Comments on: MIcrosoft Web Feeds

By: cliche

cliche — Mon, 22 Aug 2005 17:45:04 +0000

I know that comparing GDP to world money is oversimplified, and purposely done so I wouldn't have to write the summery of econ101 just to give a rough comparison. Perhaps a better model would be the US Federal Reserve: Average M3 is about 10 trillion dollars; US is about a fifth of world economy. This is oversimplified as well, but it's the best I can do without writing a thesis. Now, how do you figure that it's *not* over a hundred times the money in the whole world? By the way, that wiki quote is way oversimplified as well: The whole article gives much better insight.

By: JC

JC — Mon, 22 Aug 2005 16:06:08 +0000

Gates, btw, is actually worth 46.5 billion at last official report. Warren Buffet is at 44; the #3 position is considerably less, at 25

http://www.forbes.com/worldsrichest/

So, given David’s figure above, BG could give everyone about $7.21

Not quite a million.

By: JC

JC — Mon, 22 Aug 2005 15:58:53 +0000

You’re right of course that it’s an absurd claim, cliche, but you apparently don’t understand what GDP is, either.
“GDP is defined as the total value of all goods and services produced within that territory during a specified period (or, if not specified, annually)”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gross_domestic_product

So still ridiculous, but not ‘over a hundred times the money in the whole world’

By: cliche

cliche — Mon, 22 Aug 2005 15:00:58 +0000

Am I the only one who find rss feeds distracting? I guess I’m a bit backwards: I don’t even like tabbed browsing.

By the way, I knew Bill Gates was rich, but damn! 6 billion people x $1 million each = 6e15 or 6 quadrillion dollars! Strange thing is, that’s over a hundred times the money in the whole world!

Note: Whenever you have ‘quadrillion’ involved that’s not related to science, you know you’re talking to a kid.

By: David

David — Mon, 22 Aug 2005 14:13:08 +0000

“You peole do realize that Bill Gates could give every man woman and child in the world a million dollars and he would still be in the top 10 of the richest people in the world.”

Whatever. There are 6,446,131,400 in the world today. One million dollars each? I don’t think so. You do the math.

By: Mike Torres

Mike Torres — Sun, 21 Aug 2005 17:31:42 +0000

Folks – FYI: that quote did not come from my mouth.

By: Rowan Lewis

Rowan Lewis — Sun, 21 Aug 2005 10:32:02 +0000

Scary, if its true Cellounge!

But perhaps they chose not to call them ‘RSS Feeds’ because it doesn’t just support RSS?

By: Cellounge Admin

Cellounge Admin — Sat, 20 Aug 2005 22:58:28 +0000

Isn’t that microsoft though, they have never actually invented any technology. They steal it or buy it and then they market it better then anyone else.

That was very arrogant for them to try and change the name of a well established technology.

You peole do realize that Bill Gates could give every man woman and child in the world a million dollars and he would still be in the top 10 of the richest people in the world.

By: Griffith

Griffith — Sat, 20 Aug 2005 12:15:06 +0000

Instead of wandering what name they should give to feeds they should waste more time making the browser SECURE and FUNCTIONAL. I don’t give a damn if they suddenly call the Back button “Opsie this is not the site I wanted bring me back Scottie” as long as the browser works.

By: tcremer

tcremer — Sat, 20 Aug 2005 04:49:44 +0000

Why call them RSS feeds if the news reader (whatever that may be) also supports Atom?

By: Brad

Brad — Fri, 19 Aug 2005 16:13:03 +0000

“additional functionality” is what microsoft calls the security holes and assorted bugs it will no doubt have. Much the same way they call glitches and bugs in their programs “features”.