Facebook won't last that long. I know they have cash in the bank but even they see it. They buy WhatsApp not because they never thought of making a SMS like app or integrate it into their stuff, they want the head count. Facebook was cool to my generation because you could check out all the people you knew from years gone by but it is like any popular hangout or bar, eventually people will buy their beer somewhere else.

When you or anyone else here was younger how many would go to hangout somewhere where their parents used to hangout? The newer netizens don't want to chat up with their friends where their baby pictures are posted, it becomes, well just lame.

They know this but for them to look strong to their share holders they need page views and a monstrous head count, the second that starts going south people will sell that paper all day long. Facebook doesn't have the legs that Microsoft does because Microsoft still has huge on going contracts to sell and support Windows. The workplace isn't going to Android / IOS anytime soon and Linux is making some slow progress but Microsoft can afford for people to hate them. Facebook just doesn't have that luxury. When their users go so will their share holders and the barrier to entry is damn low, look at WhatsApp, they have like 20 employees and a simple infrastructure.

Facebook is like the post grad that came back for extra credits and started hanging around the freshmen trying to be cool, they burn through cash trying to show off how cool they are but rarely get to re-achieve their previous self proclaimed brilliance.

After a huge amount of the workforce is exchanged for "cheaper" labour who is going to pay for the wares that line the pockets of the CxO that just paid for a legion of robots?

I wonder constantly about people putting "production" material online. In the 90's you would be tarred and feathered for just suggesting putting important info anywhere else but an air gaped machine. Now it seems like it's just plain fashionable.

What gives?

I don't feel that you made an accurate comparison. You car is made by $X manufacturer but in this case all the aftermarket addons which you have purchased at a myriad of other locations (i.e. window tint, car stereo, cup holders, car chargers) will also pop in and make their own changes.

So in this case the store that sold you your Clarion deck will stop by and fix your stereo but also leave a GPS tracker or mute your system to play their own wares.

Updating Chrome is one thing because Google doesn't want to mess with the PR nightmare when someone finds out their update streams popups like mad but some one off developer who makes a LOL Cat extension probably isn't making any money to begin with will have no problems bending one way or another for a couple of quick bucks. Both get equal say over the clock cycles on your system. Does that really make sense to you?

Maybe this?

I don't think the result of your doctor finding out health concerns should result in a "gotchya" moment and why should it? Your doctor knows you very well in most circumstances in a medical and a social way, cornering his/her patient is always the least fruitful way of resolving an issue or helping someone.

Yes, but it comes in a much taller jar.

In this world most pharmas would sell you each base pair at a time. If you would be able to quell the mechanism that mutates DNA then we could live in perpetuity at the point you stopped mutating DNA. Then we would have to buy time in units and have our remaining show up on a tattoo.... umm well never mind.

What doesn't make sense about your theory is that the thresholds are so low. If this rule/law was to govern all ranges of equity then why stop the scale at $1M? That's just a drop in the bucket when you consider the $100b stakes spread regularly throughout the country.

The summary is misleading. The rates proposed are 7-12% for all values 100K and 500K. As per TFA.

Mom is that you?

maybe uses Intel VPro as a vector?

Debian-kit. Full GNU system no chroot.

All of these companies make packaged solutions. It would be like taking a Ford motor, Toyota transmission and Honda body and hiring engineers to put it together. It doesn't make the job easier. When you bring in engineers they all have the same basic skills but have specialties due to their day to day workloads. They can tell you how their software works but it doesn't mean they can just 'fix' your software.

What this will do is encourage people to make their own HTPC. With Steam's new game pad and hopefully AAA game titles throwing something like XBMC along side it would make a pretty decent living room PC for a lot less than paying the Windows license. The drivers could be added to desktop distributions making those who already use Linux on the desktop happier and those sitting on the fence more likely to make the jump. Game developers already don't care about Windows but the PC game market is profitable and if Valve makes porting from console to SteamOS simple (which shouldn't be that bad since next gen consoles are x86 based) then more titles will show up on SteamOS before Windows. It's basically a role your own console. You can cheap out and put together an AMD APU setup with a couple GB RAM for a bit over $100 and play most games a mid to low res. When you consider that Xbox360 maxes out at 1080i/720p you could easily get that on AMDs next chips. Or you can just carry over all your Steam library and buy a card like the Radeon 7850 going for
TL;DR It will be better than you think.