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>> ^Drax:

Doin' flips 'nd shit.

in your flippy floppies and nautical themed pashmina afghan?

Damn flippie-floppies be tricky, yo.

Tags for this video have been changed from 'keyboard, cat, piano, dominos' to 'keyboard, cat, piano, dominos, Flippy' - edited by schmawy

I got my swim trunks and my flippy floppies!

Excuse me, the rules specifically state don't throw flowers to the dolphins. Flowers are poisonous to dolphins and OH GOD FLIPPY, NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!

The problem I see with using 3D interfaces is simply that the screen is 2D. I suspect it won't be a totally 3D interface, but an animated interface that uses limited 3D effects to make the connections between objects more obvious.

I've found that when something is "more powerful," ie. what most computer types want, it becomes much more difficult to understand for someone who isn't. Many old-timers still use a command-line interface because in many instances it is faster and more powerful. Maybe the future will come in marrying these things.

I get frustrated using a Mac because it makes doing some things more tedious, but you trade this ease of use. I hate the menu bar that's always on the top of the screen, for instance, but that makes it a lot easier to explain to someone how to do something. I hate the launch-pad because it uses an unnecessarily large amount of screen space, but that too is easier to understand for someone new to computers. Ditto with that flippy album view. (I'm not trying to turn this into a Mac vs. Windows things, just an illustration of their various approaches).

Anyways... I dunno where I'm going with this, but I wonder what things will be like in the future. Soon there aren't going to be a lot of people who have to learn how to use a computer from scratch and to necessarily have easy-to-use but slower interfaces.

*catsanddogs for Flippy!

Me too! Flippy is sooo cute!

In reply to this comment by ant:
This one is OK. I like the cat ending.

^How DARE you accuse me of self-linking, jerkwad. So I like Flippycat, AND I happen to think the dominoes are cool. Don't be jealous. I'm frankly sick of all the Scientology videos. Boring!

>> ^joedirt:
How many domino videos w/ cat do we have to be subjected to??
This MUST be someones self-linking or an insane fetish.

why do you call him flippy?

oh. I see.