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Yeah, I don't really "get" that whole Google+ shit. I don't even care.
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Leisure
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Prostitutes.Yeah, I don't really "get" that whole Google+ shit. I don't even care.
What would make you Happiest?
Family
Money
Friends
Health
Career
Love
Entertainment
Security
Leisure
Longevity
Peace
How do you expect to run with the wolves at night when you spend all day sparring with the puppies?
- Omar Little
Their [latest] attempt at a social networking platform... FWIW, I think it looks better than the other options out there (from a structural standpoint), but it's still social networking.
"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them."
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
-- Thomas Jefferson: American Founding Father, clairvoyant and seditious traitor.
I don't get the point, Facebook works perfectly well - and guess what, everyone else is already there.
Same with the whole "invite" idea. What's the point in a social network without anyone to be social with?
The point of invites allows them to do external beta testing without flooding out the servers as they continue to roll out features. And it's not like that's unheard of in social networking. For quite a while, the only way you could be on Facebook in the early days was if you were an Ivy League student.
I agree that it's pointless (though to be fair, I don't object to competition spurring better services). Yet the invite thing makes plenty of sense - you might not remember, but Facebook started off the same way, sorta: they only opened up registration to single schools in the US (I remember it was a big deal when Northwestern became school #10 or so to get on), meaning they added maybe 10k users at a time. This gave them plenty of time to scale up the site and deal with early bugs (and trust me, there were a lot of them).
That being said, Google+ isn't being stingy with invites - they have, what, 20 million users in a few weeks?
I wasn't that desperate, and its nice getting stuff like this without asking. Having a coworker offer it to me like he is sharing the holy grail, its sort of funny.
MySpace worked perfectly well also
I like how Google is approaching social networking with Google+, easy to remove details and entire accounts, setup friends into circles so I'm not peppered with questions from coworkers or family when I'm talking about murdering people in Liberty City, etc.
Google has always used the invite system with big betas. I remember Google email being invite only for a while, and the same with google music, Google already ran out of server space once with Google+, and it still has plenty of minor bugs, so a paced roll out makes a lot of sense.
And I remember when I got into facebook it was limited to only a few dozen colleges.
Facebook has also been making a lot of poor design decisions lately, tried out the new chat yet? So people aren't as happy with it now as they used to be, and the facebook/zanga relationship always bothered me.
People seem ready to move on, or at least try something new.
and yeah, that is totally taken out of the context of the company's histories.
EDIT:
Just found this on Slashdot. Facebook is the one of the most hated private sector companies, and the most hated social media company. People seem to use facebook because they feel thats its the only option, much like airlines.
Last edited by Ominous Gamer; 07-22-2011 at 07:12 PM.
"In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."
For the lazy:
http://www.nerve.com/news/love-sex/n...national-gdp-0
"In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."
An amusing comment I heard on that piece was something along the lines of, "Well, it makes sense. If you're smaller than that, you're probably too depressed to be productive. If you're bigger, why bother?"
I suspect it might have more to do with homogeneity in population. Presumably countries at either extreme have a relatively homogeneous population (little immigration, etc.), which probably means they're not a very dynamic economy anyways. Populations that mix a lot probably have average sizes closer to the mean, but they also have a much better chance at being rich from the immigration (or vice versa; people move there because they're rich). This makes sense: there are a lot of countries with low per capita GDP in the middle of the graph.
En route to berlin
My paper was published today in Science Translational Medicine. Summaries made it to the front pages of Nature and Science this week, and there's probably going to be some popular press pieces in the next day or two as well. Yay!
edit: That's pretty cool: MSNBC, Nature News, Technology Review and counting... I didn't think people would care this much.
Last edited by wiggin; 07-27-2011 at 09:31 PM.
Congrats, Wiggin!
Take care of the unfriendly peopleEn route to berlin
"Wer Visionen hat, sollte zum Arzt gehen." - Helmut Schmidt
Is it bad that those words instantly made me want to play a game of Axis and Allies?En route to berlin
Well I think more of football: "Berlin! Berlin! Wir fahren nach Berlin!"
"Wer Visionen hat, sollte zum Arzt gehen." - Helmut Schmidt
Fabulous!
That's great. Congratulations.
Something to frame on the wall to show the grandkids ...
That's great wiggin! Congrats!
ooooo....new version with Italy?
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Define new? Used to play a board game of it, which was got in 1993 (so guessing that's not new) don't recall Italy being in it.
2 years ago or so...the did an update to the game and released a new version, included Italy as a separate axis power, and destroyers, artillery, battleships take 2 hits to destroy, revised the weapons development rules, more territories, 2 different starting set ups to give the Axis a more difficult time, different secnaios for victory and how each power gets bonus cash based upon certain objecitves (Like Italy get bonus cash if there are no Allied vessels in the Med), and more...
Much more realistic...as a board game goes.
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Just in time for the new patent thread, I just found out that I'm getting another one.
Turned on the TV just in time to see the house of representatives acknowledge Gabby Giffords. She stood up and waved, making movements with her mouth that probably meant Thank You or something like that. Damn, that's pretty awesome. Not too long ago she was shot point blank in the head, and we all wondered if she'd ever walk or talk again, let alone be present in congressional hearings.
Way to go, Gabby!
My toenail finally fell off!
Bizarre that it makes me happy, but after 4 weeks of it driving me nuts, I'm happy it is gone and a new one is growing in. I still think it's the grossest thing to have happened to me, ever.
Yay for Cat's naked toe, and a new nail growing in!Must hurt to wear shoes though, huh.
Well, I live in a land that you can wear flip flops from April to October-November, so no worries for me. And my boss doesn't care if I wear shoes or not (she prefers to drag them around the house anyway).
Summer is back
"Wer Visionen hat, sollte zum Arzt gehen." - Helmut Schmidt
Today must have been the most terrifying day of my life. I prepared for a walk with two good friends of mine in a mountain region, and for an hour, everything went well. Then the most sporty chap pointed at a random mountain, and asked the worrisome question "I think I see a path up there". I was gazing at nearly vertical hills of rock with the occasional bush and collection of grass around. My face was like this "".
Nevertheless we decided to take this nontraditional route. After a while it seemed as if we had overestimated ourselves, as there were some serious fall heights combined with little footing and unstable ground. Yet at that point we knew that heading down would be more difficult & far more dangerous, so the only way to go was heading up to the top. At the last red zone, my face once again went "
That's when one of my companions reminded me that there had been a little drizzle before we started climbing. Just thinking about it makes me sick of fear. If it had properly started raining, our 700m free climb would most definitely have ended in either a copter rescue or a tragedy. Again, "
So, happy to be alive, and kinda happy having done the most extreme thing in my life yet and escaped from it intact.
Tomorrow is like an empty canvas that extends endlessly, what should I sketch on it?
Nicely done.
However, the unpreparedness and ignorance with which some folk approach these climbs is astonishing. So easy to find yourself out of your depth, particularly when adverse weather conditions move in, as they so often do in these hilly/mountainous regions.
Booked the venue and have a date: 29/05/2013
Are you still in the town that shares the name of a certain discredited economist? Noticed that it's one train stop from where I'm staying.
Hope is the denial of reality
I've never lived there. My companies head office is there so I only go down there rarely for meetings etcAre you still in the town that shares the name of a certain discredited economist? Noticed that it's one train stop from where I'm staying.
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