Now you're just getting lazy with your scripts!
- Mike Nayyar
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- Tinfoil 2.0
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- Tinfoil 2.0
So it's since Tuesday huh? The ultimate thread. How will the thread die then? We must have a limit for that, let's say 24h without one comment.
- Zu from AOD
As a side note, I do have to applaud the endurance and pettiness of those of us on FriendFeed. No one on Facebook gave this status update a second look!
- Mike Nayyar
We pride ourselves in our pettiness and obsessiveness. Um, wait.
- Tinfoil 2.0
Remember. It's not whole Scoble likes. It's who likes Scoble.
- Akiva
According to FriendFeed, that's everyone. And some Twitter marketers and SEO experts.
- Mike Nayyar
Mike will get in the last word. Eventually. Everyone else is an idiot for playing his little game. Me included. :-)
- Robert Scoble
I'm not actually playing. Or, if I am, I'm playing to lose.
- Akiva
HAHA! You see that? Robert Scoble acknowledges I will eventually win! HAHA! FINALLY! For once in my life, I win! :) :) :) :) Unless Logical shows up...
- Mike Nayyar
Only mostly dead. There's a big difference between mostly dead and all dead. Mostly dead is slightly alive. With all dead, well, with all dead there's usually only one thing you can do.
- Tinfoil 2.0
We're testing the limit on the number of comments.
- DGentry
Nah, the FFundercats live chat pushed that one way over the top. We are, however, testing the limits oh how sick people are getting of setting my face.
- Mike Nayyar
This thread has a lot of comments, that must mean Mike is an expert of some kind...or maybe an A-Lister. Must stalk^H^H^H^H^Hinvestigate him...
- Rah-PM 2012
Olympus too? Good thing Logical doesn't know any Japanese mythological figures.
- Mike Nayyar
All right, if you're going to play that way, Raijin AND Ajisukitakahikone are BOTH mad at you. And Raijin was especially unhappy because you interrupted his NOMmage of children's bellybuttons.
- Tinfoil 2.0
Dude, my best friend's sister's boyfriend's brother's girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid who's going with the girl who saw Raijin put down the platter.
- Tinfoil 2.0
We'd be content, of course, if you (Mike) issued a public retraction of the assertion in your post, followed by allowing someone else to post the last comment in the thread ;-)
- Tinfoil 2.0
805 comments!! I'm afraid to click on the more link....
- Jeff P. Henderson
Nicholas, as long as it's not Mike, it's irrelevant.
- Tinfoil 2.0
I'm sad that Logical saw this Facebook status.
- Mike Nayyar
You know at some point, expanding this comment will really put a strain on mortal browsers. It already has a 3 second pause to expand it.
- Mark Philpot
I wonder if at some point we will hit a soft limit and FF won't let it keep going. That or they look at this as a great high-bounds test case for the system.
- Sparky, lurking
Great experiment there, I'm somewhat scared opening the thread here. Funny thing, Even the explosion of words spawned through this, making it a wordle madness. http://www.wordle.net/gallery...
- Zu from AOD
I'm scared to expand the comment thread :)
- Roberto Bonini
There are few computers with the processing power capable of handling the comments in this thread. Except for, you know, quantum computers.
- Mike Nayyar
from iPhone
i'm afraid to click on the link to see all comments. so i'm just typing this so another guy (or gal) can read it and comment to make this comment disappear.
- Alfredo 亜瑠布れっど
If anyone gets these emails in their gmail and got sick and tired of them like me, just press 'm' to mute the conversation (if you have keyboard shortcuts enabled) (haha i got the last word)
- Daniel Morgan
No you just don't know I posted this.
- John D Reasor
cant the person that started this block the comments now? and thereby win.
- Morgan
If you can get buddy buddy with mike and figure out his schedule, you can prevent him from stopping the comments because you'll always be able to get the last word in. We must prevail for great justice!
- Jonathan Hardesty
That would be cheating, and he knows it :)
- Tinfoil 2.0
That's how the FriendFeed Mob rolls. :-D
- Steven Perez
from IM
you didn't disable the comments yet? you could comment and then do it and then you really would get the last word. but then again, that's cheating. and cheaters never prosper.
- Trish Haley
You're not supposed to make sense of it. It exits only as an opaque, monolithic data structure that is constantly being updated and evolving. ;)
- Tyson Key
Attempting to parse it in a manner that is not approved by FriendFeed, Inc may result in disruption of the space-time continuum, and a series of Bad Things(R) occurring.
- Tyson Key
not only does it make julian fries, but it slices and dices in in seconds. ORDER NOW and you'll get this special gift ABSOLUTELY FREE!!!!!!11!!1ONE!
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
from email
this is the thread that doesn't end, yes it goes on and on my friend, Mike started it not knowing what it was, and it'll keep on going no matter what just because this is the thread that doesn't end, yes it goes on and on my friend, Mike started it.....
- T-Bone Tsali, FF Cherokee
from IM
welcome back my friends, to the thread that never ends, we're so glad you could attend, step inside, step inside.
- Mike Nencetti
MISSILES FOR ALL! Gun control is for unarmed wussies! Blow away comment limits! Damn the torpedoes! FULL STEAM AHEAD!!!
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
from email
Test conducted to see how long this can last.
- Ashish
it'll never die, with all the wireless cards out there transmitting this, it'll reach alpha centuari in about 300 years.
- T-Bone Tsali, FF Cherokee
from IM
It's not because I'm a person who wants to have the last word, but just because you people keep me reminding that there are others that do want that very badly, that causes me to comment here once again. HI! I'M BETTER THAN MIKE NAYYAR!!!!!!! LOSER! :-)
- Ton Zijp
This IS the time and place to announce a gathering of the societal beginnings of the intrepid adventures of... Wait... sorry, this isn't the place? Oh, okay, I'll go back home then.
- T-Bone Tsali, FF Cherokee
I was able to expand this thread on my Droid incredible, and post this comment at the end. Nice test of Dolphin HD browser.(edit - I use the default FF web page.)
- Mike Nencetti
from Android
If I get the last word in, will I get .LAG's World Series tix???
- Lisa L. Seifert | FHG™
It's been a while, Mr. LastWordThreat. I did some good things these recent months. Care to share some of your insights while you were on that trip? TLDR. 8) (2K+ comments is massive hehe, we're getting to your second b-day)
- Zu from AOD
All I want for Christmas are my two front teef.
- Mike Nayyar
Eventually, you will win. Because you're not married to this thread. But if you ever marry...your trend of always getting the last word will end. Painfully.
- Bubba Botts
This thread must go away!!! What if it kills FF!?
- SAM
this thread could go away right now. but you people keep posting comments...wait....didn't I just do the same thing? OK, nevermind. Long live this Thread!!!!
- Morgan
I heard Nayyar had to get in the The Last Word, always. I talked to the casting director, and Mike Nayyar got the lead in The Last Word.
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
this is the last one -------------->>> WORD!
- .LAG liked that
Every middle brings another middle. When the world ends, will this comment be toward the end of the thread, or toward the beginning?
- John E. Bredehoft
You guys!!! This post will forever break FF if we're not careful.
- SAM
Yeah, we should all totally stop bumping this post.
- Slippy
I'm surprised Friendfeed can still expand this thread.
- Morton Fox
OMG, doesn't even want to image what would happen if Nayyar tried to use #fftop20. Actually I kind of do, but I bet it would be slow. Scores would be off the charts though.
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
Probably still under 9000, people should try harder.
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
Here in West Hollywood, my best friend of 18 years and his boyfriend are getting married. So yes, I get to be a groomsman at a gay wedding - prop 8 or not. Should be awesome.
- Louis Gray
It was a fantastic ceremony. One of the best weddings I have ever seen. It was traditional Jewish themed, so I am wearing a yarmulke to match the vest and tie. Lots of great friends from my teenage years.
- Louis Gray
from iPhone
Louis, I own a yarmulke as well - my wife brought it for me when she visited Israel
- Jesse Stay
+ a million for the whole thread. Looks like you're picking up some admirers here, Louis! Nylissk, we gotta warn you, you're ging after a married man with many admirers. You want a piece of this guy, you're gonna have to get in line - like filing a lien on a house with five mortgages and a line of credit, with outstanding remodeling bills. ;-)
- Auntie Buttinsky Botts
Hey, who is this guy from the past. Has he come to warn us about the future?
- Eric
This is clearly not my cat. If this was my cat he's have one arm shoved down into the printer trying to tear up all the internal whirling bits with his bare claws.
- Soup in a TARDIS
Too Funny! Reminds me of the San Mateo Cat Shelter where one of the cats loves to sleep on top of the laster printer where the paper comes out...
- Greg Lato
1600+ to beat the FFundercats live chat thread. I think with this real time now on all threads we're going to see some truly epic comment numbers.
- Simon Wicks
Ivan, no the picture speaks for itself. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Petr, I have no idea what you mean, but thank you. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
@Kol .. :] that, partially, might have been the purpose.... I don't know it exactly either. :] .. was I reflecting on a cat under the fax, and that it is hard to fax that way ... /?:] ... "underfaxing at its worst" ..
- pb:
there ya have me ! :] .... see, to be honest with you, i saw this pic couple days ago, but i let it go, without posting it ..... what does that make me? :]
- pb:
even a flat cat... faxes just can't handle the hair. You'd have to shave the cat first, else the hair will burn and stick to the drum... a mess! (I am extrapolating from transparencies, mind, i don't have access to a cat to test)
- Iphigenie
Hehe, Joelle. This is now tied for the 'likes' top stop. One more then, hehe. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Hehe, Greg. Blimey! Erm, is that not far from 500 likes now? ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Bloody marvelous, Kol. Wish I could like it again... too cute (and help u to 500 likes).
- Roberto Bonini
I couldn't believe it when I logged on from the morning over posting it and saw it was at something 200 likes! You all have a strange fetish with cats and fax machines, hehe. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Am I the only one who saw this and their first thought was - My goodness did someone break that cats neck? It still freaks me out a little
- SteVe C
Steve, it does look a little out of place, but cats are pretty bendy. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
They fax much better if you flatten them first. What?
- The original Kevin
So we can put this post to rest now. :-) 505 likes final count, wow! :-D Good night all!
- Kol Tregaskes
did 3 people really un-like this? now at 506. wtf (edit: uh, oh, yeah, me and 2 + 506 others makes 509. dammit, jim, i'm an artist, not a mathematician)
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
One of the best funny cat pictures I've seen! :-)
- John Collis
Kristian, it appears to be. Hehe, John.
- Kol Tregaskes
ای بابا این پیشول بی خیال نمی شود، بابا پاشو برو دنبال یه بازی دیگه ، از هفته پیش تا حالا تو فکس ولو شدی حوصله ات سر نرفته، پاشو اقلا بپر رو کیبوردی چیزی
- Maryaminaa
It's really only social convention which regards it as inappropriate, same with Xeroxing it, like one does with their b__tocks. Wait are we still talking about cats cats here or...
- The Real sofarsoShawn
OMGosh 700+ likes now!! LOL. Thank you all 702 of you. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
http://twitter.com/niczak -- I tweet about the following: Programming, databases, parenting, living & enjoying life, and involvement in lots of local activities here in Northern Nevada.
- Nicholas Kreidberg
I have most of you (didn't have Valeria for some reason, but just added), mine is http://twitter.com/jungleg -- see you on the other side ;)
- Jorge Escobar
http://twitter.com/movieguyjon - I say weird shit, bitch at random times, and will say more weird shit. Occasionally I'll post fun things too, with a smidgeon of inane. :P
- Jonathan Hardesty
Pretty clever way to work in a plug for your timeline.. I like your style, Kol ;)
- Brad McCrorey
http://twitter.com/dennis_... (don't forget the underscore) What do I tweet about? Tech, fiction, art, music, politics, comics, and of course my fiction. Occasionally some Seattle or Bremerton related stuff. I also have TwitterFeed tweet my blogs, and I always tweet from Flickr.
- Dennis Jernberg
i post about film and television editing/post production, I'm a bit of a gadget nerd, and i like anything funny on the web. i love followers... http://twitter.com/toddzelin
- Todd Zelin
I'm sure you're all interesting but following 6,000 is my limit. ; )
- Liz
http://twitter.com/cgranier - I tweet about many things -usually tech-oriented, reply to everyone who @'s me, and have lately been posting a lot about #FreeMediaVE, bringing attention to the struggle against communism in Venezuela. Feel free to follow me. @ me for a quick follow back. No spammers please.
- Carlos Granier-Phelps
Thank you all. I hope at least some follow me back else I'll hit my follower limit soon. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
http://twitter.com/casschin - I mostly post up funny/odd web gems and nerdy tech news. Occasionally, I tweet what I eat.
- Cass
http://twitter.com/Felter i tweet about all, but i don't retweet my FF message. From twitter to FF only. if you follow me in FF, you can read my tweet.
- Felter Roberto
from twhirl
You know, you could have just started feeding in your tweets here and achieved the same, right? Or would that have been too subtle?
- Mr. Gunn
http://twitter.com/glitterpoet Don't mean to offend but it's usually not religious. Porn, drinking,dancing, music,makeup....I still do healing work. I just don't talk about it much anymore.
- Gabrielle
My twitter stream is the typical... random thought bubbles, food porn pics, and shared items relating to technology, politics, and $$$. http://twitter.com/sean808080 is where you find me. Oh and I like unicorns and fairy dust.
- sean808080
@fossilhuntress or fossilmaitress (I kept getting my email cracked and getting locked out hence the duplicate); all content, linked to digg, delicious... mostly science, paleo and random banter...
- Fossil Huntress
http://twitter.com/wangyip - mostly stuff from FF (tech, startups, web apps, sometimes things about math, medicine, fitness) - I've followed a few here on tech stuff (Edit: Thanks Kol for the thread)
- Wang Yip
http://twitter.com/eoghann... - I post sci-fi news (tv, movies, books or comics I'm probably a fan of it), some tech stuff and the occasional round of venting.
- Eoghann Irving
Ruqqa.com Blocked by Google??? My ruqqa sites been out of Googles index for a month (I was on 1st page). I was told all ruqqa sites are being blocked by Google. Seems to be true as I've done a "site:" search on other rugga domain sites and Google says there no matches. Can anyone confirm?
Thanks. This seems to be a major problem. Going back and forth with WPD. They keep claiming it's the number of keywords on my site, even though no ruqqa site is listed in Google's index. WPD needs to investigate. I'm on the brink of moving everything to Blogger.
- 22Hicks
Yup my ruqqa blog never got indexed either. I'm not currently using WPD for that reason.
- Kittie Walker
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- Shari Blackitsoft
I appreciate your post. I also wrote that SMS advertising provides a cost effective method of targeting promotions to specific customer profiles. You might want to remind customers of specific events or promotions, but for whatever reasons, SMS allows you to pass information directly to the right customer at very affordable prices and fast delivery. <a href="http://www.hearingaidindia.com/" >Hearing aid</a>
- Shari Blackitsoft
I appreciate your post. I also wrote that SMS advertising provides a cost effective method of targeting promotions to specific customer profiles. You might want to remind customers of specific events or promotions, but for whatever reasons, SMS allows you to pass information directly to the right customer at very affordable prices and fast delivery. <a href="http://www.hearingaidindia.com/" >Hearing aid</a>
- Shari Blackitsoft
arrg, I need to heed warnings! Very funny Art!
- Elizabeth
That is quite evil. Clicked on it and then couldn't get rid of it at all without shutting down Firefox - which was a pain as at work with multiple windows and tabs open monitoring traffic and couldn't just restart with the same session! had to start from scratch You have been warned!
- Lisa
Hey Lisa, for future Ctrl, Alt, Delete works wonders :-)
- Elizabeth
Ha ha. Sorry everyone =) But I did warn you... When you tell people not to click on a link, there's no way they can resist clicking on it. =P A good marketing strategy for getting a higher CTR, no?
- Art Y.
I did do Ctrl, Alt, Delete but had to close the whole of Firefox to get out of it. Had 4 windows and about 25 tabs open at the time.
- Lisa
Art - yes, we are all going to click, it's curiosity. Although, in an environment like this there is an element of trust.
- Lisa
it's more a matter of patience... the window moves in a pattern. Find the pattern and the tab's X will fall under your mouse and BANG!!!1 It's gone. Of course you have to go through the lyrics pop ups. It's all evil genius >:D
- Jorge Blanco
Sorry... I am a bit naughty sometimes... =(
- Art Y.
Naughty Art. Time out for you. Go and build 10 backlinks.
- Buff Toast
Still a nice one two days later. And: Do listen to the warning!!!
- Detlev
If you have "restore previous session" enabled, then killing Firefox wont help, as when it starts again, it opens this again, Next version of Firefox wont have this problem, as there is supposed to be an option in every javascript generated alert on a site to "stop running further script on this site"
- TrafficBug
Curse you Art! I managed to ignore it for days, and now thanks to all these new comments, this came again on top of feed. The worst is that I kept humming the rest of the day "Never gonna give you up..." Oh horror! :-)
- Ritesh Lal
I appreciate your post. I also wrote that SMS advertising provides a cost effective method of targeting promotions to specific customer profiles. You might want to remind customers of specific events or promotions, but for whatever reasons, SMS allows you to pass information directly to the right customer at very affordable prices and fast delivery. <a href="http://www.hearingaidindia.com/" >Hearing aid</a>
- Shari Blackitsoft
this thread is deader than a can of sheep dip.
- Joe The Sausage
foie gras is supposed to be quite tasty but I've never tried it.
- veo
i thought that was goose liver pâté? sheep dip is a pretty toxic mix of herbicides and fungicides. gave rise to one of the first categories of chemical weapons, in fact.
- Joe The Sausage
Let me show you my turnkey automatic Twitter Facebook Email system that will make you a million dollars a minute while you sleep! JUST CLICK MY JUNK AND GIVE ME YOUR EMAIL!!!
- Rah-PM 2012
We were talking on the forum, remember me? I am Maria from Russia!
- Mark Davidson
Hello. I'm the Finance Minister of Nigeria. Please subscribe.
- LouCypher
if only you could bold an announcement in FF like you can in Wave :D [oh, and my username on Wave is the splendiforously original "adamlasnik"]
- Adam Lasnik
Guys, please read the title and the first comment. This is not a request for invites. This is for users who already have an account and want to share their account name. For invites see this thread: http://ff.im/91M9R
- Kol Tregaskes
My Wave ID is erier2003@googlewave.com. Feel free to add me and we can Wave!
- Eric Geller
Still don't really know what this is (Or Google Voice for that matter). This is like high school all over again. The cool kids are ignoring me!
- James Ferguson
i'm with the google wave woudl be really cool, if i had people to wave at crowd. jviddy@googlewave.com
- Jamie Vidamour
Everyone, read the title and first comment. This is NOT an invite thread!
- Kol Tregaskes
my plan didn't work. still trolling for an invite at dzinrgeek@gmail.com
- amarquart
Blimey. I must be going mad, is it not clear that this is NOT an invite thread. For invites see here: http://ff.im/91M9R
- Kol Tregaskes
Not sure if anyone else woudl find it useful, i'm going to add a load of you as friends and create a wave just to try stuff out in. Feel free to remove yourself from the wave or use it as you feel. Also feel free to add anyone else you think might want to be in on it
- Jamie Vidamour
Shockingly, I am robdiana@googlewave.com
- Rob Diana
Kamilah, you are kamilah.gill. You can find this if you click on yourself in the Contacts sidebar. You address (like everyone) is shown there.
- Kol Tregaskes
Karoli: is that your google wave nick or are you sniffling? :)
- Ahsan Ali
I'm sniffling because I don't have a google wave nick. Despite two invites, there is still nothing in my inbox. I am not in with the in crowd. :(
- Karoli
<- Waves hello! :) I'm at holger.eilhard@googlewave.com
- Holger Eilhard
hello holger, can you pls send me invite? fatihkurtoglu@gmail.com
- mfatih
Invite came today! I'm jalada@googlewave.com. As part of the second/third 'Wave' of people getting invites looks like I don't get any to share out.
- Jalada
M Fatih Kurtoglu: Sorry, I don't yet have any nominations to give out...
- Holger Eilhard
Hey, I'm in too ! :)) tagyboy@googlewave.com
- fwed
Just got my invite this morning as well. FF embed seems to be working fine. I've tried the Wolfram Alpha robot but didn't get it to work yet.
- François Dongier
librarysupporter@googlewave.com in my wave. :)
- MLx
Glad to see more and more people getting in. What we're waiting for is proper group support (a few weeks hopefully) then let the games begin! :-D
- Kol Tregaskes
Anyone have a spare google wave invite to send to me? email me at zaldor at gmail ! TY!
- Les Zaldor
that is a test from the wave that has this thread embedded.
- Nathalie
I will as soon as I get one WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
- Martha
banane@googlewave.com <-- writing this from wave. neat!
- anna sauce
marco.nunez@googlewave - FINALLY! like i said on twitter - i feel like the kid who got a nintendo 1 christmas too late when everyone had already beaten super mario bros!
- Marco(aureliusmaximus)
denise.straessler@googlewave - stupid me had no idea i wouldn't be able to select a different name .....
- denise
Wow. Thanks Kol!!! Here's mine for all ya'll to add - walt.ruppar@googlewave.com - although I just added like 150 of the above. While also deleting my pity pleads for an invite... ;-)
- JR
It operates on the premise that when you scan the QR code from the b-card it redirects you to a page you setup, I read just yesterday about QR codes and how to print them on b-cards using open source utils, but I am not entirely convinced that it is a good idea.
- TrafficBug
@TrafficBug Why not a good idea? Just one easy step to be online from a business card...
- alex kornfeind
I still use friendfeed to "play around" with ideas about how I want to interact with the web, as both a content consumer and provider. Nothing I've found (yet) can replace friendfeed's functionality, easy to explain "common interface" (WRT to twitter/feeds) and the simplicity/flexibility of their embedded pages and widgets.
- Chris Myles
from Bookmarklet
Reddit is another model of qna site when you use the self.reddit section to ask questions and get answers from the community.
- TrafficBug
nice essay Chris, worth reading a couple times to appreciate how many good points you tied together in just a few paragraphs. FriendFeed nails Teh Awesome from so many different angles - should be considered a living museum piece exemplifying how to program a graceful SN.
- Dan Freeman
Dan thanks, "a few paragraphs".. too funny, here I was thinking how ridiculously out of date I am when I can't summarize my thoughts in a couple of sentences, let alone 140 characters. I completely agree about the museum piece and don't understand why the big players "don't get it". I haven't watched those tools "grow up" so I don't understand the history, but as a "castaway" there seem to be some pretty HUGE gaps that make me say WTF? Isn't all this supposed to make our lives easier and LESS complicated?
- Chris Myles
Well probably really not so easy to design and program as the simple grace of FriendFeed might lead one to think. I am starting to appreciate it as a work of art - a rare masterpiece of social software engineering. And your post explained a few reasons why.
- Dan Freeman
Louis Gray just posted his reasons for sticking around (http://ff.im/bS8xj). Notice that neither of us is sticking around JUST for the community, we've found a tool that works and there isn't a suitable replacement (yet).
- Chris Myles
+Dan for referring to Friendfeed as a work of art. It is. I hate to see participation flagging. My own circle has died down a little bit lately. I'm searching for active new users. I see a couple of new people almost every day.
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
Johnny Worthington just added his thoughts with lots of detailed reasons (http://ff.im/bVMpo). Nice writeup!!
- Chris Myles
I've recently tried Buzz but I found refresh and post order problems which prevent (me) from having real real-time discussions. Plus it's not open YET.. the only place I can use it is logged in via gmail (no embeds, feeds, or basic Url search capabilities).. you can't even accurately monitor your company/blog url activities.
- Chris Myles
Another issue with Buzz compared to FriendFeed is a lack of visual distinction for friends' comments. Maybe there will there be an API soon?
- Mike Chelen
FriendFeed is by far the the best social media aggregator out there! I hope they keep it going.
- Brian
from FFHound!
There is no twitte limit, how ever you only can follow 1000 people/day or 100 API calls..as I read on there help section, there is no other limit. However I unable to follow more than 200 people/day. I asked them about this and they yet not replied. It's over 3 week now.
- Arafat Hossain Piyada
I also "asked Twitter" - my legitimate account was "suspended" .. Twitter on designated email for that is not responding /months now/.... any advice on this? ...thanks
- pb:
I think when you hit the two thousand follower limit, you cant follow more people until twitter 'unlocks' your account - that is kin dof weird.
- TrafficBug
There is a Tweet Limit because today I was informed that I have reached my limit for the hour. But I keep reading that there is not one and their "help" site doesn't discuss that there is a limit nor what the limit would be. I'm not amused. Nor do I care if my followers would be annoyed.
- Miranda M Simpson
There is no tweet limit to my knowledge, but you can only have 150 API connections per hour. API connections are made through third party tweet applications like TweetDeck, TwitterVision, etc.
- Oliver Schmid
From my observation since the OP there's an unpublished limit that gets you removed from Twitter's search function.
- LANjackal
from IM
I've heard of people tweeting too much and not able to tweet for a day or two. Once you hit the 2000 follower limit a new restriction takes effect that stops you from following if you do not have a certain ratio of followers and followed ~ I've been losing around 50 followers a week, probably because I'm not able to follow them back. There is a Twitter support forum at...
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- Chris Loft
It is 300 then you have to wait 1 hour b4 tweeting again
- Chris
It's also important to vary your tweets. But yeah, don't breach the hourly limit and you should be fine.
- Vezquex
Are there any tech hardware/electronics brands you've sworn never to use again due to a bad experience with them? Which ones? Details/horror stories welcome!
I'll start: Belkin USB hubs. 2 failures in 3 years, WTF, a hub has no moving parts, no memory, no nada. No reason for it to fail. At least they have a lifetime warranty and ship replacements overnight
- LANjackal
Printers, all brands. PC load letter? What the fuck does that mean?
- Vezquex
Archos. 605wifi did it for me. Having to pay for stuff (plug-ins, web browser) that should be standard equipment is something I don't see myself doing again.
- Steve Lowe
Anything D-Link. My first wireless router by them crapped out within 15 min of installation. Currently on the line with tech support regarding a failed gigE switch of theirs. A Netgear switch I've had for much longer is still going strong, had to dig it out of a closet.
- LANjackal
Y'all are not gonna believe what D-Link tech support just told me: Even though the product is under warranty, I'm responsible for shipping a replacement out. I'm not too sure if the support rep - who's obviously on the other side of the planet - confused shipping the defective unit with shipping the replacement, but if it's the latter that's total BS. Apparently I have to call the RMA...
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- LANjackal
Monster cables (overpriced crap that I wouldn't even use for bathroom audio.)
- andrei_c
from iPhone
LAN, I'm not a big fan of either D-Link or Netgear. My Netgear router crapped out, and I have to re-boot my D-Link one about twice a week--more under heavy use.
- Steve Lowe
Monster is annoying to install, but trouble-free thereafter for me *shrugs*
- LANjackal
Denon receivers. Not for the performance or quality, those are top-notch. The remote is a relic from the 80s, and the on screen menu is as intuitive as an archaeological manuscript. Extremely frustrating to set up, and you'll def need a 3rd party remote.
- LANjackal
HP consumer PCs. I've heard more anecdotal horror stories about them than any other brand
- LANjackal
Lacie hard drives (noisy, too much heat, 2 out of 4 drives failed within 2 years.)
- andrei_c
from iPhone
Linksys, had a lot of problems with the WRT-54G routers and got my dad a newer one and it bricked multiple times whenever we upgraded the firmware. You all know my Sony history. Onkyo, their support and build quality has gone through the dumps.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
LOL, I remember me and Alex got into it over D-Link, he's had great experiences with them, I've had two routers be complete shit. I hated that thing so much when it died i tossed it out the window then ran it over with my car.
- Richard Lawler
I've had friends who've had trouble with a Netgear router blocking Windows Updates (sounds like a fishy story, but I never actually saw the hardware so whatever). No issues with the Netgear hardware I have currently. Previous Linksys router would crash under heavy load, but it's a compact model and was never intended for home use (built for travel) so that was expected. No other Linksys product I've used has given me any issues at all.
- LANjackal
It seems every brand has its share of problems. :)
- TrafficBug
Everything breaks if used long enough...even supposedly unbreakable backplanes like in a Cisco 6500.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Alex: there's a difference between eventual breaking from age (expected), and breaking early. When my HP inket quit after 7.5 years, although I replaced it with a Canon (better features) I'd still buy an HP printer because I normally expect something with that many moving parts to have a shorter lifespan. OTOH when something like a USB hub or network switch dies after 2 years, or a router quits right after setup, I may not want to touch your brand again
- LANjackal
Alex - WRT54G becomes a dream router after installing DD-WRT firmware on it.
- andrei_c
In terms of firmware, yes. In terms of hardware, it's since been outpaced by quite a few other models
- LANjackal
There's nothing the DD-WRT enables you to do that isn't enabled already in the DLink software. At least not that I've ever needed to use. And n-class wifi is worth the upgrade.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Apple. The first time I realized I couldn't play music I purchased on anything but an Apple device, I decided never again. Their ecosystem is fine for those who like/need that sort of thing, but its not for me.
- JCunwired
Linksys rocks. I've helped a lot of people set up home networks (100+ households, easily), both with their gear previously bought and my recommendations. Neither I nor they has ever had a Linksys fail, but both Netgear and Dlink have. I upgrade as speed and volume are needed and hand my old Linksys down, none of them has failed either to my knowledge. I have no problem with the other brands (I like a particular Netgear device now), but I do prefer Linksys.
- JCunwired
My experience with all the linksys routers i've used has been they've sucked in very specific, predictable and reliable ways. My d-link boxes? It was always an adventure figuring out how they were going to screw me this time.
- Richard Lawler
I have a Linksys WRT54G running over 5 years without a problem.
- imabonehead
Trend Micro, TrendNet KVM switches... one DOA in a couple months, other nearly disfunctional, down to one barely working USB port. As I recall support channel from the U.S. was only a long distance toll line to Europe, toll free only in Europe.
- Ed Millard
It's official: D-Link has the shittiest tech support/customer service ever. People who can't even get your name right
- LANjackal
LAN: Change your name to Koothrapali. I bet they'd have no problems with that one. :)
- Bubba Botts
FTR, I got Dlink to replace the switch for free. But while waiting for the replacement I dug up my old Netgear gigabit switch and slotted that in instead. The replacement D-Link will now rot away in my closet until called to duty, which will happen if I add any more ethernet devices to my living room as the Netgear's ports are all taken
- LANjackal
Mar 12, 2010: Jimminy wins this week with his guess of 10,632. DJIA closed up for the week at 10,624.69. Last week's guesses: http://friendfeed.com/dow-gue... Please leave your guesses for next week as comments on this thread and thanks for playing! Week 57 starts here.
The last few hours are going to be interesting, Alex has it now, but if it continues downward or spikes back up it could be TrafficBug or myself.
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
Yeah, 20 minutes 'til close it was dropping pretty fast down toward 10700, and I missed whatever caused the drastic turnaround at a quarter 'til. Closed at 10741.98 so TrafficBug wins. That was fun.
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
Quick Poll!! Given the choice between 1 really good slice of pizza or an unlimited buffet of moderately OK pizza for the same price, which would you choose?
I'm slightly disappointed that no one is supporting my initial choice of quantity over quality in my lunch options =( With that said, I will put on pants and head out for a good slice of pizza and then hit the bookstore. If I'm hungry in three hours Imma blame you though!
- FFing Enigma
how big is the slice? how hungry am I? generally I'll take the larger portion, thank you. I'd rather have average food and get full than a really good small portion and still be hungry when I'm done.
- chrisofspades
quantity, unless it's that school cafeteria shit
- Vezquex
I'd go with the latter because a single slice usually leaves me wanting more ... unless it's a really big slice.
- John (bird whisperer)
I'd go for quantity, but I'm a voracious little bugger who isn't concerned about calories, I prefer sustenance over quality, I'd rather not starve myself. I'd still go for the highest quality I could get from the mediocre unlimited deal. I also generally eat pizza by the pie, so one slice isn't going to suit me.
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
I've been working like that for sometime. 9-5 and retirement are things of the past. They were short-lived in our history at best.
- Melanie Reed
Melanie, retirement isn't a thing of the past, it just has to be redefined and refined to fit the future. Everything has to evolve.
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
Jimminy, there are many of us who won't get any retirement as some have been wiped out by this recession, some by divorce others by catastrophic illness. Look more closely when you go out at the number of older ones working service and unskilled labor.
- Melanie Reed
Also, the job framework is shrinking. The more things are automated, the less jobs will be available. You may get a chance to work in a nuclear plant (If that goes through) But did you really want to work there? ;) Even that at some point will under go automation because of the potential danger. If you decide to automate more and more jobs, you have the issue of figuring out how value...
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- Melanie Reed
There is an answer and hope but it isn't with mankind
- Melanie Reed
Retirement as it has stood, in the future, is shattered, but reframing it and all of one's life makes it possible again. I've found a sustainable way to build a home and own a rather decent plot of land(5-10acres) for the cost only $40-50k. That's for life, not including maintenance and taxes of course, but still it's extremely low. You just have to reframe the idea as being happy and...
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- Jimminy, CoG of FF
I agree with you that self-sustainability is the way to go for now and being content with what you have. Learning to provide for oneself rather than depending on the system to do it for you. the system is going away. Owning a small space of land and self-sustainability is one of the things that Chesterton saw as the better way of doing things in this present. Getting there for many will not be easy though.
- Melanie Reed
And I agree, for a large group of the elderly that saw their investments liquidated and swept away, they're probably going to have a hard time, some more so than others. They probably won't get to a second retirement state.
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
Any chance we might see more of FriendFeed system source opened up? A full blown FF personal/private instance behind a corporate firewall with the ability to customize and integrate with legacy systems could be a pretty slick workgroup communication system.
But with Tornado it wouldn't be terribly difficult to replicate the features. They've also described in some detail their database structure, but that wouldn't have to be exactly followed. And the real-time features can be done with most modern javascript platforms.
- Kevin L
A couple years ago, I built something cool and a little like FriendFeed on top of Movable Type. It basically aggregated corporate blogs and the comments associated. Wasn't real time, but at the time neither was FF.
- Kevin L
If you knew it wouldn't scale to more than a few thousand users, you wouldn't have to worry as much about super-optimized algorithms either. The main uses for corporate, from my experience, are status, sharing, aggregating, and conversation. These elements are quite simple. Real-time, friend-of-a-friend, IM, and such are just extras in that use case.
- Kevin L
Despite the fact that you do in fact use it in everyday life without a concious realisation about it, it's true value lies in training the brain in how to problem solve, bends the mind to new concepts and explains basic theories of how things work. The problem with that is if we only trained our kids to do the job they thought they wanted to do in highschool, how many of us are doing the job we thought we would be doing? The same people who bitch about this I would suggest bitch about poor service or lack of problem solving of Walmart and McDonalds cashiers. I'll take over-train than just enough any day.
- Johnny
from email
You would perhaps, but most employers I've applied to are saying I'm "over-trained". A bullshit excuse.
- Mo Kargas
A bullshit excuse, and no reason not to teach kids as much as possible... And your response to those employers should be "You're thinking too small. I offer you a chance to expand more than you know" (confidence is required in delivery, it got me my first office job at 19)
- Johnny
from iPhone
Hasn't worked for me yet Worthington, and I'm the most confident bastard ever. But still, kids should be taught all of it, if just for the love of science. Maybe one day Australia will shed it's anti-intellectualist stance. I just won't hold my breath.
- Mo Kargas
I think whenever you need to solve a problem using calculus and algebra it is possible to look it up using google or use mathway to solve the problem, instead of occupying your brains with calculus and algebra that 'memory space' can be freed up for other pursuits.
- TrafficBug
TrafficBug, how can you ask a question if you don't know how to ask it. I google stuff all the time but I have a reasonable guess in my head what the answer should come out as. Knowing why is more important than knowing what
- Johnny
from iPhone
It's at minimum a way to exercise your brain. If you end up using calculus in your life later, that's just a bonus. I took music in college and found that after years of music theory and analysis of music I was much better equipped for the career that I ended up with. And that career had nothing to do with music. It made my brain better at organizing, analyzing and processing data. Go figure.
- Josh Haley
TrafficBug, if that were the case, then we ought to teach 6th graders how to use Google and then end schooling right there.
- Jeff P. Henderson
"Years ago someone told me that he never learned algebra and has never had a need for it. But I've learned algebra and use it constantly. It's a lucky thing I was the one who learned algebra since I ended up needing it. But of course it's not lucky. I would not have had any use for it either if I'd not learned it. The difference between just-in-case and just-in-time is like the...
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- Ken Sheppardson
If I had to choose whether to teach kids calculus or statistics, I'd choose statistics.
- Amit Patel
Don't the Japanese and European school systems effectively require that you make a choice around the 6th or 8th grade level of what you are going to be when you grow up and then your schooling path is set in stone from that point forward? And, should you realize that your choice was a bad one, changing is extremely hard? I could'a sworn I'd heard that about life growing up in France and Japan, but it could'a just been a misplaced memory...
- Kamala Whitaker
Take Thursday and Friday off for the best two days of March Madness? Take some days off in June to go to Cedar Point? A week off to dedicate to a service project, perhaps one tied to your church? Follow a band in May/June for a week? Rent a cabin in the woods and retreat there with a stack of books? Make Mr B take you to Hawaii?
- RAPatton
from iPhone
may is a great time to come to hampton roads, virginia; not hot (yet, water may still be a bit cool for your tastes though), everything in bloom. just a suggestion, ;)
- chaz2b
I just got a usuck email from my emergency backup job. I'm a bit flabbergasted... I'm so sick of the overqualified/underqualified schpiel it's not even funny
gah! I went through the same thing in 2002-2003. Fingers crossed that things turn in your favor very soon.
- vicster
So sorry, Tina.... Have some comfort food and lots of (((hugs))). If you want to talk about hanging in there Skype me, baby: worldofhiglet
- WoH: Minding her Botts
Thanks all... I'm trying to take a step back today and reassess but it's proving difficult. I'm |>This<| close to making a dumbed down resume so I can at least get something somewhere. Which bothers me =/
- FFing Enigma
I'm sorry Tina. I hope things turn around for you very soon.
- Vicarbott
dammit dammit dammit. not the news I wanted to hear at all. :( So sorry T.
- G Dub of the Carolinas
"The world contains an unimaginably vast amount of digital information which is getting ever vaster ever more rapidly. This makes it possible to do many things that previously could not be done: spot business trends, prevent diseases, combat crime and so on. Managed well, the data can be used to unlock new sources of economic value, provide fresh insights into science and hold governments to account. But they are also creating a host of new problems. Despite the abundance of tools to capture, process and share all this information—sensors, computers, mobile phones and the like—it already exceeds the available storage space (see chart 1). Moreover, ensuring data security and protecting privacy is becoming harder as the information multiplies and is shared ever more widely around the world."
- See-ming Lee 李思明 SML
from Bookmarklet