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i have been thinking that a programm turning your x1 into some sort of spy cam would be a coll idea. if you dont know what i mean by that:
it should for example be able to
-take photos at a user defined time interval
-set the camera resolution
-hide the camera screen on the display
-save the pics to a specified folder
-maybe start taking pics at a certain time
-etc
this would also make it possible to easily take a series of shots over the day or even week to see a plant growing or what so ever...
unfortunately i didt have the time to really get into wm programming but i also didnt want withhold my ideas from you all and maybe somebody interested could even try this out.
so let me know what you think, plz.
lDeMoNl said:
i have been thinking that a programm turning your x1 into some sort of spy cam would be a coll idea. if you dont know what i mean by that:
it should for example be able to
-take photos at a user defined time interval
-set the camera resolution
-hide the camera screen on the display
-save the pics to a specified folder
-maybe start taking pics at a certain time
-etc
this would also make it possible to easily take a series of shots over the day or even week to see a plant growing or what so ever...
unfortunately i didt have the time to really get into wm programming (More like you can't, and are not willing to learn and just want someone else to do the work for you ) but i also didnt want withhold my ideas from you all and maybe somebody interested could even try this out.
so let me know what you think, plz.
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Demon,
I smell someone planning to do naughty naughty things. But okay, I'll try to believe that you sincerely want this application for the suggested idea of watching a plant grow .
Cheers.
well, i gotta defend myself at least a little bit
its true that im not into programming for any mobile devices but i sure am programming for the pc. im not programming too much and im of course no programming crack but im doing my best and try to get some little things done whenever i got time...
and i also know how that whole thing might sound, of course naughty things are also possible =)
but still anybody has to decide for themselves what theyre gonna do with this app. and i actually think most ppl in this forum are a little too old for kids stuff like upskirt shots or whatever...
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well, i gotta defend myself at least a little bit
its true that im not into programming for any mobile devices but i sure am programming for the pc. im not programming too much and im of course no programming crack but im doing my best and try to get some little things done whenever i got time...
and i also know how that whole thing might sound, of course naughty things are also possible =)
but still anybody has to decide for themselves what theyre gonna do with this app. and i actually think most ppl in this forum are a little too old for kids stuff like upskirt shots or whatever...
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obviously you want to take pictures of girls. Duh.
think whatever you wanna think, but thats no reply to what i asked at the first place...
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I smell someone planning to do naughty naughty things.
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poetryrocksalot said:
obviously you want to take pictures of girls. Duh.
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If its not women, maybe men then? (Hey to each their own -no offense!)
-Seriously though |DeMoN| why else would you want silent picture taking, with blanked out screen?
Surely the plants would grow just as well with loud "Clicks" and obvious photo-taking in screen ...no?
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obviously you want to take pictures of girls. Duh.
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Poetry,
Or you know, take pictures of activities in which another person might not have consented to having their pictures taken .
I just personally feel that this program is seriously asking for legal troubles. And you'd be surprised as to how many sick, perverse people there are out there who will easily abuse this "program".
If you "really" want this program TC, make it yourself and use it yourself. Simple as that.
Cheers.
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If its not women, maybe men then? (Hey to each their own -no offense!)
-Seriously though |DeMoN| why else would you want silent picture taking, with blanked out screen?
Surely the plants would grow just as well with loud "Clicks" and obvious photo-taking in screen ...no?
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Yup, every thing he describes is more for taking naughty pictures than for plants. BTW, what's so embarrassing for being honest?
Key words:
1) Spy Cam
2) Hide the camera screen on the display
3) Maybe start taking pics at a certain time
Besides plants growing very very very very slow, taking one picture in 1 spot everyday is easy.
All you need is to keep your camera on a tripod and never change the angle or direction and take the daily pictures for 31 days or more.
Besides, if you want true high quality video with millions of frames you will need a professional camera that can record videos 24/7 and you would need to keep it plugged in 24/7.
This guy is either dumb or asking for a true spy scam software. Naughty boy.
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Yup, every thing he describes is more for taking naughty pictures than for plants. BTW, what's so embarrassing for being honest?
Key words:
1) Spy Cam
2) Hide the camera screen on the display
3) Maybe start taking pics at a certain time
Besides plants growing very very very very slow, taking one picture in 1 spot everyday is easy.
All you need is to keep your camera on a tripod and never change the angle or direction and take the daily pictures for 31 days or more.
Besides, if you want true high quality video with millions of frames you will need a professional camera that can record videos 24/7 and you would need to keep it plugged in 24/7.
This guy is either dumb or asking for a true spy scam software. Naughty boy.
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poetry,
I think he's silly for actually thinking that we would believe him. That's the funniest thing about this whole post really.
Demon said:
its true that im not into programming for any mobile devices but i sure am programming for the pc. im not programming (two contradictory statements ) too much and im of course no programming crack but im doing my best and try to get some little things done whenever i got time...
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Sorry Demon, I wouldn't even be surprised if this is your 2nd, or 3rd or 4th account hereon XDA. And be careful, don't simply snap pictures of people if you don't have their consent. Just a friendly legal tip.
Cheers.
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Demon,
I smell someone planning to do naughty naughty things.
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obviously you want to take pictures of girls. Duh.
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If its not women, maybe men then?
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Poetry,
Or you know, take pictures of activities in which another person might not have consented to having their pictures taken .
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Besides plants growing very very very very slow, taking one picture in 1 spot everyday is easy.
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
Thanks guys.
even if he wants to spy girls in the locker room, what do we care? I think an application like this must exist and if not, SHOULD exist, just to watch a baby or a house....
yeouda said:
even if he wants to spy girls in the locker room, what do we care? I think an application like this must exist and if not, SHOULD exist, just to watch a baby or a house....
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By baby you mean baby baby or a ..... baby?
I think there are times its just worth it logging into xda and reading the posts even when one is not looking at anything specific. A thread like this one is just hilarious.
But if someone has this app, get it to the guy, but with a disclaimer printed in huge letters
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By baby you mean baby baby or a ..... baby?
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lololol nice one!
in fact, i don't care what kind of baby i'm talking about lol
just get him what he wants!
yeouda said:
lololol nice one!
in fact, i don't care what kind of baby i'm talking about lol
just get him what he wants!
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lol...............................................................
yeouda said:
even if he wants to spy girls in the locker room, what do we care? I think an application like this must exist and if not, SHOULD exist, just to watch a baby or a house....
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yeouda,
And how exactly is this useful? This is not a real-time feed. I doubt it'd be useful if your baby has been murdered and then you watch the video of it happening (you'd obviously want to prevent it). Same goes for your house. Moreover, if your phone is sitting there recording stuff, how exactly are you going to communicate anyone? Purchase another phone? That sort of defeats the purpose of even buying a pocketpc to even begin with doesn't it?
Think people, think.
Cheers.
poisonwolf think, think again and again
the guy asked for an application, the answers he got were disrespectful and
how/when/how much is my phone is not the problem now.
before giving lessons, next time try to mind on your own business if you can do so!
I think it's time to get back on the point: his request...
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poisonwolf think, think again and again
the guy asked for an application, the answers he got were disrespectful and
how/when/how much is my phone is not the problem now.
before giving lessons, next time try to mind on your own business if you can do so!
I think it's time to get back on the point: his request...
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pffttt... I requested it just for the sake of my perverted nature.
yeouda said:
poisonwolf think, think again and again
the guy asked for an application, the answers he got were disrespectful and
how/when/how much is my phone is not the problem now.
before giving lessons, next time try to mind on your own business if you can do so!
I think it's time to get back on the point: his request...
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yeouda,
I hope someone walks up to you next time and asks you how is the best way to murder someone and then you'd be "respectful" enough to tell them. And when they do murder someone based on your methods, I'd like to see what you'd think.
Gosh, people nowadays, seriously.
There are times to be respectful and be a good helping Samaritan, but this is not the time. Don't be stupid and enable potential voyeurism among the many perverts out there. Please, have some common sense and have respect for the many individuals who could be potentially violated as a result of this ridiculous application.
Good day.
This spy camera software is a great idea.. I always wanted to see what my dog is doing around apartment when we left him alone.... This could be awesome if you could make a video clip with frame rate of 1 frame every 2 seconds... or to connect your self via internet to your phone and watch live feed from your X1...
From time to time, I find myself looking around and wondering "Why did I do that?", "What am I going to do with THIS gadget", and "OMG! *drool*". Yes, I did say it. Now you can too!
I've taken the next few minutes to sit here and let you guys see how I let my inner geek out. This picture was taken in August of this year after I added another two devices to my list. As you can tell below, I've got a good collection going. I'm always looking to add more, but I'm a bit of a cheapskate.
Originally, the idea was for me to start developing ROMs for each of the devices I had. Using the wonderful kitchen tools I've found, including the multi-device support ones, I was so happy to start...and then stop. I found myself becoming uninterested in developing ROMs, but kept collecting. Of course, this has caused some financial heart ship, but you know what, it's still sweet.
So, I say to you, this is my inner geek, his name is Steve, and he's getting out...
Special note: For those of you wanting to help me add to my collection, I accept Donations.
-John
wow..great man...im thinking of being like you too... i just have 4 device now in my collection... where is your wing by the way?
RxenDrav said:
where is your wing by the way?
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It's out on-loan to my girlfriend. She's using it as her GPS (with a BT GPS, of course). It lets her get out an explore without making me sit there and say "Turn Right Ahead".. I think I may switch it over to one of the Uni's before much longer though. She keeps complaining about the screen size... *sighs*
Wow!!
That´s a huge collection!!
Lol
Cool collection You should open up the 1st PPC Museum
If we look dispassionately at all our devices, lots of them look pretty much like each other and they are really quite ugly indeed! No designer worth their salt would sign their names on any of them, including the iThingies in my opinion.
But we can love the ugly anyway. That is probably a consolation to most! Lol! We probably look past their skin and see through their windows into their souls.
Would this be a reflexion of our souls? Through the looking glass...
Impressive...
I see a single, lonely, ass-broke virgin still living in their parent's basement...yet...what is this feeling of covetousness?---Curse you Perry the Platypus!!
Wait...picture no. 2, second iPhone...is that a Panda????
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I see a single, lonely, ass-broke virgin still living in their parent's basement...yet...what is this feeling of covetousness?---Curse you Perry the Platypus!!
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See the below attached photo. I may be broke, but I got a woman, and we got a place.
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Wait...picture no. 2, second iPhone...is that a Panda????
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Second iPhone is a 3G 8GB. First is a 3GS 32GB. Mostly using the second iPhone as a dev device to test the stuff I try to create. Needless to say, it's not going well. I keep two devices on me, and active, at any given time. Right now, they're the iPhone 3GS and the AT&T Fuze/HTC Touch Pro. The Athena stays in the car ready for GPS Nav. The Kaiser sits in the bag I carry my netbook in as a backup (as I've just recently gotten backup batteries for my TP/Fuze). The Hermes goes for the ride in the bag sometimes, but stays at home sometimes too. Most of the others stay at home more than anywhere else...
I meant that here looks to be a reflection of a panda...Nice to hav backups of backups for your stuff...
By the way, your photoshopping skillz are fantastic!!! lol...
So the other day, Gizmodo "wrote an article" (posted a link) on fuglyandroid, a site dedicated to showing off 'crappy' Android homescreens, as if it's proof that Android is naturally an ugly OS (and that iPhone's uncustomizability is better? lol).
Well, I think they're wrong. Open source is frickin' sweet. So how about it? Please submit your awesome homescreens to http://bamfandroid.tumblr.com/, hopefully when there's enough attention we can throw this back at fuglyandroid.
I know we have a screenshot thread in here, but I'd feel bad about scouring it for screenshots without asking permission or properly crediting the author.
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I know we have a screenshot thread in here, but I'd feel bad about scouring it for screenshots without asking permission or properly crediting the author.
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What wallpaper is that you are using?
Do you know if you can submit from your phones browser.
Hijacked aospCMod Darkhorse GB Hero
How about just suggesting to Gizmodo a website like "MyColorScreen"? Instead of building another site. It shows the best of both worlds and also of note, of the top 10 6 are Android... just a thought.
I hate that humans take first impressions and whatever they see first so aggresivily. Iphone people thought that when the iphone 4 came out that all the stuff it offered was new and only on the iphone. Fail.
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Ask people in the screenshot threads.. i think they would love to show their stuff off lol
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=725328
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=476483
Theres similar threads around here. Some awesome stuff there.
Now this made me laugh! They didn't even pick any good 'FUGLY' shots! Some of them actually have potential as the widgets are even modded. The creators should have asked for feedback and the layouts would probably be worth to look at.
Ignorant douches, like the ones who created this website - probably haven't jailbreak'ed their iPhone. So they automatically don't have any say on the matter, IMHO! At the end of the day it's all personal preference. I'd rather just add a couple of widgets and be left with an entire new setup, than switch out my entire OS and pray to God that I get into dBarteam.net.
Android, we look sexy, ya'll!
bamf - bad ass mother f*ckers ? thanks
knigitz said:
What wallpaper is that you are using?
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Found em off here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1005362
METHOD1911 said:
Do you know if you can submit from your phones browser.
Hijacked aospCMod Darkhorse GB Hero
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If you have a screenshot app, and if Tumblr's app/mobile site supports submitting images. IDK about that one, I don't use either :S
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How about just suggesting to Gizmodo a website like "MyColorScreen"? Instead of building another site. It shows the best of both worlds and also of note, of the top 10 6 are Android... just a thought.
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Oh cool, I didn't even know that site existed? Well the point of BAMF Android is more to be a direct response to fugly android, not really Gizmodo. Besides, Giz is typically pro-Apple, and I don't think they would post something that would contradict one of their own writers.
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bamf - bad ass mother f*ckers ? thanks
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Bad ass mother f*cking android
Yeeuuuh. Classy is my middle name.
I lol'ed so hard when one of its screenshots wasn't even android.
LOL I made the fugly list !! Woohoo
I was wondering if anyone is aware of any World Building Apps for the Xoom. Preferably one that I could sync with an application on my PC, but it isn't required.
My specific use would be for creating a world for a story I am writing. Although I could think of a few other uses as well
@Mythico: I know it may be obvious to you, but most of us have no idea what game/system you are talking about.
World builder as in Minecraft I guess.
I never heard of any, though.
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@Mythico: I know it may be obvious to you, but most of us have no idea what game/system you are talking about.
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I am actually not refering to any game/system. I am looking for a generic world builder. I am writing a story for a book and would like to find some tool to assist/layout the world I am creating.
If there isn't a generic one then I am fine using that is designed for a specific game even though I have no intentions of using it for said game. It doesn't need to be to detailed. I am more using it for a rough sketch/reference point.
Do you have an example of the type of software you're referring to on another platform?
First thing I thought when I saw the title was how much I want SimCity on this tablet.
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Do you have an example of the type of software you're referring to on another platform?
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Unfortunatly I don't have any example as I have had troubles finding something for my PC/Mac. I mean I could technicially could use paint, but would prefer something a tad more complex then that
It doesn't need to show elevations or be 3d or anything like that. Although if it is something complex it is welcomed. I just want something to be able to tell this is where a house,castle,mountains,or forest is. So that I try and rough idea of the layout of the world. That and so I don't send a character into a forest that doesn't exist.
drhill said:
First thing I thought when I saw the title was how much I want SimCity on this tablet.
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Sim City on the Xoom would be pretty awesome.
Mythico said:
Unfortunatly I don't have any example as I have had troubles finding something for my PC/Mac. I mean I could technicially could use paint, but would prefer something a tad more complex then that
It doesn't need to show elevations or be 3d or anything like that. Although if it is something complex it is welcomed. I just want something to be able to tell this is where a house,castle,mountains,or forest is. So that I try and rough idea of the layout of the world. That and so I don't send a character into a forest that doesn't exist.
Sim City on the Xoom would be pretty awesome.
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Minecraft. It won't work on your Xoom, but it will on your PC.
Mythico said:
Unfortunatly I don't have any example as I have had troubles finding something for my PC/Mac. I mean I could technicially could use paint, but would prefer something a tad more complex then that
It doesn't need to show elevations or be 3d or anything like that. Although if it is something complex it is welcomed. I just want something to be able to tell this is where a house,castle,mountains,or forest is. So that I try and rough idea of the layout of the world. That and so I don't send a character into a forest that doesn't exist.
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I've never heard or seen of such a thing, and as a prolific amature writer, I've never considered the need for such a thing either. I either visualise my fictional world in my head, or I make notes.
Try pen and paper. Sometimes, technology gets in the way, y'know?
minecraft is supposed to be coming to android soonish.
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Minecraft. It won't work on your Xoom, but it will on your PC.
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I have thought about that but would seem quite tedious to use for that purpose
FloatingFatMan said:
I've never heard or seen of such a thing, and as a prolific amature writer, I've never considered the need for such a thing either. I either visualise my fictional world in my head, or I make notes.
Try pen and paper. Sometimes, technology gets in the way, y'know?
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It is what I do now. I normally just make a mental note or if need be a physical note somewhere. It just got me wondering if there was an application that could allow you to layout everything. Sounds like I may be stuck the old fashion way. Plus as you said sometimes it can get in the way hehe
You want THE MASTER OF THE UNIVERSE to give you that tip mate.
here we're only geeks we can probably point you to a landscape of silicon and sodering iron, perhaps a mountain of T5 screws and T6 Pine trees, clouds full of mp3's... just sayin.
what tha **** is this guy talking about?! First we figured one out in Sim City now he says thats wrong because he is writing a book but doesn't know how to because he can't write it with a world app, that both doesn't exist on Android or PC/Mac.
Here's a hint, you want to create a world that you can't write with a paper n pen take up drugs. Closest thing to you making sense.
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what tha **** is this guy talking about?! First we figured one out in Sim City now he says thats wrong because he is writing a book but doesn't know how to because he can't write it with a world app, that both doesn't exist on Android or PC/Mac.
Here's a hint, you want to create a world that you can't write with a paper n pen take up drugs. Closest thing to you making sense.
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hate and ignorance is what drives the world forward... nm, it has always been that way anyway
Minecraft soon will be ported to android. Or heck use evernote.
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ryan562 said:
Minecraft soon will be ported to android. Or heck use evernote.
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That's like writing with a pen n paper he doesn't want that.
You could try Mine Builder It is like minecraft, but building only.
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what tha **** is this guy talking about?! First we figured one out in Sim City now he says thats wrong because he is writing a book but doesn't know how to because he can't write it with a world app, that both doesn't exist on Android or PC/Mac.
Here's a hint, you want to create a world that you can't write with a paper n pen take up drugs. Closest thing to you making sense.
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What is with all the hate seriously. First I didn't say I couldn't write it with pen/paper. I am just looking a tool to assist and help when needing a quick visual reference. I will just stick to pen and paper, was just curious if such an app existed on the android market.
Everyone Else - Thanks for the help guys. It looks like good ol' Pen and Paper for me. Its been working so far, so why fix it if it isn't broken right?
I heard you can get epic mounts at level 40 in World of Warcraft now, is this true?
Why all the ****ty comments?
He just asking for help if you can not help dont bother posing your *****y comments ffs.
Sorry dude i can not help you but maybe someone who aint so up there own ass can.
The Rules Are Simple:
After being nominated by someone here on XDA you have 24 hours to:
1) Video yourself being drenched with freezing ice water
2) Nominate 3 more XDA members to do the same
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Be Sure to inform those who you nominated right away!!!!!!
If you do not complete the requirements outlined above you are to donate $100 in support of finding the cure, more info here:
ALS Association - Ice Bucket Challenge
The first challenge is put forth by me @demkantor
and nominating
@HTCDreamOn
@shimp208
@Judge Joseph Dredd
you guys have 24 hours!!!!!
1st XDA ALS Ice Bucket Challenge
Honored to be nominated @demkantor if I was already nominated to do it by one of my friends should I just post that video here and nominate other people? Hate to break the chain, either way I'll be donating more money to this great cause !
I don't know if this is a good idea...............
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Honored to be nominated @demkantor if I was already nominated to do it by one of my friends should I just post that video here and nominate other people? Hate to break the chain, either way I'll be donating more money to this great cause !
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Well I did two separate videos, one with friends and now this one with just XDA members nominated... So I say you get two!
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I don't know if this is a good idea...............
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I have a feeling you will be in the short list for nominations..........
Good thing nobody knows me here so I won't get nominated.
Although I'm not saying I don't wanna get nominated.
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No.
Even 9gag is sending me these videos now (oh god, that last one It's going to take months to get that image out of my head! Thank you for that 9gag -.- ), don't make me watch more people who don't know what ALS is pretend they care.
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No.
Even 9gag is sending me these videos now (oh god, that last one It's going to take months to get that image out of my head! Thank you for that 9gag -.- ), don't make me watch more people who don't know what ALS is pretend they care.
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Really surprised about the animosity and judgments I'm hearing about this, not necessarily you but also on another thread. Not wanting to see more videos is one thing but assuming someone doesn't understand the purpose or are just pretending to care.... Eh don't feel like ranting...
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It's not so much an assumption as actual experience. The mother of one of my classmates had ALS. (she passed away a few yars ago) I know what ALS is in both the personal and medical sense.
As such, it is utterly distasteful how people are using this as an excuse to put videos of themselves on the internet in a vain attempt to gather attention.
The idea of the campaign is to raise awareness. I guarantee you 90% has not even bothered to Google what ALS really is.
At least the famous lot actually donates. The superficial idiots on Facebook don't even bother to do that. This is merely another 'look at me!' hype. Nothing more, regardless of the wonderful intentions of the few who do actually know and care.
I have seen some brilliant ones from people who do know what ALS is. Sadly, the majority is using a good cause to gather attention to themselves, and that is insulting.
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It's not so much an assumption as actual experience. The mother of one of my classmates had ALS. (she passed away a few yars ago) I know what ALS is in both the personal and medical sense.
As such, it is utterly distasteful how people are using this as an excuse to put videos of themselves on the internet in a vain attempt to gather attention.
The idea of the campaign is to raise awareness. I guarantee you 90% has not even bothered to Google what ALS really is.
At least the famous lot actually donates. The superficial idiots on Facebook don't even bother to do that. This is merely another 'look at me!' hype. Nothing more, regardless of the wonderful intentions of the few who do actually know and care.
I have seen some brilliant ones from people who do know what ALS is. Sadly, the majority is using a good cause to gather attention to themselves, and that is insulting.
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Look if your trying to say we don't Google stuff before we're dumping ice cold water then your damn wrong. In case you don't notice it many people do donate and throw ice cold water at themselves. Maybe some people can't afford to donate but atleast they can spread awareness by posting these videos. I bet nobody knew what ALS was until this trend came along and everybody searched what ALS is.
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Look if your trying to say we don't Google stuff before we're dumping ice cold water then your damn wrong. In case you don't notice it many people do donate and throw ice cold water at themselves. Maybe some people can't afford to donate but atleast they can spread awareness by posting these videos. I bet nobody knew what ALS was until this trend came along and everybody searched what ALS is.
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She wasn't saying "nobody Googled it and therefore everyone is doing it for attention". She's saying that there's a hell of a lot of people out there who have done just that. I completely agree.
Out of everyone who I personally know, I'd say that around 90% have done the ice bucket challenge. Out of that 90%, there's around 20% (not exact but an educated guess) who have no idea what this challenge is even for. I know that because they've clearly said, either in the video or in comments after making the video, that they don't know why everyone is suddenly doing this but it seems like fun so they'll join in.
While that could be a sign that a lot of the people who I know clearly have no idea about such things and that everyone else knows the reasons behind this challenge, I've seen a lot of people across the internet stating the exact same that I am now. That shows that there's way too many people who are simply doing this challenge purely for attention as they have no idea that this is for ALS or even what ALS is.
Even though I initially didn't know what ALS was, I did know what MND was. After researching the reason behind this challenge, I then noticed that these are just different names for the same disease and therefore actually knew how serious ALS/MND can be.
A few people on Facebook have nominated me to do it and, while it may seem harsh, I've declined because of the fact that everyone I know has either done this challenge or at least knows about it. Therefore, me doing it and sharing it with those who I know will not raise awareness.
Even though I'm not currently in a position to donate to ALS/MND, I likely would if I was able to.
My apologies if this came across as confrontational as that wasn't my aim - I just wanted to get my point across
Again, not trying to single anyone out but showing disdain for everyone doing this challenge is a bit absurd. I only heard about it a few weeks back and being I don't use Facebook I wasn't nominated until I posted this video where I had found out how big it has really gotten.
I usually don't partake in internet fads for many reasons no matter the cause, but I saw how well this was working, they raised something like two million last year without the ice water stunt and this year its over $50 million. Also knowing someone personally myself I figured I would continue the love
Yes I only donated 10$ and I would have liked to think I would have given a bigger donation but the wife and I had our first child 2 weeks ago and we are now on a budget.
So being this stunt is working and even if the majority don't donate or post videos for the wrong reasons it still spreads the word which to me is better than nothing at all
Again my complaint isn't that someone doesn't partake or doesn't donate, its when I see broad conclusions made about those doing this and then openly mocking them or judging them to be superficial assholes, although some certainly are after watching a few videos posted.
But in the end it was my mistake to use XDA as a social media outlet for non development related anything as what I have seen this won't continue as I thought it might. I guess I'll have to dust off the old MySpace account or whatever people use nowadays (anyone remember friendster?)
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Again, not trying to single anyone out but showing disdain for everyone doing this challenge is a bit absurd. I only heard about it a few weeks back and being I don't use Facebook I wasn't nominated until I posted this video where I had found out how big it has really gotten.
I usually don't partake in internet fads for many reasons no matter the cause, but I saw how well this was working, they raised something like two million last year without the ice water stunt and this year its over $50 million. Also knowing someone personally myself I figured I would continue the love
Yes I only donated 10$ and I would have liked to think I would have given a bigger donation but the wife and I had our first child 2 weeks ago and we are now on a budget.
So being this stunt is working and even if the majority don't donate or post videos for the wrong reasons it still spreads the word which to me is better than nothing at all
Again my complaint isn't that someone doesn't partake or doesn't donate, its when I see broad conclusions made about those doing this and then openly mocking them or judging them to be superficial assholes, although some certainly are after watching a few videos posted.
But in the end it was my mistake to use XDA as a social media outlet for non development related anything as what I have seen this won't continue as I thought it might. I guess I'll have to dust off the old MySpace account or whatever people use nowadays (anyone remember friendster?)
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You've misread our posts. We're not showing disdain for nor mocking everyone.
Only the majority that are using thia as just another harlem-shake-planking-hype.
ShadowLea said:
You've misread our posts. We're not showing disdain for nor mocking everyone.
Only the majority that are using thia as just another harlem-shake-planking-hype.
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Fair enough, my finger isn't close to the pulse of social media campaigns so I wasn't aware how much this sort of thing was disliked
If all this thread turns out to be is complaints about Facebook or whatever I guess I'll just close it as I obviously didn't understand what people thought about this sort of thing.
No hard feelings
demkantor said:
Fair enough, my finger isn't close to the pulse of social media campaigns so I wasn't aware how much this sort of thing was disliked
If all this thread turns out to be is complaints about Facebook or whatever I guess I'll just close it as I obviously didn't understand what people thought about this sort of thing.
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There's always two sides to these things, the people who think it's great, and the people who hate social media hypes for their shallowness. Oh, and everyone else, who get tired of seeing the same thing every day for weeks.
No hard feelings
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None given, none taken
Luckily, at least today my Facebook will be so overflooded with news about the Emmy awards that these videos don't stand a chance.
Thread Cleaned and back to the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge....Thanks.