I sense that, if this catches on, you'll get a similar problem to cards and other novelty items which make sounds - malfunctions which cause them to NEVER - SHUT - UP!
I had this very experience at a birthday party I was at recently. The novelty candle thingie was cool at first, but no-one could get it to stop playing its cheesy tinny music. It got shut in another room, but we could still hear it... not sure what terrible fate finally silenced it...
Well, you could always use the similar, launching-at-the-same-time TwittAround to hunt down and slaughter Twitter users... that's pretty terminator-ish.
The only thing that would save them is stopping tweeting, then moving location... but how likely is that?!
To be fair, I live with a Polish family, and it seems Disney, Pixar and Dreamworks get their Polish dubs done properly - I was really impressed at the quality of the voice-acting on The Incredibles, Beauty and the Beast, and Shrek 2.
I've come accross one (badly coded) site where that stategy backfired on me. I typed my standard use-it-for-non-critical-sites 15 character passphrase - all seemed well and good. But then, when I tried to log in, it kept telling me I had the wrong password.
Turns out their form only saved the first 12 or so characters - but they hadn't limited how many characters you could type into the field, so I didn't know I'd typed too many. And guess what - the login form accepted more than 12 characters! Hence my borked login.
Fortunately I think that flaw got fixed when they upgraded their site, but I wonder how many more sites out there are broken like this...
I think one day, we'll look back at this period of needing umpteen different 8-16 character one capital letter one alphanumeric character passwords (changed each month!) with the same horror we now regard the times when the best solution to a serious leg injury was to cut the freaking thing off. With no anasthetic.
Maybe it's not directly analogous, but it's just as barbaric and wrong and crazy!
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They better be careful with those odds... that's dangerously close to a one-in-a-million chance, which everyone knows happen ALL THE TIME...!
I like that in your enthusiasm for all things private launch industry, you didn't notice that you'd loaded the wrong story to comment on... :)
Jobs: "If a CEO does it, it's not illegal."
I sense that, if this catches on, you'll get a similar problem to cards and other novelty items which make sounds - malfunctions which cause them to NEVER - SHUT - UP! I had this very experience at a birthday party I was at recently. The novelty candle thingie was cool at first, but no-one could get it to stop playing its cheesy tinny music. It got shut in another room, but we could still hear it... not sure what terrible fate finally silenced it...
Well, you could always use the similar, launching-at-the-same-time TwittAround to hunt down and slaughter Twitter users... that's pretty terminator-ish.
The only thing that would save them is stopping tweeting, then moving location... but how likely is that?!
Source http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/07/twitters-enters-meatspace-the-end-is-nigh/
Yeah, the same tech, different video. Horrible clipped audio though!
Yes, a map that apparently uses the iPhone's internal compass to orient it. Which means you can only use it on the new 3G iPhone.
...by a real opera singer. It's somewhat car-crash TV.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8195041.stm
Watch to the very end for another traumatic excerpt - about, erm... nuts.
To be fair, I live with a Polish family, and it seems Disney, Pixar and Dreamworks get their Polish dubs done properly - I was really impressed at the quality of the voice-acting on The Incredibles, Beauty and the Beast, and Shrek 2.
I've come accross one (badly coded) site where that stategy backfired on me. I typed my standard use-it-for-non-critical-sites 15 character passphrase - all seemed well and good. But then, when I tried to log in, it kept telling me I had the wrong password.
Turns out their form only saved the first 12 or so characters - but they hadn't limited how many characters you could type into the field, so I didn't know I'd typed too many. And guess what - the login form accepted more than 12 characters! Hence my borked login.
Fortunately I think that flaw got fixed when they upgraded their site, but I wonder how many more sites out there are broken like this...
I think one day, we'll look back at this period of needing umpteen different 8-16 character one capital letter one alphanumeric character passwords (changed each month!) with the same horror we now regard the times when the best solution to a serious leg injury was to cut the freaking thing off. With no anasthetic. Maybe it's not directly analogous, but it's just as barbaric and wrong and crazy!