Is the use of the "presentation enhancer" to deter people from actually reading it? Because that's it did to me. The font is illegible, scrolling must be done via the bar (otherwise it crawls at ~1px/sec), and turns my cpu fan way up. Is it really still "cool" to misuse technology nowadays?
What Happened to the Future?
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Re: What Happened to the Future?
#62Earlier quoted context omitted.
my company has been rejected by sixty (that's six-zero) VC firms in the past five years Dude, you're just getting warmed up to pitching if you've only been rejected by 60 VC firms. Google got rejected by 55. Pandora by close to 300. Adam Rifkin's first startup was doing AJAX in 2000, and he got rejected by 176 before raising $8M from Kleiner Perkins. HR's job is to screen through job applicants and throw away resumes…
I definitely appreciate your support and you make good points about Pandora, Google and companies like them. However, from what I've read, it took Google five months to rack up those rejections, and I've spent five years. That doesn't make it impossible, but for a number of reasons, it shouldn't take that long. Aside from the given entrepreneur, it harms industry and ultimately the country when it does.
man, i viewed your demo video. You're trying to take on plastic. Plastic is "just swipe". If you make it simpler than that - you'll win big. So far, your thing is more complex. It has a bunch of nice advantages/features that stand on its own ( and that if marketed on its own to VC would possibly make it), yet not when presented as direct competitor to plastic.
Re: What Happened to the Future?
#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
The internet-cynical, tech-savvy thing to say is how much of a waste of time Facebook is, but I think it changes communication in the same way that every house having a telephone did. Yes, email and IM existed before Facebook, but Facebook is a different model of communication.
Facebook Vs (email + IM) = Telephone Vs (post + telegraph). Really? You think that these two jumps in technology are equivalent in the difference they have made to peoples lives? I don't use facebook but I would not be able to work without telephone and the internet.
I many people that just didn't use email or IM much, but have integrated Facebook into their lives. It's their main way of maintaining communication with many people.
Re: What Happened to the Future?
#64Earlier quoted context omitted.
my company has been rejected by sixty (that's six-zero) VC firms in the past five years Dude, you're just getting warmed up to pitching if you've only been rejected by 60 VC firms. Google got rejected by 55. Pandora by close to 300. Adam Rifkin's first startup was doing AJAX in 2000, and he got rejected by 176 before raising $8M from Kleiner Perkins. HR's job is to screen through job applicants and throw away resumes…
I definitely appreciate your support and you make good points about Pandora, Google and companies like them. However, from what I've read, it took Google five months to rack up those rejections, and I've spent five years. That doesn't make it impossible, but for a number of reasons, it shouldn't take that long. Aside from the given entrepreneur, it harms industry and ultimately the country when it does.
I see you are hiring a handful of workers, so are you funding the start-up yourself?
Re: What Happened to the Future?
#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
I definitely appreciate your support and you make good points about Pandora, Google and companies like them. However, from what I've read, it took Google five months to rack up those rejections, and I've spent five years. That doesn't make it impossible, but for a number of reasons, it shouldn't take that long. Aside from the given entrepreneur, it harms industry and ultimately the country when it does.
man, i viewed your demo video. You're trying to take on plastic. Plastic is "just swipe". If you make it simpler than that - you'll win big. So far, your thing is more complex. It has a bunch of nice advantages/features that stand on its own ( and that if marketed on its own to VC would possibly make it), yet not when presented as direct competitor to plastic.
Barcode payments seem to be working okay for Starbucks.
Re: What Happened to the Future?
#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
The internet-cynical, tech-savvy thing to say is how much of a waste of time Facebook is, but I think it changes communication in the same way that every house having a telephone did. Yes, email and IM existed before Facebook, but Facebook is a different model of communication.
Facebook Vs (email + IM) = Telephone Vs (post + telegraph). Really? You think that these two jumps in technology are equivalent in the difference they have made to peoples lives? I don't use facebook but I would not be able to work without telephone and the internet.
Yes, probably so. Facebook means that you can keep up with people (who's getting married, who moved, who had children) without emailing them.
If you have 500 friends, each with a feed with 50 posts, you are talking about 25000 possible emails. Those emails would never be sent, because they are usually individually way below the importance threshold for an email.
So, by this calculation at least, it's at least a 1-2 order of magnitude reduction in the work required to maintain contact with old friends. That's valuable.
Re: What Happened to the Future?
#67> Not all technology is created equal: there is a difference between Pong and the Concorde Yes, Pong was simply a clever design making use of existing technology that made shirtloads of money for a bunch of people and spawned entire industries. Whereas Concorde - a "real technological development" - was a giant money pit fed from government slush funds for decades, punctuated only by occasional lethal consequences fo…
Technological cul de sac and subsidized investment, yes.
But looks like the Air France Concorde crash was due to debris on the runway rather than the plane itself. Or were you thinking of something else?
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Air_France_Fl...
A Continental Airlines DC-10 departing for Newark, New Jersey, lost a titanium alloy strip, 435 millimetres (17.1 in) long and about 29 millimetres (1.1 in) to 34 millimetres (1.3 in) wide, during takeoff from the same runway.
During the Concorde's subsequent take-off run, this piece of debris, still lying on the runway, cut a tyre causing rupture and tyre debris to be hurled by centrifugal force. A large chunk of this debris (4.5 kilograms or 9.9 pounds) struck the underside of the aircraft's wing structure at an estimated speed of 500 kilometres per hour (310 mph). Although it did not directly puncture any of the fuel tanks, it sent out a pressure shockwave that eventually ruptured the number five fuel tank at the weakest point, just above the landing gear.
Re: What Happened to the Future?
#68The answer is largely contained within their goal #2.
Re: What Happened to the Future?
#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
How?
Facebook has improved my life as well. I went to high school in one city, college in one 1,000 miles away. Have since worked in cities all over the world. I don't know how I would manage to keep even a tenuous grasp on all the connections I have with people in these different places without Facebook. Admittedly, these are not and never will be deep social bonds I am maintaing, but that is hardly the point. There is v…
I have been in a similar situation, with my College and Hometown very far away. Now, with all my friends spread out from all over the world, Facebook makes seeing these people again a fun (and fairly easy) occurrence, rather than an onerous task.
That is, the connections may be shallow while we're far away, but when locations change again, its nice to be able to re-develop those shallow connections into meaningful ones.
Re: What Happened to the Future?
#70> Not all technology is created equal: there is a difference between Pong and the Concorde Yes, Pong was simply a clever design making use of existing technology that made shirtloads of money for a bunch of people and spawned entire industries. Whereas Concorde - a "real technological development" - was a giant money pit fed from government slush funds for decades, punctuated only by occasional lethal consequences fo…
Technological cul de sac and subsidized investment, yes. But looks like the Air France Concorde crash was due to debris on the runway rather than the plane itself. Or were you thinking of something else? https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Air_France_Fl... A Continental Airlines DC-10 departing for Newark, New Jersey, lost a titanium alloy strip, 435 millimetres (17.1 in) long and about 29 millimetres (1.1…
> But looks like the Air France Concorde crash was due to debris on the runway rather than the plane itself. Or were you thinking of something else?
I know nothing about the Concorde, etc. but that the crash was triggered by debris does not really refute that it was a poorly designed or dangerous aircraft, as that should be a design consideration of any aircraft (I assume).