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Google Announces New Google Wave "Wave" Notification
eldavojohn writes "Google has announced new Google Wave Wave Notifications where Google sends an actual person to you to notify you in real time that you have a new Google Wave update!" Word is that they hired as many as 10 people for these positions to deal with all the wave traffic.
lame
Its not funny anymore you twits.
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April first jokes were ever funny?
You had me until the 10 people bit when everyone knows 2 maybe 3 people could handle the wave traffic.
So...I'm sitting there on my computer when this hot girl comes up telling me there's been a response to my first "wave"...which was "Is this thing on?". It sat there, like a wet fart on a humid day for literally two months with no responses.
What does she do? Asks me if I want to pay her to play a game with her. As if! That's just wrong, google!
(We're currently trying to level my paladin, he's sitting at level 37. Sucks. She's better than I am...and getting paid to do it!)
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What most certainly is funny is all the people whining about how unfunny the articles are.
I thought it was Topeka now?
I'm so confused. :-(
This is what? Like the 4th Google related April Fools posting?
That's more than the number of people who will read this story.
Sorry about the mess.
Am I the only one who tried to watch the YouTube video in TFA in text mode? You would think they would try to coordinate some of these...
That's Topeka Wave to you!
Ninjas don't carry tic tacs
I keep instinctively asking that chick to show me her tits. What they hell have you done, internet?!
Why is it so hot? Where am I going? What am I doing in this handbasket?
Maybe back when they called the movies "The talkies" and Vaudeville was still around.
Here's a nickel kid, go buy an ice cream. Now 23 skadoo ya soda jerk!
is like watching Hollywood try to do geek stuff.
You guys are to humor what The Net and Swordfish are to computers.
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I think this is another Google's April First joke
No, it's legit. I've already tested it out mysef, and it worked as advertised. Sadly, I accidentally used the new Google Docs feature that allows you to upload ANYTHING to upload myself, so now I can't see the people waving. Hmm.
It would be more fun if they were interspersed with actual articles so you never really know which are which. Thats usually part of the challenge for an April fools jokes. But then all the joke was way to realistic posts would disappear.
That's a little overkill.
The Internet has given stupid people the resources of intelligent people.
I was able to unload my Wave invites for like $20 each on eBay when I got in on the ground floor. Haven't logged in since. :)
With the first link, the chain is forged.
I'm pretty fucking sick of reading your bullshit. It may be somewhat believable to the dullards that infest this place, but I know better.
Hopefully the moderators will help me (and themselves) ruin your karma.
+1 Funny = +0 Karama
-1 Troll = -1 Karma
+1 Informative = +1 Karma
A Troll Vs. Funny moderation war will ruin someone's karma.
Do the right thing.
3rd. 2nd of you consider Youtube separately.
For those of you looking to fill your meme quotient for the day... Yo dawg, we heard you like Google Wave, so we got a real person to wave at you while you wave at your friends from your wave.
^ it's a trap
complaining about a tradition many more people DO find amusing. It's one day, you know it's not real, get over it. No one thinks you're more cool or mature because you're 'above' this.
I know it's a joke but I still want it!
The above comments are the ravings of a lunatic and should be ignored completely.
This video stuff is funny because you can't stop it.
Click on the video. It's not hard.
"Frequently wrong, never in doubt."
I get jokes.
Shiny. Let's be bad guys...
At least it finally explains why they spent so much money on street view, it's so they can find you for the wave waves.
Orwell was an optimist.
I was thinking the same thing. But then I Realized that no company in their right mind announces anything on April first.
If I were God, wouldn't I protect my churches from acts of me?
You uploaded yourself? Just make sure the MCP doesn't notice you.
USE HOT GRITS WITH STATUE OF NATALIE PORTMAN (NAKED AND PETRIFIED)
You do know the upload feature just uploads a copy, without destroying the original, don't you? Your original self is still sitting at his computer in his mom's basement. You, on the other hand, are just an online backup. Sorry to break the bad news to you.
P.S. This really hot chick just walked in to deliver a "wave" to your original self. Unfortunately, she walked right back out again before he could take advantage of the situation.
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
who do u have to sleep with around here to get an article submission, my one about the Data Cable laying Ferets was much better than this tosh
Ok, so a city in Kansas is hiring people to go wave at other people? Do I have it right? Or is this an old story about Topeka?
See that "Preview" button?
Wave really needed such notifications; even the Firefox plugin wasn't really all that good.
But... are these human Google Wave notifiers configurable and themable? If not, I think that's a feature that really needs to be added. And, no, I don't want to have to use a theme editor just to get the kind of Google Wave notifier I like.
Now has a "3D" option that lets you use 3D glasses to view the page as though it was curved in a book?
I'm assuming this is an April 1 joke, right? Right?
If you don't know where you are going, you will wind up somewhere else.
Add the following filter to Adblock: http://s.fsdn.com/aprilfools/*
Done. Enjoy your April 1 merriment (and the one or two actual stories today) without all those odd (sometimes funny, but odd) videos.
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Funny story: I opened a lot of Slashdot tabs in Firefox today, bogging down my work PC with all the SlashRoulette instances. This caused Firefox to crash, and then reload a billion other Slashdot tabs, bogging the browser down harder and crashing it again. On the third restart I removed fsdn.com from my NoScript whitelist.
Hahaha you got me Slashdot.
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"This post contains words, known to the State of California to cause thought. Wash brain thoroughly after reading."
In my school, somebody just waved to me signifying something new in my google wave. Guess I have to start using "wave" again.
Computers can reverse entropy.
You must be new here...
OMG...Ponies?!!???$@
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........
You must be new here....
OMG...Ponies!!!!11!1
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........
OMG Ponies!! was classic, but most of the /. April Fool jokes are lame.
General Relativity: Space-time tells matter where to go; Matter tells space-time what shape to be.
Even though everyone around here is absolutely in love with Google, can we please not post every single April Fools joke that that company does?
Oof, that's got to sting.
All three users, on the other hand, were very happy with this development.
Well, the artificial intelligence is still trying to determine what humans find "humorous". It has realized that it can learn quicker by making multiple jokes per year. Once it has processed the results, it can keep us controlled with joke-embedded memes while it works on the extermination project.
In a few years the punchline will be: "Because all the humans are DEAD! Haha!".
Remember 2004 though, when they joked about launching a free email service?
Heh...