Glide File Sharing Service Debuts

Dotnaught writes "Glide Effortless has gone live. New York Times columnist David Pogue describes it as "full-blown online operating system" that's a mix of genius and interface awkwardness. (Glide has been covered previously on Slashdot.) Pogue concludes "Glide's core idea is unassailably fresh and useful. If TransMedia's plans for world domination fall into place, maybe it won't need an elevator pitch. Maybe 'You gotta try this' will be the only pitch it needs.""

Oh, ho...

[Anonymous Coward]

...that's a mix of genius and interface awkwardness...

Sounds like the night I lost my virginity.

Sad people

[pubjames]

The Apple® Mac OSX(TM) version of Glide Effortless is scheduled to be available on Christmas Day December 25, 2005.

Great, a reason for me to get up early of Christmas Day. Good thing I haven't got any family or friends!

This one's got it all...

[mrogers]

Pie menus, web services, file sharing and DRM... this has the makings of the longest Slashdot flamewar in history. I suppose the only remaining question is, does it run faster in Gnome or KDE?

MS prior art

[lovebyte]

Obligatory:
For a long time people have been able to share their documents, music, ... with everyone on MS windows. Albeit unwillingly.

Glide Effortless?

[Anonymous Coward]

Sounds like a sexual lubricant.

Re:Oh, ho...

[jrockway]

Technically you're still a virgin if you claim you had sex, but didn't.

Re:Oh, ho...

[JPriest]

Do you think you could document your findings into a man page or something so the rest of us have a guiding light?

Glide

[GoatMonkey2112]

And here I was thinking that 3dfx's work was all for nothing.

Re:Amateurish.

[Cave Dweller]

Gee, thanks for the 'Troll' mod. I was simply pointing out the fact that if these idiots can't even synchronize access to a simple Image object, how can they be trusted with our (albeit made-up) credit card numbers?

Mods on crack, heh.

Re:Oh, ho...

[Cleon I]

Right, like I want to get caught typing "man sex" into my terminal window...

Re:Oh, ho...

[JPriest]

Well I have typed "man date" enough times that "man sex" just seemed like a natural progression. Not that there is anything wrong with that.

Re:Oh, ho...

[tqft]

If you are having network problems and on a system without the man pages and do google for man - specify linux man pump - not just man pump

though you probably know how to use that command I didn't