Hodgman better!!!!
- Rachel Lea Fox
where's "Linux PC", in a blue-collar apparel carrying a wrench? :)
- 9000
Mac, because I got fed up with Windows at 3.0
- Robert Hafer
Mac, because it's the best way to run unix. (both in terms of hardware and GUI)
- Meryn Stol
I'm a computer user - Apples, Acorns, Spectrums, Ataris, Amigas, home built PC's with any OS I want... I don't blinker myself to the possibilities. And to those whose windows installs appear to be the opposite of OSX in that they don't "just work", may I suggest that the problem isn't always with the OS ;) My windows installs last me years between reinstalls (usually because I've bought...
more...
- alphaxion
oh, and for right click on a macbook, you can set the corner of the touchpad up as your right click.. no need for even 2 finger clicking. Tho, I do have to ask as to how you can record the audio from an application using audacity... the ability to select the stereo mixer doesn't exist and I have to resort to my windows machine in order to grab the audio.
- alphaxion
I'm more of both really. PC for gaming on Steam, Mac for editing, and whatever work I can do on both.
- Outsanity
"Before President Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao released their joint statement, Obama's Asia trip was underwhelming. But after the statement, Obama's foray into Asia went from empty to harmful."
- Adi
from Bookmarklet
it was pretty overhyped as a social networking tool, which it's really not...
- Bill Kinney
Why are you bored? I can't leave my fingers from it... It is the greatest Website that I found for a long time. It really isn't a social network. But it is social like a forum. The Public waves are bit like a mashup of a Forum and Wikipedia. You ask a Question invite a few people and wait for your answers to roll in. Or you keep answering to the Waves in your Inbox. There are about 13...
more...
- JoeD
I can get answers to questions faster by outright Googling them than sending out a wave. I think that's where I'm just plain confused as to the actual usefulness of Wave for the average internet user. Unless you're talking about poll-type questions, which I don't ask because usually I don't care.
- tinypants - Hagitha of FF
I'd like an invite if anyone has one to spare. aditya(at)auburnalum(dot)org. TIA
- Adi
Adi, I just sent you one, and War Eagle!
- John Craft
"Wave is not social in the same way that Twitter, FF are. They tend to follow what I think of as the cocktail party version of social. You walk from group to group at a party, glibly taking part in conversations, holding cocktail party court. Wave is more like a business meeting version of social. A group has a specific problem they want to solve or a goal in mind. They meet, for a time...
more...
- Brian Sullivan
Really? What problem or goal could I possibly require a group of random acquaintances for solving? I don't see the practical application. Google Wave sounds better suited for people who are already working together in a team environment and need a convenient way to brainstorm and groupthink together or within the same industry. For average people, I can't begin to think of something I'd need to gather all my contacts together to help me solve.
- tinypants - Hagitha of FF
@tinypants - the only thing I could think of for my group of friends: a good solution to a forum-based RPG. Yeah, I'd use it to game :) (not that any of us have it yet, but still.)
- Jennifer Dittrich
tinypants -- not sure I understand your comment on a "random" group of acquaintances. If you assume that Wave will help you much there I think you misunderstand its possible uses. Have a cocktail party instead. The reason I think Wave will be a success is that corporations rarely want to pay to host a cocktail party but are usually eager to host business meetings that solve business problems.
- Brian Sullivan
Brian is absolutley right. It is more like buisness problem solving. But it is not only buisness. Sometimes you can't find a solution for your problem on Google, rarley but true. This is where you normaly would go to a forum or IRC. Now Wave is a mashup of it. You put Your Problem in the first blip. Discuss it below and work together on the problem in the first blip. You can invite your...
more...
- JoeD
@Brian: Ah, thank you for responding with much snark. Makes me feel good to know that I can be so soundly insulted for disliking Google Wave. When I said "random" I was inferring that the people I am typically linked to on any given service are friends and acquaintances I've made from all areas of life, not just a specific industry or company; for me this also includes Wave. Involving...
more...
- tinypants - Hagitha of FF
I got a Google Wave invitation today, and I’ve my own 8 invites to give away. I’ve decided to give 4 of them to my friends and 4 to you readers. So, anyone who cares about Wave, but hasn’t got an invitation yet, can leave a comment below. If the post gets a lot [...] Related posts:techroll 1 : 7th May, 2008techroll 2 : 12th May, 2008techroll 3 : 16th May, 2008techroll 4 : 20th May, 2008Free Internet TV Software
- Ashutosh Mishra
I got a Google Wave invitation today, and I’ve my own 8 invites to give away. I’ve decided to give 4 of them to my friends and 4 to you readers. So, anyone who cares about Wave, but hasn’t got an invitation yet, can leave a comment below. If the post gets a lot [...] Related posts:techroll 1 : 7th May, 2008techroll 2 : 12th May, 2008techroll 3 : 16th May, 2008techroll 4 : 20th May, 2008Free Internet TV Software
- Ashutosh Mishra
I'd really appreciate one if you got any still available. weedmonk @ gmail . com TIA!
- Adi
Yeah I've got all 4 invites left. You're getting one. Just post a comment on the post. :]
- Ashutosh Mishra
from email
"The Indian unit of Microsoft Corp. Monday said it is seeing a good early response to its new Windows 7 operating system. Speaking to reporters, Ravi Venkatesan, chairman of the Indian unit, said Microsoft is seeing "good double-digit growth" in revenue from India and China. While India and China contribute less than 5% of Microsoft's revenue now, they are extremely fast-growing geographies," Mr. Venkatesan said on the sidelines of the India Economic Summit."
- Adi
from Bookmarklet
"comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released a study of online engagement at the top worldwide properties based on data from its comScore World Metrix service. The study found that Microsoft Sites captured nearly 15 percent of time spent online worldwide in September, making it the most engaging global property, followed by Google Sites and Yahoo! Sites. Facebook.com, which continues to see significant growth on a worldwide basis, was the fourth most engaging destination with visitors spending 1.4 billion hours on the site in September, up 193 percent from the previous year."
- Adi
from Bookmarklet
So what's that unleashed Microsoft's secrets about "how to capture the largest time spent online"?
- Thierry R. Andriamirado
"If you have a reasonably new laptop with an Intel WiFi chipset then I have some good news. A set of new Intel WiFi drivers made available just a couple weeks ago, version 13.0.0.107 if you’re playing along, finally adds the necessary driver-level support for the new native Virtual WiFi technology in Win 7"
- Adi
from Bookmarklet
Nope, the tech allows your NIC to perform several roles at once. For example, it can behave both as an access point and as a regular client at the same time
- LANjackal
Many thanks! How do the invites arrive? Do they come from gmail or from your address? Just want to make sure the spam filter does not intercept it.
- Rich Puskarich
Difficult to predict the future, Jemm, but despite their super cashflow, Microsoft seem to have been behind in search and had poor phone software forever, scarcely register in the MP3 market, still don't have a best of breed browser and so really only have an average to good games machine and their strong desktop franchise which relies primarily on a small number (relatively) of corporate buyers. I wonder if Redmond's apparent dominance isn't in fact quite brittle - we'll just have to see how this plays out
- winckel
But those are just some weak points (I also disagree about Xbox 360, which is really good). Microsoft is also strong on server-side with many solid products, very cool updates are coming to (already good) developer tools, platforms and Office. Windows 7 will win back many that have switched and who will switch back.
- Jemm
from fftogo
why u think Microsoft is loosing ? just answer one question, can apple build a OS for these variety of hardware in the market like Microsoft ?
- Farshad
Farshad. I don't think they want to. The power for Apple is in the experience. Only develop for what you are prepared to support. It's all about the Genius Bar.
- Johnny Worthington
from iPhone
As long as MS can build a cheaper OS than Apple and not lose too much ground to Linux, it will be premature to call them toast.
- John (a.k.a. dendroica)
Jemm, Mcrosoft's servers don't scale well, still. Linux and other unix variants pretty much dominate big hardware. This is important - big hardware today will be average hardware soon. Their primary market for servers is basically to file servers and domain controllers, which is hardly rocket science and won't matter anywhere near as much in the future. Also, office is a steaming pile...
more...
- mjc
from iPhone
Mcrosoft's not going anywhere anytime soon, but their mindshare dominance is eroding.
- mjc
from iPhone
@Farshad PCs are dependant on hardware vendors' cut-rate programmers to write compitent, closed-source drivers. PCs are slowly merging toward a set of standard components the same way Apple has been doing, for this reason. Intel CPU, Intel chipset, intel graphics, intel storage, intel nic. Cuts costs and means there are GOOD programmers writing the drivers and GOOD QA. Variety is a good thing only if the people designing the hardware&drivers are held responsible for their shitty code.
- mjc
from iPhone
@mjc: The servers scale well (depending on the software, of course) and what's in the middle (majority of the buying customers) has always been Microsoft's primary area. 2007 has much better UI (the ribbon/fluent) that make features easier to discoverable and 2010 fixes most of the complaints (customization ofetc). It's true, that average people need about 10% of the features the Office...
more...
- Jemm
just a note, I am all for Microsoft fixing their products' weaknesses, it benefits many people. Their stumbles also hurt many people...
- mjc
from iPhone
@jemm when's the last time you saw a 512+ core Windows box that performs as well as Linux or (Open)Solaris in CPU-intensive tasks, let alone other types of tasks.. The ribbon hides many tasks that people need behind four or five clicks instead of just two or three in the old interface, and most people I know, even new users struggle to find things. DM me if you want me to find this...
more...
- mjc
from iPhone
Like I said, they focus on more realistic markets, not some marginal >500 core -markets. No point trying to squeeze everything from there, but focus instead on the more practical market area. Linux is good for those sort of things, but bigger markets are elsewhere. I've read enough about ribbon shortcomings to be aware of them. Some features require more effort, but more things are...
more...
- Jemm
@mjc you're totally ignoring that a massive amount of SME's use windows server products for everything from domain controllers, mail servers to proxy servers, SQL database servers, data backup servers, web servers, application servers, terminal servers... the use they get in this market is immense, windows HPC versions are far and few between, but the numbers of standard, enterprise and...
more...
- alphaxion
@alphaxion I didn't ignore it, I made mention. 512 core isn't HPC, we will have that on desktops soon-ish, look at Intel's roadmaps - those problems that seem remote are really not... I have been trying to discuss the areas in which MS is having the most trouble, rather than trying to conjecture that they are losing out in their majority marketshares... Debating about battles they've...
more...
- mjc
from iPhone
@Jemm I have never seen anyone make use of galleries or cared about live preview... I'll have to have Brian do another survey here. Thanks for the idea!
- mjc
from iPhone
I need to get in the car. I'll check back later tonight. Looking forward to more discussion :)
- mjc
from iPhone
oh I agree that office 2007 was a UI abortion. For the desktop, your argument is disingenuous when you consider most applications (never mind desktop OS's) don't make great use of 2 cores, especially when you consider we've had SMP systems for as long as I've been in the IT industry. Then translate that into average desktop user requirements and you realise most of them don't take...
more...
- alphaxion
Usually the happy majority is the quiet and those who complain are the ones that stand out. The "gallery" of the ribbon is when you select a format/theme/symbol etc and see visually all the options. Live preview shows the results while hovering over the choice. It's so intuitive that most people don't consider it as a feature. They just didn't exist before ribbon in traditional toolbars...
more...
- Jemm
Microsoft is behind in search because they, for some reason, feel they need to be in the search engine business. I never understood Microsoft's focus on building a search engine no one is going to use.
- Andy Bakun
That's a *really* weird portrait. Whassup with his fingers? And who's the photographer? yikes!
- See-ming Lee 李思明 SML
"Microsoft seemed adrift, bereft of ideas or inspiration as its empire was systematically hacked to bits by Google, Apple and Mozilla. And yet, two years later and the company is once again the toast of the tech press. Windows 7 is good, but one product’s not enough to rescue an enormous company’s reputation. What on earth has happened? Is it really okay to like Microsoft again?"
- Adi
from Bookmarklet
It's more like disliking Google and Apple more. So Microsoft is "o.k".
- Amit Morson
Microsoft seems to be releasing software that isn't disapointing, I think that's a big factor forward. Giving people the surprise of something that actually works well
- Robert Davies
Compared to Apples closed garden, Microsoft is good in that aspect.
- Amit Morson
A pox on all their houses. Never trust a company over 20.
- Michael R. Bernstein
To think Apple is a "closed garden" seems well wide of the mark - really just doesn't stack up :(
- winckel
Love or don´t love should be irrelevant. I like some products from Microsoft, i like some from Google and some from Apple. Do i love one company over the other? I don´´t think so. Why would i.
- Flynn (Michael A. Volz)
The graphic was created by The Today Show, not MS ... and in any case that's a plus for Windows 7 anyway: it runs legitimately on any machine you can pick up in a store. Let's see Jobs do an interview showing a ThinkPad running OS X in the background. He'd probably die before he let that happen
- Judah Richardson
Judah... Someone said something to me that stuck with me... Never do something you're not willing to continue supporting. The Genius Bar would be a whole new experience if I was stuck behind people with third party hardware.
- Johnny Worthington
I'm with Judah. This demonstrates MS's flexibility (or allows us to reflect on Apple's inflexibility). Maybe the next thing to do is improve WinMo some more and show a phone owner switching providers (or just having more than one provider as he/she travels).
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
ms is flexible their is no question. I really believe that Apple is not as flexible look at how Steve Jobs rules Apple his word is god
- Rob Cairns
Microsoft is a software company. Why should he care if his flagship product is featured on a Macbook. To look at it another way its telling that a product that purportedly comes installed with the "The worlds most advanced OS" still has so many users using Bootcamp to run Windows and is used as a selling point.
- Adi
After all this time, it's finally here... *stretches arms*... I'M SO FRIGGIN SICK OF ALL THE MICROSOFT FANBOIZ AND THEIR STUPID GUSHING WINDOWS 7 POSTS. Anyone would think that they reinvented the OS or something. Gawd people, be objective... It's all marketing... STEVE BALLMER ISN'T A GOD!!! :P
Of course, we *NEVER* see any gushing posts about some little minor thing that Apple does now do we?
- Travis Koger
lol @Travis... Johnny - will you be this excitable on Karmic Koala day next week? :-)
- Andrew Terry
*hides Johnny from her feed* :P I am anxious to see how Windows 7 will be. I mean, all the hype isn't always good. Look at the hype before Snow Leopard came out? It turned out to be a dud. I do think Windows 7 will be better than Vista, but I wonder how many people will be disappointed with the outcome, I mean those who didn't beta test it. I'm going to wait before I get a copy. I'm mostly happy with my Vista machine.
- Mol, Santa Claws
Didn't hear you complain about the socnet wankage over the Snow Leopard release J-Wo *fusion backhand*
- Mo Kargas
I want to see how quickly Johnny will close down this topic's comments after it becomes a destination for the Microsoft Fanboiz extolling the virtues of Windows 7... *WINDOWS 7 ROCKS DUDE WHOOOOO* :)
- Travis Koger
I've been runing the Beta's since January as a well. Quite frankly, Microssoft could have released beta 1 and it would still have been better than vista.
- Roberto Bonini
I want 7 but I'm going to wait a few months for all the users to complain about bugs, system bogging, etc; before I consider getting it.
- David Cook
Meh, people just want to hate MS, even if they improve. Damned if you do, damned if you don't with the hipster crowd ;)
- Mo Kargas
Holden, the only thing I will say about that is when they rev the lines, it is usually to a level a bit beyond what is available on the shop floor at the big box stores. I am shopping for a computer for my boss and I went to our local store yesterday (stock both Macs and PCs). All the Apples were on par or beyond the walk out the door PCs
- Johnny Worthington
Indeed... But I spend less time fixing them too. My time means money to my boss.
- Johnny Worthington
Nah, don't assume that's the case. The Mac's in work go in for repairs far more than the PCs
- Mo Kargas
I tried Win7 in beta back in the spring, and it's definitely better than Vista. But I'll have to add a real video card. And I'm also really looking forward to Ubuntu "Karmic Koala" coming out next week.
- Dennis Jernberg
Mo, I am speaking from my personal experience. I understand that doesn't apply globally but in my corner, Macs are tanks.
- Johnny Worthington
So, in all seriousness, I haven't had a chance to play with Windows 7 as all of my machines are mission critical. As a person who likes Macs but uses Windows at work and runs a Vista laptop at home. What are the 3 killer features I should look for
- Johnny Worthington
wait wait wait . . . YOU'RE telling someone to be objective???? :P
- Lindsey is Fierce!
Johnny, three killer features, 1. It Just Works! (oh sorry I think that might be taken by some other company), 2. It looks nice and finally 3. It has a brilliant calculator, completely rewritten and will even tell you your mortgage amounts. Oh I guess you could throw in something about the thousands upon thousands of Windows based applications that works with it too.
- Travis Koger
God, people! You’d swear that some of you actually designed the Win and Mac OS’s yourselves. Are you seriously *that* passionate about what OS you use? or is it just so you can be one of the “I told you so!” or “I’ve been with them from the beginning!” people?! Seriously, are you getting paid by the designing company to bash the other company or what?!?? :-/
- David Cook
from email
Looks like Dave did not have decaf this morning. ;) Though, he does have a point...pick your OS and enjoy it; who cares what the other person is using. Can't we all just get along?
- JA Castillo
*LOL* at the comments, but I agree with JA. That said, I will never use anything Apple, but I am actually quite happy with MS :-)
- Rene Wirtz
I'm gonna wait for Windows 8. 128-bit architecture baby! Whoo hoo!!! ;-p
- ronin
I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to be so blunt. I’m just saying that I understand that you like the OS that you like, but why do we go to the extreme? The only OS I have ever used is XP and Vista. I personally like both of them. But I’m not going to bash Apple or Linux, etc; because I like Windows. I think half of the elitists’ out there have never even used another OS in their life. (BTW:...
more...
- David Cook
from email
Yo Johnny, I'm really happy for you, and I'ma Let you finish, but Steve Balmer had one of the best rants of ALL TIME!
- Otto
I agree! Vista was a failure, seven is nothing but a future failure. Anyway, this is how Mr. Ballmer is selling seven here in Spain. Sad, very sad...http://tinyurl.com/ygq76r5
- Oscar Antonio Moralí
I'm going to sit on my 5 year old laptop with XP-Pro until Win7 gets through the first round of service packs. I used to be bleeding edge... now I'm stone cold molasses.
- Mark "DerBingle" J
Having installed the RC on my Pop's laptop, and being a huge Linux fanboy, I will say this: 7 does look rather nice and doesn't have near as many problems as Vista did. Almost as decent as XP. Now if Microsoft can just keep from rearranging the commands and menus with every new upgrade, ...
- Steven Perez
I'm definitely getting Windows 7. It's a whole lot better than Vista; I've tried it, so I know. But I'll need a new video card and power supply for my Dell first. However, next week I'll download Ubuntu Karmic, switch hard drives, and then gush over that. ;)
- Dennis Jernberg
@oscar In its beta/RC stage it already had as much as a quarter of OSX global market share and beat Linux. Wouldn't be surprised if it supplanted Snow Puss Puss' market share within hours of the official launch. It's puzzling that Vista happened under Gates' watch and 7 under Ballmer...who woulda thunk?
- Adi
TUAW also notes the MacBook loses an audio-out port (which you’d use for microphones and other output devices). Not entirely, however: he audio-out port has been combined with the audio-in port. Still, this could be a drag for musicians who record while monitoring with headphones.
- Mitchell Tsai
from Bookmarklet
There are USB speakers, I don't know of any USB headphones or microphone.
- Amit Morson
It all about what the customer doesn't know they want. Won't be long till ditch RJ-45 or create some spec no one uses and call it something cute like mini-ethernet.
- Adi
Uniquely start as an documentary movie showing aliens are part on our planet from long time.
- Sunny (The Geek Lord)
Human cruelty on aliens, actually it shows the cruel side of human being on the other species. Picture showed me an impression that human being can be so cruel to other species if they don understand them weather it is animal or aliens
- Sunny (The Geek Lord)
Sweyn: And not to mention Nigerians eating aliens to get powers of em
- Sunny (The Geek Lord)
I forgot the name Michael is it ? the one who was saving em at the end. I wan that kinda robotic system :)
- Sunny (The Geek Lord)
There are obvious parallels to apartheid South Africa of course. It kind of reminded me of the way we treat Haitians in The Bahamas. Can't wait for the sequel.
- Adi
Don't we all human beings think that earth is our own property. I mean look at vanishing rain forest, every minute we loosing some species of animal.
- Sunny (The Geek Lord)
I agree kapoor, while enjoy in dinner, don't watch it...
- LeON
awesome movie....@Adi, great correlation
- Darlene
I teach a bunch of third generation refugees from Burma. They have never known a working society. Watching District 9 touched a nerve for me because the aliens, too, never knew a working society on Earth. No one took the time to explain the intricacies of society. Instead they were just shut out. Similar to these refugees who are now in the US, but if it weren't for the staff of the...
more...
- Miss Elle
The correlation to apartheid is especially interesting since the movie starts during the 80's when there was still apartheid in SA.
- Amit Morson
Watched again the movies with kid cousins..They said the movies is yucky, whatever that mean :)
- Sunny (The Geek Lord)
awesome movie, especially for me having visited Jo'Burg numerous times it was refreshing to have it asthe backdrop of a Sci-fi flick like this. Anybody hear that the lead actor Sharlto Copley (http://bit.ly/Xj5nu) is set to play Murdoch on the new A-Team movie ? http://bit.ly/Y0EKg
- Tate DA FF MVP
I think he was also in a couple episodes of Bewitched.
- Mol, Santa Claws
I'm totally in shock over his death still. He was one of my favorite character actors next to Rene Auberjonois and John DeLance.
- Mol, Santa Claws
"Very Interesting " Im old enough to remember Laugh In ...
- johnpiercy
I remember Laugh In....not old enough to remember it, but it was on Nick at Night reruns when I was growing up.
- Jonas, Leper of FF
Oddly, I just saw him in something last night and wondered to myself if he was still with us.
- Louis Trapani
I remember him on Laugh In when Nick played them. That's how I got into Henry Gibson. Sadly, I can't find any good clips from Laugh-In on Youtube.
- Mol, Santa Claws
I'm also old enough to remember Laugh In, and he was great in it. Some of his more recent work was on Boston Legal, where he played a very funny Judge.
- Bonnie Foster
"Project Description: On April 18th 2009, the New Scientist published an article on a remarkable project developed by researchers at the European Commission's Joint Research Centre in Ispra, Italy, and the World Bank. The authors combined a series of maps to create a new map of connectedness showing the most interconnected and remote places on earth. The maps are based on a model which calculated how long it would take to travel to the nearest city of 50,000 or more people by land or water. The model combines information on terrain and access to road, rail and river networks. It also considers how factors such as altitude, steepness of terrain and hold-ups like border crossings slow travel."
- Demetrios the Traveller
from Bookmarklet
Tibetan Plateau is the most remote place on earth. Somehow that is calming to know. At least there is still one place on earth that is at peace (relatively speaking ;)
- echostreamer
"The new feature shows you pretty Silverlight-powered fly-in thumbnail images for only 50 specific search results (it will be expanded in the future), such as "Digital cameras," "New cars," "MLB players," and "Top songs." As you refine a query from one of the 50 visual searches available, thumbnails that don't match your query anymore fly off screen, and the rest reshuffle to fill in the blank spaces"
- LANjackal
from Bookmarklet
Can someone explain to me why every Mac i own gets the dates so badly wrong in finder? Is there a way to fix this? (I didn't even own this particular Mac in January)
I think those dates are when the images, folders and apps were packaged (originally created or changed), not when you downloaded them. I´m assuming the icons folders are not created by you.
- Thomas Bøhm
well that sucks...any idea how i can order by when i downloaded them?
- Zee.
Not off the top of my head, I know the Downloads folder in the dock lets you easily choose "by date added" but haven´t been bothered by this in the Finder.
- Thomas Bøhm
view -> show view options -> click date modified. if you want to know when the item was made ,you can use date created
- mjc
also, when you unzip stuff, it preserves timestamps from the zip file itself.
- mjc
@mjc i was hoping that would be it, but it still shows me files that apparently where created in February. I didn't have this mac in february
- Zee.
Zee, it's the original file date. If you download something or unzip something, the dates the files were created are kept, thus when then end up on your Mac, they keep the same date.
- Keith Bennett
There is in the OS at least, Adi, and also "date downloaded/added" (which is not the same) , but I don´t know if they´re available in the Finder.
- Thomas Bøhm
I am currently building a new PC and plan to install the following free security softwares: (1) Comodo Internet Security (firewall only because the rest of of the suite is resource intensive, (2) Avast antivirus Home Edition, (3) Threatfire antispyware, (4) Spyware Blaster. What do you all use to protect yourself from malware?
I use the following free tools on my Windows XP system: (1) Firewall = Comodo (2) Virus = Avira AntiVir Personal (3) Spyware = Spybot Search & Destroy (4) Clean = CCleaner and nCleaner
- David Holmes
I use only Ccleaner I used to use AVG antivirus and Spybot S&D. I disabled windows firewall for I thought it is making the system slower.
- TrafficBug
CCleaner is also one of the utilities I installed along the security softwares listed above. It works great and keep my system clean.
- Philippe
Having gone through multiple builds during the Windows 7 Beta process I tried most of the free solutions out there. At the end it was close contest between the free versions of Avast and Avira. However, I'm currently using Microsoft's Security Essentials which is still in beta but is way more lighter on system resources and boot time compared to the rest. I'd recommend that as soon as it comes out of Beta. I'm behind a secured router so I'm content with the default firewall in 7.
- Adi
I'm using Norton Internet Security 2009. It's much improved from when I started using the suite in 2005. I very rarely have problems with it.
- Roberto Bonini
from iPhone
""Win7shell is a simple plugin for Winamp, that integrates it with the new taskbar of Windows 7. It shows playback status and progress in the icon background of the taskbar icon. Along with playback status using icon overlays on the taskbar icon and customizes the aero peek thumbnail with: Album Art, Current Playing Info and Logo's. "
- Adi
from Bookmarklet
Soon, we'll buy music on chips (actual potato chips, not computer chips). Until then, let's reminisce. - Tuesday's Plinky question: http://www.plinky.com/prompts...
- Kol Tregaskes
78's - honest. We had a bunch of them when I was a kid. Then 45's on a spindle that played a stack of them into a radio. First 45 was "Rock Around the Clock".
- m9m, Crone of FriendFeed
Vinyl. My first record was the 45 of "Like a Virgin" by Madonna.
- Michelle Martinez
Vinyl. Then 8Tracks. Then Cassettes. Then CDs. Then MP3s. So, I guess i have run the gamut.
- Martha
Vinyl. My first LP was "Kings of the Wild Frontier" by Adam And The Ants and my first single was "House on Fire" by The Boomtown Rats.
- Timothy Griffin
45 => 33 vinyl. First CD in '81 then LaserDisc then SACD and MP3
- Francesco LVDI
33 1/3 Vinyl Albums - my 1st two were Beatles Hard Days Night + the one o them Jumping on the Rooftop in their Beatle Boots?? Twist + Shout?? I just remembered my Grade 4 Teacher wouldn't let me play them during Indoor Recess!! Damn Long-Haired Hooligans from Britain!! ;))
- Billy Warhol
I thought it was tape, but my first system was actually a record player. Wow, I don't feel that old.
- Rob Haas
45 => 33 1/3 => Cassette => CD. my parents had some 78s laying around the house & friends had 8-tracks; I never liked 8-track.
- jbrotherlove
8 track & 45's. I remeber dancing in front of the record shop on St. John's Place and Ralph Ave. in Brooklyn for quarters to purchase new James Brown Records.
- professor daddyo
Cassettes for me. I bought a few vinyl records but not many. I bought loads and loads of CDs but very rare to buy any physical media now.
- Kol Tregaskes
Maybe radio doesn't qualify as a "format"?
- Brian Sullivan
Analog: vinyl and 8-track. Digital: .au files via FTP on my C64.
- Jason Huebel
from iPhone
The "Theatre of the Mind" Radio!! FM "no static at all" lol (there was a little AM in there ) ;)
- Melanie Reed
Vinyl & 8-tracks. Vinyl has never left my life though.
- Admiral Anika
Somnabulist, was that always virgin vinyl acrylic? Direct to disc? :)
- Melanie Reed
People used to sing to me well before I started listening to the radio. Radio was next, and then LP's, but the first music I ever (personally) purchased was "American Pie" (45RPM single)
- Glen Mistletoe
Well, for all those vinyl lovers, always remember Nick Cages' endorsement from "The Rock": "These sound better."
- Melanie Reed
Actually, now that I think about it, the very first music was probably at church.
- Glen Mistletoe
Glen, actually, I think it was people singing to me that came first. You're right.
- Melanie Reed
Records and cassettes, though a few years later CDs were the dominant format.
- Andrizzle Gizzle
vinyl first (45s and then LPs) and then cassettes. i gave 8-track a miss.
- Joe Silence is not dead
Cassette and vinyl. Cassettes (and eventually CDs) were more common when I was growing up, but we still had the turntable set up in the dining room and I was a fiend for my dad's records... Stones, Grand Funk, CCR, Skynyrd... it's no surprise I'm still big into classic rock.
- Penguin It's Cold Outside
my first 45 was Tubby The Tuba. my first LP was The Beatles - Rubber Soul. my first cassette was ELO - Time (my second was Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon, so i hope i get some slack for that). my first CD was Rush - Exit...Stage Left.
- Joe Silence is not dead
The first song I remember playing in my room is "All I Want for Christmas is My Two Front Teeth" on 45, on a portable record player that had its own speaker. This was in the 1970s, so I guess the song was already 30 years old by the time I heard it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
- Phil G
LP Records, we still have the LPs around here (someplace), many of which are older than I am...
- Grant Bierman
I'm so old... had a childhood record player (vinyl, obviously) and at the time (circa 1960), many 'children's records' were 7-inch 78s! (Golden Books had Golden Records that were bright yellow).
- The Web's Wendell Wittler
Vinyl for me. Not LPs, at least at first; 45s. I still have all the old LPs from my childhood, at least those I haven't replaced with better copies (because I ruined the old ones when I was a kid), plus I've collected 1,000s more! And I listen to them. My next computer-related acquisition, at least after I get a new power supply and video card for my Dell (to run Windows 7), is a USB turntable. Of course, I got rid of the old 45s decades ago...
- Dennis Jernberg
Cassette tape and a Sony Walkman. Yep, I was livin' it up like Fresh Prince. Holler.
- Danny Minick
8-track, i guess. Also reel-to-reel and vinyl were around, but we weren't hifalutin enough to have reel-to-reel.
- j1m
Cassette tape with a Panasonic Mini player / Recorder .... I used to record my favorite song from other tapes using a karaoke double tape player
- Arash Nightwatcher
This depends. If we're talking about the first music I purchased and listened to that would be cassette tape. First music ever listened to period would probably be 8-Tracks and Vinyl.
- Give 'Em DBizness
Vinyl and reel-to-reel tape. Oh and radio
- Pete Gilbert
O - I forgot DAT and reel to reel, from my studio and live recording days!!!!
- Martha
vinyl for sure. i had a teeny little record player that unfolded. wish i still had that thing.
- Call me Bronco
need to buy a vinyl player with USB connector
- winckel
Winckel Great idea! http://www.anthems.com/Convert... I have a brand new turntable that's never been used just sitting around. would be nice if it could be converted.
- Melanie Reed
your handwriting is really neat! and thanks Abi! hehe :D
- vijay
Thanks Vij :) . And Tina, 'FFing Enigma' was a bit too difficult to translate(as my mother-tongue isn't Hindi), but I'll try, again :)
- अभिषेक(Abhishek) Das
Nah, don't worry about it. I just enjoy seeing other people's handwriting (it always makes mine look so horrid in comparison).
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Perhaps, Vijay =P To clarify, though: I really like seeing how people in other countries write. I had penpals in Egypt and Greece when I was younger and I loved seeing how different their handwriting was compared to what I saw in the US.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Yes, seeing other people's handwriting is interesting, thats why I started a 'My handwriting' meme.
- अभिषेक(Abhishek) Das
ha! I was just kidding about the maso thing Tina. I like to think I know you better than that. he he :D
- vijay
I suppose you can read both the scripts, Vijay. Can't you?
- अभिषेक(Abhishek) Das
That's neat. I'm still practicing writing my Hindi and I can not get my letters to work. I think I'm writing them wrong.
- Admiral Anika
Hey that's my name! Hee hee, and it's "Loyless" not "Loyness." Still awesome. :D
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
yeah Abi. I can read hindi. Back in school we had 4 languages Hindi, Tamil, English and French. Add my mother tongue Malayalam along with the language I'm learning now, Japanese, and you get the list of pretty much all of the languages I can read and write. Not all of them to the same level though. I'm fluent in English the most, followed by Japanese. Funny how that worked out.
- vijay
Vijay, Wow, thats kool.. Abhishek: we can type in devnagri (don't have a webcam at my disposal right now) my name Prateek: प्रतीक Quark: क्वार्क. BTW ह in vimoh looks like 8
- thequark
@thequark It looks like 8, 'cause it is eight:P :) The '8' is for 'oh' , had I written ह, it would have been pronounced as 'vimoha' , where as it is actually, 'vimoh' .
- अभिषेक(Abhishek) Das
vimoha should be spelled as विमोहा, विमोह is the correct spelling for vimoh. I was discussing the 'a' factor in anglicized spelling of hindi words with a friend few days back. interesting stuff here http://tinyurl.com/m2vnzn
- thequark