WhatsApp already has 450 million users, if Facebook were to roll out their own app, they would have 0 users, and would be trying to take away from an incumbent. WhatsApp didn't have to take them away from anyone, they had first-mover advantage.
When did they start with the $1 fee? Has one year passed yet? I.e. are there users who have already had to stop using WhatsApp or start paying? I would be interested to see the conversion rate, how many start paying vs how many drop out.
So will WhatsApp bring more than 16 billion in net profit throughout its lifetime?
Because that would be needed to break even on the price they paid, that, or to find someone else to pay 16B or more. At 450 million people, that would require each one of their users to pay $35 dollars for 16B dollars revenue, not profit. If their users are 7 billion instead (the entire world population), that would require $2-3 dollars from each one.
I have WhatsApp installed on my smartphone, and the only reason I use it is to NOT PAY for sending SMS messages. That's what their user-base is - people who don't want to pay. How they plan on getting more than $35 from each and every one, is beyond me.
Pie in the sky and tall tales, why don't you try and build a moonbase with 50 people - or even 5, before trying to cover half the moon with solar panels? Just building them would require the moon to be already colonized, with millions of people living there, which is not happening any time soon.
I find it funny that viruses are often touted as biggest reason to upgrade software and operating systems. Software makers should thank the virus writers, who knows how many upgrades have been driven solely by fear of viruses, instead of by new features.
If all an upgrade brings to the table is that it breaks applications you need, then it's not an upgrade, it's a downgrade. The only good reason to upgrade the OS is when new applications that you actually need no longer support the old OS.
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What we define as VR determines how close we are to it. The lower you set the bar for what you'll accept to be VR, the more achievable it becomes, and the closer we are to it.
In fact, if you showed an ordinary PC with a high-res monitor and a mouse to someone from the 50s, they might have declared it VR already.
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What would you consider virtual reality? A direct neural interface that simulates all senses like in the Matrix, or just putting some headset that shows a high-res screen before each eye, plus headphones?
claiming that the infrastructure could be used to spy on communications with American military bases there. As a result, Huawei equipment will not be used at any American military base in South Korea.
That's from the article. I admit it's rather ambiguous, so maybe I'm wrong. I understood it to mean that Huawei won't be used for communications between american military bases in South Korea, and the South Korean government.
Again, those communications are to the US military bases in South Korea. So why would you be worried that the NSA might be spying on your conversations with the US military?
The US is an ally to South Korea, and since that equipment will be used to communicate to the American military bases anyway, I don't see why they need to worry if the NSA can spy on it.
I run Chrome, but I've set the flash-plugin to be always-ask. That combines the best of both worlds - I still can watch flash videos if I want, at much less risk.
I use LXDE, and I have tearing problems as well, but may be it's because of the video card - it's an Intel videocard integrated with the Core i3 processor.
The way I see it,.com is the generic domain. It's not that hard to append it to everything. The only useful other domains are.edu and.gov. The national domains are somewhat useful because they let you know it's a local site, although I don't understand why they need it, really, they should just use.com also.
Chrome **does** warn about new permissions, in fact it's more than that - it just disables them, and leaves you a message - "Such and such extensions requires new permissions, so it has been disabled.", and it's up to you to go and re-enable it.
This would not have prevented what happened, unless the OP likes to never update his software. At most, it would have (possibly) saved the OP some time if he would have made the connection (which is not at all a for-sure thing).
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Well, I sure hope they get 16 billion dollars worth of cross-referencing and validation out of WhatsApp :)
WhatsApp already has 450 million users, if Facebook were to roll out their own app, they would have 0 users, and would be trying to take away from an incumbent. WhatsApp didn't have to take them away from anyone, they had first-mover advantage.
When did they start with the $1 fee? Has one year passed yet? I.e. are there users who have already had to stop using WhatsApp or start paying? I would be interested to see the conversion rate, how many start paying vs how many drop out.
So will WhatsApp bring more than 16 billion in net profit throughout its lifetime?
Because that would be needed to break even on the price they paid, that, or to find someone else to pay 16B or more. At 450 million people, that would require each one of their users to pay $35 dollars for 16B dollars revenue, not profit. If their users are 7 billion instead (the entire world population), that would require $2-3 dollars from each one.
I have WhatsApp installed on my smartphone, and the only reason I use it is to NOT PAY for sending SMS messages. That's what their user-base is - people who don't want to pay. How they plan on getting more than $35 from each and every one, is beyond me.
Pie in the sky and tall tales, why don't you try and build a moonbase with 50 people - or even 5, before trying to cover half the moon with solar panels? Just building them would require the moon to be already colonized, with millions of people living there, which is not happening any time soon.
I bet that the difference between having 50 KB/s connection and having no Internet is greater than between having 50 KB/s and 50 MB/s.
It's important to remember that dogs are descended from a particular subspecies of wolf - Gray Wolves, and not, for example, Black Wolves.
What would the conspiracy theorists interpret it when they start confiscating tin foil?
The customers would be other business owners in that case.
His point is that the goal of a business is to create a product, not to pay salaries. Paying salaries is a means to an end - creating product.
And if businessmen have it so good, if they've struck such a gold mine, then just quit working for them, and start your own business.
I find it funny that viruses are often touted as biggest reason to upgrade software and operating systems. Software makers should thank the virus writers, who knows how many upgrades have been driven solely by fear of viruses, instead of by new features.
If all an upgrade brings to the table is that it breaks applications you need, then it's not an upgrade, it's a downgrade. The only good reason to upgrade the OS is when new applications that you actually need no longer support the old OS.
What we define as VR determines how close we are to it. The lower you set the bar for what you'll accept to be VR, the more achievable it becomes, and the closer we are to it.
In fact, if you showed an ordinary PC with a high-res monitor and a mouse to someone from the 50s, they might have declared it VR already.
What would you consider virtual reality? A direct neural interface that simulates all senses like in the Matrix, or just putting some headset that shows a high-res screen before each eye, plus headphones?
claiming that the infrastructure could be used to spy on communications with American military bases there. As a result, Huawei equipment will not be used at any American military base in South Korea.
That's from the article. I admit it's rather ambiguous, so maybe I'm wrong. I understood it to mean that Huawei won't be used for communications between american military bases in South Korea, and the South Korean government.
Again, those communications are to the US military bases in South Korea. So why would you be worried that the NSA might be spying on your conversations with the US military?
The US is an ally to South Korea, and since that equipment will be used to communicate to the American military bases anyway, I don't see why they need to worry if the NSA can spy on it.
I run Chrome, but I've set the flash-plugin to be always-ask. That combines the best of both worlds - I still can watch flash videos if I want, at much less risk.
I have a Linksys router with dd-wrt, would it be affected?
Beta looks pretty bad on Open Mini on my phone. Check out the whitespaces, here's a screenshot - http://imgur.com/bYvaNdo
60% of the screen width is whitespace, and that's when the phone is in landspace.
Thanks, I'll try that. I've only tried xcompmgr before, but it didn't remove the tearing.
I use LXDE, and I have tearing problems as well, but may be it's because of the video card - it's an Intel videocard integrated with the Core i3 processor.
The way I see it, .com is the generic domain. It's not that hard to append it to everything. The only useful other domains are .edu and .gov. The national domains are somewhat useful because they let you know it's a local site, although I don't understand why they need it, really, they should just use .com also.
Chrome **does** warn about new permissions, in fact it's more than that - it just disables them, and leaves you a message - "Such and such extensions requires new permissions, so it has been disabled.", and it's up to you to go and re-enable it.
This would not have prevented what happened, unless the OP likes to never update his software. At most, it would have (possibly) saved the OP some time if he would have made the connection (which is not at all a for-sure thing).