Comment Re: The REAL cool kids are all using IRC (Score 1) 457
I always figured it was a table you could buy at Ikea.
I always figured it was a table you could buy at Ikea.
The Egyptian protesters who used Twitter and Facebook to organize protests that drove two dictators from power say "hi."
Of course they're features. They are very important features for Facebook's real costumers. [1] Advertisers.
[1] Even though you have a Facebook account you are not a customer of Facebook. You're its product.
And I'm one of those millions of users even though I can't remember the last time I actually posted something on Google+ or even looked at it. And as somebody else already pointed out, the only reason a lot of Google+ users have an account is because Google goes out of its way to foist Google+ on users of its other services. And since when does a service have to be a failure for Google to abandon it? *cough* Reader *cough*.
Having said that I doubt that Google will end Google+ any time soon. At this point Google+ is to Google what Internet Explorer is to Windows. You may not like the former but if you want to use the latter, you're going to be stuck with the former anyway.
Maybe if you could run both Windows and Android apps at the same time. Oh wait. I can already do that with the Blue Stacks app that came with my Asus laptop. Or at least I could until I realized how pointless it was and uninstalled it.
Well it's been suggested that some of the Supersymmetric particles might be an explanation for Dark Matter which does appear to exist. Other than that, I'm not sure that Supersymmetry has much going for it these days.
More accurately, The Standard Model is the best theory we have right now but it's incomplete since it doesn't account for gravity and has a lot of parameters that are just there without a good explanation for them. Supersymmetry is an idea that is the basis for a lot of people's pet theories because it helps explain a lot of what the Standard Model does not by bringing in a lot of extra particles.
Those particles, if they exist, make other particles like the electron behave just a little differently than they do under the Standard Model. And this experiment provided evidence that supports the Standard Model and rules out a number of Supersymmetric pet theories. Whether or not it will rule them all out remains to be seen.
Fine, we'll install WINE along with apt. They'll never know the difference.
This is impossible, no private enterprise builds infrastructure, works on long term projects, etc. Only governments do that.
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For the sarcastically challenged: Ellison is expecting some form of a return from this purchase, all purchases that are not for consumption are investments and he is not going to 'consume' his properties, so whatever it is he does with infrastructure, etc., it's all designed to try and create revenue streams, which is what private enterprise does and which is why infrastructure projects should all be privately funded, then their economic viability, success or failure are on the backs of the owners and not tax payers.
Well once someone owns nearly everything as Mr. Ellison does on the island of Lanai, is the distinction between government and the one super wealthy individual in question really that distinct anymore?
Well once someone owns nearly everything as Mr. Ellison does on the island of Lunai, is the distinction between government and this one super wealthy individual really that distinct anymore?
This is just as creepy as all the prism crap:/
At least at the grocery store you can get beef, beer, and potato chips. Now try getting that from the NSA.
The same Palin that had quotes miss-attrributed to her that were spoken by a half rate SNL actress...
Admittedly she must have been a reasonable actress if people were quoting her and thinking that they were quoting Palin.
Tina Fey is an excellent actress and her "I can see Alaska from my house!" joke wasn't too far from Palin's actual words.
That's fine with me. They can have their ABC Family and Christian Broadcasting with their family friendly TV and I'll take my HBO with its Game of Thrones.
If you really want to be precise about it then that old lady did not claim that Obama is a Muslim, she claimed that he is an Arab.
People value a smaller, prettier phone over an easily removed battery.
People who keep their small, pretty phone in a bulky, ugly case.
Posting from my Nexus 4 for the irony.
"Look! There! Evil!.. pure and simple, total evil from the Eighth Dimension!" -- Buckaroo Banzai
