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Did Twitter molest you as child?
Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but one should have an informed opinion after using it for a period of time longer than 5 minutes.
You know I love ya man, but this just seems weird coming from you. At least Rob used the damn thing for awhile before he made well-reasoned arguments against it.
Now excuse me while I go tweet about you hurt Twitter\'s feelings :-D
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Now, I will respond to you! (And for the record, try cocomment again, it\'s a good way to keep everything together)
--Bah! I thought the point was that Twitter was fundamentally different from email and IM? Now you\'re saying it does the same thing, but with fewer characters allowed? No, this is an outdated SMS texting thing, and it\'s a dumb restriction given the data availability out there. In other words, texters should be able to send longer TMs as well.
Think of it this way, if you were allowed to type more than 140 characters, the conversations would get even longer and harder to comprehend. Also, this is a service that many people only use from their mobile phones. Too many characters is too hard to type and too hard to read on a small screen. The 140 character limit is a huge plus to me.
--Sorry, but that\'s just not an accurate analogy. It\'s not like hanging out with friends in a bar at all, it\'s like standing behind a crowd of friends in the middle of a discussion, without them knowing you\'re necessarily listening or not, without exchanging greetings when you walk up, and without you getting the 10 second conversation dump that always happens in those cases.
I disagree, to me it\'s like Kimono\'s. It\'s loud and there are several different conversations going on. You could be standing in the middle and hearing parts of each. You could even hear parts of one conversation while engaged in another. To me, the analogy is more for hearing what\'s going on and responding/ripping on each other. That can happen in IM and email, but you aren\'t going to send something like that on a whim. Whereas here, it is more whimsical.
--tweets are *supposed* to happen several times a day, FB updates are supposed to happen less frequently, and as a result people usually put more thought into their FB updates.
Who are you, the status police? Why are FB updates supposed to happen more infrequently? One of my favorite things was seeing everyone\'s status changes.
Anyway, there is an easy way to filter that too. At the bottom of your facebook newsfeed, click Preferences. You can then add people to the More About this person group and Less about this person group. This allows you to see more of what you want, less of what you dont.
--You\'re kind of making my point for me, though. You\'re tweeting instead of blogging. That\'s a bad thing for the community as a whole, though I\'ll agree it is easier for you personally.
No it\'s not bad at all. The reason why is, I would probably never get around to blogging those things anyway. So, at least this way I got the thoughts out there. And besides, I dunno if I can call this a valid criticism from someone who posts approximately once every other month :-p
The fact that you post so infrequently is bad for me, because I always enjoy reading your posts. Um, so POST MORE DAMNIT!
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1. iTunes. When you buy a song, it has DRM protection to not allow you to do anything with it except play in iTunes and on your iPod. That DRM is the fault of record companies, not Apple. You would have the same issue buying a song on Napster or Yahoo music and trying to edit it in a Windows program.
2. iLife 08 is the answer, but it just wasn\'t a feature they thought people would use back then I guess. The camera is pretty low quality and they thought that maybe no one would use it. Dunno, but I agree, it should work.
3. Agreed, you SHOULD be able to download it, dunno why they don\'t allow that.
4. Go to applications, find the app, drag it to trash. It\'s normally that easy. We\'re so accustomed to all the stuff we have to do in Windows to uninstall that the easiest solution isn\'t that obvious.
5. DMG stands for Disk Image. It\'s basically mounting software like a drive for you. When you double-click on it, it mounts and then shows you the contents. If developers do it right, the software will have an installer (or the app to drag to the applications folder) and a read me. Most times it actually says "Drag the app to applications to install." If you aren\'t seeing that type of thing, I would blame the developer of the software more than Apple. I think most people would double-click the DMG file, and doing that should get them to a state to install.
Trust me, I struggled with a lot of this at first too, but then I realized that they\'ve made certain things so simple that I was looking too hard. Anyway, no flames here, but if that\'s your whole list, you have a wonderful computing environment :-)
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And I understand that some people can\'t stand profanity. That\'s fine. This blog is not for them then.
I\'m not blogging as a face of a business or company. I\'m blogging as me. As such, I\'ll go back to the living room analogy. This is like talking to me in MY living room.
It\'s not what I consider a public forum. People are coming HERE to read me, not congregating in a public place.
The reason this annoys me so much is that Chris, you make it cut and dry. If you have profanity, you should not be allowed to be nominated.
So I\'ll ask the question again (which you avoided once already.) Am I a good representative of the Domino blogging community?
By your all or nothing estimation, the answer would HAVE to be no. I just think you need to have wiggle room.
Nice to hear from you David. I do agree, we need more new voices, and it would be nice to be able to get more people involved always. We may have some stars as you say, but most of those people are very inclusive types. More so then I see in other venues. But anyway, I do get what you are saying about awards in general. And I do agree for the most part.
Anyway, fun discussion :-)
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I was noticing some thinning, but thank goodness I took your advice. I wouldn\'t want to be bald for winter!
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