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A comment on the discussion "Any fellow librarians out there? How do you use PBwiki?" in PBwiki:

Hi, Corinne. I've just started a similar project. My library is expanding and digitizing our manual for library clerks. How is your project coming along? I can be reached at rmalino2 [at] uiuc [dot] edu – Residence Hall Libraries, about 3 hours ago

mdy replied about 4 hours ago to the question "Can Twitter users have the option of choosing Tweetburner as the URL shortening service (instead of TinyURL)?" in Twitter:

I've tagged the two similar threads with "url shortening service" to make finding them easier in the future.

thorax replied about 5 hours ago to the question "Can Twitter users have the option of choosing Tweetburner as the URL shortening service (instead of TinyURL)?" in Twitter:

Opening the door to other URL shrinking ideas would be awesome. See the similar request here:
http://getsatisfaction.com/twitter/to...

princesssarah replied about 16 hours ago to the discussion "Massively Multiplayer Online GTA?" in Rockstar Games:

Hahaha i've never played multiplayer before gta4 and its awesome as!i keep dieing.. its very addictive.but i reckon it takes to long to set up and stuff...expecially when people dont know what they're doing..i dont think when ive been playing ive actually ever gotten out of the specified area cos i keep dieing so i dont have any proplems with that. it would be good for more players but..more people like me who suck so i can kill them when they think i suck!all i can say is people should stop using the rocket launcher and use real guns..without the aim assitence! although i like the fact that i fly in the air when i die.haha anyways seeya!

Scott Fleckenstein replied about 17 hours ago to the discussion "Massively Multiplayer Online GTA?" in Rockstar Games:

Some of the original rumors for GTA4 were just that, if I remember correctly. I haven't yet played a full-up 16 person multiplayer game yet, but my intuition says you're right; the more the better.

It's all possible, especially when you get into some of the newer research around network protocols in games such as: http://research.microsoft.com/~lorch/...

That's a whitepaper describing a set of techniques to have a thousand concurrent players in a single FPS game playing together. The demo they have on channel9 was pretty breathtaking when I saw it last year.

When we reach that level, a massive, persistent GTA city would be an amazing thing to behold. All of the cool little stories that you see in GTA right now would only get even better as you put real people behind more of the characters.

cordless replied about 20 hours ago to the problem "You cannot get a prepaid iPhone plan from AT&T unless you are a deadbeat!" in AT&T:

I agree that the situation is unfortunate. more so because of the the overly heavy-handed terms Apple has inflicted upon at&t. I recently joined the usability team at at&t mobility and while I tend to share your view of at&t (and all cell carriers in general) I have had a very up close and personal experience with the apple mandate within at&t. In short, at&t was so desperate to carry the iphone they sold their, and our, control over the plan structure for an iSong.

My suggestion is to hold off on any iphoneuntil after the 2nd version and after it's unlockable without having to jailbreak it. Hopefully a competitor with an opensource mentality will come along and cater to the user community more effectively.

On a side note, I joined the at&t mobility team to work on the microsoft surface table experience. Apple made it very lear early on that they will never, ever permit an iPhone to interact with the Surface interface. They are very nearly violent about the issue. Sometimes I feel like an ant caught in a thanksgiving parade route when these overweight mega-ego companies get going at eachother.

I bought the nokia n95 8g. not a touch interface but a seriously cool phone just the same.

cheers

A comment on the question "Kindle support?" in O'Reilly Media:

We've proposed that to Amazon, and will continue to suggest it, but they are the folks you need to be asking about this. They seem pretty intent on providing content that they control, and I think they see Safari as a competitor. But we'd jump on this. That being said, all of the same issues discussed previously, about the Kindle's lack of monospace font support, apply to Safari on the kindle. – timoreilly, about 22 hours ago

Ali replied about 22 hours ago to the question "Kindle support?" in O'Reilly Media:

I see a lot of replies of getting O'Reilly books on the Kindle, but what about Safari? I wouldn't mind paying an extra 5 dollars or so a month just to access a Safari account from the Kindle.

amycs replied 1 day ago to the discussion "Got my iPhone wet, and Apple replaced it with a new one..." in Apple:

My iPhone fell into a cup of water today, only the top half was submerged and I pulled it out immediately, but of course it had to be the headphone jack end. I dried it off and rushed it to the genius bar only to be told the water seal is broken and they can't do anything. The guy was a total jerk to me as I cried in the middle of the Apple store, all I wanted was my phone numbers! So now I'm trying to let it dry out in my car in the heat and I'm going to put it in a bag of uncooked rice tonight. Anymore suggestions for me? When it first happened it looked fine, then lost service. So I tried to turn it off and then the apple logo showed up and then it went dead. AHHHH this thing is like my child! My whole life is in that phone!

Ted Grubb marked one of Scott Fleckenstein's replies in Get Satisfaction as useful. Scott Fleckenstein replied to the question "Does Get Satisfaction support Trac, SVN, Bugzilla, etc?". Ted Grubb and 3 other people think it's one of the best replies.

A comment on the question "Does it cost anything to become an REI member?" in REI:

Fantastic RuTemple! I like that you put the big perspective on becoming a member of such a great company. – Leslie Chicoine, 1 day ago

Brien replied 1 day ago to the discussion "Got my iPhone wet, and Apple replaced it with a new one..." in Apple:

I spilled beer on the bottom of my iphone on the right speaker and the charger port. it wasnt much but the message about changing to airplane mode popped up instantly and kept coming up for the rest of night night and next day, it still comes up sometimes but rarely now. the right speaker doesnt work. but the phone does still. the top water sensor in the headphone jack is white but i hear there is a second one, could this one be damaged if i spilled on the speaker? i spilled friday night, its now monday morning, and my battery wont last 2 hrs. is a broken speaker and bad battery enough to get a new iphone? thanks

timkant replied 1 day ago to the question "Can Twitter users have the option of choosing Tweetburner as the URL shortening service (instead of TinyURL)?" in Twitter:

Love the idea. Although Tweetburner is allready a succes, this can be the final breakthrough. Great concept, great elaboration and one of the best Twitter mash-ups i've ever seen, thought it's not really a mash-up, but still!

rex replied 1 day ago to the discussion "Got my iPhone wet, and Apple replaced it with a new one..." in Apple:

I dropped my iphone in the pool....it stayed submerged for 2 minutes until I dove to the bottom and got it. It did not work. I drove to Orlando, and of course, the Genius bar saw that the water seal was busted, they turned me away. 3 days later, I charge the phone, and VOILA....it works. Now what? is there anyway to exchange it?

Ben Koot replied 2 days ago to the question "Can Twitter users have the option of choosing Tweetburner as the URL shortening service (instead of TinyURL)?" in Twitter:

Great idea

Rebecca replied 2 days ago to the problem "'Official Reps' pop-ups are unreadable!" in Get Satisfaction:

Hi Scott, Thanks for replying so promptly. I hope a bug-fix will appear soon. :D

Thor, I'll sharpen mine eye and give you my humble opinion. :)

Thor Muller replied 3 days ago to the problem "'Official Reps' pop-ups are unreadable!" in Get Satisfaction:

Also, we're in the process of revamping this page so let us know what design changes you'd like to see regarding the display of reps and employees.

Scott Fleckenstein replied 3 days ago to the problem "7 character passwords suck" in Get Satisfaction:

What special characters are you using?

I use exclamation points in some of my passwords. If you can give us an example password (obviously not one of your real passwords, but one that fails to save) I can add it into our test suite and ensure those characters work.

Scott Fleckenstein replied 3 days ago to the problem "'Official Reps' pop-ups are unreadable!" in Get Satisfaction:

That's a bug Rebecca,

When the popup would appear off screen, it should appear coming out of the left side of the icon so that no matter where the icon is on the page the popup appears correct.

Larry replied 3 days ago to the problem "7 character passwords suck" in Get Satisfaction:

I think satisfaction should allow special characters in the passwords or at least tell people that special characters are not allowed.

Most of my passwords have special characters and the system just tells me that the passwords do not match - when they do.

special characters - good
unhelpful error messages - bad