[samtheman]

Is this another stupid google april fools thingy?

[Lazlo in PA]

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http://www.onlineconversion.com/morse_code.htm

[South40]

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[EternalVigilance]

Coming soon: Smoke Signals for Gmail. No hands needed, once you douse the phone with gasoline and light it on fire.

[Viking2002]

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"As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their hearts desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron."

--H.L. Mencken, The Baltimore Evening Sun, July 26, 1920

[Viking2002]

I think I missed a couple of breaks - I'm rusty as hell.

"Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin to slit throats."

--H.L. Mencken, The Sage of Baltimore

[hoagy62]

Okay...I know Google has done pretty good in the April Fools department in the past. This year they've outdone themselves: they have no less than FOUR April Fools pranks.

There's this, Gmail Tap. Then, there's the Multi-Tasking Mode for Chrome, where you can use 2 mouses (mice?) to get more stuff done faster. Thirdly, there's Google Maps 8-Bit for the NES.

Finally, on Google's front page today, there's a link for their "winning new partnership"...with NASCAR. Presenting... the self-driving NASCAR Race Vehicle!.

It's a load of laughs.

[Vendome]

So today must be April 1st.

[Jack Hydrazine]

Everyone needs to upgrade to the DVORAK keyboard. Check out the home row!

[tophat9000]

di/dot or 1/0 is all binary

[Razzz42]

I remember as kid, riding in silence in the rear of our blue Ford Country Squire station wagon while driving along San Diego Bay with my mom and dad. Was watching the flickering of a Aldis lamp (signal lamp) from a naval ship at dockside. My mom wondered out loud what a ship might be flashing at dockside. My Dad, started out in the Navy as a ship’s radio operator, replied without hesitation, “They want to know when their supplies are coming.”

Dad could type over a hundred words a minute (on a manual typewriter) and said while in port would bet secretaries that he could type the alphabet backwards faster than they could type in forwards...he always won.

[Publius6961]

Woo Hoo!

I always wanted to learn Morse Code.

And And Happy April Fool's Day to you too, Google.

[Fresh Wind]

REAL telegraphy uses clicks and clacks, not beeps. And yes, REAL telegraphers use the American Morse code, not the International code.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSqRSNQwDwg

[naturalman1975]

Learning Morse was what I hated most in my training. The RAN expected all officers to be competent with it and there were certainly times when it came in handy and I did use it. But it took a lot longer than most of our other components for me to reach competency.

Everybody is using custom tones now but a few years ago, it used to really impress my students when I pointed out that every time they got a text message on their phones (they all seemed to have the same phone) the beeping said “SMS” in Morse. They thought that was really cool - that it wasn’t just a random beep.

[Excellence]

At 1:00 this morning the neighbor’s car alarm went off. It actually “tapped” out SOS.

[Talisker]

The QWERTY keyboard was invented in 1874 and yet it is still used today, largely unchanged. ...Today, April 1st, Google is introducing a new input method designed by the great-great grandson of Samuel F. B. Morse: Gmail Tap for Android and iOS. Gmail Tap takes the keyboard from 26 keys to just two.

From video: "A classic technology. Reinvented."

The lady doth protest too much, methinks.

Bwahahahahaha!