not Sally; Joe
Greetings from the Yorkton public library.
I forgot to mention, not-Sally, that real-Sally will fuck with your GIFs.
I ducked my own gif actually. But yes, I'm well aware.
in other news ....
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/08/11/gmail_and_tragedies/
Terrific news! Potty mouths of the world, unite and take over. Thanks Joe (and Sally)
This is great but Joe, isn't an easier solution to avoiding getting ads on Gmail to not use fuckin Gmail? I realize some of the humor is about the overdetermined lengths people go to avoid things they don't have to sign up for in the first place but this still seems like a "Google is inevitable" argument.
There are many fine purveyors of email services out there who don't put a periscope into your underwear drawer.
Google is teh creepy. I still can't believe people sign up to be spied on.
The narrative of the page is from a "Google is inevitable" stance, but I think that the ultimate critique would be to wonder about using google at all.
I don't use google for mail, but do find myself using google docs more and more.
I was part of a group editing situation with Google docs and there were scary bugs like copying and pasting the entire page multiple times in the course of routine editing and having to figure out which repetitions to delete, knowing you might make a mistake and delete someone else's content. I was a nervous wreck by the end.
Google is inserting their heavy handed selves into every part of our world--mail, docs, maps, now their dumb browser.
Admittedly there are things you can't avoid, such as their search function and people sending you maps, which makes me all the more want to avoid the voluntary stuff, out of sheer cussedness. This stubborn independent spirit in the face of monopoly power makes most people yawn, I realize.
I had the opposite experience with docs. I was working on a class with two TA's and having a space we could share ideas that had a build in chat was great. We never experienced the scary bugs (although everyone was using a mac:)
We had about 10 people editing the doc and no chat. No idea how many of the 10 were Windows techno-office proles as opposed to artistic Mac-armed knowledge workers. Someone should do a paper on those class distinctions (old news but exacerbated by Jobs' hip dude campaign--it seems to be more and more two separate universes--if I told co-workers that people couldn't open certain files on a Mac everyone would have a hearty laugh and say who cares?).
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- sally mckay 8-11-2009 6:01 pm
- sally mckay 8-11-2009 6:06 pm
Greetings from the Yorkton public library.
I forgot to mention, not-Sally, that real-Sally will fuck with your GIFs.
- L.M. (guest) 8-11-2009 7:28 pm
I ducked my own gif actually. But yes, I'm well aware.
- sally mckay 8-11-2009 8:03 pm
in other news .... http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/08/11/gmail_and_tragedies/
- sally mckay 8-11-2009 8:38 pm
Terrific news! Potty mouths of the world, unite and take over. Thanks Joe (and Sally)
- thom (guest) 8-12-2009 9:55 pm
This is great but Joe, isn't an easier solution to avoiding getting ads on Gmail to not use fuckin Gmail? I realize some of the humor is about the overdetermined lengths people go to avoid things they don't have to sign up for in the first place but this still seems like a "Google is inevitable" argument.
There are many fine purveyors of email services out there who don't put a periscope into your underwear drawer.
Google is teh creepy. I still can't believe people sign up to be spied on.
- tom moody 8-12-2009 10:43 pm
The narrative of the page is from a "Google is inevitable" stance, but I think that the ultimate critique would be to wonder about using google at all. I don't use google for mail, but do find myself using google docs more and more.
- sally mckay 8-13-2009 3:54 am
I was part of a group editing situation with Google docs and there were scary bugs like copying and pasting the entire page multiple times in the course of routine editing and having to figure out which repetitions to delete, knowing you might make a mistake and delete someone else's content. I was a nervous wreck by the end.
Google is inserting their heavy handed selves into every part of our world--mail, docs, maps, now their dumb browser.
Admittedly there are things you can't avoid, such as their search function and people sending you maps, which makes me all the more want to avoid the voluntary stuff, out of sheer cussedness. This stubborn independent spirit in the face of monopoly power makes most people yawn, I realize.
- tom moody 8-13-2009 6:13 am
I had the opposite experience with docs. I was working on a class with two TA's and having a space we could share ideas that had a build in chat was great. We never experienced the scary bugs (although everyone was using a mac:)
- sally mckay 8-13-2009 3:53 pm
We had about 10 people editing the doc and no chat. No idea how many of the 10 were Windows techno-office proles as opposed to artistic Mac-armed knowledge workers. Someone should do a paper on those class distinctions (old news but exacerbated by Jobs' hip dude campaign--it seems to be more and more two separate universes--if I told co-workers that people couldn't open certain files on a Mac everyone would have a hearty laugh and say who cares?).
- tom moody 8-13-2009 7:39 pm