You're right. They're all options. Nobody's telling you not to use a phone or email just because you can also write a letter instead. What's nice about Facebook though is that you can keep in touch and set up a time a place to meet while also checking up on the person's new pictures and comments.
It might not be for everyone but I don't know why people are pretending it's so hard to understand.
What's wrong with sending a Facebook message to a friend saying, "Hey, wanna hang out and have a beer?" Because that's how many people use it. Not as a replacement for real interaction.
I wouldn't call CardSpace a dud. At first it seems similar to OpenID, but from Wikipedia:
"Because CardSpace and the Identity Metasystem upon which it is based are token-format-agnostic, CardSpace does not compete directly with other Internet identity architectures like OpenID and SAML."
I find this "software bloat to drive hardware upgrades" thing hard to believe. Doesn't that mean that similar applications (on Linux for example) to most Microsoft created applications should be significantly faster? Is this the case? Last I checked, OpenOffice.org was generally the same speed and level of "bloatness" as Microsoft Word.
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You're right. They're all options. Nobody's telling you not to use a phone or email just because you can also write a letter instead. What's nice about Facebook though is that you can keep in touch and set up a time a place to meet while also checking up on the person's new pictures and comments. It might not be for everyone but I don't know why people are pretending it's so hard to understand.
What's wrong with sending a Facebook message to a friend saying, "Hey, wanna hang out and have a beer?" Because that's how many people use it. Not as a replacement for real interaction.
Because people like to be able to list and search through albums, artists, and other metadata.
What harm? That your kids might have to hear a bad word, prompting you to tell them not to say it?
You're so clever! I haven't seen this question asked today yet.
Apple created (or at least helped create) Firewire. As far as I remember, they don't have to pay any fees.
Actually he is. http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/Investing/Forbes/TheForbes400.aspx?GT1=10423
I wouldn't call CardSpace a dud. At first it seems similar to OpenID, but from Wikipedia:
"Because CardSpace and the Identity Metasystem upon which it is based are token-format-agnostic, CardSpace does not compete directly with other Internet identity architectures like OpenID and SAML."
So it can be used with systems like OpenID.
I'm glad more people don't think like you.
Writing a new browser is useless at this point. Others can't compete. This is why Microsoft is considered a monopoly.
I find this "software bloat to drive hardware upgrades" thing hard to believe. Doesn't that mean that similar applications (on Linux for example) to most Microsoft created applications should be significantly faster? Is this the case? Last I checked, OpenOffice.org was generally the same speed and level of "bloatness" as Microsoft Word.
The PSP won't use infra-red technology.