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the heck with Macs

facebook had it’s IPO last week and one big reason they are worth so much is because of you, not them. the demographics (dems) are what make facebook worth so much and those demographics are metrics about you!

what a way to seperate the human being from the dollar eh? you are an account, an account is a data point that makes up metrics and those metrics are grouped into demographics. but, as we know from being avatars in a real world, that formula does not represent the reality out there

as you know, my Ener Hax facebook account was disabled and i was told it would NEVER be reactivated. that’s harsh because for $80 and three minutes i can have a fully legal name change (someone near and dear to me did that a few years ago – total name change – first, middle, and last). and it’s harsh because all avatars have “some” value. i agree that it’s not as easy to pull together my credit card spending habits when i’m using a pseudonym online and i can see how that “dilutes” the value of each account in the demographics but i’d argue that you could squeeze some money out of even a pseudonym account. just add a flag that i can check off stating that i am a fake person! =)

anyway, i’m way off topic (i’m listening to the uncensored version of Cee Lo’s eff you song and am all wound up!) =p

back to demographics and the fail they are in our niche community. as you know, i’d love to see a Mac version of sim-on-a-stick and some smart people are tackling it as we speak! *waves to Kat & her efforts*

the demographics “say” that less than 20% of all internet users are on a Mac. does that small number mean there is no value to a Mac sim-on-a-stick?

not if you think about the students that might be reached with it

Bill Gates was a geeky teen who used to broke into his high school at night to mess around with computers. today he has donated 48% of his net worth through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (over $28 billion to global health and development). not bad for a kid who got excited about a technology introduced to him by a teacher

in the final analysis, what provides value and what matters is the interaction between two people - the person you are talking to right at that moment =)

if this was facebook, maybe all Macs would be tossed out!

Just to point out, Windows has 4 versions there, with Vista and 2003 doing poorer than Mac and Linux. Since they are listed individually, then ranked on the same basis …

1 – Win7
2 – WinXP
3 – Mac
4 – Linux
5 – WinVista
6 – Win2003

Sarge Misfit

23 May 12 at 6:24 pm

The likes of Facebook only see value in what can make more dollars!

Ener Hax you’re priceless, so boo to facebook!

Eros Deus

23 May 12 at 6:57 pm

i don’t like to think of myself as cheap, i’m just economical =)

thanks Eros! =D

Ener Hax

24 May 12 at 6:43 am

Well seems a few investors are pissed enough about facebook:)

ZZ Bottom

24 May 12 at 8:44 am

well last year i was at fb as “frank crowell” my real name. i also gave them a copy of my driver license. then in may 2011 i was delete and no chance of returning even though i gave them a copy of my driver license again. that made me mad. then i decide, ok i will be bristle chesnokov and been there since.

at the time they had no phone service so i could call them. but i figure i will keep bristle until they delete me again. i have a web page that i have use for several year but only one member left. the other ones are all spammers. but fb has make big money with spammers so i will keep them on and get more and eventually sell my stock at $25. that my retirement plan.

bristle

24 May 12 at 11:22 am

Noone tried Sim-on-a-Stick with the New World Studio Version? It seems to work well…
http://www.newworldstudio.org/site/en/downloads

Beacara

24 May 12 at 12:55 pm

hey thanks on the update! i would love to have a home sim that can be hypergridded to! =)

24 May 12 at 2:41 pm

i dunno, that doesn’t really sound like a real name – more like a name an avatar would pick out for a real person! fb sux!

and possible scandal! seems that Stanley Morgan may have told big investors hat FB was over valued on friday! derr!!!!

24 May 12 at 2:42 pm

Sorry sorry sorry! I wanted to give a hint to the Mac-Version of NWS-Sim-on-a-Stick, and some words were lost :-( A Mac-friend of mine has it running successfully on his USB-Stick!!!

27 May 12 at 7:37 am

Beacara! who has it running and how??? people are spazzing out (well i am for certain!) =p

28 May 12 at 8:44 pm

http://www.newworldstudio.org/site/en/testing-continues-with-success-on-mac-osx

Hanspeter Füllemann is an educator from Suisse, this is his Blog:

http://lern-welten.ch/

29 May 12 at 7:38 am

FANTASTIC! thank you on the link, i tweeted it =)

29 May 12 at 12:28 pm