Indeed, I'm a little hesitant to invest in a social media company who could potentially tank at the whim of millions of tweens who decided FB isn't cool anymore and move on to the next thing. Facebook probably has a better thing going than MySpace, but it still stuns me at how fast MySpace fell out of favor. Who says the same thing won't happen to Facebook, privately held or not?
My take on it is the only classes that should have computers, are the classes that are teaching something about computers. You need a computer to learn how to type, or for writing and compiling code. You don't need a computer for your core stuff like history, math, english, etc. Computers and electronics in the classroom are just distractions.
That's true. It's might also be in their interest to allow ala-carte pricing. But it is their content, and they can distribute it how they choose. Since they also distribute it on the Internet (barring any illegal content providers) they can pretty much offer it however they want on any medium. The only way for them to fight illegal downloaders it to make legitimate downloads/streaming as easy or easier than illegal downloads. That would mean no DRM (or a least a good implementation of it) in a cross platform format consumable by all types of devices.
"Throwing the gauntlet" worked so well for the music industry. They probably could have made so much more money, much more easily if they had embraced digital media from the onset. Television needs to get on board with the digital age. If they fight it they are just going to fall behind as users find better alternatives to traditionally TV. Perhaps it's time to offer ala-carte channel selection. Why should I have to buy a package from my cable company when I can just find what I want online. The harder they fight it, the faster they will lose viewers. Especially now that TVs have Youtube and Hulu apps embedded, making it much easier for the average user to watch online content.
I'd agree with you on the caloric intake. You can get fat from eating Broccoli and grilled organic skinless chicken breast if you ate 5000 calories worth of it, the same as if you ate 5000 calories of candy and fried cheese and burned less than the number of calories consumed. However, nutritionally speaking I'd have to say that eating processed food full of preservatives, and artificial flavoring etc has got to be worse for your body than eating something that simply grew from ground. I keep seeing these news stories that say "did you know that eating can help reduce the risk of ". Humans evolved eating only stuff that came from the ground. The earth provides nutrition needed by a humans (not to mention every other species). Not to say that processed food is devoid of nutrients, but there is no doubt that fruits, veggies, and grains balanced with a moderate quantity of meat is what the human body will thrive on.
I wonder what the price tag would be. Of course, if you never have to replace them that would be a plus. What I would really like to see is shocks that could generate electricity that recharge the battery in a hybrid/electric vehicle. It could probably work somewhat akin to those generators that harness power from ocean waves. Not sure how much power you could get from the motion generated by 4 shocks moving a few inches in each direction.
Indeed, who wants to listen to people dictate commands to their computer, that would be the most annoying thing in the world. If you think hearing a one sided cell phone conversation is annoying, wait until you hear the douche making a snarky status update. No thanks.
I have never heard anyone describe a myspace page so perfectly! That is exactly how it should be described, haha. I love it. As for face book, I wasn't sure if it killed myspace or not. All I know is facebook rose up and myspace fell.
Facebook is an advertisers dream. I don't think it could be any more perfect from an advertisers perspective, and I'm sure facebook charges a premium for this kind of consumer data. However, targeted advertising only works when there are targets...what happens when/if facebook goes the way of Myspace and Live Journal (not that LJ was a behemoth like facebook or myspace).
It seems like myspace was king for a few years, then tanked and facebook filled the void. I'm not sure what caused myspace's drop in popularity, but one has to wonder if facebook will see the same thing. Seeing as how "every one" read - everyone's parents/grandparents, are on facebook, you have to wonder if the people who fueled facebook's uprising (the college age crowd) will packup and move to the next big social net where nobody's parents are there to see the kind of debauchery in which they take part. Then facebook is left with millions of square feet of data center space filled with thousands of idle servers. Cell phone company stop bundling facebook apps out of the box, and companies and news stations no longer update their facebook pages, because they too have moved on to follow the masses to next big thing. If I were to invest in facebook, I would ride that wave for a very short time. Maybe I'm wrong, the world is much different than it was in 1999.
To quote their US commercial "The new MyTouch 4G, video chat with out needing WiFi. On America largest 4G network" (please don't use the video chat feature, it's killing our network) It's like the high speed internet providers who run all these ads touting how fast their service is, and how easy it is to "download music, and watch streaming video" then they go and cap you from downloading too much music and streaming video. I understand they have to manage their bandwidth capacity, but come on.
Grass fed is the cow's natural diet. Cows are not supposed to be eating corn and grain. It messes with the ph levels of their stomachs, causing issues with the balance of bacteria. That warrants more medication to treat ailments caused by the bacteria levels being off.
People dump their bf/gf before spring break so they can drunkenly bang sluts in Cancun guilt free. An Christmas is a no brainer - if you're not that into the person, why spend any money on them, or get stuck with them over the holiday instead of people you really want to be with. Also to drunkenly bang sluts at New Year's eve parties guilt free.
If ISPs don't want us sucking bandwidth from multimedia, don't advertise by telling us how awesome your service is for "Movies, games, music, and social networking sites"
I agree. I love Gentoo, but it's a labor of love. A headless server is much easier to maintain than a desktop with all kinds of fancy gui things going on. I switched to Ubuntu for pretty much the same reason. I don't have the time to compile, then trouble shoot errors, and research configuration settings etc. I love to do that stuff, and have 2 servers with Gentoo still, but when the wife wants to watch our MythTV recordings, I don't have time to figure out how to get HDMI and HDMI audio working.
I'm actually looking at doing this in a few years. My company is very flexible with working from home. I really don't need to be onsite, most people in my area don't. I already work from home 2 or 3 days a week. So if can work from home so often, what does it matter where home is, provided I have a fast internet connection? I know 2 people who moved across the country and kept their same job, even the same phone number. I live in an expensive suburb, and have a 30 mile commute. My wife and I would love to have a small farm with horses and egg chickens. In my town, those animals require a minimum of 3 acres, and 3 acres would probably cost about $120K, with no house.
We can sell our house on ~1 acre , and buy a similar sized house on 40 acres in a rural area, with a barn and large garage for about the same price. I would still be fairly close to work (about 1.5 hr drive) so I could come in a couple of times a month for those important face time meetings.
Rural living to me would be great. Rural = woodsy area = quiet/hiking/mountain biking/hunting right out my back door.
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Indeed, I'm a little hesitant to invest in a social media company who could potentially tank at the whim of millions of tweens who decided FB isn't cool anymore and move on to the next thing. Facebook probably has a better thing going than MySpace, but it still stuns me at how fast MySpace fell out of favor. Who says the same thing won't happen to Facebook, privately held or not?
How is one supposed to pay for these things with digital currency? Pimps and drug dealers love paper trails!
My take on it is the only classes that should have computers, are the classes that are teaching something about computers. You need a computer to learn how to type, or for writing and compiling code. You don't need a computer for your core stuff like history, math, english, etc. Computers and electronics in the classroom are just distractions.
I was surprised to see 'dickhead' in an official response. Is it a less vulgar term in NZ than in the US?
That's true. It's might also be in their interest to allow ala-carte pricing. But it is their content, and they can distribute it how they choose. Since they also distribute it on the Internet (barring any illegal content providers) they can pretty much offer it however they want on any medium.
The only way for them to fight illegal downloaders it to make legitimate downloads/streaming as easy or easier than illegal downloads. That would mean no DRM (or a least a good implementation of it) in a cross platform format consumable by all types of devices.
"Throwing the gauntlet" worked so well for the music industry. They probably could have made so much more money, much more easily if they had embraced digital media from the onset.
Television needs to get on board with the digital age. If they fight it they are just going to fall behind as users find better alternatives to traditionally TV.
Perhaps it's time to offer ala-carte channel selection. Why should I have to buy a package from my cable company when I can just find what I want online.
The harder they fight it, the faster they will lose viewers. Especially now that TVs have Youtube and Hulu apps embedded, making it much easier for the average user to watch online content.
I'd agree with you on the caloric intake. You can get fat from eating Broccoli and grilled organic skinless chicken breast if you ate 5000 calories worth of it, the same as if you ate 5000 calories of candy and fried cheese and burned less than the number of calories consumed.
However, nutritionally speaking I'd have to say that eating processed food full of preservatives, and artificial flavoring etc has got to be worse for your body than eating something that simply grew from ground.
I keep seeing these news stories that say "did you know that eating can help reduce the risk of ".
Humans evolved eating only stuff that came from the ground. The earth provides nutrition needed by a humans (not to mention every other species).
Not to say that processed food is devoid of nutrients, but there is no doubt that fruits, veggies, and grains balanced with a moderate quantity of meat is what the human body will thrive on.
I wonder what the price tag would be. Of course, if you never have to replace them that would be a plus.
What I would really like to see is shocks that could generate electricity that recharge the battery in a hybrid/electric vehicle.
It could probably work somewhat akin to those generators that harness power from ocean waves. Not sure how much power you could get from the motion generated by 4 shocks moving a few inches in each direction.
Indeed, who wants to listen to people dictate commands to their computer, that would be the most annoying thing in the world. If you think hearing a one sided cell phone conversation is annoying, wait until you hear the douche making a snarky status update. No thanks.
I have never heard anyone describe a myspace page so perfectly! That is exactly how it should be described, haha. I love it.
As for face book, I wasn't sure if it killed myspace or not. All I know is facebook rose up and myspace fell.
Can I get free shipping if I use "Buy it now". What about local pickup?
Oh, and can you post picture of the back of the suits?
Facebook is an advertisers dream. I don't think it could be any more perfect from an advertisers perspective, and I'm sure facebook charges a premium for this kind of consumer data. However, targeted advertising only works when there are targets...what happens when/if facebook goes the way of Myspace and Live Journal (not that LJ was a behemoth like facebook or myspace).
It seems like myspace was king for a few years, then tanked and facebook filled the void. I'm not sure what caused myspace's drop in popularity, but one has to wonder if facebook will see the same thing. Seeing as how "every one" read - everyone's parents/grandparents, are on facebook, you have to wonder if the people who fueled facebook's uprising (the college age crowd) will packup and move to the next big social net where nobody's parents are there to see the kind of debauchery in which they take part.
Then facebook is left with millions of square feet of data center space filled with thousands of idle servers. Cell phone company stop bundling facebook apps out of the box, and companies and news stations no longer update their facebook pages, because they too have moved on to follow the masses to next big thing.
If I were to invest in facebook, I would ride that wave for a very short time. Maybe I'm wrong, the world is much different than it was in 1999.
Not to mention all the War and Zombie games out there. Mmmm...scorched and rotting flesh. I love getting the urge to barf when I play my games.
To quote their US commercial "The new MyTouch 4G, video chat with out needing WiFi. On America largest 4G network" (please don't use the video chat feature, it's killing our network)
It's like the high speed internet providers who run all these ads touting how fast their service is, and how easy it is to "download music, and watch streaming video" then they go and cap you from downloading too much music and streaming video. I understand they have to manage their bandwidth capacity, but come on.
Grass fed is the cow's natural diet. Cows are not supposed to be eating corn and grain. It messes with the ph levels of their stomachs, causing issues with the balance of bacteria. That warrants more medication to treat ailments caused by the bacteria levels being off.
Yeah, while we're at it, lets edit all of Shakespear's works. Nobody says "thou art" anymore. Old English is dead.
s/'thou art'/'you are'/g
http://www.petitiononline.com/Linflix/ --> If enough people ask nicely, we might see a Linux client.
Sounds like a win-win to me. Buy stock in KFC - everyone will always have cravings for fried chicken after the ride home from work.
I think he was implying that no partner=no sex, so Kleenex would be used for cleanup after a solo.
People dump their bf/gf before spring break so they can drunkenly bang sluts in Cancun guilt free.
An Christmas is a no brainer - if you're not that into the person, why spend any money on them, or get stuck with them over the holiday instead of people you really want to be with.
Also to drunkenly bang sluts at New Year's eve parties guilt free.
If ISPs don't want us sucking bandwidth from multimedia, don't advertise by telling us how awesome your service is for "Movies, games, music, and social networking sites"
I agree. I love Gentoo, but it's a labor of love. A headless server is much easier to maintain than a desktop with all kinds of fancy gui things going on. I switched to Ubuntu for pretty much the same reason. I don't have the time to compile, then trouble shoot errors, and research configuration settings etc.
I love to do that stuff, and have 2 servers with Gentoo still, but when the wife wants to watch our MythTV recordings, I don't have time to figure out how to get HDMI and HDMI audio working.
Nice - sounds awesome, aside from having to go in 3x a week.
I'm actually looking at doing this in a few years. My company is very flexible with working from home. I really don't need to be onsite, most people in my area don't. I already work from home 2 or 3 days a week. So if can work from home so often, what does it matter where home is, provided I have a fast internet connection? I know 2 people who moved across the country and kept their same job, even the same phone number.
I live in an expensive suburb, and have a 30 mile commute. My wife and I would love to have a small farm with horses and egg chickens. In my town, those animals require a minimum of 3 acres, and 3 acres would probably cost about $120K, with no house.
We can sell our house on ~1 acre , and buy a similar sized house on 40 acres in a rural area, with a barn and large garage for about the same price.
I would still be fairly close to work (about 1.5 hr drive) so I could come in a couple of times a month for those important face time meetings.
Rural living to me would be great. Rural = woodsy area = quiet/hiking/mountain biking/hunting right out my back door.
Elmer Fudd might have been on to something. Who wants some nice soy fed rabbit meat?