I know that there won't be a problem (data corruption or whatever) when it starts up again. If there's some other problem (laptop battery down), it opens the tabs I had open if I tell it to.
That's not true actually. I've had Chrome fucked up several times after crashing or computer suddenly going down. So much that it was unable to recover and I had to manually go into the hidden applications data folder and delete all files it used. At the same time Chrome also couldn't recover the passwords file, so I had to start writing them all in again (thank god I use password manager and didn't only rely on Chrome's ability to remember the passwords).
During normal trading yes, but not on IPO. The company could had started at $76 too and the share price would had risen higher because there is limited amount of stock available, meaning you lose money because the company undervalued its shares. You want to be as close to the "real" price during IPO as possible.
Not really, especially considering that all those users will just bring even more users and make sure Facebook stays relevant and the number one social network. While FB already has impressive number of users, there's 6 billions more people out there. I would say that $18 per user is even little bit low for the value and revenue every user brings to Facebook, ads revenue, sales revenue (from in-game coins), and the social effect of having all the users in the service. And who knows what other monetization Facebook will bring to the table once they get to it.
I can't really understand why you're saying that share price going down on IPO is a troubling signal. During normal operation, sure, but on IPO? It just means that the company didn't undervalue themselves and sell their shares at too low prices.
If I were a shareholder before the IPO and the per share price would had doubled, that would mean half of my potential profit and ownership lost. It's not rocket science. Remember that Facebook fixed their shares price like 8 times to get it to correct level - I'm sure there was tons of people at Facebook trying to evaluate the right price during the last months.
So all in all, it's better for shareholders and Facebook that the price went down instead of up. Otherwise it doesn't really matter. Especially since they already raised that $16 billion on Friday.
So what's the troubling part? I cannot understand.
Well, I would hate to try using computer with no hands. I was almost there once. I got a medical condition that disables legs and hands and spent almost 4 months in hospital. The lucky thing is, it only affected my legs and my hands continued to work. That meant four full months of nerding in bed while nurses brought me food, drinks and took my shit (I had to literally shit in bed as I couldn't move).
I would just suggest getting Mac OS X. Apple has really done well with accessibility. You also still get the underlying unix system if you want to, but the UI is great too. You may think it's not a huge thing, but you'll see once you try. And people do say how crappy the Linux desktop UI's are now, like Unity and the new Gnome.
Try keeping current on the status of Dropbox and SkyDrive services so you can pull your data before they disappear.
Email? Twitter? Facebook? All kind of "push notification" technologies where you don't really need to do anything if you use them.
Besides, we are talking about Microsoft here. A company that has ridiculously long phase outs for their products as a standard practice so businesses feel safe using them (seriously, they announced that a version 4.0 of SilverLight will see end of support in two years from now). If there is any tech company in the world that you can trust not just going to end support suddenly, it's Microsoft.
Actually, I'm not even US citizen, and I travel in South East Asia. When talking about shitty internet, I know what shitty internet is. For example when I'm staying in Cambodia, internet can (and often does) go down for the whole day and night. It also happens often. The speed is also ridiculously slow. You can try to get around some of the downtimes by getting mobile internet for backup, but if there's a wider outage, there's nothing you can do.
Yet, I've found Dropbox to be the best backup solution. Files will get there eventually, and I don't need to do anything. There's also revision history of files, so if you upload corrupted files or something like that you can reverse it. You can access them from other computers in case your laptop goes poof (happened to me). And the most important thing - if you get robbed or lose your luggage, you will still have access to your files (and of course, I keep my laptop encrypted).
The good sides of online cloud backup far outweights the negative ones or worries about bandwidth. Especially since most of the time the files that need backup aren't large. No one in their right mind would try to sync their media files.
I can't see how internet based system would be useless. SkyDrive and Dropbox both can sync files when you get internet connection. I am traveling too (have been for 4 months) and that's what I do, even while internet is really crap at times. But it will get synced eventually, and it gets synced automatically without me doing anything. On top of that de-duplication and only syncing parts that need to be uploaded saves bandwidth.
rsync and other low level solutions are much more work and on top of that you need to carry around extra devices that might get destroyed too. But with SkyDrive or Dropbox the files will always be there no matter what happens.
I wonder what conditions Google may have faced from the regulators, and whether they include any exceptions to the "don't be evil" guideline.
Google really never cared about those anyway. They only left China's search engine market because they were seriously losing to Baidu. They just decided to go out with some big bang and blame the chinese for their own failure.
From my Civilization 2 days I remember how SDI defenses were able to completely destroy any incoming nukes. How does it work and is it that good in real life?
I fully agree on the battery front. On my device it also goes empty really quickly. However, I think it's mostly about what your real usage is. As for me, I do not need a laptop that I can use on battery power anywhere. But as I live traveling, I need something that I can easily carry around and still be powerful. For that purpose it's perfect. I have power wherever I stay anyway.
Clevo's laptops are awesome. They're pricey, but well. I bought mine an year ago and it has been just awesome. Performance is better than you get out of your usual desktop, in games too. Cost 3000 euros, but totally worth it. It also has good numpad, which is essential.
This is absolutely true. It seems like most Facebook haters are those who themselves have very narrow life and therefore cannot comprehend the idea that other people might like to use Facebook and other things on top of their other stuff.
For no effort? Excuse me, but venture capital is integral part of current day innovation and companies. Without that capital there would be tons of products and ideas that would never see the day. It's also one of the reasons why U.S. has climbed on top of tech industry.
Also, it's not like they can loan money to every new comer. It takes time and work to evaluate potential ideas. There are risks involved. Yet, venture capital is one of the actual things that greatly increases innovation. But don't let that get into the way of your rant.
Yes, because it's like people post on Facebook that they're taking a shit. That's the reality, yeah right.
Funny that none of the people I friend and know on Facebook don't post shit like that. Maybe it says something about your friends, or that you don't even use Facebook and therefore don't even know what you're talking about.
And this is the usual geek thinking. If it's not direct binary or code, it's useless. However, in real life there are tons of other factors to consider.
The headline for me here is that Facebook's success has the unintended consequence of leading to the demise of Silicon Valley as a place where investors take big risks on advanced science and tech that helps the world. The golden age of Silicon valley is over and we're dancing on its grave
Eh, just because Facebook is also used by millions of ordinary people doesn't mean it's not computer technology company and, even more so, doesn't help the world. In fact I think that Facebook has done immersive amount of good for the world. What have you done, exactly? This is extremely obvious to anyone who is older than 15 years old and especially for those of us who live overseas and have friends, family and people all over the world and helps to keep in touch with people easily (and no, I'm not going to bother them all by emailing them on little things).
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I know that there won't be a problem (data corruption or whatever) when it starts up again. If there's some other problem (laptop battery down), it opens the tabs I had open if I tell it to.
That's not true actually. I've had Chrome fucked up several times after crashing or computer suddenly going down. So much that it was unable to recover and I had to manually go into the hidden applications data folder and delete all files it used. At the same time Chrome also couldn't recover the passwords file, so I had to start writing them all in again (thank god I use password manager and didn't only rely on Chrome's ability to remember the passwords).
This should be modded up, it's exactly what Google is doing and how it is inflating statistics.
Google blatantly advertisers Chrome on their websites and YouTube (but only to IE users.. heh), they have billboards and TV advertising campaigns, they pay OEM's, hardware manufacturers and shareware/freeware authors to bundle Chrome with their products, they aggressively try to put Chrome on your computer if you install any other software from Google, they pay makers of Angry Birds to have Chrome-only HTML5 version of their game and make websites that purposely only work with Chrome. They game and spam other search engines like Bing too.
Seems like they went full in and do whatever they can to get that market share. Even supporting CISPA.
I wouldn't pay $54 for me.
Lol, so you value yourself and your life less than 54 dollars?
Facebook doesn't pay dividend. Those people can of course sell their stock when the price is higher. It's just been two market days.
During normal trading yes, but not on IPO. The company could had started at $76 too and the share price would had risen higher because there is limited amount of stock available, meaning you lose money because the company undervalued its shares. You want to be as close to the "real" price during IPO as possible.
Not really, especially considering that all those users will just bring even more users and make sure Facebook stays relevant and the number one social network. While FB already has impressive number of users, there's 6 billions more people out there. I would say that $18 per user is even little bit low for the value and revenue every user brings to Facebook, ads revenue, sales revenue (from in-game coins), and the social effect of having all the users in the service. And who knows what other monetization Facebook will bring to the table once they get to it.
I can't really understand why you're saying that share price going down on IPO is a troubling signal. During normal operation, sure, but on IPO? It just means that the company didn't undervalue themselves and sell their shares at too low prices.
If I were a shareholder before the IPO and the per share price would had doubled, that would mean half of my potential profit and ownership lost. It's not rocket science. Remember that Facebook fixed their shares price like 8 times to get it to correct level - I'm sure there was tons of people at Facebook trying to evaluate the right price during the last months.
So all in all, it's better for shareholders and Facebook that the price went down instead of up. Otherwise it doesn't really matter. Especially since they already raised that $16 billion on Friday.
So what's the troubling part? I cannot understand.
Well, I would hate to try using computer with no hands. I was almost there once. I got a medical condition that disables legs and hands and spent almost 4 months in hospital. The lucky thing is, it only affected my legs and my hands continued to work. That meant four full months of nerding in bed while nurses brought me food, drinks and took my shit (I had to literally shit in bed as I couldn't move).
I would just suggest getting Mac OS X. Apple has really done well with accessibility. You also still get the underlying unix system if you want to, but the UI is great too. You may think it's not a huge thing, but you'll see once you try. And people do say how crappy the Linux desktop UI's are now, like Unity and the new Gnome.
Try keeping current on the status of Dropbox and SkyDrive services so you can pull your data before they disappear.
Email? Twitter? Facebook? All kind of "push notification" technologies where you don't really need to do anything if you use them.
Besides, we are talking about Microsoft here. A company that has ridiculously long phase outs for their products as a standard practice so businesses feel safe using them (seriously, they announced that a version 4.0 of SilverLight will see end of support in two years from now). If there is any tech company in the world that you can trust not just going to end support suddenly, it's Microsoft.
Actually, I'm not even US citizen, and I travel in South East Asia. When talking about shitty internet, I know what shitty internet is. For example when I'm staying in Cambodia, internet can (and often does) go down for the whole day and night. It also happens often. The speed is also ridiculously slow. You can try to get around some of the downtimes by getting mobile internet for backup, but if there's a wider outage, there's nothing you can do.
Yet, I've found Dropbox to be the best backup solution. Files will get there eventually, and I don't need to do anything. There's also revision history of files, so if you upload corrupted files or something like that you can reverse it. You can access them from other computers in case your laptop goes poof (happened to me). And the most important thing - if you get robbed or lose your luggage, you will still have access to your files (and of course, I keep my laptop encrypted).
The good sides of online cloud backup far outweights the negative ones or worries about bandwidth. Especially since most of the time the files that need backup aren't large. No one in their right mind would try to sync their media files.
I can't see how internet based system would be useless. SkyDrive and Dropbox both can sync files when you get internet connection. I am traveling too (have been for 4 months) and that's what I do, even while internet is really crap at times. But it will get synced eventually, and it gets synced automatically without me doing anything. On top of that de-duplication and only syncing parts that need to be uploaded saves bandwidth.
rsync and other low level solutions are much more work and on top of that you need to carry around extra devices that might get destroyed too. But with SkyDrive or Dropbox the files will always be there no matter what happens.
Hardlinks don't span storage devices.
Except they do, on Windows at least. And you can even mount drive to a folder like c:/otherdrive/
Just a suggestion, but SkyDrive is great. You get 25GB for free and it is also going to be integrated fully into Windows 8 in future.
I wonder what conditions Google may have faced from the regulators, and whether they include any exceptions to the "don't be evil" guideline.
Google really never cared about those anyway. They only left China's search engine market because they were seriously losing to Baidu. They just decided to go out with some big bang and blame the chinese for their own failure.
From my Civilization 2 days I remember how SDI defenses were able to completely destroy any incoming nukes. How does it work and is it that good in real life?
I fully agree on the battery front. On my device it also goes empty really quickly. However, I think it's mostly about what your real usage is. As for me, I do not need a laptop that I can use on battery power anywhere. But as I live traveling, I need something that I can easily carry around and still be powerful. For that purpose it's perfect. I have power wherever I stay anyway.
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And Macbook Air on the side
Clevo's laptops are awesome. They're pricey, but well. I bought mine an year ago and it has been just awesome. Performance is better than you get out of your usual desktop, in games too. Cost 3000 euros, but totally worth it. It also has good numpad, which is essential.
This is absolutely true. It seems like most Facebook haters are those who themselves have very narrow life and therefore cannot comprehend the idea that other people might like to use Facebook and other things on top of their other stuff.
For no effort? Excuse me, but venture capital is integral part of current day innovation and companies. Without that capital there would be tons of products and ideas that would never see the day. It's also one of the reasons why U.S. has climbed on top of tech industry.
Also, it's not like they can loan money to every new comer. It takes time and work to evaluate potential ideas. There are risks involved. Yet, venture capital is one of the actual things that greatly increases innovation. But don't let that get into the way of your rant.
Yes, because it's like people post on Facebook that they're taking a shit. That's the reality, yeah right.
Funny that none of the people I friend and know on Facebook don't post shit like that. Maybe it says something about your friends, or that you don't even use Facebook and therefore don't even know what you're talking about.
And this is the usual geek thinking. If it's not direct binary or code, it's useless. However, in real life there are tons of other factors to consider.
The headline for me here is that Facebook's success has the unintended consequence of leading to the demise of Silicon Valley as a place where investors take big risks on advanced science and tech that helps the world. The golden age of Silicon valley is over and we're dancing on its grave
Eh, just because Facebook is also used by millions of ordinary people doesn't mean it's not computer technology company and, even more so, doesn't help the world. In fact I think that Facebook has done immersive amount of good for the world. What have you done, exactly? This is extremely obvious to anyone who is older than 15 years old and especially for those of us who live overseas and have friends, family and people all over the world and helps to keep in touch with people easily (and no, I'm not going to bother them all by emailing them on little things).