No he doesn't...I contest the result to the supreme court which I, of course, have in my pocket. They declared me the winner! Take that Al Gore!
- Alex Scoble
A copy of the home game "Pointless FriendFeed Thread tehKenny just made up!"
- teh Dork Knight aka Kenny
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz... <- last comment sorted alphabetically. I win!
- ·[▪_▪]·
I called "last" all the way back at the start, y'all. Keep going all you like. Because, if you take it literally "The LAST comment in this thread wins". My comment was "Last".
- Nine
I predict someone will need to gas up this thread at around 115 Comms., based on past mileage.
- Micah Wittman
Huh?? What crash? I can't bother expanding the comments.
- Roberto Bonini
This thread is already the most commented thread for the day.
- Alex Scoble
The next person to comment after me is a complete failure and will never amount to anything (still wanna post, ey?)
- Matt Harwood
Not even close, Matt. I have my failure shields up.
- Alex Scoble
Matt: May you live in interesting times. :)
- Roberto Bonini
Bahhhh! Worth a try I guess. Reminds me of when school kids used to say "Twats Say What" really quick, of course... you could do nothing but say What?! ;)
- Matt Harwood
I like puppies, but I like kittens the most.
- Alex Scoble
Why do like dollar costs averageing, Alex?
- Roberto Bonini
It's a good way to minimize risk buying in to a down market or selling in to an up market. Since you never know where the bottom or top is.
- Alex Scoble
I agree in principal but disagree with the statement
- Uncle CW™
ARE YOU READY FOR THIS? I googled "Who will win this thread" - Lo and behold an automotive forum thread was started March 2, 2006, has 3 comments just today (Feb 9, 2009), and has 975 comment pages totaling over ==> 14,600 COMMENTS <=== (and counting) http://forums.motortrend.com/70...
- Micah Wittman
Let's get this party started for real this time. American Football, Baseball, AND Basketball are all complete rubbish. You may create your mosh pit now
- Matt Harwood
Ok folks! That's it! Drink up and get out! You don't have to go home, but you can't stay here! Everybody out! Thanks for coming! See you tomorrow. Don't worry, I'll lock up....
- Morgan Haley
Someone tried this on Fark once, And Drew/Mike/Some coder there set up their post to always be at the bottom with a 1 second later time stamp than the latest post.
- Matthew DeVries
i went away for a while, has anyone won yet ?
- Simon Wicks
tehKenny “The last comment in this t*h*read wins. GO!” 4 hours ago - Comment - Like - Hide - More Josh Haley, ·[▪_▪]·, Haggis (Sean), Rahsheen ™, AJ Batac, Steven Perez, Alex Scoble, Far, andy brudtkuhl, Ontario Emperor, Ethan Baker, LouCypher, Kol Tregaskes, VC Freak, Alfredo, Simon Wicks, Just Katie, Ben Jackson, Morton Fox and Morgan Haley liked this
- Johnny Worthington
im watching xmen, what are you doing?
- Simon Wicks
I admire the sticktoittiveness that you are all showing... but i must warn you...i have no life and winning this is the only thing I got keeping hope alive....come on man, please! just please let me have this one tiny little victory....please!!!
- Morgan Haley
i know...it's almost sad now...the pathetic little attempts to post *anything!* sheesh...
- Morgan Haley
*runs after Morgan to give worldly advice in a Morgan Freeman voice
- Matt Harwood
*sits down to listen to the advice offered by Matt "Morgan Freeman voice" Harwood
- Morgan Haley
Oh my God. My Internet went down. Came back up.... AND THE TREAD IS STILL ON!
- teh Dork Knight aka Kenny
Well now, I remember when I was a boy, and I came to a crossroad in my life, similar to you. You see Morgan, there's no greater destiny, no greater accomplishment in life, than writing the last comment. Now my thread, my thread died. But yours, yours will succeed. Now fetch me a sandwich.
- Matt Harwood
*Rises up with a renewed sense of purpose. Fetches a sandwich for Mr. Freeman. Realizes that there can be only one. One final comment. One victor. **begin training montage to 'Jukebox Hero' by Foreigner...**
- Morgan Haley
What do I win? I don't want to participate till I read all the terms and conditions (no purchase necessary, void where prohibited except on Tuesdays and Thursdays, etc..).
- Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
Throw out your hands. Stick out your tush. Hands on your hips. Give 'em a push. You'll be surprised, you're doing the French mistake....Voila!
- .LAG liked that
i hear jerusalem bells a' ringing, roman cavalry choirs a' singing...
- .LAG liked that
*THIS THREAD HAS BEEN LOCKED/UNDER MODERATION.* Please "Hide"
- Andrew Smith
Josh with his "Rush Rules", and then -crickets- for 45 minutes. I was staring at it and simple couldn't comment further. It had its own force shield.
- Micah Wittman
@tehKenny/scobleizer I'm afraid you spawned a FriendFeed -inside- a single thread. That's right, a "µFF" service. For better or for worse (*danger* ...http://www.fborfw.com/strip_f... )
- Micah Wittman
No one wins. We all win. It's the same thing.
- Alex Scoble
Yo dawg, I heard you like to Friendfeed, so I put a Friendfeed in your Friendfeed so you can Friendfeed while you Friendfeed.
- Jason Wehmhoener
Zero-sum or infinity-sum? You decide. As long as Tyson has time to burn, we all win by virtue of his "likes".
- Alex Scoble
One day, the world will click on the link to open the rest of the comments, while pleading "Save us!", and FriendFeed will simply answer "No."
- Josh Haley
I only have 425 comments! Look like blocking changes out what numbers you see.
- Admiral Anika
@Josh while black ink spreads across the FF logo.
- vijay
This challenge is like a puffer train in the game of Life (as in cellular automata). It is structured to go on forever. Does FF have the server capacity to handle an infinite thread?
- Tim Ostler
Somewhere soon a database table is going to cry.
- David Bisset (sn)
This thread is still going???????? I think they do, but don't blame me for a buffer overflow.
- Roberto Bonini
This is the thread that never ends. It just goes on and on my friend. Some people started writing it not knowing what it was, and they'll continue writing it forever just because this is the thread that never ends...
- ‘-.-’ Tutivillus Grift
“The following thread will go on. But just so you know Anika won.” ~ BLASPHEMY
- Alfredo
tehKenny has had his power to determine the winner of this thread stripped by the authority vested in the friendfeedosphere. Sorry man, but it's the last person who comments on this thread, ever. Not who you determine is the winner.
- Alex Scoble
It is now 11:22 AM PST. If no one comments on this thread by 11:30 AM PST (you have 8 minutes) I declare myself the winner of this thread.
- Alex Scoble
It is now 11:31 AM PST. You did not post anything. I did. So I win. Thanks for playing. This contest is now over!
- Alex Scoble
There was once a thread like this on Fark, that got so big everytime anyone would call it, it would kill the servers, they eventually just had to kill it.
- Matthew DeVries
oops, just BUMPed into this thread. I cant believe this is still floating around
- Threepwood
shouldn't feed this. this is madness. I think you set a record, tehKenny. I'm probably the 50th person to say so... a bit scared to open & see, but I will..... ok, no, amended per what Micah said. 14,600????? good luck touching that one. you set an FF record though, for sure
- Kamilah Gill
I'm planning on picking up a Mac Pro tomorrow at a local Apple Store. But i'm finding out the one graphic card (# NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 512MB) only support one monitor. That stinks - where can i pick up another (don't care as long as it works w/ my mac and i can hook up another monitor)???
Chris, thanks for the link. The woman at the Apple Store (via phone) told me there's only one connector but maybe she was referring to the DVI. Looks like i just need to pick up an DisplayPort->DVI adapter to run two monitors.
- David Bisset (sn)
I would still like to know where to pick up an additional monitor card if ever i got a third monitor.
- David Bisset (sn)
I would assume the usual suspects would apply: Amazon, Newegg, Macmall. Just make sure you get the right one since they have to be Mac specific I believe.
- ronin
Turns out nobody has been right yet. By default, with one card, the mac pro can handle three monitors. Two dvis on the card and a DisplayPort can run a third moniotr according to an apple tech. Of course I'll have to try it myself to believe it.
- David Bisset (sn)
That's weird. When my friend saw I'd ordered a Dell Mini, he said he'd rather save up more and by a MacBook Pro in order to have 4-monitor support. Why would a MacBook Pro support more monitors than a Mac Pro?
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
I really wish MacBook Pros supported multiple monitors. It's the one feature I desire which might make me actually buy a Mac Pro one day.
- Akiva Moskovitz
"I was crazy excited about the prospects of Nike+ coming to the iPhone, having used the fitness tracking program with a nano for over a year. But that didn't happen; instead, RunKeeper did, and it's even better."
- David Bisset (sn)
from Bookmarklet
I'm giving RK a try tomorrow. Shutting down push, Bluetooth and WiFi while I run. Is there any way I can shut off incoming calls and mail while keeping the GPS on?
- Bill Sodeman
Nice but I'm worried about running with my i-phone. It's hot here in Florida and humid. It doesn't do well with electronics outside. I have nike+ for my Ipod though that seems to work just fine. iphone is to bulky to run with.
- orionstarr
i've been hearing mixed reviews but considering i'm buying my first real mac workstation, i have no complaints with the latest offerings. New chip and the entry MP is less and has more HD and memory. And i don't know what people were expecting in a slow economy year. Sigh.
- David Bisset (sn)
I think if they had done a new case to match the new internals it might be getting better publicity (and if you haven't take a look at the arrangement of the system on the inside which is radically different than the previous version). I was ready to pull the trigger (still debating--waiting for the benchmarks) but may hold on the view 'this is V.1 of a new internal layout/new chip. I may wait for v.2
- Andrew Leyden
Facebook just laid down the gauntlet to friendfeed. The new Facebook looks awesome. Of course we need to try it first, but this takes the real-time web forward.
@robert i wouldnt classify twitter in the same category as FF and FB
- andy brudtkuhl
Are you referring to some new changes your viewing privately?
- Mark Krynsky
isn't it the people using the service that matter. losers from my high school friend me on facebook and have nothing to say. i interact with all walks of life on twitter. that's what it will always be about to me.
- Jeff DiStanlo
Also I think FB and FF (obviously) have completely different markets regardless of cross functionality. (yes, im a FB hater)
- andy brudtkuhl
Seeing is believing. I will wait till it goes live. remember the last time facebook had the kind of opposition with a new design. I always liked it though.
- Hardeep Singh Dang
They got close to unlimited friends. They sucked up to Arrington, but this will let us both create pages where we can interact with large groups of people in public and also keep our separate friends and family controls so we can see just stuff from our families, for instance. This sounds very good.
- Robert Scoble
i agree it's a step ahead, but i don't think friendfeed is in danger. it's the users over the platform, right?
- David Bisset (sn)
yeah it really looks like an evolution, ending at FF
- anna sauce
I don't get it. Facebook isn't an aggrigator. It can't do what FF does. Facebook spits out it's information stream to FF, where I gather all my other streams in one place.
- Matthew DeVries
the question is...will we let one company be our everything for social messaging, or do we force the industry to follow a service model...and spend the next 20 years sorting out standards like we did with HTML/CSS?
- Dave Powell
from twhirl
Facebook has so much twitter and friendfeed envy, its not even funny. Still, when they got the eyeballs...
- Jarrod Morgenstern
Technological superiority does not mean it will win (ref. Betamax versus VHS) :) I think Twitter´s basically just simple protocol and API provide a freedom to create strange spinoff services and imaginative clients which a lot of people value. People want a tool not a finished piece of art behind glass.
- Thomas Bøhm
It feels to me like Facebook will be to social networking and services like FriendFeed what Windows is to operating systems and Linux/etc. Easy enough for your parents to use, not necessarily the best out there, has momentum, enough market share that they can sorta do whatever they want, etc.
- Ken Sheppardson
I disagree Matthew, Facebook is an aggregator. That's exactly how I use it mostly.
- David Jacobs
David: It only aggregates through their bizarre ass application system, that won't let you even have a feed unless you give them 5 friends they can bug first.
- Matthew DeVries
What it looks like is nothing without who you're following. My FF and FB friends DO NOT overlap. The UI is moot without community.
- Admiral Anika
I use all three so differently I cant see one taking the business of the other from me. I interact with a lot of different types of people on Twitter. Facebook is pretty much friends only and FF is more of an aggregator for me to see what is going on in different sectors. The conversation is more discussion and less conversation to me. Twitter is where I have the conversations what some might say I used to use the phone for.
- Sidney
I don't intend to make friends with all of you on facebook (or really any of you). But I like reading what you have to say here. Long live FF.
- Christopher Galtenberg
FB is for spying and sharing photos with real friends and family, FF for conversation, twitter for news and interesting links
- Ryan
I don't think Facebook move challenges the niches of Friendfeed or Twitter. Friendfeed and Twitter never have been able to challenge the Facebook niche, because that was all about sharing content in private with friends. Twitter and Friendfeed are for the people who like the open web, for the people who live (at least part of) their life in the open. Likewise, facebook photos is not a challenge to Flickr.
- Meryn Stol
I don't have a Facebook account anymore. The content on Facebook means nothing to me.
- Meryn Stol
He just announced that brands and celebrities would be "full members" in the social graph. That is a HUGE shift in Facebook's strategy.
- Robert Scoble
Robert, what does "brands and celebrities would be 'full members' in the social graph" mean? Why do celebrities matter? Oy, these guys are going to become MySpace. Just another crappy pickup website.
- Rob Fahrni
Going back to mail2ff from OurDoings, eh? Anything I can fix?
- Bruce Lewis
from fftogo
Deva: I have them. They are yellow.
- Omar Gallaga
Isn't this what Rupert said they were - facebook = phonebook? He saw MySpace as diffferent and o-so-much better. Wonder if he's still going to use that argument.
- Tom
Exciting but i'm just beginning to incorporate Facebook connect into my sites and projects. Wondering how soon I have to add, if at all, Yahoo to that.
- David Bisset (sn)
In my view it's just another bunch of settings to keep track of and update. I just want stuff to work. How about I keep all of my data on my own site and Yahoo, Google, FB et al can come and grab it for theirs?
- Karoli
"Kindle for iPhone allows Apple iPhone and iPod touch owners to read Kindle books using a simple, easy-to-use interface."
- David Bisset (sn)
from Bookmarklet
"In the latest issue of Vogue, Bill's wife, Melinda Gates, reveals that among the "very few things" on "the banned list in our household" are—you guessed it—iPods and iPhones."
- David Bisset (sn)
from Bookmarklet
If I were a multi-billionaire, I'd ban whatever the f I wanted to. I'd ban certain shades of lipstick and breeds of dog. I'd ban ugly sweaters. I'm a freakin' multi-billionaire for chrissakes!
- Fleagle
And please let me know if anyone has had any experience buying a Pro from an Apple Store (how does that work if you want it custom)?
- David Bisset (sn)
I would wait for Snow Leopard to come out before getting another Mac.
- Mike D.
from twhirl
Crossing my fingers for a Mac Pro, although i thought the rumors were that i wasn't coming out for AT LEAST a month and a half because of the new Intel chips. Looks like iMac and Mac mini (and new monitors) are almost a sure thing.
- David Bisset (sn)
Place your bets? New Mini, Imac or Mac Pro?
- Andrew Leyden
Andrew, my bets are on Imacs. My hopes are on Mac Pros.
- David Bisset (sn)
That is a big box. Mac pro, mini, apple tv, ipod, iphone, 30" screen etc.. everything new, all in one box.
- Simon Wicks
I'll be upgrading my early-2008 Mac Pro if they have a new model, but I'm not sure if it will be a major case redesign or an incremental upgrade.
- Andrew Leyden
"...a new utility that allows the iPhone/iPod touch to serve as wireless headphones, accepting streaming audio content from a computer on the same local Wi-Fi network."
- David Bisset (sn)
from Bookmarklet
I have to go out now, I hope there will be an MP3 of this event -- also wish it had intersected my awareness somehow, so I wouldn't have planned something that conflicted.
- Dave Winer
somehow I'm not that surpised at something being labelled a cloud conference sporting quite a few cloud apps :S Mind you, if I were there I'd prolly be subverting it by getting people to play some old school doom or duke nukem >.<
- alphaxion
One company is missing: Cisco. I just spent the afternoon there. Now I am at the cloud summit too.
- Robert Scoble
I don't think Cisco does web2.0 conferences :) atleast not as yet
- Shivanand Velmurugan
Everybody is on TweetDeck, Ustream or whatever. Nobody's listening to the conference or what ?
- Alex
"CBS has released an iPhone application that lets users watch full episodes of TV shows, including CSI and the good old Star Trek."
- David Bisset (sn)
from Bookmarklet
"Something to be enjoyed at a slow pace: a game where a high score is not the goal. Zen Bound is designed to challenge in a subtle way, it does not attack or force the player."
- David Bisset (sn)
from Bookmarklet
A little steep on the price and no "lite" version
- Jason
"I do think that Chrome, when viewed as an attempt to change the way people think of and use web browsers, must have been a spur to a company that’s accustomed to being at the forefront of software innovation."
- David Bisset (sn)
from Bookmarklet
"So right or wrong, Apple's fault for not making the hardware, Microsoft's fault for not making good enough software, it really doesn't matter. The economics are there, the market is there and it really it isn't that difficult, and frankly, it is kinda cool. Unless something drastically changes, Hackintoshes are only going to become more popular."
- David Bisset (sn)
from Bookmarklet
The next thing to "look forward" to is viruses.
- Richard A.
As long as the market share stays under 25% I don't think viruses will become a huge problem.
- Aaron Hood
Tempting but I don't want to deal with trying to make Apple software updates work.
- Rodfather
@Rodfather, relax, sometimes even ppl with legitimate apple systems have problems after applying official apple updates
- Mihai Tarmure
and only updates that change your mac os X version are potential problem makers. those dont roll that often. individual app updates dont mess up anything (like itunes update, quicktime update, etc)
- Mihai Tarmure
Liyan - This was the article that I was going to point you to...
- Aaron Hood
insanelymac.com that is the forum where everything starts and ends regarding osx86
- Mihai Tarmure
to be honest, viruses aren't really a problem on windows either. They have become quite rare in my experience looking after a company full of machines. What has become massive and widespread are trojans and malware, of which osx has plenty. This is mainly because the whole scene has become profit orientated and so the oldschool VX'ers are dying out.
- alphaxion
"Over the weekend we hit the 0.7.8 Beta version and ..erm.. Boom! They now have an App store! These apps bring together a lot of what you'd want in a media center. Obviously, you want to pick up Hulu, CNN, CBS Sports, Youtube, FFFound..the list goes on and on. "
- David Bisset (sn)
from Bookmarklet
"The G-Map application is the first on-board GPS navigation solution to be made available for iPhone and iPod Touch download."
- David Bisset (sn)
from Bookmarklet
"Pinch Media discovered that only about 1% of downloads end up being used long-term, with only about 20% of users of free applications using the application beyond the first day. While paid apps generally perform a bit better in this regard than free apps, the drop-off in usage is still steep in the vast majority of cases."
- David Bisset (sn)
from Bookmarklet
"The iPhone maker has bought out Samsung's entire available supply, putting the world's largest producer of flash memory on allocation until April 2009, according to the report."
- David Bisset (sn)
from Bookmarklet
"Do you ever do any price comparison in the grocery store? Gallons vs. liters? Ounces vs. milligrams? Fifty feet of Scotch tape vs. 15 meters? What’s the best deal?"
- David Bisset (sn)
from Bookmarklet
"So, unless Apple has decided to use a mini-DVI and DisplayPort socket that break a steadfast rule of reliability in design, it's a fake."
- David Bisset (sn)
from Bookmarklet
"We first announced our iPhone App back in October, after we submitted the Application to Apple for approval. After a couple of attempts to get the application approved, we are sad to say that our app has been rejected. According to Apple, the content was "potentially offensive." But Apple did admit that the standards would evolve, citing that when iTunes first launched it didn't sell any music with explicit lyrics. At this point, we are sad to say, the app is dead in the water. Sorry, South Park fans. "
- David Bisset (sn)
from Bookmarklet