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According to "Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley" by Antonio Garcia Martinez, Facebook only has 2.5B+ people to convert into users. User growth stalls out after that as the few billion people who aren't users live in areas too remote for Internet access. Facebook will have to find new ways to grow that doesn't rely on adding new users in the future.

If you bothered to learn to write, you will notice you can't write.

Don't worry. I just ordered "Crafting The Personal Essay: A Guide for Writing and Publishing Creative Non-Fiction" by Dinty W. Moore with the coffee money that I earn from monetizing my Slashdot comments. I'll be writing better creative non-fiction comments in no time. :P

That short story is available in "The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke".

The story behind Facebook can be found in "The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook: A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal" by Ben Mezrich, which "The Social Network" movie was based on. "The Boy Kings: A Journey into the Heart of the Social Network" by Katherine Losse takes place after the movie and from a woman's perspective that I'm currently reading. The most recent Facebook-related book is "Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley" by Antonio Garcia Martinez, who sold his startup and engineers to Twitter while getting a job at Facebook in a three-way deal, and developed the ad system at Facebook that tracks both logged in and anonymous users with third-party demographic data.

The story behind Facebook can be found in "The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook: A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal" by Ben Mezrich, which "The Social Network" movie was based on. "The Boy Kings: A Journey into the Heart of the Social Network" by Katherine Losse takes place after the movie and from a woman's perspective that I'm currently reading. The most recent Facebook-related book is "Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley" by Antonio Garcia Martinez, who sold his startup and engineers to Twitter while getting a job at Facebook in a three-way deal, and developed the ad system at Facebook that tracks both logged in and anonymous users with third-party demographic data.

The story behind Facebook can be found in "The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook: A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal" by Ben Mezrich, which "The Social Network" movie was based on. "The Boy Kings: A Journey into the Heart of the Social Network" by Katherine Losse takes place after the movie and from a woman's perspective that I'm currently reading. The most recent Facebook-related book is "Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley" by Antonio Garcia Martinez, who sold his startup and engineers to Twitter while getting a job at Facebook in a three-way deal, and developed the ad system at Facebook that tracks both logged in and anonymous users with third-party demographic data.

The story behind Facebook can be found in "The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook: A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal" by Ben Mezrich, which "The Social Network" movie was based on. "The Boy Kings: A Journey into the Heart of the Social Network" by Katherine Losse takes place after the movie and from a woman's perspective that I'm currently reading. The most recent Facebook-related book is "Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley" by Antonio Garcia Martinez, who sold his startup and engineers to Twitter while getting a job at Facebook in a three-way deal, and developed the ad system at Facebook that tracks both logged in and anonymous users with third-party demographic data.

If you want to read about someone pivoting from failure to failure, read "Steve Jobs & The NeXT Big Thing" by Randall Stross. I hated reading the first half of this book because of the author's axe grinding against Steve Jobs, as the narrative in other books are always sympathetic to Steve Jobs. The other half of the book is where Steve Jobs pivots from all the mistakes that would end up reducing NeXT from a computer company to a software company. This book stops several years before Apple buys out NeXT and Pixar became successful. For that story, and my favorite Steve Jobs book, you need to read "The Second Coming of Steve Jobs" by Alan Deutschman.

If you want to read about someone pivoting from failure to failure, read "Steve Jobs & The NeXT Big Thing" by Randall Stross. I hated reading the first half of this book because of the author's axe grinding against Steve Jobs, as the narrative in other books are always sympathetic to Steve Jobs. The other half of the book is where Steve Jobs pivots from all the mistakes that would end up reducing NeXT from a computer company to a software company. This book stops several years before Apple buys out NeXT and Pixar became successful. For that story, and my favorite Steve Jobs book, you need to read "The Second Coming of Steve Jobs" by Alan Deutschman.

I stopped buying Seagate drives years ago. They still suck?

They did several years ago. Since then I replaced my Seagate drives with SSDs in the gaming PC and laptop, and Western Digital 1TB Red NAS drives in the file server. Although I did get a newer Seagate 3TB hard drive to serve as a backup drive for the file server. No problems with that drive yet.

I stopped buying Seagate drives years ago. They still suck?

They did several years ago. Since then I replaced my Seagate drives with SSDs in the gaming PC and laptop, and Western Digital 1TB Red NAS drives in the file server. Although I did get a newer Seagate 3TB hard drive to serve as a backup drive for the file server. No problems with that drive yet.

According to "Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal" by Nick Bilton and "Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley" by Antonio Garcia Martinez, both Twitter and Facebook are have employees from Google and each other. It shouldn't be surprising that talent from either company would go back to Google. Which is why I've always cautioned people not to burn their bridges because Silicon Valley is just one big incestuous family. You're never know when your brother-father whom you work with today will become your boss tomorrow.

If you think this is bad, you should see hwo I write ebook descriptions.

According to "Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal" by Nick Bilton and "Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley" by Antonio Garcia Martinez, both Twitter and Facebook are have employees from Google and each other. It shouldn't be surprising that talent from either company would go back to Google. Which is why I've always cautioned people not to burn their bridges because Silicon Valley is just one big incestuous family. You're never know when your brother-father whom you work with today will become your boss tomorrow.

If you think this is bad, you should see hwo I write ebook descriptions.

I missed the part in the article where it mentioned the new technologies they are utilizing to achieve this price reduction.

You can buy an Amazon Dot to go with your avocado dip.

I was hoping it would former Yahoo! CEO Marissa Meyer. Now I don't have a valid reason to promote "I'm Feeling Lucky: The Confessions of Google Employee Number 59" by Douglas Edwards, which documented the author's early interactions with Yahoo's future CEO.

Create a self-replicating machine on the Moon to create cargo ships and harvester drones to go to the outer planets. No need to send people. James P. Hogan wrote in "Code of The Lifemaker" about a damaged self-replicating machine from an alien civilization that crash lands on Titan and accidentally creates robotic life when it tried to build factories to send raw materials back home.

Auther C. Clarke speculated in "2061 (Space Odyssey Book 3)" that the core of Jupiter might a diamond the size of Earth.

You even fucked up somewhere along the way and outed yourself, I remember reading the comment, but I'll be damned if I'll spend the 30 seconds of time on you it'd take to dig up the comment.

That was for the Black Amazon Dot to match my vintage black 2006 MacBook. Don't blame me for your own damn trolls.

Who gives a fuck?

According to "The Boy Kings of Facebook" by Katherine Losse, a service like Facebook is popular because "people and stories". Same reason for Slashdot. We're all here for the people and the stories. It certainly not for the deep technical discussions that almost never happens around here. You have to go to Reddit for that.

According to "Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley" by Antonio Garcia Martinez, who combined Facebook data with third-party demographic data to determine the identity of a user either logged in or browsing anonymously, there's no such thing as online privacy. And the author ain't sorry for compromising online privacy in this podcast.

Amazon has the Xbox One in stock. Or is that something else?

According to "Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley" by Antonio Garcia Martinez, who combined Facebook data with third-party demographic data to determine the identity of a user either logged in or browsing anonymously, quite a bit. And he ain't sorry for compromising user privacy in this podcast.

Glass moon beads for sale! Hurry before they're all gone!! Time to replace that pet moon rock from the 1960's!!!

There goes Facebook's last great hope of rounding up another billion users. According to "Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley" by Antonio Garcia Martinez, Facebook only has 2B users left on the planet to sign up before user growth slows to a crawl as the remaining users are in places too remote for the Internet. Whether logged in or browsing anonymously, Facebook combines its own data with third-party demographic data to identify each user. India's privacy ruling might make that difficult. Or maybe not.

Order a fire-proof and explosion-proof storage bags for your Samsung phone.

On my reading list is "American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road" by Nick Bilton. The author previously wrote "Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal", a great read about the accidental founding of Twitter, the shenanigans of the four cofounders who wanted to CEO, and everyone else who wanted to buy a revenue-less Twitter.

On my reading list is "American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road" by Nick Bilton. The author previously wrote "Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal", a great read about the accidental founding of Twitter, the shenanigans of the four cofounders who wanted to CEO, and everyone else who wanted to buy a revenue-less Twitter.

Be sure to store unused Samsung batteries in fire-proof and explosion-proof storage bags.

The sad thing is, your story is not intended as comedy, but I howled and howled through the free sampler.

It's a parody of "Sunday in The Park with George". You're supposed to laugh.

I wonder if it's worth the 99 cents just for more laughter!

Since you're a cheap literary critic looking for cheap shots, why don't you read the short story, "Sunday In The Park With Dawei," for FREE at Smashwords (coupon code LE67R, valid through 8/31/2017).

By the way, anybody who's not a total virgin will tell you that small breasts with dark nipples feel like bags of sand, Creimer. Bags of sand. Not solar panels.

If you bother to read my short story beyond the free sampler, you would have found out that the character in question was an android.

To paraphrase a line from Star Trek 6: Undiscovered Country, "Not all androids keep their solar panels in the same place."

BTW, A female editor accepted this short story for publication in her anthology, and she had no problems with my descriptions of female hardware.

Corrected URL: "Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley"

Affiliate link me harder wide boy.

Anti-Monkey Diaper Rash Cream is what you need.

Can you provide an Amazon referral link to a book about Neo-Nazis?

On my reading list is "Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich" by Norman Ohler and translated by Shaun Whiteside. Nazi Germany was strung out on amphetamines when they started WW2. It wouldn't surprise me if Neo-Nazis were meth heads and/or drug traffickers.

The Indianapolis monologue by Robert Shaw in "Jaws" was the best scene out of the whole movie. I was always fascinated by that story. Nice to see the story of the USS Indianapolis concluded 42 years after the movie.

There's a book on my reading list that I haven't read yet (pay attention, trolls), about the history of shipping containers: "Ninety Percent of Everything: Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry That Puts Clothes on Your Back, Gas in Your Car, and Food on Your Plate" by Rose George. The New York Times gave it a good review when it first came out, mentioning that the author traveled on a Maersk ship to research the book.

In related news, autonomous ships will soon become a reality. More targets for hackers.

  http://spectrum.ieee.org/transportation/marine/forget-autonomous-cars-autonomous-ships-are-almost-here

They are basically autonoumous right now. A half-a-mile long ship carrying a billion dollar worth of goods is typicall manned by three people, the captain, the engineer and the cook. An autonomous sailing ship could get rid of those people.

An autonomous sailing ship could get rid of ONE those people

There's a book on my reading list that I haven't read yet (pay attention, trolls), about the history of shipping containers: "Ninety Percent of Everything: Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry That Puts Clothes on Your Back, Gas in Your Car, and Food on Your Plate" by Rose George. The New York Times gave it a good review when it first came out, mentioning that the author traveled on a Maersk ship to research the book.

In related news, autonomous ships will soon become a reality. More targets for hackers.
  http://spectrum.ieee.org/transportation/marine/forget-autonomous-cars-autonomous-ships-are-almost-here

They are basically autonoumous right now. A half-a-mile long ship carrying a billion dollar worth of goods is typicall manned by three people, the captain, the engineer and the cook. An autonomous sailing ship could get rid of those people.

There's a book on my reading list that I haven't read yet (pay attention, trolls), about the history of shipping containers: "Ninety Percent of Everything: Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry That Puts Clothes on Your Back, Gas in Your Car, and Food on Your Plate" by Rose George. The New York Times gave it a good review when it first came out, mentioning that the author traveled on a Maersk ship to research the book.

In related news, autonomous ships will soon become a reality. More targets for hackers.
http://spectrum.ieee.org/transportation/marine/forget-autonomous-cars-autonomous-ships-are-almost-here

Amazon has a Xerox color laser printer for $196 and consumables are about $133 to $199. That seems affordable for a color laser printer. My monochrome laser printer cost $200 and consumables are $80.

Xerox is well-known for missing the significance of what they had at PARC back in the day, and letting Steve Jobs ransack the place to develop the Mac. One of the lesser known stories, mentioned in "Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age" by Michael A. Hiltzik, was how Xerox dismissed the laser printer as they didn't want to cannibalize their copier sales. A delimma that most technology companies encounter when they have a cash cow product and a newer product that would replace it. HP came out with the first personal laser printer in 1980 and turned toner cartridges into a cash cow.

What T-shirt do you recommend for people that falsely accuse me of running a credit check when all I did was type in your stupid name in Google?

"I Pooped Today" t-shirt. In brown, of course.

Show me on this picture of a very muscular man (Mr Olympia) [ironmagazine.com]where the jowls are?

Between the jawline and throat. Do you need a box of crayons?

Squeezing into a shirt the size of a pup tent that's still too small is probably what takes so long.

I'm thinking about making a video with my regular 2XL shirt size and the 6XL that everyone thinks I should wear. Should I get the "I Shoot People" shirt or the "I'm Fat Let's Party" shirt?

I'm leaning towards the former to piss off the troll who falsely accuses me of threatening to shoot him.

Squeezing into a shirt the size of a pup tent that's still too small is probably what takes so long.

I'm thinking about making a video with my regular 2XL shirt size and the 6XL that everyone thinks I should wear. Should I get the "I Shoot People" shirt or the "I'm Fat Let's Party" shirt?

I'm leaning towards the former to piss off the troll who falsely accuses me of threatening to shoot him.

There's a book on my reading list that I haven't read yet (pay attention, trolls), about the history of shipping containers: "Ninety Percent of Everything: Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry That Puts Clothes on Your Back, Gas in Your Car, and Food on Your Plate" by Rose George. The New York Times gave it a good review when it first came out, mentioning that the author traveled on a Maersk ship to research the book.

Maybe I should just open my wallet for you and avoid the violence?

Your sense of humor went missing. I suggest buying a pair of poopy glasses to bring it back.

With that ID number, you must be as well.

You must need reading glasses. My user id number has six digits. Newer user id numbers have eight digits.

"The Richest Man in Babylon" by George S. Clason is a good read.

B: Creimer's still waiting for the coffee money to roll in. He's focusing on making that Little Debbie money, first. At 25 cents per delicious, chewy Oatmeal Cream Pie, he should start making enough to buy 2 or 3 a month, soon!

When I get my June earnings at the end of the month, I can buy three cases and still have enough change for a skinny vanilla latte.

Cant you saw this is the wave of the futur?
-creimer
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I remembered the Internet Yellow Pages (dead tree version) back in the mid-1990's when I was going to college. Back then it made sense because search engines were still a few years off. I'm surprised that the last edition still listed on Amazon was 2007.