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middus
If I was dependent on Google Wave and confronted with this page when planning to use it, it would probably make me angry. Looks cool, though.
KC8ZKF
At this stage, if you are dependent on Google Wave, you aren't angry, you're mad.
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cmelbye
Notice the "preview" under the logo. I don't think it's Google's goal to make their current iteration of Wave highly available and production ready.
ryandvm
I think that guy has psoriasis.
WesleyJohnson
I love to see that they're using jQuery for the animations. I'm anxious to see more people going this route over Flash. Not that there is anything wrong with Flash, and it may very well be better suited for this type of work, I just want to see the uses and plugins for jQuery continue to evolve.
sp332
That's eager, not anxious ;)
WesleyJohnson
You know, I almost used "eager" too. English was never a strong subject for me. Come to think of it, neither was math or science or history. ;)
bcl
I sure hope not. Their simple animation spikes one of my cores just to animate some clouds. Not a very efficient way to animate things.
mbrubeck
Newer WebKit browsers use the GPU to accelerate css-transform animations (giving your CPU a break). Check out the example on this page in the latest version of Chrome or Safari, for example:

http://webkit.org/blog/324/css-animation-2/

NathanKP
Thanks for the resource link. I can't wait until Firefox can do this. I want to use webkit animation in my website, but for now they would only work in Safari and Chrome.
rimantas
When I see what Flash does to my CPU on OS X I somehow doubt that it is more efficient.
freddier
Of course, you're not comparing fair examples of SWF vs. jQuery. I guess it's ok to ignore the obvious advantages of Flash if you can bash a full features app or animation compared to the Google Wave error page.
NathanKP
For me, on Mac OS X, flash is much more inefficient than JQuery animation, especially in Safari and Firefox.
JBiserkov
No spikes here...

0-3% in IE 8 Windows 7 64bit Core 2 Duo E6420 @ 2.14 GHz

jrockway
What's good about using JavaScript and known libraries is that you can just write a userscript to reduce the framerate. With Flash, it would be all or nothing.
dualogy
Now, that's Cloud computing in action.
dualogy
Wow, first time ever I got down to zero...
nishantmodak
Love how the wave(s) [the real ones] come forward and go back - in the animation.

If using 'Google wave' was as good as the image. serene.

[It is not! its a wave storm]

sscheper
when will i be able to get a google wave login?
MikeCapone
What's with the 16 colors graphics?
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zerowolfgang
hmmm, could be prep for this: http://bit.ly/L1a1Q
jeremyw
I wonder if they actually ran this by women. Images of feet are a little dicey for the fairer sex. My sample size of two brought back two creepy's.
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crux
Wow, I never would have thought but my girlfriend just said the exact same thing. She doesn't like looking at feet and thinks they're gross.
blueben
My wife thinks the feet could use improvement. That they're a little creepy and look like something out of Oregon Trail.
zyb09
... the fuck? sorry you guys are sometimes just ridiculous. Can't show feet cause women oppose them? Whats going on in your head?
jeremyw
Twitter's fail whale is universally cute and disarming. If some portion of Wave's audience is skeeved out by the maintenance page with unpleasant feet, it needs fixing. (Especially for unplanned maintenance.)

I've now asked four women. They all had the same negative reaction.

ellyagg
It's a little creepy that women are 100% unanimous that feet are creepy. Is it just male feet? That'd be even creepier.
nym
The colors make my eyes hurt. Hitting back to HN is serene in comparison.
mark_l_watson
I don't think that I have ever seen their web site down, but in the last 3 months (or so), a few times my robots stopped getting event notifications for brief periods of time.

But, hey, the system is in beta. I'm pretty much enthusiastic about Wave: I'm writing a DevX article right now on Wave robot programming, and I have a business idea using the Wave platform that I want to try out.