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I get and agree with what you are saying though the design has stayed the same since 2000. I am sure people have complained in the past but others (maybe even the majority who read 2600 on the regular not just the occasional view from a news aggregation site) have grown accustomed to it. Just a different way to look at the issue.

Could you explain this ? I am confused now.. I was under the impression that your email address is not exportable if you do not display it http://www.facebook.com/settings/?tab=privacy. So is not similar to me manually writing it down on paper ?

The comments on that page are actually very interesting to read. I try to do my part to filter by voting down what I do not like and voting up what should be addressed. That is just how it is when you allow 500M users to say their view regardless of age group and other demographics. You get a multi-layer of " I want this , this and not this " but then a next person says the opposite. Some people want it to stay the same ...others welcome change.

They are not joking around when they meant that they wanted to make the world more social. Because of this change my dad realized where the Poke Button was located. Go dad.... If you remembered the boxes' (Top Friends ,Gift Boxes etc) removal a while back you would see that (at least to me) the current change made sense. Now the focus really is in the interaction with the user (info,photos and wall are packed in the top middle) and their interests not the "glitz and glamour"

Now the real item that needs /that I hope it is not really a need.. I cannot tell Facebook what they can and cannot do/ to be addressed is the 10% of friends option ( this has been discussed in other formats 10 friends,8 friends ..etc). The everyday user does not interact with all of their "Friends". If you can force me to choose only 10 or so of my real friends to interact with ..those that I mail,sms,send messages, actually see outside ... that would be great.

If you could even couple notifications with Facebook Chat on your phone ... FBM (FaceBook Messenger) /BBM/ . Just an alternate reality thought.

I am not sure I understand what he is saying. All the "results" that he is talking about are the interpreted inputs for the application to process.

So for," What is seven hundred and forty four as a number? ", the interpreted input is a NumberQ function taking the main part "seven hundred and forty four as a number" and evaluating whether it is a number or not. The real result is true.

The zoologist one has already been talked about. The rest other than the 7th digit question are all false.

There are many different choices for the inputs, for example with the colour question

The 2nd colour in purple, yellow, arm, white and blue is?

There seems to be some popularity going on. The first choice as input is yellow and the second choice is blue. To further test replacing yellow with black leads to blue as the first choice. Then again even if you were to use the interpreted inputs you would have to determine the syntax for wolfram which last time I checked is not available and is basically a guess the syntax game.

http://webapps.stackexchange.com/q/1322/40

If someone would care to enlighten me on how this could actually work I would greatly appreciate it, otherwise this method does not seem like it will work. Nice creativity though.

I am glad you came to those who have went through the struggle and not the school advisors. Never listen to the student advisor .. you will end up messing up a lot of courses you wished you took (prereq, coreq, easy courses, hard courses, audit classes ..etc). But in the end you should take a day, (or a week if you have that much) and do nothing except figure out what you want to do with no distraction. Hell make a report about it; make your argument solid as a rock; talk to the final year students they know the rough ends. Just make sure the last opinion/decision is yours and not some kind of 'inception'. Dont let the opinions of others get under your skin. This is what I wished I did at the start ..no worries life goes on for me and now I am finishing up a Software Eng Minor with a Chemical Engineering Major hoping to continue studies in Computer Science. It took me half or more of my academic span to have it click in my head , never listen to the advisors. Good Luck no... Great Success man. You already have your startup, positive visualization :D

I agree with that the 'taking a step back' but I am not liking that they took on consultant/lawyer etc versus geniuses. Are they saying that everyone else except those who worked on the ENIAC would have thought of going straight to the mouse trap ? Why the bias in that ? I am still young so maybe there is some underlying meaning I am not seeing. I really thought consultants at least were some of the best people (at least those who came from engineering). Then again that is my bias; consultants (that come from engineering) are geniuses.

His girlfriend's commitment is something I like alot. The amount of dedication to follow him through with his ideas and travels is just amazing.

As much as Mark has gone through mountains and valleys, I am sure Priscilla has had her hills and dips as well (no comparison intended).