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 Worthington
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 Worthington
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.
- Kamath (नमः)
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
Well, this ride is weatherproof -- you gotta give it that. But I was looking at a Yammy scooter today. Very nice: costs about $3 thousand and gets almost a hundred MPG. But my cargo bicycle cost half that, goes nearly as fast, and burns my waistline, not dinosaurs. We're over-complicating transportation.
- Chris Baskind
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.
- Tad
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.
- Tad
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 G
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
let me guess... closed-source drivers? huh...
- A.T.
@silpol - and yer point for such a stupid comment?? open source is not the end all be all ya know and gawd forbid some company out there that actually wants to make that thing they call money and the fact that the money goes to people who have rent / mortgages to pay or a family to feed - fuck comments like that really piss me off sometimes.
- Steven Hodson
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
@silpol - true enough some folks do get paid for working on open source projects that are then used by companies to either directly or indirectly to make money from. The problem is that the *common* perception of open source is that is all about free software. While you may not have intended for that reaction I get really tired of people taking potshots at companies in the software...
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- Steven Hodson
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 Moskovitz
@David yes we are talking about Drivers here and they *are considered* to be free but the fact is that they as has been pointed out something that they use to make money from the products that use them. Does this mean though that being open sourced is going to benefit companies that are making money from those products - no it doesn't and I really don't care if the things are open or closed source either. It just really irtritates me - this assumption that open source is the cure for all our ills.
- Steven Hodson
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 TKDteacher of FF
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