More so, it's hard to leave. People are invested in the infrastructure. It carries their data, their pictures and activities, and a lot of metadata about their pictures and activities (like tags in the pictures).
I don't think so.
People are "commodities" nowadays. We're living on a "throw away" culture that extended the discardable concept to the relationships.
People don't care about photos and metatags, all what they care is the "Like counter".
The next big thing will be the one that will manage to somehow "import" the "Like counter". The content is secondary.
G+ was IMO significantly better than facebook when it launched. But I still couldn't switch because I would have needed to convince everybody I want to coordinate with using that infrastructure to switch with me.
I managed to bring some to G+ using a dirty trick.:-)
All my content is posted to G+, and then crossposted to Facebook.
Unfortunately, it's not far the day that Facebook will notice this and start to boycott G+ content. But until there, I'm fighting the good fight.:-)
Facebook doesn't own my data, I still have all my photos I uploaded
Yes. You're right.
What facebook owns is the RIGHT to make money with your stuff, no matter what you want.
You post that fabulous sketch of yours and someone decided to offer a 100.000 bucks for using it on some advertising campaign? Sign that FAST, as Facebook can use your sketch and charge less!
Facebook *is* going to turn out like Myspace - I just don't know when - perhaps not in my lifetime.
People are always looking for the next big thing - and the satisfaction saturation (that precedes boredom and the desire to change) are reached exponentially faster after each change.
Orkut lasted almost 10 years. Perhaps Facebook will face its book, I mean, its nemesis in 6. But I don't think it will manage to last more than 10 years.
On the other hand, the Common Joe (that can't handle messing with the UEFI) shouldn't install anything in his computer at first place.
The problem here is that the average knowledge level of the computer users are dropping meteor style: fast and speculatively. This kind of user should not be expected to be able to install a Operating System - not mention trying to install a O.S. on hostile environment (i.e., a Windows computer - I don't have to mention all the little artificial problems MS caused in the past and still causes nowadays - my Win7 box committed suicide last time I installed Linux).
I used to use a old notebook for day-to-day computing. A Celeron M450, to be exact.
But the damn thing died, and I endup ressurrecting my Athlon XP 3.0G with an ATI HD 3850 to do the job.
(ok, I'm hearing a lot of laughs, but this machine was, a long time ago, a power computer! =P)
The crude fact is that my electric bill raised 25%. (sigh). In one year, this accumulated difference will be more than the market price of this computer.
Things could be worse, however. My "Media Center" is a Atom 330 (good to see DVD graded videos, terrible to B/W), and this machine is also my torrent server. I could not had made a better choice. This machine runs 24/7 (almost), and the impact on my electric bill is negligible (less then 5%, comparing with the previous month on its incept date).
I'll probably use this solution forever. A Atom graded computer for everyday use, and a power setup for the games (but, honestly, I'm on PS3 the last months - don't think I will go back to PC gaming so soon).
Give them a few more years of stagnation and their customers moving onto other products and they simply won't have the capital or time to find that "new big thing" that will ressurect them.
Perhaps this is not what's he (the CEO) is aiming at all.
If he's planning to sell the company, perhaps by pieces, he must maximize the short term incoming of the units.
Slashdot Mirror
Why would I want to build my latest project with a Raspberry Pi instead of Arduino?
To have more than a few kilobucks of RAM?
Arduinos are ATMEGA8 based. This things have 16, 32 kbytes of Flash, and 1 to 4 kbytes of RAM.
Raspeberry PI is a low cost computer board.
Arduino is a low cost microcontroller board.
Even worst, this concentrates power away from you.
Your experience will have to match the expectations from the majority of users, that thinks the Internet is just a "Facebook provider".
You torrents are choking? Your problem - 95% of the others condos are fine.
Damnit. I forgot the [QUOTE] tag on the second parent quoting.
The sentence that starts with "G+ was IMO" belongs to parent post.
More so, it's hard to leave. People are invested in the infrastructure. It carries their data, their pictures and activities, and a lot of metadata about their pictures and activities (like tags in the pictures).
I don't think so.
People are "commodities" nowadays. We're living on a "throw away" culture that extended the discardable concept to the relationships.
People don't care about photos and metatags, all what they care is the "Like counter".
The next big thing will be the one that will manage to somehow "import" the "Like counter". The content is secondary.
G+ was IMO significantly better than facebook when it launched. But I still couldn't switch because I would have needed to convince everybody I want to coordinate with using that infrastructure to switch with me.
I managed to bring some to G+ using a dirty trick. :-)
All my content is posted to G+, and then crossposted to Facebook.
Unfortunately, it's not far the day that Facebook will notice this and start to boycott G+ content. But until there, I'm fighting the good fight. :-)
Facebook doesn't own my data, I still have all my photos I uploaded
Yes. You're right.
What facebook owns is the RIGHT to make money with your stuff, no matter what you want.
You post that fabulous sketch of yours and someone decided to offer a 100.000 bucks for using it on some advertising campaign? Sign that FAST, as Facebook can use your sketch and charge less!
Facebook *is* going to turn out like Myspace - I just don't know when - perhaps not in my lifetime.
People are always looking for the next big thing - and the satisfaction saturation (that precedes boredom and the desire to change) are reached exponentially faster after each change.
Orkut lasted almost 10 years. Perhaps Facebook will face its book, I mean, its nemesis in 6. But I don't think it will manage to last more than 10 years.
I ended up using it by force.
My son (that lives far away) and childhood friends are there, and just there (a managed to convince some of them to go to G+, but just a few).
So basically I signup with my well known email and my first name - no other personal information added.
No big privacy at all, I know. But better than nothing.
"There" -> "That"
(there's something like dyslexia for full words?)
Common! There was a joke!
I'm not saying Mac is a crap, I'm saying a Mac from Microsoft would be one!
(Mac users don't have a sense of humor?)
Crapintosh?
this enables the chinese government. it supports it!
So by pinpoint someone's mischievousness before it happens, I'm empowering the mischief.
Ok. (tongue in cheek)
I'm dying to read what YOU think it should be done.
Nuff said.
As stated below, we meant to type spectacularly. :-)
But let's bite the bait and play little with my foolish:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/29/asteroid-near-misses-earth-space-rocks_n_1553252.html
http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news174.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120315225625.htm
http://news.discovery.com/space/asteroid-impact-hazard-2040-120228.html :-)
On the other hand, the Common Joe (that can't handle messing with the UEFI) shouldn't install anything in his computer at first place.
The problem here is that the average knowledge level of the computer users are dropping meteor style: fast and speculatively. This kind of user should not be expected to be able to install a Operating System - not mention trying to install a O.S. on hostile environment (i.e., a Windows computer - I don't have to mention all the little artificial problems MS caused in the past and still causes nowadays - my Win7 box committed suicide last time I installed Linux).
You can't expect to dumb down everything.
It appears that some moderator is a Desktop Support worker... X-D
... as I never got any kind of help from a Help Desk that effectively gone further than dictating me a Dog =P Damned F.A.Q.
I reluctantly agree with you! =P
I hope you never ever meet someone like you. I don't think you will survive the encounter.
Show him that the legal system does have a sense of proportion and justice, that way he's even less likely to ever become a hardened criminal.
This is impossible by now.
After two years of harassment, there's nothing one can do do show that.
I have nothing else to say.
DAMN! Wrong thread! WRONG ARTICLE. X-(
(sorry!)
I have nothing else to say.
... too much expensive.
I used to use a old notebook for day-to-day computing. A Celeron M450, to be exact.
But the damn thing died, and I endup ressurrecting my Athlon XP 3.0G with an ATI HD 3850 to do the job.
(ok, I'm hearing a lot of laughs, but this machine was, a long time ago, a power computer! =P)
The crude fact is that my electric bill raised 25%. (sigh). In one year, this accumulated difference will be more than the market price of this computer.
Things could be worse, however. My "Media Center" is a Atom 330 (good to see DVD graded videos, terrible to B/W), and this machine is also my torrent server. I could not had made a better choice. This machine runs 24/7 (almost), and the impact on my electric bill is negligible (less then 5%, comparing with the previous month on its incept date).
I'll probably use this solution forever. A Atom graded computer for everyday use, and a power setup for the games (but, honestly, I'm on PS3 the last months - don't think I will go back to PC gaming so soon).
Give them a few more years of stagnation and their customers moving onto other products and they simply won't have the capital or time to find that "new big thing" that will ressurect them.
Perhaps this is not what's he (the CEO) is aiming at all.
If he's planning to sell the company, perhaps by pieces, he must maximize the short term incoming of the units.
The pen signs the check!