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61.
by points 16y ago
I can't quite tell if you're being sarcastic or not.
62.
by points 16y ago
Google only updates PR every few months afaik, how long have you existed? Also is it a fresh domain or was it in use before you had it.
63.
by points 16y ago
Is there an 'official' list that's better? Seems a useful thing to have.
64.
by points 16y ago
"Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." is such a wooly useless statement though. You could argue that based on the above, the US shouldn't have a minimum age limit for alcohol since it clearly infringes on teenagers (heck even colleg
65.
by points 16y ago
Did you just try to assert that the United States Declaration of independence should apply to all of humanity? Mind. Blown.
66.
by points 16y ago
Well he was already in Canada... He was arrested while "visiting Iran".
67.
by points 16y ago
I'm not sure that has worked out so well in the past. Invading places to bring them a particular definition of freedom is a bad idea. Definitely if the citizens themselves want to take action, then it's up to them to do so. When you live so
68.
by points 16y ago
> " "delivered the awesome Android experience to the iPhone" - yeah probably never." That's because the iPhone still doesn't have half the features that are standard on Android :/
69.
by points 16y ago
We know what the service does. We have that much data - we can see what users are allowed to do on the website, and what they cannot do. And for the level of content, interactivity, media, etc etc, I can say that 500 is silly.
70.
by points 16y ago
Well TBH 500 is ridiculous overkill. Even 100 would be pushing it.
71.
by points 16y ago
Is this the shape of things to come? Comparisons of apples to oranges... It's not about traffic, it's about what sort of website you have, how dynamic/static it is, etc A wiki likely has relatively few writes compared to reads, so caching s
72.
by points 16y ago
It's not just Apple that does this (with great effect). Look at things like the Nintendo DSi, which is being released in a range of new colors. Simply adding a few different colors to a device means a big surge in orders I'm sure. But yeah,
73.
by points 16y ago
FWIW, It's easy to come to this conclusion about any 'new' 'fresh' 'empty' medium. The reason people bark one word commands on IRC, and often treat n00bs with contempt is just that IRC is so damn big and busy. Millions of people use it dail
74.
by points 16y ago
Any stats on usage? How many concurrent users / messages per second?
75.
by points 16y ago
> "You can get 20 rep by asking or answering a single — literally, one — half-decent question" So what you're saying, is that any spambot could thwart the system easily, and the arbitrary restriction is silly, and mainly just means this
76.
by points 16y ago
You're high.
77.
by points 16y ago
I think what you're finding is that facebook is far better for 'personal 2 way communication', whilst twitter is better for mass announcement. It's a different scale of working. FWIW, I much prefer facebook, especially for things like famil
78.
by points 16y ago
GEM was still so superior. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphical_Environment_Manager If ever there was a good lesson it's this - DRDos was lighyears ahead, and far superior to MSDos. GEM was ridiculously more advanced than Windows, yet
79.
by points 16y ago
If you have friends that use Opera, I expect so.
80.
by points 16y ago
Nothing better than being at a concert, and some idiot chatting on his smartphone with strangers about how great the concert is. Why don't people just turn off their phones and enjoy the concert/event/whatever? Meh what is society coming to
81.
by points 16y ago
Same with many of the protocols that have taken off. Look at HTTP - it's an abysmal wasteful stupid protocol, but it kinda works well enough.
82.
by points 16y ago
The volume of communication is FAR higher than twitter though, and the number of engaged people is likewise higher.
83.
by points 16y ago
I agree @ stand alone mail clients, but I'm betting on webapps. GMail really is a great webapp.
84.
by points 16y ago
Tools->Mail and Chat accounts? rly? I thought the idea of an all in one internet behemoth died with Netscape Communicator. Opera Unite? what? why? I just want a web browser. I don't want a web server or file sharing solution. This is th
85.
by points 16y ago
I completely agree. The same goes to some extent with asking for donations.
86.
by points 16y ago
OK, my experience is much different. I would far far rather provide a free ad supported service than charge. If you give it away free as ad supported, users tend to be extremely grateful. Once they start paying, even a tiny amount, they sta
87.
by points 16y ago
It's not about "cheap option" at all. You get fanatical customers everywhere, and they can be good and bad. They've mainly been good in my experience though.
88.
by points 16y ago
I don't think that's the factor at all in that case. If buzz and twitter were launched at the same time, twitter would win. Buzz did too many things wrong - privacy, being integrated into gmail, not as open API etc, no arbitrary restriction
89.
by points 16y ago
> "Google could blow most startups out of the water if they chose to focus on building exactly the same thing." I'm not sure that's even true - look at buzz and wave. For all the time money and effort they've spent on that area they see
90.
by points 16y ago
> "Ads don't pay any more" That's a bit of a generalization. They pay well for me :)

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