@pantsonfireliarliar: please correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought that users had already selected to share this information on their google profiles. From my understanding, in order to follow someone you had to click follow.
@darx: Man, I'm in the same boat. I think buzz is pretty cool and I don't really get why everyone is freaking out. I also can't tell if it's just the same people who are always afraid of Google, the larger group of people who are aware of other twitter-esque services so they know what they are talking about or - most damningly for Google - is this the only pseudo-techie crowd who uses gmail but nothing else and for whom buzz would have been awesome if they didnt misstep at the beginning.
@Brian: Is this on the local news there at all? Is the school responding to this with a full-court press or are they trying to brush it off?
@genpetahhhh: I imagine. Lifehacker has run tons of articles about people doing this with their own laptops. There is a HUGE difference however between whatever you do to recover lost material and whatever you do with intentions of surveying students.
@Max_Power_Turbo: yeah, i just installed whatever 3rd party apps i wanted on my iPad this morning too. I am really impressed by the openness of the iPad in letting you choose any applications mommy, er Apple has said I can have.
@DigitalGlass: really? some of my games have been much perkier on 7...except for the ones that don't work at all anymore
@slickrick23: did you try running the game .exe directly using compatibility mode? I have the same problem with KOTOR and am looking to try out compatibility mode later today
@Odin: Yeah, realized this later. Damn you Jobs!
I find this quote particularly funny given that some of what is supposed to be great about the iPad IS the processor. For the first time since switching to Intel Processors for their computers, Apple is actually producing and innovating something in the guts of their hardware - and the something is a great processor that will compete with Intel's atom as well as ARM processors in a meaningful way.
@v6sonoma: Guys, guys - Jesus...was a Jew!
@nmalinoski: oh i see, you explained the joke to make it less funny. That was good.
@CapriceZefron: oh sweet god I hope this wins...uewgh...
@soulfinger: I'm sure it is a matter of luck when getting one or several bad or less-than-competent employees, but I've been in a couple times and everyone behind the counter was snide and unhelpful. I once went in because my sister's MB was having wireless problems but my mom's was not - the guy behind the counter said it was our problem because we didn't use an Airport Express.
Somehow, even though one MB worked and one did not, it was not the faulty Macbook that was the problem, but was my fault for assuming that multiple devices claiming to work on a IEEE protocol - 802.11G - would work even if they weren't designed by Apple.
...I feel better now...
@windupbird81: i dont think you can get any kinda of laptop screws at home depot, can you?
@ASOT: I respect it when businesses do this actually - as long as it is because I am paying less than one of these minimum amounts. They are being honest with me that the surcharge is because of me using a charge and I have an option to avoid it. It really does suck for the small shops - whether sketchy liquor stores or mom & pop coffee houses if they are losing $.35 of their direct profit on a 5 dollar purchase which probably nets them less than a dollar of profit anyway.
I don't like the slick back of the iPhone so I use an Air Jacket which is thin as possible while still being matte.
@AmphetamineCrown: I think the two positions you have show where Google exists - in both a positive and negative fashion for the company. The trust people have for Google is based on years of "do no evil" but as they grow they have had to compromise - whether to further business or to further "indexing human knowledge" in a humanitarian light is hard to say. They have a very tough job of continuing to convince the technorati - their most ardent supporters and their most suspicious followers - that they are making the right compromises and not allowing their mantra to become hollow.
@Jarerex: Completely agreed. I have no serious complaint against Google's overwhelming power but it is overwhelming. Google is a monopoly in that they use power (money) in one market (online ads) to exert power and undercut pricing in other fields (everything else for the most part - especially gmail, android, google voice, google docs - even chrome in that the research is paid for via advertising). The question is how they deal with competitors in those spaces - buying them up or driving them out of business is bad and will bring tons of attention while encouraging competition will be a VERY good move.
@libelle47: hm, that actually sounds like a great idea - maybe something i could run on my server
Would offering up a server as a tor node be akin to doing this?
@ads2k2: still free as in booze. And tons of google's stuff is free as in linux too. Nothing in life is free as you are talking about without the asterisk - gifts from parents demand love or something in return, free product is just a very physical version of advertising, etc.
The anonymous* part is right no though.
