Something you make in two minutes enables more interaction than this solution? I must work at a very slow pace...legends take me longer than I'd like to admit.
This is really neat. I was playing with it on pictures of street signs and buildings and realized that if I select some text and then do ctrl+a it tried to select everything it thought was text...Then I used right click > translate > reprint to see what it thought each thing was.
In the OPs defense, he not only determined the average ping interval but also provided analysis on what the numbers could mean...without the second part, the numbers don't matter.
I would hope the people working this case could do the same but I also support the idea of crowd-sourcing.
It sounds like a good idea in theory but, in reality, I think you'd end up with a lot of people coming to different conclusions, all convinced that they are right.
The "crowdsourcers" would be demanding that their theories be looked into and, if they were, it would take away from the search operation vital resources.
It reminds me of when I'm troubleshooting network issues and my (very non-technical) boss calls and offers up his ideas of what might be wrong. It distracts me from what I'm doing and simply results in it taking longer to resolve the issue.
And the pencil icon above #3 "Great projects find you" looks like a penis. Sorry, but I looked over the page and definitely saw a graph and a piece of paper/pencil. I think there are a LOT of icons and illustrations that we can look at and see something unintended (not always a bad thing!)but just because this happens doesn't mean the design in question is bad.
Lots of pessimism in this thread let me try to even it out a little.
I personally backed this when it was on Kickstarter for $35 and do not regret my decision. I have used FontAwesome in the past as well as a few other free alternatives. While the javascript-less-ness of FA is nice (Iconic has a webfont), the quality of the icons themselves and their level of customization comes no where near Iconic. Many people have mentioned the multiple colors on 1 icon but I haven't seen anyone talk about the ability to easily theme all icons with just a couple lines of css, which makes the multiple color thing more appealing.
Additionally, Iconic is available as Webfont and PNG if so desired. They are also working on a number of additional features that I find interesting (bottom of the features page https://useiconic.com/feature-index/), specifically ExtendScript for Illustrator and then generation via Grunt.
I am pleased with my $35 purchase and have no reservations about paying the $99 for a commercial license if it fits the project (like any icon set you choose!)...However, for those who haven't had a chance to try it I really wish there was a cheaper/free option for experimenting.
I honestly don't think the target market is startups. I think it is freelance web developers or very small firms who wouldnt otherwise wouldn't/couldn't spend the time creating a unique icon set for a site.
I disagree and happen to like the majority of the icons - besides the QR Bitcoin one. Also, not everyone who creates a website wants to or can spend time customizing their own icons specifically for the site. Even if I wanted to do that I don't think I have the knowledge or "eye" for it even though I have designed and developed many commercial websites over the years.
I backed this kickstarter and still absolutely love the implementation they came up with. I know the general concepts Iconic addresses have been done in some form or another but they make it so simple and beautiful that it puts them in a league of their own, IMO.
East Portland is wired up with Fibre backbone DSL from Century Link. Its $30 a month for a connection that's roughly 40 mbps down / 15 mbps up. I generally get 4 megabytes a sec downloads, and my friend who lives south around Holgate and 65th sees about the same. No data caps that I'm aware of either.
Its faster than Comcast's two lower tier internet packages. I've heard North Portland isn't as lucky but its certainly worth checking out.
Also various complexes around town are already offering FiOS.
I'd love to see Google buy up Frontier's FIOS lines. Their service isn't bad, but I get the feeling they don't really want to be in the fiber business and just got stuck with it in the Verizon purchase.
