I haven't gone that far... yet. I've redacted pretty much all my information, photos etc at this point. According to their privacy statement, all of that is removed from their database after 90 days. Tick tock, tick tock...
If it gets much worse though, I think Facebook can start seeing a mass exodus, Myspace style.
Thing is, how much is my data really worth to Facebook?? I'd gladly pay $20 a year to keep my privacy.
I've been to the shipyards myself (it's about the only exciting thing in all of Mississippi in route to Florida by car) and sailed between oil rigs - hell, I damn near hit about 10 of them off the coast of Texas at night. Traveling in a straight line from Galveston to Corpus Christi you're bound to run into a few. They're supposed to have sirens and lights but sometimes those break. It by no means makes me an expert on them, except that I know there's an awful lot of them in the Gulf.
This just in: BSA hasn't done anything profitable for the software industry in the last year, and it's time to make up numbers and release reports to justify their 6-figure salaries to their masters
Maybe we should step aside, and let other countries be the world's police? I don't think anyone thinks we're doing a particularly good job of it, and there's no real reason why the EU couldn't pick up the slack in military spending. For as long as I've been alive, despite the enormous size of our standing army, we haven't been in a conflict large enough to warrant the size of our army.
I originally switched to Chrome on my netbook, due to the smaller header bar for the application (saves vertical space), used it for about a week and ended up downloading and using it on my desktop as well. FF does seem "clunky" now in comparison. The only major bug I run into with Chrome is where Flash will crash and nuke 10-15 tabs I have open.
Speaking of which, why the hell can I search any wordpress blog, vbb forum, the pirate bay etc from the URL bar in Chrome (by hitting tab), but you can't use that same functionality to search Google Maps or Gmail? As much as I use google maps google has yet to come up with a text hook to just search maps from inside the google bar.
I think you could be served better by a more robust right click menu. Most of those things you mentioned have been pushed to the right click menu on Chrome and Explorer.
The problem, however, is that the vast majority of the population lives in urban centers. Also, the percentage of the population that can afford smartphones is larger in urban population centers than in rural areas. Which is a GREAT deal if you're of the tiny, tiny fraction of the population that both lives in remote rural areas, have good reception, and can afford an iPhone.
My technophobe mother just bought a jailbroken iPhone off ebay to use with her tmobile account
I would imagine they'd all have really long extension cords for their laser rifles, leading back to some mobile fusion reactor on tank treads. Imagine the "shock and awe" of a wave of men in white puffy spacesuits with big plexiglass bubbles over their heads, marching towards a city, firing off red and blue and green lasers at them, vaporizing everything in their path, leaving a trail of extension cords and destruction in their wake.
The military is seriously lacking in cool shit for all the money they dump into R&D.
I am pretty sure Gates is just the mouthpiece for the administration on this. His job is to say and do what the Commander In Chief (aka President) says. Either way, considering roughly 1/6th of the federal budget is millitary spending, we ought to be seeing some better results for that than failed wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
For 665 billion dollars a year, we ought to have hover cars, laser rifles, robot/android soldiers, forcefields and fusion power by now.
2010 Federal budget: 3.552 Trillion Dollars
Total Federal revenue to pay for budget: 2.381 Trillion Dollars
Amount we put on the "Federal Credit Card" (a.k.a. our Children's Grandchildren), just for 2010: 1.717 Trillion Dollars
They haven't been around for the full lifecycle of a computer yet, but since january of last year, they've just about doubled in capability (mostly screen resolution and better onboard graphics) and will have fully doubled in functionality by september or so.Computers were long ago "fast enough". Netbooks haven't reached that point... Yet. So people will want to upgrade. Original 7" Eee buyers are probably keen to upgrade to a 1024x600 or 720p display. My netbook is barely 6 months old but I am planning on replacing it with a 10", 720p model that can decode a proper 720p divx file here in April 2011 or so. I'm just waiting for a good excuse and for the prices on the 720p models to drop by about $100.
Players expect to be able to milk these titles for years. I'm still playing Civ 2 (well, now I play Freeciv, because Civ 2 doesn't run in Wine, and loading a windows VM to play a game is annoying) and Alpha Centauri on a regular basis.
And I've been milking Team Fortress 2 for years. Play it on a regular basis, and shockingly, every time I go to load up steam, I check and I can still load TF2! Shocker! My 8 year old copy of Half-Life 2 and my 12 year old copy of Half-Life 1 still work fine, and I am still milking them. I've long lost the install CDs for those games, but thankfully I still have my Steam account. The fact that game updates download and are patched seamlessly is just another huge bonus. That sucks that you're stuck on dialup dude.
I think the simplest solution is to just buy N+two extra swiss army knives; leave the one he has at home, buy one for the car, one for work, and extras for anywhere else he spends more then 4 hours a day (N), probably keeping a spare set of keys in the same location as the swiss army knife.
I was always forgetting to charge my smartphone so I ended up buying a charger for work, my home office, and a car charger. At home and work I just drop it in the cradle and forget about it, much like I drop my keys in a specific spot when I get somewhere.
I am the same way. Carabiner holds a keyring with my house, mom's house, garage and car. The armrest compartment between the seats in my car has a lid that closes things off from view. Work keys (and if I forget, my wallet and phone) go in there. Chances are if I'm going somewhere, I'll need those things in the car anyways.
Personal keys get set on a specific corner of the kitchen (first room you walk through when you come home), and there's a row of hooks on the wall opposite that corner that stores mine and my roommate's duplicate car keys, spare house keys, and rarely used keys. If my primary keys aren't set on that corner of the kitchen they go on the corner of my dresser, and failing that my nightstand. Failing that, I just check my pants pocket from the previous day.
Looks like total netbook sales for 2009 was 32 million units, not 20 million as had been predicted at the beginning of 2009. 10% is a fair chunk, but I'm sure HP, Asus and Acer each have in the ballpark of 10% of the netbook market.
Also stalled growth is largely due to both consumers and manufacturers waiting to see what Apple had in store. Preliminary data is one thing, but it's the back to school numbers leading up to August that seal the deal.
I'll eat my hat if Apple sells 12 million iPads in 2010. 6-8 million is very likely however. At the end of the year though, 3 million of those units are likely to have been bought simply due to Apple marketing and not because it was a better option to the customer than a netbook. Perhaps 3-5 million units will be "cannibalized" from Netbook sales by the end of the year.
This is just a bad article in general. They're reporting year over year growth of Netbooks, which was going to plateau eventually. They're still on track to sell more than 20 million netbooks this year. 1 million iPads displacing 1 million units of netbooks isn't an enormous drop - it's about 5% of sales. Tops. I know a lot of engineers who weren't considering a netbook at all, but wanted a new shiny apple toy, so they bought the iPad.
All the graph in the article does is illustrate a decline in growth of an established product. iPod sales growth has been declining too, but that's simply because literally everyone and their mother owns one now, and people are simply replacing them or buying their child their first iPod. Nobody's making splashy headlines about that. All products plateau eventually, and it happens sooner than later when their adoption rates skyrocket at launch.
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I haven't gone that far... yet. I've redacted pretty much all my information, photos etc at this point. According to their privacy statement, all of that is removed from their database after 90 days. Tick tock, tick tock...
If it gets much worse though, I think Facebook can start seeing a mass exodus, Myspace style.
Thing is, how much is my data really worth to Facebook?? I'd gladly pay $20 a year to keep my privacy.
I got my barrels and gallons mixed up, 5000 barrels roughly (ROUGHLY) correlates with 200,000 gallons
I've been to the shipyards myself (it's about the only exciting thing in all of Mississippi in route to Florida by car) and sailed between oil rigs - hell, I damn near hit about 10 of them off the coast of Texas at night. Traveling in a straight line from Galveston to Corpus Christi you're bound to run into a few. They're supposed to have sirens and lights but sometimes those break. It by no means makes me an expert on them, except that I know there's an awful lot of them in the Gulf.
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Can you convert that into volumes of library of congresses for me? That's apparently the only metric I can understand.
We started at 5,000 barrels a day, then 20, 50 and 100,000 barrels a day. Yesterday I saw a figure quoted at 200,000, today I saw 210,000
But 1 million barrels a day? That's almost three full days ahead of schedule for the media. Didn't Slashdot get the memo?
Also whoever greenlighted this article needs to get fired for releasing such a panic-y and fear inducing article to the front page.
My mother used to sell cutco knives back in college (30 year old knives), we sent in her demo kit for free sharpening/replacement
I routinely buy/find old snapon/sears tools and get them replaced with brand new tools
I think there are some rouge Ultima Online servers out there too, at least two distinct communities last time I checked.
-They didn't say ANYTHING to me about it affecting fertility.
Simply wearing tight pants/underwear affects your fertility. What on earth made you think an ultrasound would improve your fertility in any way?
This just in: BSA hasn't done anything profitable for the software industry in the last year, and it's time to make up numbers and release reports to justify their 6-figure salaries to their masters
Intimidation for what purpose? Just curious.
Maybe we should step aside, and let other countries be the world's police? I don't think anyone thinks we're doing a particularly good job of it, and there's no real reason why the EU couldn't pick up the slack in military spending. For as long as I've been alive, despite the enormous size of our standing army, we haven't been in a conflict large enough to warrant the size of our army.
I originally switched to Chrome on my netbook, due to the smaller header bar for the application (saves vertical space), used it for about a week and ended up downloading and using it on my desktop as well. FF does seem "clunky" now in comparison. The only major bug I run into with Chrome is where Flash will crash and nuke 10-15 tabs I have open.
Speaking of which, why the hell can I search any wordpress blog, vbb forum, the pirate bay etc from the URL bar in Chrome (by hitting tab), but you can't use that same functionality to search Google Maps or Gmail? As much as I use google maps google has yet to come up with a text hook to just search maps from inside the google bar.
Have you considered submitting this cure for ADD to the AMA? Awards might be in order!
I think you could be served better by a more robust right click menu. Most of those things you mentioned have been pushed to the right click menu on Chrome and Explorer.
The problem, however, is that the vast majority of the population lives in urban centers. Also, the percentage of the population that can afford smartphones is larger in urban population centers than in rural areas. Which is a GREAT deal if you're of the tiny, tiny fraction of the population that both lives in remote rural areas, have good reception, and can afford an iPhone.
My technophobe mother just bought a jailbroken iPhone off ebay to use with her tmobile account
I would imagine they'd all have really long extension cords for their laser rifles, leading back to some mobile fusion reactor on tank treads. Imagine the "shock and awe" of a wave of men in white puffy spacesuits with big plexiglass bubbles over their heads, marching towards a city, firing off red and blue and green lasers at them, vaporizing everything in their path, leaving a trail of extension cords and destruction in their wake.
The military is seriously lacking in cool shit for all the money they dump into R&D.
I am pretty sure Gates is just the mouthpiece for the administration on this. His job is to say and do what the Commander In Chief (aka President) says. Either way, considering roughly 1/6th of the federal budget is millitary spending, we ought to be seeing some better results for that than failed wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
For 665 billion dollars a year, we ought to have hover cars, laser rifles, robot/android soldiers, forcefields and fusion power by now.
2010 Federal budget: 3.552 Trillion Dollars
Total Federal revenue to pay for budget: 2.381 Trillion Dollars
Amount we put on the "Federal Credit Card" (a.k.a. our Children's Grandchildren), just for 2010: 1.717 Trillion Dollars
Sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_United_States_federal_budget
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/usbudget/fy10/pdf/fy10-newera.pdf
They haven't been around for the full lifecycle of a computer yet, but since january of last year, they've just about doubled in capability (mostly screen resolution and better onboard graphics) and will have fully doubled in functionality by september or so.Computers were long ago "fast enough". Netbooks haven't reached that point... Yet. So people will want to upgrade. Original 7" Eee buyers are probably keen to upgrade to a 1024x600 or 720p display. My netbook is barely 6 months old but I am planning on replacing it with a 10", 720p model that can decode a proper 720p divx file here in April 2011 or so. I'm just waiting for a good excuse and for the prices on the 720p models to drop by about $100.
And I've been milking Team Fortress 2 for years. Play it on a regular basis, and shockingly, every time I go to load up steam, I check and I can still load TF2! Shocker! My 8 year old copy of Half-Life 2 and my 12 year old copy of Half-Life 1 still work fine, and I am still milking them. I've long lost the install CDs for those games, but thankfully I still have my Steam account. The fact that game updates download and are patched seamlessly is just another huge bonus. That sucks that you're stuck on dialup dude.
I think the simplest solution is to just buy N+two extra swiss army knives; leave the one he has at home, buy one for the car, one for work, and extras for anywhere else he spends more then 4 hours a day (N), probably keeping a spare set of keys in the same location as the swiss army knife.
I was always forgetting to charge my smartphone so I ended up buying a charger for work, my home office, and a car charger. At home and work I just drop it in the cradle and forget about it, much like I drop my keys in a specific spot when I get somewhere.
I am the same way. Carabiner holds a keyring with my house, mom's house, garage and car. The armrest compartment between the seats in my car has a lid that closes things off from view. Work keys (and if I forget, my wallet and phone) go in there. Chances are if I'm going somewhere, I'll need those things in the car anyways.
Personal keys get set on a specific corner of the kitchen (first room you walk through when you come home), and there's a row of hooks on the wall opposite that corner that stores mine and my roommate's duplicate car keys, spare house keys, and rarely used keys. If my primary keys aren't set on that corner of the kitchen they go on the corner of my dresser, and failing that my nightstand. Failing that, I just check my pants pocket from the previous day.
Wow some mac zealot really has an agenda. Not only did he mark my previous comment a troll, but this one too! Thanks anonymous mac guy! :)
Looks like total netbook sales for 2009 was 32 million units, not 20 million as had been predicted at the beginning of 2009. 10% is a fair chunk, but I'm sure HP, Asus and Acer each have in the ballpark of 10% of the netbook market.
Also stalled growth is largely due to both consumers and manufacturers waiting to see what Apple had in store. Preliminary data is one thing, but it's the back to school numbers leading up to August that seal the deal.
I'll eat my hat if Apple sells 12 million iPads in 2010. 6-8 million is very likely however. At the end of the year though, 3 million of those units are likely to have been bought simply due to Apple marketing and not because it was a better option to the customer than a netbook. Perhaps 3-5 million units will be "cannibalized" from Netbook sales by the end of the year.
This is just a bad article in general. They're reporting year over year growth of Netbooks, which was going to plateau eventually. They're still on track to sell more than 20 million netbooks this year. 1 million iPads displacing 1 million units of netbooks isn't an enormous drop - it's about 5% of sales. Tops. I know a lot of engineers who weren't considering a netbook at all, but wanted a new shiny apple toy, so they bought the iPad.
All the graph in the article does is illustrate a decline in growth of an established product. iPod sales growth has been declining too, but that's simply because literally everyone and their mother owns one now, and people are simply replacing them or buying their child their first iPod. Nobody's making splashy headlines about that. All products plateau eventually, and it happens sooner than later when their adoption rates skyrocket at launch.