to be technical and follow gmail's logic, the issue is not checking labels for new mail, it's checking the archive for new mail. they don't expect you to archive mail that you're going to want to see. they want you to keep everything in your inbox and then search, rather than sort. if you want to see everything in your slashdot label (for example) you can click that and it will filter everything else out. then the notifier works and all your email is in the same place and searchable. and i still don't see the purpose of the notifier anyway, why not just keep a browser window minimized and glance at it every once in a while to see if the title has changed from "Gmail - Inbox" to "Gmail - Inbox (1)"? i want to see a gmail calendar next.
ahh how i long for the days when everything is free and open, we can share information over p2p on our linux desktops, we do all our research on wikipedia, and we all live in arcologies.
what do you think is the best niche to start converting the general public to trusting open source? they seem awfully wary of open source software and open source information sharing (perhaps rightly so), so how can we prove that it works?
oh and have people seen sketchzilla? it rules.
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i think this is a good thing. those of us that like up-to-date security and nightly builds and don't mind slightly more complicated installs can stick with the OSS linux/firefox model. Those that can't part with the idea of paying for software and like things dumbed down and easy can pay for something a little more standard and widely supported, but with essentially the same power and security because they're built from close forks.
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The best game i've ever played on a mac is Blobbo. Fantastically engaging puzzle game. I played it for five years on and off before i finished all the levels. Not sure if it's open source but it's very old and hasn't been touched since probably 95 so i don't think people will be too picky about liscencing.
Oh how i wish i could play blobbo again!
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to be technical and follow gmail's logic, the issue is not checking labels for new mail, it's checking the archive for new mail. they don't expect you to archive mail that you're going to want to see. they want you to keep everything in your inbox and then search, rather than sort. if you want to see everything in your slashdot label (for example) you can click that and it will filter everything else out.
then the notifier works and all your email is in the same place and searchable.
and i still don't see the purpose of the notifier anyway, why not just keep a browser window minimized and glance at it every once in a while to see if the title has changed from "Gmail - Inbox" to "Gmail - Inbox (1)"?
i want to see a gmail calendar next.
yeah here we only have worse and terrible
ahh how i long for the days when everything is free and open, we can share information over p2p on our linux desktops, we do all our research on wikipedia, and we all live in arcologies.
what do you think is the best niche to start converting the general public to trusting open source? they seem awfully wary of open source software and open source information sharing (perhaps rightly so), so how can we prove that it works?
oh and have people seen sketchzilla? it rules.
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i think this is a good thing. those of us that like up-to-date security and nightly builds and don't mind slightly more complicated installs can stick with the OSS linux/firefox model. Those that can't part with the idea of paying for software and like things dumbed down and easy can pay for something a little more standard and widely supported, but with essentially the same power and security because they're built from close forks. --
does anyone know why these trips are so much shorter? is it just faster jets, or lower air resistance, or earth rotation? or something else?
their game there is pretty cool, too.
The best game i've ever played on a mac is Blobbo. Fantastically engaging puzzle game. I played it for five years on and off before i finished all the levels. Not sure if it's open source but it's very old and hasn't been touched since probably 95 so i don't think people will be too picky about liscencing. Oh how i wish i could play blobbo again!