A Curmudgeonly Look At Google Wave 197
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CmdrTaco
from the get-your-cynic-on dept.
from the get-your-cynic-on dept.
rsmiller510 writes "For those of you who think Google Wave is all that and a bag of chips, I put on the brakes and give you a few questions to ponder."
First Wave (Score:5, Funny)
First Wave
Re:40 minutes (Score:5, Funny)
Come on - 40 minutes attention span for the twitter folk is already impressive ;-)
Re:40 minutes (Score:5, Funny)
Come on - 40 minutes attention span for the twitter folk is already impressive ;-)
I'm surprised they got past the first 20-odd words, and didn't give up at the first "@" symbol.
Re:What about spam? (Score:3, Funny)
Spammers will go back to the traditional approaches fairly quickly.
You damn kids! (Score:5, Funny)
This guy is like and old man standing on his lawn shaking his fist as the future drives by and lobs a large bowling ball into his mailbox.
I, for one, have always missed keystroke-level chat. That's how it used to work in the old days of dial up BBSes and it WAS more efficient. I didn't have to wait for some slow-typer to finish hunting and pecking before I could start calling them retarded.
Re:Noscript/adblock doesn't solve the problem (Score:5, Funny)
Is that all it takes these days to hit the antisocial psychopath arsehole level? Man, all this work for nothing.
Re:Too integrated (Score:3, Funny)
Geese, I wouldn't want "What did Google do right" for the million dollar question.
Geese? Google is raising birds, too? No surprise I guess.
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Re:Too integrated (Score:3, Funny)
Google is raising birds, too?
For several years now [google.com].
Re:Rebuttle (Score:3, Funny)
Uh, Slashdot hasn't gone wave yet... If you're trying out that context based - auto correcting - spell checker from the demo... It isn't working here.
(there, they're, their)
Re:Rebuttle (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Noscript/adblock doesn't solve the problem (Score:3, Funny)