I have never seen a payroll program that has the wages hardcoded in it... there is no reason that this can't be done
Let's add two words to that: "I have never personally seen a payroll program that has the wages hardcoded in it, therefore there is no reason that this can't be done."
For those of you who modded this interesting, I can only hope you come to your senses soon.
Myself, my two sisters: all within a five-year window in age, and all able to type but not typing regularly.
Within the same two-year period, we all get jobs that require a significant amount of typing on computer keyboards, hours a day (me as a word processor, they as a receptionist/secretary and research librarian respectively.)
One sister develops pain in her wrists, but elects to work through it and says everything's fine. Over a period of months, it gets worse, and she has to stop typing because the pain is too great. Eventually the doctors diagnose it as carpal tunnel, and despite various forms of treatment being tried, nothing works. It's been more than ten years, and she still can't type; she still can't lift a book by the edge with one hand, in fact.
Other sister starts to develop similar pain when first sister is much further along in her pain. Initially she pushes through the pain, too, but seeks treatment when our older sister is diagnosed with carpal tunnel; she is diagnosed with tendonitis, given exercises and such to do, and she also changes jobs to one requiring a lot less typing. Her pain goes away eventually, and she's fine.
I start to develop pain just before my second sister is diagnosed with carpal tunnel, so I start taking typing breaks and go to great pains (no pun intended) to ensure that my typing posture etc. are correct and non-damaging. My pain goes away almost immediately, and even though I still type extensively for a living more than ten years later, the pain never returned.
So based on this experience, I'm willing to say it at least contributes to the problem, but that posture and other elements related to the physical activity being performed are significant contributors as well.
When I finally convinced my wife to let me manage the money, I moved over to GnuCash (she was using Quicken.)
The learning curve was steep, not because of the app itself (though a bit) but because I didn't truly understand the basics of accounting. This is something that Quicken does a good job of preventing people from realizing.
The help docs were *fantastic*, and I learned a great deal in a short time. Now that I use GnuCash, I have a much stronger understanding of where my money goes. Couldn't be happier.
I realize that's slightly off-topic, but it seemed a good time to mention it.
I want it to work like this: I buy a small house in Second Life, and anyone who comes through my "door" ends up on my server, and the inside of my house is hosted exclusively on that server, and I can control who comes in and out. And it can be HUGE on the inside, a la the Tardis.
Are you kidding me? That Circuit City disaster was fantastic. I was able to pick up a really good DVD player really, really cheap because it had DIVX support and they were end-of-lifing the product due to lack of sales. It was like $50 at a time when DVD players were still $200 or so.
As of this change, if I am a citizen in the UK and I want to leave, I must do one of the following:
1: Give the government insight into my personal and financial dealings; or 2: Sneak out.
So if I have items in my personal and financial dealings that I think will prevent me from obtaining a passport, I should probably run to get a passport before the deadline passes. So a smart government, I would say that my last-minute (ie after this was announced) appointment to get a passport ASAP should be considered probable cause for an investigation into my affairs.
On the other hand, if I were already a terrorist type, I'd probably get the f out now. Perhaps that's the point; if there's a deadline, maybe all of the terrorists will leave and only happy people will be left! And they'll never do anything bad, because if they did, they wouldn't be allowed to leave.
Yep. Never ever anything bad. This is a terrific idea.
That's like asking a baker to take all that unhealthy fat out of a doughnut, but not have it have any impact on the taste. It would be foolish of Branson to think that you can make a dramatic change to the chemical makeup of our atmosphere, but not have any "negative" consequences. Plants need CO2, so removing it from the atmosphere might harm plant life. Temperatures will decrease (probably), and I'm sure that there's at least some species of wildlife that's now thriving with the warmer temperatures. Wind paterns will change. Climate patterns will change. To expect absolutely no "negative impact" on the environment is foolhardy.
I respectfully disagree.
First, on the donut front: my wife and I eat a vegan donut that a small company came up with. It's about as good as a crispy creme, which is as good as a donut needs to be, and has no refined sugars and no fat. However, the price is high, about four times as high as a normal donut. So from this perspective, it's possible to do without negative impact on the taste, but not without negative impact altogether: for this donut, there's a negative cost impact.
Similarly, on the CO2 front: it's absolutely conceivable to develop a technology that can achieve the stated goal without negative impact on the environment; however, there will be a negative impact on something, and history tells us that if it isn't on the environment, then it will be on convenience, attractiveness, space efficiency, cost, or some combination thereof.
For instance: what if you could solve the problem with no difficulty whatsoever, provided every homeowner in America was willing to put a metal box on their roof? The box could ugly, take up many square feet of space, require about ten minutes of attention per week, and cost each homeowner $50 -- and yet be 100% recyclable, solar-powered, quiet and therefore have no negative impact on the environment. Theoretical straw-man, obviously, but necessary to make the point.
I was just reading a comment from someone who said "all I do to find that information is google 'yahoo specs foo' and I get right to the page I need" -- meaning they use google to find pages on yahoo properties.
It's a great example of how google owns the mindshare of web search, but yahoo has tons of underrated properties with the information people want. FWIW, though, it's also a matter of habit -- I searched google for years, then started using yahoo, and it would never even occur to me to use google now. Not saying one's better than the other, but they're both very good.
"For example, a company with 250 PCs may be flagged if it bought several server licences but only two client-access licences..."
I wonder how many -- perhaps many, perhaps few -- companies flagged like this might be running exchange on the back end, and windows for the CEO and a few other higher-ups, but the rest of the company's workstations are running evolution on linux...
Another reason VHS won was pretty straightforward: the blank recordable media was a lot cheaper per minute in VHS than in Beta. Back when VCRs came out, that was a pretty big deal; my mother could buy a 60-minute Beta for $12, or a 120-minute VHS for $10.
Now, we're not talking about recording your own stuff here, so it will be up to the content producers: you take a risk when you run a pressing, and if HD-DVD has been initially more widely adopted (if only because of XBOX 360s) and they can incur lower costs when pressing the same number of disks (as the articles suggest) then it's a no-brainer: produce the cheaper content for the wider audience.
Once that happens, there's a tipping-point effect; if there is more content for HD-DVD and the players cost the same as Blu-Ray, a consumer is going to go for HD-DVD. This leads to further adoption, which drives content producers to continue spending less to produce products for a larger audience -- which drives production costs down further. And so on, and so on.
The no-porn thing isn't the Blu-Ray killer per se; it's more a bellweather that shows cost-sensitive content producers are leaning towards the format that's cheaper and easier to produce, and that has wider player adoption. And hey, porn or not, EVERY content producer (except those with a vested interest otherwise, like Sony) is cost-sensitive.
I've gotten my wife to switch to Firefox, Thunderbird, Picasa (now supported via Wine libs on Linux), OOO, and lots of other stuff -- but she'll never give up the Quicken. Come on, make Quicken run "Gold" (instead of "Silver" or worse) and you'll have a sale faster than you can sneeze.
You missed the point of this part of the comment thread. Someone argued that, since both the PS3 and Wii are always sold out (ie demand is outstripping supply) we don't really know which would be more popular if supply met demand. Many are responding (anecdotally) that they have visited stores with PS3s going unsold while Wiis continue to sell out within a few hours of more supply reaching the stores -- which suggests (again, anecdotally) that for the PS3 supply is exceeding demand while the Wii continues to have demand outstripping supply (despite shipping more units than the PS3.) If this turns out to be the case on a large scale, then it is indeed not a supply issue causing the disparity in sales numbers.
Or, to use your reference: if those beans have been sitting on the shelf for weeks without being purchased, while the avocade hearts next to them sell out every time they're restocked, then the beans aren't selling because nobody wants the beans.
In a bit of offtopicness -- let's throw out the US penny AND nickel, and convert the quarter into an identical piece equal to 20 cents (so that people would avoid accidentally passing a quarter when a 20-cent-piece would do, and people accepting money would look really, really close at what they were getting, or refuse to accept quarters outright.) Then add a dollar coin.
Now you're left with dimes, fifths, and dollars. Fifths can be divided into dimes, and dollars into either -- and we can drop the hundredths place from currency. $9.95 becomes $9.9 or $10, $9.99 also becomes $9.9 or $10, and for once our currency (at least up to a dollar) will make sense!
Then we add RFID tags to all of it. There, I tied it into the topic at hand.
The iPhone kicks off a whole series of portable computer phones, with faster speeds, more memory, and more storage. It becomes normal to use one with a bluetooth headset, because the touch screen gets covered in oil from your skin if you hold it up, and you'll probably be reading emails while talking with someone.
At some point, docks will come into existence, just like with laptops but with a twist: they contain video cards (to drive higher-resolution screens than the phone has) and a hard drive (for backing up the phone automatically whenever you plug it in, ideally encrypted.) People keep a docking station at home and another at work, each with a monitor, keyboard and mouse.
Then, thanks to advances in hard drive size (and the limited amount of data you need to back up from the phone) and the commoditization of video card hardware, the dock itself could be the size of a USB hub, and carried in your backpack for use wherever a keyboard, mouse and/or monitor can be found. At home you have a keyboard, mouse and monitor, at work the same thing, and the hub sits in your briefcast (ie you bring it to/from work, but not to the beach.)
So, now your phone is the computer. You get the full-size keyboard and screen when you're sitting down to do "real" work, a lightweight device when you're on the go, and disaster-recovery backup included as part of the package. Even if you drop your phone, you plug a new one into one of your docks, enter your (hopefully secure) password, and get a new copy of your phone. Someone who steals your hub can't get your data. Each family member has a phone, and syncs through the same hub, rather than having multiple users on a single computer. For kids, they sell a light version that doesn't do everything the big expensive one does, to keep costs from getting out of control.
Seriously. I do all of my workstuff on Debian Testing, and keep a windows box running next to me for the sole purpose of IE7 testing (I do IE6 testing over terminal server.) This is a good thing, thanks.
Let's see. The government can legally read our mail, our email, tap our phone conversations, and in some cases enter our homes without a warrant, and without notifying us that they've done so. Interesting.
So, as long as you're not doing anything "wrong", and you haven't attracted the attention of a government peon (by dating his ex-wife, for instance) you should be fine. But, if you start doing something "wrong" that attracts the government's attention (like organizing a protest march, or speaking out against the government, or what have you) you'd better have all of your ducks in a row.
That means you'd better make sure everything -- EVERYTHING -- you do is 100% legal and on the up-and-up, and that you're dealing only with people who can say the same. No affairs or deviant sexual behavior; no speeding or running red lights; no questionable web sites or DVDs; no books that you bought in college because you were curious (like the anarchist's cookbook). Anything that you could be prosecuted for, or even just publicly embarrased over, can be legally discovered by the government and used to suppress your activities, should they be judged to be against the government's (not necessarily the people's) interests.
Could it be? I mean, truly, really possibly, actually? That a web site talking about, and providing information about, something is considered more relevant than a site selling something? I know that when I search for a specific product, 99 times out of 100 I'm not looking for a place to buy it, but for a place to get information and reviews about it. Under those circumstances, I find the sales sites to be annoying noise. Perhaps Google is finally doing something about this.
This thread would not be complete without at least one fond recollection of BeOS, and how it booted in just a few seconds, start to finish, even on old crappy machines.
Eh, if this catches on, laptops will have two infrared LEDs mounted in the upper left and right corner of the lid, so that when open it acts as a sensor bar. Easy to do a clip-on attachment, as well.
The part of this I know to be true is the "ignoring your kids" factor; my wife's job has developed the need to have her on CrackBerry duty 24/7, and when she's mailing or reading mails, neither I nor our twins can get through to her.
Having said that, she's a terrific and devoted mom otherwise, and we're working it out -- she just imposed a limit on herself that, from the time she gets home from work to the time the kids go to bed, the CrackBerry is off.
The Search Marketing/Search Advertising market relies heavily on ads generated by the search providers (google, yahoo, et al) but placed on OTHER web sites. Search Traffic is restricted to the portals on which those search results are displayed. So, invalid.
Also, the Search Marketing/Search Advertising market can be segmented by ad views, ad revenues, ad clicks, or other methods. Search Traffic is judged essentially by unique visitors within a given period of time. Without clarification of the market segmentation, your argument cannot be proven. So, invalid.
Computers for kids? Bah, humbug! According to Reuters, while speaking at the Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) Government Leaders Forum on Wednesday, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates repeatedly criticized the prototype $100 laptop created by the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) program, which aims to develop a crank powered, inexpensive computer for use by children in developing nations. It's underpowered, has a too-tiny screen and needs a hard disk, Gates says. It's not the first time he has come out against the device, and also not the first time people have suggested his curmudgeonly behavior might have to do with the fact that the OLPC is being backed by rival Google and won't run Microsoft software.
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> That's my 2 cents.
Actually, that's your 4 cents (up 100% since 2005.)
I have never seen a payroll program that has the wages hardcoded in it... there is no reason that this can't be done
Let's add two words to that: "I have never personally seen a payroll program that has the wages hardcoded in it, therefore there is no reason that this can't be done."
For those of you who modded this interesting, I can only hope you come to your senses soon.
Myself, my two sisters: all within a five-year window in age, and all able to type but not typing regularly.
Within the same two-year period, we all get jobs that require a significant amount of typing on computer keyboards, hours a day (me as a word processor, they as a receptionist/secretary and research librarian respectively.)
One sister develops pain in her wrists, but elects to work through it and says everything's fine. Over a period of months, it gets worse, and she has to stop typing because the pain is too great. Eventually the doctors diagnose it as carpal tunnel, and despite various forms of treatment being tried, nothing works. It's been more than ten years, and she still can't type; she still can't lift a book by the edge with one hand, in fact.
Other sister starts to develop similar pain when first sister is much further along in her pain. Initially she pushes through the pain, too, but seeks treatment when our older sister is diagnosed with carpal tunnel; she is diagnosed with tendonitis, given exercises and such to do, and she also changes jobs to one requiring a lot less typing. Her pain goes away eventually, and she's fine.
I start to develop pain just before my second sister is diagnosed with carpal tunnel, so I start taking typing breaks and go to great pains (no pun intended) to ensure that my typing posture etc. are correct and non-damaging. My pain goes away almost immediately, and even though I still type extensively for a living more than ten years later, the pain never returned.
So based on this experience, I'm willing to say it at least contributes to the problem, but that posture and other elements related to the physical activity being performed are significant contributors as well.
Couldn't they simply have a bunch of interns who look at every photo, and blur the faces/bodies of people that appear? How hard could that be?
When I finally convinced my wife to let me manage the money, I moved over to GnuCash (she was using Quicken.)
The learning curve was steep, not because of the app itself (though a bit) but because I didn't truly understand the basics of accounting. This is something that Quicken does a good job of preventing people from realizing.
The help docs were *fantastic*, and I learned a great deal in a short time. Now that I use GnuCash, I have a much stronger understanding of where my money goes. Couldn't be happier.
I realize that's slightly off-topic, but it seemed a good time to mention it.
I want it to work like this: I buy a small house in Second Life, and anyone who comes through my "door" ends up on my server, and the inside of my house is hosted exclusively on that server, and I can control who comes in and out. And it can be HUGE on the inside, a la the Tardis.
Are you kidding me? That Circuit City disaster was fantastic. I was able to pick up a really good DVD player really, really cheap because it had DIVX support and they were end-of-lifing the product due to lack of sales. It was like $50 at a time when DVD players were still $200 or so.
I just want to make sure I understand this.
As of this change, if I am a citizen in the UK and I want to leave, I must do one of the following:
1: Give the government insight into my personal and financial dealings; or
2: Sneak out.
So if I have items in my personal and financial dealings that I think will prevent me from obtaining a passport, I should probably run to get a passport before the deadline passes. So a smart government, I would say that my last-minute (ie after this was announced) appointment to get a passport ASAP should be considered probable cause for an investigation into my affairs.
On the other hand, if I were already a terrorist type, I'd probably get the f out now. Perhaps that's the point; if there's a deadline, maybe all of the terrorists will leave and only happy people will be left! And they'll never do anything bad, because if they did, they wouldn't be allowed to leave.
Yep. Never ever anything bad. This is a terrific idea.
That's like asking a baker to take all that unhealthy fat out of a doughnut, but not have it have any impact on the taste. It would be foolish of Branson to think that you can make a dramatic change to the chemical makeup of our atmosphere, but not have any "negative" consequences. Plants need CO2, so removing it from the atmosphere might harm plant life. Temperatures will decrease (probably), and I'm sure that there's at least some species of wildlife that's now thriving with the warmer temperatures. Wind paterns will change. Climate patterns will change. To expect absolutely no "negative impact" on the environment is foolhardy.
I respectfully disagree.
First, on the donut front: my wife and I eat a vegan donut that a small company came up with. It's about as good as a crispy creme, which is as good as a donut needs to be, and has no refined sugars and no fat. However, the price is high, about four times as high as a normal donut. So from this perspective, it's possible to do without negative impact on the taste, but not without negative impact altogether: for this donut, there's a negative cost impact.
Similarly, on the CO2 front: it's absolutely conceivable to develop a technology that can achieve the stated goal without negative impact on the environment; however, there will be a negative impact on something, and history tells us that if it isn't on the environment, then it will be on convenience, attractiveness, space efficiency, cost, or some combination thereof.
For instance: what if you could solve the problem with no difficulty whatsoever, provided every homeowner in America was willing to put a metal box on their roof? The box could ugly, take up many square feet of space, require about ten minutes of attention per week, and cost each homeowner $50 -- and yet be 100% recyclable, solar-powered, quiet and therefore have no negative impact on the environment. Theoretical straw-man, obviously, but necessary to make the point.
I was just reading a comment from someone who said "all I do to find that information is google 'yahoo specs foo' and I get right to the page I need" -- meaning they use google to find pages on yahoo properties.
It's a great example of how google owns the mindshare of web search, but yahoo has tons of underrated properties with the information people want. FWIW, though, it's also a matter of habit -- I searched google for years, then started using yahoo, and it would never even occur to me to use google now. Not saying one's better than the other, but they're both very good.
Now we will truly know how well the banshees lived; that they did live well. Stonehenge!
From the article:
"For example, a company with 250 PCs may be flagged if it bought several server licences but only two client-access licences..."
I wonder how many -- perhaps many, perhaps few -- companies flagged like this might be running exchange on the back end, and windows for the CEO and a few other higher-ups, but the rest of the company's workstations are running evolution on linux...
Another reason VHS won was pretty straightforward: the blank recordable media was a lot cheaper per minute in VHS than in Beta. Back when VCRs came out, that was a pretty big deal; my mother could buy a 60-minute Beta for $12, or a 120-minute VHS for $10.
Now, we're not talking about recording your own stuff here, so it will be up to the content producers: you take a risk when you run a pressing, and if HD-DVD has been initially more widely adopted (if only because of XBOX 360s) and they can incur lower costs when pressing the same number of disks (as the articles suggest) then it's a no-brainer: produce the cheaper content for the wider audience.
Once that happens, there's a tipping-point effect; if there is more content for HD-DVD and the players cost the same as Blu-Ray, a consumer is going to go for HD-DVD. This leads to further adoption, which drives content producers to continue spending less to produce products for a larger audience -- which drives production costs down further. And so on, and so on.
The no-porn thing isn't the Blu-Ray killer per se; it's more a bellweather that shows cost-sensitive content producers are leaning towards the format that's cheaper and easier to produce, and that has wider player adoption. And hey, porn or not, EVERY content producer (except those with a vested interest otherwise, like Sony) is cost-sensitive.
I've gotten my wife to switch to Firefox, Thunderbird, Picasa (now supported via Wine libs on Linux), OOO, and lots of other stuff -- but she'll never give up the Quicken. Come on, make Quicken run "Gold" (instead of "Silver" or worse) and you'll have a sale faster than you can sneeze.
You missed the point of this part of the comment thread. Someone argued that, since both the PS3 and Wii are always sold out (ie demand is outstripping supply) we don't really know which would be more popular if supply met demand. Many are responding (anecdotally) that they have visited stores with PS3s going unsold while Wiis continue to sell out within a few hours of more supply reaching the stores -- which suggests (again, anecdotally) that for the PS3 supply is exceeding demand while the Wii continues to have demand outstripping supply (despite shipping more units than the PS3.) If this turns out to be the case on a large scale, then it is indeed not a supply issue causing the disparity in sales numbers.
Or, to use your reference: if those beans have been sitting on the shelf for weeks without being purchased, while the avocade hearts next to them sell out every time they're restocked, then the beans aren't selling because nobody wants the beans.
In a bit of offtopicness -- let's throw out the US penny AND nickel, and convert the quarter into an identical piece equal to 20 cents (so that people would avoid accidentally passing a quarter when a 20-cent-piece would do, and people accepting money would look really, really close at what they were getting, or refuse to accept quarters outright.) Then add a dollar coin.
Now you're left with dimes, fifths, and dollars. Fifths can be divided into dimes, and dollars into either -- and we can drop the hundredths place from currency. $9.95 becomes $9.9 or $10, $9.99 also becomes $9.9 or $10, and for once our currency (at least up to a dollar) will make sense!
Then we add RFID tags to all of it. There, I tied it into the topic at hand.
Here's how it's going to shake out:
The iPhone kicks off a whole series of portable computer phones, with faster speeds, more memory, and more storage. It becomes normal to use one with a bluetooth headset, because the touch screen gets covered in oil from your skin if you hold it up, and you'll probably be reading emails while talking with someone.
At some point, docks will come into existence, just like with laptops but with a twist: they contain video cards (to drive higher-resolution screens than the phone has) and a hard drive (for backing up the phone automatically whenever you plug it in, ideally encrypted.) People keep a docking station at home and another at work, each with a monitor, keyboard and mouse.
Then, thanks to advances in hard drive size (and the limited amount of data you need to back up from the phone) and the commoditization of video card hardware, the dock itself could be the size of a USB hub, and carried in your backpack for use wherever a keyboard, mouse and/or monitor can be found. At home you have a keyboard, mouse and monitor, at work the same thing, and the hub sits in your briefcast (ie you bring it to/from work, but not to the beach.)
So, now your phone is the computer. You get the full-size keyboard and screen when you're sitting down to do "real" work, a lightweight device when you're on the go, and disaster-recovery backup included as part of the package. Even if you drop your phone, you plug a new one into one of your docks, enter your (hopefully secure) password, and get a new copy of your phone. Someone who steals your hub can't get your data. Each family member has a phone, and syncs through the same hub, rather than having multiple users on a single computer. For kids, they sell a light version that doesn't do everything the big expensive one does, to keep costs from getting out of control.
Yeah, hook me up.
Seriously. I do all of my workstuff on Debian Testing, and keep a windows box running next to me for the sole purpose of IE7 testing (I do IE6 testing over terminal server.) This is a good thing, thanks.
Let's see. The government can legally read our mail, our email, tap our phone conversations, and in some cases enter our homes without a warrant, and without notifying us that they've done so. Interesting.
So, as long as you're not doing anything "wrong", and you haven't attracted the attention of a government peon (by dating his ex-wife, for instance) you should be fine. But, if you start doing something "wrong" that attracts the government's attention (like organizing a protest march, or speaking out against the government, or what have you) you'd better have all of your ducks in a row.
That means you'd better make sure everything -- EVERYTHING -- you do is 100% legal and on the up-and-up, and that you're dealing only with people who can say the same. No affairs or deviant sexual behavior; no speeding or running red lights; no questionable web sites or DVDs; no books that you bought in college because you were curious (like the anarchist's cookbook). Anything that you could be prosecuted for, or even just publicly embarrased over, can be legally discovered by the government and used to suppress your activities, should they be judged to be against the government's (not necessarily the people's) interests.
Eh, what could go wrong?
Could it be? I mean, truly, really possibly, actually? That a web site talking about, and providing information about, something is considered more relevant than a site selling something? I know that when I search for a specific product, 99 times out of 100 I'm not looking for a place to buy it, but for a place to get information and reviews about it. Under those circumstances, I find the sales sites to be annoying noise. Perhaps Google is finally doing something about this.
This thread would not be complete without at least one fond recollection of BeOS, and how it booted in just a few seconds, start to finish, even on old crappy machines.
Eh, if this catches on, laptops will have two infrared LEDs mounted in the upper left and right corner of the lid, so that when open it acts as a sensor bar. Easy to do a clip-on attachment, as well.
The part of this I know to be true is the "ignoring your kids" factor; my wife's job has developed the need to have her on CrackBerry duty 24/7, and when she's mailing or reading mails, neither I nor our twins can get through to her.
Having said that, she's a terrific and devoted mom otherwise, and we're working it out -- she just imposed a limit on herself that, from the time she gets home from work to the time the kids go to bed, the CrackBerry is off.
How is it invalid?
The Search Marketing/Search Advertising market relies heavily on ads generated by the search providers (google, yahoo, et al) but placed on OTHER web sites. Search Traffic is restricted to the portals on which those search results are displayed. So, invalid.
Also, the Search Marketing/Search Advertising market can be segmented by ad views, ad revenues, ad clicks, or other methods. Search Traffic is judged essentially by unique visitors within a given period of time. Without clarification of the market segmentation, your argument cannot be proven. So, invalid.
Glad to be of service.
From Forbes: