Tim Hoeck

Mike, I think so. Steve plays to our strengths, and adds something unique to the mix as well + I'm looking forward to the first time I can disagree with him in the comments ;-) - Duncan Riley

Congratulations, Duncan and Steven. Should be fun to watch. - Louis Gray

brilliant news - looking forward! - Zee from WeDoCreative

Excellent! Members of the Commonwealth uniting for brilliance. - Abby Martin

Congrats Steve! - Justin Korn

Perfect match!! - Erhan Erdogan

WOW COOLIO!!! - jeneane 'This One' sessum

thanks everyone ... I'm really looking forward to working with Duncan and the Inquisitr team .. fun times ahead - Steven Hodson

Very very awesome! Congrats Steven! - Phil Glockner

Congratulations Steven! You write great stuff... - Mitchell Tsai

AWESOME! - Charlie Anzman

Good Choice! - chartreuse

some interesting times coming up ahead.. great ! - Atul Karmarkar

Cranky old fart FTW! woo hoo! Congrats to both Steven and Duncan!! - Susan Beebe

It's gonna be Legen... wait for it.. Dary! - Dobromir Hadzhiev

yay, Steven! - Sarah Perez

Terrific. Congrats! - Thomas Hawk

Global crankiness FTW! - Elliott Ng

OH yes! Congratulations, Steven! (and Duncan) - Mona N.

Cool - I had missed this. Congrats Steven, nice addition Duncan! - Hutch Carpenter

Congrats Steve! - Mathew A. Koeneker

congrats Steve and Duncan! - Jeremy Toeman

Congratulations to both! - Pete Gilbert

That error's almost always attributable to a device driver rather than to Vista itself. - Akiva Moskovitz

If you were someone non-technical, would you know that? - AJ Batac ♘

No, which is why people senselessly hate Vista: they blame things on the OS that are not the OS's fault. - Akiva Moskovitz

Blue screens are either a) Driver issue b) Hardware problem. From my experiences - Shey

It actually helps if you Google the Error name (...THREAD_RETURNED_AT_BAD_IRQL), the stop number, and/or the driver file, to find a solution - Shey

That is probably 90% of its total users. The non-technical people who senselessly hate Vista. I'm technical, but I can't seem to understand why using a browser brings up the blue screen. If it was a device driver, it should do it once every often. But it only happens to me sparingly. - AJ Batac ♘

Happened to me recently on my vista machine. It was a video driver issue. - Mattb4rd

yeah, the only times I have faced blue screen problems have been when my hard disk was failing and when my graphics card drivers were corrupted. - Rahul Das

I think it's revolting against the Apple stickers. - Vaughn

Get it right, people! When MS products have Blue Screens, hanging issues or network connectivity problems, it's Microsoft's fault. When Apple products do this, it's because of Application Enhancer (not an Apple product), keyboard vendors or Cisco and AT&T. ;) - MiniMage LightBlueRanger

Perhaps the machine was reacting to those stickers you've placed mocking it...just sayin. - Mark Krynsky

It probably is Mark. Those are there to remind me to buy a Mac next time (actually, those are there to protect the laptop from discoloration from the wrists. :) http://friendfeed.com/e/201e8b... - AJ Batac ♘

The cream in my coffee this morning was curdled. Damn you Microsoft! - Sprague D

you can say that it is a problem with drivers, but MS has obviously never heard of something called "graceful fail" - it is after all Windows giving you the blue screen, not the driver. - Tim Hoeck

The only OS I've ever seen to provide a truly 'graceful fail' was OS/2. I once had OS/2 crash on me and restart itself while maintaining a Z-Modem file transfer without dropping a byte. Best OS that ever was. - Akiva Moskovitz

OS/2 FTW! :) - Tim Hoeck

NDIS.sys is network-related. You might consider updating your wireless and wired NIC drivers to see if that helps. - Jason Huebel

Only iTunes 8.0 has seen fit to crash Vista, several times. Other than that i've not has one in years. - Roberto Bonini

It's the Apple sticker. You've angered the PC gods. - xero

The Apple logo with the blue screen is classic though :) - Tim Hoeck

The things you learn. Just went and read this article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O... on OS/2. - Roberto Bonini

awesome. Now they can sell you 1 game for the price of 3! :) - Tim Hoeck

@Akiva: Maybe they'll split that in three parts, too! - Jemm

What's equally bad is what's happening from within the McCain campaign with regards to indirectly accusing Obama of being the Antichrist. - Michael A Hall via twhirl

It seems to me like your classic good cop-bad cop routine. Can't give him much sincerity points right now. - Tsega Dinka

The Republicans are only feeling the ripples from what G.W Bush started two terms ago. Its really about time the Republicans have had to pay the piper for polarising the US the way they have. Hopefully they will lose, Obama will win, prove the freaks wrong and things will settle down while the Republicans learn from their strategic errors. - Roger Kondrat

I have just seen what you guys were referring to on CNN right now and this is crazy. I can't believe how openly hateful people are... I am scared of it and I am in Canada. Thanks for commenting it Robert so that I could read and learn about this.. - Roger Kondrat

Roger: Republican hate has been fanned for a long, long, long time. Rush Limbaugh has been doing that kind of crap for more than a decade and his stuff is tame compared to the stuff I've heard from the religious right. When I attended a Silicon Valley fundamentalist church I heard stuff like this all the time from members. - Robert Scoble

Robert I think you are right the trend has been migrating in this direction but I know a campaign strategist and he informed me that it wasn't until Bush that certain strategies came in to play to maximise this polarisation. Fair enough if I am wrong but my source is pretty reliable for quality information. - Roger Kondrat

"Hijacked?" You seem to be missing the point of rabble rousing. McCain doesn't want us engaging in intellectual discussion about the best way to deal with the economy, or health care. Intellectualism is for arugula-eating, latte-sipping liberals. No, he wants to draw a picture in your head of how SCARY and DIFFERENT and UNKNOWN the other guy is. He wants you to FEAR. And as Yoda taught us, fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering. - Karim

It's hilarious to me to hear heavy FriendFeeders talk about Republican hate without a sense of irony. Do you guys not hear the hateful stuff that comes from your keyboards that you say about Republicans? - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins

@Mark: I don't think it's hate when it's against republicans. It's fear from what those idiots could do with our world (and with that I mean every nation). And yeah, there are plenty of republicans, which are no idiots, and just want to live in peace. But those will be incited from religious fundamentalists, and right-wing idealists. In Germany those people are called Neo-Nazis. - Ryo

I don't think any Democrat on Friendfeed has ever declared that we should kill anybody on the opposing side, or bomb them. Nor have we accused a Christian American of actually being a Muslim Arab, as if being the latter were necessarily a bad thing, or as if that necessarily made him/her a terrorist. - Victor Ganata

Why can't he take responsibility for his involvement in these people's reactions? - flammable

McCain is beginning to stew in his own juices. It was inevitable really. - Jim Jannotti

John McCain does not win any points here. The Country First messaging coupled with linking Obama to a terrorist was like putting lighter fluid on hot coals. I'm glad he's backed away from doing this, but that doesn't win him points it simply gets him back to even. - AJ Kohn

+ 2008 Victor! There simply is no equivalent on the left to compare to Rush Limbaugh. That, if nothing else, should be the gauge to measure hatred between the two major political parties. - JodyUnwired

@Mark: Exactly. After eight years of absolutely repulsive bile representing the utter norm of Democrat discourse on Republicans - a gushing torrent every day on sites like DailyKos and Huffpost - it's astonishing to see one crank being depicted as the touchstone of Republican hate. - Rob Sterling

@Ryo: So your position is that it's not hate if it's against Republicans because Republicans are the equivalents of Nazis. Thanks for your contribution - you can sit down now. - Rob Sterling

@Jody: I doubt you've ever listened to Rush Limbaugh. There are hateful right-wing talk show hosts - Michael Savage comes to mind - but Limbaugh is assuredly not one of them. He is a mainstream, chamber-of-commerce Republican. - Rob Sterling

I'm a Nazi because I'm a Republican? Glad we got that cleared up today. Interesting to be hated and feared and told that I want to bomb and kill people. I also thought I was an agnostic, but apparently because I'm a Republican I'm a religious fundamentalist. This has been an educational morning. - JMakesAwesomeSauce

Personal attacks are nothing new in American politics, regardless of the origin. Campaigns will latch on to whatever seems to work at that point in time. They call it "strategy" :) +1 to Karim for being able to tie Yoda to politics! - Tim Hoeck

Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins: neoconservatives and Christian fundamentalists have engaged in a systemtic hate campaign for months to smear Barack "Hussein" Obama as anti-American, the Antichrist, an Arab terrorist, a Muslim terrorist, a traitor, and an enemy of the American people who should be destroyed by any means. The program of incitement to violence and assassination has taken hold, as one can easily understand by reviewing videos of McCain/Palin rallies in recent days. On what basis are you charging that Democrats have engaged in similar behavior? - Sean McBride

Calling George W. Bush and Sarah Palin STUPID, which they and most of their supporters manifestly are, is not remotely equivalent to smearing Barack Obama as an anti-American Arab and Muslim terrorist and traitor. It is a measure of the low level of intelligence of most Republicans these days that they are unable to make these simple distinctions. The Republican Party has become a haven for the stupidest thugs in American society. The Republican brand name has been permanently destroyed -- it will never recover. - Sean McBride

Some key factors which contributed to the destruction of the Republican Party and conservative movement http://friendfeed.com/e/a0e548... Conservatives are deserting the Republican Party in droves -- it has become a joke and a monstrosity. - Sean McBride

It's clear that the religious fundamentalist, anti-intellectual, and racist arm of the Republican party is asserting control. If you are a Republican who does not agree with their aims or philosophies, how do you intend to take back control of your party? Or are you tacitly agreeing with the bullshit that they sling around? This is not an issue that you can remain silent on and maintain any sense of morality or ethics. - Victor Ganata

You're right Victor. And I'm not one to agree. Right now I don't know what to do to take back control. But I do know that it has to be done. - JMakesAwesomeSauce

Victor - my bet is that the Republican brand name is unsalvageable at this point. Religious extremists with a fascist agenda have destroyed the party from within and have driven out most of the best minds. I expect to see a radical reorganization of the mainstream party system in the United States in the coming years. - Sean McBride

I've stopped arguing with people. When someone tells me Obama is a terrorist, I respond, "Practice saying President Barack Hussein Obama." Then I ask them if they want my information I've gathered on emigration to Canada. - Trish R

Trish, I have never, in my life, heard a Republican or Conservative threatening to move to Canada if their candidate didn't win. That's almost wholesale a Democrat or Liberal thing to say. - Akiva Moskovitz

@Sean, it's pointless to engage Hopkins. He just runs in, throws a bomb and scurries away. - Rick Powell

Akiva Moskovitz - discussing the possibility of moving to Canada is not a threat or an attack of any kind. It is the expression of a personal preference. Once again, we see that neoconservatives are unable to make the most simple of categorical distinctions. Stirring up a bloodthirsty and hate-filled lynch mob with smears of anti-Americanism, terrorism and treason is a radically more extreme kind of rhetoric than contemplating the possibility of moving to Canada. - Sean McBride

For Hopkins, whom I refuse to call by his ridiculous middle name: "As nearly as possible, no nationalist ever thinks, talks, or writes about anything except the superiority of his own power unit. It is difficult if not impossible for any nationalist to conceal his allegiance. The smallest slur upon his own unit, or any implied praise of a rival organization, fills him with uneasiness which he can relieve only by making some sharp retort," - George Orwell. - Rick Powell

Rick - I haven't discovered a neoconservative on Friendfeed yet who is capable of engaging in a rational debate. They specialize in hit and run tactics, with the emphasis on running. They have mosty self-ghettoized themselves on FF. They more closely resemble a cult than a reasonable political movement. - Sean McBride

By the way: what does "Rizzn" mean? - Sean McBride

who the hell knows? Who cares? It's an annoying affectation. - Rick Powell

But in regards to the subject of "hate," Mr Rizzn recently said that I'm the sort of "mean partisan" he "detests." Meanwhile, I liked his extremely well-written, cogent and reasonable article on politics and social media. He seems to be two different people at times. - Rick Powell

McCain scored some points with me for trying to walk it back. Don't know whether that's conscience or a look at the fact that the all-hate, all-smear campaign isn't moving the needle out of the fever swamp. But I'll wait to see if he reigns in Palin, if his surrogates stop painting Obama as a pal of terrorists, if they change the tone of their advertising. I'm giving McCain some credit. But if he's really a leader, let him start by leading the people he's hired into the light of decency. - Michael Hussein Markman

Michael - McCain scored no points from me; he continued to lose points. He has already walked over the cliff. He is trying to scramble back to a safe ledge after realizing that the incendiary hate campaign was badly backfiring. I've seen enough of McCain now to realize that he has no fixed principles other than a raging appetite for war. He is an opportunist who will say anything, depending on which way the wind is blowing. - Sean McBride

I think the Republicans have received some hate back. Nearly all of us learned from Yoda that fear leads to hate. - MiniMage LightBlueRanger

"Rizzn" Hopkins is a self-admitted shit-stirrer who can't defend his own arguments. His idea of Socratic dialogue is to ask the only black people participating in a thread on racism to *leave.* He is a rabble rouser, which I guess is why he felt compelled to "defend" the rabble rousing in the Republican party. - Karim

As for this whole stupid "hate on both sides" argument, where do we see the crowds in the Obama rallies foaming at the mouth and screaming "Kill him" and "Off with his head?" When has a Democrat proclaimed to an Obama meeting that she can't trust McCain because "he's a Scot?" - Karim

@Karim: You do realize that at the Republican convention, leftist protestors threw bricks and debris down on buses from highway overpasses, right? So people opposed to McCain actually tried to kill GOP delegates. Does that count as hate? - Rob Sterling

Rob, I realize that there was violence at the GOP convention, but the people involved were mostly identified as "anarchists" (see http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new... and http://elections.foxnews.com/2...), as well as "anti-war protesters." The first link says some of the protesters were "even disgruntled Republicans." - Karim

Wow. Bashfest while I was gone. I really don't need to add anything to this thread. Much of the justification of hate on this thread more or less proves my point. Good job guys, performing admirably. - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins

Famously, several respected journalists were also arrested and assaulted. My remarks were about Democrats vs. Republicans. You're trying to enlarge the scope of "Democrats" to include anyone who is against McCain and war. Does this mean you want to include anyone who is conservative, racist, fascist, pro-war, white supremacist, neo-Nazi, etc. in the McCain camp? - Karim

No! :o - Jemm

No I like it the way it is. - orionstarr

no... - ChangeForge | Ken Stewart

NO! - Mona N.

god forbid no - Dobromir Hadzhiev

I'd love it...just the security in knowing a heavyweight is behind the service (especially through the hard times ahead) and let's face it -they have got skills when it comes to bringing companies together (Facebook aside). And fingers crossed, it will push Friendfeed towards a more mainstream audience, ie. growth. - Zee from WeDoCreative

Nay. - Mona N.

come on now, aside from Friendfeed management there must be a few of you on my side with this :) - Zee from WeDoCreative

anyone who once liked jaiku knows why this should never happen - Dobromir Hadzhiev

------ * Ads by Google * ------- - Jemm

Jailu was close to dead before google took over - imo. Plus, Ive been a member for ages and thd community & features on FF are far superior. - Zee from WeDoCreative

@Jemm, funny but ads are coming anyway. And google definitely has the least intrusive advertising out there. - Zee from WeDoCreative

jaiku is miles behind friendfeed, but was better than twitter - Dobromir Hadzhiev

@Zee: Yeah, I'm sure here will be ads someday. Or maybe they (FF) make us addicted and then require membership fee to continue ;) - Jemm

Being bought by Google doesn't automatically confer greatness nor service quality - Mo 'Killer Sauce' Kargas

You don't think the Googlers would try to take over what the ex-Googlers are doing? IMHO, the FF dev teams are already heavyweights, not because of their names. The site keeps on improving with hardly any downtime, and they're taking time to think things through to actually developing a site that is far superior than a lot of the other sites and service. (both front and back end) - Mona N.

Depends what u mean by greatness and service quality - Zee from WeDoCreative

I wouldn't mind. - Roberto Bonini

@Mona - no doubt. Bret, Paul & the rest of the team have & are doing an incredible job but times are going to get harder...that's for certain and more often than not heavyweights survive over the smaller guys during these times. And in comparing friendfeed vs google, as superb the FF team are - there are few (if any) company you can compare to the likes of google at the mo - Zee from WeDoCreative

Is that assuming FF founders want to join Google? I am assuming they left for a reason :) - Tim Hoeck

+1 Tim - definitely assuming that - Zee from WeDoCreative

NO. I am hoping that they do great things on their own instead. Google has Jaiku and it is not doing very well. - Vijayendra Mohanty

Just after reading the comments.. Do you really think it is in Google's interest to buy Friendfeed.. I don't believe it is there interest I think Google has it's head elsewhere right now? - Ian Cleasby via twhirl

I have 2 hopes for FF. 1) It stays. 2) The folks I've come to consider pals stay around as well. :) - Yolanda

Only if FF is going broke. Otherwise, NO. Besides Writely, what good has Google brought to startups? - Christopher Galtenberg

you may be right Ian but i'm not sure - I think if google are adding to their organise the worlds information...friendfeed could definitely contribute - Zee from WeDoCreative

No. Google is a clusterfuck and their products are designed by committee. FF is obviously the lovechild of a few people with a very clear and focussed vision for it. - Nadine Schaeffer

lol, something tells me i'm not going to win this 1... - Zee from WeDoCreative

no!! :) - Patrik Johansson

Nir: From how I see RIM, I don't think the Lazaridis or Balsillie will agree to a merger. They're way too involved with their product. Plus, it wouldn't make sense technically *and* from a business perspective. If any platform, they should look into Palm. Treos have a lot of potential. Too bad OS development has halted LOL. - Mona N.

Mona: you have a point there, but one thing i've learned - Money buys EVERYTHING, and Microsoft have plenty in the bank, so we shall see, I truly hope you're right. - Nir Ben Yona via twhirl

Me too. I'm a huge fan of BlackBerries and it would be horrible to see a take over. Especially a hostile one. :( - Mona N.

@Nir money can buy a lot, no doubt, but they didn't make new OS for MS to sell ;) and they can't change 2+2=4 -- natural science and technology does not depend on talking or hanging with bunch of bucks ;) - silpol

Silpol: It doesn't matter, their OS is good enough for Redmond. I've seen Microsoft executives' faces, they are determine to get one with a good infrastructure. Either it's gonna be RIM or PALM, they will have one. They just cannot let Google take the premier, specially now, with the G1 launch. - Nir Ben Yona

I agree, Nir. They ARE going to try to become a market player. I mean, it IS Microsoft. RIM doubled their shares in one year, and the iPhone is exploding. I don't think Android is a competitor (as of yet). Most likely Microsoft will go after RIM and I hope they hold their ground. The co-CEOs seem way too passionate to let any company with no hardware track record to ruin their chances of further growth. That said, in order to be a contender, Microsoft must A) go Open Source or B) Open Platform. Period. - Mona N.

Mona: I totally agree. They must go OPEN. Additionally, Microsoft shouldn't put sand in their wheels, once (or if) the acquisition will be carried out. - Nir Ben Yona

I can't wait for that day to come, Nir. With all their competitors moving towards that direction, they're not going to have a choice. Rumor says it's Gates who didn't want that to happen (all his GPL mumbo jumbo), but now that he's departed, I really wonder when they're going to give in... - Mona N.

I know WM it's not the best phone in the world, but Blackberry's Browser sucks and the need of the BES to sync too. - Alex Sauceda

They need to "become" a mobile player? Already are. - Jordan Hofker

Nice job Mona! I don't ever see MS hooking up with RIM. As for the future, I'm looking for the HTC Touch HD, with a keyboard, with Android. Hey, I can hope :) - Tim Hoeck

Yeah, they are a greet breed. The clowns of the dog world for sure. - Mike Fruchter

I love boxers too, but my brother-in-law has the ugliest and dumbest boxer I have ever seen. Thankfully he is a lovable idiot. - Rob Diana

LOL Rob!! Btw, is Marmaduke a mutant Boxer? - Mona N.

Rob, HA! That about describes the one on the right, Tyson. He is a lovable doofus. His sister Amber is the Alpha Male. She is the one with the brawn and smarts. As I like to say, she is always in the line of fire first. - Mike Fruchter

marmaduke is a great dane i believe - Cee Bee

conjoined boxers! - jeneane 'This One' sessum

Another boxer lover! Yayyyy! They are adorable!!! - Carmen

You should come to the Dog Lovers room. You can see pics of my two boxers in there. http://friendfeed.com/rooms/do... - Carmen

what chu lookin' at?! - Tim Hoeck

Hartsfield can be difficult to navigate but at least they have those fast trains. - Mattb4rd

Hartsfield is better than O'Hare (sucks!). Newark was actually quite reasonable. - Stupid Emoo (aka Tina)

i guess on the bright side, i got enough exercise for the entire week! - Tim Hoeck via fftogo

amen - Jeff Douglass

its laid out well, but when they change the gate/concourse at the last min, its a long haul! - Tim Hoeck via fftogo

so agree, worse major US airport that I've been to is Atlanta. - Alan Le

Denver, JFK, and La Guardia are even worse... lol - Mona N.

Toronto's Pearson airport has been the worse for me. Hong Kong's International Airport has been my favorite! - Michael Forian

Newark = Worst. Airport. EVER! - Mona N.

Ah, no. I have it on good authority that the airport in Honduras is worse than Newark. And the one in Cordoba (replete with personnel in camo and assault rifles) was pretty bad. - Stupid Emoo (aka Tina)

I hate all airports, especially those with long security lines, rude staff, bad tempered people and snotty, uncontrolled kids ;-) - Sally Church

My most favorite airport to date: THF, Berlin Tempelhof. As soon as you enter the building you can see the main two (IIRC) entries to the few gates and all check in counters. Sooo easy. :) - Holger Eilhard

My favorite is Changi Airport in Singapore. - Alan Le

Aw Mona, I live 9 miles from Newark, am stuck with it! - Sally Church

Sally, I am so sorry. (That you utilize that airport) LOL. Everyone there is always angry! - Mona N.

LOL! Thats my 2nd home! - Brandy Lea Photography

+++ Sally! I have to deal with that everyday that I work! But it's not rude staff it's rude people in general! - Brandy Lea Photography

Mona, they sure are; it's an in-yer-face noo joisey thing I can never quite grasp! Hold a door open there and at least 4 people will rudely barge past you without a bye or leave, sigh. - Sally Church