<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Sufferin' Prius Envy @ Apr 1 2007, 04:21 PM) [snapback]416062[/snapback]</div> At first, I was jealous because Google tends to give stuff away to the Bay Area, and little ol' me in Georgia misses out on a lot of stuff from them. However, it turns out this is available in most areas! I signed up too! Thanks for the tip....
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Sufferin' Prius Envy @ Apr 1 2007, 03:21 PM) [snapback]416062[/snapback]</div> And if you are gmail user, you have to see their new "gmail paper" announcement today. http://www.gmail.com http://mail.google.com/mail/help/paper/more.html
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Sufferin' Prius Envy @ Apr 1 2007, 01:21 PM) [snapback]416062[/snapback]</div> I'm going to do the #2 right now! Wildkow
It's obviously a joke, but the URL appears to actually be Google. So, do they really have this much of a sense of humor? Or has someone managed to spoof the URL that appears in my browser's address bar?
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(daniel @ Apr 1 2007, 06:56 PM) [snapback]416135[/snapback]</div> Google has a sense of humor and tends to have one or two April Fools jokes a year. Here's one of the earlier ones... http://www.google.com/technology/pigeonrank.html Wikipedia even has a page of 'em http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google's_hoaxes
You all are so slow to get new technology. Mr Hanky and I are sharing a party line! I decided to follow the links to see just haw far they took this. Here's one of the links: http://www.google.com/tisp/notfound.html
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(TonyPSchaefer @ Apr 1 2007, 07:12 PM) [snapback]416220[/snapback]</div> Speaking of "party lines" . . . The sad thing is that toilet communications are a reality in some peoples' world. The State’s evidence also consisted of other testimony from witnesses to whom defendant had made incriminating statements. Angelletta Ferguson, an inmate who communicated with defendant through the "toilet phone system" at the jail,1 testified that defendant married Mud Duck to keep her from testifying against him. http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:rWxgxC...;cd=1&gl=us Now THAT is one system where latency and throughput are verrrrrryyyyy critical!!!!! :blink: