http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=61425&cid=5772514

This is the slashdot discussion about Mark Zuckerberg's Synapse Media Player in 2003, referencing what I can only imagine he wrote on the project's homepage.

College freshmen are very motivated when it comes to sex.

I work for an ISP. I came up with this.

We have a dial in clapper that activates power to a cheap switch connected to a public facing SSH relay host. So, I call a number. It turns on the switch for 1 hour. I then log into this relay host on some port other than 22 with a pretty strong password. From there, I can ssh to our other servers. It's one point of access for most everything.

My boss is fully briefed on the system. If I leave, unplug the phone line, switch it to another number change the password and watch the logs.

Facebook used to be cool before they started screwing it up. I don't think it's users are stupid. I think they are wising up.

It has everyone, because.. well it has everyone. And once it got everyone, it started to change for the worse. The changes are what people are complaining about.

If there was an alternative with better privacy regulations and less crap, I think lots of people would jump ship. The problem is, most of the value of Facebook comes from the size of it's user base. In order for the alternative to be appealing, my friends have to have it.

Seasoned users are getting sick of Facebook, and the growth rate will eventually peak and decline if it has not already. It's going to take a while, but I think these days mark the beginning of the end for the Mark and the gang. Wait till the movie comes out.

There is some evidence that moderate exercise can boost your immune system.

http://sportsmedicine.about.com/cs/injuryprevention/a/aa011502a.html
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/s_115503.html

Perfect. All you'll need is one of those phones with a built in projector.

"Please state the nature of the medical emergency."

There's some irony there. What's interesting is back in 1985 Commodore seemed bloody unstoppable. They sold more PCs than anyone before or after. But then Jack Trameil left and they got lazy. After his departure investors saw this big money making machine and milked it dry with little foresight. Their arrogance really was Commodore's epic downfall. Right.. apples and oranges in a way, but lately Apple seems to be opening the doors to the same kind of arrogant path.

Commodore did somewhat the same thing to a much more aggressive degree when they bought MOS technology. It was part of a cost cutting, vertical integration strategy that served them well. They went on to sell eleventy-billion Commodore 64's at bargain basement prices. They got their chips so cheap they used 6502's in the floppy drives and printers, to huge profit margins and the largest market share by quite a bit during their hay-day. The Commodore 64 came to market at ~$600 about the same time an Apple II cost ~$1200.

For people that actually socialize it provides benefits. I've reconnected with old friends, made dates, organized parties, laughed (at someones silly pictures) and learned (from someones interesting post) countless times on facebook. I've found a few people that meant a lot to me, and have restarted some kind of relationship with them. I've joined groups that share like interests and attended events that I would have otherwise missed. It has value. I don't know of any other thing that does this stuff quite as well. In short, it's a useful way to communicate with most everyone you know.

I can't speak for twitter, but millions of other people find use in it.

The whole "I'm to cool for the popular social networking sites" crowd gets on my nerves.

Because here we sit, sharing opines with like minded individuals on a public website.
Does that make us elite?
Pot-kettle-black as they say.

I was wondering why it was less popular.

featuring tech 'tips' that recommended calorie counting, finding recipes, and watching cooking videos as ways for women to get the most from a laptop.

Here's what my 25-35 year old female friends do with their laptops:

Music (iTunes, iPods, iPhones), Social Networking, Pictures of their Kids, Casual Games, buy nice bags for them, watch funny videos. One friend is especially into fashion, so maybe she'll look at dresses online and such.

None of that non-sense quoted above is cool or fun. And, it's available on anything with Internet so how is it special? I'm guessing the larger laptop purchasing female demographic is, you know, more young and more trendy then recipes and watching cooking videos.

Really Dell? It's 2009. Fire your marketing director.

It's ONLY legitimate purpose is to prevent other people from plegiarising and/or profiting from an original work.

Which, in fact, encourages creativity and free expression.