Gates remembers that in 1979 there were only 100 different software products that had more than $100 M in annual sales and all of them were for mainframes. 'In April, the 8080 version of BASIC became the first software product built to run on microprocessors to win an ICP Million Dollar Award. Today, I would be surprised if the number of million-dollar applications isn't in the millions itself' writes Gates.
1,000,000 software applications x $1,000,000 = $1,000,000,000,000 (one quadrillion dollars)
I suppose we're dealing with two different things. It seems like you're looking at Facebook/Twitter only in their ability to make money -- not in their unprecedented way of collecting information, or something like that. At least for Twitter, the centralized aspect IS important. News stories have broken out on Twitter before the AP / Reuters could cover them, for obvious reasons (see the Hudson River plane crash).
Maybe money cannot be made off Twitter itself (which seems just flat out wrong. People still click on banner ads, don't they?) But there is, I feel, a shitload of money to be made off of the trends that Twitter reveals. I'll admit that I'm not so versed in the world of Twitter API and statistics, but it seems like, given the wealth of people currently using the site as well as the mainstream popularity that is current swelling around the site, a lot of good info/stats could be extracted, showing where people gather or how they interact or what types of things they like to talk about. Money can be made off of all these things.
As for Facebook, again, I believe that you use the site (and I'm sorry to come off so harsh in my original post), but I think that you underestimate its use. It's not just for posting thoughts (and when you say that, you make it seem a lot more like Twitter.) I'm a college student - people use it to make events, gather people around causes, etc. People use it for pre-screening possible dates. They show off their music/videos. They share links with each other. Again, the centralized nature seems important: the news feed means everyone sees your newest video or song or event, so that without your own intervention, someone can display something. Multiple blogs require visits to multiple web pages, and this is something that people are less and less willing to do every day.
I'm not sure what you mean by Facebook and Twitter as "dead man walking." Aren't these two of the fastest growing websites (in terms of members) on the internet? (And if you mean "they'll die eventually" then you too are a dead man walking...)
Facebook is just a blog? What the fuck are you talking about? Have you used the website?
How could Twitter be done in "P2P fashion"? Do we all put our tweets in text files and add them to a big torrent?
Also, who spents 700 a year on newspapers any more? News, even good news, is no-cost online, right?
Some people like thumbing through the paper physically, reading it front to back, that whole process. However, I think in time people are just going to get used to reading it on their computers.
I think that e-ink might be easier on the eyes or something. It might be nice for reading. End post.
Not to mention that the country of China had absolutely nothing to do with this -- it was a bunch of doctors at one clinic. Hasn't anyone heard of science by consensus?
There's a difference between scientists and the mainstream media's coverage of that science. And I don't speak for jmorris here, but that just might be what he's satirizing.
I'm not really contributing anything to the conversation, but I think you've made a very insightful comment and I just wanted you to know that. (If my moderator points hadn't just expired, I would've modded you up.)
Cock. No, I didn't RTFA, but this guy just seems like he's worried about his own company. Google is a fucking powerhouse. No, they're not flawless, but do you think they'd really make a cell phone that looks like their website? Fuck Symbian for trying to prevent innovention. I'm not saying Google is the good guy, but isn't there a conflict of interest here?
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The point I was trying to make, my friend, is that although an external HDD could hold more pictures, using an iPod allows one to view the pictures as well, and that would be the storage capacity tradeoff.
Joozian 2: Oh! Oh, that's it baby! You're getting my jagon hard! Joozian 1: Wohh. Yeah, let's party! Joozian 2: Yeah, suck my jagon! Joozian 1: Yeah! Now you suck on my jagon! Oh yeah!! Stick your finger in my thrusher! Oh yeah, suck it. Suck that jagon!
2) And some others lines "That's interesting, he explains, because given that light travels at a finite speed -- 300,000 km a second -- the light emitted from the star cluster he and Kalirai saw was emitted one billion years ago. That means the cluster as it appeared to them two months ago was the way it looked one billion years ago. In other words, they were looking one billion years back in time." No, not one bilion years back in time, but a billion years and two months.
Is this a sick joke? When you're working on the scale of 10^9 years,.1666 years really doesn't make much of a difference. Not to mention that it's obviously not from 1,000,000,000 years exactly ago, but some number that's pretty damn close. Why get upset about such a stupid detail?
The #1 distribution method? Can you really prove that more music has been obtained using the iTunes music store rather than BitTorrent? Most BitTorrent music I see is in high bitrate MP3s.
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Could a greasemonkey script be written to update all links to HTTPS?
Yeah, I fucked up. Still, could there be a trillion dollars in software sales?
1,000,000 software applications x $1,000,000 = $1,000,000,000,000 (one quadrillion dollars)
Seems a bit high.
I suppose we're dealing with two different things. It seems like you're looking at Facebook/Twitter only in their ability to make money -- not in their unprecedented way of collecting information, or something like that. At least for Twitter, the centralized aspect IS important. News stories have broken out on Twitter before the AP / Reuters could cover them, for obvious reasons (see the Hudson River plane crash).
Maybe money cannot be made off Twitter itself (which seems just flat out wrong. People still click on banner ads, don't they?) But there is, I feel, a shitload of money to be made off of the trends that Twitter reveals. I'll admit that I'm not so versed in the world of Twitter API and statistics, but it seems like, given the wealth of people currently using the site as well as the mainstream popularity that is current swelling around the site, a lot of good info/stats could be extracted, showing where people gather or how they interact or what types of things they like to talk about. Money can be made off of all these things.
As for Facebook, again, I believe that you use the site (and I'm sorry to come off so harsh in my original post), but I think that you underestimate its use. It's not just for posting thoughts (and when you say that, you make it seem a lot more like Twitter.) I'm a college student - people use it to make events, gather people around causes, etc. People use it for pre-screening possible dates. They show off their music/videos. They share links with each other. Again, the centralized nature seems important: the news feed means everyone sees your newest video or song or event, so that without your own intervention, someone can display something. Multiple blogs require visits to multiple web pages, and this is something that people are less and less willing to do every day.
Am I making sense here?
I'm not sure what you mean by Facebook and Twitter as "dead man walking." Aren't these two of the fastest growing websites (in terms of members) on the internet? (And if you mean "they'll die eventually" then you too are a dead man walking...)
Facebook is just a blog? What the fuck are you talking about? Have you used the website?
How could Twitter be done in "P2P fashion"? Do we all put our tweets in text files and add them to a big torrent?
Wow. That puts the kindle price into perspective!
Also, who spents 700 a year on newspapers any more? News, even good news, is no-cost online, right?
Some people like thumbing through the paper physically, reading it front to back, that whole process. However, I think in time people are just going to get used to reading it on their computers.
I think that e-ink might be easier on the eyes or something. It might be nice for reading. End post.
What do you mean by "locked down"? Do they check the txt/pdf to see if it's a copyrighted work?
Not to mention that the country of China had absolutely nothing to do with this -- it was a bunch of doctors at one clinic. Hasn't anyone heard of science by consensus?
Offtopic, but related to your sig: AC comments aren't anonymous when logged in. Try posting as AC while logged out, then moderating your comment.
It's called Boneitis.
It's called Boneitis.
There's a difference between scientists and the mainstream media's coverage of that science. And I don't speak for jmorris here, but that just might be what he's satirizing.
Doesn't google provide access to newsgroups via a web interface?
Got the second one, thanks.
I'm not really contributing anything to the conversation, but I think you've made a very insightful comment and I just wanted you to know that. (If my moderator points hadn't just expired, I would've modded you up.)
Cock. No, I didn't RTFA, but this guy just seems like he's worried about his own company. Google is a fucking powerhouse. No, they're not flawless, but do you think they'd really make a cell phone that looks like their website? Fuck Symbian for trying to prevent innovention. I'm not saying Google is the good guy, but isn't there a conflict of interest here?
Good show, sir. You've made my day.
The point I was trying to make, my friend, is that although an external HDD could hold more pictures, using an iPod allows one to view the pictures as well, and that would be the storage capacity tradeoff.
How big is the LCD screen on your external HDD?
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You were supposed to just take that reply to your message like a man and shut up.
South Park?
Joozian 2: Oh! Oh, that's it baby! You're getting my jagon hard!
Joozian 1: Wohh. Yeah, let's party!
Joozian 2: Yeah, suck my jagon!
Joozian 1: Yeah! Now you suck on my jagon! Oh yeah!! Stick your finger in my thrusher! Oh yeah, suck it. Suck that jagon!
I never understood this. What is so embarassing about someone else knowing that you are fucking somebody?
The #1 distribution method? Can you really prove that more music has been obtained using the iTunes music store rather than BitTorrent? Most BitTorrent music I see is in high bitrate MP3s.