The longer the gaps between our acts of communication get, the bigger is the difference between the person we think we are sending a message to and the person who will actually receive it.
Schlagwort: Kommunikation
Aufstehbombe!
Saft, Saft, Saft!
Uno, Uno, Uno!
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child of the week
Crapgnature.
It should be a crime to insert automatic signatures advertisements for phones or anti-virus scanners into emails. Nobody would allow Montblanc to automatically add their name to all the love letters and contracts written with their pens.
Transmission Consent Protocol.
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
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.
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