There are always exceptions, of course - South Africans (admittedly a 1st/3rd world mixture) do a roaring trade with Amazon.com (to name but one) every year. All with credit cards.
You're right of course. I was referring to the folks who're frightened of being impersonated, and who must therefore sign up at every social thingy to prevent it.
Interesting comments about people you know nothing about. Just because they're well off does not mean their motivations are any different to yours: happiness, family, safety, achievements, fulfilment, etc.
I'm always amazed by the comments of people who consider themselves less well off. Your comments are a thinly veiled attack on them because they have more money than you. Sad.
Believe it or not, being successful does not make you an asshole, it just makes you successful.
I think there business model is doomed (like youtube, which is losing millions). Like so many dot-coms, they're betting on some vague future mechanism to start generating revenue (sure, they've started ads, but will it be enough to break even and support them - as opposed to being supported by VC who eventually want ROI). Sooner or later, the emperor will notice he's butt-nekkid.
Apparently in March Myspace had over 85 million unique US visitors
Yes, and I bet they're just growing by leaps and bounds, hey? Facebook will also eventually (already?) reach a plateau, then decline. It's the way of the 'net, get over it, sonny;) What was once new and shiny and in quickly becomes stale.
Citation please. How has social networking sites become "so integrated into our society?" Society at large really couldn't give a shit about social networking sites. They're too busy getting on with life (and having one).
Sites such as facebook are just another in a long line of silly fads. It will pass, just like geocities.
My biggest problem was trying to get the kernel (0.x?) to recognise my bloody CDROM drive... (lots of screaming tantrums, bi-polar inducing maniacal bashing of keyboard resulting in a shower of pop-corn-keys, tears and gnashing of teeth down to the pulp, but fuckit, I rabidly refused to give up and kept returning for more).
I remember oscillating between eye-twitching dopamine drenched euphoria when something worked, and fuck-this-shit frustration.
I vividly remember finally (many, many weeks later) getting X (openwin?) to run properly and setting up my white-on-black terminals with a nice font (lucida-sans?) so it looked as close as possible to SUN's terminals (which was my first exp with UNIX).
ahh, then GCC. It was such a pleasure using a decent C compiler (for free). I eventually managed to compile GCC on Solaris (SUNOS/SPARCstation). I recall all the compiled binaries were smaller (stripped), faster and compiled quicker compared to SUN's C compiler.
The discovery of ET will be historical and mind-fuckingly exciting to the Nth degree, yet will (thankfully) quickly dissipate from the mobile vulgus mind's as their attention flickers back to The Bold And The Beautiful, Britney, Brangelina, and the shit that accumulates in their belly button.
Meanwhile, the educated will be feverishly building the biggest damn optical telescope (modular in design, mind you, so we can expand on it) in orbit to examine the planet in decent detail (like, top-view of their moist squiddy heads [complete with almost-visible brains quivering jelly-like inside a translucent veined membrane]).
Can you imagine that shit? I'd be overcome with gibbering excitement simultaneously vomiting and having an orgasm.
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There are always exceptions, of course - South Africans (admittedly a 1st/3rd world mixture) do a roaring trade with Amazon.com (to name but one) every year. All with credit cards.
You're right of course. I was referring to the folks who're frightened of being impersonated, and who must therefore sign up at every social thingy to prevent it.
That's what libel laws are for. I think fear of being impersonated is exaggerated and silly.
Interesting comments about people you know nothing about. Just because they're well off does not mean their motivations are any different to yours: happiness, family, safety, achievements, fulfilment, etc.
I'm always amazed by the comments of people who consider themselves less well off. Your comments are a thinly veiled attack on them because they have more money than you. Sad.
Believe it or not, being successful does not make you an asshole, it just makes you successful.
No, I think he's let slip that he's actually psychopathic: It is estimated that approximately one percent of the general population are psychopaths.
His comment is telling.
I think there business model is doomed (like youtube, which is losing millions). Like so many dot-coms, they're betting on some vague future mechanism to start generating revenue (sure, they've started ads, but will it be enough to break even and support them - as opposed to being supported by VC who eventually want ROI). Sooner or later, the emperor will notice he's butt-nekkid.
Apparently in March Myspace had over 85 million unique US visitors
Yes, and I bet they're just growing by leaps and bounds, hey? Facebook will also eventually (already?) reach a plateau, then decline. It's the way of the 'net, get over it, sonny ;) What was once new and shiny and in quickly becomes stale.
ahh, ok. He won the presidency because he used a blackberry and twitter. Silly me.
Citation please. How has social networking sites become "so integrated into our society?" Society at large really couldn't give a shit about social networking sites. They're too busy getting on with life (and having one).
Sites such as facebook are just another in a long line of silly fads. It will pass, just like geocities.
You could also ignore all this social nonsense which is really meant for kids and those folks who don't know what right-click means.
My biggest problem was trying to get the kernel (0.x?) to recognise my bloody CDROM drive... (lots of screaming tantrums, bi-polar inducing maniacal bashing of keyboard resulting in a shower of pop-corn-keys, tears and gnashing of teeth down to the pulp, but fuckit, I rabidly refused to give up and kept returning for more).
I remember oscillating between eye-twitching dopamine drenched euphoria when something worked, and fuck-this-shit frustration.
I vividly remember finally (many, many weeks later) getting X (openwin?) to run properly and setting up my white-on-black terminals with a nice font (lucida-sans?) so it looked as close as possible to SUN's terminals (which was my first exp with UNIX).
ahh, then GCC. It was such a pleasure using a decent C compiler (for free). I eventually managed to compile GCC on Solaris (SUNOS/SPARCstation). I recall all the compiled binaries were smaller (stripped), faster and compiled quicker compared to SUN's C compiler.
Glory days.
The discovery of ET will be historical and mind-fuckingly exciting to the Nth degree, yet will (thankfully) quickly dissipate from the mobile vulgus mind's as their attention flickers back to The Bold And The Beautiful, Britney, Brangelina, and the shit that accumulates in their belly button.
Meanwhile, the educated will be feverishly building the biggest damn optical telescope (modular in design, mind you, so we can expand on it) in orbit to examine the planet in decent detail (like, top-view of their moist squiddy heads [complete with almost-visible brains quivering jelly-like inside a translucent veined membrane]).
Can you imagine that shit? I'd be overcome with gibbering excitement simultaneously vomiting and having an orgasm.