TweedHeads

"You might buy something that you find is unsellable, killing momentum."

You can't allow that to happen, if you do you fail at the game.

You have to study all submitted options and pick the best according to all variables involved, time included.

If you get enough publicity perhaps Mercedes will give you a car for half the price so you can sell it quick, going from 50k to 100k in days. Or any other sponsors, Rolex may help you jump from 5K to 10K. Harley-Davidson from 10K to 20k, and so on.

Free publicity for the seller and for the buyer if they choose so.

Luck may be on your side...

I was one of the many that said to myself "why didn't I think of that" the first time.

Not this time.

I'll give you one original idea to make you instant millionaire on the web.

- Start with a thousand dollars

- Every week, ask the wisdom of crowds for a way to double that purchasing, reselling, investing in anything the majority decides.

- Repeat ten times till you get to a million dollars.

- Keep the crowds amused with your vicissitudes in a daily blog.

- Profit!

Remember the red-paper-clip guy? something like that but the audience decides what to do with the money, and the whole intent is to double it every time.

Show the world we can be millionaires by investing wisely following the wisdom of crowds.

For example, first week buy $200 t-shirts for $5 and resell them for $10.

Second week, buy an old car for $2000 and resell it for $4000.

Those are just stupid examples, the audience should decide wiser.

Imagination is all you need to be a millionaire.

And originality...

Thanks for your response, but many things don't compute.

"time running slower for things moving at an appreciable proportion of c" - Time doesn't slow down, perception of time changes from the observers point of view.

Mercury's orbit is easily predicted with newtonian laws, again, perception of it changes due to the strong gravitational effect of the sun on it and its light we use to measure it.

In other words, I really don't accept things like time travel, infinite mass, getting younger if traveling at the speed of light and bullshit like that.

I don't know if they use that stuff to make it interesting to the unwashed masses but it is an insult to our intellect.

Going back to the speed of light as a measure of energy, I take as you say, it is the speed of all electromagnetic radiation, but why related to energy and mass?

And what if there is something faster? say like hypothetical tachyons?

"The universe has a speed limit. And light moves as fast as it is possible to go."

My question has always been, how sure are we? Any room for error?

In order to be original, you have to be, well, original.

Fail.

I am no physicist and would appreciate if somebody can explain why the speed of light is used everywhere in physics, specially in that E=mc2 formula.

What is the meaning of using light when calculating energy or mass?

And what if light is not the fastest thing in the universe, would we need to rewrite all formulas?

Excuse my ignorance, but this topic really picks my interest.

Never rent unless in a precarious situation or if just recently moved to a new city. Buy as soon as you can. You will never ever see a penny of what you paid for in rent.

If you buy, even if temporary, you get all your money back, sometimes more, sometimes less, but you always get some.

I lived most of my early adult life renting and I can tell you this, more than $100K wasted and no way at all to get one cent back.

I had this idea for a long time in my to do list: a place for everybody to download datasets of any kind, from list of countries, states, cities, names, etc, where everybody can upload a dataset and make money from every download in any format, csv, xml, json, yaml, etc.

Small sets will be free, as anybody can find them anywhere online, but they will bring traffic. Huge sets can cost lots of money, since it would be easier to just pay instead of typing the whole set by hand in a database.

For example, I was looking for all prescription medicines to build a med website, guess what, I would have paid good money to get all that info in an easily consumable format.

And like that, millions of datasets for as many different scenarios you can imagine.

The name of all known stars? you betcha we have it!

All movies ever filmed? yep, just $9.95

Is it a viable business? I have no crystal ball, but it has been a need of mine, many many times...

We lost a scientist, and gained a delusional spiritualist.

What a trade...

Thieves.

The war on terror was an excuse to funnel billions to the pockets of handpicked contractors in Iraq.

Then the stimulus, billions upon billions went to the hands of corporate thugs who got fat checks to continue spending more and more without compromise.

Politics is the greatest robbery of all times and propaganda its greatest weapon.

As long as they feed us manipulated news and keep us on the verge of mental collapse, they will do whatever they want with us, and our money.

First, terrorism that wasn't, then the recession that didn't. I know they are planning the next alarmist event to steal more and more from us.

Mainframe programmers said the same about PC programmers long time ago before PC programmers replaced them.

I see a pattern here...

"Yes...[iPad]."

"Much of the hostility, and consternation, towards Microsoft results from the simple fact that it is difficult for outsiders to comprehend the truly Herculean problems the company faces with creating and maintaining the most widely used software products in the world."

No, trying to kill everybody in tech, intent to derail any initiative against their core business, using unethical and monopolist tactics, holding the web back, etc.

These are the real reasons we "outsiders" hate M$ to death, nothing to do with hercules, research, competition, too many employees or any other fallacy seeded in the minds of softies.

"Free copies of content are going to be what you use to establish your fame. Then you go out and milk it"

Piracy is your friend.

"(short, public asynchronous messaging) has proven popular and is here to stay."

Exactly my thoughts. There is a real need for that, just add "distributed" to the equation, where nobody controls the ecosystem.

Twitter will never be killed, the same way Wordpress will never be killed. Right now twitter has an advantage that will reduce over time as more and more blogging services embrace micro blogging and define a way to share in real time their content with their subscribers from other providers.

If I were google I'd be revamping jaiku with a cooler name and start pushing distributed microbbloging as the new platform (perhaps joining it with blogger). The same for Wordpress and other blogging platforms.

Twitter will adapt or die. But will no longer have the strict control over the ecosystem it has today.

Oh the irony!

They've been using IE6 as the anchor that doesn't let the web sail away and now they drop it like a dead weight to the bottom of the ocean just to push their agenda forward and get an early advantage over office suites online.

But you know what? we've been rowing the oars without their help pushing that heavy anchor with us as we move forward.

Now, implement collapse/expand comments and new comment notifiers (red bubble/white number) and you have a twitter, friendfeed and facebook killer.

P2 is the answer. I know beauty when I see it.

Lets do the following exercise: on one side write down the people you follow on facebook, on the other side those you do on twitter and compare them.

Facebook: mom, brothers and sisters, and cousins, auntie delores, the dog, the hamster.

Twitter: peers, close friends.

No, they don't match, they don't compete.

If I was Matt Mullenweg I would be having a meeting right now to implement Wordpress Lite ASAP.

That, my friends, is the twitter killer. With all the themes, plugins, widgets and all the ecosystem.

At the same time, Google should be updating their Reader with an Instant Update feature for selected feeds.

I know Wave will have some of this, but why wait?

Open a wordpress blog. (or any other blog service)

Write short posts (less than 500 chars)

Use your reader of choice (Google Reader is the best)

There you have it, a microblogging network.

PS. use Atom feeds for a better experience.

Gmail forwarding all my accounts to my main account.

A "Do not disturb" feature is crucial for when we're on the flow.

Kudos!

Hahaha, what a joke.

This is what happens when you let propaganda factories take over news outlets.

I don't want to search what my sister ate this morning, I find more important what peers are working on and what they have to say about new technologies or even tech trivia.

Twitter wins.

No, after google wikipedia is the next page I visit most on a daily basis.

I say google should buy them and profit from ads, millions of them.

Add more eyeballs to their web properties.

Now there is a hole waiting to be filled... with proven value.

"WH,OR" a.k.a. Whitford, Oregon, the happy town.

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