This argument is the same one made by those trying to defend female circumcision. Or stoning people to death.
Just because they come from a different geographical location does not make them different from you or I. Repression is repression, zeitgeist be damned.
Google has always claimed to be very open, but they've also always claimed that their search results and completely proprietary (even though none of the content being aggregated belongs to them). People let google do this because the *borrowed* content usually leads to traffic to their sites, but that doesn't change the fact that google is quite hypocritical about the whole situation.
>This means the universe, as near as our best minds can tell, is infinite.
I'm going to go ahead and do what every other human has done when presented with this conundrum and not think about it.
Any time I try to wrap my head around the concept that the universe is infinite, or that time is cyclical or something like the size of our galaxy... it seriously hurts my brain. These concepts are simply way beyond me.
Scaling a site to be the 2nd most popular site on the web is no small feat. I would imagine a good number of people on their tech team are designated to managing the load.
I see no evidence that facebook is 'trading' my info.
Like you said, I am a potential customer. Potential customers are not the product. Facebook makes money by running ads, their product is their ad-space.
What a trite (and false) expression. How am I the product? To whom am I being sold? Facebook's revenue is generated via targetted ads. Yes, they use the information from my profile and my viewing habits to show me ads, however it's very clear that facebook's product is their ads, much the same way google's product is adsense/adwords. Facebook does not own me or my information (according to the laws of my country), therefore they have no rights to sell that information. I am not the product.
You could ask whether google is a wise investment? Also, who invests in tech companies for 10-15 years? Your premise is a little strange.
Yes, competitors might come along, but right now facebook owns social media much the same way google owns search. I don't a lot of talk about google slipping up.. even though all their revenue comes from the ads on their search.
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Jeff Bridges exploded... twice.
IMO, this was hands down the best movie in terms of Jeff Bridges explosions.
Yeah, somehow I don't think having the ability to look down and see your feet dangling over the earth from 50,000 feet up will make people enjoy flying more....
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This argument is the same one made by those trying to defend female circumcision. Or stoning people to death.
Just because they come from a different geographical location does not make them different from you or I. Repression is repression, zeitgeist be damned.
Do you think women would be asking to wear a burka if it wasn't for pressure from men to wear them?
It might seem like women are repressing themselves, but that's simply not the case.
It is when you realize that no pharma company actually wants to cure cancer...
I recently bought an iPhone 4. I haven't been using a bumper or gloves and have yet to run in to reception issues...
More like Facebook itself.
Zuckerberg scraped all the photos from the Harvard directories when he first launched facebook... without consent of course.
Google has always claimed to be very open, but they've also always claimed that their search results and completely proprietary (even though none of the content being aggregated belongs to them). People let google do this because the *borrowed* content usually leads to traffic to their sites, but that doesn't change the fact that google is quite hypocritical about the whole situation.
>This means the universe, as near as our best minds can tell, is infinite.
I'm going to go ahead and do what every other human has done when presented with this conundrum and not think about it.
Any time I try to wrap my head around the concept that the universe is infinite, or that time is cyclical or something like the size of our galaxy... it seriously hurts my brain. These concepts are simply way beyond me.
Wait, this new layout makes it harder to read?
I thought everyone was complaining that the site had too much whitespace...
Dunno about everyone else, but I like the new look.
I'm surprised there was no competition like last time.
I wanna win a free laptop from Alienware!
Though, I do like the new look....
CMD-SHIFT-4 *yoink*
Scaling a site to be the 2nd most popular site on the web is no small feat. I would imagine a good number of people on their tech team are designated to managing the load.
I see no evidence that facebook is 'trading' my info.
Like you said, I am a potential customer. Potential customers are not the product. Facebook makes money by running ads, their product is their ad-space.
I am not a business. Does this confuse you?
>With social networking, not only is the software relatively trivial
Is that why not a single competitor has all the features that facebook has? Facebook's codebase is not trivial.
What a trite (and false) expression. How am I the product? To whom am I being sold? Facebook's revenue is generated via targetted ads. Yes, they use the information from my profile and my viewing habits to show me ads, however it's very clear that facebook's product is their ads, much the same way google's product is adsense/adwords. Facebook does not own me or my information (according to the laws of my country), therefore they have no rights to sell that information. I am not the product.
You could ask whether google is a wise investment? Also, who invests in tech companies for 10-15 years? Your premise is a little strange.
Yes, competitors might come along, but right now facebook owns social media much the same way google owns search. I don't a lot of talk about google slipping up.. even though all their revenue comes from the ads on their search.
Jeff Bridges exploded... twice.
IMO, this was hands down the best movie in terms of Jeff Bridges explosions.
>Twitter is one of the greatest new forms of communications in the last 20 years.
Feel free to tell me what twitter's business model will be (they still don't have one).
How many of the ten are going to be set up by the CIA/DHS/Pentagon as honey pots to catch would-be leakers?
Right, so now all we have to do is beat the RIAA's lobbying efforts.
Got a couple of bucks to chip in?
Nice, so basically, only banks and financial institutions do 'real work' then? Strange world you live in...
I work for a $100M company that generates all its income from a website I maintain, and it's running on PHP and MySQL..
MySQL might not be a flawless DB, but it gets the job done just fine.
"Real Work"? What's that? MySQL was for a very long time the DB used by adsense and youtube...
How many projects use MySQL and how many use PostgreSQL?
PostgreSQL might be a good db, but that doesn't make MySQL a piece of shit...
Yeah, somehow I don't think having the ability to look down and see your feet dangling over the earth from 50,000 feet up will make people enjoy flying more....
First post eh? You must be on one of those fancy dual-cores to have been able to troll twice as fast.