(And FFS, mods, the parent is not insightful, interesting, or even remotely relevant. It's simply bitching by a lazy person who can't be arsed to do a simple web search.)

Actually, you you might be the uninformed arse here. Last time I tried (and *I* actually tried, not just googled it and then ran my mouth on /.) to install Etherpad it was not a straightforward install, the source was full of hard-coded crap, it lacked many of the features the website had, the docs were bad, and when it finally got up and running it was flakey.

Yes some people have had success, but Google put almost no effort or man power into it, and it was in many ways a better tool than wave.

Umm...

Quiet Quail?

Or is there some reference I'm not catching...

Not directly affiliated with her (my girlfriend did work for her last year around this time, though), but the gal at Leaf Cutter Designs makes some pretty neat/cute/cool gifts. It's not too late to write your S.O. (note, that acronym is not for the also excellent Stack Overflow) a short message delivered by the world's smallest post office. She does other neat stuff, too. If you're SO is of the creative/craftsy persuasion she'll probably appreciate something there.

http://leafcutterdesigns.com/shop.html

My best 'stunt' was a singing telegram to my girlfriend's (same one) dorm a few years back. Definitely a hit. This year is dinner at a surprise location which we always walk by and she says "aww, we should eat there sometime, its cute". You don't have to go too crazy, just let her (or him, ladies!) know she's special and that you've been paying attention.

This is why I keep my password file encrypted. Any I don't use that standard '.txt' extension either. Mine is 'passwords.rot13'... no one would ever guess that!

Sounds wonderful... if only it would work on Verizon's network :o(

I suggested more porn...

You must not be new here.

Let's be honest here. What you really meant was:

Do not interfere with my dream of watching mile-high club webcasting!!

Right, because:

/. == BBC

Obviously validates to True.

Then I can take the loan money and buy kilos of cocaine^Hdollar bills with the money...

What's the street value of a kilo of "cocaindollar"?

If you have any other questions, feel free to ask. I can provide detailed equations like E=mc^2 and c=pi*r^2 if you need them.

Ok, I know that m is 1000 and I think pi is supposed to be 3.2 ...

So plugging that in gives me E=1000((3.2r^2)^2)

But what is r then, mister smarty pants??

Ahhh, my apologies. Yeah, I know about the Loongson. What I was wondering is where you can buy these Atom-comparable Loongson laptops. Glancing at the bottom of the Wiki page you linked to, only two companies have claimed to sell these (outside of China). One turned out to be a scam, and the other is the one I'd heard of which doesn't appear to actually be selling anything yet (and when it does is estimated at almost 400 Euros). So where are you seeing them?

[citation needed]

Not because I don't believe you or think you're wrong, but because I haven't seen anything of the sort reported and I'm actually curious. I've only read about MIPS laptop and it wasn't much differently priced from its x86 brethren.

Before you go throwing stones you might want to realize that not everyone works in the same environment as you[, jackass]. Or with the same budget. Or time.

He didn't say he lined up 100 machines and sat down in front of each of them and did the install one-by-one, forever ignorant of the multitude of ways one can streamline the process. He said he did "a lot". And frankly, as someone (who is also a IT Professional) does Windows installs on occasion, I'd be annoyed too if the install process changed every time. And yes, thank you, I know about and use such mind-boggling concepts as "disk imaging" and RIS.

Might I suggest you google "greater dickwad theory" and think about it for a minute before condescending next time?

...if people like it, and if the entrenched players do not provide it, they will lose users pretty fast.

How? If it isn't not pre-installed and easy to use from the default setup on people's computers and phones, it won't go anywhere.

Facebook/myspace/twitter/etc are not pre-installed, and they seem to be doing ok for themselves.

I hate this move-the-client-into-the-browser as much as the next person, but part of the reason that Wave could work (for normal everyday user-types) is that it works in webbrowsers. Safari, Firefox, and Chrome... who knows maybe even IE8 will eventually work. It'll even work in phones - the demo showed an iPhone and an Android phone.

Who's going to switch to it if their friends are still using AIM or MSN and they won't be able to talk to them anymore?

As another post pointed out, writing "robots" appears to be pretty easy, and I don't imagine it'll take long at all for a robot gateway to be written to these other services (it may already exist).

Hey, cool story bro.