Each of their hands was saying, "Is this okay?" and waiting for the other's to move, "Yes, it's okay," before moving again. They were sending pulsed SYN/ACK/SYNACKs over a balky network.
Cory Doctorow: Walkaway
Kategorie: Allgemein
Transmission Consent Protocol.
Brace for AMPact.
But unchanging-ness... that’s really important. In fact, it’s the key thing about email. It is the biggest thing that email has over social networking or any of the hosted chat systems.
An email which is just a wrapper for content pulled from a website is no longer an unchangeable copy of anything.
Bron Gondwana (fastmail.com): Email is your electronic memory
Miaunsch.
Een mens geworden! Wat een gruwelijke straf. Voor geen duizend kanaries zou ik een mens willen wezen.
Tante Moortje in Minoes van Annie M.G. Schmidt
The Pizza Scale.
- Let someone else call a pizza delivery service for you.
- Call a pizza delivery service
- Go to a pizzeria.
- Let someone else get frozen pizza at a supermarket.
- Get frozen pizza from a supermarket.
- Buy pizza dough at a supermarket.
- Buy flour, tomato sauce and cheese at the supermarket.
- Grow your own tomatoes.
- Cycle to a farm to buy flour.
- Grow your own flour.
- ...
GMute.
Lately, you meet a couple of lost Linux buddies and they complain to you that you didn’t return their messages. You say you never received the messages, and shrug. You never have an idea why didn’t a message go through, maybe because they used the client that is not officially supported? But your buddies silently think that you’re a lying son of a bitch. What they don’t know is that you just want to be a Google fanboy.
Trương Nguyễn Hữu Huân: How did Google Talk change from a dream to a nightmare?