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nacturation writes
"Everyone loves Gmail. But not everyone loves email, or the digital era. What ever happened to stamps, filing cabinets, and the mailman? Now with Gmail Paper, you can request a physical copy of any message with the click of a button, and it'll be sent to you in the mail. Photo attachments are printed on high-quality, glossy photo paper, and secured to your Gmail Paper with a paper clip. And it's totally free: the cost of postage is offset with the help of relevant, targeted, unobtrusive advertisements printed on the back of every print."
What? (Score:5, Funny)
Google TiSP (Score:5, Funny)
TiSP & Soft Google Paper - the perfect mash up (Score:5, Funny)
Frankly, I cannot wait to tell my boss what I did with his last memo.
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I've gotta tell my boss to hurry up with their memo writing, I HAVE TO GO!
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"Insert the TiSP installation CD and run the setup utility to install the Google Toolbar (required)"
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Linux gets no love (Score:1, Funny)
Linux doesn't even get any love as during an April Fool's joke...
Beware of viruses (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Beware of paper SPAM (Score:1)
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weird quotes (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:weird quotes (Score:4, Informative)
C'mon now... (Score:4, Funny)
I can't be discerning at this ungody hour.
Photos could almost be useful (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Photos could almost be useful (Score:5, Insightful)
It's too bad this is a joke, because I think it might actually work. -sigh-
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I fell for this once, but never again. What I do now is have my digital photos printed. Snapfish does it for $0.15/photo. Walmart does it for $0.12/photo and you can upload it online and pick it up at a local store. What you get is a photo that looks e
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Does anyone know of any (online) photo printing services that will print text on the back side of the photo? Either a caption that is manually typed in when you upload the photo, or the file name, or something to that effect?
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With a service like this, they get high-quality printouts automatically. The only trick now is a service that will take hand-written text
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Hint (Score:1, Insightful)
Proposal (Score:4, Funny)
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That's probably what they thought when introducing the daylight saving change "with a change in the calendar, we'll eradicate stupidity worldwide". Didn't work.
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No... (Score:2, Funny)
Which means no new gadgets for me.
Which means no more joy for me.
*Aw*
Did I mention I've got a kidney stone?
Is there a Mod +1 Needs Sympathy?
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Is there a Mod +1 Needs Sympathy?
Ouch. I hear that it helps to eat watermelon with seeds and everything. And vicodin helps, too, I hear.
Good luck. Don't let anybody cut anything out of you. By "anybody" I mean "doctors"
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well.. (Score:1)
That's one interpretation. Most people use enough discretion with other random people, so I qualified my statement for greater clarity. People tend to be blinded by credentials, and think that the certified know enough to be right 100% of the time. I'm suggesting that people investigate anything that anyone suggests that involves the removal of anything:
gallbladder
thyroid
your left arm
your child's foreskin (fucking 50% of males
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This is real (Score:2, Informative)
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april fool (Score:1)
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Except for maybe the cheese-ball pictures. Every one of them is completely over-the-top and satirical.
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Great but .. HOW DO I JOIN THE BETA PROGRAM??? (Score:1)
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Google
1600 Amphitheatre Parkway
Mountain View, CA 94043
Once you get accepted to Google Paper, you will have 5 invitations that you can send out to your friends and family. You will receive these invitations as coupons in your first Google Paper shipment. You then simply mail these invitation coupons out to your family and friends (the coupon postcards MUST be postmarked for security purposes) and the
April Fool's Modding? (Score:2, Insightful)
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Come on people, it's April fools day! Have a sense of humour!
Moo (Score:2, Funny)
Of course, Google Filing Cabinet, soon to be announced, does allow double filing by creating an ethereal copy for the second cabinet.
I knew it was a joke... (Score:3, Informative)
come one guys, this has to be believable
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One word... (Score:2)
This will make some people a lot more comfortable (Score:2, Funny)
From memory, he farms spaghetti on a farm in Switzerland that was featured on Panorama in the 1950s...
Sate Government would love this (Score:3, Funny)
On a side rant, it boggles my mind how everybody think putting something "on a computer" or worse yet "on the web" magically makes things better. Sometimes paper and pencil is the best solution.
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Most depressing. April Fools. Ever. (Score:4, Informative)
"In Romania, during the Ceausescu era, one newspaper printed an article as an April Fool's joke saying all political prisoners were being freed. People started turning up at prisons and waiting for family and friends to be released. It didn't go down well when it was revealed to be a hoax."
I checked this wasn't a fool with in a fool, and it wasn't. This really happened. Jesus Christ, can you imagine that? A mother and her kids rushing along to the prison, the kids skipping along.. 'Yayy! We're going to get Daddy back!' And then to be told it was a joke. Easily the most depressing thing I've read about in weeks.
Check your souces... (Score:2)
Lemme guess... you clicked on this link [bbc.co.uk], right? And then did a page search for "Ceausescu"? And there it was, almost verbatim:
Not an April fool. (Score:2)
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Doesn't work, no button to click. (Score:2)
Excellent job (Score:2)
Google is tricksy... (Score:2)
This didn't immediately set off my hoax radar, either, until I read the details. At first I thought perhaps Google had improved the printing functions of GMail to look better when printed out; it wasn't until I saw others talking about it that I actually saw the details and knew immediately it was a joke.
What's scary? 10
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Guess what? "You are currently using 229 MB (8%) of your 2835 MB." Still got that extra storage space.
As jokefilled as the page is(much like the formulas for how they can manage to store infinity+1), it wouldn't surprise me at all if this ended up being a new service.
Not sure what to say. (Score:1)
stupid.
I'm still holding out for....... (Score:2, Funny)
For those that DON'T have a gmail acct (Score:1)
REALLY.... (Score:1)
Gmail Paper easy way to read spam (Score:1)
How much cost print 500 e-mails spam?
Actually, in India, they really do this. (Score:2)
Copied from TFA, because it's priceless: (Score:1)
And because they'll probably remove it once Mrs. Grundy complains about the scatological humor.
Welcome to Gmail's April Fool's Day joke (Score:1)
http://mail.google.com/mail/help/paper/more.html [google.com]
besides that, i think that, if actually implemented, it would not only surelly find it's own market niche, but also would become as cool as terrifying. not terrific, but terrifying. think google 'absorbing' not only a big chunk of email, but also another big chunk of snail mail - or the postal system if you want. add government mandated custom 'filtering', china style. cool, huh?
Lol (Score:1)
Hottie (Score:2)
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Wait a minute. (Score:2)
Actually a service in rural India? (Score:5, Interesting)
"Oh this is so funny!!! Google tried to release an April Fool's joke today about Google Paper
- the ability to have your emails printed and sent via snail mail!
The problem they didn't realise is that in the latest issue of Fast Company, this ACTUALLY HAPPENS in India!!!
It's called the ePost service from the Indian post office. Now you have a Billion Indians who are thinking that this is a legitimate alternative to their ePost service - nice try Google, but next time, make sure your PR people read Fast Company!!"
Link to blog: http://www.vinnylingham.com/2007/04/massive-googl
Link to article: http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/113/next-worl
And no this definitely isn't my blog. And wtf, people being modded insightful just for asking? This must be April Fools day.
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Who says we love gmail? (Score:2)
I hate to think of the Google web "operating system" where daring to press the back button turns it off.
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And In Other News (Score:1, Troll)
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A better link (Score:1)
Slight Problem with their plan ... (Score:2, Interesting)
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Audio attachments (Score:2)
MP3 and WAV files will not be printed. We recommend maintaining copies of your non-paper Gmail in these cases.
Well, that pretty much makes this new service worthless. Someone let me know when they start printing audio attachments, and I might reconsider.
Dan East
It existed... (Score:2)
Now what more you expect from google? (Score:1)
I thought this was real... (Score:1)
Oddly enough... (Score:2)
There is a startup called potsful [postful.com] which is doing something like this for real -- you can tie an email address to a postal address, and they'll print and mail to the postal address anything you send to the email address.
april fools (Score:1)
Re:I miss the ponies. (Score:5, Funny)
What day in particular is that? I'd like to see them make the site completely useful for one day of the year
It'd be a start
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I'm laughing for long minutes!
Let's make slashdot useless for one day!
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Re:Mod me insightful for no special reason (Score:5, Informative)
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Re:Mod me insightful for no special reason (Score:4, Funny)
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Oh, wait. There's one.
*click*
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They've got that covered:
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Mod me insightful for no reason!