It is tough to see someone else copy your product...

people on facebook sometimes think all else in the world is on it also. in reality those on it most often are very younger people and less of the buying public for other things.
i dont see any ads on the net and never would let one enter into my decision to buy something.
 
maha said:
people on facebook sometimes think all else in the world is on it also. in reality those on it most often are very younger people and less of the buying public for other things.
i dont see any ads on the net and never would let one enter into my decision to buy something.
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To dive a bit deeper into my thought on the Facebook notions , in my understanding it's generally the older folks who have more expendable cash as their kids are a!l grown and gone and their house is paid off .

Granted yes there can be a few much younger folks who are in that same financial situation but not to the point of the older folks but their working toward that as a end goal .

Then there are those who don't have a care in the world and sleep in until noon on a daily basis or close to it and have had more jobs and has been fired from them than what I've had in my adult life .
 
Rusty in Montana said:
Sadly I know of a group who does heavily rely on Facebook for their advertising of special events which maybe all fine and good for a very select few however folks my age and older don't use Facebook or even have an account !
Which is why I'm not as active with that group as I was long before the switch over to Facebook .

Now they wonder why they're losing members and money !
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What's Facebook??😉
 
Rusty in Montana said:
To dive a bit deeper into my thought on the Facebook notions , in my understanding it's generally the older folks who have more expendable cash as their kids are a!l grown and gone and their house is paid off .

Granted yes there can be a few much younger folks who are in that same financial situation but not to the point of the older folks but their working toward that as a end goal .

Then there are those who don't have a care in the world and sleep in until noon on a daily basis or close to it and have had more jobs and has been fired from them than what I've had in my adult life .
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Rusty, please stop dissing me online.😂😂
 
Rusty in Montana said:
To dive a bit deeper into my thought on the Facebook notions , in my understanding it's generally the older folks who have more expendable cash as their kids are a!l grown and gone and their house is paid off .

Granted yes there can be a few much younger folks who are in that same financial situation but not to the point of the older folks but their working toward that as a end goal .

Then there are those who don't have a care in the world and sleep in until noon on a daily basis or close to it and have had more jobs and has been fired from them than what I've had in my adult life .
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This was a perceived issue with benchrest shooting. Many were concerned because we attracted few people in their twenties. For a lot of reasons we didn't appeal to twenty year olds. The thing was our target was recently retired empty nesters. They still had twenty to thirty years to compete and they had the time and income to compete. Focusing on those with children they needed to raise was focusing on the wrong target.

Hu
 
Rusty in Montana said:
Sadly I know of a group who does heavily rely on Facebook for their advertising of special events which maybe all fine and good for a very select few however folks my age and older don't use Facebook or even have an account !
Which is why I'm not as active with that group as I was long before the switch over to Facebook .

Now they wonder why they're losing members and money !
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Our pool hall is on it's 3rd owner in about 3 years. They advertise about everything on facebook. I have to rely on word of mouth or actually seeing a poster at the hall to know if any tournaments are coming up. For people with facebook it's not a big deal but I live about 3 miles away and I have no idea what's going on there until I get a call from a buddy the same day of the tournament. It's not ideal.
 
boogieman said:
Our pool hall is on it's 3rd owner in about 3 years. They advertise about everything on facebook. I have to rely on word of mouth or actually seeing a poster at the hall to know if any tournaments are coming up. For people with facebook it's not a big deal but I live about 3 miles away and I have no idea what's going on there until I get a call from a buddy the same day of the tournament. It's not ideal.
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I'm right there with you on that I don't want a Facebook account , I don't need or want the drama that and I don't care what someone ate or if you're kid took a poo in the big potty ha ha

Maybe the new owners need to collect email addresses from their customers to make up a mass email account for when they're planning on hosting a pool tournament ?
It can be done so no one sees all the other peoples email addresses .
 
Billiard Architect said:
Thread 'An intoduction... The Aiminator' https://forums.azbilliards.com/threads/an-intoduction-the-aiminator.567400/
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Thanks, I hadn't seen that before. (or the one from this thread, until this thread). They are both similar, and both take the golf tee drill to the next level. However, I think they are far enough apart that they were designed independently, imo.

Regardless, you don't have anything to worry about. The one from this thread costs $400. Your's costs $20. The $400 guy has zero chance of selling any, even if your's didn't exist.
 
Billiard Architect said:
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What are ya going to do though...
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Just wait until you find out where these big 4 or 5 AI companies got all of the free data that they are making trillions off of.
 
straightline said:
Money?
Genodigm.
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Well, more like 100s of billions. Only nvidia hit a market cap of $4T, but they don't actually ingest the data. The other AI companies are just paying each other billions in a game of musical chairs, but _someone_ is investing those 100s of billions. It is going to crash eventually and probably come out of the stock market, a.k.a. everyone's retirement fund.
 
Badpenguin said:
Well, more like 100s of billions. Only nvidia hit a market cap of $4T, but they don't actually ingest the data. The other AI companies are just paying each other billions in a game of musical chairs, but _someone_ is investing those 100s of billions. It is going to crash eventually and probably come out of the stock market, a.k.a. everyone's retirement fund.
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People are being phased out.
 
Badpenguin said:
... It is going to crash eventually and probably come out of the stock market, a.k.a. everyone's retirement fund.
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That, there is worrisome. As long as you keep paying for my social security, I think I'll be OK, though.

A previous bubble that seems similar was:

In March 2000, Cisco Systems became the world's most valuable company with a market cap of over $550 billion. Acting as the vital internet infrastructure backbone, its stock surged on speculative demand. When the dot-com bubble burst, the stock plummeted nearly 90% cementing it as a defining symbol of the crash.​

Of course $550 billion was more money back then. AOL was the primary way to connect to the internet for a lot of Americans. How long ago that seems now. At the time, I listened to a very down-to-earth financial advisor on AM radio who kept harping on the impending bubble burst, and there was no real support for Cisco's price. I see that Cisco's market cap is back to $500 billion, 25 years later, and "Under CEO Chuck Robbins, the company is deeply focused on building the digital infrastructure required to power the AI era."
 
Bob Jewett said:
That, there is worrisome. As long as you keep paying for my social security, I think I'll be OK, though.

A previous bubble that seems similar was:

In March 2000, Cisco Systems became the world's most valuable company with a market cap of over $550 billion. Acting as the vital internet infrastructure backbone, its stock surged on speculative demand. When the dot-com bubble burst, the stock plummeted nearly 90% cementing it as a defining symbol of the crash.​

Of course $550 billion was more money back then. AOL was the primary way to connect to the internet for a lot of Americans. How long ago that seems now. At the time, I listened to a very down-to-earth financial advisor on AM radio who kept harping on the impending bubble burst, and there was no real support for Cisco's price. I see that Cisco's market cap is back to $500 billion, 25 years later, and "Under CEO Chuck Robbins, the company is deeply focused on building the digital infrastructure required to power the AI era."
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Well, Cisco actually manufactures very, very useful things. Things that customers actually asked for and wanted. Things that made Cisco, and their customers, lots of money. All of these companies that are buying all of this hardware for their AI crap, none of these things are true. These hardware manufacturers are raking it in, some of them just threw in the towel completely and stopped selling hardware to consumers at all (Crucial), they are now only selling to these AI data center customers.

Meanwhile, me and you are getting screwed footing the bill for the additional water and power that is needed to power this useless crap. Eventually the hardware is going to be useless when something considerably cheaper comes along that can handle the same load, and me and you will be left holding the bag. Much like the predatory private equity companies that rape companies for all they are worth, take out back-breaking debt, then bail and leave the original company with no choice but to file bankruptcy.

I think what is actually the most telling about all of this is the fact that Warren Buffett is retiring. I imagine he is like, WTF? I'm out.

Some
 
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