I truly believe that the best life cycle analogy for facebook is the rise and fall of AOL. Yes, a ton of people used it for a long time even though there were a lot of problems with it and other better options but it still eventually died.
Facebook is dying right now, even if the number of users is rising.
I know that statement doesn't sound like it makes any sense on the face of it, but the key is who the users are and what they are using it for. The people joining facebook at this point are not the trend makers, they are the people who are slow to the party and they are people trying to capitalize on something popular. In my experience, the people who really started using Facebook and spurred the initial growth are all starting to move on.
The fact that this opinion which is based completely off of an anti-neutrality talking point (read: lie) made it onto the slashdot main page made me very sad.
You really wouldn't need that high of bandwidth to play this, it is just essentially streaming video. The issue is that that streaming video needs to be encoded, transmitted, decoded and displayed in under 100ms in order to avoid the user from perceiving the lag between pushing a button and the game registering the action.
To everyone who seems to think that teachers work a tiny number of hours only to enjoy an entire summer off: You are a bunch of idiots
Your average teacher works 10+ hours a day 5 days a week throughout the school year for minimal pay. The school day may only be 8-9 hours, but there is curriculum planning, staff meetings, PTA meetings, homework grading, and many other things to extend the time. I stated 10 hours above, but that is a conservative estimate.
Then, after the long school year, most teachers have to go take classes themselves. It is a requirement in many places that teachers have "continuing education" just to maintain their pathetically low pay.
So who is going to take the brunt of these extended hours? The teachers.
Will it help anything? No.
Yes, there are bad teachers out there, but there are a hell of a lot more bad parents. A teacher can educate a student for only so many hours a day, after that it is the parent's responsibility to encourage their child's education. When a student consistently comes in without doing their homework, what are the teachers to do?
In my opinion, one of the best ideas I have seen is giving teachers the ability to grade parents. Everyone wants to hold teachers accountable for the quality of education they provide, it is time we held parents accountable for failing to foster that education.
Oddly enough, I did recently experience Windows killing my desktop due to powerdrain. I had been using Ubuntu only for quite some time prior to this install. During regular usage on Windows, I started smelling something like burning plastic. I immediately turned off the computer of course, couldn't find any obvious damage, and went back to regular use in Ubuntu after it cooled down. After leaving the computer on 24 hours a day in Ubuntu for a few days, I booted back into Windows again and, sure enough, more burning plastic smell and the computer crashes.
It turns out that at some point (a long time ago from the looks of it), the fan inside my PSU had snapped and it was no longer spinning. Apparently, I had run it like this in Linux for quite some time with no problems or damage done. However, around an hours use in windows obviously drained more power and overheated the power supply.
In short, Windows did in fact draw too much power on my desktop and cause it to shut down.
Most people here seems to regard parking meters as normal and acceptable devices. Fact is that the SOIL is public. That means that the SOIL is YOURS. Now would you like to be charged for living into your house? I doubt it. So why can you accept that someone is renting your land? Here now you are debating which form of stealing is better for you. Like debating whatever is better to be eaten by a lion or a tiger.
Wow, you are right. I guess I better go claim my spot now. I can set up a tent and just live in a parking spot, since I own the land and all. Even better, the state buildings are all taxpayer funded, no more hotels for me!
Seriously, all of you idiotic, Ron Paul supporting, libertarian douchebags need to just go establish an island colony somewhere with your ideals that defy all rational economic analysis. Just make sure that when you are starving to death after your instantaneous economic collapse, you hold true to your ideals and don't allow us to waste our money bailing you out.
Frak off. I'm tired of other people trying to run MY life. I'm not a slave; my ancestors were freed in 1865 so stop telling me what to do. Does the word "freedom" mean nothing to you??? I don't need you bossing me around or telling me my lifestyle is unworthy.
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Wait, did you actually just play the race card in a discussion about driving habits?
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I sympathized with many of the points you were making about the necessity of driving in some locations and the lack of suitability of small vehicles in many/terrains/weather conditions. However, by showing a willingness to extort the atrocities of slavery to "win" a debate on driving has undermined your credibility completely. For all of the good points you made during this argument, you should be ashamed of yourself for that statement.
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As for Sparr0, "Plan better." probably wasn't the best way to start your comment, it is rather condescending. Both sides of this issue need to understand that the view is very different for someone living in a city to someone living outside of a major transportation network. I've done both, and both experiences certainly have impacted my views. Your idea of a corner grocery store in every housing development is great, but it doesn't exist right now, so you can't exactly use it to dismiss the need for driving.
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I grew up in a house (not a housing development) that was 3 miles from the closest grocery store (or minimart) with no public transportation system at all. There truly is no reasonable option here other than to use a car for your everyday commutes. Now I live in the city with a grocery store 1/2 mile away and I do all of my shopping on foot. I'm not about to judge someone still in the situation where they need to use their car.
Boxee does NOT strip out the ads for any of the content that you view through it. In fact, when you opened the Hulu plugin with Boxee, it even provided the same cycling flash ad as you see when you load Hulu.com.
The only difference between using Boxee and going to the Hulu site directly is the way you navigate which shows and episodes are available. There are no ads at all on Hulu when navigating the lists of available programing.
It is also worth noting that Hulu provides the ability to embed their videos into any site. This is effectively what Boxee did but their site was designed specifically to be navigated using a remote with the Boxee interface.
The reason that Hulu's content providers want them to block Boxee is simply because they cannot/will not graps the concept that internet video is slowly replacing regular broadcast.
I always compare it to how you could judge/audit a bank's security.
Bank #1
The bank manager gives you a full blueprint laying out each path to the vault and how those paths are secure. Next, they show you the construction of the vault, how thick the steel is. They move on to show you how the locks work and explain why they they chose those type of locks.
Bank #2
The bank manager assures you that the vault is definitely in the building and that it is absolutely secure. However, they state that it would undermine their security to provide you any additional details.
Which bank would you feel more safe about putting your money in?
You are (purposely?) missing the entire point. The average Firefox may CHOOSE to install flash, but that is their choice. If Microsoft wants to make a Firefox extension, then they need to put it in the directory just like everyone else.
Wow, what a complete joke. I particularly like their question "with a twist" was actually a lie. The question "which of the 4 said 'I can see russia from my house' which was a question with no answer. I also love the insinuation that Mccain supporters supposedly knew more about what was going on.
It is a sad fact, but we all know how uninformed the average American is. Is it because of the media? Maybe in part. Does that mean the media has a left wing bias? Absolutely not. It would be easy to name dozens of stories negative for republicans that haven't been covered. Stories aren't covered most of the time because media is profit driven and they wouldn't raise viewership.
As for the claim 'Survey finds most Obama voters remembered negative coverage of McCain/Palin statements but struggled to correctly answer questions about coverage associated with Obama/Biden' - I can practically guarantee you that the inverse is true as well.
Oh, and I also love the claim that these were 12 of the most informed Obama voters. It's not like they had an agenda in picking them or anything. . .
Didn't you read the article? George Lucas will never allow an "Indiana Jones" without Harrison Ford. George Lucas is a man of his word and never changes his stance, especially not for money. Clearly, this "Young Indiana Jones" that you speak of was a figment of your imagination. . .
Yeah, recycling is terrible for the environment. Those harsh chemicals used for recycling are so much worse than the harsh chemicals used to manufacture cardboard in the first place. Not to mention the trees you get to cut down by making new cardboard. If you recycle, those trees will still be in the way somewhere.
Air Conditioning systems do not "Remove" heat, they move it. This is why most large air conditioning systems sit outside, because they unit themselves are giving off a substantial portion of the heat that they are moving from the original locations. Your air conditioner was only pushing most of the heat out of the area of the server.
The impossibility of a water based fuel cell is very simple. I will try to explain it briefly here, hopefully you accept this as proof.
A hydrogen fuel cell works by removing electrons from hydrogen molecules. Generally, you cannot simply remove an electron from an atom, but you can with hydrogen because it can bond easily with so many other atoms, such as oxygen. Two hydrogen atoms can cling to an oxygen atom by sharing it's electrons, this allows the hydrogen atoms to give up their own electrons. These electrons are collected by the fuel cell giving you electricity. In our example of bonding with oxygen, you also end up with H2O, or water. This is the most common result in a fuel cell because oxygen is so abundant.
The second thing to understand is electrolysis and how Water is separated into hydrogen and oxygen. As explained above, Water is formed by a lack of electrons to have hydrogen and water separately. Electrolysis works by adding excess electrons to water so that it must separate into component parts to remain stable. By adding 2 electrons to a single H2O molecule, the Hydrogen is forced to separate, giving you 2 hydrogen and 1 oxygen again.
As you probably realize at this point, you must add exactly the same number of electrons to the H20 to separate it as you get by forming the molecule in the first place. This means that if you could operate this at 100% efficiency (an impossible feat in itself), then you would simply be looping the electrons in and out. It is impossible to have a net gain. Because fuel cells do not operate even near 100% efficiency, you will actually always have a significant net loss.
DISCLAIMER: My only formal chemistry education is "Chem 140: Applied Chemistry I", but I believe that this explanation is sound.
It is just sick that someone has modded you as interesting. You would best be modded as a troll, but only because there is no mod for disgusting, hateful, or bullshit.
I have had one of these keychain microSD card readers for about a year now. There is nothing smaller, and you can always buy a newer bigger microSD card, almost always for cheaper than a flash drive.
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I truly believe that the best life cycle analogy for facebook is the rise and fall of AOL. Yes, a ton of people used it for a long time even though there were a lot of problems with it and other better options but it still eventually died.
Facebook is dying right now, even if the number of users is rising.
I know that statement doesn't sound like it makes any sense on the face of it, but the key is who the users are and what they are using it for. The people joining facebook at this point are not the trend makers, they are the people who are slow to the party and they are people trying to capitalize on something popular. In my experience, the people who really started using Facebook and spurred the initial growth are all starting to move on.
The fact that this opinion which is based completely off of an anti-neutrality talking point (read: lie) made it onto the slashdot main page made me very sad.
Comments like this one make me feel a lot better.
Thanks.
You could actually look it up, and you would see that the Wii is still doing better at this point then the PS2 was doing this many weeks after launch.
This isn't a change in game developer preference, it is a change in the definition of game developer.
High Bandwidth != Low Latency
You really wouldn't need that high of bandwidth to play this, it is just essentially streaming video. The issue is that that streaming video needs to be encoded, transmitted, decoded and displayed in under 100ms in order to avoid the user from perceiving the lag between pushing a button and the game registering the action.
To everyone who seems to think that teachers work a tiny number of hours only to enjoy an entire summer off:
You are a bunch of idiots
Your average teacher works 10+ hours a day 5 days a week throughout the school year for minimal pay. The school day may only be 8-9 hours, but there is curriculum planning, staff meetings, PTA meetings, homework grading, and many other things to extend the time. I stated 10 hours above, but that is a conservative estimate.
Then, after the long school year, most teachers have to go take classes themselves. It is a requirement in many places that teachers have "continuing education" just to maintain their pathetically low pay.
So who is going to take the brunt of these extended hours? The teachers.
Will it help anything? No.
Yes, there are bad teachers out there, but there are a hell of a lot more bad parents. A teacher can educate a student for only so many hours a day, after that it is the parent's responsibility to encourage their child's education. When a student consistently comes in without doing their homework, what are the teachers to do?
In my opinion, one of the best ideas I have seen is giving teachers the ability to grade parents. Everyone wants to hold teachers accountable for the quality of education they provide, it is time we held parents accountable for failing to foster that education.
Yeah, because teachers want to extend the time they work every day and lose their vacation.
Oddly enough, I did recently experience Windows killing my desktop due to powerdrain. I had been using Ubuntu only for quite some time prior to this install. During regular usage on Windows, I started smelling something like burning plastic. I immediately turned off the computer of course, couldn't find any obvious damage, and went back to regular use in Ubuntu after it cooled down. After leaving the computer on 24 hours a day in Ubuntu for a few days, I booted back into Windows again and, sure enough, more burning plastic smell and the computer crashes.
It turns out that at some point (a long time ago from the looks of it), the fan inside my PSU had snapped and it was no longer spinning. Apparently, I had run it like this in Linux for quite some time with no problems or damage done. However, around an hours use in windows obviously drained more power and overheated the power supply.
In short, Windows did in fact draw too much power on my desktop and cause it to shut down.
Most people here seems to regard parking meters as normal and acceptable devices. Fact is that the SOIL is public. That means that the SOIL is YOURS. Now would you like to be charged for living into your house? I doubt it. So why can you accept that someone is renting your land? Here now you are debating which form of stealing is better for you. Like debating whatever is better to be eaten by a lion or a tiger.
Wow, you are right. I guess I better go claim my spot now. I can set up a tent and just live in a parking spot, since I own the land and all. Even better, the state buildings are all taxpayer funded, no more hotels for me!
Seriously, all of you idiotic, Ron Paul supporting, libertarian douchebags need to just go establish an island colony somewhere with your ideals that defy all rational economic analysis. Just make sure that when you are starving to death after your instantaneous economic collapse, you hold true to your ideals and don't allow us to waste our money bailing you out.
Apparently the 'preview' option doesn't show line breaks properly. Sorry about the extra ones. . .
>>>Plan better.
Frak off. I'm tired of other people trying to run MY life. I'm not a slave; my ancestors were freed in 1865 so stop telling me what to do. Does the word "freedom" mean nothing to you??? I don't need you bossing me around or telling me my lifestyle is unworthy.
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Wait, did you actually just play the race card in a discussion about driving habits?
.
I sympathized with many of the points you were making about the necessity of driving in some locations and the lack of suitability of small vehicles in many /terrains/weather conditions. However, by showing a willingness to extort the atrocities of slavery to "win" a debate on driving has undermined your credibility completely. For all of the good points you made during this argument, you should be ashamed of yourself for that statement.
.
As for Sparr0, "Plan better." probably wasn't the best way to start your comment, it is rather condescending. Both sides of this issue need to understand that the view is very different for someone living in a city to someone living outside of a major transportation network. I've done both, and both experiences certainly have impacted my views. Your idea of a corner grocery store in every housing development is great, but it doesn't exist right now, so you can't exactly use it to dismiss the need for driving.
.
I grew up in a house (not a housing development) that was 3 miles from the closest grocery store (or minimart) with no public transportation system at all. There truly is no reasonable option here other than to use a car for your everyday commutes. Now I live in the city with a grocery store 1/2 mile away and I do all of my shopping on foot. I'm not about to judge someone still in the situation where they need to use their car.
I hope they make a version that fits my 11' tall children.
Is that supposed to be Chinese? You should learn pinyin. . .
Boxee does NOT strip out the ads for any of the content that you view through it. In fact, when you opened the Hulu plugin with Boxee, it even provided the same cycling flash ad as you see when you load Hulu.com.
The only difference between using Boxee and going to the Hulu site directly is the way you navigate which shows and episodes are available. There are no ads at all on Hulu when navigating the lists of available programing.
It is also worth noting that Hulu provides the ability to embed their videos into any site. This is effectively what Boxee did but their site was designed specifically to be navigated using a remote with the Boxee interface.
The reason that Hulu's content providers want them to block Boxee is simply because they cannot/will not graps the concept that internet video is slowly replacing regular broadcast.
I always compare it to how you could judge/audit a bank's security.
Bank #1
The bank manager gives you a full blueprint laying out each path to the vault and how those paths are secure. Next, they show you the construction of the vault, how thick the steel is. They move on to show you how the locks work and explain why they they chose those type of locks.
Bank #2
The bank manager assures you that the vault is definitely in the building and that it is absolutely secure. However, they state that it would undermine their security to provide you any additional details.
Which bank would you feel more safe about putting your money in?
You are (purposely?) missing the entire point. The average Firefox may CHOOSE to install flash, but that is their choice. If Microsoft wants to make a Firefox extension, then they need to put it in the directory just like everyone else.
Wow, what a complete joke. I particularly like their question "with a twist" was actually a lie. The question "which of the 4 said 'I can see russia from my house' which was a question with no answer. I also love the insinuation that Mccain supporters supposedly knew more about what was going on.
It is a sad fact, but we all know how uninformed the average American is. Is it because of the media? Maybe in part. Does that mean the media has a left wing bias? Absolutely not. It would be easy to name dozens of stories negative for republicans that haven't been covered. Stories aren't covered most of the time because media is profit driven and they wouldn't raise viewership.
As for the claim 'Survey finds most Obama voters remembered negative coverage of McCain/Palin statements but struggled to correctly answer questions about coverage associated with Obama/Biden' - I can practically guarantee you that the inverse is true as well.
Oh, and I also love the claim that these were 12 of the most informed Obama voters. It's not like they had an agenda in picking them or anything. . .
Didn't you read the article? George Lucas will never allow an "Indiana Jones" without Harrison Ford. George Lucas is a man of his word and never changes his stance, especially not for money. Clearly, this "Young Indiana Jones" that you speak of was a figment of your imagination. . .
Yeah, recycling is terrible for the environment. Those harsh chemicals used for recycling are so much worse than the harsh chemicals used to manufacture cardboard in the first place. Not to mention the trees you get to cut down by making new cardboard. If you recycle, those trees will still be in the way somewhere.
This is +1 interesting? Really?
Air Conditioning systems do not "Remove" heat, they move it. This is why most large air conditioning systems sit outside, because they unit themselves are giving off a substantial portion of the heat that they are moving from the original locations. Your air conditioner was only pushing most of the heat out of the area of the server.
The impossibility of a water based fuel cell is very simple. I will try to explain it briefly here, hopefully you accept this as proof.
A hydrogen fuel cell works by removing electrons from hydrogen molecules. Generally, you cannot simply remove an electron from an atom, but you can with hydrogen because it can bond easily with so many other atoms, such as oxygen. Two hydrogen atoms can cling to an oxygen atom by sharing it's electrons, this allows the hydrogen atoms to give up their own electrons. These electrons are collected by the fuel cell giving you electricity. In our example of bonding with oxygen, you also end up with H2O, or water. This is the most common result in a fuel cell because oxygen is so abundant.
The second thing to understand is electrolysis and how Water is separated into hydrogen and oxygen. As explained above, Water is formed by a lack of electrons to have hydrogen and water separately. Electrolysis works by adding excess electrons to water so that it must separate into component parts to remain stable. By adding 2 electrons to a single H2O molecule, the Hydrogen is forced to separate, giving you 2 hydrogen and 1 oxygen again.
As you probably realize at this point, you must add exactly the same number of electrons to the H20 to separate it as you get by forming the molecule in the first place. This means that if you could operate this at 100% efficiency (an impossible feat in itself), then you would simply be looping the electrons in and out. It is impossible to have a net gain. Because fuel cells do not operate even near 100% efficiency, you will actually always have a significant net loss.
DISCLAIMER: My only formal chemistry education is "Chem 140: Applied Chemistry I", but I believe that this explanation is sound.
It is just sick that someone has modded you as interesting. You would best be modded as a troll, but only because there is no mod for disgusting, hateful, or bullshit.
*Whoosh*
A Guide to The Queen's English
Lift = Elevator
Colour = Color
Estate = Station Wagon
Education = Edumacation
I have had one of these keychain microSD card readers for about a year now. There is nothing smaller, and you can always buy a newer bigger microSD card, almost always for cheaper than a flash drive.
Still not enough space for you? Get one of these microSD card holder keychain straps and you just tripled your storage space.
If that is true, then isn't our responsibility to expose ourselves to as many new toxins as possible for the sake of our children?