There are a few issues with Facebook making a lot of money: (1) - Click through rates of Facebook ads are abysmal, at best. (2) - People use Facebook to share stuff, not to look for stuff to buy, thus they ignore most ads. Reason Google click through rates are better because people look for stuff on Google, often to buy. (3) - Growth of Facebook in countries where the population has spending power, thus being desired products by advertisers, has stalled or it's very slow.
3d party tools? All of them are either slow, buggy or have some very weird behaviours.
Oh and I plugged my second monitor on my Ubuntu box, didn't even had to configure anything, it detected it. Took me a whole 5 seconds to get it running. Flawlessly.
IOS jailbreaks are based on LOCAL root exploits. You have to have it in hand to jailbreak it. There is no drive-by jailbreak available.
ORLY? The most popular jailbreak exploits were simply something like downloading a malformed PDF file. That is something that can be easily converted into 'drive by'.
'Disingenuous'... you keep using that word, I don't think it means what you think it means. Are you seriously comparing a *LAPTOP* processor to a *DESKTOP* processor? And I am disingenuous? You should compare it to the i5-2500K, which is cheaper and way better performing for most tasks and runs significantly cooler.
If this was 1995, I'd believe it. In 2011, Intel competes with itself. If they drive up CPU prices, they won't be able to make more and more profits because people do *NOT* need to upgrade. The vast majority of the population is doing fine on a dual core 4+ year old CPU running a browser and IM program and watching videos. Since people do not need to upgrade, but Intel has to sell more and more CPUs, their profits would collapse and then the stock and then... hilarity ensues.
We need healthy competition to Intel, to keep pushing tech forward and prices down. Sadly AMD simply has not performed over the last year or two, with no real answers to Intel's I series.
I built a Linux server/desktop earlier this year: AM3+ motherboard (4 RAM slots, 6 x SATA 6GB ports, 2 x USB 3.0 ports): 90$ AMD 1090T six core CPU: 160$
Great performance, incredible value. Once Bulldozer gets better, I can seamlessly upgrade it. Now, I'd like to see an Intel equivalent for this.
Stone age old? My mom's desktop is an AMD Athlon 3800 x2, that's what? 6.5 years old? Motherboard is some El-Cheapo don't even remember the brand socket 939 motherboard. Ram is some old, old, very old kit. Hard drive is some crappy Sata 150. Video card is something built in the motherboard, guess what? Ubuntu 11.04 didn't complain about a single thing. Everything works.
My own desktop is a mix of 3-5 year old parts (NIC, Wifi, NVidia 7600 GS) with a more modern CPU and motherboard. All work without driver issues.
What constitutes random parts then? Walking into a store and telling the cashier: Okay, give me a random motherboard, random CPU, random hard drive, random memory stick, random network card?
I built a desktop/server running Ubuntu, assembling it took me maybe one hour tops, pieces were all random: - Gigabyte Motherboard - AMD 1090T - A bunch of hard drives I had lying around. - A 20 GB Intel SLC SSD for OS/boot. - An old SATA card for extra ports. - An old WiFi card. - A low power NVidia card.
Ubuntu 11.04 detected everything, it then suggested me to install the restricted driver for the NVidia card. Only thing installer missed is the fstab settings for the SSD (noatime and discard). Didn't install in zero time, obviously, but had no hardware detection issues at all.
That has been the trend lately, just like companies are moving towards Google's products just because they are free, even while there are much better products on the market.
GMail runs great on my Home PC (Ubuntu), Laptop (Arch), Gaming PC (Windows 7), Work PC (Windows XP), iPhone and wherever I am that has an internet enabled device with a non retarded browser. Any other email programs that run on all those platforms and cost the same as GMail (free) and are as feature rich?
...since Unity has made Ubuntu completely suck on anything with a mouse and keyboard.
I just don't get the hate towards Unity. I got all my important applications hotkeyed. The icon bar has hotkey mappings too. If I have to use one non hotkeyed application, I just hit super key and start typing either description or name, and after 2-3 letters it's the first pick on the launcher. Everything is at my fingertips, notifications work well too, switcher as well, my password file is seamlessly synchronized using Ubuntu One over 4 PCs, I got out of the box support for mp3s, NVidia drivers and whatnot.
What do people who constantly rag on Unity want? I can understand they might be frustrated with some bugs, but latest release is very stable (at least for me). I am trying to understand what people miss from KDE, Gnome 2 or other DEs that Unity doesn't have or that it has implemented in a really bad way.
Maybe you should educate your child and allow him / her to contribute positively to your conversations social life rather than expecting them to play dumb games and keep quiet
Security is a joke in WoW. Say, did they ever fix that the board user/pass combination is the same as your game user/pass combination?
The security hole boggles the mind.
Not really. Security is a joke when the user is dumb: - Runs windows as Administrator and gets his PC infected with every possible keylogger. - Visits questionable sites and blindly clicks on every possible ad and gets even more keyloggers. - Clicks on links from fake emails and yes, gets even more keyloggers, or simply gives his account credentials out to someone. - Gives out his account credentials to guildmates.
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and for which nobody but Apple and the carriers are making any money.
Right, Samsung is losing a lot of money these days. Oh wait ...
Strange that MS doesn't remove from Bing the same links it asks Google to take out.
I would love to stop using Facebook, but it is the primary way that I am able to stay in touch with a lot of the people that I know.
Email? Phone call? Or wait ... face to face meeting?
There are a few issues with Facebook making a lot of money:
(1) - Click through rates of Facebook ads are abysmal, at best.
(2) - People use Facebook to share stuff, not to look for stuff to buy, thus they ignore most ads. Reason Google click through rates are better because people look for stuff on Google, often to buy.
(3) - Growth of Facebook in countries where the population has spending power, thus being desired products by advertisers, has stalled or it's very slow.
3d party tools? All of them are either slow, buggy or have some very weird behaviours.
Oh and I plugged my second monitor on my Ubuntu box, didn't even had to configure anything, it detected it. Took me a whole 5 seconds to get it running. Flawlessly.
An OS version alone won't save them. They need applications and really good hardware to go with it.
The title of this story is misleading.
There is nothing about firing in the source article.
"Retiring" or "Leaving to pursue other interests" in corporate world usually means pushed out or fired.
Wrong on both counts.
IOS jailbreaks are based on LOCAL root exploits. You have to have it in hand to jailbreak it. There is no drive-by jailbreak available.
ORLY? The most popular jailbreak exploits were simply something like downloading a malformed PDF file. That is something that can be easily converted into 'drive by'.
Ubuntu has a root user.
'Disingenuous' ... you keep using that word, I don't think it means what you think it means. Are you seriously comparing a *LAPTOP* processor to a *DESKTOP* processor? And I am disingenuous? You should compare it to the i5-2500K, which is cheaper and way better performing for most tasks and runs significantly cooler.
I hope you like $500 celerons...
If this was 1995, I'd believe it. In 2011, Intel competes with itself. If they drive up CPU prices, they won't be able to make more and more profits because people do *NOT* need to upgrade. The vast majority of the population is doing fine on a dual core 4+ year old CPU running a browser and IM program and watching videos. Since people do not need to upgrade, but Intel has to sell more and more CPUs, their profits would collapse and then the stock and then ... hilarity ensues.
We need healthy competition to Intel, to keep pushing tech forward and prices down. Sadly AMD simply has not performed over the last year or two, with no real answers to Intel's I series.
I built a Linux server/desktop earlier this year:
AM3+ motherboard (4 RAM slots, 6 x SATA 6GB ports, 2 x USB 3.0 ports): 90$
AMD 1090T six core CPU: 160$
Great performance, incredible value. Once Bulldozer gets better, I can seamlessly upgrade it. Now, I'd like to see an Intel equivalent for this.
Stone age old? My mom's desktop is an AMD Athlon 3800 x2, that's what? 6.5 years old? Motherboard is some El-Cheapo don't even remember the brand socket 939 motherboard. Ram is some old, old, very old kit. Hard drive is some crappy Sata 150. Video card is something built in the motherboard, guess what? Ubuntu 11.04 didn't complain about a single thing. Everything works.
My own desktop is a mix of 3-5 year old parts (NIC, Wifi, NVidia 7600 GS) with a more modern CPU and motherboard. All work without driver issues.
What constitutes random parts then? Walking into a store and telling the cashier: Okay, give me a random motherboard, random CPU, random hard drive, random memory stick, random network card?
I built a desktop/server running Ubuntu, assembling it took me maybe one hour tops, pieces were all random:
- Gigabyte Motherboard
- AMD 1090T
- A bunch of hard drives I had lying around.
- A 20 GB Intel SLC SSD for OS/boot.
- An old SATA card for extra ports.
- An old WiFi card.
- A low power NVidia card.
Ubuntu 11.04 detected everything, it then suggested me to install the restricted driver for the NVidia card. Only thing installer missed is the fstab settings for the SSD (noatime and discard). Didn't install in zero time, obviously, but had no hardware detection issues at all.
That has been the trend lately, just like companies are moving towards Google's products just because they are free, even while there are much better products on the market.
GMail runs great on my Home PC (Ubuntu), Laptop (Arch), Gaming PC (Windows 7), Work PC (Windows XP), iPhone and wherever I am that has an internet enabled device with a non retarded browser. Any other email programs that run on all those platforms and cost the same as GMail (free) and are as feature rich?
...since Unity has made Ubuntu completely suck on anything with a mouse and keyboard.
I just don't get the hate towards Unity. I got all my important applications hotkeyed. The icon bar has hotkey mappings too. If I have to use one non hotkeyed application, I just hit super key and start typing either description or name, and after 2-3 letters it's the first pick on the launcher. Everything is at my fingertips, notifications work well too, switcher as well, my password file is seamlessly synchronized using Ubuntu One over 4 PCs, I got out of the box support for mp3s, NVidia drivers and whatnot.
What do people who constantly rag on Unity want? I can understand they might be frustrated with some bugs, but latest release is very stable (at least for me). I am trying to understand what people miss from KDE, Gnome 2 or other DEs that Unity doesn't have or that it has implemented in a really bad way.
The thing that bothers me about all this is that Google hasn't stepped into the courts really very much at all yet.
ORLY?
Really though...who buys a vendor PC then slaps Linux on it? We build our PC's..
Right! I bought all pieces of my laptop and assembled it myself and installed Linux on it!
Oh wait ... I was dreaming again.
Investors aren't stupid when it comes to money
ORLY?
Exactly! Everyone already has a Z68 board! No one needs this Synapse crap! ...
Oh wait
Have you watched ST:TNG? Or 2001 Space Odyssey? Of course every company making blatant copies of this 'awesome' Apple patent.
Maybe you should educate your child and allow him / her to contribute positively to your conversations social life rather than expecting them to play dumb games and keep quiet
Let me guess ... you don't have any kids?
Security is a joke in WoW. Say, did they ever fix that the board user/pass combination is the same as your game user/pass combination?
The security hole boggles the mind.
Not really. Security is a joke when the user is dumb:
- Runs windows as Administrator and gets his PC infected with every possible keylogger.
- Visits questionable sites and blindly clicks on every possible ad and gets even more keyloggers.
- Clicks on links from fake emails and yes, gets even more keyloggers, or simply gives his account credentials out to someone.
- Gives out his account credentials to guildmates.
Zuck: They "trust me"
Zuck: Dumb fucks.
Good enough reason NOT to use Facebook.