As the US economy is deteriorating at an alarming rate your dream will come true pretty soon. Im sure most immigrants will move somewhere you can get a job so you americans can enjoy your food stamps all by yourselves.
This was a normal forum just as any other the past 20 years, not something like Facebook. Facebook is one iteration of a forum, and a crappy at that.
Facebook is inferior to most forums as its just about: "Status Update" I got nailed today. "Reply stranger mysteriously called friend" How nice!!!!!1111ponies!!! "Stupid git trying to be funny" You preggo?
A good forum is about informed debate on prearranged topics with moderators holding the stupidest idiots at bay, or like slashdot.
From what i have come to understand these short term traders does nothing good for the market at all. The only thing they do is skim money off it without adding even a hint of beneficial effects. They take from longer term investors and the only reason its allowed is that the middlemen gets a percentage of their profits. On a free market stupid stuff like this should be prevented, not encouraged.
Stupid article because all it says is that you can get burnt if you disable the lock against external markets and manually install software from random sites.
Well, using Windows all you need to do is go to your random pirate site and d/l a game,.
No unlawful acts? The cables are riddled with illegal stuff. That nobody gets taken to court is because the same people run the countries that did the crimes.
His numbers are just as good as the ones Microsoft pulls out of their behind. LG have told us that sales are abysmal and every other hint says that sales are very dissapointing. When everything leans towards bad sales and Microsoft wont release any numbers, its a safe bet that sales are really that bad.
As always when someone competes with Microsoft, where does the bad press stem from originally?
Microsoft has been working hard. First they tried to paint Google as privacys biggest enemy, despite generally much better policies than most competitors. This never took off once people started to compare the different privacy policies and found out that Google is infact pretty decent amongst the others.
Then Microsoft tried to and still tries to drag Google into monopoly scrutiny. This isnt bad, Google should be checked and scrutinized, but coming from Microsoft its just silly. None of the accusations has sticked so far so most if not all seems like nothing but hot air from Redmond.
Personally i see it as if Microsoft is waging a PR battle against Google. As long as Google is viewed upon as the generally good guys Microsoft cant compete, especially not in the social network and cloud services area where trust is number one.
Bullshit, Google have very crystal clear policies about what information they store and even has tools nobody else has that lets you control exactly what you let them save and what you want to erase. Only divert from that is what YOUR government requires of them by law.
The Google model is built around me sharing because i trust them with my data in a way i would never ever trust Facebook or Microsoft. The moment they break that trust they are done for and they are more aware of that than anyone else. They dont steal my data, i give it to them in return for their services.
Im personally much more worried about what governments and security services does with the data when they bargain away my data in return for some other poor sods data. Thats something i cant protect against in any way and there isn't an opt out, and there arent anyone i can hold accountable should the data be used to for eg. destroy my business by a foreign competitor.
If you compare Google and other search engines, Google comes out on top when it comes to privacy. If you compare how ads are displayed some have adopted Googles non-intrusive ads but thats only because Google has set the bar very high. Take Google away and we are back to search portals full of blinking ads like MSN in notime.
They have consistently done stuff that has hurt Google in short term but will benefit them in the longer run.
When it comes to advertising, Google is the equivalent of a free Program magazine for your tv channels that contains ads, Facebook on the other hand are ads in the tv-show.
Exactly, the bubble is about communication and any such method has been rapidly succeeded with something else. The value of such company should be based on the volatility of the users taken in for consideration.
Google is exceptionally good at balancing customer value with non-intrusive ads, very high moral fibers and overall being a bunch of really nice people. They understand their business model and manages to keep greedy bastards from running the show. As soon as someone like Elop gets the helm of Google its game over in matter of months.
Facebook will have to be very slick and discrete when they start moving ads or some other form of revenue. With millions upon millions of investors screaming for blood, thats not as easy as it sounds. It takes time and it takes finesse. So far Google is one of very few companies that has tried and not ended in complete failure.
Personally i expect Facebook to fail as soon as the next big thing rolls in whatever that may be, just as EVERY other form of social network has moved on until now.
This is good for Android more than its bad for Microsoft. Their goal seems to be making all apps costing money to avoid having a store like Androids where you can find both free excellent apps and very good paid apps living side by side.
Im not sure this will work out as planned because tons of developers wont help if you dont have the userbase to support them.
Uwe Boll has surprised me a lot and made movies that are very good actually. Rampage is a must see if you havent seen it already. With Uwe Boll as both writer and director you probably expect a turkey but its really good. Same with darfur, had to check two times who directed it.
Cant agree more, i love the Postal games. Especially multiplayer was hilarious in Postal 2. I loved the movie even more but sadly it was denied any form of distribution because it wasnt PC.
Novell SUSE Linux is pretty good as long as you think before you do stuff. Its easier to get into dependency hell than with RedHat or Debian/Ubuntu but other than that its very stable and nice. Personally i prefer Debian but i do manage a couple of SUSE machines taking serious loads day and night on a slew of different serivces and they have been working flawlessly without any problems at all.
Its not even funny considering Google has been sued by a couple of content farms for downrating them in searches. They have to somehow rate them lower in searches without doing it manually and with the users themselves rating them low.
This is the last gasp from a dying company. Now nobody will touch a Symbian Phone with a ten inch pole if it costs more than 10 bucks.
On the upside Nokia gets to compete with tons of Asian and Indian manufacturers making exactly similar WP7 phones with no other way of differienting them than another background or another widget. Release the breakes and drive off the cliff keeping the gas pedal to the floor all the way down, what a way to go out of history!
Im convinced we will see a really big collapse in the future. They have lots of money to burn through before that but i suspect it will go a lot faster than most people think. All it takes is a "new" social interaction platform thats hip and popular and Facebook is but a faint memory, just as Usenet, Irc, Icq, Myspace, Aol, Second Life, BBS, FidoNet etc in an endless list. I said the exact same thing about for eg. Second Life and was laughed out of my chair while countries even built embassies, that now stands empty and abandoned.
Im very sad to say i concur fully with your statement. Newspapers of today are the governments right hands. The amount of self censoring is pretty depressing.
To my knowledge no Office Suite does OOXML at all, not even Microsofts. I guess anyone can just write "OOXML" on their Office Suite and sell it just as Microsoft does so this shouldnt be a problem really.
Facebook is going south and everyone knows it. Its not about if, its about just how long it stays up before the novelty wears off and people migrate to the next big thing in masses. Facebook is a fun trainwreck to watch just as Second Life was when some stupid idiots paid millions to create even virtual embassies. Log in to Second Life and take a look around, thats the kind of desolate landscape Facebook will be shortly.
Anyone buying stock in Facebook deserves to part from their money.
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As the US economy is deteriorating at an alarming rate your dream will come true pretty soon. Im sure most immigrants will move somewhere you can get a job so you americans can enjoy your food stamps all by yourselves.
This was a normal forum just as any other the past 20 years, not something like Facebook. Facebook is one iteration of a forum, and a crappy at that.
Facebook is inferior to most forums as its just about:
"Status Update" I got nailed today.
"Reply stranger mysteriously called friend" How nice!!!!!1111ponies!!!
"Stupid git trying to be funny" You preggo?
A good forum is about informed debate on prearranged topics with moderators holding the stupidest idiots at bay, or like slashdot.
From what i have come to understand these short term traders does nothing good for the market at all. The only thing they do is skim money off it without adding even a hint of beneficial effects. They take from longer term investors and the only reason its allowed is that the middlemen gets a percentage of their profits. On a free market stupid stuff like this should be prevented, not encouraged.
Stupid article because all it says is that you can get burnt if you disable the lock against external markets and manually install software from random sites.
Well, using Windows all you need to do is go to your random pirate site and d/l a game,.
Not if Microsoft keeps suing Google by proxy everytime a linkfarm or vertical search engine gets rated down.
No unlawful acts? The cables are riddled with illegal stuff. That nobody gets taken to court is because the same people run the countries that did the crimes.
His numbers are just as good as the ones Microsoft pulls out of their behind. LG have told us that sales are abysmal and every other hint says that sales are very dissapointing. When everything leans towards bad sales and Microsoft wont release any numbers, its a safe bet that sales are really that bad.
As always when someone competes with Microsoft, where does the bad press stem from originally?
Microsoft has been working hard. First they tried to paint Google as privacys biggest enemy, despite generally much better policies than most competitors.
This never took off once people started to compare the different privacy policies and found out that Google is infact pretty decent amongst the others.
Then Microsoft tried to and still tries to drag Google into monopoly scrutiny. This isnt bad, Google should be checked and scrutinized, but coming from Microsoft its just silly. None of the accusations has sticked so far so most if not all seems like nothing but hot air from Redmond.
Personally i see it as if Microsoft is waging a PR battle against Google. As long as Google is viewed upon as the generally good guys Microsoft cant compete, especially not in the social network and cloud services area where trust is number one.
Bullshit, Google have very crystal clear policies about what information they store and even has tools nobody else has that lets you control exactly what you let them save and what you want to erase. Only divert from that is what YOUR government requires of them by law.
The Google model is built around me sharing because i trust them with my data in a way i would never ever trust Facebook or Microsoft. The moment they break that trust they are done for and they are more aware of that than anyone else. They dont steal my data, i give it to them in return for their services.
Im personally much more worried about what governments and security services does with the data when they bargain away my data in return for some other poor sods data. Thats something i cant protect against in any way and there isn't an opt out, and there arent anyone i can hold accountable should the data be used to for eg. destroy my business by a foreign competitor.
http://www.google.com/intl/en/privacy/tools.html
If you compare Google and other search engines, Google comes out on top when it comes to privacy. If you compare how ads are displayed some have adopted Googles non-intrusive ads but thats only because Google has set the bar very high. Take Google away and we are back to search portals full of blinking ads like MSN in notime.
They have consistently done stuff that has hurt Google in short term but will benefit them in the longer run.
When it comes to advertising, Google is the equivalent of a free Program magazine for your tv channels that contains ads, Facebook on the other hand are ads in the tv-show.
Exactly, the bubble is about communication and any such method has been rapidly succeeded with something else. The value of such company should be based on the volatility of the users taken in for consideration.
Google is exceptionally good at balancing customer value with non-intrusive ads, very high moral fibers and overall being a bunch of really nice people. They understand their business model and manages to keep greedy bastards from running the show. As soon as someone like Elop gets the helm of Google its game over in matter of months.
Facebook will have to be very slick and discrete when they start moving ads or some other form of revenue. With millions upon millions of investors screaming for blood, thats not as easy as it sounds. It takes time and it takes finesse. So far Google is one of very few companies that has tried and not ended in complete failure.
Personally i expect Facebook to fail as soon as the next big thing rolls in whatever that may be, just as EVERY other form of social network has moved on until now.
This is good for Android more than its bad for Microsoft. Their goal seems to be making all apps costing money to avoid having a store like Androids where you can find both free excellent apps and very good paid apps living side by side.
Im not sure this will work out as planned because tons of developers wont help if you dont have the userbase to support them.
Still, Microsoft was heavily involved on every levels of the project. If Microsoft cant make .net / MSSQL work and design it right, who can?
Uwe Boll has surprised me a lot and made movies that are very good actually. Rampage is a must see if you havent seen it already. With Uwe Boll as both writer and director you probably expect a turkey but its really good. Same with darfur, had to check two times who directed it.
I love you running with scissors!!!111omgponies!!!!!
Cant agree more, i love the Postal games. Especially multiplayer was hilarious in Postal 2. I loved the movie even more but sadly it was denied any form of distribution because it wasnt PC.
Novell SUSE Linux is pretty good as long as you think before you do stuff. Its easier to get into dependency hell than with RedHat or Debian/Ubuntu but other than that its very stable and nice. Personally i prefer Debian but i do manage a couple of SUSE machines taking serious loads day and night on a slew of different serivces and they have been working flawlessly without any problems at all.
Its not even funny considering Google has been sued by a couple of content farms for downrating them in searches. They have to somehow rate them lower in searches without doing it manually and with the users themselves rating them low.
This is the last gasp from a dying company. Now nobody will touch a Symbian Phone with a ten inch pole if it costs more than 10 bucks.
On the upside Nokia gets to compete with tons of Asian and Indian manufacturers making exactly similar WP7 phones with no other way of differienting them than another background or another widget. Release the breakes and drive off the cliff keeping the gas pedal to the floor all the way down, what a way to go out of history!
Im convinced we will see a really big collapse in the future. They have lots of money to burn through before that but i suspect it will go a lot faster than most people think. All it takes is a "new" social interaction platform thats hip and popular and Facebook is but a faint memory, just as Usenet, Irc, Icq, Myspace, Aol, Second Life, BBS, FidoNet etc in an endless list. I said the exact same thing about for eg. Second Life and was laughed out of my chair while countries even built embassies, that now stands empty and abandoned.
Im very sad to say i concur fully with your statement. Newspapers of today are the governments right hands. The amount of self censoring is pretty depressing.
To my knowledge no Office Suite does OOXML at all, not even Microsofts. I guess anyone can just write "OOXML" on their Office Suite and sell it just as Microsoft does so this shouldnt be a problem really.
As long as any part of it is made with anything Microsoft Windows that thing wont get near any car i own.
Facebook is going south and everyone knows it. Its not about if, its about just how long it stays up before the novelty wears off and people migrate to the next big thing in masses. Facebook is a fun trainwreck to watch just as Second Life was when some stupid idiots paid millions to create even virtual embassies. Log in to Second Life and take a look around, thats the kind of desolate landscape Facebook will be shortly.
Anyone buying stock in Facebook deserves to part from their money.