Thought For The Day: As a community, we have to accept that some of the Tech Set have left or lost interest in FriendFeed and their love goes with it... But they have to accept that their leaving doesn't devalue or deminish the community that remains
Steve, I think that may be part of the issue. I have observed that there are certain groups of people who always gravitate to either the new thing or the hip thing. The problem comes when they leave a service, and their group goes with them, they loose the interaction on their issues and therefore they deem it to have died. Little consideration is given to content or the fact that the...
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- Johnny
I still visit several times per day and try to contribute where I can. It has lost something though.
- Mattb4rd
Matt, I agree it has changed but change isn't always a bad thing. I prefer the term 'Flushing'
- Johnny
from iPhone
Eh, screw you guys. I'm onto the next thing, FriendFeed is worthless to me. Have you guys heard about this awesome new thing called Google Wuv? It's like Wave, but Wuv-ier.
- Mike Nayyar
Aye Aye captain.. I'm here until the decks get wet and I have to step up into the liferaft (or they peel my bloodied hands from my keyboard)!! I still love it.. http://ff.im/a57K2
- Chris Myles
In fact, maybe it actually speaks more for the quality of the community.
- Martha
Shevonne, you're totally right. Never made that connection before.
- Ginger Makela Riker
Everything about this is ill. The glasses are the piece de resistance, though. And, Ginger, that haircut was, in fact, called "The Gumby".
- Jason Toney
I once wore my hair in a Gumby cut...all cuz of the Every Little Step video. Yeah...glad there are no pics!!!
- Carlton Hackett
Paul, visualizing/graphical editing in xml (eg: the graphical node view in XMLSpy) , schema generation, schema validation. I currently use both both XmlNotepad and Visual Studio and they are ok. XMLNotepad isn't great for me because It takes a pretty strict tree based editing approach which I hate because I would always like the option to edit souce inline.
- The Fat Oracle
vi and notepad have worked well for me and they are free. =)
- Ernie Oporto
Any free editors for OSX? Cant find any.
- Anthony
Peugeot has had some pretty cool ideias in the last years. Did this came from their design contest?
- João Almeida
from twhirl
In Atlanta it would get squished like the bug it is.
- jeneane sessum
looks like an alienware vehicle. www.alienware.com
- Chris Harris
that has costly hospital bills written all over it unless they change the infrastructure of transportation in this country and designate lanes for special cars such as these.
- Cee Bee
I want one of these, except I want mine to be about thirty feet high and have six-foot-high wheels. That would be bad-ass.
- Nathan Rein
I'm really enjoying the sudden plethora of green concept cars.
- Jason Wehmhoener
it is the most useful vehicle when it is traffic jam )))
- obolonskyi
I wonder if a helmet is required......?
- Mona Nomura
Does it come with an option to be transported directly to the cemetary after an accident. I mean, it would be a great complimentary service to go with your new rolling coffin.
- Louie
That is funny and he actually manages to get an interesting point accross
- Andy Lewandowski
Anthony, you ever think downloading a song illegaly is like stealing a car (or anything else) or you totally missed his point. kid rock is a brick for stating this bullshit.
- Marcel Weiß
@Marcel, You really think this is complete bull? It seems there is some validity to his commentary. I don't completely agree with it but I think it has merit.
- Andy Lewandowski
What's the wealth limit for when it's OK to steal? $1,000,000? $10,000,000?
- Rich
@Richard Bill Gates has to ask at what point is it no longer worth it to bend over to pick up a dropped $100 bill when he could be making more money in those three seconds working on a more important problem. Like I'm doing here. Oh.
- Andrew Baron
There is absolutely NO validity to his point. No actual theft is involved when you copy a digital file of any sort that exists on the internet. It's only theft if some loss of property is involved. Meatspace items are finite resources - if you take one you create a loss. Digital items are infinite resources. You can't "steal" a number, which is what digital files are. This is a tired argument that obsolete industries continually trot out in an attempt to justify their lingering existence.
- iTad
Meatspace items can be secured from theft - locked, put up, garaged, etc. Some digital files, especially MP3s can NOT be secured. Attempts to protect digital "property" is fine with me, but the moment that a DRM scheme is rendered obsolete, the file it's protecting is no longer property. I "purchase" digital tracks because I can afford it. It's out of respect for the creator and to encourage continuing production.
- iTad
It's funny. I'm not sure it's meant to be much more than that.
- Iain Baker
Agreed with Tad - you can't steal something that has infinite resources, like a digital file. What makes 'things' valuable are their relative scarcity. I'm not advocating not paying for digital music, but this comparison is completely bogus. The bottom line is that digital music can't and shouldn't be directly monetized like records or CDs.
- Phil Glockner
this is great but kids with a sense of entitlement need more than this. They need a spanking to within an inch or their life because in the real world it translate to
- Chris Conway
a winey brat who does not want to pay dues and the job market does not tolerate that sort of attitude
- Chris Conway
That goes perfectly with the firmware hacks for the Powershot that let you take a timed photo every second until the card's full. I smell project!!!
- Kevin Fox
they also suggested making a mini movie with your camera in this way, but I like the timed photo better! Their movie sample is here: http://friendfeed.com/e...
- Rachel Lea Fox
I so didn't expect the conversation on this link. Microsoft makes a mouse and designed it to work against Windows, I don't see anything wrong with that.
- Alan Le
@Alan: You just don't understand! The world *will* come to an end if MS doesn't release GPL drivers for all of their hardware products.
- Chad Myers
@stevenhodson: There's nothing wrong with either closed or open source... Nothing to get angry for, come on :)
- directeur
from NoiseRiver
@steven conversely, your comment is extremely smart and to the point, leave alone impersonallity and wittiness... just one little thing tho some people get paid for open source
- A. T.
[obligatory meta-conversation] It's weird how a MOUSE can cause a conversation about opensource drivers. just sayin.
- Yuvi
Steven: Aren't we talking about mouse drivers? Is Microsoft planning on charging for the mouse AND the drivers, or just the mouse? If they're charging for just the mouse, isn't it in their interest to make it as usable as possible on as many different OSes as possible? I personally don't care if they make the drivers open or closed source, it just seems to me that open source drivers would spur more sales of the hardware, which is the bit they make their money from.
- David Worrell
@David: Err, you mean I need to install SEPERATE MOUSE DRIVERS for Linux? I never quite remember installing one for windows.... (I could be wrong - maybe fancy ones do require sep. drivers. But, I've got a wireless one that needs no special drivers)
- Yuvi
Yuvi, that's just the problem and quite astute: some open source (and Apple) evangelists can't help but interlope into any conversation they can to proselytize their politic.
- Akiva
posting token freetard crack, also, sexy!
- Eric Rice
If its got trackball capabilities, I'm all for it. Once I got used to trackball I never wanted to go back to a movable mouse.
- Melanie Reed
@Yuvi I had my Windows desktop and my Linux box on a PS/2 KVM. My Logitech trackball drove Ubuntu nuts.
- MiniMage, enterRUPPted
Melanie, amen. I'm a Kensington Expert Mouse user.
- Akiva
I still use a touchpad attached to my PC. Never liked that mice required desk real estate to be useful. Much better to keep the pointer peripheral stationary.
- Sprague D
Wow, that looks like RSI waiting to happen...
- Brad Brooks
@Sprague D Same here. My desk real estate is too valuable for the price of a mouse. lol
- Melanie Reed
I bought an IntelliMouse Explorer 2 to change the one I used with my former powerbook -apple's mouse sucks- and still works fine. The only thing I got from MS that works as it should.
- david medina
I love MS keyboards but never liked their mice. Never seem to fit my hand and the scroll wheels always seem to loose.
- Scott Bauer
I'm browsing around for a good wide angle.
- Melissa
I am learning so much on the 80... and I finally have the confidence to buy really good glass to unleash more on what I can do since I'm happy with the body I have. Size is perfect actually. Thanks for the input on the wide angle. I might opt to buy Sigma. I've been doing a comparison study on Flickr - and almost all shots I've loved on wide angle were shot with Sigma.
- Melissa
The 24mm f/2.8 is one of my favorite lenses! I bought a Tokina 12-24 f/4.0 back in April and have been really happy with it. At f/4 there is some vignetting, but that's something I don't mind. All the reviews I read said that it's comparable to Nikon's 12-24 and 1/2 the price.
- lisa-k
Thanks for the input, lisa. And hello, by the way :)
- Melissa
I have a wii so Rock Band felt like a real kick in the pants for the xbox price without the frills. If they can bring the full RB2 experience to Wii i'll probably dive in..otherwise I'm going to wait and see what Guitar Hero World Tour is like.
- Sidney
They could have had a better guitar instead of the lame strat, how about a gibson or flying v or something
- cooper
I bought the Guitar Hero 3 bundle just for the wireless guitar. Sold the game back without leaving the store
- Pat Hawks
I have to many things with battries... 4 wiimotes, balence board, xbox controler... it's getting out of hand
- Stefan Hayden
luckily none of these run on gasoline or we'd be screwed
- cooper
I'll probably toss my wired RB guitar in the dumpster... I hate that thing. That's assuming, of course, that they've *really* fixed the Strat's problems... otherwise I'll just stick to my GHIII Gibson.
- Roger Benningfield
yeah, that thing sux. The drum pedal was worse mine was broken twice and now i'm stuck with trying to fix it since the warranty was only 30 days
- cooper
After seeing "Yet Another Post about Friendfeed," I've decided people are asking the wrong question. Stop trying to figure out how FriendFeed is going to work for everyone in the world and really figure out how it's working for you. Stop trying to be first on the "i told you so" train.
Or focus on what impact its foundational strengths may (or may not) have in your opinion - its not about the company imho its about what the technology facilitates
- Marco(aureliusmaximus)
Right Marco. I appreciate the relevance of trendspotters but I'd rather talk about the tool itself. Or more of the interesting conversations that happened yesterday around the type of community this is currently.
- Jason Toney
Jason, big ups to you for your friendfeed post. Those darn greasemokey scripts really make it a great experience.
- Mauricio
from feedalizr
I know there are many who are growing tired of or outright despise the constant meta talk re: FF but I love it - I am literally able to sit back and watch and entire community progress through a process of working through how a very important (imho) piece of technology should be used in their lives. This has always happened but the process is usually under the radar and isolated - for the first time the tool itself is facilitating a global discussion about how it should be used - pretty cool
- Marco(aureliusmaximus)
Here's a question to ponder...when everyone figures out what FF is, will there be anything else to discuss?
- Ralph Whitbeck
definitely! right now I believe the common thread between the majority of FF users is an appreciation for a richer level of interaction with a broader group of individuals - assuming it catches on with the mainstream population users will likely begin clustering around specific interests reflected in the conversations. I am sure some disagree with me on that but that's what I see happening (again assuming mass adoption)
- Marco(aureliusmaximus)
I agree. And can I also say that I really love being able to post more than 140 characters? Sigh. Just *feel* all that space to conversate! Ahh.
- Lisa Creech Bledsoe
from twhirl
It was after reading @skeskali's post on FF that I really gave it a hard look and now I'm hooked. [@skeskali's post here: http://is.gd/OcH ] And I've bookmarked your post on how you use FF. Soon I'll be a pro! :)
- Ayşe E.