[lbo-talk] Twitter: >40% pointless babble

HMFJ hardwin1 at googlemail.com
Sat Aug 15 23:21:06 PDT 2009


(I mean, last sentence without "both" in it - originally said "both the image and the words" ;)

On 8/16/09, HMFJ <hardwin1 at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> Joe -
>
> The nights (?) of the army
> Little Diouf came from Ougadougou with his comrades, the children of the
> troops of the A.O.F. (French Occidental Africa), to open the fantastic
> spectacle the French Army presented at the Palais des Sports this week.
>
> So one could surmise both the words would also have stuck in Foucault's
> craw!
>
>
> On 8/16/09, // ravi <ravi at platosbeard.org> wrote:
>>
>> On Aug 15, 2009, at 5:54 PM, "Jordan Hayes" <jmhayes at j-o-r-d-a-n.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Ravi writes:
>>>
>>> My problem with terms like "real time web" is that they
>>>>> are marketing jargon or denote opinion trends and don't
>>>>> really demarcate anything
>>>>>
>>>>
>>> But you have to admit, it's much better than the old batch-mode-web we
>>> used to have. I still have some of those punch cards.
>>>
>>
>>
>> Yeah man do you remember HTTP 1.0 when you sent in a request via RS232
>> escape sequences and then waited for your upstream UUCP guy to batch down
>> you web pages every alternate day? That used to suck! And then Marc
>> Andreesen and Sir Berners-Lee and Ashton Kutcher wrote up RFC54757 -- "real
>> time extensions to TCP keep-alives to make HTTP less sucky" ... Or was it my
>> old acquaintance Schulzrinne with RTP... All I know is I can't go back to
>> living batch mode... I WON'T!!!
>>
>> -- ravi
>>
>>
>> Yes that's right; I name-dropped Henning. How sad is that? ;-) Should I
>> have gone with Al Aho?
>>
>>
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