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Line Forms At Apple's Always-Open Manhattan Cube
SpectreBlofeld writes "According to EngadgetMobile, a line has formed in front of Apple's flagship Cube store in Manhattan. From the article: 'So word on the street (literally) is that a large number of people are queuing in line outside of Apple's flagship store on 5th Avenue in New York City — keep in mind the Cube is open 24 hours a day. Our intrepid girl-on-the-scene reports that the group is more than 60-deep, though most people seem confused about what they're waiting for, but some believe they're actually camping out for a 3G iPhone.' Prank, or mass hysteria?" I wonder if the crowd already has its own Flickr group set up -- if not, what are they waiting for on that front?
Mod parent down - he's a known dis-info agent for Apple.
Isn't twitter and gnutoo the same user? I don't know if I would put much faith into the words of a known troll.
Those who can, do. Those who can't, sue.
Personally I find that "article" of his to be a good example of why so many people are turned off by "advocates" like twitter. He clearly had no intention whatsoever to buy a Mac, but it probably made him feel good to play the victim when the hapless Apple employees wouldn't give him "GNU/Linux" quickly enough on boxes that are supposed to work (and be supported) as a full hardware/software solution. Instead of just using Google to see if someone else had gotten Debian Woody to run on a Powerbook, he has to walk in there, make life difficult for total strangers in the name of fighting "injustice" and then stomp out and write up a long whine with cheese about the whole traumatic experience.
That's just dreadful.
On the other hand, I think he's pretty much stopped pretending now. I'm not sure if that's good or bad.
(I'll take my offtopic moderation now)
The twitter monologues. Click on my homepage and be amazed.
I'm going to Church because the end is near and Hell hath frozenth overth.
Oops, sorry, I didn't notice that the OP was gnutoo (twitter) referring to twitter. Mod me stupid for not reading who's posting what... (I only ever look at sigs)
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
I was confused too, I wasn't sure if gnutoo was a puppet. The journal he posts to is interesting enough - it seems twitter can't help but upset people wherever he goes, even if he realises what is happening and tries to 'fix' it, he ends up making things worse. I wonder how it got to the stage where he needs to have conversations with himself o_0
which is totally what she said
Never been in a Mac store... is their version of "Geek Squad" really called "Geniuses", or is that a slang term for them?
It's sad either way, in different ways.
No, he's not. But you meant Markov Engine, right?
That's a really cool project, BTW. Unfortunately it has a EULA the size of Texas that scared the bleep out of me when I first saw it.
Oh um, Apple stores are shiny. <-- THIS GETS ME ON TOPIC KTHXBAI
Web2.0: I love when people Flickr my cuil and digg my boingboing until my google is reddit and I start to yahoo
Fear the power of Twitter users. I saw a rather scary keynote at Microsoft's REMIX conf. this week - with a Twitter using describing the ability of Twitterer's to pool their collective twitterings to bring bad PR for companies/people they don't like. The speaker called it "Instant Karma". Like forums, but faster.
In case you're wondering that was a joke. :)
I'm pretty much getting used to the moderation now. I've stopped posting when he's replying to himself, but I can't help replying to someone who asks if an account is one of his sockpuppets.
The twitter monologues. Click on my homepage and be amazed.
Yeah, no kidding. Last I heard, Twitter was essentially a miniature blogging service where people post short little descriptions of what they're doing all day from their cell phone, which gets spammed out to everyone who has subscribed to their mini-blog thingie, so they can all keep track of the tedious minutiae of each other's lives.
Is Twitter also the name of a Slashdot troll now? I've only seen the whining about it, never the actual posts being whined about.
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The parent AC has nothing better to do? Between 5:00 and 6:15 pm EDT, Twitter wrote 11 posts through 4 sockpuppet accounts. He was jumping back and forth between 3 sockpuppets for most of the 5:00 hour.
I guess that makes him a loving husband and father, since he kept it under two hours.
(And before you snark about my time: That took me all of five minutes to figure out.)
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.