Oooh. Which one did you pick?
I'm sorry, dad. You know I would never have tried to save River's life if I had known there was a dinner party at risk.
Simon ,'Safe'
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dcp - Feb 12, 2010 7:07:49 pm PST #12823 of 25501
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
Typo Boy - Feb 12, 2010 7:26:24 pm PST #12824 of 25501
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Yeah, I'm going to go on using google for email. Its not like Comcast or the paid email services follow a "don't be evil policy".
§ ita § - Feb 12, 2010 7:29:33 pm PST #12825 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I'm evaluating the Cliq. I figure this way I can get a sense of the OS in a package I can return. If I hate it, it goes back. If I totally fall for the OS maybe I return it and get an unlocked Droid, which I won't be able to return.
So far I'm grumpy about the lack of native OS X integration. And I don't have a primary gmail account with all my contacts. Although I do have a gmail account for my phone I'll populate if I can work out how.
megan walker - Feb 12, 2010 7:32:06 pm PST #12826 of 25501
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
It bums me out because gmail is my private email.
§ ita § - Feb 12, 2010 7:56:07 pm PST #12827 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Oh, it's fuckery, no doubt.
I wonder what the motivation was--a new geek toy that didn't get thought through? A marketing decision where opt out was thought perfectly viable, even if it's something you have to read up on to work out how to do?
I'm still not entirely sure why I want a Buzz. Why it's different from Twitter or Facebook statuses or even Google Wave. And know what! So not going to bother looking, since it doesn't seem you can experiment without poking holes in the fabric.
Jessica - Feb 13, 2010 3:41:48 am PST #12828 of 25501
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I wonder what the motivation was--a new geek toy that didn't get thought through?
I'm guessing this.
I'm mainly surprised to learn that apparently nobody at Google has ever used Facebook, or surely they would have realized that an opt-out model is never a good idea! (Especially when opting out is so fiendishly difficult - why no Google Buzz settings tab, for instance? And *especially* when you're talking about publishing people's private email addresses!!!)
Steph L. - Feb 13, 2010 6:55:48 am PST #12829 of 25501
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
I'm mainly surprised to learn that apparently nobody at Google has ever used Facebook
Or even heard of the concept.
I also don't know why they need Buzz when they have Wave (though I still don't actually understand how Wave works, either).
The reason I jumped on Gmail back in the day was that it was so SIMPLE. They really need to stop complicating my shit up.
§ ita § - Feb 13, 2010 7:22:06 am PST #12830 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I've worked out how to synch iCal with Google calendars. Because of the presence of the Missing Sync product for Android I'm assuming there's no simple way to synch OS X contacts with Google contacts?
Tom Scola - Feb 13, 2010 7:53:17 am PST #12831 of 25501
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
You can sync your Mac address book with Google, too.
§ ita § - Feb 13, 2010 7:58:44 am PST #12832 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
How? I'm not seeing instructions that don't assume I have an iPhone.