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Facebook In Court
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Facebook core is simple and basic. A lot of people have had similar ideas, and the early version of facebook (no more than a year ago) was something that anyone with medium level of php+mysql+html would have thought to themselves "I could do that and better in a few days!".
But thats not the merit. The difficult thing is turning that simple idea and design into something useful and into a profitable business. When I first heard of facebook i just thought it was one more of those pages i dont want to know about, but it somehow hooked. Looking at the connectu web page makes me wonder if they really have any user base. The page is simply ugly and difficult.
The difficulty of most businesses is not just having a good idea. It is knowing how to turn a good idea into a good business. Even if Zuckerberg really was influenced by the others, it was him who turned it into a success. Putting it in another way, if facebook would have never existed, connectU would not be the success facebook is now.
At first it sounded strange, but I've been using TV in my cell phone for some months now. Here in Spain we have 3G since summer thanks to Vodafone. I've been using it since several months and among other things I can watch CNN live 24 hrs with great quality and speed. 3G (aka UMTS) offers up to 384kbps here in europe, and if you take into account that my mobile screen has 320x240 resolution, that is more than enough for quality videostreaming.
Before I used my ipod most mornings while in the bus way to work. Now I have this phone where I can watch the news instantly and I am pretty much addicted to it. When all the tsunami thing I could just heard it slightly in the news while having breakfast, but in the bus I could connect to CNN and have all the information I needed.
But that's not all. I can still carry my Mp3's to listen on the phone (ok not the same as my ipod, but still works for when I need it), I can even upload the latest south park episode in 3gp, and watch it during the 25 minutes my journery lasts. And overall, I access slashdot.org/palm at faaaaast speed.
Really, now I sometimes hope the journey from home to work takes longer.
At first people looked strange at me, but this christmas Vodafone offered a 3G Motorola for nearly 100$ which is way cheaper than many 2G phones... I've already seen other people ocasionally commuting like me;)
I don't want to sound rude, but I live here and there is no island called los Gigantos. There is however an area of tenerife (the island where Mt Teide is) which is called Los Gigantes, and are high cliffs indeed. This is not an important mistake, but I am interested in what you are talking about. Where have you read/heard about it?
Which is that Canary Island you are talking about that is ready to fall into the sea?? I live here in one of the 7 canary islands, and as far as I know they are all pretty stable. Ok, we have a 4km high volcano called Teide but it is quite dormant, and lets hope it continues like that for a long time. But never have heard of any island falling into the sea.
I don't want to be a Troll, but in christmas or not, I can only imagine corporate executives skipping the ad in one second flat. Maybe their unconsious mind retains a vague idea of the ad, but it wont be very useful unless they are bombarded with it more than once.
Only geeks like us would look at the ad more than 5 seconds (some will even cut it out and hang it on its office wall). But the people who are totally away from FF (Aka corporate executives) will probably just ignore it one way or the other.
Sorry for being so pessimistic, but it is just a thought.
Excuse me as I think I haven't seen a NYT since many years ago, but usually the resolution of images, pictures and adds overall in press suck. Even in glassy paper magazines I can hardly imagine 10 000 names in one page. Is it a double page ad? B/W or color? I know I am wrong, but right now i can only think of a blurry page.
That is the only reasonable argument I have ever read. It is the only reason that logically fits so that both HP sells a "same product-same price" product, and furthermore, Apple allowing it.
Shouldn't it be google the one who needs to proove that the otehr companies don't have an intent to use gmail as a trademark? It seems as if it is google who has a problem, why should the first company make any effort what so ever in demostrating the will of their trademark?
so enter Google Marketplace Manager, a small piece of software for Windows, Unix, and Macintosh (this is before Apple bought Spain and renamed it the Different-thinking Capitalist Republic of Information).
Could someone please explain me what does this mean?
I agree with you about how most "artists" really fear this system because it is really more democratic. I have been long waiting for the service to arrive to europe, and my experience has nt been really what I say a good one. Here is the feedback I gave back to apple after buying my first legal song:
Hello,
I live in spain and own an iPod. I've been visiting the iTunes Music Store since the windows version came out. I have never bought a song over the internet but have been waiting for iTunes to come tu Europe. Luckily, I am studying now in France and yesterday the store opened here. Just today I signed up with you, and if I you let me say it this way, my credit card lost its internet virginity with you. My student savings are near no nothing, but still valuable enough as to think twice when using my card over the internet. However, apple offered my the confidence to do so.
First of all, I found insulting how most of the artists only had some songs I could buy and not the complete album, which if I should finally buy in a real store if I really wanted it. Of course, this real album will include the song I had previously bought via iTunes, meaning to pay twice for the same thing, which I find ridicolous. However, I know this is not only apple's fault, but mainly the labels. Anyway, I comment on it as I guess it is some valuable feedback.
Nevertheless, which really made me very very very sad to the point of angry was the following. I decided to buy a song (which I actually own) just to give you a try and get some confidence with the system. I even was thinking of telling all my friends back in spain about this. But What happened? Ok, I thought 99 Euro cents was a reasonable price. so I bought the song. Now I look in my bank account, and great.. the 99 cents have magically been converted to 1,98 Euros. It is still not a big difference, but I do feel completely humilliated and abused. It makes me think HOW EASY and RELIABLE it is to download an illegal track and how the people that want to contribute with the music are beein ripped off. It is even very hard for me right now to buy music in a store with all the Copy Control rubish which makes the discs no longer be COMPACT DISCS and which I cant listen almost anywhere! In consequence I no longer buy copy protected cds. My last hope was iTunes and now I feel completely defrauded.
I dont really want my money back, you can keep it. But I dont think I will ever buy another song from you.
I love music, I have musician friends. I want to contribute to their art for the feelings they create on me. But right now I find no other way of doing it apart of going to their concerts! (which is not always possible). Im sending you this message because I hope it will actually mean something to someone out there. You are apple! I wouldnt even care to send all this so personal email it it were any of the other companies out there right now. But this is Apple Care, maybe someone really cares.
Googol - 1 x 10100 - That is a 1 with 100 Zeros after it 100000000000000000000...................
Googolhedron - A 3 dimensional shape bounded by 1 x 10100 similar polygons. This shape would look very much like a sphere. Having this many sides or facets would make it smoother than any man made object. Although, you could never have a googolhedron because there are not a googol particles in the universe.
I have no idea how many particles there are in the universe, but at first thought I would have no doubt in saying there are much more than that. Anyone could suggest any reasoning behind that statement?
They should have used phi, then there would be conspiracy theories which in my opinion would fit perfectly with the way google is moving.
Google would be ruled by some secret society which fights either for the truth (dont do evil) or by a false truth (Insert here whatever your imagination wants).
Maybe Dan Brown could make another best seller about it.;)
After the Nasdaq bubble burst some years back, the stock market was quite cautious. But now it seems everyone is getting relaxed again and are willing to invest in quite more serious internet companies.
And which company is more serious than google?
I am not any expert, but don't you thinks the price of the shares are going to rocket up into incredibly ridicolous prices? Way way way much higher than the price they actually deserve (and that real price can still be high, but they will be come much more inflated). Everyone wants to be google. I've met people that would put money in the stock market for the first time, just for google. Google looks like a perfect bet for everyone, but of course, it is impossible that EVERYONE WILL WIN.
There are going to be big big losers after these. The question is, who?
(It even has nice name for a new beta google service: www.googlebubble.com )
Where is the project going to get the thousands of systems needed to make a cluster which could minimally compare to the one google uses?
Searching is not just a matter of good algorithms. There is power needed to push it all around the insulting amount of information out there.
As some one said sometime before, Google right now seemed as if they were offering well thought SERVICES. When it is no longer controlled by some thinking heads, but rather by a gigantic group of hungry shareholder wallets, these services would become NEEDS FOR PROFIT...
But, who knows...
It could be the starting point for automatically connecting the usb/firewire of the ipod to a digital camera and uploading all the memory in the camera to the ipod. You could now go on long holidays with just a 128MB memory card and your ipod, and comeback with thousands of crappy photos to show to your friends.
Really, what is this? Comedy Central? It is quite a serious thing, and I want to "read more" just to find out interresting ideas, and all i find is that 90% of the top comments are moderated as "funny"...
Is there any field of study of "biological nanotechnology" ? I have always found a big relationship in the way many biological features work with nanotechnology, but in a more comlicated and refines way
For example a seed, could be considered as a nanotechnology machine which develops an extraordinary system (tree) by arranging the molecules in it sourrounding.
Is maximum speed just a matter of marketing?
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DVD-Rs go 8x
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I've always had the impression that gradually incrementing the speed of CD/DVD writers (and other products) is just a matter of marketing and not of actually beeing posssible to offer the technology. When CD Writers started going up from 8x, 12x, 16x, 24x, 32x, 40x, 52x.... it seemed ridicolous! I simply thought the 52x technology was already available when the 8x was out in the stores. I know that increasing the writing speed is probably not just making the CD spin faster.. but then, what else is it? It looks like as if with the DVD, everything is repeating. Can someone give me a reason why DVD writers are not faster already apart from marketing reasons and companies just wanting us to buy all different speeds? Is it actually impossible to have faster DVD writers at market price right now? or is it a technical impossibility?
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Facebook core is simple and basic. A lot of people have had similar ideas, and the early version of facebook (no more than a year ago) was something that anyone with medium level of php+mysql+html would have thought to themselves "I could do that and better in a few days!".
But thats not the merit. The difficult thing is turning that simple idea and design into something useful and into a profitable business. When I first heard of facebook i just thought it was one more of those pages i dont want to know about, but it somehow hooked. Looking at the connectu web page makes me wonder if they really have any user base. The page is simply ugly and difficult.
The difficulty of most businesses is not just having a good idea. It is knowing how to turn a good idea into a good business. Even if Zuckerberg really was influenced by the others, it was him who turned it into a success. Putting it in another way, if facebook would have never existed, connectU would not be the success facebook is now.
At first it sounded strange, but I've been using TV in my cell phone for some months now. Here in Spain we have 3G since summer thanks to Vodafone. I've been using it since several months and among other things I can watch CNN live 24 hrs with great quality and speed. 3G (aka UMTS) offers up to 384kbps here in europe, and if you take into account that my mobile screen has 320x240 resolution, that is more than enough for quality videostreaming. ;)
Before I used my ipod most mornings while in the bus way to work. Now I have this phone where I can watch the news instantly and I am pretty much addicted to it. When all the tsunami thing I could just heard it slightly in the news while having breakfast, but in the bus I could connect to CNN and have all the information I needed.
But that's not all. I can still carry my Mp3's to listen on the phone (ok not the same as my ipod, but still works for when I need it), I can even upload the latest south park episode in 3gp, and watch it during the 25 minutes my journery lasts. And overall, I access slashdot.org/palm at faaaaast speed.
Really, now I sometimes hope the journey from home to work takes longer.
At first people looked strange at me, but this christmas Vodafone offered a 3G Motorola for nearly 100$ which is way cheaper than many 2G phones... I've already seen other people ocasionally commuting like me
I don't want to sound rude, but I live here and there is no island called los Gigantos. There is however an area of tenerife (the island where Mt Teide is) which is called Los Gigantes, and are high cliffs indeed. This is not an important mistake, but I am interested in what you are talking about. Where have you read/heard about it?
Which is that Canary Island you are talking about that is ready to fall into the sea?? I live here in one of the 7 canary islands, and as far as I know they are all pretty stable. Ok, we have a 4km high volcano called Teide but it is quite dormant, and lets hope it continues like that for a long time. But never have heard of any island falling into the sea.
disgusting
Only geeks like us would look at the ad more than 5 seconds (some will even cut it out and hang it on its office wall). But the people who are totally away from FF (Aka corporate executives) will probably just ignore it one way or the other.
Sorry for being so pessimistic, but it is just a thought.
Excuse me as I think I haven't seen a NYT since many years ago, but usually the resolution of images, pictures and adds overall in press suck. Even in glassy paper magazines I can hardly imagine 10 000 names in one page. Is it a double page ad? B/W or color?
I know I am wrong, but right now i can only think of a blurry page.
sorry for the OT. Must have been the ISP cache indeed. SHIFT+RELOAD and everything solved. Thanks
Maybe now you can see it too. Its is really strange. I cant be the only one! Screenshot
Am I the only one seeing in my firefox the porn image where the title image should be?
That is the only reasonable argument I have ever read. It is the only reason that logically fits so that both HP sells a "same product-same price" product, and furthermore, Apple allowing it.
Shouldn't it be google the one who needs to proove that the otehr companies don't have an intent to use gmail as a trademark?
It seems as if it is google who has a problem, why should the first company make any effort what so ever in demostrating the will of their trademark?
Could someone please explain me what does this mean?
I agree with you about how most "artists" really fear this system because it is really more democratic. I have been long waiting for the service to arrive to europe, and my experience has nt been really what I say a good one.
Here is the feedback I gave back to apple after buying my first legal song:
Hello,
I live in spain and own an iPod. I've been visiting the iTunes
Music Store since the windows version came out. I have never bought a
song over the internet but have been waiting for iTunes to come tu
Europe. Luckily, I am studying now in France and yesterday the store
opened here. Just today I signed up with you, and if I you let me say
it this way, my credit card lost its internet virginity with you. My
student savings are near no nothing, but still valuable enough as to
think twice when using my card over the internet. However, apple
offered my the confidence to do so.
First of all, I found insulting how most of the artists only had
some songs I could buy and not the complete album, which if I should
finally buy in a real store if I really wanted it. Of course, this
real album will include the song I had previously bought via iTunes,
meaning to pay twice for the same thing, which I find ridicolous.
However, I know this is not only apple's fault, but mainly the labels.
Anyway, I comment on it as I guess it is some valuable feedback.
Nevertheless, which really made me very very very sad to the point
of angry was the following. I decided to buy a song (which I actually
own) just to give you a try and get some confidence with the system.
I even was thinking of telling all my friends back in spain about
this. But What happened? Ok, I thought 99 Euro cents was a reasonable
price. so I bought the song. Now I look in my bank account, and
great.. the 99 cents have magically been converted to 1,98 Euros. It
is still not a big difference, but I do feel completely humilliated
and abused. It makes me think HOW EASY and RELIABLE it is to download
an illegal track and how the people that want to contribute with the
music are beein ripped off. It is even very hard for me right now to
buy music in a store with all the Copy Control rubish which makes the
discs no longer be COMPACT DISCS and which I cant listen almost
anywhere! In consequence I no longer buy copy protected cds. My last
hope was iTunes and now I feel completely defrauded.
I dont really want my money back, you can keep it. But I dont think
I will ever buy another song from you.
I love music, I have musician friends. I want to contribute to
their art for the feelings they create on me. But right now I find no
other way of doing it apart of going to their concerts! (which is not
always possible). Im sending you this message because I hope it will
actually mean something to someone out there. You are apple! I wouldnt
even care to send all this so personal email it it were any of the
other companies out there right now. But this is Apple Care, maybe
someone really cares.
Thank you.
I have no idea how many particles there are in the universe, but at first thought I would have no doubt in saying there are much more than that.
Anyone could suggest any reasoning behind that statement?
They should have used phi, then there would be conspiracy theories which in my opinion would fit perfectly with the way google is moving. ;)
Google would be ruled by some secret society which fights either for the truth (dont do evil) or by a false truth (Insert here whatever your imagination wants).
Maybe Dan Brown could make another best seller about it.
After the Nasdaq bubble burst some years back, the stock market was quite cautious. But now it seems everyone is getting relaxed again and are willing to invest in quite more serious internet companies.
And which company is more serious than google?
I am not any expert, but don't you thinks the price of the shares are going to rocket up into incredibly ridicolous prices? Way way way much higher than the price they actually deserve (and that real price can still be high, but they will be come much more inflated). Everyone wants to be google. I've met people that would put money in the stock market for the first time, just for google. Google looks like a perfect bet for everyone, but of course, it is impossible that EVERYONE WILL WIN.
There are going to be big big losers after these. The question is, who?
(It even has nice name for a new beta google service: www.googlebubble.com )
Where is the project going to get the thousands of systems needed to make a cluster which could minimally compare to the one google uses?
Searching is not just a matter of good algorithms. There is power needed to push it all around the insulting amount of information out there.
As some one said sometime before, Google right now seemed as if they were offering well thought SERVICES. When it is no longer controlled by some thinking heads, but rather by a gigantic group of hungry shareholder wallets, these services would become NEEDS FOR PROFIT...
But, who knows...
It could be the starting point for automatically connecting the usb/firewire of the ipod to a digital camera and uploading all the memory in the camera to the ipod. You could now go on long holidays with just a 128MB memory card and your ipod, and comeback with thousands of crappy photos to show to your friends.
Really, what is this? Comedy Central? It is quite a serious thing, and I want to "read more" just to find out interresting ideas, and all i find is that 90% of the top comments are moderated as "funny"...
Did any of you ACTUALLY made any money?, I mean not only virtually in your account, but actually received a check at your house? Thanks
Is there any field of study of "biological nanotechnology" ? I have always found a big relationship in the way many biological features work with nanotechnology, but in a more comlicated and refines way
For example a seed, could be considered as a nanotechnology machine which develops an extraordinary system (tree) by arranging the molecules in it sourrounding.
I've always had the impression that gradually incrementing the speed of CD/DVD writers (and other products) is just a matter of marketing and not of actually beeing posssible to offer the technology.
When CD Writers started going up from 8x, 12x, 16x, 24x, 32x, 40x, 52x.... it seemed ridicolous! I simply thought the 52x technology was already available when the 8x was out in the stores.
I know that increasing the writing speed is probably not just making the CD spin faster.. but then, what else is it?
It looks like as if with the DVD, everything is repeating. Can someone give me a reason why DVD writers are not faster already apart from marketing reasons and companies just wanting us to buy all different speeds? Is it actually impossible to have faster DVD writers at market price right now? or is it a technical impossibility?