Usually, it's not for the dead, it's for the living. It's a last laugh you can give them, a last memory, a last reminder of who you were. Even if the email was filled with things I was already quite certain of, getting one from any of my dead family would be wonderful. When they're gone, they're gone. Having that reprieved for even a minute would be great.
I think the main difference in how you see it is experience with death. I imagine it's creepy as hell if death is creepy as hell to you. But when you've come to see the inevitability of it, actually experienced it in your life, it becomes just another aspect of existence.
Dead man's switch doesn't have this feature either, and I think it'd be really popular. I want more emails. Timed emails. I want to be able to have an email sent out on the anniversary of my death, separate ones for a ten year mark, on specific days of the year. As someone who's lost a lot of people over time, I just think it'd be awesome to have a person die and still be a part of your life like that. Even if it's just a "It's been a while. I just hope you know that I wish I could be there" type message.
Despite hating heat, I was considering going a couple years back. Even by then the general opinion had been that it'd become so commercial that going was pretty much pointless other than to just be able to say you were there.
It's really amazing how much talk about it there is out there in light of this fact. Every time I see an article about it, I get excited because obviously some concrete information must have just been released. Instead, it's just total speculation. We have a name, know it's targeted at netbooks, and that's pretty much it. It's like Gabbo times ten.
No idea on the smooth scrolling, can't stand it myself. But adsweep, pretty similar to the adblock extension on firefox, was one of the very first functional 3rd party extensions created for chromium.
It crashes X for you? I've been using chromium on linux for months, and I don't think that's ever happened for me. Not to say it's not a problem, but given that it's not even at an alpha state yet platform specific bugs are to be expected.
Playon has one huge flaw, it's windows only. It worked 'ok' for me running in virtualbox, but it's still essentially crippling a computer to use. Out of the five computers and laptops in our household, the only thing with native windows on it is an eee. Which has proven pretty lackluster for playon.
I understand why it's windows only, but doesn't make that fact any less annoying.
I'd have to say that the voicemail transcription is easily the best part of it. I never used grand central much, but the second that showed up in google voice I switched over to using it as my default.
It's the things that seem obvious that are often most in need of scientific study. We don't usually give much thought to the things "that everyone knows", and as a species we're pretty bad about not inserting personal bias into our observations.
I'm in my 20s and I consider it annoying. Though I think in large part simply because it's a joke that I've heard told to death my entire life. Microsoft for a lot of us has never been anything but a giant money obsessed corp that shit on its customers. Tired jokes about something as obvious as water being wet are annoying.
You're being modded funny, but that's actually been a very real issue I've struggled with. I don't like drm. I hate knowing that there's a good chance the 200 or so books I've bought on the kindle could fade in a cloud of smoke one day. But the ebook market is so small right now that I feel like I have to vote with my wallet to show people that there actually are people that will pay for ebooks. My hope, is that once that message is out we can move on to getting away from the drm. Ironically, a bit like what happened with apple and amazon on their online stores with digital audio.
That sums it up. Loyal, and blindly loyal are two different things. Being a loyal fan means having gone through part of voyager or enterprise. I think only the blindly loyal really stuck around after all that.
Well, yes and no. They won't read them if you just toss the mobi files on. Takes about ten seconds with a command line program to make them compatible though.
I haven't benchmarked it on windows, but on my linux system nightlies of chromium are coming in at three times faster than the nightlies of firefox with jit enabled on sunspider.
Not officially, but someone's been putting together frequently updated builds at
http://diego.caravana.to/software/google-chrome-mac-builds/
It seems to be a bit ahead of the linux version, but that also means it breaks more often.
Though you can also just build it from source.
Standard disclaimers that it's 'really' not ready for full use yet. But it gives a really good look at how things are coming along.
I've been playing around with the ongoing ports to linux and osx and have been really impressed so far. The linux port is now equivelent in speed to 2.0 on windows, tabs are functional by keyboard shortcut if not mouse yet, spellchecking is in, the startup time blows away all the other browsers on my system, and in general it's looking like a first class port instead of the afterthought I'd initially taken it to be. Obviously there's still a ton more to do on it, but the foundation's looking really solid.
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Usually, it's not for the dead, it's for the living. It's a last laugh you can give them, a last memory, a last reminder of who you were. Even if the email was filled with things I was already quite certain of, getting one from any of my dead family would be wonderful. When they're gone, they're gone. Having that reprieved for even a minute would be great.
I think the main difference in how you see it is experience with death. I imagine it's creepy as hell if death is creepy as hell to you. But when you've come to see the inevitability of it, actually experienced it in your life, it becomes just another aspect of existence.
Dead man's switch doesn't have this feature either, and I think it'd be really popular. I want more emails. Timed emails. I want to be able to have an email sent out on the anniversary of my death, separate ones for a ten year mark, on specific days of the year. As someone who's lost a lot of people over time, I just think it'd be awesome to have a person die and still be a part of your life like that. Even if it's just a "It's been a while. I just hope you know that I wish I could be there" type message.
Despite hating heat, I was considering going a couple years back. Even by then the general opinion had been that it'd become so commercial that going was pretty much pointless other than to just be able to say you were there.
None of us have ever even seen Chrome OS.
It's really amazing how much talk about it there is out there in light of this fact. Every time I see an article about it, I get excited because obviously some concrete information must have just been released. Instead, it's just total speculation. We have a name, know it's targeted at netbooks, and that's pretty much it. It's like Gabbo times ten.
No idea on the smooth scrolling, can't stand it myself. But adsweep, pretty similar to the adblock extension on firefox, was one of the very first functional 3rd party extensions created for chromium.
It crashes X for you? I've been using chromium on linux for months, and I don't think that's ever happened for me. Not to say it's not a problem, but given that it's not even at an alpha state yet platform specific bugs are to be expected.
Update: Found a tutorial to getting it all set up http://www.jpsaman.org/jpsaman/node/3/
Agreed, I'd be very appreciative if anyone could point us in that direction. Seems like it'd be a hell of a lot of fun to play around with.
More than someone elses podcasts, it bugs me that I can't just stream video from my hard drive over to the roku.
Playon has one huge flaw, it's windows only. It worked 'ok' for me running in virtualbox, but it's still essentially crippling a computer to use. Out of the five computers and laptops in our household, the only thing with native windows on it is an eee. Which has proven pretty lackluster for playon. I understand why it's windows only, but doesn't make that fact any less annoying.
I'd have to say that the voicemail transcription is easily the best part of it. I never used grand central much, but the second that showed up in google voice I switched over to using it as my default.
Wow, now that's a blast from the past. I used to love that show when I was a kid. Thanks for the reminder, added dvds to netflix.
It's the things that seem obvious that are often most in need of scientific study. We don't usually give much thought to the things "that everyone knows", and as a species we're pretty bad about not inserting personal bias into our observations.
I'm in my 20s and I consider it annoying. Though I think in large part simply because it's a joke that I've heard told to death my entire life. Microsoft for a lot of us has never been anything but a giant money obsessed corp that shit on its customers. Tired jokes about something as obvious as water being wet are annoying.
You're being modded funny, but that's actually been a very real issue I've struggled with. I don't like drm. I hate knowing that there's a good chance the 200 or so books I've bought on the kindle could fade in a cloud of smoke one day. But the ebook market is so small right now that I feel like I have to vote with my wallet to show people that there actually are people that will pay for ebooks. My hope, is that once that message is out we can move on to getting away from the drm. Ironically, a bit like what happened with apple and amazon on their online stores with digital audio.
I haven't rad defense of food, but super size me is a giant walking logical fallacy and omnivores dilemma is filled with pseudo-science.
That sums it up. Loyal, and blindly loyal are two different things. Being a loyal fan means having gone through part of voyager or enterprise. I think only the blindly loyal really stuck around after all that.
Well, yes and no. They won't read them if you just toss the mobi files on. Takes about ten seconds with a command line program to make them compatible though.
At least Nematodes provide a rich and interesting history of scientific progress. Nemesis just has data on a dune buggy.
I haven't benchmarked it on windows, but on my linux system nightlies of chromium are coming in at three times faster than the nightlies of firefox with jit enabled on sunspider.
Not officially, but someone's been putting together frequently updated builds at http://diego.caravana.to/software/google-chrome-mac-builds/ It seems to be a bit ahead of the linux version, but that also means it breaks more often. Though you can also just build it from source. Standard disclaimers that it's 'really' not ready for full use yet. But it gives a really good look at how things are coming along.
Or load up the "OMG!!! Ponies!" theme on slashdot.
I've been playing around with the ongoing ports to linux and osx and have been really impressed so far. The linux port is now equivelent in speed to 2.0 on windows, tabs are functional by keyboard shortcut if not mouse yet, spellchecking is in, the startup time blows away all the other browsers on my system, and in general it's looking like a first class port instead of the afterthought I'd initially taken it to be. Obviously there's still a ton more to do on it, but the foundation's looking really solid.
I wish it could be forgotten. But it seems to be the most significant point of failure in most desktop linux setups.