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A Curmudgeonly Look At Google Wave
rsmiller510 writes "For those of you who think Google Wave is all that and a bag of chips, I put on the brakes and give you a few questions to ponder."
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First Wave
Come on - 40 minutes attention span for the twitter folk is already impressive ;-)
Come on - 40 minutes attention span for the twitter folk is already impressive ;-)
I'm surprised they got past the first 20-odd words, and didn't give up at the first "@" symbol.
They're going to add a paperclip to the UI and whenever you type something that matches its filters it'll come up with a speech bubble saying "It looks like you're writing spam, would you like to ..."
Spammers will go back to the traditional approaches fairly quickly.
This guy is like and old man standing on his lawn shaking his fist as the future drives by and lobs a large bowling ball into his mailbox.
I, for one, have always missed keystroke-level chat. That's how it used to work in the old days of dial up BBSes and it WAS more efficient. I didn't have to wait for some slow-typer to finish hunting and pecking before I could start calling them retarded.
or else!
Is that all it takes these days to hit the antisocial psychopath arsehole level? Man, all this work for nothing.
Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. -- Susan Ertz
Geese, I wouldn't want "What did Google do right" for the million dollar question.
Geese? Google is raising birds, too? No surprise I guess.
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Google is raising birds, too?
For several years now.
Uh, Slashdot hasn't gone wave yet... If you're trying out that context based - auto correcting - spell checker from the demo... It isn't working here.
(there, they're, their)
I won't join Slashcott. OTOH, If Beta goes live, I just won't be back until it's fixed. Sorry Dice.
Its like the non-studying student in class who thinks he is so smart when he asks questions that will be answered in later in the same class, while everyone else who has kept up with the reading understood that aspect of the material before they open their mouths.
An Education is the Font of All Liberty
Which implies that it is a one-size-fits-all solution, because who on slashdot doesn't already know of noscript? Obviously, noscript would already have been considered and rejected, so why mention it?
... and then they built the supercollider.