Here's the obligatory proportions post. How many people have been arrested for the housing market crash thus far? How much monetary damage did those people actually do in comparison to this guy?... yeah.

I'd almost rather see that than have them cut to the dude's face as they usually do.

How does

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Yes, MySpace was a competitor but it was a much smaller market back then and Facebook did it better, so there wasn't too big of a barrier to switching. Now, if people switch completely, they have to take the hundreds of photos they've posted, and lose years of status updates, and wait for all their hundreds of friends to switch over as well - it's a big task just like reformatting your harddrive which is something that most people are also loathe to do even when it would end up being better for them.

Circles is a great concept, one that Facebook is already implementing in some fashion, and even if it's not better than Google's it's Good Enough For Now. Yes, it is too early to be saying G+ is a failed experiment and I didn't say that. I just said you can't compare the environment that Facebook thrived in back then to the environment that Google is facing today. It's a very different landscape and tossing out numbers of early adopters isn't a show of Google's success. I'm also an early adopter, and I still use G+ with Facebook, but I use Facebook a lot more.

Look, you can't really compare the timelines between Facebook and Google+. Facebook has been around for almost a decade, and when it came out it didn't have many competitors, the whole social networking concept was new and experimental. Now Facebook is the established brand in social networking - pretty much invented the market - and it's going to be incredibly difficult for Google to topple it, even if the numbers show it to be oh so much more successful in the short term than Facebook was when it started.

Where's the pitfall? The place was packed with customers and you're just pissed off because a place that was usually empty was not - and you're making assumptions about every single Groupon customer. I use Groupons all the time, and if I found a restaurant off of Groupon that I really liked I would definitely return again, and while I may be a minority in that regard, I think having 4 or 5 return customers out of 100 that stop in because of the Groupon ends up being a good deal. It doesn't sound like you're such a terrific customer since it seems a big reason for you even going there is because their business didn't have many customers and you wanted to avoid the people.

I've been saying this for awhile now. I only finish a handful of games a year and give up on many more. I actually finished RDR but feel it would have been a much better game if they took half of it out.

I, personally, can't wait until the average game length is 10 hours. I play games for the story and every game seems to have the problem of dragging the story with pointless side quests just to get the game over 20 hours long. I'd gladly pay a little less for half the game if that means the stories are tighter and more fulfilling.

I think if games are to get as mainstream as movies, they need to be shorter to take into account that adults only have so many hours of the day to watch/play your stuff. Playing a game these days is like reading an epic novel - you either need to plug away at it a few pages/minutes at a time for months, or you take a week off of life and grind though it like a full-time job. I'd like more options where I could finish a serious game (like RDR, not like Angry Birds) in the time it would take to watch a few movies.

At some point, you can't just lower your salary. Of course it's not better to remain unemployed than lower your salary but older people have to put their kids through college, have a mortgage, and other expenses that a 25 year old just doesn't have so they will always be more expensive.

The accuracy on this is pretty bad, as you can see from the comparison to the Vicon system, so this has very limited use in production, and it seems like it's trying to solve a non-existent problem. It doesn't get rid of the cumbersome suit from motion capture, so you can't really get capture data while performing in front of a camera, and there are already solutions on the market that allow you to create a motion capture setup outside using regular cameras and get motion capture data without any tracking markers. The only new thing this brings to the table is having a really wide range of capture, as the test with the person walking along the curved path shows, but the practical application for something like that is limited. Attaching cameras and trying to create tracks off of the movement of the background just seems a really backwards way of doing this kind of stuff.

seems like you want to diminish Google's achievement, for no real reason. Yeah, it's not registered users, but even if it was 25 million registered users, you'd still be able to claim "it's not much of a surprise that a new site by a popular brand would have a lot of [registered users] in the first month." Google can still claim to be the fastest growing social network that ever was, so it's still impressive.

Is it really the power "we" have or is it the power someone else has to rally the troops into a common outrage? If you didn't care about the scandal before hearing about it day after day after day, while the media just didn't want to let it go, made people more outraged as time went on. Of course, it could have swung the opposite way if MSM ignored it, swept it under the rug like they do lots of stories, and everybody would go about their day and everything for Murdoch would be business as usual.

So, I don't believe it was just general public outrage. I think someone at the top wanted this scandal to explode and made it so.

I think you're reading too much into it. Your knee-jerk reaction to how Linux is portrayed in this video is exactly why big companies can't do anything creative or interesting without people coming out of the woodwork to feign being offended.

I work in the commercial animation industry and there's a high likelihood that this video was thought of by an ad exec who has Microsoft as a client. The ad agency hired an outside commercial house to do the production work. I doubt anyone high enough at Microsoft even cared about this production to be in the development phase for it and just signed off on it after all was said and done.

There wasn't a large psychological study created to find the best way to get their message of Linux subversion out through this Trojan horse. It was just a couple of designers and creatives going "let's make the penguin cuter... Give him an igloo."

Big clients like Microsoft are the worst because the ad agency and the client are so scared of upsetting anybody that they end up with really generic concepts much like this video. Even then it's obviously not enough to keep people like you from being offended.

The reason MySpace became so unpopular was that it was too easy to make it look and run like crap. It was too customizable. Crappy gifs, obtrusive backgrounds, it was like Geocities all over again. People flocked to Facebook because it was fast, responsive, and clean. Now Facebook is in the same situation where it's just bogged down with a bunch of crap. Nonstop requests for crappy games, unintuitive interface, confusing privacy settings. As long as G+ keeps it clean and intuitive, is there a reason for people to switch?

People haven't been flocking away from GMail because some new hot service came out. Same with Google search. People don't WANT to move to a different service. They put time and energy into adding friends, uploading pictures, updating statuses, etc to just up and move unless there's a compelling reason to do so.

That was a fairly round-about way of saying "We don't negotiate with terrorists."

I imagine if you give the key fob to a caveman, a medieval man, or a renaissance man, they would probably run into the same issue. Or they would just call you an evil wizard and try and murder you. Caveman would probably grunt as he tried to smash your head in with a stone.

As my userid # shows, I've been around /. for quite awhile... and people weren't reading TFA since the beginning.